Industrial ties and professional conflicts examined
A historical analysis compares craft labor functions to modern corporate structure, detailing merchant, management, and worker roles in shoemaking and medicine. It notes how unions influence industry, then shifts to Union Label Trades plans for a St Louis exposition, stressing unity and international trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Boston Guild
Medical Corporation
Tive
Medical
Wwe
Chicago
St. Louis
APL Unionabel Trades Department
Ameri
AFL World
Souever
Savans
Fom
International Brotherhood
Boler
Oltice Ein Fan
Bioyes Tavernational
de- St Louis Show
LM. Ornburn
Sec
Partment
Jetary
Matthew Wol
Ria
American Federation
Penguin Mystery Solved by Lane at Peters Nut Shop
Readers send notes explaining the penguin trick at Peters Nut Shop. A. E. Lane offers a hollow bird with a vacuum inside and a water based mechanism that moves liquid to tilt the head, creating the illusion. The explanation credits Lane and a local chemist as near correct, with a $250 subscription gift to Lane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.E. Lane
Penguin
Peter
Peter's
Lane
Labor World
E. A. Lane
Seminary Street
Alton
Finois
What Next? Air springs aid truck reload and railcar tests
An experimental air spring system tested on a Chicago to Michigan City rail route aims to revolutionize passenger and freight comfort. Instruments measured lateral sway and vertical motion as speeds reached up to 50 miles per hour, with prior use in airplane landing gears and heavy trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, South Shore
South’ ‘Bend
Michigan
Chicago
Labor stands on threshold of manhood with rush to unity
Labor stands on the threshold eager to accept new responsibilities and to use all resources to achieve industrial peace. The message urges cooperation between capital and labor under collective bargaining with the American Federation of Labor, aiming to create and expand the consumer market for goods produced under such agreements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bor
African Federation of Labor
The Low Down Hickory Grove on Government Policy
A reader letter complains about government involvement in the economy and social policy. The writer criticizes subsidies and socialism citing France and England and urges staying home to read and learn from past promises. The stance favors less federal control and warns of masaorganizing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Europe
Asia
Africa
Tment
France
England
Frei Rink
Serra
California Blonde Causes Powder and Perchlorate Blast
A California blonde and a male coworker mixed powder and potassium perchlorate described as "sweetie syarre" in a small device. Static electricity ignited the mixture triggering a blast that damaged a building's side and injured two coworkers. The woman suffered burns on her hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Federated Pictures
Needlessly Killing of People Uncalled For
The National Safety Council urged a national child safety campaign from Sept 23 to Oct 4 asserting America loses 20 000 youths under 20 annually to accidents. It cited motor vehicle burns drowning falls and suffocation as principal causes for under 14 and urged preventive action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
National Safety Council
Eld
Cain
Ned”H’ Dearborn
Veterans group seeks nationwide surplus property sales extension
The American Veterans Committee urges extending the War Assets Administration surplus property across the counter sales program from New Orleans to nationwide. AWC leaders argue the plan offers low cost items to veterans and broad distribution, while critics worry about misallocation and profiteering, but proponents say it gives veterans real access to needed property at reasonable prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vets
Washington, D. C
American Veterans Committee
AVC
War Assets Administration
Chat Paterson
AWC
Patterson
Robert Litlejohn
Intersta
Penicillin pricing and access in early distribution
A fragmented report notes penicillin once priced at 3734 cents per dose with wholesale output costs around 320.8 units per tenth of a gram and manufacturers currently at 20 cents. It mentions higher production costs and says hospitals set patients a profit by charging about 10 cents per dose.
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LABOR
Autuosy Daly
EU Qwebers Sri Grild
Western Cartridge
Merchants Hursday
Industria League
Acme Bowling
Broadway
The
Maal
L. P. Wetzel
County
Labor League
Eulalia Hotz
Demuukanis Cand
Madison County
CROWN @& FIXTURE AND SUPPLY COMPANY, INC
House OF Service
George Sts
Illinois
Fixture & Supply
George St
Wert’s Bottled Gas & Appliance Company
Washington
Tel
Aton
BELL
Marquepite Ave
Wood River
E. Bawy
Alton, ML
Sie
Refrigerationvice
4Th
Mestic
Commer
Orren Robert
Rastoun
On, Mgr
Ation
Rermuenarius Company
Barre
Dewey Kelly
Edwardsville
Leland J. Kennedy
Madison
Bond Counties
Madison County New-Partisan Labor League
Tom Henry
Democratic
Recorder OF Deeds
Neral
Madison Tunty
Harper
Wood River ‘Central Labor Union
Alton Trades and Labor Assembly
Wood River Central Labor ‘Union
Alton Construction and Building ‘Trades Council
Ted
Madden County
No-Parthen Jaber ‘League
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