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...women do not strike more are common knowledge: 1) Women's work is mainly unskilled, and therefore women workers are usually easy to replace. 2) Many women workers get free board at home or are otherwise not entirely self-dependent, so that wages are not as vital a concern to them as to most male workers. 3) Many women workers enter industry for only a short time in their youth, so that there is a large turnover in their ranks which hinders thorough organization...
...weeks. If the Senator spends even that time in a small district in a country whose language he can speak and mingles with all classes of people, he will return with considerable information about that particular district and the attitude of its people toward European problems which most directly concern them. He may learn less about Europe as a Continent than if he had remained at home, installed himself in the editorial rooms of some important journal, and diligently read the exchanges...
According to the Chicago Tribune, the Austrian Government plans to hand over its railway (now operating at a loss of $2,000,000 monthly) to a British concern for a long period...
...been made in the excited rumors of Wall Street. Even President Crowell of the Stock Exchange was unaware of its critical condition. The house was, in fact, solvent on paper at the time of its failure, but its assets, including claims against the Alien Property Custodian, were frozen. The concern had long been known for its dealings in foreign exchange and silver bullion. Before the establishment of the Reserve System, the firm had during panic times done a curious but successful business in exchanging American currency, then at a premium, for American certified bank checks...
...GOLDEN FLEECE-Padraic Colum-Macmillan ($2.00). The cycle of Greek legends that concern Jason and the rest of his varsity crew most admirably retold for children by a poet and artist...