Railways Move Toward Wage Cut Talks With Labor Leaders
Rail executives service notice seeking a 15 percent wage reduction for all workers while pledging to negotiate with the Railway Labor Executives Association. A joint regional meeting in Chicago set to explore terms amid insistence on an employment stabilization plan and contract revisions. Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio chairs the negotiating committee.
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New York City
ILNS
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
Chicago
Donald Richberg
Eastern, Western and Southern
Varety
Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Beset by Taxes Bryant Chose Bootlegging to Help Needy Tenants
Isham Bryant a 70 year old Cincinnati negro landlord faced federal charges for bootlegging to support tenants who were jobless. He testified his sole income came from rental houses inhabited by workers with no work for months. Judge Robert Nevin suspended sentence after Bryant explained he could not evict destitute tenants during winter.
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Cincinnati
Ilns
Isham Bryant
Bryant
Robert Nevin
Nevin
Government Promises Help to Stabilize Industry Machinery
The Department of Commerce announces that government will assist and coordinate the creation of economic planning machinery, to be operated by industry and aligned with labor’s aims. Feiker states government can help but burden rests on individual businesses to organize and act. The plan, developed with trade associations, emphasizes voluntary, non fiat action and individual initiative.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Department of Commerce
United States
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Frederick M. Feiker
Mr. Feiker
Ukase
Ornburn Named to Tariff Commission for Three Years
I M Ornburn president of the Cigar Makers International Union has been appointed by President Hoover to the tariff commission for a three year term. A Democrat born in Missouri he built his career in unions and labor media in New Haven Conn and Chicago before moving the union office to Washington. He has held several top posts in labor groups and led campaigns for labor policy changes including the Volstead act modification efforts.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
I. M. Ornburn
Cigar Makers’ International Union
Hoover
Tariff Commission
Mr. Ornburn
Moberly
New Haven
Conn
Samuel Gompers
Ornburn
Cigar Makers’ Union
Gompers
George W. Perkins
International Union
Chicago
Washington
Connecticut
Eastern Campaign Committee
John W. Davis
Organization of the Organization
America
Matthew Woll
Labor
American Federation of Labor
Mat
Married women not to blame for unemployment says union
The National Trade Union League of America tells Walter Gifford that dismissing married women would not solve unemployment and could be unjust. The letter urges judging workers by economic status and need, not marriage, and calls for shared work and higher purchasing power.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
National Trade Union League of America
Walter 5. Gifford
Fair
League
National Women's Trade Union League
Elisabeth Christman
Austrian Jobless Fed Plans Public Kitchens This Winter
Austria expects 600000 unemployed, about 10 percent of the population, during the coming winter. Dr. Jo hann Echober warns of needs, and Dr. Schober outlines a plan to provide food and fuel through public kitchens rather than cash payments, aiming to ensure everyone has enough to eat.
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Vienna
Austria
Johann Echober
Foe of Dry Law Battles to Win Southern U. S. Senatorship
Asheville NC Robert R Reynolds a young lawyer leads the drive to modify national prohibition to win the U S Senate seat held by Cameron Morrison The race also includes Frank Grier and ex Judge Tom Bowie Reynolds positions as a modificationist appeal to a growing anti prohibition sentiment in North Carolina voters with June primary approaches Reynolds promises to press for change if elected.
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Asheville
N. C
SLNS
North Carolina
Robert R. Reynolds
Reynolds
United States Senate
Cameron Morrison
Charlotte
N.C
Frank Grier
Tom Bowie
Morrison
Hoover
al Smith
Senate
Condemn Idle Insurance Debate At GOP Luncheon
Felix Herbert United States senator from Rhode Island Henry J Allen former governor of Kansas and Matthew Woll AF of L vice president condemned compulsory government unemployment insurance at a National Republican Club luncheon in New York.
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New York
National Republican Club
Felix Hebert
United States
Rhode Island
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
Matthew Woll
American Federation of Labor
Senate Asks Hoover For Mooney Billings Report
The Senate urges President Hoover to submit the Wicker sham committee reports on lawlessness in law enforcement. It requests the Mooney and Billings case findings, connected to the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing. The resolution cites Senators Cutting Walsh and Costigan as sponsors.
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Washington, D. C
SLNS
Senate
Hoover
Wickersham Committee
Thomas J. Mooney
Warren K. Billings
California
San Francisco
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Edward P. Costigan
Colorado
Labor Front Backs Bruening in Berlin Support Rally
Representatives of the social democratic party the General Federation of Labor and the Reichsbanner met in Berlin on December 16 pledging firm support to Chancellor Bruening's government against the Fascist movement led by Adolf Hitler.
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Social Democratic Party
General Federation of Labor
Reichsbanner
Berlin
Bruening
Adolph Hitler
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Canada
Cigar Makers
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U. S
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