Trade Unionists urge permanent alliance against communists
New York labor leaders call for a nationwide union coalition to crush communist nests in the labor movement. Some 150 unions, 17 trades, ten central bodies and 300000 workers join in the concert to purge Communist influence from key shops and the cloakmakers’ strike fallout. Leaders from AFL circles oversee local efforts as battle spreads to Boston Philadelphia and Chicago. The report cites the Trade Union Educational League under William Z Foster and warns of covert groups among Negroes foreign born and other statutorily allied factions using civil rights and prisoner release causes as fronts to weaken US unions. The drive seeks coordinated action to halt the alleged communist menace crippling international unions and many others. Some gains from arbitration aid 20000 workers in cloakmakers’ contractors shops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Labor News Service
New York City
Committee For the Preservation of
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Central Trades and Labor Council
Chicago Federation
American Federation of Labor
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
American Labor Movement
The
International
Communist Party
Filippinos
Congress Likely to Regulate Coal Industry is Operators Force Strike
International Labor News Service reports that Canadian newspaper organs of big business advocate restraint in production to protect dividends and bond-holders interests. Editorials warn against overproduction and see measures to limit paper output as stabilizing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
International Labor News Service
Montreal
Canada
Canadian Financial Post
Toronto
Manitoba
Mine Production Rushes to Build Bituminous Stockpiles
Washington reports coal operators push high wage production to stockpile bituminous coal amid talks with the United Mine Workers in Miami for a new wage contract. Parker bill shifts toward federal data sharing and compulsory reporting, with potential for federal mediation and price controls during emergencies. Operators fear this may spur Congress action and a looming strike, while aiming to starve miners into submission before stockpiles run down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
United Mine Workers
Miami
Florida
Congress
Mining Congress
Parker
Department of Labor
Jacksonville
Tax arrears rise after textile strike in Garfield area
Garfield New Jersey mayor reports more than 300000 in tax arrears due to resisting wage cuts from the textile strike affecting Garfield and Passaic taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garfield
N. J
Passaic
Burke
New Year Forecast and Reflections 1927
A reflective New Year piece humorously predicts 1927 trends in finance politics and culture while critiquing the ritual of New Year celebrations. It notes finance expansion, potential tax changes, notable figures likely to stay in the news, and the public’s fondness for the holiday despite its emptier spiritual meaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aimee Semple McPherson
J. Frank Norris
True Democracy Defined by Dr. Butler
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University defines true democracy as a free state built on free labor with liberty as its watchword and justice guiding the nation. He warns against radicalism promoting mediocrity and urges liberalism that redresses old wrongs through service and fraternity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Lowell
Injunction Denied Against Striking Aberdeen Barbers
Judge Campbell refused a permanent injunction against Aberdeen barbers who struck amid charges of various crimes. The case collapsed when the court asked for evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aberdeen, Wash
Campbell
Court lowers Interstate Commerce Board rail valuation
Kansas City, Mo. A federal appeals court limited the Interstate Commerce Commission by setting aside its $49,000,000 valuation of the Kansas City Southern railroad and permanently enjoining any new valuation. The ruling challenges the commission's power to fix valuations and determine rates for a reasonable carrier return, prompting an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Railroads contend valuations are too low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Federal Court of Appeals
Interstate Commerce, Commission
Kansas City Southern Railroad
United States Supreme Court
High Point of Insurance Prosperity Reached As Union Enters Arena
Washington reports 1926 set a record for life insurance purchases, with overall policy value up about 4 percent over 1925 in initial data from the Life Insurance Research Bureau. Florida led with a 22 percent rise, New York 8 percent, Michigan 9 percent, while 12 states saw declines. Increase seen as sign of stronger family finances nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
Union Labor Life Insurance Company
Matthew Woll
United States
Life Insurance Research Bureau of
Hartford
Hartford, Conn
Florida
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinois
Connecticut
Michigan
Senator King Demands Probe Into Alien Property Custodian
Senator King of Utah urged Senate investigation into the alien property custodian office saying it committed great wrongs by seizing alien owned assets during the war. He cited holdings valued around 20 to 25 million dollars sold for 250 thousand with patriotic overtones to aid chemical industry. Former custodian Thomas W. Miller and ex attorney general Harry M. Daugherty face federal criminal charges in New York where the first trial ended in a hung jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senator King
Utah
Senate
King
United States
Thomas W. Miller
Harry M. Daugherty
New York
Largest Co op Stores in 1926 Reported in New York
The Co-Operative League names the New Co-Operative Company in Dillonvale Ohio and the Soo Co-Operative Mercantile Association in Sault Ste Marie Michigan as the two largest stores in the United States for 1926. In the first half of 1927 each did about 267000 dollars in business. Ohio had 448 members while Michigan had 490.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Co-Operative League
United States
New Co- Operative Company
Dillonvale
Ohio
Soo Co-Operative Mercantile Association
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
General Consumers
Nxt
Ohio Co-Op
Michigan Company
Passaic Strikers Vow to Continue After Textile Meet
Passaic New Jersey strikers claim the textile dispute is not over with about 6,000 workers at six mills still unsettled. Gustave Deuk, head of the local United Textile Workers chapter, says peace requires unions of their own choosing. In New York Otto H. Kahn endorses installment buying, praising its uplift in living standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Passaic
N. J
Passaic Worsted
Botany Mills
Garfield Worsted
Dundee Textile Mills
Uementa
Gustave Deuk
United Textile Workers’ Local
New York
Otto H. Kahn, Bunker
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William Z. Foster
On &S
Parker Bill
Gandy
National Coal Association
American Mining Congress
Ree
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Mahomet
Ty Cobb
Tris
President Coolidge
Henry Ford
Balkans
Mussolini
Tacna-Arica
China
Prince of Wales
Rail Board
Co.op
Axminster
Whittall Royal Wiltons
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