unity is Power in Industry Key to Workers Betterment
The American Federation of Labor at the Philadelphia convention argues that industrial organization is essential to improve workers conditions and to remedy wrongs. It credits unity and federation with legal gains, political victories, and broader social improvement through organized labor and nonpartisan campaigns.
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American Federation of Labor
Ita
Philadelphia
American Federation of Libertas
Workers of Ameren
Jill
Labor
A. F. of L
A. P. of LL
Lewis ‘T. Bryant
New Jersey
Bryant
Open Air Alpine Pastoral Theater in Switzerland
A vast open air theater in Interlaken, Switzerland, set among beech and pine with a rock backcloth and mountain skyline. The stage uses meadow slopes and forest passages for entrances while the Alpine cattle and bells provide a natural accompaniment to scenes like William Tell, with dramatic horns and choral ambience enhancing the Berner Oberland backdrop.
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Alps
Europe
Interlakeen
Switzerland
Schiller
Beriexe Oberland
Jungfrau
Monek
Etger
Nature
Wide World Magazine
Two Points of View on Labor and Leisure in Open Air Life
A late night scene contrasts a fashionable woman leaving an Opera with laborers at a construction site. Both envy the other's freedom, but social bounds and debt temper their desires as torchlight and engines hum. The voice blends essays and observations on life, labor, and leisure.
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Che
Charlee Hanson
A. White
Martial Law Explained and Its Harsh Realities
The article defines martial law as no law where supreme authority acts arbitrarily, suspending ordinary rights and enforcing strict control. It contrasts with military law, notes police may enforce it, and outlines severe penalties, travel restrictions, passport demands, and potential summary killings for common crimes.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Unionists Defined and Their Call to Unity
The definition from the American Federationist describes wageworkers in unions as those who uphold unity across trades, promote federation and solidarity, subordinate self for the common good, and deem the trade union movement paramount above other labor organizations. It urges active, helpful membership to advance humanity.
Pleads For The Jobless At Labor Convention
At the AFL convention Jen Davis of the Itinerant Workers' Union urged eight hour day reforms and aiding the unemployed. He criticized vagrancy laws and claimed 400,000 had taken the hobos oath. Also notes Bryant on safety, clerk unions, and Australia Labor party gains.
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Tramp
Frank Buchanan
Davis
Bis
THROWN INTO JAIL FOR SEEKING WORK IN NEW YORK
An unemployed machinist in New York parades with sandwich signs asking for work and warning of dire poverty. He and others sell their only asset, their labor, while authorities struggle with growing unemployment this winter. The Tribune notes jailing seekers fails to solve the problem.
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Louis
Young
New York City
Jaling
New York Tribune
Labor in Congress Increases Labor Group Gains in Elections
Unofficial reports from A F L headquarters indicate the labor bloc of the Sixty third Congress will gain members beyond reelected names including Marion M Garland Carl G Van Dyke and John G Cooper. Many friendly nonunion lawmakers were reelected and some new members pledging support to labor statutes, signaling a broader pro worker agenda. Arkansas restricts child labor with four years schooling age fourteen minimum and bans under sixteen from hazardous work The board may set hours limiting under sixteen to eight hours day and sixteen to eighteen to nine hours day plus restrictions on child actors.
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A. F. of
Butgert E. Lee
Blacksmiths’ Union
Pennsylvania
Marion M. Garland
Arkansas
Arkansis
Lmll
Largest blank book parade centerpiece in Philadelphia
A giant blank book eight feet long and two feet thick marched in the Union Labor Parade welcoming the American Federation of Labor convention. The book drew laughs and a crowd despite its empty pages, with fine binding and leather trim, underscoring the novelty of a nonfictionable tome.
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Philidelphia
American Federation of Labor
Will Hire Union Teachers in Lane Tech Bakers School
Bakers union local No. 2 members will be engaged as instructors in the practical bakers school at Lane Technical high school in Chicago. Pupils register at union headquarters. The movement to hire union men and women to teach trades in schools is steadily gaining favor nationwide.
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Bakers’ Union
Practical Bakers’ School
Lane Technical High School
Chicago
Labor Briefs and Union Showcases Across States
Tennessee restricts women to forty four hour work weeks. Weekly electric railways employ 282461 people in the U S. The New York liquor industry pays 128 million dollars in wages annually. 3 million men work in metal and machinery nationwide. Louisville Iron Molders' union held a fine display at the Kentucky state fair. California labor unions back a proposed constitutional amendment for a minimum wage for women and minors.
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Tennessee
United States
New York State
Louisville Iron Molders
California
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C. E Straser
Retail Clerks’ Union
Australia
Labor Party
House of Representatives
Joseph Cook
Laborites
Andrew Fisher
Congress
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East Ltd
Cincinnati
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Ohio Union
Hamilton
Ohio Union Brewing Co
Cincinnati, Ohio
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Hamilton Collateral Loan Co
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Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union
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