Union Printers Maintain or Increase Wage Scales
New York City ILNS reports printers unions largely keep 1929 30 wage levels through long contracts or small yearly renewals. Major cities like New York and Chicago uphold higher pay while smaller towns pursue wage reductions or maintain current scales. Some unions sign multi year deals with modest increases. others barter temporary cuts to preserve employment and relief programs run by ITU locals.
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New York City
ILNS
Priners
Jerome H. Walker
Chicago
Sioux Falls
S. C
Birmingham
Ala
News-Age Herald
Youngstown
Eugene
Ore
State Board to Investigate Stretch-Out Textile System
Columbia C I L N S reports the State Board of Health will form plans to investigate the stretch-out system in South Carolina textile mills. Two doctors will be paid $10 daily to examine mill workers, with senators and representatives each nominating a physician. The inquiry will also study pellagra linkage to workers’ conditions and may probe mental effects of increased labor, with $1,000 appropriated and subpoenas possible.
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Columbia, 8. C
Ilns
State Board of Health
South Carolina
State Senate
House
State Board of Health I
Wage Cut Will Not Stimulate Building McDonough Declares
St Louis union leaders heard Michael J. McDonough, head of the AFL building trades department, state that wage cuts will not start new building projects. He said unions have authority to adjust wages by local conditions, but his personal view opposes wage cuts as an economic stimulus.
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McDonough
St. Louis
Michael J. McDonough
Building Trades Department
American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
Department
Nationwide Demand For Dry Act Change Pressed
Organized labor leads a nation wide push to modify the Volstead act allowing 2.75 percent beer. The O Connor Hull bill and a labor backed petition seek a House vote, with New York Chamber of Commerce also urging modifications and arguing prohibition has failed economically. Public concern centers on tax revenue and employment while labor calls for wider economic measures to revive production and building.
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New York Chamber of Commerce
Washington, D. C
ILNS
Congress
House Judiciary Committee
Labor
House
National Committee For
Chamber of Commerce
State of
New York
Chamber
March Progress Yet No Quick Revival In Economy
Washington reports the American Federation of Labor notes progress in building business confidence in March but warns permanent employment gains are distant. About 8.3 million workers remain unemployed, relief needs rise in the next six weeks and stay for six months. Government action via Reconstruction Finance Corporation stabilized banks, with no large bank failures since February, though lending remains slow.
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Washington, D. C
American Federation of Labor
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
California State Printers Secure Wage Increase Award
State Printer Harry Hammond secured a $12 weekly wage increase for printers in the state printing office. The rise aligns with the prevailing San Francisco Oakland Sacramento and Los Angeles scales, with day workers at 44 hours and night workers at 40 hours. Negotiations were led by Henry P. Melnikow, executive secretary of the California Conference of Typographical Union. The state plant is the west’s largest of its kind and Hammond has long been a Typographical Union figure.
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Sacramento
Calif
Harry Hammond
State
San Francisco
Oakland
Los Angeles
Henry P. Melnikow
California
Conference of Typographical Union
State Printing Office
Chicago
Hammond
The
Typographical Union
Union Restaurant Patronage Urged by Seattle Waitresses
The Waitresses Union of Seattle affiliated with Hotel and Allied Employees and Beverage Dispensers International Union urges widespread patronage of union restaurants. They say nonunion houses pay lower wages and fall behind promised wages, compared with union establishments.
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UNION
Seattle
Waitresses’ Union
Seattle,Wash
International Union
Big Job Drive Unites Groups for Jobs Across Nation
New York City reports the American Legion and the American Federation of Labor spearheading a campaign to provide one million jobs for one million unemployed workers. Matthew Woll of the AFL Labor Division chairs United Action for Employment, stressing the effort aids all Americans, not only union members, and ties to national security and government stability. Central unions and labor press are praised for aiding job-finding, with cooperation from Legion committees and civic bodies seen as crucial to success.
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New York City
ILNL
American Legion
American Federation of Labor
Matthew Woll
United Action For Employment Campaign
Woll
Legion
Central Labor Bodies
Mr. Woll
Central Labor Unions
Labor Press of America
Central Labor
Federation
America
Wagner says the Federal Hoards Jobs, Needs Projects Now
New York Senator Robert F Wagner contends the federal government is withholding work by delaying authorized public works. He cites over a billion dollars in ready projects and lists 163 planned New York federal buildings, most unfinished or not started, urging immediate use of the public works law to employ one million workers and stimulate related industries.
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New York City
Ilns
Robert F. Wagner
Congress
Wagner
New York State
Drive for Union Label Goods in Tuc son Arizona
The Central Trades Council of Tucson Arizona reorganized the union label committee and launched a publicity drive for union made goods. George Searle, president of the Allied Label Trades, leads the campaign.
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Central Trades Council
Tucson
Ariz
George Searle
al- Ned Label Trades
Withholding Wages Brings Jail Sentence for Employer
Chris G. Delliannie a laundry owner in San Diego California was found guilty on two counts of violating California wage laws. A 90 day jail term was suspended on condition he restitution several hundred dollars of wages withheld from the employee. He faced charges under the semi monthly pay law as well.
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Chris G. Delliannie
San Diego
Calif
California
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Orkers Union
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Pew
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