Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONDON BRIDGE Is FALLING DOWN (Count Basic; Decca). Following the latest vogue. Basic's band warms over (and up) the nursery rhyme of the world's most famed apocryphal structural failure...
Just in time for public consumption over the long Labor Day weekend, President Roosevelt last week released the report of his Commission on Industrial Relations in Great Britain, basic document for next winter's Congressional debates on altering the National Labor Relations Act. It is a cogent, dispassionate, impartial treatise, the product of nine good minds working in politely self-critical harmony.- Its findings were purely factual. It contained no shadow of moralizing for the benefit of U. S. employers, employes or politicians...
...Basic wage & hour disputes are negotiated first nationally, not locally or individually; if these negotiations fail, both sides prefer going to an impartial umpire, whose decision is usually accepted though neither side binds itself beforehand. Local disputes are carried up, through district committees, to a national joint board of the industry. "The objective is to settle locally as many disputes as possible, and if they cannot be so settled, to make the procedure short enough to satisfy the workers . . . long enough to allay the tension." Unauthorized local strikes are frowned on by union higher-ups and are rare...
...ravages of Nature have never stopped Japanese and last week they pushed on with their war in China. In Tokyo a big question was still what decisions of basic policy concerning the China war have been quietly taken by the Japanese Cabinet. Able Wilfred Fleisher of the New York Herald Tribune thought he had found out in Tokyo last week. According to him, the Cabinet decided that once the Japanese Army takes Hankow, the present Chinese capital, no further invasion of China will be pressed. Since the beginning of the war observers have agreed that the most vital question...
...Government should undertake planning and control!" thundered the War Minister. "Japan must turn from light industries to heavy and from capitalism to the control principle. The present Incident [war in China] is expected to bring about a big economic turning point and the firm establishment of the basic industries of Japan in this sense. Thus will appear the general power of the State, in combining military and productive constructive powers in the new era that is expected...