Word: reason
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...considerable extent in other cities, dependent almost wholly on the situation of a "fight to the finish" between union labor on one side and on the other an organization which is doing its best to get rid of an exclusively unionized labor. We have blamed, with reason, the Bethlehem Steel Company for seeking to restrict the sale of its steel to "open shop" builders, but it must be acknowledged that the offence of these manufacturers is mild compared with that of labor union officials who manage to unionize establishments merely in order that they may make great fortunes in bribes...
...enough funds saved to permit him to go to Chicago. Even if he should let the employment agent pay his expense, he might reach that city only to find that he couldn't keep the job, and yet had no money with which to return to Pittsburg. For this reason the laboring man is inclined to stay in the same community or in the immediate vicinity...
...have one. He is very sensitive as to the treatment he receives at the factory gate at the hands of the officers of the law and the factory officials. Moreover he considers it highly unjust that the foreman can fire him from his job for little or no reason and believes that in such a case he should have the right to bring the matter before a court of appeal...
...Aeromarine Seaplane, type 39-B, which the society used at Marblehead, last winter, and which was "crashed" during a flight across the lake chain of southern New Hampshire to Lake Champlain last summer, is now being repaired and converted into a land plane. The reason for substituting landing gear for the pontoons is that there are better facilities for land flying in eastern Massachusetts and not that the flying and instructing which members of the society did last spring, using Marblehead harbor as a base, was a failure...
...Vogues and Vanities," the musical review lately put on at the Majestic Theatre, has suddenly terminated its run. A sprained ankle on the part of Anna Wheaton one of the stars in the cast, has been advanced as the reason for abandoning further performances of this apparently popular show...