Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of State Hull send a stiff note to Japan warning that U. S. trade in conquered China must not be impaired...
...Chinese people have passed under even nominal Japanese control, and in every "conquered" Chinese province guerrilla resistance continues. All the greatest Chinese cities are now in Japanese hands. Japan holds seven of the principal gateways to China, is attempting to profit from the trade which still flows through these gates. At latest dispatches, however, not a single nationally known Chinese had become a Japanese puppet ruler, excepting the "Emperor of Manchukuo"-which is not in China proper. There was still no sign that Chinese morale was cracking...
...Konoye's hint that Indo-China must adopt a "Closed Door" policy on munitions. But the Japanese Government were revealed to have received, on October 6, a note from Washington presented by Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, repeating previous U. S. demands that Japan return to an "Open Door" trade policy for China...
...French Confédération Générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labor) represents 5,000,000 enrolled trade unionists and is headed by Léon Jouhaux. who last year held important negotiations in Moscow with Soviet Trade Union heads. The Confederation retorted last week that the program of Radical Socialist Daladier is "admissible only in a fascist regime. . . . The C. G. T. will know how to take measures for its defense...
...Launched a new attack upon basing-point price systems. The Federal Trade Commission already has three basing-point cases in the works-against the Cement Institute, the United Fence Manufacturers Association and the Cast Iron Soil Pipe Association. Each of these complaints has charged violation both of the Robinson-Patman Act, forbidding price discrimination between customers, and of FTC rulings, forbidding price conspiracy between companies. Last week, for the first time, acting solely under the Robinson-Patman Act, FTC challenged gigantic Corn Products Refining Co.'s basing-point price setup, gave No. 1 U. S. producer of syrups...