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...Settlement of the automobile strike seems in itself enough to cause jubilation. The economic wastage to all parties concerned seemed great enough to justify almost any solution...
...ineffectual, was the Pacific Coast strike -with 240 ships and 40,000 men still idle, losing $7,000,000 a day - but five days after the eastern strike collapsed Longshoreman Harry Bridges, leader of the western strike, announced : "There is a growing sentiment in the rank and file for settlement and nothing can change it now." A peace vote in the unions was set for this week. No empty settlement will this be for the strikers, however. Tentative agreements gave the unions their demands for 1) control of the hiring halls which pick men for jobs when employers call...
...week both held constitutional and valid the FCAA (Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act). The uncertain character was shown by such cautious references last week as that of the Montreal Star which said it "provided a means by which a farmer and his creditors might be brought together for a settlement of debts along bankruptcy lines but without actual recourse to the Bankruptcy Court...
...hour. In Pittsburgh the gS-day strike of Pittsburgh Plate Glass workers was settled with an agreement to boost wages 8/ an hour, establish a minimum wage of 63^ an hour. Libbey-Owens-Ford glass workers on strike for five weeks again failed to make a settlement, but it seemed that glass-labor troubles would soon be over. More important to Mr. Lewis than the wage increases thus won was the settle-ment of these strikes, which might have shut down a good part of the motor industry. In fact last week Chrysler plants shut down for two days because...
...overture of goodwill toward Germany, hopefully intended to woo Der Führer out of any intention he may have to shake Europe with another violent deed before the Reichstag meets at Adolf Hitler's call Jan. 30. "Our objective," cried Premier Blum, "is for a settlement of European problems as a whole. . . . We are members of the League of Nations, faithful to its principles and loyal to its Covenant! We have linked friendships which we shall maintain . . . contracted obligations to which we shall remain entirely loyal...