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Harking back to the question of the checkoff, a special committee of the National Coal Association (soft coal operators) issued a statement denying that the check-off was satisfactory in the bituminous mines. The committee stated that it had filed a request with the Coal Commission for the abolition of the checkoff. Said the committee : " This system was originally accepted in the bituminous industry in the hope that it would tend to lessen strikes and breaches of agreement. The result has been just the opposite. . . . Under the check-off the United Mine Workers raise every year more than...
From the original demands for less work and more pay, the final demand of the strikers changed to a request to be taken back into their former positions. Even this was not entirely achieved. The strikers lost their seniority, and not all were taken back as some of their places had been filled by new employees...
...conference on Chinese capitulations (extraterritorial rights for foreigners in China), which was to have been held three months after the Washington Conference (terminated February 6, 1922), was further postponed to November 1, at the request of the Chinese Government...
...Protestant Episcopal Church. His book, Communism and Christianism, is one of the handbooks of the Communist Party, and because of the opinions expressed therein the House of Bishops at the Episcopal Convention in Portland, Oregon, last September was asked by the Diocese of Arkansas to depose him. This request was refused by the House on the ground that Bishop Brown was "mentally irresponsible." Then a committee of five bishops was appointed to ask Bishop Brown to tender his resignation voluntarily. He refused to meet them. Last week he sent a letter to the House of Bishops stating the conditions...
...Morgan. Its trouble is-or at least began with-evolution. Professor James W. Sprowls was until lately a member of the faculty. During the Spring, however, he taught evolution and assigned James Harvey Robinson's The Mind in the Making as "outside" reading. Thereupon he departed by request of the University administration. The students took offense at this and discontent was open among them. Dean Maurice Mulvania suggested to President Morgan that the students be given a measure of self-government. President Morgan asked Dr. Mulvania to canvass the faculty for suggestions for a "University Consti-tution." When...