Vote in Big Dressmakers Union Smashes Communist Push
In New York City Local 29 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers' Union repudiates Communist backed slate. Sascha Zimmerman re-elected manager 10 367 to 2 106 as Progressives win all executive board and convention delegates. Zimmerman cites Stalinist defeat and Unity in labor, while noting anti Communist trends across other locals.
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New York City
ILNS
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
John L. Lewis
The
Daily Worker
Sascha Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Tsadore Weisberg
United Front
International Ladies’ Garment Workers
A. F. of L
C.I.0
International
Lewis
Luggage workers strike at Petersburg Hardware Company enters second month
Petersburg Virginia reports firm strike ranks as the American Hardware Company uses injunctions arrests and fines to force a return to work. Workers demand collective bargaining on wages seniority and working conditions and reject the company’s closed shop stance. Union support grows with contributions from AFL affiliates and local unions in New York and Chicago.
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Petersburg
ILNS
American Hardware Company
Green
American Federation of Labor
F. of L
New York Central Trades and Labor Council
Chicago Federation of Labor
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
New York
Chicago
Death of New Zealand Prime Minister Michael Savage
New Zealand Labor mourns the death of Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage at age 68. Savage led as the country’s first Labor premier since 1935 and launched reforms including higher wages, expanded unemployment relief, the 40 hour five day work week, and government control of the Reserve Bank.
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Wellington
New Zealand
ILNS
Michael Joseph Savage
Savage
New Zealand Reserve Bank
Peaceful Picketing Declared a Basic Right by Colorado Supreme Court
The Colorado Supreme Court rules that peaceful picketing by labor organizations is a basic right. The decision upholds the Norvis-La Guardia act against injunctions and recognizes the legality of secondary boycotts, defining labor disputes over wages hours and conditions. Justice Otto Bock writes the opinion lauding union protections and freedom of association.
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Colorado Supreme Court
Denver, Colo
ILNL
State Supreme Court
Mhe
Henry A. Hicks
Perry
Hicks
Perry Lines
Bock
Justice Bock
Meat Cutters Win After Long Fight
Seattle workers end nine month drive to reach a settlement with Swift and Company. The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America win improved conditions at Portland and Seattle plants, and a $100,000 damage suit by Swift is dropped as part of the accord. Charles Mentrin, Local 186 business representative, comments on the agreement.
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Seattle
Wash
Mls
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
North America
Swift and Company
Washington
February employment shows large nonfarm dip but net gain from 1989
Washington reports a 50 000 contra seasonal drop in non agricultural jobs from Jan 15 to Feb 15. Despite the decline total non farm employment remains about one million higher than February 1989, with factory payrolls down 0.1 percent. Perkins notes lay offs in retail wholesale and public construction drive the dip, while overall payrolls still rise from January 1 to February.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Secretary of Labor
Perkins
Department of Labor
Miss Perkins
Rotary Perkins
National Negro Congress seeks probe of Ku Klux Klan
At a conference with Assistant Attorney General O John Rogge delegates from the National Negro Congress and allied groups urged the Department of Justice to investigate charges of peonage and violence by the Ku Klux Klan. Speakers included John P Davis of the congress William J Patterson of the International Labor Defense and Abolish Peonage Committee and James A Brier a Greenville Mississippi teacher who said Klansmen drove him from his home.
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Washington
TL 1
ILNS
O. John Rogge
National Negro Gondives
Department of Justice
Ku Klux Klan
Saints
John P. Davis
Congress
Willliam J. Patterson
International Labor Defense
James A. Brier
Greenville
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Labor
GEO. Kappel
Chicago Market CO
Otto Bock
Clai
Swift
Meat Cutters
National Negro Congress
Krebs
THOR
Wris
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