Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only recently the offices of the National Minority Movement, (radical movement in industry) was raided in London because it was disseminating pamphlets inciting the army to revolt. Last week the British Communist Party published a letter to the Labor Party and the Trade Union Conference urging them "to win the soldiers and sailors from the capitalists," to make the issue as between the workers and the exploiters "so that the army and navy mutiny," for "there is no doubt that the capitalist classes intend to intimidate and, if necessary, crush the workers with the army and navy...
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Some months ago, when conditions in the copper business were unsettled, the trade discontinued its practice of collecting and publishing each month statistics as to the amount of surplus copper held by refiners and producers. At the time it was felt that the large copper stocks being carried simply operated to hold down the price of the red metal, and that discreet silence was a better policy than embarassing frankness, if higher copper prices were to be seen. Since the discontinuance of the monthly reports of surplus copper, therefore, only quarterly reports have been issued...
...temperamental to admit of cocksure prophecy. Recent curtailment of production is said to have reduced output by 20,000,000 pounds from levels reached last spring. Demand has continued strong and varied. What stocks of surplus copper amount to, is now anyone's guess. But rumors in the trade are to the effect that July and August figures will shortly be forthcoming...
When the Department of Agriculture's estimate of the 1925 cotton crop as of July 16 dropped with a thud to 13,588,000 bales (TIME, Aug. 3), no little comment in the trade was occasioned. The report as of August 1 showed less startling changes. Condition had fallen off from 70.4 on the former to 65.6 on the latter date. Nevertheless, the crop was estimated at 13,566,000 bales-only 22,000 bales under the July 16 figure. Losses in Texas owing to drought have apparently been practically offset by gains in more easterly portions...