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...first day of the conference was largely taken up with the presentation of the miners' eleven demands. The chief demands were 1) a 20% increase of wages, 2) maximum eight-hour day (only 3,000 or 4,000 of the 150,000 men represented have not an eight-hour day, yet this is one of the major demands), 3) complete recognition of the United Mine Workers (which means virtually a closed shop...
...zone of maximum intensity was not reached until the next morning. There was found nothing standing for a distance of about 100 li (40 miles). Well built Tibetan houses were leveled to the ground and their timbers reduced to gigantic heaps of matchwood. Great rents extended along the plain for miles. Mounds and hill tops were smashed and powdered and sections of hills thrown...
...There is no doubt that we were face to face with the results of an earthquake of maximum intensity which demolished every building and killed perhaps 50% of the people...
...gross quota allowance of immigration for the new year is the same as for the last, 357,803, of which 20% or 71,000 is the maximum which may arrive in any one month. There was every prospect that the monthly immigration quotas of several nations, notably Italy and Greece, would be exhausted in a day or two, and several others within a week...
...year. In these circumstances a strike was possible-and the telephone girls struck. They had been working eight hours a day with rest periods, reducing the actual work period to seven hours and a half. The pay ranged from $9 a week for student operators to $22 a week maximum after five-and a half years' service. The operators demanded an hour's less work and pay ranging from $15 a week for student operators to $27 a week maximum at the end of four years' service...