Mine Wage Deals Ratified Prompting Resumption of Work
Ratified wage agreements in Illinois Iowa Ohio and the southwest clear the way for mine work to resume. Union leaders report strong turnout and support with Indiana still negotiating while Ohio and the south west plan joint follow up talks in 1930. Production restarts as Springfield miners resume under the new terms.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Ohio
Virginia
Kentucky
Springfield
Jacksonville
Tlino
Co op Buying By Farmers Surpasses Sixty Million
Washington reports that 25 to 30 large scale farmers co operative buying associations purchased supplies last year totaling 60 million dollars for their 100000 patrons.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Commercial Telegraphers Reject Plan To Bar Morse Operators
At the fourteenth regular convention of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America in Chicago the proposal to limit membership to Morse operators was defeated 10 to 1. Delegates from Canada and the U S South and West opposed the plan, arguing it would unfairly bar machine operators and invite a loss of skilled Morse work. The convention referred the matter to a committee for study and a statement to brokers using leased wires.
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Joseph A. Wise
Morse
Percy Thomas
New York
Union
Canada
United States
American Telegraph and Telephone Company
Victor A. Olander
International Seaman's Union
Olander
American Federation of Labor
Dutley and Green Address Indiana Labor Convention
Frank C. Dutley, Democratic candidate for governor, pledged to uphold party platform labor policies if elected at Evansville. William Green, AFL president, urged unionists to vote, emphasized nonpartisan national stance, and criticized injunctions while pressing for better wages, hours, and living conditions.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana State Federation of Labor
Evansville
Frank C. Dutley
Organized Labor
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Dailey
T. N. Taylor
State Federation
Textile Workers reelected leaders in New York convention
United Textile Workers reelected Thomas F. McMahon as president and chose James Starr as secretary treasurer Francis J. Gorman as first vice president and William Keily as second vice president The union plans a tariff study across textile branches and will petition the Tariff Commission to defend American living standards The Philadelphia upholstery workers prompted the tariff study while the Bedford strike will continue with allied unions support A survey of southern mill centers aims to spark organizing drive amid historically limited southern gains with reports of readiness to unionize in the region
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New York City
Ull
Thomas F. McMahon
United Textile Workers
James Starr
Francis J. Gorman
William Keily
Tariff Commission
Philadelphia
France
Belgium
Italy
New Bedford
Strike on Western Railroads Looms Without Settlement
Chicago The United States Board of Mediation failed to end a dispute between 70 000 rail workers and 55 Western railroads forcing a looming strike. Workers seek 10 to 15 percent wage increases while carriers offer 7 12 percent. Core deadlock centers on the double header rule, with union leaders arguing its 27 year history makes it non negotiable.
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Chicago
Brotherhood
Free space power trust case linked to Walsh probe
Washington authorities reopen hearings into power trust propaganda amid a decade scale spend of about 1 million dollars yearly by utility units fighting public ownership. The probe traces payments to editors and publishers including Lenroot for opposing the Walsh resolution and notes use of Bolshevik and Socialist labels to attack public control ideas.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Mont
Muscle Shoals
Boulder Dam
Colorado River
Mt. Vernon
N. Yi
Lcity
Ils
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Mine Workers’ Union
Nesbit
Harry Fishwick
Edgar K. Wagner
Court Street
Hamilton
U. S. Board
Lenroot
Warren G. Harding
Walsh
Ontario
Smithsonian Institution
National Electric Light Association
Smithsonian
Labor Temple
Richman Bros. CO
High St
Court House
Atwater Kent Radio
Atwater Kent
Atwater
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