In Italy, the Confederation of Fascist Trade Unions comes to an agreement with the employer group the Confederation of Industry to deal exclusively with each other, shutting out the Socialist unions. The Italian, presumably Fascist, press says this will change workers’ attitudes from class warfare to class cooperation.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad is indicted for transporting beer. The railroad says the two carloads were labeled “cereal beverage” and how were they to know?
At the Locarno Conference, Germany agrees to join the League of Nations. It will also sign treaties with France over the Rhineland and for arbitration.
Susan Brandeis, daughter of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and herself a lawyer, argues a case before the Supremes. The NYT thinks she is the first woman to do so, and they’re off by 45 years. She argues for a lawyer fined for charging more than $3 to file an affidavit to the Veterans’ Bureau. Daddy recuses himself.
British Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks (Jix to his friends, if any) says he wants new powers to deal with the Red Menace, though who even needs them because, there would be such a backlash to any Communist impertinence (okay, he didn’t use that word, but he was thinking it), the CP “will be smashed to atoms.”
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