Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City," London's financial district, opinions were divided. Some thought the move perfectly natural, as the London market was heavily depressed by industrial insecurity, slack trade, swamped by War loans and made expensive for borrowers by the recent return to a gold standard. Others naturally could not bear to see the U. S. taking the place of banker to the British Commonwealth of Nations. Neither was Australian opinion unanimously behind the move...
...force the check-off of Union dues upon anthracite operators. The check-off is a regular feature of the wage contract in the Unionized bituminous fields. In the anthracite fields, the production of coal has been conservative as compared to bituminous production, and there are fewer operators (the Federal Trade Commission, last week, published a report recommending measures to increase competition in the production of anthracite, contending that 70% of the production is in the hands of eight operators). In the bituminous fields, there is no monopoly tendency; there are many mines and cut-throat competition. The possible soft-coal...
...asked the House to remember that the pre-War average of emigration had fallen from 200,0000 to 130,000. The situation was black, he admitted it, but against the black spots he asked the House to put "the general and, on the whole, progressive improvement in trade that is more related to personal consumption-clothes, boots, shoes and furniture distribution. The importance of that is it shows that up to now, during these difficult times through which we are passing, the purchasing power of the community as a whole had not been seriously impaired." (Loud derisive laughter from...
...unemployment question and its cause, industrial and trade depression, engaged much of the attention of the British public last week...
...general terms, Capital sees the necessity of reducing wages and increasing hours in order to place industry in a position to compete with foreign enterprise which is everywhere underbidding it. So long as the costs of production are high, the capitalists declare, trade must stagnate and unemployment increase...