Hosiery mill fights to block workers election
Fort Wayne Indiana based Wayne Knitting Mills refuses to provide payroll records needed by the National Labor Relations Board to hold a plant election. After years of delays and a puppet union, an agreement was reached for a September 29 vote with a company union on the ballot. The firm later balked, insisting payroll be withheld, prompting NLRB action and possible hearings. President Emil Rieve of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers aided talks to settle ballot eligibility for non productive workers.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
ILNS
Wayne Knitting Mills
National Labor Relations Board
Labor Relations Board
Wayne Mills
Labor Board
National Labor Board
R. Cowdrill
Fort Wayne
Cowdrill
Indianapolis
Emil Rieve
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Rieve
Truman
Company Union Committee
Toronto Mayor Calls Mussolini a Mad Dog at Trades Congress
Mayor James Simpson, speaking as a union printer delegate at the Trades and Labor Congress in Halifax, rejected Italy's aggression in Ethiopia and criticized Mussolini as a mad dog. He said the Italian leader cannot live in harmony with others and must be dealt with as a threat to world peace, while noting no apology to Chevalier G. Limeri.
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Toronto
ILNS
James Simpson Whea
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
League of Nations
Ethiopa
Mussoliini
Chevalier G. Limeri
Canada
Simpson
Trades and Labor Congress
Halifax
Tr Duce
Printing Trades Form Ohio Allied Printing Trades Council
A large delegation of the five International printing trades unions in Columbus created the Ohio State Allied Printing Trades Council representing about 25 000 workers. D Oakley Davies was elected president and Don Courtney secretary treasurer. The council aims to strengthen unions, form new locals, secure the allied label on state printing, influence legislation, and run an education campaign. Resolutions denouncing the Sherrill report on state printing and opposing Gov Davey’s veto of the state bindery were passed, citing job losses and cost concerns.
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Columbus, Ohio
ILNS
International Printing Trades Unions
Ohio State Allied Printing Trades Council
D. Oakley Davies
Columbus
Columbus Typograph
Real Union No. 5
Columbus Allied Printing Trades Council
Don Courtney
Allied Council
Printing Crafts
Columbus Allied Printing Trades Cou
Curtis L. Hill
Dayton
Photo-Eingravers
Charles L. Mamelinne
Akron
Akron Allied Printing Trades Council
George W. Larimore
Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union
Ann Woodland
International Brotherhood of Bookbinders
Roy L. Miller
International Typographical Union
Sherrill
Martin L. Davey
Florida Governor Warns Jobless to Avoid State
Governor Scholtz of Florida urges Eastern state governors to curb transients seeking winter work in the South. He notes transient camps are closed and warns, if migrants arrive, they may be turned back at the border or arrested for vagrancy without visible means of support. A similar message went to all Mississippi east states.
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Albany
N. Y
Scholtz
Florida
Lehman
New York
Mississippi River
A Giant Gets Ready to Cut a Melon Thereby Hangs a Tale
Chester M. Wright outlines two linked news items on tobacco politics. He notes labor pressures for equalizing cigaret taxes to aid union made 10 cent brands like Twenty Grand and Wings. He also reports American Tobacco may pay a $4.75 to $5 dividend, while tax rules target union made products, urging readers to support union made cigarettes and fair labor conditions.
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Congress
Axton Fisher Tobacco Co
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
American Tobacco
Food sales show Canada’s living standards shrinking
Government indexes indicate restaurant value sales for the first seven months are seven per cent below the prior year with little price change. Home cooking rose to fill the gap as grocery and meat shop sales declined slightly. July restaurant sales fell 65 per cent from 1929, while retail food prices dropped 35 per cent. Since 1929 Canada’s population rose by 800,000, offsetting some declines.
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Ottawa
TLNS
Canada
WPA Cuts Week To Forty Hours
Washington D C WPA head Harry L Hopkins signed an order allowing state administrators to reduce hours to 40 per week. The change aims to ease labor tension while maintaining weekly pay, with about 931000 people on work relief projects, over a third on WPA programs.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress Administration
PWA
Hopkins
WPA
Housing shortage cited by Bodfish at Salzburg congress
Morton Bodfish executive vice president of the United States Building and Loan League, based in Chicago, told delegates at the Fifth International Congress of Building Societies and Savings, Building and Loan Associations in Salzburg that landlords exploit a housing shortage to raise rents.
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ALF
L. Newa Service
Morton Bodfish
Vic
United States Building and Loan League
Chicago
Salzburg
Austria
New York Construction Activity Edges Up in August
Albany reports an 4.4 percent rise in New York state construction employment from July. Pay tolls advance 4.5 percent and man hours 4.8 percent, based on monthly reports from about 1,000 contractors.
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Albany, Y
ILNS
Elmer F. Andrews
New York State
Jaly
Textile strike totals rise to twenty nine in several states
Washington reports 29 textile strikes, the largest since September 1934. Breakdowns include nine cotton, four woolen, eight silk mills, seven hosiery and one jute, with most in the South and Northeast. UTWA leaders promise a silk industry drive amid wage cuts and job protections. Mooresville, S C sees 19 members arrested as authorities clash with union supporters. The case draws attention from state officials and local authorities amid ongoing labor tensions.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Francis J. Gorman
United Textile Workers of America
Eastern
New England Irens
Thoias McMahon
Burlinstin
N. C
New England
Riviere
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
McMahon
Mooresville
S.C
Ute
Uetity Council
Sherif
Eliinghouse
Officnse
Wilon
Pay For Cotton Picking Rises Following Strike
New Orleans reports indicate that more than 1,000 cotton pickers have joined a strike seeking a 31 cent per 100 pounds rise in pay in the Memphis and Arkansas area. Counties in Arkansas note prices increasing from 0 to 7 8 cents per hundred pounds as Oklahoma growers push up central wages to meet the strike.
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New Orleans
USNSJ
Memphis
Arkinena
Arkansas
Okla Homa
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Ohio State Council
Delco
Savage Auto Supply Co
Maple Avenue
Chester M. Wright
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