Weir steel case tests NRA and labor board stance
The article reports on the Weirton Steel case where NRA and the national labor board may intervene. Weir and executives back the recovery program but oppose forced representation changes. Union leaders allege threats and ballot manipulation and vow to press government action if needed.
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Weirton Steel Company
E. T. Weir
Labor Board
Weirton
Workers’ Union
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Millsop
Williams
Weirton Steel
Hugh S. Johnson
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Recovery Administration
Green
Recovery
Michigan News Roundup Brisk with Local Incidents and Growth
A wide roundup from Michigan reports beet payments by a sugar company totaling 291 654 dollars, Olivet College summer sessions to finish freshmen, a trucker fined for drunk driving after a gas spill near town, a Mason resident recovering a lodge watch charm found by a prison inmate, a 1929 divorce suit in Grand Rapids over a railroad trip to Ohio, and a Detroit display of the state exhibit from Chicago with plans to remain in Detroit through March. Also notes record oil and gas wells in November, pardons by Gov. Comstock, Packard test-driver accident, high cattle prices at West Michigan Fat Stock Show, university athletics finances, and various local incidents across Lansing to Mount Clemens.
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Fisher Building
Mt. Pleasant
Carl Christensen
Greenville
Comstock
Christensen
Mount Clemens
Joseph McDonnell
Packard Proving Grounds
Utica
McDonnell
Robert McLachlan
Eldon
Ann Arbor
Board of Control of Athletics
University of Michigan
Ralph W. Algier
Board of Control
Muskegon
Sullivan Township
Sebastian Homik
Tron River
Caspain
Stambaugh
Board of Education
Birmingham
J. E. Baker
Port Huron
CWA
Janesville
Gertrude Storms
Jonesville
Gardner. Green
Farmington
Fred Reese
South Lyon
Detroit Edison Co
Reese
Battle Creek
Lovett J. Willard
Lohman Greenman
Elkhart
Ind
Greenman
Alma Yunt
Union City
Willard
Martha Bennett
Alice Charbeneau
James
Robert Lee
Grant
Ashland College
Peter Drummon
Ithaca
Ithaca High School Athletic Association
Michigan Bird Banders
Cadillac
Flint
Lyman White
White
Harley Dillon
Escanaba
Escanaba & Lake Superior
Cornell
Golden Slippers Change a Bachelor's New Year’s Eve
In a 1933 Western Newspaper Union tale, bachelor John Wilers dismisses a delivery boy with a parcel containing golden slippers. Lucia Bell, a radio star, arrives for a Studio Ball seeking her slippers, and the two meet when John helps her into the footwear.
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John
Mr. Bachelor
Lucian Bell
John Eilers
Pers
Lucia Bell
Cinderella
John Hilers
Union
Midnight Reflections on Time as New Year Approaches
Dan and Dora discuss Time its meaning and human need for calendars as the clock strikes twelve. The scene ends with the urge to celebrate the New Year and its social festivities. The dated piece notes 1934 and the Western Newspaper Union context.
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Dora
Western Newspaper Union
Grape Calendar Custom Rumored From Spain
A fragment notes an old Spain custom observed on New Year’s from gathered merrymakers who eat twelve bunches of grapes, one for each month of the year, as part of the celebration.
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Spain
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