Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...owners cannot operate the workers will," says W. J. Kelly, National Secretary-Treasurer of the Amalgamated Iron Workers of America. This organization has decided to make a demand upon owners of plants, now idle, to turn them over to the workers so they may demonstrate the value of such action. This demand is the result of wide unemployment and wage reductions among the metal workers, which according to Mr. Kelly is without reason...
...judicial function is performed by the board of arbitration and inferior courts or committees, such as the Trade Board in the Hart, Schaffner & Marx system, and the Committee on Immediate Action in the Suit and Coat Protocol. Appeals may always be taken for final action to the board of arbitration. Decisions are based upon the fundamental agreement, administrative orders which have not been challenged, precedent decisions, customs and practices in the industry...
...government's resources to build up the strength of the secessionists. In 1916, if Mr. Hughes had won, we should have had a very serious situation, with our policy as to Germany suspended for four months. The present interregnum is both costly and dangerous, unavoidably confusing and retarding action when it should be definite and energetic...
...slew. It realizes that, to he of any real value, help for the farmers must be immediate, for their security is limited to palatable crops. It cannot propose complicated schemes involving huge sums of money to include all those who are in trouble. It can, however, by immed at action, relieve the pressure which is causing ruin in one part of the country. That the remedy proposed is regarded is only temporary is shown by the fact that the tariff bill would be in operation for only four or five months--till the next harvest; it would not be permanent...
...again as soon as her manpower and strength return. With the nation's leaders preaching a new war, and the mass of the people grumbling and defiant towards the demands of the peace treaty, it does not appear as though Germany were ready to follow Austria's course of action for some time to come...