. The National Civic Federation review . -mittee and the representatives of the American Sheet and TinPlate Company in this city on Monday, is one of the most mo-mentous in the history of the Amalgamated Association. Thisis not only because it averts a strike, but because of the termsof the agreement itself, which provides for the abolition of thelimit on output. There has been no article in the constitutionof the Amalgamated Association that has been more stubbornlyadhered to than this one. The refusal to remove the limita-tion has resulted in numerous lockouts of late years. It hasprobably l
. The National Civic Federation review . -mittee and the representatives of the American Sheet and TinPlate Company in this city on Monday, is one of the most mo-mentous in the history of the Amalgamated Association. Thisis not only because it averts a strike, but because of the termsof the agreement itself, which provides for the abolition of thelimit on output. There has been no article in the constitutionof the Amalgamated Association that has been more stubbornlyadhered to than this one. The refusal to remove the limita-tion has resulted in numerous lockouts of late years. It hasprobably lost the association a number of the mills controlledby the combine, and it looked very much as if a continued ad-herence to the limitation would provoke an early fight with someof the largest independent manufacturers, who claimed thatthey could no longer afford to stick to the association scale onthis account. There has undoubtedly been a powerful combi-nation of circumstances pressing the association to recede fromits former
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