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...Washington there was little hope of a prompt settlement, but some hope of settlement within a month, In Wall Street coal stocks rose?indicating that a resumption of operations was expected. Rumors began to circulate that if the present negotiations failed, some of the operators would attempt to open their mines on a non-union basis...
...immediately began to oppose the established voluntary trade unions. In Moscow, when genuine trade unionists rebelled against communism, their leaders were stood against a wall and shot to death. Mussolini set out to crush the existing bona fide trade unions of Italy. Labor papers were suppressed, union halls raided, thousands sent to prisons and others disappeared. And now Mussolini points with pride to his victory in suppressing the workers' real trade union movement of that country...
...present the Egyptian engineers are clearing away the sand at the base of the figure, and building a high protecting wall at a little distance, to serve as a sand break...
...luncheon in question was a somewhat unique affair. The invitation list included, not the usual long-haired admirers of communism but some of the most eminent, not to say hardboiled, bankers of Wall Street. The luncheon was held in the spacious Bankers' Club behind closed doors...
Customers of J. P. Benkard & Co., Manhattan stockbrokers entering the offices of the firm one morning last week, stared in amazement at a clerk who was putting up the opening prices, for this individual was clad like no other clerk in the history of Wall Street. He had on a pale smock with a rolling collar and an open neck-a garment of the type that is popularly supposed to be the uniform of artists in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Its color was light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending...