Arbitration Averts Strike By Chicago Rail Workers
An agreement to arbitrate wage and benefit disputes averts a threatened strike by Chicago surface and elevated railway workers. Surface lines seek higher pay and new benefits, while companies propose cuts. Arbitrators include Judge Kickham Scanlan and B J Mellraith with a third to be chosen. Mahon led negotiations amid strong worker and management resolve.
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Chicago
International Labor News Service
W. D. Mahon
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Kickham Scanlan
Circuit Court
B. J. Mellraith
Mahon
Railw
W. B. Fitzgerald
International
L. D. Bland
Uni
Chicago Street Raily
Edward McMorrow
William Quinlan
Surface Lines Toe
William Taber
John J. Kehoe
Lee
Frank Lawrence
W. 8. McClenathan
Chicago Elevated Railway
Pats
Strike Wage Ordinance Defeated By Hat and Millinery Union
In New York City a two week strike by the Cloth Hat and Millinery Workers International Union ended a lockout ordered by associations to block the 40 hour week. Five thousand workers will work a five day, 40 hour schedule as firms concede. Atlanta Court voids municipal wage rates for contractors, with Georgia Supreme Court ruling that fixed rates risk monopoly and tax burden. Rates set include Blacksmiths 90 cents, carpenters 80 cents, bricklayers 1.40, plumbers 1.25, plasterers 1.25, steam fitters 1.25, electricians 1.25, lathers 1, sheet metal workers 0.80, stone cutters 1.12, painters 0.80.
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New York City
Cloth Hat
Atlanta
Georgia Supreme
Jan K. Hines
Y Council
Carmen Win Right to Organize Subway Workers Amid Truce
Mayor Walker brokered a three hour conciliation ending a looming lockout between the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway Employes and Interborough Rapid Transit Company. About 400 union members applied to join the Amalgamated. guards and commissaries were set up as strikebreakers were ready. Union leaders pledged protection from discharge and warned of renewed action if the agreement is violated.
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Carmen
Subway
New York City
Walker
Amalgamated Aviation of Street and Electrical Railway
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Interborough
Union
Amalgamated
Smayor
Hin Ba
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Why Workers Borrow Rows From Illness to Debts
A study of 4000 loans from eight credit unions shows illness as the main reason workers borrow, followed by winter coal needs, family expenses, and debt buildup. Most borrowers are married with dependents, earning $40 weekly or less, with many loans in the 50 to 100 dollar range. Also notes the New Hampshire Federation of Labor convention set for September 20 in Keene.
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Washington
Monthly Review
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
Keene, N. H
New Hampshire Federaton of Labor
Guns for Coal Owners to Lower Labor’s Wage War
Columbus Ohio President Leo Hall of the Ohio district United Mine Workers and officials have been enjoined from picketing the Lubric Collieries plant as part of a coal owners’ drive to open mines with reduced pay. Miners face wage drops from 5 to as low as 4 daily, with reductions from 25 cents to 1 dollar daily noted. Reports from Steubenville claim Rose Valley and Goodyear Rubber mines ordered machine guns and ammunition. Miners are open to talks, but owners demand meeting terms reflecting lower rates.
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Columbus
Ohio
Leo Hall
Ohio District
United Mine War
Lubiig
Thaseuurtantinin-pert Abs
Steubenville
Rose Valley
Goodyear Rubber Company
Communists Fail in Effort To Represent Telegraphers In Parley
Negotiations for a new agreement between Commercial Telegraphers Union of America and Canadian National Telegraphs began in Toronto on July 11 affecting over 1,500 employees. The N T Division No 43 was closed amid internal strife as communist factionalists press to gain influence. The article notes past expulsions and ongoing calls to bar communists from unions to protect workers’ interests while praising allied Canadian labor bodies for support.
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Chicago
Canadian National Telegraphs
Toronto
Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America
Calvin McMahon
Barber
N. T
Labor Department
GTA
View
Wal E. Schour
Qi “Borer
Interatiinal
Frank 4. Powers
Ele House
Green
New York City
Great Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
Tom Moore
Railroad Trades
Order of
Railroad Telegraphers and Railway Department No. 4
G. D. Robertson
R. J. Tallon
Scarcity of Domestic Servants Stirs Old Debate
Washington reports the Monthly Labor Review tests claims that immigration policy drives servant shortages. Bureau of Labor Statistics findings suggest persistent economic and social causes, independent of immigration, with women reportedly unwilling to enter domestic service despite wartime immigration peaks around 1914-15.
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Washington
Labor Review
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
United States
Death benefit raised by Sheet Metal Workers union
Atlantic City reports the annual convention of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association approved increasing the death benefit for vilows of deceased members from 300 to 500 dollars.
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Atlantic City
Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association
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Sabena
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