Utility Profits Soar Yet Rates Remain High Across Utilities
Discussion of President Green's Labor Day speech highlights that labor-saving devices cut production costs in gas and electricity, but wages have stayed flat and consumer rates largely unchanged. Utilities, largely nonunion, defend profits with high capital outlays and demand for rate protection. Public service commissions act as the public bulwark, yet claim processes remain poorly understood by customers.
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International Labor News Service
Philadelphia
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Ito
Public Service Commissions
Public
United Textile Workers Enter Passaic to Build Up Union
Statement by Thomas F. McMahon outlines the United Textile Workers plan to organize Passaic mill workers. He emphasizes three charter conditions, nonfinancial relief support, and a peaceful approach focusing on recognition and improved conditions rather than hours or wages. The speech defends voluntarism, collective bargaining, and a long term union-building effort.
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United Textile Workers of America
Passaic
Thomas F. McMahon
Mahon
N. J
United Textile Workers
Welcme
New York
Passaic Textile Workers
Passaic Mills
Butler County Big Fair Opens Tuesday
The seventy sixth annual fair of Butler County opens Tuesday morning October 6 with large, growing exhibits and varied attractions. Secretary Urmston reports intense entry demand, night shows, free acts, Merril's circus, band music, and a 4500 purse racing card. Special days include Farm Bureau Day Wednesday Everybody's Day Thursday and Middletown Day Friday.
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Butler County
Buttey County
Bic
Fair Board
Fairgrounds
Stanley Shoupe
Merril
Urmston
Court House
Farm Bureau
Middletown
Public Utilities Under Public Control Debate
The piece argues that public utility interests seek monopoly power, with private gain through light regulation. It predicts faster tech advances in gas and electricity, falling production costs, and hopes for lower customer rates. It notes heavy political spending to secure control over public agencies and frames this as a key issue in upcoming state and municipal politics.
Iron Workers Wage Increases Approved by Arbitration Board
In Portland Oregon an arbitration board awarded wage increases for the Structural Iron Workers Union. The daily rate rises from nine dollars to ten dollars and from eight dollars to eight dollars and eighty cents for reinforced workers.
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Portland, Ore
Structural Iron Workers’ Union
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