American Steel Workers Earn Highest Pay In World
A report by the American Iron and Steel Institute, using data from the International Labor Office, shows American steel workers’ earnings cover a basket of food in about 1 hour 24 minutes at 1937 wages, while European workers require vastly more hours for the same goods. France 34 hours, Sweden 34 hours, Germany 55% hours, Belgium 7 hours, Italy 10% hours, Russia 23% hours. It notes higher U S wages and cheaper food domestically.
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Euro Countries
American Iron and Steel Institute
International Labor Office
Pittsburgh
France
Sweden
Germany
Italy
Russia
Forei Steel
St. Ambrose High School
Jeanette A. Boyer
Florence Simmons
J. B. Moriarty
Frank E. Hook
Michigan Press Association
Upper Peninsula Development Bureau
Frank Polasty
Ramsay
Ann Arbor
Frick
Thomas Drengacz
Ironwood Homesteads
Fed
Range Rangings and Local Elections Highlight Ironwood Area
Range Rangings notes the death of August Sorenson a Puritan mines pioneer after 14 years illness. Election items list two school board candidates in Bessemer and six for Ironwood board with a July 26 filing date. tax mill proposal also on ballot. Nearby items cover Hurley and Ironwood graduations, obituaries, mine schedules, Homesteads growth, a 1904 bank check found, and a 91 year old trout fisherman in Ovid.
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August Sorenson
Puritan
Davis
Geneva
Oliver Iron Mining Co
Charles Lutz
Frank Abelman
Bessemer
Ironwood Board of Education
S. F. Carpenter
Percy Thomas
John Landon
Miloka
John A Aa
W. Peterson
C. W. Holt
John Sabol
Ironwood
Thomas Tikkola
Ironwood Township
Grand View Hospital
Hurley High School
Hurley
Montreal
Pence
Mercer
Upson
F. G. van Stratum
Oshkosh
Wis
Hurley Presbyterian Arch
Riverside Cemetery
VanSratum
Oliver Iron Co
Plymouth
Wakefield
Mass release of prisoners shocks Gladstone crowd
A rare Sunday incident freed nine dogs from the city dog pound after officers had secured them. The act, framed as defiance of law, oddly resolved a growing food supply issue. A separate expert warns couples to speak frankly before marriage. The text notes a European teac hin-a bow habit and gas masks during Halloween contrasts.
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Gladstone
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Vandenburg
Main Street
Romeo
Iron River
Tom
SAEKS
Pocketbook ‘of
Harrisville
J. H. Harding
Commercial Bank
Patrick Kelly
Ovid
C. W. Heir
Shepardsville
Hier
Eae Graduate
J. J. Novak
Michigan
the First National Bank OF
ANSUR
Robert Wilcox
Nan Grey
Jimmie Savo
Frank Jenks
William Lunnigan
Lew Ayres
Mary Carlisle
John Howard
Benny Baker
Elizabeth Patterson
Goldwyn Follies
Adolphe Menjou
The
Ritz Brothers
Zorina
Kenny Baker
Andre Leeds
Helen Jepson
Jerome Cowan
Phil Baker
Ella Logan
Bobby Clark
American Ballet
Edgar Bergan
Charlie McCarthy
Oxford
Robert Taylor
Maureen O’sullivan
Lionel Barrymore
Richard Arlen
Mary Astor
Marjorie Gatson
Paul Hunt
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