Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...union Nor is it irrelevant to call attention at this point to the fact that one of the first acts of the British Ministry, at the out-break of the War, was to negotiate the famous Treasury Agreement. By that, Mr. Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, asked the trade unions of Great Britain, who, contrary to our condition dominated the metal trades, to agree with the Government that for the period of the war they would abandon their restrictions, work with non-unionists and admit a dilution of female labor. In other words, Great Britain, as a matter...
...whole matter boils down to this--the closed shop seeks to deprive a man of his right to associate or not to associate as he sees fit, by compelling him to either join a trade union, and be governed by its decisions, thus giving up all his personal liberty, or to be deprived of the opportunity to earn his living. The open shop stands for giving the laborer a chance to exercise his right of discrimination in choosing the place and manner in which he shall earn his living, and the associate with whom he shall work...
...great camps, the trade unions and the employers, are today discussing the Open Shop problem. Employers seek to retain the same old open shop policy for industry; trade unions are asking for the modern policy in which workers are granted their rights and treated like men. Collective bargaining in the open shop, although affirmed by employers is ineffective. This is true because the two bargaining forces are entirely unequal...
...play is based on a selection from a book by Professor W. I. Drinkwater, "Ethnologic Phenomena", in which he mentions the inhabitants of the island of Tambelo, in the Malay Archipelago. These people are the descendants of a pirate colony founded there to prey on the East India trade...
...demands of the Allies at the recent London conference were absurdly large. To meet them Germany would have to attain, within a few years, a favorable trade balance of a bulk of two billion dollars a year. This is at least three times as large as any reasonable estimate would indicate to be possible...