150 Women Workers Hold Southern Peace Conference
Brevard North Carolina August 2 3 A labor conference on Labor's Stake in Peace drew about 150 representatives from Southern labor groups in NC SC GA TN VA AL WV. Speakers critiqued conscripted labor and wartime costs, urged worker education and unity, and discussed organizing unskilled Southern labor.
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Brevard
N. C
SLNS
Southern Summer School For Women Workers In Industry
Rose Stein
Senate
Nelson Cruikshank
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
Virginia
Alabama
West Virginia
E. B. Shoultz
TVA
Joseph Jacobs
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Atlanta
James Dombrowski
Highlander Folk School
Monteagle
Bernard Borah
American Federation of Government Employes
Knoxville
L. E. Brookshire
Greenville
Ruth Scandrett
U. S. Department of Labor
Washington, D.C
Government study probes Byrnes act powers on strikebreakers
Washington officials assign AAG Brian McMahon to exhaustively study federal authority under the Byrnes act aimed at blockading cross border import of strikebreakers. The inquiry seeks to map federal powers amid labor unrest and picketing rights.
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Washington, D. C
Homer S. Cummings
United States
Brian McMahon
Justice Department
Labor Department
Congress
Department of Justice
Department
General Fund
Anaconda Employees Approve Group Insurance Plan
Anaconda Copper Mining Company officials announce a new group life and health insurance for all United States and Canadian employees and subsidiaries. The plan requires 75 percent approval by eligible workers and 90 percent of applicants must file by August 1.
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A. F
L. News Service
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
United States
Canada
AFL-CIO tension as 10 CIO unions face suspension
The AFL executive council votes to suspend ten CIO affiliated unions within 80 days if they do not withdraw their dual membership. Only one dissenting vote, Vice President Dubinsky. The action targets dual organizations tied to industrial unionism, with exemptions for typos and hat and cap makers.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
David Dubinsky
A. F. of L. Executive Council
CIO
A F. of L
Charles P. Monard
International
Green
Tampa
CSO
Howard
Dubinsky
Washington
Europe
John L. Lewis
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
People's Party votes to affiliate with American Labor Party
In Washington D C the right wing socialist People’s Party voted to affiliate with the American Labor Party New York state affiliate backing Roosevelt and Lehman for re election while pledging to preserve its identity and field local candidates. Louis Waldman urged a trade union based party formation with a move away from what he called an insane asylum toward a sane political home.
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Washington, D. C
ILNL
People’s Party
Socialist Party
American Labor Party
New York State
Labor
Roosevelt
Herbert H. Lehman
People's Party
Louis Waldman
Auto Workers Back Roosevelt Support Plan In Labor Meeting
The general executive board of the Auto Workers of America will attend a Lan si labor meeting called by Frank X. Mattel to form Labor's Non-Partisan League. Marshall said the league would support President Roosevelt.
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Detroit
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Edward Callaghan
American Federation of Hosiery
Henry Adams
North Carolina
Franz Daniel
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
SEC
Frederick T. Fisher
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Equity Corporation
Fisher
Equity
Anaconda
Savage Auto Supply CO
Maple Ave
Hamilton
Ohio
the Bulletin Board
RUNES
eiYer
Lewis Group
Council
America Federation of Labor
Executive Couneis
Mabuy Movement
Jas
Auto Workers
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