Labor rift widens over cigarette code and payouts
President Roosevelt signed the cigarette industry code after long negotia tions with labor leaders who oppose Williams on the administration board. The code sets a forty hour week and wage floor from 25 to 40 cents an hour. Labor chiefs threaten a broader fight for a prevailing wage clause in work relief.
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Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
S. Clay Williams
Labor
Federation Council
Williams
Federation
William Green
Federation of Seventeen
International Unions
Senate Appropriations Committee
Pat McCarran
McCarran
Senate
Francis Biddle
National Labor Relations Board
National Labor Board
NRA
Hether
Patman
Texas
Frank N. Belgrano
American Legion
American Liberty League
League
Vinson
Congress
Lansing
Auditor-General
Mary Heyart
Ecorse
Ruth
State Department of Labor and Industry
Tracy
Hillman
Michigan
Wilbur Bentley
Hillman County
Federated Garden Clubs of Michigan
Birmingham
James W. Parry
Cold remedy tragedy claims 18 month old in Battle Creek
The infant Helen Samulak died after ingesting a cold remedy mistaken for candy. The incident adds to a roundup of scattered Michigan notes from multiple towns including Burns near Calumet and Emma Jeanette’s fatal clothing fire in Gay.
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Battle Creek
Helen Samulak
Alec Samulak
Calumet
Emma Jeanette
Gay
Jeanette
Roosevelt Era Focus Shifts to Domestic Affairs
Washington observers note a shift under the Roosevelt administration from foreign to domestic policy. New banking legislation, public works plans, and moves to curb holding companies signal centralized federal control over credit and utilities, with debates over central banking and extended loan terms.
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Army
Navy
West
Pacific
Atlantic
Pacific Coast
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Coco Solo
Canal Zone
Naval Committee
Japan
Hawaii Air Base
Army High Command
Military Committee
House
Douglas MacArthur
Baker Aviation Committee
MacArthur
General Headquarters Air Force
Frank M. Andrews
GHQ Air Force
H. H. Arnold
Marchfield
Calif
H. C. Pratt
Air Corps
Langley Field
Liner
Gerald C. Brant
Fort Crockett
Texas
Washington
Roosevelt
Hull
Department of State
Roper
Department of Commerce
Borah
Seaate
White House
Senate
Department of Agriculture
Wallace
Chester Davis
Davis
St. Lawrence Waterway
Public Works Administration
Congress
Steagall
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Fletcher
Senate Committee On Banking and Currency
United States
New York
Federal Reserve
Bank
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Washington Observer
National Recovery Administration
National Industrial Recovery Act
Union
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Hauptmann
Macon
Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
Clay Williams
Com. H. Y. Wiley
Akron
Board of
Wiley
EkoNo Hauptmann
Trenton
N. J
Richard B. Russell
Remier Mussolini
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Duce
Italy
Mussolini
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der Puehrer
Austria
Hitler
Poland
Germany
Russia
France
Great Britain
Soviet
England
Belgium
der Reichsuehrer
Bolivia
Villa Montes
Gran Chaco
Estigarribia
Nancarainza
Wright Patman
United States Supreme Court
Charles C. Cropley
Hughes
Cummings
Renshaw Miller Farm
Here
Sturgis
A. R. McAllister
Joliet, IL
Monroe
William Matts
Dunfree
Phillip Wickenheiser
Exeter Township
National Forest
National Forest Reservation Commission
RE. W. Tinker
North Sentral
Upper Peninsula
Ypsilanti
Louisiana
Murray Lake
Kerns
Ingham
Trust Company of Chicago
James A. Gratrix
Chicago
Gratrix
Mt. Clemens
Carlos Monroe
Neil B. Reid
New Haven
Reid
Bay City
Orville H. Atwood
Atwood
Alpena
Lyle Camp
Monaghan
M. J. Lyle
Cadillac
Emil Lehr
Fitzgerald
Romeo
Sherman Crane
Kalamazoo
Elaine Brown
Harle Brown
Paw Paw
Ora Mann
Grand Trunk Railway
Albert George Lemanski
Lemanski
Paris Township
Muskegon
Henrietta Bush
Elkton
Michigan Union
Washington, D. C
Blythe Kellerman
Hilton
Chester Graham
Grant
Frank W. Anderson
Supreme Court
Orville E. Atwood
Flint
Allie Hall
Genesee County Board of Supervisors
William Bruckart
National Prose Building
Washington,d. Cc
Cope
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Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Banks
Reserve Board
Reserve Banks
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