Prosperity Tied to Big Payroll Increase, McGrady Says
Edward F. McGrady of the AFL tells the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers convention prosperity will return only if the national payroll rises by about 22 billion dollars annually based on 1927 census figures. He cites wage gaps and overall value of production as reasons for current slow business and links old age pensions to preemptive employer practices. Hoffman reports wage and union issues in the South and notes stronger anti union sentiment among Northern manufacturers who aided blacklists and espionage.
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Philadelphia
ILNS
Edward F. McGrady
American Federation of Labor
American Federation of
McGrady
Workers of America
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Tennessee
Albert Hoffman
Hoffman
South
Union Activi
Smith
Employers of Labor In
America
Huntsville
Decatur
Culman
Athens
Porto Rico Plight Highlighted in Puerto Rican Debate
Congress allocates 1,000,000 for Porto Rico with one-fifth for destroyed schools and the rest for roads. Governor Theodore Roosevelt pleads for 3,000,000 to fight poverty and disease and aid hungry children. Senator Iglesias denounces abuse by absentee landlords and wage exploitation since U.S. occupation, noting vast trade with the United States and ongoing land seizures.
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Washington
Congress
Porto Rico
Theodore Rosevelt
Santiago Iglesias
Pan-American Federation of Labor
Doles
Mr. Iglesias
United States
Idleness in Iowa due to machine replacement
Sioux City report from the Iowa Federation of Labor warns of a large unemployed population caused by machines replacing human labor. John C. Lewis cites injunction needs and age limits in industry as factors, condemns child labor and Mexican immigration, and criticizes competitive prison labor while noting Hammill’s defeat for the U.S. Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Iowa
John C. Lewis
Iowa Federation of Labor
Hammill
United States Senate
Better Life for Southern Textile Mil l Workers Near Birmingham
A regional report details rising union interest in Southern textile mills with AFL plans for cooperative wage gains and shorter hours. About seventy mill owners are examining the plan, echoing successful coal-miner contracts, as workers see potential improved conditions and employers face new organizing momentum across seven Southern states.
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Birmingham
Ala
ILNS
American Federation of Labor
Paul J. Smith
Smith
American Federation
Dixie
South
March of Organized Labor
Bernard M. Cone
Proximity Manufacturing Company
Greensboro
N. C
Cone
Flexible clause grants broad tariff power in new law
Washington reports that the flexible clause allows the President to raise or cut rates within a fifty percent limit set by the tariff commission. The 1922 law had a similar provision, amid arguments that Congress held the rate power. Ex-tariff commissioner David Lewis faced pressure over reappointment and hints of pressured resignation.
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Washington
Tariff Commission
Congress
David Lewis
Labor Group
Coolidge
Lewis
Editor Silenced Amid Huntsville Labor Tensions
In Huntsville Alabama a wave of union activity prompted threats to editors and agitators with expulsion from town. Business leaders publicly voiced support for labor while the local paper faced intimidation and claimed a shutdown to its operations.
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Huntsville
Ala
Huntsville Times
Butcher Workmen Adopt Plans To Establish Home for Aged
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen convention in Detroit adopted plans for a home for aged and incapacitated members. It endorsed a five day week in the packing industry, favored old age pensions, and opposed lifting the packers consent decree. Members were urged to refrain from handling certain fresh and frozen meats as tests are ordered to verify meat quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
ILNS
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
North America
General Executive Board
Patrick E. Gorman
Dennis Lane
Michael Kelly
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
United States
Secreteuyer
Women over forty face job barriers in Boston talk
Miss Caroline Manning of the United States Women’s Bureau told the Social Workers conference that women over 40 struggle to find work as factories replace veterans with new machines. She urged giving capable older women chances to learn tasks like running a weighing machine, noting some applicants fear they have passed the age of employment.
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Boston
Caroline Manning
United States Women’s Bureau
Social Workers’ Conference
Miss Manning
Pension Law Voided by Tricky Wyoming Decision
In Cheyenne Wyoming the old age pension law was voided by Attorney General Wilson who ruled the act voluntary and enforceable only if county commissioners choose. The state association of county commissioners resisted enforcing the act last fall. Organized labor plans to push the issue in the upcoming campaign to elect legislators who will support enforcing the popular will.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wilson
State Association of County Commissioners
Organized Labor
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