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In recent years no union offers a better example than the United Mine Workers (U.M.W.,s) under mine-owner Richard Trumka. The U.M.W.'s active membership has been reduced to 155,000, with 45,000 of those unemployed. They have little prospect of getting their jobs back so long as the decline of smokestack industries in the United States and the worldwide glut of cheap fuel continues. Trumka and newly elected secretary-treasurer John Banovic immediately set about putting the international's house in order.

This article presents information regarding Greenland as summer tourist destination. The name of Greenland, albeit it implies the existence of meadows and pastures green, is in itself repellent-not a name that charms, like Chamounir, the Matterhorn, or the Riviera. In the popular mind, Greenland is a synonym for ice and icebergs, and little else, a journey thither is a journey to a region which offers only hardships of travel and the prospect of a non-return.

This article presents information regarding relationship between the U.S. and Great Britain. There has been something like a panic in regard to 5-20 bonds in England and, in short, the prospect of increasing difficulty in relations of Great Britain with the U.S. has caused more apprehension and annoyance than on any recent occasion. One circumstance which has contributed very greatly to this state of feeling has been a letter from, Goldwin Smith. English feeling upon the subject. Nothing is more desirable than an increase of friendliness between the two countries, not merely for the obvious reasons which have been put forward in dozens of after-dinner orations, including those of poor Reverdy Johnson, but because they are singularly well fitted to correct each other's failings.