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...settlement left both sides where they stood a year ago, when Petrillo charged that canned music from jukeboxes and radio stations was threatening the livelihood of his musicians. He then invoked the ban. But he will do little better now. Record makers will pay royalties of between 1% and 2½% a record into the musicians' welfare fund, about the same as before. Estimated royalties: $2,000,000 a year. The peace pact was tentatively drawn two months ago. It was held up to make sure that it did not violate the Taft-Hartley Act, which bans the paying...
...what he was fighting for into his "three principles": Min Tsu (national unity), Min Chuan (political democracy) and Min Sheng (people's livelihood). By 1923, Sun Yat-sen accepted Soviet Russia as an ally because Communist Russia had renounced all the old imperial claims to special "rights" in Manchuria and North China. (Nevertheless, Sun Yat-sen explicitly rejected Marxism for China.) The Russians sent bright young Comintern legmen like Michael Borodin to "cooperate" with Sun Yat-sen at Canton while organizing the Communist Party of China at the same time...
...students delay the question of getting a job by entering graduate schools; a few others by-pass the problem altogether by such dodges as taking a desk at the paternal office, or by making a Grand Tour. But for the majority each year, the question of a post-college livelihood becomes one of urgency as Commencement festivities approach...
Such fears seem exaggerated. Going out on strike is a serious matter for the worker. For a period of time, he is giving up his livelihood to fight for something he supposedly believes in. There can be no apathy about so drastic an action. If a worker is willing to strike, the chances are that he is aware of his willingness and is ready to participate in the strike vote. In administering the law, it is important that the Commonwealth guarantee every union a convenient time and place for the balloting. Otherwise the law may damage the union's bargaining...
...even the baffled knew that the man who won the strange games at Philadelphia could be as important to them as their own rulers. Maybe more so. "Whether the next U.S. President is isolationist or internationalist,"* wrote Tokyo's Asahi, "will have far more effect on the actual livelihood of the Japanese than the question of whether the next [Japanese] Premier is Shigeru Yoshida or Hitoshi Ashida...