Street Car Workers Seek Dismissal of Anti-Labor Suit
In Indianapolis federal court, Frank P. Baker lawyers for the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway Employees of America and organizers Robert Armstrong and John M. Parker ask dismissal of the suit by Indianapolis Street Railway Company seeking an injunction to halt union organizing. Judge Baltzell granted a temporary restraining order. permanent injunction trial pending. Organizers claim no citizen diversity exists and cite a statute prohibiting injunction against unionizing a local utility. About 1,200 to 1,500 street car workers have pushed for a new higher scale, which union organizers say would cost the payroll about 1.5 million dollars annually. Street railway workers say they are among the lowest paid in the nation.
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International Labor News Service
Indianapolis
Ind
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway Employee of America
Robert Armstrong
John M. Parker
Frank P. Baker
Street Car Company
Baltzell
Citi
Zenship
New Pact Ends Thirty Year Union Jurisdiction Fight
Indianapolis heads of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and Sheet Metal Workers I A sign a settlement dividing sheet metal work on construction jobs from trim work and erection of columns. Williams Hutcheson and John J Hynes sign for their unions. Officials expect broad ratification.
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International Labor News Service
Indianapolis
Ind
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Brotherhood
Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association
Carpenters
William L. Hutcheson
The
John J. Hynes
Metal Workers
Fur Workers Jubilant Over NY Strike Victory
New York fur workers celebrate a 17 week strike victory with a 40 hour five day week and wage gains. The Fur Workers Union reports a 10 percent minimum raise, ban on sectional contracting, and control of subcontracting. Workers will work four hours on Saturdays with pay in September through December.
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New York
Fur Workers
Fur Workers’ Union
Fur Workers Win 40 Hour Week After General Strike Support
The general strike committee notes broad union donations to the strike fund and farmer support for a 40 hour five day week. The fur workers celebrate a victory seen as a step for all labor, with gratitude from the furriers union to supporting unions.
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General Strike
Furriers
Mine Accidents in April Cost 180 Coal Miners
Washington reports from the Bureau of Mines show 180 deaths in U S coal mines during April. Of these, 101 fatalities occurred in bituminous mines and 29 in anthracite. Production reached 48 296 000 tons, giving a death rate of 2.69 per million tons. Through four months in 1926, 814 miners died, with 205 718 000 tons produced and a death rate of 3.96, compared with 4.14 in the same period of 1925.
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International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
United States
Bureau of Mines
Department of Commerce
Plumbing fixtures price rise for six room house $41
Washington reports wholesale prices for standard plumbing fixtures rose from 67.58 in 1913 to 108.74 in May 1926, as department of commerce states. Prices are net to retailers without freight. consumer prices depend on railroads and retailer margins added to the wholesaler’s net.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
Disclosures of Primary Corruption Roiling Pennsylvania Polls
Reported disclosures before a Senate committee reveal enormous campaign spending and vote buying in Pennsylvania’s primary, stirring anger and a demand to oust Philadelphia boss Ware. William B. Wilson, long in labor circles, gains support across parties as corruption exposure reshapes voters and a possible Newberry-style inquiry looms.
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Philadelphia
United States Senate
Reed
Missouri
Pennsylvania
William B. Wilson
United Mine Workers of America
Senate
Vare
Newberry
Mellon-Pepper
Wilson
Organized Workers
Pinchot
Indox
Styte
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Ware
Pepper
Mellon
Joseph St. Granily
Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association
W. H. Folwell
Republican National Committee
Ite
Union Coal Operators Battle Favorable Freight Rates for Non-Union Fields
Atlantic City hearing before an Interstate Commerce Commission examiner reopen s rate cases on coal from non-union fields in Virginia West Virginia and Kentucky into New England and Northwestern states. Pittsburgh and other central field operators petitioned a reopening and thousands of witnesses and experts attend. The fight centers on extremely low non-union rates and their impact on unionized mines, with prior decisions keeping rates unchanged and idling union labor.
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International Labor News Service
Atlantic City
N. J
New England
Aire
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Pittsburzh
Bocket
Tlingit
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Workers view the world amid protests and political clashes
A scrambled list of 1920s era headlines reports workers and unions challenging powerful interests, doctors claiming cures for ailments, Sacco and Vanzetti case developments, postwar disarmament appeals in London, Vienna mass marches, German and British tensions over a war memorial gun, and political figures invoking historic leaders as moral benchmarks.
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Street Car Workers’ Union
Anti-Labor Traction Company
Journal Square
Wappy
W.B. Wilson
Senate Committee
George Wharton Pepper
William S. Vare
Gifford Pinchot
Truman F. Newberry
Michigan
Ted
Jacobstein
Wharees
Flor
New Jersey Medical Society
Mexein
Defense Council Ofers
Sacco-Vanzetti
Sacco
Vanzetti
Great Britain
Robert M. la Follette
Wheeler
Jefferson
Lincoln
Amerial Legion
National Civic Federation
Lewis E. Tierson
New England Bankers’ Association
Pilgrims of Peace
London
Hyde Park
Gervary
Smoke Boaters' Association
Mormonstown
W. Va
Vienna
Amu
Green
A. Fy
Northampton
Mass
Court House
Uad
Childrens
Robinson-Schwenn Co
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