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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1933
Page
4
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The piece argues that the New Deal’s industrial recovery plan unsettles business leaders, with fears of socialistic trends. It notes stock and commodity price drops as investors doubt wage and employment increases and criticizes government control over private industry. Oregon votes to repeal the 18th Amendment progresses, while Roosevelt family publicity and a British tennis upset are mentioned.
The Palais Royal meridian gun, last fired 1914, is reconditioned to signal noon again. Under daylight saving time in Paris it will now fire at 11 a.m., preserving the historic noon cue for visitors and locals.
The Charleston Gazette reports Governor Kump appoints Lt Bailey as state road commissioner amid broad public favor. The Governor and Bailey have long friendship and trust in his reliability to administer the office properly.
Washington July 22. Leaders of coal operators and unions push toward a code for the industry ahead of industrial recovery hearings. Nonunion operators in Pennsylvania to Tennessee propose an open shop with 40 hour week and a around 4 a day wage, plus a southern differential. The United Mine Workers seek a 30 hour week and a $5 basic scale. Other groups from 14 states push for a $5 day with a 25 cent south differential and a 36 hour week. Indiana calls for a $4 day and 32 hour week. Differentials and the open shop spark debate as conferences wind down for a four week recess. Central Pennsylvan ia and Maryland groups show unsettled tens. a Pennsylvania scale win raises skilled labor to $3.84 a day for about 40,080 miners.
Balbo and the Italian air squadron received a hero’s reception in New York. A battery of soldiers sailors and marines lined Broad Street from the Battery to City Hall as crowds cheered the Italian aviators. Mayor O Brien awarded Balbo the citys gold and platinum medal of valor and praised the visiting air minister and his 96 men for their wartime services.
Chief Inspector John Q estimates over 2,000 people watched the event between the Battery and a town hotel where they were escorted for luncheon. The largest crowd formed along the route to City Hall, with a sparse turnout elsewhere.
Washington July 22. Workers on state and local relief projects funded by federal money receive a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour under rules issued by emergency relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins. Local relief units may aid destitute families of striking workers. Rules limit ages under 16, daily and weekly hours, and monthly hours for physical labor, with eight hours daily and 40 hours weekly for office work. The prevailing local rate must be followed where higher, starting August 1.
Jes H. Kline, former Pittsburgh mayor, was rushed by ambulance to a hospital on July 22 after reportedly suffering a stroke. He resigned in March to avoid a six month prison term tied to a city supply scandal.
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