Roosevelt Sought To Aid Rail Labor Legislation
Rail labor groups seek President Roosevelt's help to push a broad package in the coming special Congress session. They ask for six hour days, retirement and unemployment provisions, reduced maximum work hours, extended workers compensation, and stronger collective bargaining under the railway labor act, plus emergency relief measures Costigan La Follette and Costigan La Guardia bills.
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New York City
ILNL
Roosevelt
Congress
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
A. A. Berle, Jr
Columbia University
Old Ange
Costigan-La Pollette
Costigan-La Guardia
United States Exchange Corporation
Charman A. F. Whitney
Relief rolls rise in New York and New Jersey in January
New York state reports an 18 percent jump in January relief families to 279,478 aiding about 1,100,000 people with total home and work relief spending of 8.76 million dollars. Work wages account for 46 percent. 82,643 approved relief recipients awaited work. New Jersey predicts 500,000 on relief in March as unemployment persists and 55,000 new subsistence recipients push totals to 428,093 by February.
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New York City
ILNS
New York State
State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration
State Relief Organization
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Newark
N. J
New Jersey
Union Label Campaign Set for April in Washington
The Washington D. C. union label trades department of the American Federation of Labor gears up for its annual April campaign. Affiliates and Central Labor Unions are invited to participate to boost organized labor, with secretary treasurer John J. Manning calling it a revival to renew interest and enlist new converts to the union label. He adds that strong support could ease unemployment among trades unionists.
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Union Label Trades Department
Washington, D. C
el Union Label Trades Department
American Federation of Labor
Department
Organized Labor
John J. Manning
Old Age Pension Signed In Indiana After 12 Year Fight
Gov Paul V. McNutt signed Indiana's old age pension bill after a 12 year labor battle led by the United Mine Workers. The law, operative end of 1938, offers up to 15 dollars monthly to indigent residents age 70 or older with 15 years in state. Administration rests with county commissions. first year cost projected at 600000. State and counties each fund half of pensions from general funds.
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Indianapolis
Ind
ILNS
Paul V. McNutt
Indiana
International Labor News Service
Organized Labor
Old Age Pension Committee
United Mine Work
Union Musicians Dedicate Home in Chicago
The Chicago Federation of Musicians dedicated its new home on the night of February 27 amid a star-studded program. National announcers, famous bands led by Ben Bernie, and President James Petrillo were praised as broadcasts greeted the temple of music with congratulations flowing by telephone and wire.
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Chicago, al
ILNS
Chicago Federation of Musicians
Ben Bernie
All the
Temple of Music
James ©. Petrillo
Ban on Yellow Dog Contracts Passes in New York Senate
Albany N Y The New York Senate approved unanimously Senator Monahoe s bill to bar yellow dog contracts The measure mirrors the Norris LaGuardia act enacted by Congress last year and extends similar federal limits to New York state courts Fearon the Republican leader opposed the bill which passed 86 to 18
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Albany
N. Y
Senate
Monahoe
United States Congress
New York State
Fearon
Morrison Opposes Coal Miners Pay Cut By Board
Washington officials report Secretary Morrison and lawyer George Rublee on a two man arbitration board failed to agree on wage cuts for anthracite miners. Morrison opposed any wage decrease while Rublee favored reduction, citing broader economic harm and potential job loss despite operator profits. Morrison warned a 35 percent cut would lower miners to about 57 dollars a month and worsen living standards.
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Washington, D.C
ILNS
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Morrison
George Rublee
Federal Trade Commission
United Mine Workers of America
Anthracite Board of Conciliation
Rublee
Roth
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
Executive Veto Power and Item Veto Concepts
The item veto enables a chief executive to veto single items in appropriation bills without striking the whole law. The US President cannot use this tool and must either sign or veto entire bills. PathFinder notes governors commonly employ it to block riders on major legislation. Elements essential to life include carbon oxygen nitrogen hydrogen sulfur calcium magnesium potassium iron phosphorus manganese chlorine sodium silicon aluminum boron iodine fluorine arsenic.
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The
United States
Pathfinder Magazine
Fragmented Colonial Highways Graveyard Niche Quote
A book description of an old travel sketch notes a pantography of early trails and a pedlar’s stock in pewter and woodenware along colonial highways. It references a “burying loft” and gravestones with biographical beside inscriptions, including one: I expected this but not so soon.
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AD Meyer Cee
Pep Orotry
Maron Nicholl Rawson
Peddier
Liberty is the Power of Doing What the Law Permits
A concise assertion from Cicero that liberty rests on the ability to act within the bounds of law.
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Cicero
Days of Chaperonage Recalled by Northerners Review
The North American Review recalls bygone social etiquette, noting long dances with chaperoned dowagers and fathers escorting daughters, the era of beach picnics under mosquitoes, and the shift toward modern social freedoms with less parental oversight. The piece laments the extensive parental burden once placed on youths and the evolution of dating norms.
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North American Review
Weathercocks and wind vanes in church symbolism
The article explains the weather vane origin and the weathercock symbol on ecclesiastical buildings. It notes the crosspiece topped by a ball symbolizing Christ’s redemption and the cock referencing Saint Peter, with the vane’s tail designed to catch the wind.
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Netrumenta
Christ
Peter
Grenfell Missions In Labrador and Newfoundland
The Grenfell Missions in Labrador and Newfoundland, founded by Sir Wilfred Grenfell in 1892, provide hospitals and nursing stations for fishermen and families. Headquartered at St. Anthony, Newfoundland, where he lives and runs an orphanage, with the hospital steamship Strathcona U cruising annually along the coasts. The note mentions long-standing lighthouses and early maritime facilities around Ceylon as a related contrast.
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Grenfell
Labrador
Newfoundland
International Grenfell Association
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
St. Anthony
Doctor Grenfell
Strathcona U
Whittier Featured in Old School Poets Career
Whittier of the Old School Poets John Greenleaf Whittier, the Quaker poet of Haverhill, was born in 1807 and belonged to the famed New England school. The kindly writer lived nearly to the end of his industrious peers Hawthorne Holmes Lowell Longfellow and others.
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Whittier
John Greenewt
Haverhill
New England
Binereon
Hawthorne
Holmes
Longelow
Lowell
Naming of Frances Perkins Criticized By Labor Chief
Organized labor voices strong disapproval at Franklin Roosevelt's selection of Frances Perkins as secretary of labor. The American Federation of Labor says the appointee lacks labor representation and understanding of workers and collective bargaining. Perkins, former New York state industrial commissioner, may be replaced by John Sullivan of the New York State Federation of Labor. AFL leaders and district presidents issue the formal rebuke and insist the secretary of labor should mirror labor interests.
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Frances Perkins
Labor
Washington, D. C
ILNL
Organized Labor
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Miss Perkins
Green
Roosevelt
Department of Labor
Secretary of Labor
Perkins
New York State
State Department of Labor
John Sulivan
New York State Federation of Labor
Dawes Runs True to Form in Banking Controversy
Ex vice president and ex ambassador Charles G Dawes faced Senate testimony over loans to Samuel Insull and a cash deposit scandal at Lorimer Bank. Dawes admitted law bending while regulators later pursued restitution of 165000 to defrauded investors. Calls grow for a full congressional inquiry into bankers’ conduct.
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United States
England
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
U. S. Senate
Callaase
Samuel
Charles G. Dawes
Ilinois
Lorimer Bank
LaSalle Street Trust and Savings Bank
Dawes
Trawes Bank
Lorimer
Mr. Dawes
Congress of the United States
Y W C A Committee Backs Levee Labor Investigation
The public affairs committee of the national Young Women's Christian Association backs the Wagner resolution for a Senate investigation into labor conditions on the Mississippi flood control project. The New York headquarters at 600 Lexington Avenue has informed state committees, who have urged senators to act favorably. Strong support comes from Southern women.
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New York City
ILNL
National Young Women’s Christian Association
Wagner Resoluton
Senate
New York
Commttee
Lexington Avenue
Union Print Shops Campaign Plans At Delaware Conference
A conference of the Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware Typographical Unions earned about 25 local unions represented. They discussed a campaign to boost demand for printing shop products by union labor and asserted the union as the best means of maintaining high wages and purchasing power.
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Wilmington
Dela
Pennsylvania
Delaware
No Basis For Wage Slashes Anthracite Miners Protest
Wilkes Barre Pa operators have not made a case to justify wage reductions for anthracite coal miners officials of the United Mine Workers say the dispute centers on pay cuts amid industry pressures and union response plans.
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Wilken-Barre
Haya
United Mine
Employment and Payrolls Gain in Packing Industry
Chicago reports January gains in meat packing with 14 percent production rise, far above the usual 2 percent seasonal growth. Hours worked jumped, wages increased, and payrolls rose though staffing was only modestly higher than December.
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Chicago
ILNS
Federal Reserve Bank
Labor defeats convict lease bill in Arkansas legislature
In Little Rock the convict lease bill was badly defeated due to organized labor opposition led by a joint legislative committee of the Arkansas State Federation of Labor representatives and railroad brotherhoods.
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Little Rock
Ark
Joint Legislative Committee
Arkansas State Federation of Labor
Railroad Brotherhoods
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