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...ethnological history of Puerto Rico is identical with that of any of our Southern States, including my own State of Texas: invasion and settlement by Europeans?and Spain sent her best blood to the New World; practical extermination of the aboriginal inhabitants; importation of African slaves for agricultural labor; subsequent liberation of these slaves and the gradual appearance of more or less mixed blood. The only difference I see in Puerto Rico is that, since the process has on the whole been going on for a couple of hundred years more than in the continental U. S., the proportion...
...rendered a decision: A 10% to 25% wage increase retroactive for 13 weeks, a 40-hour work week and the stipulation that those terms were to be binding on both parties until June 1935. Six weeks after the decision the union declared that the company was not fulfilling the settlement terms, made additional new demands, threatening a strike if they were not granted in 48 hours. The company offered to go before Judge Sullivan and abide by his decision if it had not lived up to its contract, but refused to listen to new demands...
...pickets were wounded, most of them in the arms and legs. One died next day. Overtures for a general strike were made but other unions promised no more than moral support. Meantime a two-day truce was declared, to give Rev. Francis Haas, Federal mediator, time to arrange a settlement. Governor Floyd B. Olson moved 4,000 guardsmen to the State Fair Grounds. When the truce expired no settlement had been reached and police again began convoying food trucks...
...engineers, superintendents and non-union men engaged in manning the pumps which keep three mines at Butte from being flooded. The strike, for a 30-hour week and a pay increase from 60? to $1.25 an hour, has been in progress since May 8, and all negotiations for its settlement have failed...
...publishers' campaign against the general strike, arouse public opinion. Editorials harped on the idea that Communists were to blame for the city's plight, that radicals were directing the strike, that Labor must purge itself of such Red leadership before there could be any arbitration or settlement. The publishers got little or no support from Washington for their tubthumping. When General Johnson arrived in San Francisco, he was taken in hand by Mr. Neylan and made to see the Red menace...