. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. ation the society liasdisbursed $500,000 in death and disability bene-fits. It has secured increased wages for main-tenance of way employees to the amount of$0,000,000 annually. It was actively engaged in the great strike on the Canadian Pacific Rail-way m [901, The si nke was settled after astruggle lasting 11 weeks, with the understand-ing that all meiiiliers of the brotherhood wouldbe reinstated in their former positions withintwo weeks;
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. ation the society liasdisbursed $500,000 in death and disability bene-fits. It has secured increased wages for main-tenance of way employees to the amount of$0,000,000 annually. It was actively engaged in the great strike on the Canadian Pacific Rail-way m [901, The si nke was settled after astruggle lasting 11 weeks, with the understand-ing that all meiiiliers of the brotherhood wouldbe reinstated in their former positions withintwo weeks; the question of wages to be leftto arbitration. Sir John A. Boyd, Chief Jus-tice of Ontario, was chosen chairman of theBoard of Arbitration and awarded the employeesan increase of 20 per cent over previous brotherhood holds a charter of affiliationwith the American Federation of Labor, andpublishes the Advance Advocate. a magazinedevoted to the interests of maintenance-of-wayemployees. See Railway Labor Councils of Women. SeeNational and International Councils ofWomen. International Date Line, an imaginary line. Map of the world, showing the International date line. drawn through the Pacific Ocean somewhat ir-regularly, but tending in a general northerly andsoutherly direction, and separating the islandsof the Pacific Ocean in such a way that all thosewhich lie to the east of it carry the same dateas the United States, while all those on thewest of it carry the same date as Japan andAustralia. The nature of this line may be madeclear by the following illustration: A travelerleaves New York city at noon on Sunday, andproceeds westward just as fast as the earthturns on its axis, so that he follows the sun in its apparent westward progress with such pre- onized they kept the same date as the Spanishcision that he keeps it always directly south of possessions on the opposite side of the Pacific: Europe, too, he would have been told that it isMo
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