Steam Engineers Appeal For New Members To Help Union
Chicago based International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers calls for unorganized engineers to join amid open shop and American plan campaigns. Officers warn wages and hours suffer without collective bargaining, urging solidarity to secure living wages, steady work, and protection against employer exploitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steam Engineers
International Labor News Service
Chicago
International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers
Yale Avenue
Educated Publicity Tactics in Early Transit Propaganda Scandals
A 1919 New York report details Ivy Lee's cost to the Interborough Rapid Transit Company for publicity work. It notes salaries for Lee and staff, propaganda efforts to sway opinion, and misleading mining union material distributed to officials and educators during the Colorado coal strike and related campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ivy Lee
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
The
Transit Commission
Lee
Pennsylvania Railroad
Rockefeller Corporation
Philadelphia
Colorado Company
Denver
United States Commission On Industrial Relations
Colorado
Electricity and Industry Transformation in Rural Towns
Rural towns and small cities now generate a growing share of industrial output, payrolls, and production driven by electric power. Large plants and interconnects enable relocation from cities, improving living conditions and enabling modern services like radio. Hydroelectric plants on many streams could extend power widely, serving millions more in small communities.
Oppose Child Labor Bill Defeated in Springfield House
The Springfield House of Representatives defeated a bill that would require children under 16 to complete the eighth grade before obtaining a work certificate. The vote halted proposed state restrictions on youth employment and education requirements.
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Springfield
House of Representatives
Croesus Class Grows As Mass Remains in Low Income Level
International Labor News Service analyzes 1925 income tax returns showing 207 people earning 1 million dollars or more and seven individuals at 5 million dollars annually. The piece highlights stark wealth gaps centered on figures tied to Rockefeller, Ford, Mellon, and others, with many earners far below these superrich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
Joh D. Rockefeller
Jy— Oil
George F. Baker Baka
Andrew P. Mellon
Henry Ford
Edsel Pord
Ilinois
Oklahoma
Sali
Slump hits Chinese Guide in America publication
The Chinese Guide in America, claimed revolutionary Kuomin tang publication, shows a marked decline from its Stanford origin on November 27, 1926. Now a mimeographed sheet with a San Francisco box, it moderates tone and pleads for funds while noting waning student support from Stanford and California campuses.
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Chicao
America
Kuomintang
Stanford University
California
San Francisco
Awerica
Soviet
Russia
University of California
Comemaui
University of Chicago
Labor Questions and Answers on Labor and Toilers
A historical fragment compiling Q and A on labor, wages, and plans. It cites Herbert Hoover speaking May 12, 1926 and outlines the Plumb Plan League principles for railroad ownership. It notes AFL ideals, wage theory, and the push for progress beyond cost of living links.
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Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover
United States Chamber of Commerce
Plumb Plan League
Wall Street
American Federation of Labor
Photo Engravers Out Portland Labor Strife Hits Dailies
Photo engravers quit in Portland Oregon as three daily newspapers the Oregonian Journal and Telegram face labor opposition to a proposed wage scale. The strike centers on living wages and the papers’ response to the labor dispute amid ongoing coverage.
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Portland
Labor
Ore- A
Gonian, Journal and Telegram
Slum Apartments Granted 20 Year Tax Exemption
New York Mayor Walker signed a bill offering a twenty year tax exemption on tenement buildings constructed under the State Housing Law as substitutes for dilapidated structures. The move aims to eliminate slums by attracting investment and lowering rentals. The Real Estate Board urged rejection, warning taxes on other property would rise.
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New York
Walker
Real Estate Board
Pittsburgh Water Cut by Court Action in Mine Towns
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation has cut water to several company towns amid a court procedure aimed at ousting union miners. President Horace F. Baker calls the move a minor burden to force miners to carry water, while critics warn of possible epidemics. A state Supreme Court test case on the anti union operation is pending for months.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation
Horace F. Baker
Baker
State Supreme Court
United Mine Workers
Florida Legislature Drops Workmen’s Compensation Bill
Tallahassee adjourned without action on a workmen’s compensation proposal urged by organized labor. Opposed by turpentine, lumber, phosphate interests and the Employers' Association. J. M. Adkins of the Florida State Federation of Labor says organized labor will press the measure as workmen’s compensation is new to the extreme South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tallahassee
Florida
Organized Labor
Turpentine, Lumber and Phosphate
Employers’ Association
J. M. Adkins
Florida State Federation of Labor
Communists Resume Attacks Against A F L as New Union Officials Take Office
New York City reports a renewed campaign by communists against the American Federation of Labor as new officers take charge of the International Union. Police court crowds, bribe allegations, and high level talks with William Green, Matthew Woll, and city officials marked the unrest.
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A. F. of
International Labor News Service
New York City
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Matthew Woll
Edward F. McGrady
Edgar Wallace
Hugh Frayne
Green
Warren
Jefferson Market
International Fur Workers’ Union
ALF
International Union
Philip A. Silberstein
Harry Benoui
Treasorea Vier
Charles Gemeiner
Pietro Lucchi
Hyman Kalmikolt
Samuel Pale ‘Perin
Charles Stetsky
Mae Harris
Peace council plan to set up non union work councils
The government proposes Whitley councils to handle wages and conditions in single plants as an alternative to traditional trade unions. London reports say the councils would operate under rules, aiming to supplement union activity, with Whitley named for James H. Whitley. Trade unionists oppose the move as an attempt to undermine unions via non-union boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Baghind
Providinn
Whitley
Whitley Councils
James H. Whitley
Essime
Hae
Western rail wage decision limits conductors pay
An arbitration board denied wage increases for conductors and trainmen on $5 Western railroads while yardmen receive 7 percent. The ruling, under the federal railway act, leaves Western workers earning about 7 percent less than Eastern peers for similar work.
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Chicago
Federal Railway Net
Federal Railway Mediation
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Ican
Electricity and Industry
Frank E. Wolf
Chicago Market Co
High Street
tOuTy
PAK Ora
Communist Organ
Coal Company
Frank A. Currie
Jack Millstein
Jacob Dissin
Art Foucher
Isidor Winnick
Far
A. F P. of L
Communiste
Underworld
Peace Council
Western Rail
Marshall B. Lloyd
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