Union Hosiery Workers Cited For Contempt in Kenosha Strike
Milwaukee report on the Kenosha lockout by Allen A Hosiery Company leading to contempt citations and jury trial plans. Key figures include Harold E. Steele and Louis F. Budenz with potential further indictments as picketing and protests persist around the Kenosha plant.
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Kenosha
Milwaukee
Wis
Kenosha, Wis
American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Allen-A Hosiery Company
Wisconsin Federation of Labor
Allen-A Company
Harold E. Steele
American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers
Middle West
Louis F. Budenz
New York
Allen-A
Strike Relief Committee
Wisconsin
Mass Stupidity in Tax Collecting
A historical critique of the income tax system argues that collecting taxes costs the government more than the revenue it yields for over 2 million filers. It calls for raising the small exemption to reduce returns and errors, noting wasteful handling and higher costs than small gains. The piece contrasts this with calls to cut surtaxes for the rich and mocks government efficiency.
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United States
Printers in Fresno Win $2-a-Week Wage Increase
Fresno newspaper printers have raised wages by two dollars per week and secured the standard union shop contract. The agreement binds all craftsmen on subsequent contracts and signatures.
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Fresno
Cal
Mitten Traction, Mahon Seal Novel Union Management Pact
Powerful Mitten traction interests sign a joint ownership plan with Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employer of America. W. D. Mahon hails cooperation to improve service, wages, and future joint management across Philadelphia and Buffalo properties under Mitten leadership.
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Big Mitten Traction
Mahon
International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
Mitten Traction
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employer of America
W. D. Mahon
Mitten
Mittens
A. A. Mitten
O. L. Mahon
Traction] Workers
T. E. Mitten
America
FR. ‘T
Amalgamated
What Is Workers' Education and Its Role
A Labor College aims to inform on national policy foreign relations domestic controversies economic measures and constitutional changes. It stresses weighing pertinent facts over quick remedies and urges careful, factual decision making rather than infallibility.
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Labor College
Builders Sign Peace Pact in Portland Three-Year Deal
The Building Trades Council and employers in Portland have signed a three year agreement retroactive to January first. The union shop is recognized and arbitration processes are provided. The contract urges rotation of work during slack periods where practical.
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Portland
Ore
Building Trades Council
Soft Coal Miners Celebrate Eight Hour Day and Renew Contracts
Soft coal miners marked the April 1 eight hour day with work suspensions in many districts. Indiana Illinois and Southwest mines renewed or extended contracts under the Jacksonville scale while some operations continued under prior agreements. A Terre Haute conference yielded a new accord affecting 1500 to 2000 miners and shaft mine conditions.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Inois
Southwest
Jacksonville
International Union
Ilinois
United Mine Workers of America
Harvey Cartwright
United Mine Workers
Terre Haute
Todiana
Indiana Coal Operators Association
Ilso
Schneiderman Re-elected Leader of New York Women’s Trade League
Rose Schneiderman was reelected president of the New York Women's Trade Union League. She reported numerous strikes by women this year, many in laundries. She blamed overbuilt, wasteful and unscientific laundry practices and noted thousands of small laundries opening with low wages averaging $14.72 weekly for women workers.
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New York City
I. L. XN
State Department of Labor
New York Tenants Rally Against Emergency Rent Laws in Senate
Tenants packed a stormy public hearing in Albany demanding repeal of all emergency rent restrictions. Speakers warned opponents face political ruin and predicted mass evictions if laws fail. Landlords urged free market to govern rents and opposed modernizing tenements.
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Albany
New York City
Senate Chamber
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Frank E. Wolfe
Carmen
Union
New York Victory
Interborough
Philadelphia Trade Union News
Dow
Thrift
Charles A. Beard
Rose Schneiderman
Women Unionists
Armstrong
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