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Healed Wounds. President Green succeeded in patching up jurisdictional disputes between the brotherhood of teamsters and the street and electric railway carmen as well as arranging a truce between the plasterers and bricklayers...
...latest reports emanating from the Near East are to be believed, another periodic Balkan crisis is at hand. Jugo-Slavia buzzes with rumors of an Albanian invasion, and fighting, which had broken out along the Salonikan frontier between Greek and Bulgarian troops, has just been halted by a truce Now Greece has sent a twenty-four hour ultimatum to her aggressive neighbor demanding reparations...
...finally passed, the resolution on this point directs that the miners' case shall be presented as forcibly as possible before the Royal Commission, and that another direct appeal shall be made to Premier Baldwin urging him to accept the miners' interpretation of the coal truce agreement as forbidding any decrease in wages whatever. Should the Premier again declare that the operators have a right to lower certain wage scales to the base rates of the 1924 agreement, which is now continued under the subsidy, the miners' executives are instructed that they may "call on the Trade Union...
Last week there was considerable agitation in England over the terms of Premier Baldwin's coal subsidy (TIME, Aug. 31). The operators, supported by Mr. Baldwin, declared that the articles of the "coal truce" now in force permit them to lower the wages of certain miners, in accordance with the variable base rates of the 1924 wage agreement, which is now continued under the subsidy. The miners, headed by "Emperor" A. J. Cook, incendiary laborite, obtained what they considered expert legal opinion, to the effect that no wage reductions of any sort are admissible under existing agreements...
...Messrs. Henry Moy and Wong Get agreed to meet privately for a discussion of the District Attorney's agenda. The meeting took place that afternoon. A temporary truce was patched...