Labor resentful trend in court decisions urged for revision
Henry R. Seager argues the new federal industrial relations commission seeks to ease employeremployee conflict but legal tools such as injunctions and anti trust rules tilt the balance. He notes strikes, boycotts, and nonunionism, plus the disparity in enforcement, fuel wage earners’ belief that laws punish them while shielding employers and undermining rights to organize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry R. Seager
Columbia University
Federal Industrial Relations Commission
Wilson
John Mitchell
United Hatters
Standard Oil Company
Congress
Building a Railroad How Contractors Begin Operations
A long expository piece examines railroad building from right of way to contracted crews and camps. It explains contractors furnish all, spend millions before a shovel moves, and run a mobile city at each work site. Also included are notes on the Rosin frontier and poultry terminology with cross cultural terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syria
Hama
Wide World
Maura
Ofontes
Tix
Hazelton
James Oliver Curwood
Leslie's
A Vanished Shrine
A brief wry exchange about travel and disappointment, noting a wife’s visit to Shakespeare’s home and her desire to see the tub of Diogenes, highlighting humorous cultural contrasts of travel lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shakespeare
Diogenes
Child Labor Critique Sparks Moral Outcry in Times
Lourana Sheldon denounces child labor in a pointed New York Times piece. The poet questions the nation’s prosperity and religious virtue while urging freedom, health, and happiness for the little children harmed by widespread toil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lourana Sheldon
New York Times
Industrial Education for Mill Children in Columbus Ga
A U.S. Bureau of Education bulletin details a special school for children of mill operatives in Columbus Georgia. The colonial residence hosts an 8 to 11 and 1 to 3 30 schedule with a lunch break for family workers. Courses mix academics with practical work in wood work gardening basketry sewing cooking and poultry.
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Columbus
United States Bureau of Education
Board of Education
Supreme Court upholds Full Crew Law for railroads
Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirms Dauphin County court ruling sustaining the 1911 Full Crew Act requiring an extra brakeman on all trains. The decision, in an opinion by Justice Brown, rejects the railroad’s challenge that the law is unconstitutional and imposes nearly half a million dollars in annual costs, noting the act applies to all state railroads.
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Brown
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dauphin County Court
State Railroad Commission
Inw
Wages of Schoolteachers and Other Workers
Across the nation carpenters earn about 802 dollars annually while coal miners get 600, factory workers 550, and common laborers 518. Teachers in a southern state receive just over 300, with convicts rented to contractors at a little over 400 dollars per year.
Enginemen Growing Membership Reaches 90,000
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen reported a 20,000 rise in members over three years, with current membership totaling 90,000, announced at the annual convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Desultory Struggles of Brazilian Workers
Workers of Brazil have made desultory attempts to improve their conditions by united action, but have invariably been beaten back by rifles and sabers of the soldiery and by imprisonment and exile.
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Brazil
United Action
Fire drill system aids large Chicago clothing firm
A Chicago News summary highlights a large Chicago clothing firm's fire drill plan. Floor chiefs supervise exit drills, ensure unobstructed aisles, and coordinate room captains and guards to maintain orderly egress. Duties include door operation, stairway monitoring, searchers for blocked rooms, and winter clearance of fire escapes.
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Hamton
N.Y
Triangle
New York City
Chicago News
Fins
Chicago
Golesa
Old English wage laws and the plagues effect
The text recounts a medieval maxim wage system born after the 1248 plague that halved the population. It describes government controls fixing wages and punishing mobility with a branded P for workers who left a parish. These restraints persisted until Elizabethan times to curb idleness and regulate labor during scarcity and plenty.
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England
Palo
Elizabeth
Wyoming mine workers build $25,000 HQ in Eewonne
The Wyoming division of the United Mine Workers is erecting a $25,000 headquarters building in the city of Eewonne. This project signals an expanding presence for the union as it plans to centralize operations and support for members in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
The
United Mine Workers
Eewonne
The Worthy Union Man Critique Explains True Union Spirit
An Amalgamated Journal editorial contrasts the loyal union man with the self serving member. It praises regular attendance, active debate, solidarity, and challenges casual members who drift in open shops, asserting the union thrives through committed members who support collective goals.
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Jess
Amalgamated Journal
The Railway Workers Demands and Wages Battle
The piece surveys wage demands by conductors and trainmen across eighteen articles, detailing per mile and per day rates, overtime, and minimum monthly pay. It notes unions claim a 7,000,000 annual impact if work stops and cites specific figures for conductors, baggagemen, engineers, and brakemen across varying service lengths. It also reports a counterclaim of a 2 percent average wage increase and outlines overtime rates and minimums, with a final note on broader union stipulations.
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Rene
Jay
Hagen
Tear Wakeman
Unios
Strikes In England Costly For Trade Unions
Strikes in England are draining union funds as the Federation of Trade Unions reports, for the third year running, expenditures on federation benefits exceed income from contributions. Five years show £220,283 (about $1,101,105) in contributions and £365,619 ($1,125,005) in benefits, an excess of £145,886 ($720,080). The Brewery Workers union now numbers about 60,000 in the United States and Canada.
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England
Committee of Management of the Federation of Trade Unions
Federation Benefics
The
Brewery Workers, the
International Brewery Workers Union
United States
Canada
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Autocar
Automobile Club
Breslau
Russia
Germany
New York Sun
Birmingham
Hamilton
Geo. Bast & Son
M Holbreck Bros
Voss-Holbreck
Holzberger
HH. Jones Service
East 5Th St
Cincinnati
Ohio Union
Ohio Union Brewing Co
Cincinnati, Ohio
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