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...stubborn resistance. The minority of the railway executives, led by Leonor F. Loree, President of the Delaware & Hudson, took up the fight. The National Association of Manufacturers and the American Farm Bureau Federation also opposed the bill. They argued that at no place in the cascade of arrangements for settlement was the public represented, that there was no guarantee that there would be no strike, that it would probably result in wage increases and then rate increases for the public...
...southernmost of these is some thirty miles north of Muyil and about two miles back of the coastal village of Acomal, the northernmost settlement of the independent Indians. Acomal shows a use of realistic instead of conventionalized sculpture for mural decorations. This consists of the use of realistic human heads, sculptured in stone and affixed to temple exteriors. We found similar things on Cozumel Island, and the realistic head of a parrot on a building at Xkaret, which is on the coast north of Acomal...
Policy Bars Settlement...
...With the general strike imminent and the labor unions still trying to bring about an agreement, a sudden change in government policy, which used the Daily Mail strike as a pretext slammed the door in the face of settlement by peaceful negotiation...
...that the general strike is over, the workers have gained more by the terms of its settlement than they originally asked. They have been guaranteed that there would be no further wage reduction, the lockout order would be withdrawn, and a commission with delegates from the miners appointed to work out a plan of reorganization in the mining industry...