Women Wage Standards Highlighted By Federal Official
Miss Mary Anderson, head of the U S Women's Bureau, urged shorter hours and fair wages for Southern women workers at a National Women's Trade Union League conference in Greensboro. She cited surveys across 10 Southern states and detailed earnings, hours, and industry differences while condemning long hours as harming health and national progress.
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ILNS
Mary Anderson
Women's Bureau
United States Department of Labor
National Women's Trade Union League of America
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Miss Anderson
South Carolina
Kentucky
North Carolina
Solone
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Alabama
Georgia
Virginia
Gaia
Florida
Tennessee
Maryland
Mississippi
Mississ
Duck Head Factory Protest Over Break With Union
Nashville firm O'Bryan Brothers ends a 20 year labor agreement with the United Garment Workers of America. Unionists accuse wage cuts from 25 to 40 percent and longer workdays as labor pressure grows. Workers return to work after withdrawal of the union label Duck Head garments deemed nonunion. UGW union in Tennessee counts about 100 members.
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Nashville
Tenn
O'Bryan Brothers
United Garment Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
Owme
Ukise
United Garment Workers’ Union
O'Bryan
Garment Workers’ Union
Tennessee
Union Labor Life Insurance Co Reports 30 Percent Gain
Union Labor Life Insurance Co reports a 30 percent gain in individual insurance in force and a significant rise in group policies. President Matthew Woll cites growing union interest in life coverage, including officers insured at unions' expense and international unions insuring workers, amid a year of general industrial strain.
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Woll
Baltimore
ILNS
Labor Life Insurance Company
Matthew Woll
Union
State probes Massachusetts minimum wage law
Boston reports a legislative committee examining Massachusetts minimum wage law once hailed as progressive. Critics say it lacks penalties and relies on publicity, with commissioners noting limited power as ads fail to draw newspaper interest and past delays including underpayment at Harvard University.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Harvard University
Tenth Surrender to Union Cheer Hosiery Strikers
Report from Philadelphia on the tenth settlement in the full fashioned hosiery strike at Fashion Made Mills. About 2,500 workers remain out as unions and officials of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers confirm the accord amid arrests, picket lines, and contentious policing in early morning sitings.
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Philadelphia
ILNS
American Federation of
Schofield
Public Safety
Oregon Bites Yellow Dog Contract in Legislature
Salem reports the Oregon legislature passes an anti yellow dog contract bill joining Wisconsin in this stance. A state police bill is also enacted, with provisions aimed at preventing misuse of the new force or a strike breaking agency, strengthened by the governor's declarations.
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Salem
Ove
Ilns
Oregon
Wisconsin
Oklahoma Passes Bill for State Cement Factory
Oklahoma City lawmakers approve a bill to establish a state cement factory to be staffed by prison labor and also pass a free textbooks bill for grade school children.
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Oklahoma City
House of Representatives
House
Robertson Says This Is Not Time To Reduce Wages
Ottawa indland minister Gideon Robertson urges against wage cuts and high worker demands. He contacted railway management, securing continued wages for the present. His interventions have prevented cuts in several other cases.
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Robertson
Ottawa
ILNS
Gideon Robertson
Dominion
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Cleveland Moose Convention Moves After Lockout
Senator James J. Davis reports the Cleveland Moose lodge cannot host the forthcoming convention due to hotel worker lockout. The event moves to Mooseheart Indiana, while other unions relocate their gatherings. A $1000 donation from the Teamsters aids locked out Cleveland cooks and waiters as the Hotel and Restaurant Workers union thanks the Teamsters.
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International Labor News Service
Cleveland Lodge
National Organization
Cleveland
Davis
Mooseheart
Ind
Cleveland Moose Lodge
Order of Eagles
Toledo
Houston
Cincinnati, O
TLNS
Bob Hesketh
International Alliance
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Cleveland Culinary Worker
Teameters
Motor Trains Exempt From Ohio Crew Law
Columbus Ohio a motor propelled passenger train is not governed by the Ohio full crew law says a state supreme court division. The public utilities commission upheld their refusal to compel the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad to comply with the law in operating motor driven trains. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers asked the commission to require the railroad to use a four man crew on a motor train between Fittsburgh and Toledo.
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Ohio
Iw Ohio
State Supreme Court
Public Utilities Commission
Wheeling & Take Erie Railroad
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Engineien
Fittsbareh
Toledo
Senate to Consider Anti Yellow Dog Labor Bill
The House approved an anti yellow dog bill barring contracts that forbid workers from joining unions. The measure now moves to the Senate for consideration as public policy.
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Denyre
Cole
House of Representatives
Senate
Missouri Pacific Challenges Arkansas Train Vrew Law Before Supreme Court
Missouri Pacific railroad contests Arkansas full train law before the U S Supreme Court. Railroad attorneys argue the measure intrudes on federal authority reserved to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Missouri Pacific Railroad
Arkansas
Federal Supreme Court
Ine Ferstat Tummeree Commission
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