Growing Use of Injunction Denounced as Perilous to Justice
International Labor News Service reports Harvard law professor Zachariah Chafee Jr. warns that California style injunctions replacing criminal prosecutions threaten due process. He argues courts of equity insufficient for criminal matters and urges strengthening criminal justice rather than relying on injunctive orders to resolve industrial disputes.
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International Labor News Service
New York
Zachariah Chafee, Jr
Harvard University Law Faculty
New Republic
California
Chafee
Warsaw
Charles I
Star Chamber
Food Prices Raise Burden on Workers Across Decade
Washington reports food prices rose 45 percent from 1918 to 1928, pressed by profiteering retailers. The U S Bureau of Labor Statistics supplied the figures. Trade unions stand as the organized workers against profiteers, able to push wages higher to offset price increases.
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Washington
United States
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Union Coal Company forms in Denver to unionize mine
Union Coal Company in Denver formed by union men has acquired the non union Fox mine and will unionize it. The move creates two union run coal enterprises operating in Denver and signals broader labor organization within local mining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver, Colo
Peoples’ Finance Coal Company
Denver
Fox
Refreshing drinks urged for heavy industry workers by Kelley
Florence Kelley, a prohibitionist, argues in The Annals that workers in hot heavy industries need inexpensive nonalcoholic beverages to replace fluids spent at work. She warns prohibition may falter without accessible drinks and cites Swiss and other examples to support providing safe, tasty substitutes.
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Florence Kelley
Philadelphia
National Consumers’ League
Ant
American Temm of Political and Social Science
Miss Kelley
Java
M Kelley
Tumple
Switzerland
Government urged to regulate coal industry nationwide
U S control proposed for coal, with federal supervision and a tax on royalties to curb monopolistic power. Commerce Commission calls for regulation of interstate transportation, licensing of dealers, and public revenue gains, while faulting industry self regulation and shifting policy questions to Congress amid judicial limits.
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Washington
Cal
Interstate Commerce Coumuxsin
Congress
Supreme Court of the United States
Hoe Machinists Strike Paralyzes R Hoe Company
New York reports 1150 machinists walked out on August 1 demanding an eight hour day a forty four hour week and a wage increase from 85 cents to 1 dollar per hour. The company refuses to meet union officials.
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New York
R. Hoe Company
Trade Commission Moves Against Pittsburgh Plus Graft
The federal trade commission probes the Pittsburgh plus system used by the steel industry to price steel sold outside Pittsburgh. The plan adds fictitious freight costs, raising farm and farm implement prices and inflating road and building costs. Farmers in several Midwest states face higher steel costs, with billions affected. The FTC aims to abolish the scheme, amid steel industry resistance and potential Supreme Court action.
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International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
Federal Trade Commission
Pittsburgh
Pitteburgh
James BH. Howard
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chicago
Cneo
Pittsburph
Teast
Ateal
United States Steel Corporation
The
Trade Commission
United States Supreme Court
West
the Trade Commission
Upholsterers Seek Forty-Hour Week
A damaged notice argues for a standard forty hour work week for upholsterers. It claims the change would improve family time, health, and happiness, reduce drudgery, raise wages, and increase value of labor for both men and women.
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New York
Weddweilth
Jenathen
Mike
Trade union progress praised as path to gains
The International Steam Engineer editorial argues progress comes from organization not lone effort. It contends hours, wages, and conditions rise only through united action, noting workers gain by aligning with a mass rather than pursuing isolated jobs and individual advocacy.
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Wie International Steam Engineer
Hour Referendum Set in Augusta for 48-Hour Week
Augusta Maine votes on a 48 hour work week in a special election scheduled for October 16 initiated by the Maine State Federation of Labor and led by local organizers.
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Augusta
Maine
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Union Coal Company
Exence
Richard F. Graf
Journal Square
U.S
Engineers’ Journal
He Hoover
Solaids
Tey
Fair Grounds
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