Miners Leader Urges Labor to Resist Pittsburgh Injunction
Lee Hall of Columbus addressed the AFL convention urging active resistance to a Federal Judge Schoonmaker injunction against striking coal miners in Pittsburgh. He said the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp evicted miners from company houses, with unions backing rent payments, and called for 100 percent active resistance. A Pittsburgh planning meeting for November 14 will map actions with union delegates.
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Miners
Organized Labor
Pittsburgh
International Labor News Service
Los Angeles
Cal
Schoonmaker
American Federation of Labor
Lee Hall
Columbus
Ohio
United Mine Workers of America
Hall
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation
Green
Pennsylvania
Detroit
Thomas E. O'Donnell
Order of Eagles
Eight Hour Statute in British Columbia Working Smoothly
Vancouver reports the eight hour law in British Columbia is functioning well and the 40 cent hourly minimum wage for lumber workers under the male minimum wage act did not cause any unusual business depression. The statutes faced opposition from employment interests claiming business would suffer.
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Vancouver
Can
British Columbia
Department of Labor
Kansas Mines Sign Up In Jacksonville Agreement
More than 600 striking miners returned to work after four Kansas mines signed the Jacksonville agreement. About 2,000 miners remain out, while over 3,600 are working under existing deals.
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Pittsburgh
Kan
Jacksonville
Labor Declares Injunctions Chief Labor Issue At National Meet
The A F of L convention in Los Angeles orders a national conference to curb injunctions as a threat to liberty and to repeal the Sherman and Clayton acts. The debate highlighted the Bedford cut stone decision and warned it could dominate 1928 labor party platforms. Andrew Furuseth condemned injunction misuse while Matthew Woll urged legislative action and warned equity erodes liberties.
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Bedford
Los Angeles
Cal
American Organized Labor
Washington
Executive Council
A. F. of L
National Party
National Labor Conference On
Pittsburgh
Furuseth
Andrew Furuseth
United States
Matthew Woll
Postal Clerks Push Congress For Higher Wages and Better Conditions
Illinois Labor Federation and the National Federation of Post Office Clerks urge Congress to abolish speed-up, raise pension max to 1200 a year, establish 16 minute night differential, create Saturday half-holiday and 44 hour week, and boost pay by 300 dollars annually. Local unions back the effort with Illinois officers assisting in pressing the measures.
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International Labor News Service
Chicago
Illinois State Federation of Labor
National Federation of Post Office
United States Congress
Post Office Clerks
East St. Louis
James A. Greene
William V. Burt
William J. Nyland
Hal Smith
Emil Green
Congress
Post Office
Nuar
Conpreas
Illinois
Los Angeles
Cal
American Federation of Labor Convention
Thomas PF. Flaherty
National Federation of Post Office Clerks
Can Meet Air Attack Without Human Hand
Washington reports an anti aircraft gun perfected by the Ordnance Department that automatically detects and fires on planes. The system uses sound wave based instruments to locate aircraft and coordinates with a searchlight to direct fire at night.
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Washington
Ordnance Department of the Arty
Eight Hour Day Demand Sways in Arbitration
In the arbitration, ferryboat owners doubted the unions eight hour day demand while counsel noted 462 union members who refuted the employers claim.
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San Pray
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Frank X. Hilz
Ort
West Side Building and Loan Association
Kansas Mines
J. Wolf
THE
Feesystem
Westerman
Ohio Stave Ie
Labor
National
A. F
L. Convention
Liberty
Thrift
Dow’s Drug Store
State Federation
Alexander Smith
Axminster
Krebs
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