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...says explicitly that employers must deal with "representatives" that the workmen themselves choose or elect. But in the case of the employ organizations, created within a shop or wholly from employees of a certain company, with no outside spokesmen from National Labor Unions, the question arises whether the election was fair and whether these same unions, if really left to themselves, without influence from the employer's side, would join the A. F. of L. system or retain their own spokesmen...
...Government workmen were sent to the former Imperial villa at Hetzendorf, a Vienna suburb, to put the place in order. Other much needed repairs were commenced on the rambling palace in Vienna, parts of which are now a museum and rented apartments...
...rotting carcass on the beach at Querqueville. Perhaps, someone suggested, it was the Loch Ness monster (TIME, Jan. 15) sighted last December in Inverness Harbor heading out to sea. But on that subject Professor Corbiere was firm. "Non!" he cried. "Nae!" echoed a thousand voices from Scotland, where six workmen promptly reported having seen the monster thrashing through Loch Ness "at a terrific rate...
...sizzling dynamite in the Stavisky scandal was temporarily quenched by referring the entire matter to an investigating committee of 44 Deputies, a group unwieldy enough almost certainly to muff the investigation. In Paris and the provinces workmen hurried to replace broken pillars, smashed street lights, shop windows, fire hydrants-every trace of last fortnight's bloody riots. The Cabinet did its best to give taxpayers something else to think about. A snarling tariff war with Britain got under way (see p. 13). Foreign Minister Louis Barthou sent a blunt answer to Germany's latest demand for rearmament...
Late one night last week workmen wheeled a fleet of wheelbarrows into the RCA Building lobby, set a movable scaffold against the wall. It was no trick to get off the covering coat of cream-colored canvas. But Rivera's mural, like all true fresco, had been painted into a coat of plaster. The workmen tried to get it off in big chunks, save as much as they could. But they claimed later that once broken, the great fresco crumbled into powder which was wheeled out of the lobby to oblivion. Speedily the workmen slapped a fresh coat...