McNutt urges jobs for unemployed men over forty
Washington McNutt Federal Security Administrator urges national effort during National Employment Week May 4 to 10. He calls on 4500 state offices and local groups to place older workers including World War II veterans in defense contracts and reexamine qualifications for skilled positions in airplane manufacturing shipbuilding and tool and die making.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
U. S. Employment Service
Chemical firm signs A F L union contract in Akron
Akron reports that Local Union No. 20430 in Chicago has obtained the first signed contract with The General Chemical Company, affiliate of General Analine and Dye, setting minimum wages at 73 cents per hour.
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Akron
Ohio
International Council of Chemical and Allied Industries Unions
A. F. of L
Chicago
Ill
General Chemical Company
General Analine and Dye Company
All Men of Good Will Called to Stand Against Fascism
A call from the Journal of Electrical Workers urges unity among men of good will to defend civilization against fascists nazis and communists. It condemns their tactics and warns that brigands murderers and traitors destroy themselves. The piece stresses preserving eternal verities and rejecting simplistic conservatism or radicalism.
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Jan Valtin
Supreme Court backs NLRB hiring orders and unit rule
The Supreme Court split 6 to 2 upholding NLRB orders that Phelps-Dodge must hire two workers displaced by a 1935 strike and reinstate back pay. It also ruled in a 5 to 4 decision that a single employer's six plants form a unit for choosing a bargaining representative, rejecting separate plant craft union representations.
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Supreme Court
NLRB
Washington, D. C
ILNS
National Labor Relations Board
J. Warren Madden
Libby- Oweng-Ford
Madden
Phelps-Dodge Corporation
Bisbee
Arizona
Labor Board
Phelps-Dodge
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Hughes
Robert and
Stone
Justice Reed
Federation of Plat Glass Workers of America
Crystal City
Missouri
Crystal City Glass Workers’ Union
Ford City
Creighton
Mount Vernon
Ohio
Clarksburg
W. Va
Henryetta
AF of L chief faults Henderson wage cost claim
Washington editor William Green of the American Federation of Labor brands Leon Henderson head of the Office of Price Administration as making a basic mistake by saying wages will be watched as a prime cost. The AFL leader criticizes the OPA stance in the May issue of the American Federationist.
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Green
Henderson
Mr. Henderson
Washington, D. C
ILNS
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
William Green
American Federation of Labor
American Federationist
Higher wage rate won by AFL cement workers
Samuel Diskan announced an agreement raising base pay from 57 to 65 cents an hour after union leaders signed with Lehigh Portland Cement Company and Alpha Portland Cement Company in the Lehigh Valley.
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AFL
Philadelphia
Samuel Diskan
A. F. of L. United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers’ International Union
Lehigh Portland Cement Company
Alpha Portland Cement Company
Lehigh Valley
Silversmiths Co Signs Union Label Agreement
Samuel E. Beardsley announced that the International Jewelry Workers' Union signed a label agreement with Elgin Silversmiths Company of New York. The firm makes sterling silver hollowware and ecclesiastical goods in gold and silver, offering sil verware with the union label for the first time.
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New York, N. Y
Samuel E. Beardsley
International Jewelry Workers’ Union
Elgin Silversmiths Company, Inc
New York
N. Y
Beardsley
Shipbuilding to Require Employment of 310000 More Men
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins cites a record shipbuilding program needing about 310000 additional workers in private and Navy yards by September 1942. She notes 560000 total shipyard workers will be required then, with major gains in the North Atlantic and Pacific coast regions and a parallel rise in related factory and transport jobs.
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Justice Frankfurter
Justice Stone
Hughes
Long
Washington, D. C
ILNS
U. S. Navy
Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Navy
North Atlantic
Boston
New York City
Philadelphia
Camden
South Atlantic
Newport News
Portsmouth
Charleston
S. C
South Pacific Coast
Gulf, Great Lakes
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Journal of Electrical Workers
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North
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Labor
David Webb & Sons
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