Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...they contract the disposal of their entire production to wholesale jobbers. These contractors accuse the jobbers of driving such sharp bargains, of "jewing" prices down so low, that only by sweatshop methods can the little manufacturers meet the stiff competition. They profess sympathy with their.striking employes but claim they cannot accede to their wage and time demands until the jobbers agree to cease patronizing and encouraging sweatshop contractors. The jobbers retort that they are bound to seek the best possible prices, sweatshops or no sweatshops, to induce the public...
...submarines if it is possible to obtain the consent of all five powers to such a proposition, and in any event we suggest that the operations of submarines be limited to the same rules of international law as surface craft in operation against merchant ships, so that they cannot attack without providing for the safety of the passengers and the crew...
MacDonald: "The Government proposes the abolition of submarines. Its experts feel that the argument that the submarine is an arm solely of defense was destroyed by the experience of the late war and that in war conditions it is an arm of attack. If abolition cannot be agreed upon, the British government will put forward proposals limiting submarines rigidly to the defense requirements...
...Parmoor made hasty rounds among at least a hundred members of his House, found the Earl of Beauchamp (Liberal Leader in the Lords) anxious to smooth things over, and the Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative Leader) in a huff, still repeating that "The duties of the Lords are revisory and cannot be abdicated in the face of threats...
...plain truth is that Labor cannot afford to waste time and energy now in a standing battle with the Lords, even though victory is certain. With the naval parley now in full swing it would be folly to turn aside for the mere purpose of thrashing a Tory majority in the House of Lords...