Women’s Bureau Outlines Yearlong Program For Reform
The seventh annual report of the U S Department of Labor Women’s Bureau lays out an ambitious year ahead with new surveys on home and community facilities for employed women, the study to aid a nationwide Better Homes drive. It notes past work on foreign-born women in industry and coal mine families, urges study of married women workers, and cites census data from 1920. The report signals need for a special appropriation to tackle broad occupational issues, while highlighting six state surveys and other special studies. Utica mills strike after management policy prompts walkout by textile workers.
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Women’s Bureau
Better Homes
International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
Women's Bureau
United States Department of Labor
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Bureau
Independent miner's tale of debt and jail over coal work
Cedar Grove West Virginia Carl Gray a miner employed by the West Virginia Coal and Coke Company rejects the American plan after two weeks of work left him $1.76 in debt to the company. He mined 70 cars of coal at 44 cents a ton earning $33 but coupons for store charges doctor hospital blacksmithing and other deductions made him a debtor. He was jailed for failure to pay his board bill and bailed out by his father a striking miner who refuses to accept the company's conditions.
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Cedar Grove
W. Va
Carl Gray
West Virginia Coal and Coke Company
Gray
Working Masses of Porto Rico Deserve Help Now
Santiago Iglesias and a Porto Rico senator urge U.S. congress to act as poverty and misery afflict the island under U.S. rule. Proposals include a $50 million loan to create a welfare trust, reforms on land taxation, and a joint senate-house inquiry into insular affairs to aid thousands facing starvation and harsh conditions.
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International Labor News Service
Santiago Iglesias
Pan-American Federation of Labor
Porto Rico
Washington, D. C
Congress
Washington
Republic of
United States
Treasury
Upsste
Bureau of Insular Affairs
War Department
Frank McIntyre
Seg
Senate
House
Tax Evasions Favored Prominent Firms By Treasury, Senate Finds
A Senate committee report accuses the treasury department of allowing millions in tax evasion by prominent figures and large firms. Oil companies banks and shipping lines benefited including Gulf Oil and Standard Oil. Kerr Navigation Robert Dollar Company and Mellon interests are named with hundreds of thousands to millions adjusted or erased. Officials allegedly feared protest and a statute of limits worked against tax collections.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Senate
Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh
Robert Dollar Shipping Line
General Motors Company
Kerr Navigation Company
Robert Dollar Company
Department
Internal Revenue Bureau
Gulf Oil Company
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Standard Oil Company of California
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation
A. H. Fay
Oklahoma
Land Nationalization Favored in England by Liberals
London England Land nationalization in a modified form has been accepted by the Liberal Candidates Association. The plan follows Lloyd George's urging and favors land nationalization under specified conditions including sale offers vacant farms bad management and poor cultivation.
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London
Eng
Liberal Candidates’ Association
Lloyd George
England
Brentwood's Iron Workers Unite Into Labor Group
Alan Bridge leads mobile steel crews and structural iron workers forming a new organizing group to press for better wages and safety standards. The effort aims to coordinate local unions and labor actions across construction sites.
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Mobile, Alan Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers
Judge Who Soaked Strikers Faces Impeachment Probe
Washington report notes a push in Congress to impeach Federal Judge George W. English of the eastern Illinois district. English earned notoriety for harsh orders during the railroad shopmen strike and for disbarring attorney Charles Karsh amid contempt trials. Critics cite alleged bank dealings and biased rulings as grounds for impeachment.
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International Labor News Service
Chicago
Illinois
Congress
George W. English
Judge English
East St. Louis
English
W. B. Boies
Rep
Iowa
House of Representatives
Representatives Hawes
Dem
Party System Doomed by City Machines Ad
Alderman George A. Harvey told college men that political machines in cities threaten the party system. He warned cities are governed by dictators and representative government no longer exists in many large cities.
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New York
George A. Harvey
Many Workers Laid Off in Wheeling Steel Shutdown
In Wheeling West Virginia two thousand factory workers lost their jobs when National Tube Company a unit of the steel trust shut down without notice. Mrs Edward C Kruetzer secretary of the Associated Charities urged stockholders to bow their heads in shame as the layoff left families in hardship and fear.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Steel Trust
Edward C. Kruetzer
Associated Charities
National Tube Company
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Utica
N. Y
Utica Steam and
Mohawk Valley Cotton Mills
Dan CodenCo
THE
Ralston Paint CO
Government of
Sam
Iron Workers Unite
Laborite
N. P. Alifas
Navy Yard District
International Association of Machinists
Navy
War Departments
Alifas
Krebs
Third and
Court Streets
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