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...fund raised by the larger corporations to import contract labor from Europe is the proposal of Lewis L. Clarke, President of the American Exchange National Bank, Manhattan...
Added to these incentives are are the discontent of returned colored troops with traditional living conditions south of the Mason-Dixon line, the breakdown of the contract labor system, recent crop failures and general agricultural bankruptcy among Southern planters. " The wonder is," remarks The New York Globe, " that the Negro did not walk out long...
Leon Bocqueraz, Vice President of the Federal Company, says: " The repudiation of our contract with China by the Peking Government would leave Chinese-American communications entirely in the hands of the British and Japanese. The American State Department has been appealed to, and is standing squarely behind the Federal Company." He goes on to say that the Japanese claim is in direct contradiction to their professed agreement with the open door policy, voiced at the Washington Conference...
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight champion of the world, announced his retirement from the ring after two fights for which he is now under contract. Kilbane has held the featherweight title for twelve years. He will climb into the ring with Eugene Criqui, Frenchman, at the Polo Grounds, New York, on June 2. If he climbs out again undefeated, he will take on Johnny Dundee, and then hang up his gloves forever...
...thus sustained forbids the use of the interstate mails, telegraph lines or other methods of communication to all grain exchanges not declared " contract markets " by the Secretary of Agriculture. To become a "contract market," a grain exchange has to agree to certain specified governmental restrictions, and in general to supervision by the Secretary of Agriculture. Already the Chicago Board of Trade has applied for designation as a " contract market...