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...Arthur Ramsay Steel-Mait-land, Minister of Labor: "The reasons why the Government introduces this bill, which is designed to suspend the Seven Hours Act only temporarily, are based upon a plain convincing fact: last year, apart from the Government's Coal Subsidy [TIME, Aug. 10 et seq.], over two-thirds of the great coal exporting firms operated at a loss. . . . The only way of meeting this situation, in the opinion of the Government, is an immediate but not permanent extension in the hours of labor...
...bill) : "Even now I believe that after this bill is passed a settlement satisfactory to all may be reached if the Miners Federation will cooperate to increase the efficiency of the coal industry by accepting the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission's report." (TIME, Oct. 19 et...
...Commons- ¶Applauded heartily a proposal Vernon Hartshorn, Welsh Laborite, suggesting a round table conference between Laborite and Conservative M. P.'s to settle the coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.). The Government promptly spiked this proposal. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary for War, pointed out that no matter what was negotiated at the "round table" it would not be binding upon the miners, owners. Debate upon the Baldwin anti-strike legislation (TIME, June 28) was postponed. One million miners continued on strike...
...established over Syria (1922) the rebellious Druses and other savage natives have been selling their lives dearly almost daily in guerilla attacks upon the French Army of Occupation. For eight months the French garrison at Damascus has bombarded that city or its environs almost nightly (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.). Scarcely a morning dawns that French airplanes do not drone aloft to release bombs. At Aleppo, Horns, Hama, Seraand, Suedia and Salkhad other French garrisons defend themselves by similar means. French semi-armored trains and auto-convoys ply with grim regularity this sea of revolt. When a lone Frenchman ventures...
...Latest of these books, telling the story and elaborating the discoveries of Beebe's voyage to the Sargasso Sea,, the Humboldt current, Volcanic Galapagos and the prehistoric gorge of the Hudson (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925 et seq.) ; replete with descriptions and exquisite hand-painted color plates of extraordinary sea creatures, from pygmy sharks to titan devilfish; written in Explorer Beebe's best scientifico-romantic vein -is THE ARCTURUS ADVENTURE-William Beebe-Putnam...