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...Arkwright, who said that though the operators were supplied by "the Pinkerton agency," this had "nothing to do with labor or labor unions." President Ross C. Wallace of Central Illinois Light Co. spoke up about the tear gas and shells: $500 worth were bought for burglary protection and to patrol the company's lines when a neighboring company was on strike. In Springfield, ILL., Eugene Scott, business manager of Local 702 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. F. of L.), gave Central Illinois a clean bill of health. "Their labor policy," said he, "has been...
...outposts is no simple, inexpensive, overnight job. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox last week said that the U. S. will begin immediately to spend $25,000,000 on its new bases. This sum can do no more than provide haven for ships (mostly destroyers, submarines for first-line patrol), initial facilities for long-range naval flying boats and both Army and Navy land-based planes. To build and fortify an advanced fleet base would cost at least $200,000,000 (the rock-bottom estimate for doing as much at Guam...
...defensive centre of all Caribbean strategy-the Panama Canal. Only three of the new bases (Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad) would lend themselves to development as even secondary fleet bases. But along its new defense line the U. S. can well place docks, tenders, other facilities for destroyers, submarines, patrol planes and protected anchorages for capital ships. President Roosevelt has in hand $200,000,000 of blank-check naval appropriations to spend as he likes, presumably will spend some of it on the bases...
...Another vessel of the northern patrol, the British submarine Spcarfisk, long overdue, was given up for lost last week. The submarine Sealion was luckier. Rammed by a German merchantman, who sheared off her periscopes and shook her up with depth charges, the Sealion wallowed for two days while making emergency repairs, got home safely...
...with the Belgian relief ship Imo. Today Halifax's fine harbor is Britian's convoy point once again, reputedly has been made into a good naval base as well. From its seaplane and land air bases, Canuck pilots fly out to sea on convoy escort and submarine patrol. Nova Scotia is heavily wooded, is connected with the mainland by a narrow strip of land. To a defender it is valuable as a base for ranging out to sea against an invader, flanking him if he gets through and tries to enter the St. Lawrence. For an invader once...