Labor Bills and Social Security Headlines From 1930s Debates
Senate approves Wagner Connery labor disputes bill setting a three member labor relations board to oversee elections and unfair practices. Roosevelt administration pushes tax hikes and social security with broad state grants and employer payroll taxes to fund old age and unemployment benefits.
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White House
House
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Federation
Green
Supreme Court
Moore
New Jersey
Democrat
Hastings
Delaware
Hale
Maine
Metcalf
Rhode Island
Austin
Vermont
Townsend
Children’s Bureau
Social Security
Department’ of ‘Labor
New Detroit Area 1000 Acre Colony Financed By 550000 Grant
James Couzens lends 550000 to back a 1000 acre residential colony for part time industrial workers near Pontiac Michigan. A non profit corporation will run the project nine miles south and west of Pontiac with James L. ONeill named administrator. Leon C. Marshall Prentiss L. Coonley and George L. Berry assist. advisory council includes Charles Edison William Green Philip Murray Emily Newell Blair Walton Hamilton.
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James Couzens
Cone
Detroit
Pontiac
NRA
Roosevelt
Congress
James L. O'Neill
the Guarantee Trust. Company of New York
Leon C. Marshall
Division of Review
Prentiss L. Coonley
Division of Business Co-Operation
George L. Berry
Labor
Berry
International Pressmen’s Union
O'Neill
Marshall
Coonley
Charles Edison
Howell Chenep
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers
Emily Newell Blair
Walton H. Hamilton
Omaha Street Car Riots Stir Nebraska Governor Action
Gov. R. L. Cochran moved to restore order as state troops patrolled Omaha after three bloody street riots. Public safety and the traction company faced meeting with labor leaders to push an immediate arbitration. Roosevelt saw a coal miners strike averted with a truce to June 30.
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Omaha
R. L. Cochran
Nebraska
Traction Company
Central Labor Union
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers
Britain Advises Conciliation as Path to European Peace
The government signals a shift toward appeasement by yielding to Germany’s naval demands and striking a bilateral pact that acknowledges German fleet rights up to 35 percent of British tonnage and even 45 percent with possible parity on submarines, undermining Versailles limits.
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Britain
Europe
Germany
Hitler
Reich
France
Army air mail flap fuels push to remove Foulois
House members Rogers and Hill demand harsher action after a joint committee reprimands Maj. Gen. Benjamin D Foulois for inexact statements to Congress regarding the air mail fiasco. They threaten floor action to seek removal or stronger punishment citing the War department letter clearing Foulois and his supporters.
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Dern
Benjamin D. Foulois
Army Air-Mail
House Military ‘Affairs Committee
Army Air Corps
William H. Rogers
New Hampshire
Lister Hill
Alabama
Foulois
Rogers
War Department
Cardenas Emerges From Cabinet Crisis Amid Catholic Parade
Mexico's President Cardenas appears to have survived a cabinet crisis sparked by opponent Calles. He reshuffled his ministers to back his economic program. In Mexico City a huge Rotarian convention preceded a city parade praising religious liberty amid Catholic tensions.
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Eee Cardenas
Mexico
Plutarco Elias Calles
Cardenas
Is Anastasia the lost Russian princess in doubt and suit
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports renewed interest in Anastasia Romanov’s claim to the Russian imperial estate in America. Suspected as the czar’s daughter, she faced mixed testimony and opposition from the Romanoffs, with experts split on the case’s ultimate proof and outcome.
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Anastasia Tchaikovsky
Russia
Ekaterinburg
Berlin
Romanoff
Olga
Xenia
Leeds
Perkin
Warbeck
Anastasia
Philadelphia Inquirer
Plow Proposed as Monument in Turlock City Park
A relic of early California farming, a large plow drawn by 16 horses, offered by its owner to the city of Turlock for a park monument. The plan is to mount the plow with a bronze plaque in a manner similar to historic cannons or monuments.
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Ven
Huey Long
Roosevelt
Congress
California
Turlock
Santa Fe Railroad
Silver Dollar With Stamp Found In Mail Sack
Postal workers in Hood River Oregon discovered a silver dollar with a three cent stamp affixed on one side and the address pasted on the other side lying in a mail sack.
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Hood’ River
Ore
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Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
Sen. Wagner
Senate
E. Y. Mitchell
Wing Y. Mitchell
Bureau of Air Commerce
Steamship Inspection Service
Mitchell
Senate Committee On Commerce
United States Lines
International Mercantile Marine
Gen
Fouldis
Black Widow
Wee
Phon
Thoroghly
Peterman
ANT Food
Simoniz
Simonisz
Simoniz Kleener
Wise
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