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...long ago (TIME, Oct. 5) "Emperor" A. J. Cooke incendiary Laborite, declared that, as a protest against the lowering of certain wage scales since the Baldwin coal subsidy went into effect (TIME, Aug. 31), the miners would refuse to testify before the Royal Commission* which is now gathering data on the coal dispute. Last week, in the meeting of the British Miners' Delegate Conference, at London, this recalcitrant stand was voted down, five...
...finally passed, the resolution on this point directs that the miners' case shall be presented as forcibly as possible before the Royal Commission, and that another direct appeal shall be made to Premier Baldwin urging him to accept the miners' interpretation of the coal truce agreement as forbidding any decrease in wages whatever. Should the Premier again declare that the operators have a right to lower certain wage scales to the base rates of the 1924 agreement, which is now continued under the subsidy, the miners' executives are instructed that they may "call on the Trade Union...
...entry into this branch of literature partakes of the character of Strachey's entry into the province of biography. Your demonstration that informative articles concerning current events need not be melancholy is a public service. You help to establish the falsity of the notion that there is no royal road to learning. Your disregard of all known conventions of journalism, and of some conventions of etiquet, is as refreshing as a julep...
Italy has established a united air force by Royal Decree in 1923, strictly independent, and engaged military, naval and commercial aviation...
...King of Norway for his researches in Norwegian literature. Unlike the subject of Browning's verse he sees little glory attached to a "riband to stick in his coat", when voicing the independence of the West and the freedom of the true scholar, he scorns the tinseled tribute of royal appreciation...