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Newspaper
Butler County Press
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1934
Page
1
Mrs. Elinore Herrick, acting chair of the Regional Labor Board, declared in New York City that improving wage and working standards is fundamentally a labor task. She urged organized labor to power higher standards through collective bargaining, while faulting code-driven minima as insufficient.
The barber trade receives a code of fair competition impacting over 300 000 barbers manicurists and staff. It sets a 48 hour work week and minimum wages, with local boards designating areas and pricing subject to National Recovery Administration approval.
Ottawa reports reveal widespread exploitation as skilled male workers in Guelph shoe factories earn 1.60 to 2.00 a day while Tron molders earn 8 to 11 a week and girls in a felt hat plant toil 72 hours weekly at 13 cents an hour. Ice workers receive 70 cents for a 10 hour day amid harsh conditions, with aliens facing extortion and pressure to accept harsh terms.
At a NIRA hearing on a proposed telephone industry code, Charles Cooper of AT&T said Bell system covers the reasonable expenses of company unions. He noted some meeting minutes reach management, and employers may pay employee travel costs, though no employees were known to have done so. Rep. Connery urged outlawing company unions under the National Industrial Recovery Act, stating any remaining form violates Congress intent and law.
Cincinnati report notes 31 new unions added to the International Molders' Union since July 1 with camps in Dallas Texas and Sandusky Ohio. A call to teach children to demand the union label and its card and button to assure union made goods.
Chicago correspondent Joseph A Wise reports on Gary Indiana politics and U S Steel influence surrounding Dr William A Wirt superintendent of Gary schools. He alleges Wirt's high salary lavish lifestyle and ties to U S Steel owners while accusing critics of communist plots and political manipulation in Illinois and Indiana primaries. Wise promises more findings from Gary on labor press coverage.
Louisville Kentucky. The NRA wage scale of 4.60 for a seven hour day in the Western Kentucky coal fields will be combatted in federal courts. J Van Norman attorney for the West Kentucky Coal Operators Association announced after a meeting of 60 mine owners. The operators contend the scale would be ruinous and would argue that the scale is arbitrary and confiscatory and would question the constitutional validity of government regulation of wages and hours.
In Washington D C the Cotton Textile National Industrial Relation Board reports that the National Recovery Administration has brought peaceful operation to an industry once torn by conflict. Since August 2 1938 only one of 4000 complaints reached the NIRB and only six disputes led to short strikes. The AFL reviewed all cases and they are open for labor representatives to inspect.
The Labour Party wins its fifth by election since the government took power, reclaiming North Hammersmith in the Commons. Labor candidate F R West, a school teacher, earns 14 263 votes, defeating Conservative 10 747 and Communist 614.
In a forest near Dinslaken Rhineland four Duisburg trade union officials were found dead. The May 2 1933 Nazi raids on unions led to arrests seizures and bank seizure. Ruhr murder commission identified the bodies but could not determine the cause of death. An official statement warned against sensational conjecture.
The Match Makers' Union No. 18928 won full recognition from Diamond Match Company in Barberton Ohio, ending the Bedeaux system. Concurrently Chemical Workers' Local Union No. 19019 won a strike for improved working conditions. Both unions are affiliated with the AFL.
Spartansburg South Carolina pending settlement of a strike by 300 workers at the Highland Park Manufacturing Co mill in Rock Hill. Weavers and loom fixers protested a cloth type change that increased loom load, halting weaving and later the entire mill while negotiations continue.
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