Employers Abandon Pay Cuts as Labor Federation Reports
The January Monthly Survey of the AFL says manufacturers are broadly willing to drop wage reductions, reflecting workers' role in prosperity. Unemployment is lower than 1927, but union idle time rose in fall. December union unemployment reached 31 percent, up from 23 percent in November, with building trades hit hardest. The AFL research department notes broader data gathering and representative conditions among organized workers.
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Free Speech at Duke? University Repression Highlighted
A report to the American Association of University Professors accuses the University of Pittsburgh of curbing free speech by abolishing the Liberal Club and firing L. W. Woltman. The inquiry links the actions to his anti violence writings and to the university disapproval of his activities amid coal strikes. The dean is quoted alleging wealth controls university finances. The text also laments the power of purchase aligned with union goods and services.
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American Association of University Professors
Liberal Club
L. W. Woltman
Mooney-Billings
Woltman
Sieg
Cathedral of Learning
Minneapolis wage debate questions factory payrolls in 1929
The Minneapolis secretary of a local business group touts 1929 output valued at 370 million dollars and a 50 million dollar payroll. Editor Cramer counters that 38 thousand workers earned about 1816 dollars a year, far below the living wage for a family of five, urging unionization for a living wage.
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Minneapolis Labor Review
Shipbuilders push to halt navy yard wage hikes amid 51 new ships
Washington reports under Jones White act twenty ships now under construction with plans for fifty one. Private yards fear wage cuts hinder skilled labor needed for 1930 output while government may forego raises. Secretary Adams rejects wage increase, aims to keep 1929 scale.
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Marine Engineering and Shipping Age
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Metal Trades Department
American Federation of Labor
Navy Wage Board of Review
H. G. Smith
National Council of American Shipbuilders
Fred ©. Metcalf
California Metal Trades Association
Sion
Washington
Navy
Charles Francis Adams
Boston
Hoover
Adams
Secretary of the Navy
Senator Grundy Under Fire Over Textile Labor Record
Philadelphia delegates of the Central Labor Union attacked Senator Grundy portraying him as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for a high tariff stance to protect labor in his Bristol textile mill. William F Kelley of the United Textile Workers cited conditions in the Grundy mill claiming old women and young Italian girls were paid little.
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Grundy
Central Labor Union
Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Bristol
Stee
William F. Kelley
United Textile Workers
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Strikes At Aberle Mills End Evading Agreement
About 1500 hosiery workers including roughly half unionists walked out at H C Aberle mills in Philadelphia after eighteen months of employer wavering and a wage cut order of 12 to 30 percent. The strike, largest yet by the AFL Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, follows a lockout of night shifts and a push to notify President Hoover and labor officials. Alexander McKeown leads Local No 706 and the strike.
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Philadelphia
ILNS
H. C. Aberle Mills
Aberle Mills
Hoover
Davis
American Federation of Full Fashioned
Alexander McKeown
Chicago gangsters killed in union racketeering ambush
In Chicago a demand of ten thousand dollars to M. J. Owens secretary of the Tire Repairers and Rubber Workers' Union led to an ambush at the union headquarters. Four detectives concealed inside opened fire when armed gangsters threatened to seize money and "take him for a ride." Three gangsters died. a detective was wounded. A coroner ruled the cops' return fire a justifiable homicide and officials say the incident may curb labor racketeering.
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M. J. Owens
Tire Repairers and Rubber Workers’ Union
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High Court to Review Painters Wage Case
The Barker Painting Co of New York seeks Supreme Court review of a Local 734 wage rule case. The dispute centers on paying the higher wage scale when work is done outside the contractor’s home city with prevailing rates cited as 8 dollars daily in Somerville New Jersey and 10.50 in New York. The Third Circuit upheld the district court ruling. mootness arguments were raised.
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ILNS
Barker Painting Co
New York
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America
Supreme Court
Somerville
District Court of New Jersey
Theircuit Court of Appeals
Third Circuit
District Court
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