Perkins Back on Job Sees Bright Future for Union Labor Life
George W. Perkins returns to Chicago as Western office speeds up activity at 623 South Wabash avenue. He cites unions founding the Union Labor Life Insurance Company to insure union members and asserts the plan transfers fraternal funds to a labor owned and controlled insurer. He notes massive growth in group life and emphasizes labor’s aim to compete with capital while keeping union activities intact.
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Chicago
Union Labor Life Insurance Company
George W. Perkins
Los Angeles
American Federation of Labor
Cigar Makers’ International Union
Perkins
South Wabash Avenue
Labor Life Insurance Company
Mr. Perkins
Washington, D. C
Labor backs judge opposing injunction in industrial disputes
Organized labor supports Justice Humphrey J. Lynch in his bid for reelection to the Ninth Judicial District Supreme Court. Lynch previously denied a motion for a temporary injunction against union picketing at a Yonkers bakery, arguing the case should proceed with witnesses and credibility assessed in court rather than affidavits. He warned against labeling unions and urged adherence to standard procedure.
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International Labor News Service
New York City
Humphrey J. Lynch
Supreme Court
Ninth Judicial District
Lynch
Yonkers
Justice Lynch
Our
Se Cigar
Sailors' Union Reaches Three Year Wage Pact
Five sand boat companies and the Sailors' Union of the Great Lakes sign a three year retroactive contract through April 16. Wages rise $5 a month and a three watch eight hour day system is adopted aboard. The agreement covers sailors marine firemen and oilers.
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International Labor News Service
Chicago
Great Lakes
C. N. Goshorn
Oshkosh freight cashier earns 31.20 weekly wage claim
In a Chicago wage hearing a railroad clerks session revealed a freight cashier at Oshkosh Wisconsin earns 31.20 a week while handling more than a million dollars in annual business.
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Chicago
iIn
Oshkosh
Wis
Miners Build Winter Quarters Amid Western Pennsylvania Lockout
Fifty thousand miners and families in western Pennsylvania prepare to endure a third winter as the United Mine Workers and AFL press for justice against state backed coal and iron police. Evictions threaten 10 000 families. thousands of southern strikebreakers face danger in the mines as union leadership plans a Pittsburgh conference to mount support.
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Pennsylvania
International Labor News
Servic
Pittsburgh
William Collins
American Federation of Labor
United Mine Workers of America
Coal and Iron
Los Angeles
Jhhe
West Penn
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Steel Trust
South
Weat
Manufacturing payrolls rise in the July August 1927 period
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 0.1 percent gain in manufacturing employment from July to August 1927. Payroll totals rose 2.1 percent and per capita earnings grew 2 percent in that span.
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Washington
Manufacturing Industres
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Mid West public calls to drive crooked judges from bench
Trade union officers in Chicago report strong labor support for AFL action against injunctions as the 1928 campaign issue. Edgar Wallace cites contrasting rulings on intrastate coal production and federal intervention, urging distrust of courts in capital versus labor disputes.
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Mid-West
Chicago
Organized Labor of
Illinois
Los Angeles
American Federation of Labor
Middle West
Organized Labor
United States
Ciair
Edgar Wallace
Wallace
Maynard
Federal Trade Commission
Asta
Maryland
Federal District Court
United States Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
What Price Beauty
The Life and Labor Bulletin notes wide pay gaps in beauty work with manicurists earning about 15 dollars weekly and more skilled workers 35 to 40 in New York City, while Chicago pays 18 to 20 to musicalists. Long irregular hours persist with only a few states having 48 hour laws and New York set to implement such limits next year.
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Consumers’ League of
Chicago
Massachusetts
Oregon
California
New York
Life and Labor Bulletin
National Women's Trade Union League of America
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Sailors’ Union
Marshall Bill
Coal and Iron Police
Bucorme
Thrift
Ndeas Ence Ees
OUR Children’s Department
Hamilton
Dow’s Drug
Joseph A, Wise
Coal Company
Krebs
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