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...meet world competition in the shipping business, they would have to make a reduction in wages of the same amount. The owners got together with the officials of the National Seamen's and Firemen's Union and the reduction was agreed upon. It looked like a peaceful settlement...
...Negotiations. It was not until the final communiques (one French, one British) were issued, that the course of the negotiations for the Franco-British debt settlement could be traced with any degree of accuracy...
...French Cabinet sent forth Joseph Caillaux to battle single-handed over the French Debt settlement with Great Britain, but as it prepared him to go forth to the U. S. it fortified him with an expeditionary force. The reason for the difference was simple. When M. Caillaux went to London he had no expectation of making a final settlement. He knew that the British Government would not dare arrive at definite terms until Washington had made terms, for fear that Washington would get better terms. But M. Caillaux very much wanted to know where he stood with Britain before...
...Sept. 16, the French debt commission will sail for the U. S.? according to latest advices. The mission to Washington will go forward therefore to negotiate if possible a final and definite settlement. Accordingly M. Caillaux is to be surrounded with a mission. The composition of that mission was decided last week by the French Cabinet...
...believed that he would like to make a settlement of France's debt to Britain before the French Debt Commission sails to deal with the U. S. on Sept. 16. The English wish to get enough from their French and other debtors, and from German reparations to pay the annual remittance on their debt to the U. S.- ?33,000,000 at present. They are asking ?20,000,000 a year from France.-M. Caillaux is expected to offer ?10,000,000. A compromise is not impossible at a figure something like...