Iron Workers Union Seeks 3.5 Million in Damages in Open Shop Fight
The International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers sues the Structural Steel Board of Trade in New York Supreme Court for 3.5 million dollars. The union seeks an injunction to bar nonmembers and to stop inducement of members to leave. The case ties to a 26 year dispute over open versus closed shop.
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New York City
ILNS
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornmental Iron Workers
New York
Frank P. Walsh
Charles L. Hidlitz
Structural Steel Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Green
United States Department of Labor
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers
Thomas Williams
Unemployment Seen As Serious This Winter In A F L Bulletin
Washington reports from A F of L headquarters show November unemployment already matching last winter’s peak. The bulletin warns that winter job losses could rise 50 percent from November to February and urges permanent organizing to provide against unemployment. It notes union member unemployment at 22 percent nationwide, with 41 percent in building trades and high rates in metals clothing and textile sectors. Part time work rose to 18 percent, with large shares in clothing, metals, manufacturing, and food/shipping industries as firms cut hours to avoid layoffs. The bulletin also cites public works and relief funding as stopgap measures while stressing the need for durable protection against unemployment.
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Washington
A. F. of L
Photo electric cell eyed for public health uses
The New York state department of health notes the photo electric cell can open doors and control ventilation in tunnels and water cribs to aid purification. It may be used in garages to start ventilating fans in cold weather and in industrial plants to reduce dust and fumes as a health measure.
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New York State Department of Health
Ports Closed to Imports of Convict Labor in Foreign Lands
Treasury department rules now bar imports produced by convict labor unless the importer proves in an American customs court that no convict labor entered production. An import bond equal to shipment value and a detailed consular invoice are required. The policy targets broad commodities and could affect lumber pulp wood coal manganese rubber vanilla nickel and more from Soviet Russia and other nations, with wider global implications.
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Washington, D. C
ILNL
Treasury Department
Soviet Russia
Department of Commerce
France
Belgium
Germany
Finland
Poland
United States of America
Green Appeals for Aid to Danville Strikers
President Green urges nationwide support for striking Danville textile workers in Virginia. He frames the hardship as hunger and deprivation among families, calling for contributions to the A F of L and directing donations to Frank Morrison in Washington.
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Washington
Danville
President Green
Virginia
Green
A. F. of L
Frank Morrison
A. F P. of L
Washington, D. C
Post Office Debate: Run On Service Not Profit
Washington reports Congressman Kelly ridicules idea of a strictly business like post office. He says the department’s primary function is to give service, not profit, and that makes it incomparable to private business.
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Iiewed
Washington
Kelly
House Committee On
Union Railway Workers Endorse Five Day Week Plan
The executive council of the railway employes department of the American Federation of Labor backs a five day week with no pay cut to curb unemployment among railroad workers. The group, representing 400000 shopcraft members, also approves a six hour day with no wage loss and a plan to regulate all transportation under interstate commerce rules.
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Chicago
SLNS
American Federation of Labor
Switchmen’s Union
B. M. Jewell
Railway Employes
Interstate Commerce Commission
Stock Deflated Millions Lost Amid Bond Defaults
New York reports grim 1929-30 era numbers as Standard Statistics shows 687 dividends passed and 297 cut in ten months, a sharp rise from 1929. The bond default list in Status of Bonds catalogs 748 major issues totaling over a billion dollars.
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New York
Tabor
Standard Statistics Company
Statistica Company
Reed to Urge Bar to Immigration
Senator David A Reed of Pennsylvania announces he will introduce a resolution in Congress to suspend all quota immigration and all immigration from the Philippine Islands until July 1 1938 He backs the proposal as a measure to prevent unemployment spread in the United States and predicts it will pass almost unanimously.
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Washington
Ilns
David A. Reed
Pennsylvania
Congress
Philippine Islands
Reed
United States
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Iron Workers’ Union
N. Y
P. J. Morrin
Edgar K. Wagner
Richman
Richman Bros. Co
Hamilton, Ohio
High Street
ELSO
Nic Siesi
Joe Say
Fellows
Treasury
Post Office Not For Profit
Jewell
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