Unified effort urged to extend labor organization
War era conditions create work opportunities and rising wages. Workers urged to form strong unions to share profits and secure an eight hour day. The piece cites responses from steel and mining sectors, noting extended organizing as essential for both prosperity and wartime readjustment. It highlights eight thousand miners striking in Arizona and describes wage plans for Essex County prisoners.
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America
United States Steel Trust
Leivy
Samuel
Arthur E Holden Addresses Eagle Temple Machinists
Hundreds attended a talk at Eagle's Temple by Arthur Sh Holder of the International Association of Machinists Washington DC. Holder urged unity for an eight hour day with no wage cuts, urged reading, and education, then departed for Cincinnati to speak to more workers.
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Eagle's Temple
Arthur Sh. Holder
Law Committee
International Association of Machinists
Washington, D.C
George Wiseman
Cooperative Trades and Labor Council
Fred W Griffith
McMahon
Mr. Holder
Niles Harmony Four
Bert Phillips
J. Hayden
Spivy
C. Hayes
Goodman
Wiseman
Holder
New England States
Hamilton
Toose
Cincinnati
Griffith
Eight Hours For Guards Adopted In County
Sheriff Thomas urged the county commissioners to switch prison guards to an eight hour system. They agreed twelve hours was too long and ordered the shorter workday be adopted.
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Galveston
Thomas
Mass strike at Brown and Sharp. Labor mediator sought
About 3600 of Brown and Sharp’s 5000 employees strike after the Providence plant refused eight hours and higher pay aligned with other regional increases. Congressman O Shannessy wired for a Department of Labor mediator, John A Moffitt was sent, as Brown and Sharp battles labor with a history of anti union stance. The Seymour Manufacturing Co also faces wage disputes and a later policy about base pay and over time sparks further action.
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Brown and Sharp Manufacturing Company
Providence
R. I
O'Shannessy
Department of Labor
Washington
John A. Moffitt
Brown & Sharp Company
United States
Seymour Manufacturing Company
Teves
Wages Are Too Small in Faces of Poverty
Washington reports from the associated charities show many aid requests come from families near the edge of self support not just the unemployed. Officials cite low wages in daily labor and frequent layoffs as causes, noting children may be forced to work or go unfed as a result. One family of six survives on 15 dollars weekly with food seven dollars and rent two dollars seventy five cents.
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Washington
Associated Charities
Ore
Wall Street
Prohibition Debate Persists Among Labor Leaders
The passage questions whether workers know what is best for them amid Prohibition debates. It challenges the idea that reformers must guide or control labor, asking if workers should be treated as serfs or slaves and if they should be coddled or bossed by theorists.
Prohibition Destruction of Ohio Wages and Jobs
Statewide prohibition in Ohio would instantly affect 460 million dollars invested in liquor and allied trades. It would throw out of work thousands of workers in wine beer and whisky. Manufacturers in Ohio paid 440 million dollars in wages last year, and removing that flow would blight the economy and wipe out jobs across industries.
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Ohio
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Essex County
Caldwell
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Norway
Arthur E. Holden
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Crhalan and Shearn
Supreme Court of New York
Ping Aeet Barrer Tower
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High Street
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Morner's Cafe
Gantz
Dayton St
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Linghope
B. H. Wellinghoff & Son
Mark Deery
Mamilton, Ohio
the Ohio Union
Ohio Union Brewing Co
Cincinnati, Ohio
Ohio State Federation of Labor
Mansfield
Ohio Federation of Labor
J. M. Kammeron
Sec’y
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Hamilton Collateral Loan Co
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