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Under the new contract, as an "accommodation" to the Union, the operators "upon the request of any employe will receive from [him] on payday, at a point convenient to the pay office and transmit to the district [union] treasurer, an amount not in excess of $1 per month." The operators decline to "solicit or compel contributions...
Operators' Winning. In return for the "checkoff" and no wage cuts, Col. Inglis, for the operators, got into the new-contract union promises to "take active and affirmative steps to eliminate strikes and shutdowns in violation of this agreement; to eliminate group action designed to restrict output ... to cooperate with the operators for the promotion of efficiency and the production of an improved car of coal." An arbitration committee, composed of the twelve men who negotiated the new contract, was set up to deal with all work and wage disputes under the agreement, to gather facts by experts...
Quartermaster General John Lesesne De Witt explained that the Army's meat purchases are in the hands of depot quar-termasters in the corps areas. In the Philippines the Army & Navy club together to buy meat on one contract to get a lower price. Both Admiral Cheatham and General De Witt said they would be "delighted" to buy beef from U. S. packers if it could be shipped to foreign stations to meet the foreign price. Declared Acting Secretary of War Davison...
...week Bibendum's grin spread to the faces of 700 former employes of the Michelin plant in Milltown, N. J. Depressed business forced the closing of the plant three months ago. To the employes was due $700,000 from an accumulative yearly bonus which the company paid them under contract. The company rules provide that no bonus is to be paid until the employe has been off the payroll for three years. But last week Jules Hauvette Michelin, nephew of the founder, who heads the U. S. subsidiary, announced that the bonuses will be paid now to all who want...
...monumental figure of Marshal Joffre at Chantilly. On both occasions, art critics and a large section of the French press howled in derision, said that the monuments were blots on the landscape. The French Ministry of Beaux Arts suddenly sided with the critics last week, announced that no contract would be awarded, all designs and models would be returned, in the contest for a monument to perpetuate the memory of the Battle of the Marne. Reason: there is no living sculptor, in the opinion of the Beaux Arts Ministry, capable of doing justice to such a monument. Acidly added...