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...group of Government employes struck-not in Washington, not in the U. S., but aboard ship on the River Plate off Montevideo, Uruguay. The crew of the S. S. Algic, a 5,496-ton freighter owned by Joseph Patrick Kennedy's National Maritime Commission, refused to help unload cargo onto a lighter in midstream. Uruguayan longshoremen were on strike against employment of non-union labor. Inspired to a quixotic display of labor solidarity by three rabid unionists, the Algic's seamen swore they would not work with scab longshoremen until the River Plate froze solid...
...docked in the home port. But once a ship has sailed, to strike is mutiny. In Montevideo last week the Algic's Captain Joseph Gainard reported his plight to the U. S. Vice Consul, who went aboard, harangued the mutineers for an hour. Still they refused to unload ship. So Captain Gainard and the Vice Consul shot a cable to the owners...
Loudly claiming sanctuary as members of Shanghai's International Settlement, Japanese transports last week continued to unload troops, horses, shells, medicine and munitions at the docks of the International Settlement, where Chinese are pledged to do no fighting. French and British finally succeeded in closing their section of the Settlement to passage of Japanese troops or the madly careening trucks that caused almost as much damage as shell fire. U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell, British Admiral Sir Charles Little, backed by the French naval commander, devised joint proposals which they sent to their Consuls General who in turn presented...
Ships bringing goods into New York Harbor may unload at the free port without so much as a by-your-leave to the U. S. Treasury. In this zone, operated as a public utility under Federal supervision, goods may be "stored, broken up, repacked, assembled, distributed, sorted, graded, cleaned, mixed with foreign or domestic merchandise," and finally re-exported 1) to foreign countries or 2) to the U. S. by paying duty in the ordinary way. The various operations that can be performed in the free port are called "manipulation," since by the terms of the law "manufacturing" is forbidden...
...forces are cannily at play in the bull-ring," said I. Witkin & Co.'s colorful market letter, "we prefer for the time being to be on the sidelines or in the grandstand. Possibly to help a huge and financially powerful long-interest, if our conjectures be correct, to unload upon a heterogeneous and unorganized investing public and manufacturers at large is to court an attack of speculative indigestion. . . ." Gently, then precipitously, cocoa prices fell...