Two Labor Bills May Pass Before Session Ends
Washington reports two major labor bills may be reported out and acted on before Congress adjourns. The Hawes-Cooper prison labor bill would bar use of prison-made goods from other states and target the contract labor system. The Bacon bill would require government contractors to give preference to state citizens and veterans, curbing job-stealing practices.
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Congress
International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
Hawes-Cooper
House
District of Columbia
Curtis
Senate
Senate Committee
Representatives of
Labor
Our Expensive War Fronts Costly for Marines in Nicaragua
The piece cites official figures to show the Nicaragua deployment cost 3.53 million dollars more than home station service from May 4, 1927, to April 16, 1928. It argues the broader price includes lost standing in Latin America and lives injured, with citizens and lawmakers questioning presidential war policy and constitutional authority.
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Franklin E. Wolfe
United States Senate
Wilbur
Nicaragua
Latin America
House of Congress
Congress
Republic
Wall Street
Painters to lose six days as five day week set by June
Clarence E. Swick, general secretary treasurer of the International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, announces a five day work week is to be adopted by June 1 affecting 62,896 painters in the Lafayette area and beyond.
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Painter and Decorator
Brotherhood
Lafayette, Ind
Clarence E. Swick
The
International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America
Doomed to Death in Radium Suit at Newark Court
Five young women from Newark appear in chancery court seeking $1,250,000 against United States Radium Corp arguing their fatal illness from radium paint exposure. Doctors testify the poisoning is incurable and fatal. The case adjourned to September 24 with no defense testimony yet offered.
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Newark
N. J
Chancery Court
Katherine Sehaub
Edna Hussman
Quinta McDonald
Albina Laris
Grace Fryer
United States Radium Corporation
Senate hearings expose brutal non union coal policy
The United Mine Workers celebrate progress at Senate Interstate Commerce hearings. They charged non union operators broke wage contracts, used strikebreakers, evictions, armed gunmen, and conspiracies by railroads to crush the union. Publicity swelled, prompting a demand for remedial legislation and a likely bill this session to rescue the coal industry and protect workers.
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International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
United Mine Workers of America
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Miners’ Union
Union
South
Senate Committee
Coal Situation
America
Senate
Congress
Ln It
Ohio Utilities Publicity Push Revealed Before FTC
Fred J. Bollmeyer testified that Ohio utilities spread pro public ownership sentiment through classrooms with Aladdins of Industry and a 1925 municipal power plant bond issue opposition. The publicity bureau funded essays, promoted women in clubs, and backed campaigns against public ownership, including Boulder Dam pamphlets by Wyer.
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Washington
Ohio
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Fred J. Bollmeyer
Ohio Utilities Publicity Bureau
Publicity Bureau
Cleveland
Ohio Bureau
Bollmeyer
State Federation of Women's Clubs
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Wyer
Boulder Dam
Ontario Hydro-Electric Undertaking
Smithsonian
Street Cars No Longer Needed in Baltimore
Baltimore reports that street cars are unnecessary warns Raymond S. Williams special counsel for the public service commission. He says abandoning the system would not require reconstruction and that buses would replace monopolies as autos rise in use. He cites Fleet Street in London as a model of heavy bus traffic on a narrow street.
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Baltimore
Raymond S. Williams
Public Service Commission
Williams
Fleet Street
London
Bakers Raise Wages in Spokane Strike
Organized bakers enforce a wage increase of three to six dollars per week. The city’s largest baking firm has accepted the new rates, signaling broad industry impact.
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Spokane
Thirty Thousand Strikers Join United Textile Workers In New Bedford
Twenty eight to thirty thousand mill workers in New Bedford join the United Textile Workers from the American Federation of Textile Operatives dual union. The eight UT O locals switch as the strike against a 10 percent wage cut persists, with 26 mills closed a month. UTW aims to mobilize broader labor support and seeks aid from AFL leaders.
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United Textile Workers
New Bedford
Mass
UT. W
New Bedford Workers
Falls
Union Labor Life Gains Supporters in Business Ranks
Washington DC reports growing support for the Union Labor Life Insurance Company from outside the trade union world. Walter S. Faddis of Caldwell Winguty NYC praises its stability and aims to aid workers, while President Wall thanks him for cooperation and encouragement in extending employer and worker understanding.
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Union Labor Life
Washington, D.C
Labor Life Insurance Company
Walter S. Paddis
Caldwell-Winguty , Company, Builders
Park Avenue
New York City
Woll
Faddis
Union Labor Life Insurance Company
Wall
Printers Win Wage Increase in International Award
Organized painters in Bellamore area had raised wages. Newspaper printers secured a 44 hour week and a weekly wage rise of $1.75 by the International Board of Arbitration formed by the International Typographical Union and publishers. Local award had offered no raise and cut one hour. employers sought higher wages. The international award is a win for the workers.
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International Board of Arbitration
International Typographical Union and Publishers
Butcher Workmen Organize In Jackson Michigan
Jackson Michigan butchers form a new local chapter chartered by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, signaling union formation among meat cutting workers.
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Jackson, Mich
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