Distillery Firm Cuts Week to Ten Hours and Raises Wages
The Schenley Company, distillers, became the first employer to implement President Roosevelt’s 10 and 10 plan by shortening the work week by 10 percent and raising wages by the same amount effective March 12. The move, part of a broader industry shift led by the refractories code authority, aims to reemploy about 1,000 more workers and affects over 20,000 in the refractory sector nationwide. The Schenley plant employed 8,500 across New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Kentucky before the change.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Schenley Company, Distillers
Roosevelt
Schenley Company
Code Authority
California
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Kentucky
Public Aid in New York State Relief Totals
One fifth of New York’s population about 2.5 million and one third of children under 16 about 1 million have drawn public relief since November 1, 1931. Total relief expenditures for 27 months reach roughly 217 million dollars, not counting 41 million from the Civil Works Administration or 3 million for CCC, with over 600,000 family groups aided. A high point was reached last April with 397,077 families on work or home relief simultaneously. The NRA item notes a man given a Tuesday off due to the five day week and his wife changing wash day to Tuesday.
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Albany
N. Y
ILNS
New York State
Emergency Relief Administration
Civil Works Administration
New York
Civilian Conservation Corps
Auto Firms Face National Labor Board On Union Drive
Hearings in Washington reveal Ford as the only major automaker not joining company unions. AFL leader William Collins cites widespread use of company unions at Hudson and Buick. Witnesses claim dismissals and ballots funded by the firms, with workers seeking outside union representation and a 30 to 36 hour week amid a tinderbox Detroit scene.
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A. F. of L
Washington, D. C
ILNS
National Labor Board
William Collins
American Federation of Labor
Detroit
Collins
National Industrial Recovery Act
Ford
Hudson
Buick Automobile
Arthur Greer
Hudson Federal Labor Union
John Bailey
Buick Federal Labor Union
Greer
Privvleges
NIRA
Building Trades Push for 30 Hour Week in Buffalo
Buffalo council of Allied Building Trades advocates a six hour day to cut five thousand workers’ hours by ten weekly, absorbing 50 thousand hours of labor without layoffs. They estimate 1,666 men could be hired immediately and $65,000 would circulate weekly. They propose a $40 weekly wage for the shorter week.
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Allied Council
Buffalo
N. Y
Allied Building
Trades Council
Building Trades
Labor Board Orders Union Employes To Be Reinstated
New Orleans Regional Labor Board ordered Calcasieu Paper Company Elizabeth Louisiana to reinstate several workers charged with discrimination for union membership. The order requires back pay for time lost. The board also will investigate alleged company union promotion by company officials.
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Labor Board
New Orleans
Brooklyn laundries face wage law scrutiny list released
Industrial Commissioner Elmer F. Andrews published 41 Brooklyn laundry owners as non compliant with the state minimum wage law. The list, read at a Brooklyn civic meeting, follows hearings showing 389 laundries employing 5043 workers are compliant while 41 employing 971 paid less than the minimum. Penalties to be available July 2 as the directory period ends.
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New York City
ILNS
Brooklyn
Elmer F. Andrews
Consumers
Department of Labor
Andrews
Right to Picket Affir med
A Los Angeles appellate court invalidates an anti picketing ordinance, hailed as a Magna Charta for labor by A L Wirin. The ruling, supported by John Beardsley David Ziskind James M Carter and Wirin, declares peaceful picketing lawful and warns local authorities against prohibiting it.
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Los Angeles
ILNL
Appellate Department
Superior Court of
A. L. Wirin
Labor
John Beardsley
David Ziskind
James M. Carter
Andrew M. Strong
Wirin
Farm Bureau
Ventura County
Santa Barbara
San Diego County
California
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NRA
Nonpareil Printing Co
Market Street
Hamilton, Ohio
Bailey
Federal
Buick Company
Hudson and
Buick
al Cook
Fisher Body Federal Labor Union
Cleveland
Ohio
Fisher Body Corporation
Cleveland Regional Labor Board
Cook
Krebs
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