Salmon Cannery Workers Trapped in Virtual Slavery Contracts
International Labor News Service releases contract excerpts from Alaskan salmon canneries showing workers forced to work any time and place, with fines for refusals and discontent, wage forfeiture for strikes, and strict living, meal, and credit limits. The document labels conditions as among the most damning found in canneries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
Alaska Cannery
San Francisco
Alaska
Teachers Oppose Tax Favours Against Big Business
Chicago Teachers' Federation launches a new campaign against small tax assessments on large business properties. The city faces a deficit of more than 15 million dollars in educational funds, and teachers argue that higher taxes on big business would boost school funding.
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Chicago
Chicago Teachers’ Federation
William H. Weber
Board of Assessors
Big Business
Weber
Margaret Haley
Teachers’ Federation
Department of Agriculture
Governor Smith signs four labor amendments in New York
Albany reports Governor Smith signed four amendments to the state workmen's compensation bill favored by the state Federation of Labor and approved the Antin bill creating a New York children's court aimed at giving children care and discipline close to parental standards.
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Albany
N. Y
Smith
State Federation of Labor
New York Children’s Court
West Coast Crowded by Unemployed Attracting Influx
Pacific coast cities face a flood of unemployed drawn by a popular advertising push to a promised utopia. Los Angeles and Galveston report trains and cars bringing crowds, transforming a normally prosperous region into a strained, absorbent limit.
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Los Angeles
Gal
Pacific Coast
California
Reds plan dominant St Paul convention and Moscow links
International Labor News Service reports Communist plans to shape the St Paul June 17 convention into a national farmer labor party. Foster's Labor Herald calls rivals labor traitors while predicting a united class program and independent farm labor leadership that could shake American politics.
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International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
St. Paul
Daily Worker
Foster's
Labor Herald
Moscow
Red General Staff
United States
Foster
Communist Herald
Federated Farmer-Labor Party
Workers’ Party
Farmer-Labor
Soviets Persecute Labor as Moscow Faces New Revolt
A foreign correspondent reports ongoing Bolshevist labor persecution in Soviet Russia. The piece describes wage arrears, arrests, strikes, and intensified secret police action as the regime seeks to suppress growing worker discontent and a possible broad labor uprising.
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Moscow
International Labor News Service
Washington, D. GC
G. P
New York Times
Russia
Anu
Don Basin
Simbriskan
Urals
Herve
Communist Party
Lenin
Red Army
Army of Aples
Labor Party
London
Iictatore
New Compensation Law Favored by Portia Trade Group
Portia Oregon meeting of trade unionists advocates compulsory compensation law to shield workers. Proponents seek petitions and referenda to empower the industrial safety commission to define hazardous occupations and extend coverage to private hospitals and contractors. The plan includes compensation for hidden employees injured due to employer safety failures.
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Portia
Ore
Iductal Secwlent Commission
Tate
Hiiden
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