New York Building Trades Lockout Looms After Strike Action
The Building Trades Employers Association voted to lock out all trades supporting Electrical Workers Union No 3, threatening about 75 000 workers with a stoppage. The move follows disputes over a five day week and a 10 percent wage rise, with a large New York project slate including St John the Divine cathedral at 125th Street and the Stewart building cited as affected by a potential 100 million dollar work halt.
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Building Trades Employers’ Association
New York City
TLNL
Electrical Workers’ Union No. 3
John Halkert
Building Trades Council
C. G. Norman
Employers’ Association
Norman
Halker
Building ‘Trades Council
Halkett
TH. Ny Broach
Electri Workers
New York
Stout
Etvikes
Avathet
Taylor Eleetrical Company
Erickson Engineering Company
Harry Alexander, Inc
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Stewart
Th Avenue
Fift Seventh Street
Sugar beet profits blamed on child labor in Colorado fields
Wisconsin congressman frear denounces Great Western Sugar Company profits at 45 percent, accusing child labor and squalid housing in Colorado beet fields. He argues higher tariffs aid a firm employing an army of children and weak women to boost earnings.
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Ashington
Yas
Colorado
Wisconsin
Great Western Sugar Company
United States
Mr. Freer
Congress
Chidren
Great Western Savar Company
Union Coal Company Proving Successful in Colorado
Miss Josephine Roche of Denver, vice president of Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, cites profit under union conditions as coal mining advances. She credits waste elimination, modern methods, and skilled miners while noting blacklisted workers due to industry wars. The firm is Colorado’s third largest coal producer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Josephine Roche
Denver
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company
Misa Roche
East
A. F. of Lu
Colorado
Labor Tariff Organization Attacks Privilege in Tariff Bill
The Labor Tariff Organization denounces the tariff measure as unfair to American workers. It urges the Ways and Means Committee to remove special privileges for a small industry and to extend true American valuation to all imports. It cites shoe and garment workers, marble craftsmen, and printing trades as harmed by proposed protections and calls for uniform duties or elimination of favored groups.
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Washington, I, CG
Conress
Haley
Matthew Wall
James Malonby
Charles J. Baling
Moruibaen
M. J. Pym
America
Joter
Howse Ways and Means Committee
Aml
Ways and Means Committee
Republican Conference
Cillsus
Czechoslovakia
United States
Congress
Wii 1
Tariff Commission
Marble Workers of
Hoover
Recognition of Workers Sponsored by Architects
The American Institute of Architects aims to publicly recognize craftsmen to restore pride and promote better industrial relations. Chapters in New Jersey Tennessee Central New York Indianapolis Chicago and Washington plan building congress efforts and committees to honor skilled workers. The Royal Institute of British Architects considers similar actions to foster harmony through recognition rather than privilege.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
N. Y
ILNS
American Institute of Architects
Institute Committee On Industrial Relations
William Orr Ladlow
New York Building Congress
Institute
Indianapolis Building Congress
New Jersey
Tennessee
New York
Indianapolis
Chicago
Washington
Royal Institute of British Architects
Berry withdraws as governor's aid in rayon strike
Berry, the governor's aid, resigns from mediating the rayon strike after a conference with the governor. He says troop deployment within 48 hours nullified his efforts and tied his hands, leaving him unable to advance a settlement in Elizabethton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berry
George L
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Gladstone
Iaday Union
C. W. Gath CO
Richman
THE _RICHMAN BROS. CO
Court Hou
Labor Tariff Organization
Louisville
Sve
Legisaation
the Hoover
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