Vigilante mob targets lettuce strike in Salinas clashes
In Salinas California vigilantes used clubs guns and gas bombs to break a lettuce workers strike. Police gas fired on marchers as 3 200 union workers quit and hundreds of strikebreakers were rushed in. Governor Merriamt and Sheriff Carl Abbott declared emergency actions amid ongoing disturbances.
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Salinas
Cal
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Vigeilantes
Merriamt
Americas
Dust Bowl
Sheri
Carl Abbott
State Federation of Labor
Sacramento
State
Public Service Corporation Grants 10 Percent Wage Increase
Camden based Public Service Corporation restores wages to pre low mood levels for its 20 000 employees with a 10 percent raise raising annual payroll by about 3 000 000. Unions win across trolley and bus workers after earlier 6 percent restoration and a 3 year contract aligns all staff to increased rates.
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Public Service Corporation
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Hair Splitting By Judges On Workers' Compensation
A DC Court of Appeals ruling distinguishes between regular and extra workers in District of Columbia workmen’s compensation. An injured carpenter, labeled extra, faced a lower award under the act, prompting appeals from Hartford Indemnity and a fight over appropriate average earnings and compensation.
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L. News Service
United States Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Sanitary Grocery Company
Hartford Resident and Indemnity Company
Hoage
Supreme Court
Insurance Company
Hirage
District of Calanthia
State Accepts Ruling Killing Compensation Act
Olympia: Attorney General G. W. Hamilton says Washington will accept the Supreme Court ruling nullifying the state unemployment insurance law. Employers and workers may recover back contributions since January 1. The court found the state act inoperative because Congress did not pass the Wagner-Doughton bill.
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Olympia
Wash
SLNS
G. W. Hamilton
Supreme Court
Hamilton
Congress
Torn Letters From Labor Spy Agencies Pieced Together
Washington reporters describe how the Railway Audit and Inspection Co Central Industrial Service Co and other firms are tied to spying and strikebreaking The La Follette committee collected torn documents from waste baskets and workers are piecing them together to reveal ties and actions as hearings resume The report emphasizes the secrecy and scope of the alleged labor espionage network with names of firms and investigators mentioned
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Washington, D. C
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Railway Audit & Inspection Co
Central Indivatrial Service Co
la Pollette
Senate
Robert Wohlforth
la Follette Committee
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Insurance Company Fights Award
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