Red Organizers Rush to Cone Mills After Wage Cuts
Greensboro NC ILNS reports that Cone Mills and its Proximity Manufacturing complex have moved to a five day week, with a 10 percent wage cut and new charges for rent and water. About 3,500 workers at White Oak and Proximity Cotton Mills face pay changes, with some workers gaining a few cents to two dollars more, while many on lower wages see smaller checks. National Textile Workers Union organizers push to rally workers amid management’s history of anti union actions.
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Greensboro
Proximity Print Works
Revolution Mills
Bernard M. Cone
White Oak
Red National Textile Workers Union
United Textile Workers of America
Red Organization
La Follette Urges Public Works to Alleviate Depression
Wisconsin Senator La Follette spoke at the University of Illinois urging a sweeping federal program to restore purchasing power. He called for a large public works bill, industry stabilization, and farm relief, and supported but did not endorse Hoover’s bank credit plan as a sole solution.
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Champaign
United States
la Follette
Wisconsin
University of Ilinois
Wisconsin Progressive
Hoover
Supreme Court accepts case on painters union restraint of trade
Washington DC report notes Painters District Council No 14 Chicago gains certiorari to review a government bid to restrain trade over finishing ready-made kitchen cabinets. The ruling could set a major labor-law precedent as the court also denied certiorari in the Western Union electricians case, and upheld Indiana’s tax on chain stores.
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Washington, D.C
ILNS
United States Supreme Court
Painters’ District Council No. 14
Chicago
Ilinois District Court
Walter ©. Lindley
Supreme Court
Electrical Workers
Western Union
Evans
Indiana
Labor Committee to Press Dry Act Modification Drive
The AFL announces a national push to modify the Volstead act, pledging stronger efforts for temperance, law and order, and public health. The statement highlights broad convention support, opposition from prohibition diehards, and a plan to return enforcement to state and local levels to prevent saloon reemergence while expanding government revenue and respect for law.
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Labor Committee
Vancouver
B.C
ILNS
Labor
National Committee For
Matthew Woll
I. M. ‘Ornburn
American Federation of Labor Convention
Executive Council
Treasury
American Federation of Labor
Leader in drive for charity cuts employes wages
Rhode Island textile councils press Metcalf to reverse a 10 percent wage cut at the Manskuck mill. Delegates from 21 United Textile Workers locals urge Senator Metcalf to investigate conditions and consider restoring pay. The council plans worker meetings to organize statewide action and to collect strike funds for Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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Drive For Charity
Providence, R. J
ILNS
Stephen O. Metcalf
Manskuck Co
Providence Community Fund
Rhode Island Textile Council
Metcalf
Rhode Island
Fand
Munskuck
United States
Jesse H. Metcalf
Manskuck
United Textile Workers of America
Mangkuck
Francis J. Gorman
Lawrence, Maas
Massachusetts
New England
Gorman
Lawrence
George F. Gildea
Lawrence Central Trades and Labor Union
Edward Callaghan
Philadelphia
Southern Edison Grants 5 Day Week to 500 Employees
Southern California Edison places workers on a five day week to save 500 jobs that would have been cut. The plan does not raise wages and reduces earnings by about nine percent, per John R. Miller, chairman of the board.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Southern California Edison Company
John R. Miller
Miller
Hosiery Strikers Build Tent Colony to Push Union Drive
Striking workers from Clifton and Bloomfield New Jersey camps at Chalfont Pennsylvania near Lansdale to organize the Lansdale plant of Interstate Mills. They criticize moving machines to non union plants and aim to press for unionization with a costly finishing plant under construction. Recent Montgomery county court ruling supports free speech efforts and Gov Pinchot urged end to interference. Camp meals cost under 16 cents per man, with food and gas as main expenses.
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Philadelphia, Pa
ILNS
Clifton
Bloomfield
N. J
Interstate Hosiery Concern
Chalfont
Lansdale
Interstate Company
Interstate Mills
New Jersey
Interstate
Norristown
Judge Carson
Montgomery County
Pinchot
American Federation of
Carson
Army
Navy
Nocturnal sundial to be installed in Guayaquil
A giant light powered sundial will be installed by Guayaquil's municipality. An electric searchlight revolving every 12 hours will illuminate landmarks to show time each night. Ohio State University has developed a vest-pocket diet cracker made from wheat and milk. It is dry, compact, salted, and tastes like wholewheat bread.
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Guayaquill
Republic of Ecuador
Ohio State University
Farm Pay at Lowest Point in 15 Years
Washington DC October 1 farm wages lowest since 1916 per Bureau of Agricultural Economics index. Wages were 113 percent of 1910-15 pie war average on October 1, down from 150 a year earlier. Demand at 69 percent of normal, labor supply at 118 percent, with broad declines across farm help.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Bureau of Agricultural Economics Index
Bureau
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Richman
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Carpenters
American Federation of Labor and
Our Committee
Federal Army of Agents Provocateurs
Jin
Southern Edison
Pennsylvania
Krebs
Agaia Bigllow
Sanford
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