Ontario Hosiery Workers Win Right to Unionize in Guelph
A Lan ders Brothers full fashioned plant strike ended with 40 knitters and women workers gaining the right to join the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers. A peaceful organizing drive in Ontario led to a Guelph charter and a settlement preventing union discrimination at Lan ders, hailed as a provincial victory.
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Ontario
Guelph
Canada
Landers Brothers’ Mill
Knitters
T. A. Riggs
Dominion Ministry of Labor
Landers Company
Women Are Affected By Present Day Life
The Public Health Service warns that fast social and industrial life endangers women’s health especially young women. Excitements from parties, business drive, and high school rivalry strain body and mind, risking physical and nervous breakdown unless basic health practices are followed.
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Washington
United States Public Health Service
Public Health Service
Ingersoll rules union pact bars non union garments
New York impartial chairman Raymond V. Ingersoll ruled that a jobbing firm must follow its union agreement not to buy non union made garments. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and Merchants' Ladies Garment Association signed the pact to stabilize the industry. The decision holds that no member shall employ a manufacturer not on the union shop list or have garments produced by such a maker.
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New York
Raymond V. Ingersoll
Cloak and Sruit
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Merchants’ Ladies Garment Association
Ingersoll
Old Age Pensions Favored in Canada Premier Seeks System Adoption
Toronto reports Premier Ferguson urged adoption of the Dominion old age pension plan. A cadet official stated the move will be enacted by the next legislature in this province, aligning with national pension efforts.
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Canada
Toronto
Ferguson
Supreme Court Paramount Issue in Morrison’s View
A F L secretary Frank Morrison says labor’s key concern for the next four years is the Supreme Court. He notes ages of justices hint at future possibilities and urges a progressive Congress to secure labor-friendly laws while avoiding reactionary nominees. Justice Taft is 71, Holmes 88 in March, Van Devanter 69, McReynolds 66, Sutherland 66, Sanford 63, Butler 62, Stone 56.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Congress
Morrison
Washington, D. C
I. le N. Sie
United States Supreme Court
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Green
Ohio
Woodrow Wilsh
Supreme Court
Mr. Morrison
Labor
Taft
Holmes
Supreme Bench
van Devanter
McReynolds
Sutherland
Sanford
Butler
Stone
Faulty Methods in Greenville Textile Mills Demand Change
Greenville textile students condemn old fashioned practical methods and low wages at a banquet. James W. Cox Jr urges scientific operation and facts over precedent to meet keen competition. J E Sirrine criticizes low wage policy and argues for higher productivity and faster equipment replacement.
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Greenville
James W. Cox
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
J. E. Sirrine
Miners' Official Dies in Fort Smith Hospital
Andrew Steele, international board member of United Mine Workers of America, died after a brief illness in a Fort Smith hospital. He served as a union official for many years.
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Fort Smith, Ark
Andrew Steele
United Mine Workers of America
Farm ills hit labor says U S Senator Copeland
New York reports Senator Copeland warned farm troubles affect urban workers and wage levels. He noted farmers earned 7.5 billion from crops while consumers paid 22.5 billion, highlighting how farm costs inflate city prices and crowd labor markets.
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U. S
New York
Senator Copeland
Gas danger in homes warning on defective gas appliances
Washington reports the bureau of mines warns that faulty gas heating devices pose a hazard as winter nears. Citizens may suffer headaches and nausea from carbon monoxide produced by malfunctioning appliances, the bureau states.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Twenty-Six Strike Pickets Go to Jail in Kenosha Case
In Kenosha Wisconsin twenty six Allen A hosiery strikers including eight women began indeterminate jail terms in Milwaukee after being found guilty of civil contempt for violating a federal injunction. Fines of 100 dollars were refused and the group chose imprisonment. one striker joined later due to illness.
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Kenosha
Wis
Allen-A
Milwaukee House of Correction
United States
Geiger
Allen
American Federation of
Pauline Conrad
Co operatives Meet at Sixth Biennial Congress
The sixth biennial congress of the Co-Operative League of the United States drew 81 delegates from seven consumer co operative stores and allied groups. Discussions covered cooperative insurance chain store competition credit versus cash trading and new cooperative centers. The secretary reported 188 societies with 77,826 shareholders, and annual sales of 14 million dollars across 120 reporting societies.
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Waukegan
Co-Operative League of the United States
League
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Landers Mill
Federation
A. F. of
United Garment
Workers of America Label
Hamilton
Court Street
House of Correction
Joseph Padway
Alternee
United States Circuit Court
Hervie
Icara
Milwaukee
American Federation of Fall Fashioned
Arthur Glass
County Court House
Third and
Court Streets
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