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...moral obligation as a "partner" with Government and Industry in the recovery program. Last summer soft coal miners first struck when operators tried to thwart their unionization under NRA. To the coal fields President Roosevelt dispatched as his personal representative Deputy NRAdministrator McGrady who won a strike truce by promising the miners a "square deal'' from the White House. Out of that strike was born the National Labor Board under New York's Senator Wagner. Last month the Pennsylvania miners broke the truce to force the coal code through Washington. They kept it broken to force...
...primed to denounce all those who dared to block Labor's advance as enemies of NRA, traitors to the U. S. Recovery Strikes- More serious than word warfare was the spread of A. F. of L.-sponsored strikes throughout the land. Completely forgotten was last summer's truce to which Mr. Green himself subscribed. These strikes were undertaken or threatened to: 1) force better codes at Washington as in the cases of the silk industry at Paterson, N. J. and the boot & shoe industry at Brockton, Mass.; 2) gain union recognition as in the case...
...lotteries, crossword puzzle contests with cash prizes. In one year the Laborite Herald jumped from 350,000 to over a million. Last year, it passed the News-Chronicle with more than 1,400,000. The battle was so expensive to all concerned that the Newspaper Proprietors Association called a truce. Free gifts were outlawed. Expenditures on canvassing were limited. Fleet Street settled down to a supercharged neutrality, with Mail, Express and Herald circulations bunched between 1,735,000 and 1,650,000. The peace lasted 15 months...
...Lord Beaverbrook promptly cabled one of his Express managers to represent him. The conferences started hopefully. The Herald proposed a modification of the free gift schemes, the Express and Mail assented. But not Sir Walter Layton of the News-Chronicle, tag-ender of the fight. He would accept no truce that did not end the gift business completely. The war went on again. Next day the Mail offered twelve volumes of Ff. G. Wells...
...vungj) Soong, left war-torn China last April to see what the world thought of China v. Japan. While he was talking in clipped Harvard English in the Foreign Offices of the U. S., Britain, Germany, France and Italy, his superior, Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, made truce with Japan (TIME, June 5). Since then Japanese have loudly applauded Chiang's ''reasonableness," confessed their "satisfaction"' with the attitude of Huang Fu, chief of the North China Political Council. Japanese diplomacy was making rapid headway among Nanking officials. Pacific-minded Premier Wang Ching-wei took over the Foreign...