Pottery Workers Start Nationwide Boycott Against Japanese Goods
Union potters in East Liverpool rally for a broad boycott of Japanese products. William Green of the A F L pledges support, urging a Buy American campaign as a response to the war and to protect U S industry. Demonstrators burn 200 cartons of Nippon goods removed from 109 stores as part of the protest.
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East Liverpool
ILNL
William Green
American Federation of Labor
National Brotherhood of Operative Potters
Green
A. F. of L
Japan
China
United States
Employers’ Association
Ntional Brotherhood of Operative Potters
Daveys Plan Hit By Ruling In Ohio
Columbus article notes U S Attorney General Cummings ruled Gov Daveys plan to start unemployment benefits on January 1, 1938 contravenes the Social Security Act. AFL leaders urge an amended law and immediate relief while Washington delays. Roosevelt proposals to amend the act are sent to Senator Harrison for swift action.
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Columbus,c
OLNS
Advier
Ohio State Federation of Labor
Ohio State Building Trades Council
Davey
U. S
Cummings
New Jersey
Ohio
AFL
Congress
Roosevelt
Pat Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Ohe
Sands becomes first Ohio employer convicted under 48 hour week law
Columbus, C. OLNL reports W. A. Sands, president of the Ohio Bureau, was convicted last week of violating the new 48-hour week law for women, marking the first such employer conviction in the state.
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Gertrude Weaver
Department of Industrial Relations
Robert Jones
Sands
Jones
Akron
Columbus, C
OLNL
W. A. Sands
Ohio Bureau
Resolution Demands Pension Delay Probe in Ohio
Columbus reports that Representative Patrick F. Monahan urged a House inquiry into pension delays for the aged. He seeks a three member committee to count applicants on the waiting list and identify reasons for slow action. He cites rumors of under staffing and underpayment across the Aid for the Aged division with delays of up to two months for many applicants.
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Columbus
OLNS
Ohio
Patrick F. Monahan
Cleveland
House of Representatives
Monahan
Frank Aible
Commission Official Dies in Hospital
Columbus Ohio ILNSWilliam Gableman personnel director for the Ohio Industrial Commission and former mayor of Portsmouth died last week in a local hospital at age 156 from a heart ailment. Funeral and burial services were held at Portsmouth with attendance by state and Commission officials.
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Columbus
Ohio
ILNS
William Gableman
Ohio Industrial Commission
Portsmouth
Commission
Labor Spokesmen Urge Safeguards in Housing Wage Legislation
Labor leaders urge maintaining prevailing wage standards in proposed National Housing Act amendments. AFL president William Green warns annual wage plans would undermine local wage structures, raise costs, and delay construction. Harry C. Bates supports keeping current wage rates to protect workers amid housing program plans. Albany dispatch notes NY timber workers’ payrolls and employment trends in November.
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Labor
Washington
Senate Committee On Banking and Currency
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Wagner
Harry C. Bates
A. F. of L. Housing Committee
Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union of America
Labor leader recall shapes union progress in Pennsylvania
A speaker recounts his father a coal miner blacklisted for backing a schoolhouse, describing coal mine conditions from long hours and low pay to improving wages due to union action. He emphasizes 13 to 5 cent wage changes and the shift from 10 to 7 hour shifts, highlighting union contribution.
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Pennsylvania
Fragmentary dialogue on love and study from historical text
A garbled quotation discusses a character named Wey and a preference between romantic pursuit and medical study. The speaker laments parental influence steering toward medicine, reflecting on personal choices in a fragmentary narrative.
Roosevelt Indorses Christmas Seals in Tuberculosis Fight
President Franklin D Roosevelt endorses the Christmas Seals campaign to stamp out tuberculosis. He urges every American to aid the cause, noting the program funds free clinics nursing service tuberculosis testing X-raying rehabilitation medical and social research. He stresses protecting the health of youths and workers and intensifying the fight against the scourge.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ohio Public Health Association
Illinois Firm Gives $15 Bonus to Decatur Workers
Mueller Company, a Decatur plumbing fixtures maker, paid about 70000 to 1100 employees at its Decatur plant as a $15 bonus with some older workers earning up to three weeks’ pay. The president said business was evened in the first half of the year to fund the bonus and announced a four stay week schedule with reduced earnings.
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Decatur, I
APLNS
Mueller Company
Decatur
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