Miners Starving in Alabama Coal Fields Described by Delegation
A Jefferson county miners delegation told county commissioners they are effectively jobless as coal mines suspend operations. They seek road work or other employment to feed families, with Red Cross aid insufficient. Pellagra and tuberculosis arise from malnutrition. a $155 relief collection was raised.
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J. B. Wood
Birmingham, Als
ILNS
Alabama
Birmingham
Jefferson County
Board of County Commissioners
Red Cross
County Board of Commissioners
Mathews
George Huddleston
Board of Commissioners
Pequot House Becomes Salem Community Center
Pequot Mills, Salem, has created a 17th century style republic house as part of Massachusetts Bay Colony observance. Since opening last July the site has hosted many meetings and drawn over 15,000 visitors who toured the mills and watched cotton processing from bale to product. The plant is a premier New England industrial show place, and Pequot Mills marks its 92nd year with a notable labor relation record including a pioneering labor extension plan with United Textile.
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Salem
Mass
SLNS
Pequot
Pequot Mills
Massachusetts Bay Colony
New England
Labor Injunction Plan Not Written Into Law
Lansing report notes anti union interests failed to codify a labor injunction in Michigan criminal code. Picketing would be outlawed and pressuring others not to patronize an unfair employer would be a misdemeanor. Senate judiciary committee rejected the measure, leaving the idea unpassed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Resist Pay Reductions to Utmost Says AFL Call
The American Federation of Labor executive council urged all workers to resist wage cuts, warning reductions threaten buying power and living standards. It cites Goodyear and Goodrich wage cuts, condemns banking interests for violating promises from the president’s unemployment conference, and calls organized and unorganized labor to stand firm against any wage reductions. The alert frames wage cuts as a path to prolonged unemployment and urges action to safeguard employment and purchasing power.
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A. F. of L. Battle
Washington, D. C
ILNS
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Goodyear
Goodrich Tire
Unions Spurn Pay Reductions in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis, labor crafts not tied to the Associated Construction Employers have begun wage scale talks with master craftsmen, rejecting a 20 percent wage cut. Even the four groups that must negotiate with the association refuse the reduction, with iron workers, cement finishers, and carpenters among those turning it down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
ILNS
Labor loses bid for Massachusetts state workers compensation
Boston reports organized labor failed in the state legislature to create a state workers compensation program. Private insurance companies opposed the plan, mounting strong opposition to the proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Organized Labor
Ita
Massachusetts
Kentucky Mine Strike Follows Failure to Disarm Mine Guards
Indianapolis reports say miners quit five Harlan County Ky mines in protest after failure to disarm armed mine guards. Local union leaders warned of a strike if state troops sent last week did not remove guards amid a labor dispute that has cost five lives and caused property damage. An agreement signed by union leaders and governor representatives requests troops to preserve order and disarms all mine guards while stipulating no outside labor be brought in and meetings occur in daytime.
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Indianapolis
ILNS
United Mine Workers
Kentucky
Harland County
Gov. Sampson
William Turnblazer
United Mine Workers In Kentucky
Tennessee
Lawrence Duryear
Union
Peter Campbell
Picketing Uphheld by Federal Court in Philadelphia
Federal Judge Kirkpatrick dismissed an injunction against motion picture operators replaced by non unionists and allowed Usal pickets to stand two at each theatre. The court said picketing may reduce patronage but found no threat or coercion in the defendants actions.
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Philadelphia
Federal
Kirkpatrick
Usal
Idle Insurance Looms Over Washington Speech
Harvard University dean Wallace B. Denham warned at the International Chamber of Commerce meeting that unemployment may rise without work, urging attention to unemployment insurance as millions face job losses from machinery and mass production.
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Washington
Wallace B. Denham
Harvard University
International Chamber of Commerce
Resist Wage Cuts Strike Binds Allentown Mills
In Allentown Pennsylvania more than twenty silk mills are strike bound as workers reject wage reductions. This marks the first major city disruption in 59 years.
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Allentown
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Ernest N. Hood
C. W. Gath CO
Richman
Hamilton
Ohio
High Street
Court House
Bia
Employers’ Association
Harlan County
Beautyrest
Slumber King
Simmons
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