Manganese Industry Debate Under Anti-Dumping Probe
Hearings before the Treasury tariff bureau hear rival claims about a U S manganese industry. Am torg and steel interests challenge American production while Manganese Producers Association pledges large deliveries to curb Soviet ore imports. Bethlehem Steel offered to let investigators review its books as costs from Russia are probed for potential dumping effects.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Thomas J. Doherty
Tariff
Doherty
Revolutionary Steel Institute
United States
Treasury Department Tariff Bureau
J. Oscar Adkerson
Manganese Producers Association
Adkerson
India
Africa
Brazil
Amtorg Corporation
S. E. Clark
Nevada
Bethlehem Steel Company
Russia
Tobacco Prices Shake Raleigh Growers in Crisis
Tobacco growers across Raleigh face prices as low as 7 to 9 cents per pound, over a 26 percent drop from last year. Edgecombe county merchants plan a tobacco product boycott until fair prices arise, urging co operatives and a 25 percent cut in next year’s acreage as economists decry the conditions.
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Raleigh
N. C
Tobacco Trust
G. W. Forster
North Carolina State College
Edgecombe County
Co-Operative Association
Photo Engravers Win Wage Boost in Arbitration
Cincinnati photo engravers won a notable arbitration increasing weekly rates by six dollars and setting day and night pay at sixty and sixty three dollars. The 44 hour week was upheld over an eight hour day six day week, and one foreman position was created. Edward J. Volz led the workers in presenting the case.
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Cincinnati
Frederick van Nuys
Indianapolis
Edward J. Volz
International Photo Engravers’ Union
Diplomats Receive Free Rail Light and Fuel Globally
The secretary of state announced broad wage concessions in the form of free railway light and fuel for hundreds of American diplomats and consuls worldwide, aiming to ease costs of overseas service.
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Washington
Injunction Dominates A F L Convention Prep
Boston session of the A F of L. executive council selects G M Bagniazet as secretary to fill the Noonan vacancy. Southern drive reports 112 new locals and five new central bodies, with big unions like a 5,000 member Longshoremen union in New Orleans and textile unions in Danville and Greensboro. Debate looms over state unemployment insurance while brewery workers seek Volstead act relief and Catholic Canadian unions seek cross border accord.
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Quester M
Wright
Aante City
N. J
ILNS
G. M. Bugniazet
Aec
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
James P. Noonan
A. F. of L
Boston
Bugniazet
Arthur M. Huddell
International Union of Operating Engineers
Daniel J. Tobin
International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs
A. P. of L
Bagniazet
Southern
New Orleans
Textile Workers’ Union
Danville
Greensboro
D. C
Green
Bloor
Council
Carrie 10
United Brewery
Cereal
Soft Devik
Canada
Tinea
Machine Blame in Idle Problem Sparks Labor Call
R. R. Lawrence, president of the North Carolina Federation of Labor, blames automation and mass production for current business depression. He urges that an untouched home market could yield billions if workers had purchasing power, noting wages displaced by machines are withdrawn from circulation and go to frozen profits. He argues industrial magnates hoard wealth through commissions funding art and education, with workers seeing few returns and five million unemployed amid wage cuts.
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Charlotte
R. R. Lawrence
North Carolina Federation of Labor
WBT
Mr. Lawrence
Steel trust leads as cement producer
New York report states the steel trust dominates industry. It is the largest factor in the set and fuelling growth, producing 40 percent of the nation’s cement and steel. The trust also stands as an important driver in the chemical field.
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Doherty
Amtorg
Rudoexport Trust
A. E. Kalinen
New York
Steel Trust
Othol Trust
Dirwducta
Ex-Agent Reveals Red Plot Involving Matthew Well
Irving Weiss a former Bronx communist party member says he was recruited to plant forged documents on Matthew Woll and Ralph M Easley to infiltrate army intelligence and the justice department. He claims officers refused his offers and the National Civic Federation also rejected him as a communist agent.
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Irving Weiss
Army and
Justice
New York City
ILNS
Irving Welss
Bronx
Communist Party
Irving
Weiss
Matthew Woll
Ralph M. Easley
Army
Department of Justice
Department of Justce
National Civic Federation
Carrie Osgood
Easley
Federation
Red Party
Halt Immigration During Slump
Washington tightens immigrant entry as the State Department acts under President Hoover to bar entrants likely to become public charges. American consul certificates become necessary for emigration decisions. consuls abroad judge if an applicant may be a public charge. Atlantic City reports stoppage of all relief, including gun permits, amid coalitions and unemployment concerns.
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Washington
Hover
Armer- Win
United State
Atlantic City
Una
Tmporee
Wi Green
Former member sues union over expulsion and scab label
George J. Miller of New Haven files a 26000 civil action in Superior Court against Local 171 Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union and Branch 434 Workman’s for expelling him and branding him a scab after questioning a strike three years ago. He claims loss of steady work and income and names eleven individuals as defendants along with the two organizations. Trial expected this winter. Portland, Ore Iron Fireman Manufacturing reports eight month sales up 99.3 percent over 1928.
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New Haven, Conn
ILNS
George J. Miller
New Haven
International Union of and
Workman's
Miller
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Iron Fireman Manufacturing Company
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