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...deductions'? The real motives of each side are clear. For the union, the check-off means easy and certain collection of dues and probably an absolutely complete unionization of the anthracite fields. The difficulty of the union in collecting dues is shown by the frequency of so-called "button" strikes. There were 68 petty strikes in the anthracite region in six months between September, 1922, and March, 1923. Sixty-four of these strikes were settled in from one to three days and the greater portion of these were button strikes. Once a month when dues are payable the union...
...operators accept the check-off it means, as the United Mine Workers say, that there will be no more button strikes. But these are generally of short duration, and the operators prefer to be subject to them rather than collect funds that may be used against them and rather than give the union a firm control of all the miners of the coal fields...
...with pilot, four passengers and gas for three or four hours' cruising. A single wing is adequately braced by a pair of struts projecting on either side from the hull, the structural resistance in the air being reduced to a minimum. The engine starts at the pressing of a button ? gone are the days when mechanics had to swing a propeller painfully and dangerously and many times. Passengers are partially enclosed and protected from wind and rain, yet have a magnificent view. The inside of the cabin is like the inside of a high-class automobile. Every detail...
...looks up to the local Babbitts with a marked awe, which he refuses to acknowledge to himself. His ship is always on its way in and never docks. His story is told with meticulous attention to the detail of his vulgarisms. THE GIRL NEXT DOOR-Lee Wilson Dodd-Button ($2.00). Mr. Dodd calls his book "the crabbed chronicle of a misanthrope." That is an authoritative statement of what it isn't. It is one of the pleasantest, most amiable of melodramas -an account of the life and opinions of an incomparable quartet in a suburban "Garden City" built over...
...names are no; the only handiwork of the industrious scholar. One man, a student of the Greek dramatic poets, has carved a miniature Greek amphitheater, so perfect in detail that even the button for turning on the footlights is seen. Another man, attempting to reconcile the material ugliness about him, has made a bas-relief of a beautiful woman. A Kentuckian once carefully cut out his name, and the next hour another Kentuckian came along and whittled out the first Kentuckian's name to make place for his own. Thereby was a famous fend started...