Soft Coal Companies Forming Billion-Dollar Fuel Monopoly
A billion-dollar coal monopoly is forming across 18 West Virginia fields and six eastern Kentucky fields, uniting major operators to control low volatile coal. The plan aims to shape wages and prices, with potential to boost miner millionaires as Bituminous firms capitalize on the anthracite strike. The article notes high current prices and rail rates. The piece also reports Michigan labor federation planning its annual convention in Jackson on February 2.
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International Labor News Service
Welch
W. Va
West Virginia
Eastern Kentucky
Kentucky
Interstate Commerce Commission
Soviet Agents Openly at Work in United States
Washington columnist Chester M. Wright argues that as many as 200 Soviet communists linked to Amtorg are legally in the United States to spend money, despite exclusion laws. He suggests the government tolerates this to aid American business and avoid a political clash over Soviet recognition.
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United States
Chester M. Wright
Washington, D. C
Karolyi
Saklatvala
Russia
Communist Party
Amtorg
State Department
Washington
Illinois Appellate Court Rules Picket Babes May Go to Jail
Illinois appellate court holds that women picketing the 1924 dressmaking strike may face jail with their infants if appeals fail. Ninety union members were fined or jailed. 47 jailed 10 to 60 days, 35 of them women with babies. County plans a nursery at the jail if imprisonment stands.
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International Labor News Service
Chicago
State of Illinois
Dennis E. Sullivan
Supreme Court
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Soviet Amtorg Agents Enter US Amid Quiet Propaganda Debates
The Amtorg agents are allowed into the United States for limited periods with staff continually changing. Critics question Kellogg’s New York denial of Countess Karolyi while acknowledging expediency may drive policy. A New York dinner for bankers signals ongoing Soviet influence and the need for a vigilant American labor and defense stance against communism.
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Amtorg
United States
Kellogg
New York
Karolyi
Ten Hour Basis Adopted for Unorganized Workers
In Sheboygan Wisconsin unorganized workers in chair and furniture factories have been placed on the ten hour basis.
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Sheboygan
Wis
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Jackson, Mich
Michigan State Federation of Labor
Strauss
Capitol Loan
Capitol Loan CO
Fone
N. W. Cor
High Sts
Edgar K. Wagner
Behine Col Funeral
Tinctive Service
Beaton St. Modern Equipme
Friend of Dawes
North American
Charles G. Dawes
Denis E. Sullivan
Cook County
Ilinois
Dawes
Sullivan
Ilinois General Assembly
Communist Daily Worker
America
Daily Worker
Illinois
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