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Comparatively little notice was attracted by a conference of soft coal miners and operators at Jacksonville. There might have been a major strike if there had been a disagreement. Instead a contract was signed extending the present wage scale and all other conditions for three years from the expiration of the present contract on April 1. The miners wished a four-year extension, but the operators insisted on a three-year term in order that the next agreement might not be made in a Presidential year when all politicians are looking for the miner vote. After ten days of unostentatious...
...aims. This liberalization would come through the welcoming of a more popular output, and a close monopoly of "home talent" to be gained by making overtures to prospective authors in the University before the outside presses have had opportunity to canvass. It would thus get the contract for books of a more or less popular appeal before they could be taken up outside. This would not only be remunerative and act as a sort of patronage for less favored books, but would give the Press a wider publicity abroad...
...That during the time Boss Murphy was interested in this fat British Government contract the Tammany men in Congress preserved a practically unanimous silence about Ireland, or about any other topic which the British Government felt sensitive about...
...forget that British Govern-ment contract. It's all true. Murphy's libel suit is a four-flushing bluff. He knows it's all true. Remember that when you go to the polls...
...forget what Murphy's handy men did in Congress, while he had his secret partnership in that British Government contract. You can't get at them this time. But you can get at Murphy's other handy men. Beat them...