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Even more startling was a resolution adopted by the General Confederation of Mexican Workers, a potent radical labor group. Denouncing "restrictions on the right to strike and dangers to workmen in the so-called 'Labor' code," the confederation resolved "to exhort all affiliated labor groups throughout the country to order partial stoppages of work and finally a general strike if Senor Fortes Gil's project is insisted...
...architecture, was Italian: Adamo Boari. Other Latins and one Hungarian did some sculpture. A feature is the Tiffany glass screen-a glass mosaic fireproof curtain weighing 27 tons, academically decorated to illustrate the legend of volcanoes Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, Aztec lovers. When the theatre's site was excavated, workmen uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once issued a special...
...traffic department of a coal yard for $2,500 a year. They paid $75 a month rent for a building; $250 to the Dodges for the working parts; $46 for four tires; $26 for four wheels; $52 for a body; $16 apiece for cushions; and $1.50 a day for workmen (ten or twelve). The car cost $554 complete and $594 with a tonneau and sold for $750 and $850. Ford himself got $3,000 a year, but Frederick J. Haynes, later president of Dodge Brothers, refused to work for Ford at $2,500 a year, because he was not sure...
...public issues involved in our being able to come to a settlement." Loyal Help: Over 15 million dollars was to have been spent on building the war boats postponed by Britain last week- namely the cruisers Surrey and Northumberland, the submarine "mother ship" Maidstone, and two submarines. Thousands of workmen will have to be taken off these well-paying jobs. They are unionized, potent. Last week the Labor party's Ramsay MacDonald simply dared not throw too many shipyard constituents out of work. Therefore his speech contained this interesting passage: "I am glad to say that as a result...
Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of Turkey, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, retired last week to his model farm at Tchankaya near Angora for his annual vacation. Active, he was soon in the fields, mingling with the workmen, superintending the harvest, himself driving a snorting, clanking mechanical reaper. Only the Ghazi's large panama hat showed the neighbors which were the laborers, which the Victorious...