Abstract

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This article focuses on various political developments in the world. In the U.S., the first steps have been taken preliminary to settling the textile strike by arbitration. The establishment of the Board of Mediation and Inquiry provided an instrument to replace both the Cotton Textile National Industrial Relations Board, in which the U.T.W.A. had long since lost faith, and the National Labor Relations Board, whose theory of collective bargaining the Cotton Textile Institute refused to consider. The national strike committee of the U.T.W.A. now stands ready to submit the issues of the strike to adjudication by the new board. Japan's reply to Moscow's note protesting against the arrests of Soviet citizens and interference with the Chinese Eastern Railway has only heightened the tension between the two countries. Without assuming responsibility for the actions of the Manchoukuo police, Japan upholds the arrests and charges the Soviet employees of the railroad with having caused the disastrous wrecks which have recently taken place on the C.E.R. In support of this charge it alleges that most of the difficulty has occurred on the eastern branch of the railway, that the trains attacked were military goods trains, and that few Soviet citizens have been killed or injured.