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...greatest progress made last week towards the settlement of the controversy between anthracite miners and operators (TIME, July 20 et seq.) was the scratching of seven days off the calendar. The present wage contract in the anthracite industry expires on Aug. 31 and, unless the miners, with their demand for higher wages, and the operators, with their demand for lower wages, reach a compromise by that date, a strike will begin on Sept...
...French debt mission, composed of MM. Barnaud, Roussel, Thion (TIME, Aug 3), arrived in London, began to negotiate a settlement of the French War debt to Britain, long outstanding...
...predicted by John J. Leary Jr., a correspondent who specializes in Labor difficulties, that the final arrangement would take the form of an agreement: 1) To continue present wages; 2) to appoint a semi-public fact-finding body to prepare data for a future settlement; 3) a contract for 18 months to expire Apr. 1, 1927. On this same date, the wage contract in the bituminous coal fields expires, raising the prospect of a joint strike of both hard-and soft-coal producers. This prospect is not without advantages to both operators and miners. To the anthracite operators, it would...
...considerable delay, M. Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister, replied to Germany that she must become a member of the League of Nations before anything could be done; that whatever was done must in no sense modify the Peace Treaties; that arbitration treaties (proposed by Germany to guarantee "a peaceful settlement of juridical and political conflicts") ought to be signed not only with France but with Belgium and, by implication, with Poland and Czechoslovakia. Under no circumstances shall room be left in these treaties for coercive action except "when such action shall be undertaken consistently with the provisions of the treaties...
...leisurely English manner, clearances of stock sales on the London exchange are made only semimonthly instead of daily as in the U. S. When the second July settlement came around last week, the exchange machinery almost , broke ; clerks were worked overtime for many hours. It all came about because of speculation in rubber stocks following the rise of the better grades of rubber to $1.20 a pound...