Inside Laundry Workers Win First Union Pact In Chicago
Chicago workers seal a first ever contract for inside laundry staff with Local No. 46 and Chicago Laundry Owners Association. The deal covers 22 000 inside workers and sets a wage rise 10 20 percent plus a further 10 percent in year two, with a 48 hour week for women and 12 hours for men and paid vacations.
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Inside Laundry Workers
Chicago
ILNS
Laundry Workers’ International Union
Chicago Laundry Owners’ Association
American Federations of Labor
Chicago Linen Supply Association
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Brandeis Honored For Practical Social Reform Vision
The 81 year old Justice Louis D Brandeis is praised for blending legal reasoning with arithmetic and practical facts. He emphasized the humanity of women, eight hour work rules, and workers savings institutions, seeing material realities behind evolving ideals and policies.
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Justice Braindeis
Justice Brandeis
Massachusetts
Mobs and Men Reported Lynchings in Florida and Georgia Tank Fire
Near Fort Walton Florida a group of armed hooded men seized an 80 year old Black prisoner on the eve of his trial and riddled him with buckshot. In Villa Rica Georgia three men one white and two Black were tarred painted in a railroad water tank when a flame swept the surface. Foreman F L Hill ordered his Black assistants up a ladder to safety as the fire spread.
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New York World Telegram
Fort Walton
Fla
Florida
South
Villa Rica
F. L. Hill
Southern Railrod
Lax stance on mobs cited after Hill tragedy
The writer condemns mob violence after Foreman Hill perished from fumes. He contrasts mob behavior with individual courage, calling for anti lynching laws and other safeguards to protect democracy. The piece praises L. Hill as a hero and warns that democracy could crumble under mob rule.
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L. Hill
Hero
Frey Named to Committee On Apprentice Training
Frey, president of the metal trades department of the American Federation of Labor, was named to the federal committee on apprentice training. Additional appointees include Mrs. Clara Beyer and R. Dooley to represent government and employers respectively, with educators and national youth administration also aboard. The committee operates under the Fitzgerald act to promote labor standards in apprenticeship.
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Washington, D.C
TLNS
Parking
Jon P. Prey
Metal Trades Department
American Federation of Labor
Federal
Clara M. Beyer
Division of Labor Standards
U. S. Department of Labor
R. Dooley
Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc
John, W. Studebaker
U. S. Department of the Interior
Mary H. S. Hayes
National Youth Administration
Secretary of Labor
Gether
Labo
Hatters Union urges boycott of Japanese hat parts
Atlantic City report says United Hatters executive board urged a boycott of all imports from Japan. Marx Lewis notes wool bodies from Japan rose from 2,000 in 1929 to 600,000 last year. He cites Japanese workers paid 1.35 a week and argues stopping imports would boost 2,500 U.S. jobs.
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Atlantic City
N. J
ILNS
United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers’ International Union
Japan
Marx Lewis
America
Roosevelt Urges Quick Action on Wage-Hour Bill
President Roosevelt urged speedy congressional action on wage and hour legislation during a special session. Norton filed a petition to bring the bill to a House vote after it stalled in the Rules Committee. Labor groups held talks as Congress opened with focus on tax relief and government reform plans.
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Congress
Norton
Mary T. Norton
House Labor Committee
Senate
House Rules Committee
Rules Committee
House
Organized Labor
A. F. of L
Denver
Labor Leg conference chooses to delay wage bill action
At the AFL departmental heads meeting in Washington the legislative conference did not adopt a position on the wage and hour bill before Congress. It urged recommitting for more hearings and asked postponement of government reorganization measures to protect federal employee interests until the regular session. The gathering was convened by William Hushing and included AFL unions and railroad brotherhood representatives.
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Washington, D. C
ILNL
American Federation of Labor Department
A. P. of L
Congress
Denver
A. F. of L
Legislative Conference
William ©. Hushing
A. F. of I. Legislative Committee
Green
A of Ly Unfons
Railroad Motherhoads
Oil Field Workers Union Organized In Shreveport
A.B. of L. Oil Workers Union in Shreveport La has been chartered with J. M. Brown as president. It affiliates with the A F of L State Federation of Labor and Central Trades and Labor Council. The move counters a prior CIO affiliated Oil Field Gas Well and Refinery Workers group formed here earlier.
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Shreveport, la
LNS
J. M. Brown
A. F. of L
State Federation of Labor
Central Trades and Labor Council of
Shreveport
CIO
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