Eye Hazards Drive Blindness Across U S Reports
Guy A. Henry of the Eye Sight Conservation Council says hundreds of thousands face partial blindness due to unprotected eye hazards in industry and daily life. He cites 25 percent of 26 million schoolchildren with vision defects, 60 percent of 42 million workers affected, and 200,000 eye injuries annually with millions in compensation. He urges better lighting, protection, and disease prevention to curb the crisis.
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Atlantic City
Guy A. Henry
New York
Eye Sight Conservation Council of America
American Association of Workers For the Blind
Indus
Henry
United States
Child Fighters and Southern Labor Reform Debate
The Federal Council on child labor issues condemns Southern mills for long hours and low wages. Southern textile interests, Charlotte’s Textile Bulletin, and Baltimore’s Manufacturers’ Record attack or defend the church activists plea for worker representation amid anti union sentiment. Raleigh News and Observer endorses the moderate stance.
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New York
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ
Southern Textile Bulletin
Charlotte
N. C
Lnions
Bulletin
Manufacturers’ Record
Baltimore
Raliegh
N.C) News and Observer
Daniels
Poverty and Deception Reported by Pittsburgh Coal Workers
Thousands of African American workers recruited from the South allege deception by the Pittsburgh Coal Company. About 50,000 were brought to the district in the last two years, but fewer than 4,000 are employed, highlighting alleged contract-breaking and exploitation in the labor pull.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Tailors Reorganize Affiliating With Union in Winnipeg
Winnipeg journeymen tailors have reformed and aligned with the Journeymen Tailors Union of America. The local body joined the One Big Union in 1919, then collapsed after several years from a 260 member base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Canada
Journeymen Tailors
Journeymen Tailors’ Union of America
New York Stop Red Wreckers Halt Threat to Unions
The article credits the Albany Federation of Labor in halting Communist influence within the Fur Workers International Union in New York. It argues the victory prevented broader national damage to American unions, noting leaders like William Green and Matthew Woll bore the brunt of the fight and that allied unions benefited from stopping Reds in New York.
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New York
New York City
Almerian Federation of Labor
Fur Workers International Union
William Green
Matthew Woll
Grganizer Africayne
Edward McGrady
Legislative Committee
America
Amercan
New Yoel
Nance Tor
le Fee Mat
Mur
Chitaga
Batt
Reda
New Jersey
Chey
Union Presidents Promote Unionism on WCFL Radio Short Broadcasts
Circular letters to international union officers prompted 500 word radio statements broadcast from WCFL Chicago starting June 1 at 7 45 p m. Bowen of the Bricklayers and Masons Union opened the series followed by Evans of the Tobacco Workers Union. Listeners across the United States Canada and Mexico sent letters to WCFL with strong turnout from New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Ohio Canada and western states. The Barton pipe organ recital drew praise and tuning guidance suggested 11 am to midnight Chicago time.
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Chicago
E. N. Nockels
Chicago Federation of Labor
WCFL
Chico Central Labor Body
William J. Bowen
Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers
International Union of America
B. Lewis Evans
Tobacco Workers’ National Union
United States
Canada
Florida
South
Jacksonvile
Fla
Cuthbert
Sibley
Lake Charles
Asheville
Southern Pines
N. C
Mobile
Holy Trinity
Ala
New York State
Brooklyn
Long Island
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New Jersey
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Baldwin Quits Over Lords Power Fight in Britain
Premier Baldwin drops plan to empower the House of Lords amid Tory opposition and fears of a general election. The 1911 Parliament Act issue leaves Conservatives wary of purse-string control while Baldwin signals resignation capability until 1929.
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London
England
Bald
House of Lords
Britain
House of Commons
House
Lords
Commons
Baldwin
Electricity powers Michigan workers and farms, says official
D E Byerley, president of the Michigan Electric Light Association, told the Mackinac Island convention that electricity has raised factory productivity, cutting needed labor from 118 to 40 men. He said longer hours for workers and homemakers are now possible and service will extend to farming areas, bringing city comparisons to rural areas.
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Detroit
Mich
Michigan
D. E. Byerley
Michigan Eletric Light Association
Mackinac Island
Bricklayers win arbitration wage raise in Portland
The Bricklayers' Union secured a wage increase through arbitration in Portland. Rates rise by $1 per week starting September 1, with current wages moving from $11 to $11.60.
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Portland
Ore
Bricklayers’ Union
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International Labor News Service
THE
W. C. Frechtling CO
Hamilton
Frechtling’s Corner
Darcy Paper
Olidge
Cie
RMA
Mr Busines
MI Business
Mes
Levi
Gotham
Chester M. Wrigiut
Iter International Labor News Service
Reds
Woll
Fur Workers’ Organization
Adies
A. F
L. Formes
Kiewit
Tidicampolis
Tnd
Indianapolis
National Vitited Armory
Dely
Peoria
Ill
Lt.u
International Union
North Meridien Street
Charles P. Howard
Internatioal Union
John W. Hays
Seth R. Brown
First View
Austin Hewson
Charls M. Smith
California
State of Washington
San Diego
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Oakland
Cal
Irrigan
Seattles
Arlington
Tacoma
Wash
Austin
Beaumont
Houston
Tex
Albuquerque
N. M
Denver
Cole and Parkahm
Wyo
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