Detroit Churches Condemn Board of Commerce for Innuendo
The Detroit Council of Churches rebukes the Detroit Board of Commerce for false and insulting innuendo aimed at keeping labor messages out of pulpits. The board defends sharing information with individual church members, not the council, amid a dispute tied to the American Federation of Labor.
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Detroit Council of Churches Hits Board of Commerce
International Labor News Service
Detroit
Mich
Detroit Council of Churches
American Federation of Labor Convention
Detroit Board of Commerce
Board of Commerce
American Federation of Labor
Detroit Board of Comn
A. F. of L
Prohibition Fails to Stop Alcohol ills and Bootleg Power
Metropolitan Life reports a 14 percent rise in alcoholism deaths among 17 million policyholders in nine months. The piece argues prohibition ineffective, cites open bars, bootleg networks, and Capone’s influence, calling prohibition a growing tragedy.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Wage Boost by New York City Labor Officials
The 1927 New York City budget includes 2 625 000 to pay the prevailing rate of wages for day laborers and mechanics. A 1 000 000 allocation pays 5 50 a day to day workers with 1 500 000 set aside for workers who quit to private employ. The move comes after pressure from Central Trades and Labor Council and the State Federation of Labor and aims to require prevailing wages on subway contracts with arbitration for disputes. Frank X Sullivan helped draft protective clauses.
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International Labor News Service
New York City
New York
Biz Joba
Hyson
Walker
City of
Central Trades and Labor Council
New York State Federation of Labor
Delaney
Board of Transportation
Supreme Court
Frank X. Sullivan
State Federation
Coal Miners Strike Hit Scotia Run Field in Fairmont
In Fairmont West Virginia miners in the Scotia Run field respond to a work suspension call from the United Mine Workers of America. Strikers protest the anti union policy claiming it denies a decent living while operators largely back the cause against such policies.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Scotia Run
United Mine Workers of America
Manufacturers in Concerted Drive to Exploit Children
A renewed bid by the National Association of Manufacturers to break compulsory education laws is described. The campaign targets 14 year olds into work, while the National Child Labor Committee and educators defend schooling and advocate reforms to protect and properly educate children before employment.
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International Labor News Service
New York City
National Association of Manufacturers
National Child Labor Committee
Wylie H. Swift
Child Labor Committee
James A. Emery
Manufacturers’ Association
American Academy of Political and Social Science
Philadelphia
Helen Thompson Woolley
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
Woolsey
Cincinnati
Woolley
Bread Trust under Fire in Anti-Union Campaign
Chicago officers of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union of America push anti trust publicity against Ward Baking and the alleged collusion with the Continental Baking Corporation. They accuse a secret April 1 meeting of officials and the consent decree of fraud on Baltimore federal court. The AFL and Congress urged to probe the alleged deception and court dismissal of charges.
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Chicago
Bakery and Confectionery Workers’ International Union of America
Ward Baking Company
Department of Justice
Federal District Court of
Baltimore
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
Ward
Continental Baking Corporation
Bread Trust
Trust
Continental
Commission
Robert Dissman Dies at Sea Returning From New York
Berlin dispatches report the sudden death at sea of Robert Dissman aboard the Columbus while returning from New York. Dissman was president of the German Metal Workers' Union and one of four International Metal Workers Federation representatives who attended the Detroit convention of the A F L and the metal trades department.
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Washington
Berlin
Robert Dissman
Columbus
New York
German Metal Workers’ Union
International Metal Workers’ Federation
Detroit
A. F. of L
Metal Trades Department
Non-Union Pittsburgh Coal Co Vindicates Jacksonville Wage Scale Dispute
The Pittsburgh Coal Company repudiates the Jacksonville wage scale and states it will pay the scale or higher, arguing non union operation was necessary for profit. The UMW leaders say the move proves a plan to wreck the union and force starvation wages while profits rise. Similar wage increases occur in Northern West Virginia as coal firms tout higher pay but warn cuts may follow after demand shifts.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Andrew Millionaire Mellon
College City
Morals Squads
Sunday Papers
Jacksonville
International Labor News Service
Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Tte
Palmier
West Virginia
Nine Nations Refuse Limits on War Stockpiles
Genevie Nine of seventeen nations at the preliminary world disarmament conference refuse to cap existing war stocks trained reserves air forces armies navies or commercial fleets. They join Italy Japan Argentina France Romania Poland Belgium Czecho Slovakia and Yugoslavia in rejecting reductions as six months of talks run for a working basis for a League of Nations conference.
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Genevie
League of Nations
Italy
Japan
Argentina
France
Romania
Poland
Belgium
Czecho
Coal price fixing case joins railroads and dealers in New York
Attorney General Ottinger accuses a wide coal cartel of fixing city prices. Supreme Court Justice Tierney appoints a referee to hear the matter with three railroads the Lehigh Valley Erie and Lackawanna and16 major coal distributors named as parties. The petition says retailers must accept standard prices before coal is supplied.
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New York
Ottinger
Supreme Court
Tierney
Lehigh Valley
Erie
Lackawanna
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