Labor to Enforce Hours Cut In Cotton Garment Industry
Washington says a DC court injunction against the Roosevelt order lowers the work week to 36 hours with a 10 percent wage raise. Amalgamated Clothing Workers announce enforcement, while 313 manufacturers seek to withdraw from the cotton garment code. Prison labor and NRA labels are under renewed attack as a three member commission concludes prison labor alone cannot solve the issue.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Roosevelt
NRA
Attorney General, Recovery Administration Board
Cotton Garment Code Authority
Canada Old Age Pensions Rollout Across Provinces
Since 1927 the Dominion government adopted old age pensions with eight of eleven provinces implementing the plan. Pensions reach one in 2,000 in the Northwest Territories and one in 70 in Prince Edward Island, with most at about one in 80. Monthly payments range from 10.68 to 20 dollars, averaging 16.69.
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Ottawa
Dominion Government of
Canada
Northwest Territories
Prince Edward Island
Labor Opposes Telegraph Merger Over Job Loss Fears
Union officials testified at a federal communications commission hearing opposing a merger of two major telegraph firms. They warned a merger would raise unemployment and create a monopoly, urging fair competition and protective labor provisions before any legislation.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Organized Labor
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
Payne
Frank B. Powers
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of North America
Commissionees
Powers
Interstate Commerce Commission
F. C. Burton
Association of Western Union Employes
Western Union
Rubber Companies Fight Election Denounced by AFL Head
The Goodyear Union and United Rubber Workers oppose an NLRB election among Goodrich and Firestone workers. AFL-CIO President William Green condemns corporate moves to block collective bargaining and urges enforcement of Section 7A. The case, filed in Cincinnati, seeks to set aside the December 7 election order.
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Firestone
Goodrich
U.S
NLRB
A. F
L. News Service
Akron
Ohio
B. F. Goodrich Company
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
National Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
Goodyear
United Rubber Workers’ Union
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Industrial Assembly
John Houze
Barberton
Seiberling Rubber Company
W. E. Atkins
William Green
A. F. of L
Firestone Rubber
Green
Labor
Congress
National Labor Board
Goodrich and Firestone Rubber Companies
Labor seeks 30 hour week in oil industry reform
President William Green of the AFL and Harvey Fremming of the Oil Field workers urged modifying the petroleum code to establish a 30 hour week with full pay to create oil job opportunities. They accused major oil firms of code violations in California Texas and Oklahoma citing unpaid wages totaling millions and predatory drilling practices.
Oil Workers Seek Thirty Hour Week In Oil Industry
Washington The Petroleum Labor Policy Board is urged to hear Harvey C. Fremming president of the International Association of Oil Field Gas Well and Refinery Workers who calls for a 30 hour work week replacing the 86 hour week with no pay cut. The union also seeks a 60 cent hourly minimum wage nationwide and a five man board in the oil administration to handle labor issues.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Harvey C. Fremming
International Association of Oil Field
Petroleum Labor Policy Board
Green
California
Texas
Oklahoma
J. C. Coulter
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Basin
Washington
Oil Administration
Lawyers Strike Hits Bucharest Over Court Fees
Bucharest lawyers nearly the entire Bucharest Bar Association began a strike on December 4 to protest a government order raising court fees. Pickets were assigned to various courts.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Bucharest Bar Association
Newspaper Guild Withdraws From NRA Hearing Over Jennings Case
In Washington the Newspaper Guild and American Newspaper Guild representatives pulled from an NRA hearing on editorial code amendments after the Call-Bulletin was ordered to reinstate Dean Jennings. Guild leaders accused NRA of yielding to publishers and vowed to return when NRA reforms. Also in Athens Ohio Michael P. Collins, long linked to United Mine Workers, died at 83.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Dean
Jennings
San Francisco Call-Bulletin
National Labor Relations Board
American Newspaper Guild
NRA
Labor Board
Call-Bulletin
Guild
Heywood Broun
Jack Tait
Broun
Mr. Hearst
Athens
Ohio
United Mine Workers of America
Michael P. Collins
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Sidney Hillman
Dustry
Joseph N. Ulman
Baltimore
Frank Tannenbaum
W. Jett Lauck
Old Age Pensions In
Chicago Market Co
High Streets
Savage Auto Supply CO
Maple Avenue
Jok
Santa Claus
Goodrich Tire and Rubber Company
Newspaper Guild
Hoover Factory
Lowie
Bright Fintale
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