Red Leaders Used by Big Business to Undermine Unions
A Chicago analysis argues that communist leaders are pawns of oil steel and finance interests. It claims Moscow and U S Steel coordinate through entities like Chase National Bank, aiming to disrupt legitimate labor organizing and protect corporate power nationwide.
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Chicago
ILNS
Congress
Communists Party
United States
America
Standard Oil
United States Steel
Russia
Chase National Bank of New York
John D. Rockefeller
W. Z. Foster
Chase National
United States Corporation
Bulwinkle Committee
U. S. House of Representatives
William A. Wirt
U. S. Steel Corporation
Gary
Ind
Wirt
US Steel
Great Lakes
United States Steel Corporation
Lake Carriers’ Association
U. S. Steel
Newton D. Baker
Cleveland
Ohio
International Seamen's Union of America
Great Lake
Lake Carriers Association
Minimum FERA Rates Set in New Orleans
The state relief division ordered a minimum of 12 cents an hour for federal emergency relief administration workers in rural areas. New Orleans pay scales remain unchanged, and although lower rates have been used elsewhere in the state, ERA offices have not approved them yet and will review each case before approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
TSNS
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
State Relief Division
Harry J. Early
ERA
Dividend Changes in 1954 Show Big Business Gains
Favorable dividend changes in December totaled 255 the highest December figure since 1920. For the full year 1,447 favorable changes topped the past three years. Unfavorable changes for the year reached 277 far below 1988 and 1982 peaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F
Lx News Service
New York
Standard Statistics Company
Negotiation at Shelby Mills Defuses Threatened Strike
In Shelby North Carolina a measured negotiation at the Eton mill defused a looming strike. President Hamrick overseers and a United Textile Workers committee used expert weaver Christopher to assess workload and pay fairness. The announced outcome favors production quality and worker unity with a united push to a profitable year. Christopher’s fair ruling, plus worker solidarity, ends pay and workload expansion plans.
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Shelby
N. C
Earl Wamrick
Eton
Hamrick
Quinn and
Abercrombie
PL L Davis
George Robertson
G. W. Frye
Paul R. Christopher
United Textile Workers of America
Christopher
SECURITIES BOARD Probes Unregistered Stock Sale at St Pauls Mill
The SEC General Counsel seeks a full factual statement from St Pauls Cotton Mill about selling stock to employees on installment payments. Records show no registration under the 1933 Securities Act and no exempt status, making interstate sale or delivery unlawful.
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Federal Securities and Exchange Commission
John J. Burns
St. Pauls
N. C
Burn
Commission
Labor union drive gains momentum in Fairmont campaign
Fairmont West Virginia reports that the Central Labor Union campaign is showing excellent results. A house-to-house canvass underpins the drive, adding new members to many local unions and strengthening organized labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hy A. Fy
Te News Service
Fairmont
W. Va
Central Labor
Great Britain Unemployment Assistance Board Opens Women's and Men’s Aid
Britain takes permanent responsibility for all able bodied workers earning under 25 a week who are unemployed. About 17 million wage earners are covered, with a government deposit of 25 million and estimated annual cost of at least 40 million. The basic 24 shillings weekly allowance covers a family, with scales by age and dependents, subject to rent and savings checks.
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London
Great Britain
New Unemployment Assistance Board
Bank of England
Mn Man
Jacale Ie
Eleven States Get $2,418,000 For PWA Projects
Public Works Administration announces $2,418,000 in loans and grants will fund twenty two construction projects in eleven states. Officials estimate 19,584 direct man months of employment and substantial indirect benefits in materials, transport, and related industries.
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Washington
PWA
Public Works Administration
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Joseph A. Wise
Potomac River
Reds
Atlantic
Viewor A. Olander
International Seamen's Union
Atlantic Seaboard
FERA
Delco
Savage Auto Supply Co
Maple Avenue
Mill
St. Pauly Cotton Mill Company
Barns
Fairmont, W. VA
Ony
Thor
KREBS
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