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...education program of the A. F. of L. is the cinema. Last week a contract was signed for production in Chicago of a motion picture showing the evolution of Labor from slavery to the Federation. The eight hour day, closed vs. open shop, child labor questions, will all be filmed and sent forth, supplemented by lecturers...
...third week went by, leaving the anthracite miners and operators no nearer to deciding whether mining is to continue after Aug. 31, when the present wage contract expires. The miners have asked a 10% wage increase; the operators say that wage costs must be reduced. Incidents of the week: ¶ The operators published, in Philadelphia and Manhattan newspapers, advertisements telling the public that there was no necessity for a hard coal strike, that they were willing to offer to continue operations after Aug. 31 and to arbitrate any difference which had not been settled by that time. The miners charged...
...Dawson, recently retired telephone contract agent for the Post Office Department, wrote to a London evening newspaper recalling that once he installed two "beautiful telephones in ivory and gold" for the exclusive use of the late King Edward. The monarch requested that they be installed in such a way that the operators could not overhear his conversation. The Post Office authorities demurred. According to their regulations they had a positive right and duty to censor any messages coming over their wires. But King Edward insisted and the Post Office desisted, installed the telephones as requested...
...demand for coal. The result is tremendous competition, cutting of prices and a tendency to reduce wages. The soft-coal industry, unlike the hard-coal industry, is only partly Unionized. A year ago last spring at Jacksonville, the soft-coal operators in Union fields accepted a high wage contract, thinking perhaps that it would force high-cost mines to close and reduce competition. Instead, it resulted in closing down most of the Unionized soft-coal mines and diverting business to the non-Union fields of Kentucky, Tennessee and part of West Virginia-where operators cut prices by reducing wages...
Unfortunately for the A. A. H. G. M. S., however, the original mark bonds were payable in German marks, and the debtors are therefore able to fulfill their literal contract by paying them with this now worthless currency. The new bonds are in terms of U. S. gold dollars and in this respect at least stand on a different financial basis. Morally Mr. Zimmerman's protest is well taken, but legally it is fatally weak. The effect of. his action, however, is important, not only with the new Cologne dollar loan, but with a number of other dollar loans...