Chicago Traction Workers Win Pay and Insurance by Arbiter Award
Chicago street car and elevated employes reach a wage and insurance settlement by arbitration through June 1 1980. The award grants 1 cent an hour increases on June 1 this year and June 1 1929 plus a $1000 life policy and a $20 weekly sickness benefit for surface line workers. About 22 000 traction workers are affected with elevated lines included for wage adjustments but not in the new insurance.
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International Labor News Service
Chicago
Oscar F. Nelson
Guy A. Richardson
Nelson
Chicago Federation of Labor
Richardson
Elevated
Textile barons battle union drive in Philadelphia area
A Philadelphia textile union local resists a wage cut at Eden Company after a 10 percent reduction. The United Textile Workers coordinate a strike with full fashioned knitters of the EFH hosiery workers under pressure from the Philadelphia Textile Manufacturers' Association which hires strikebreakers and detectives in a union busting campaign.
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International Labor News Service
South Langhorne
A. Bell
Philadelphia Textile Manufacturers’ Association
Philadelphia
Federal Company
American Federation of
Eden Company
United Textile Workers’ Executive Board
Ruge
John P. Coughlin Dies Noted New York Labor Leader
John P. Coughlin secretary of the New York Central Trades and Labor Council died at his home after a long illness. A member of the International Association of Machinists he was one of the best known trade unionists in the East. He was a ...
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New York
John P. Coughlin
New York Central Trades and Labor Council
International Association of Machinists
East
Pittsburgh Labor Heads Pledge Special Fund to Help Miners Families
Labor leaders in Pittsburgh pledge a weekly one dollar levy to build a fund for milk and medicine for the undernourished families of striking Western Pennsylvania miners. John Hoehn serves as treasurer. an advisory committee tallies local labor allies as officials push for aid amid ongoing coal strike hardships.
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Pittsburgh
Labor News Service
Pennsylvania
United States
Canada
Central Labor Union and
Building Trades Council of Pittsburgh
A. F. of L
American Federation of Labor
Keenan Building
William Collins
Federation
John Hoehn
Union Label Trades Department
Pittsburgh Labor Movement
Joseph Duty
Building Trades Council
William Grissman
Pitts
Burgh Central Labor Union
Walter Greenleaf
Carpenters’ District Council
Joseph Thomas
Pennsylvania Street Railway
Joseph Hoehn
Collins
Green
Miners’ Union
Pennsylvani
Coal and Iron
Fisher
Western
Pittsburgh District
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Clergymen Report Starving Miners in Allegheny County
Pittsburgh clergy warn that hundreds of striking miners and their families across 18 communities face severe hunger and exposure. The executive committee notes 482 destitute families lacking food and clothing, with children half naked and infants lacking milk as malnutrition grows.
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Pittsburgh
Clergymen’s Fund For Miners
Labor leaders back Shipstead bill curb injunctive abuse in unions
The AFL executive council endorsed the Shipstead anti injunction bill and urged drafting a Sherman act conspiracy suit measure. It planned a February Washington conference with national and international unions. The council readmitted the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks after a 2.5 year strike, and outlined wage negotiation agreements with Express Company.
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Miami
Fla
American Federation of Labor Executive Council
Shipstead
Washington
Congress
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Fitzgerald
Express Company
Green
International Labor News Service
Morrison
Union Labor Life expands general agencies nationwide
The Union Labor Life Insurance Company plans broad agency expansion across the country by creating general agencies in states and large cities. California Michigan Ohio Washington Kansas City Chicago and New York are already served with more centers planned as the New York office reports its highest ever first-month production since its January 28 opening.
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Washington
D. C
Union Labor Life Insurance Company
California
Michigan
Ohio
Kansas City
Chicago
New York
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Chicago Traction
Arbiter
Quaker City
Union
Holbrook
Holbrook Third Street Shoe Man
Edgar K. Wagner
International
Washington, D. C
United
Mine Workers of America
Federal Bureau of Prohibition
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers of America
Bureau of Prohibition
IA. F. of
L. Executive Council
Chester M. Wright
International Labor News
Kennedy
United Mine Workers
Boulder Canyon Dam
Los Angeles
Boulter Dam
Fedral Power Commission
Union Labor Life
Hamilton
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