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Newspaper
The Labor Argus
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1907
Page
4
In the annual report of the National Hospital sums up a loan fund proposal to give consumptive patients a new start location. The Outlook editorial praises the idea and calls for abandoning the sweatshop as a breeding ground of tuberculosis, noting the ongoing struggle against the disease.
The pamphlet from Pinkerton Labor Spy warns workers about the detective agency seen as a strikebreaker. Friedman, private secretary to McPartland, describes alleged incitement by Mollie McGuire’s circle and claims the agency aided violence and betrayals to push Haywood Moyer and Pettibone toward prison.
The piece argues philanthropy and unions struggle to address the plague of tuberculosis in York’s sweatshops. It criticizes hidden suffering, praises the Jewish National Hospital for Consumptives, and notes labor action and public ownership debates, including a Illinois court committee’s stand on direct voting on street railways.
Thirty five delegates from towns in New England plan a united effort for a shorter workday and wage increase for machinists. The group expects steady growth, with a projected 1,500 members added monthly and a district reaching 6,000 members by June, signaling a nationwide expansion and new annual efforts from the union’s headquarters.
A union of cutters with an enrollment around ten thousand has, over the past fifteen years, secured wage gains totaling about three cents per day on average. The report notes continued gains in pay and improved working conditions as the association grows.
In Norfolk Virginia workers organize an exclusively white union drawing 21 new locals of the Amalgamated Association and revive six lapsed locals. The article notes a large join-increase across related crafts and outlines an eight hour workday push in the diamond polishing trade.
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