Nonpartisan Labor Policy Endorsed by A F L
Atlantic City N J The American Federation of Labor executive council endorses a nonpartisan political policy for the presidential election. The policy calls for comparing party platforms and candidate records, and supports labor friendly candidates. The committee will distribute party platforms and candidate records to unions and federations nationwide.
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AFL Refuses to Endorse Either Party Platforms in Labor Vote
Atlantic City executives of the American Federation of Labor rejected party platforms as incomplete and announced a non partisan political committee led by William Green and Frank Morrison. The panel will supply political records to unions and study future candidate declarations before shaping labor's campaign strategy.
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American Federation of Labor
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William Green
Frank Morrison
Martin F. Ryan
Matthew Woll
Thomas A. Rickert
Federation
Wage rate restored at India Tire and Rubber Akron
In Akron the India Tire and Rubber Company restored wages for 400 factory workers and 50 office staff by 20 percent to the level before January’s cut. The notice invites advertising in The Press.
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India Tire and Rubber
Akron
Labor Plans Great Six Hour Day And Five Day Week Campaign
Atlantic City reports American labor pushing for a 30 hour week with a national conclave urged by President Hoover as seven to thirteen million unemployed loom. Labor seeks federal action and private industry leadership, deeming government relief inadequate and urging readjustment of hours and wages to avert hunger marches.
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Labor unrest and evictions in Southern textile mills
International Labor News Service reports on a South region strike tied to wage and job classifications at Langley, Clearwater, Bath and Arcadia Mills near Spartanburg South Carolina. Evictions numbering 83 occurred amid state road police dispatch and deputy sheriffs, amid arrests of organizer Peel on a trumped up charge with bail supplied by Spartanburg Central Labor Union president.
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Thomas F. Mahon
International Labor News Service
Horse Greek Valley
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Langley
Clearwater
Bath
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Arcadia Mills
Spartanburg
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John A. Peel
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Utilities dividends fall. banks top pays of June
Moody's figures show utilities averaging 2.54 dollars per share on June 30 down 16.7 percent from February 1931 peak of 3.05. Railroads cut furthest from 6.21 peak in 1980 to 1.12 this June, down 82 percent. Banks average 4.79, down 26.3 percent from July 1930 peak of 4.50, while insurance and other sectors also show declines across the board.
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Insurance Company Securities
Great Piedmont Strike Reaches North Carolina Industrial Heart
Labor unrest spreads across Piedmont North Carolina as wage cuts trigger a broad walkout. About 60,000 workers protested, with factories idle in High Point and related plants in Thomasville, Lexington, and Kernersville. Regions like Burlington, Greensboro, Durham, and Winston-Salem likely to feel impact. officials heighten security as protests run peaceful.
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Piedmont
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United ‘Textile Workers of America
Thomasville
Lexington
Kernesville
Burlington
Greensboro
Durham
Winston-Salem
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Atlantic City Meeting Foresees Prohibition Modification Progress
The executive committee of labor's national modification group reports encouraging signs from the Congressional session and a near two thirds Senate vote. A report on political platforms and outlooks will be shared with the federation of national and international unions, with plans ratified to advance modification as a priority while repeal remains uncertain.
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Atlantic City
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National Committee
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Executive Committee
Matthew Woll
Wage trends cut work hours since 1840s across US
Economic history notes a succession of panics and depressions over two years, yet wage earners gain in wages and reduce hours. From 1840 to 1907 the average work week fell from about 81 hours to 48, with earlier reductions to 68 in 1861 and 59 after 1808, culminating in the 1907 shift to a 48 hour week.
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Washington, D. C
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U.S. Department of Labor
Massachusetts
Green Reports Progress on Gompers Memorial
William Green AFL president told the federation executive council that New Yorker Robert J. Aitken the sculptor of the $110000 Samuel Gompers memorial has made considerable progress. The memorial is slated for unveiling in Washington in October 1933.
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Railway Mail Association
Atlantic City
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American Federation of Labor
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Robert J. Aitken
New York
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Washington
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