Educators and Leaders Urge Roosevelt to Intervene in Ford Strike
A national group of 81 educators editors religious leaders and authors urged President Roosevelt to intervene in the Ford strike at Dearborn Michigan on behalf of autoworkers. They framed the dispute as a defense of democratic law and rights, noting Ford refused a written union offer to allow defense contract workers into the plant.
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New York City
ILNS
Roosevelt
Ford
Detroit
America
Guy Emery Shipler
William Allen Neilson
Mary E. Woolley
Herbert Agar
John Lovejoy Elliott
William Allen White
Upton Sinclair
George S. Counts
American Federation of Teachers
Ford Company
Dearborn
Harry Bennett
Time Magazine
Housing Chief Praises Labor in Defense Effort
Charles P. Palmer defense housing coordinator told a Delta Kappa Epsilon luncheon that labor has done well in the defense emergency and predicted that labor unrest will not reach France’s level. He cited portable houses and trailers aiding rapid growth and said housing is double defense and helps prevent crime by removing slums.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Charles P. Palmer
Defense Housing
Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
Palmer
France
Defense
Chicago Banker Sees Strikes as Economic Outcome
New York banker and business leader Leon Fraser said strikes stem from improving business conditions driven by defense programs and other factors, not sinister intent, reflecting a cautious view of industrial actions.
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Chicago
Leon Fraser
New York
Supreme Court Nixes Government Anti trust Suits Against Unions
The Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings dismissing Sherman Act indictments against labor unions in three cases from Chicago New Orleans and Washington state. The per curiam decisions rely on the Hutcheson ruling that labor disputes fall outside federal anti trust reach.
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U. S
Supreme Court
A. F. of L
Hutcheson
Washington, D. C
ILNS
Chicago
New Orleans
Washington State
American Federation of Labor Unions
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
William L. Hutcheson
Enamel Utensil Workers Get Minimum Pay Rate
The Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor approved a 40 cent per hour minimum wage for the enameled utensil industry. The order, effective April 21, will raise pay for about 1,200 employees, roughly 20 percent of the 8,200 workers in the industry.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Labor
Jewish Workers' Alliance Aids British Labor Fund
The American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor received a $2,000 check from the Jewish National Workers' Alliance. Louis Segal, general secretary, presented the contribution to support help for British workers.
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Jewish Workers’ Alliance
Aids
British Labor Fund
New York City
ILNL
American Labor Committee
Jewish National Workers’ Alliance
Louis Segal
Slli
Jobless totals fall reversing seasonal trend
New York City reports unemployment continuing to decline with February totals dropping 817 100 from January to 7 039 000. From February 1940 to February this year jobless numbers fell from 9 357 000 to 7 039 000 as defense and construction gains boost production. Washington reports 345 000 state job placements in February, up 70 percent from 1940 and 90 percent from February 1939, signaling stronger opportunities under the defense program.
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New York City
SLNS
National Industrial Conference Board
Washington, D. C
Ilns
Federal
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Two Defense Leaders Oppose Strike Ban and Urge Unity
Washington D C ILNS Two leaders in the national defense labor effort told the House Military Affairs Committee that stripping strikes is unwise. Sidney Hillman associate director of the Office of Production Management and William H Davis vice chairman of the National Defense Mediation Board urged cooperation between management and labor. They said unions should use established dispute machinery and employers should grant collective bargaining rights under the NLRA. Hillman noted production was little affected by strikes except Force at Allis Chalmers Milwaukee and coal-mile stoppages. Davis argued against laws prohibiting strikes, calling such laws a path to slave labor.
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Philip L. Sullivan
Chicago
Sullivan
International Hod Carriers and Common Laborers’ District Council of Chicago
Mike Catrozzo
International Union of Operating Engineers
Washington, D. C
ILNS
National Defense Program
House Military Affairs Committee
Sidney Hillman
Office of Production Management
William H. Davis
National Defense Mediation Board
Miles
Ford
Defense
Representative May
Hillman
Building Trades Union
A. F. of L
Davis
America
Mediation Board
Heinz Signs AFL Pact at Pittsburgh Plant
The H. J. Heinz Company signed an agreement with AFL Local Union covering 1,800 of 2,800 plant employees in Pittsburgh. It is the firm’s first outside union contract since 1869, following a Supreme Court ruling upholding a National Labor Relations Board order to reduce an oral pact to writing.
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Pittsburgh
H. J. Heinz Company
American Federation of Labor
United States Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Board
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Ford CO
LABOR
Housing
Geo. Kappel
North
Federal District Court
Harbor Plywood Corporation
Washington
Building and Construction Trades Council of
Louisiana
Biddle
Francis Biddle
Prief
Ince
Matthew Woll
Woll
Federations of Labor
Ivive
Chicago Market CO
CALAS
Defense Effort
Allis-Chalmers
Milwaukee
ETNA
Ees
Heinz
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