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...some have ideas for pleasure, some have plans for profit, some have inscrutable designs. It was so with the meeting of anthracite operators and miners, which resumed its Conference there after a week's adjournment. The miners had made eleven demands for a new wage-and-working-conditions contract to supersede the present contract expiring on August 31. Four of the miners' demands ? lesser ones ? were agreed on. The first of the remaining seven demands brought disagreement and an end to the Conference...
...asserting that it is illegal, un-American and that in effect it forces a closed shop, giving the United Mine Workers a labor monopoly. The miners' officials demand it, declaring that it is not illegal and gives them the only sure hold over their members in enforcing the miners' contract with the mine operators. The miners further assert that the check-off is successfully used in the bituminous coal fields. The operators in turn deny this...
Next morning the Conference met again. Neither side would yield. The miners again proposed adjournment, sine die. The operators proposed that the miners accept either a renewal of the present wage contract till April 1, 1925, with such additions as had already been agreed on, or an agreement that there would be no strike on September 1, and that the questions of the check-off and of a 20% raise in wages be settled by arbitration. The miners refused. At the suggestion of the operators the Conference adjourned ? to meet again at the call of the Secretary if either...
...Western Union Telegraph Co. announced the signing of a contract with the Italian Submarine Cables Co. for a direct line between Italy and the United States, by way of the Azores, if Portuguese permission is granted. It will be the longest and highest capacity single cable across the Atlantic (4,500 miles), transmitting 50,000,000 words a year, or five times the volume of any existing Western Union cable. Present communication with Italy is relayed by land lines through England and France. The Western Union chose Italy for the destination of its largest cable because of " the growing prosperity...
...story (from F. Anstey's fantastic novel) liberates an evil genie, four thousand years old, from captivity in the brazen receptacle. The liberator, an impoverished young architect, is promptly offered his heart's desire by the relieved genie. He wishes the contract on a certain building and a life contract with a certain girl. By various and wonderful means these wishes are fulfilled...