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...Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, met, last week, the British Trades Union Congress. Its most important act was to break off relations with the All-Russian Council of Trades Unions, a course recommended by its General Council. By this action Bolshevist activities in the British Isles were dealt a deadly blow...
...under the undisputed leadership of moderates such as one-time Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his trusty aides, John Clynes, "Jimmy" Thomas and others. The reason for this is probably the General Strike, undertaken against the ad- vice of the moderates, which not only dealt them a hard blow in the sense that it gave industry an unparalleled set-back and robbed them of full-time employment, but virtually bankrupted the Trades Union organizations throughout the country...
...resolutions were accepted and published. Speeches. Said Dr. Wilhelm Mensching of Petzen, Germany: "The fruits of love as outlined by Apostle Paul grow in the soul of the African." Said M. Dantes Bellegarde of Port-au-Prince, Haiti: "If this experiment of self-government [Haitian] fails, it is a blow to all the Negroes of the world." Said one F. E. Croly, U. S. student: "The fault is that the intelligent Negro does not feel that he is part of the common herd. The leadership of the Negro race is left too largely to ministers and bootleggers." Newspapers. Said...
With the selfsame winds that blow...
...Bone & Joint Surgery, consists of a small pneumatic hammer originally designed by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. to grave carvings and letterings on stone and to do delicate riveting. Its over-all length is eight inches, its net weight three and a half pounds. It delivers 3,800 blows a minute, each blow a light tap. But the sum of their rapid succession, when applied to the surgeon's bone-cutting chisel or osteotome, carves away bone precisely to the surgeon's design...