Labor trouble and governance in Michigan 1937 session
The Michigan legislature nears end of a marathon session amid labor unrest, budget strains, and contentious bills. Gov. Murphy shifts from model labor legislation to a permissive substitute while CIO and AFL oppose strike restrictions. Debate swirls on gambling, saloons, billboards, and new revenue as the state eyes a growing deficit and expanded public spending.
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Michigan Mirror
Lansing
Michigan
Edward Kemp
University of Michigan
Attorney General's Department
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Roosevelt
House
John L. Lewis
C.I
Lewis
Jp Murray
C.I O
Ngengre
H. Rowell
San Francisco
United States
America
Michi Federation of Garden Clubs
Ture
Senate Highway Committee
J. Neal Lamoreaux
Rotary Club Denounces Violent Labor Unrest in Gogebic
Wakefield Rotary adopts a resolution denouncing un-American activities linked to Gogebic county labor disorders. The measure supports police efforts to maintain security, calls for respect for property and workers rights, and asks copies be sent to county officials and the governor. The club meets at Lake View Inn as summer plans begin.
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Gogebic
Wakefield Rotary Club
John Thomas
Ironwood
Bessemer
Tom Dregacz
Rotary
County Board of Supervisors
Rotary International
Pupport
Wakefield
State Official Declares WPA Wages Fixed by Presidential Order
Wilfred A. Lesser states Gogebic county WPA strikers and any others seeking a higher minimum security wage are unlikely to win. He explains only a Presidential order can change the $48.50 monthly minimum, though hourly rates might rise if hours shrink. Officials report strikers dwindling as work resumes vary by project.
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WPA
Gogebic County
Wilfred A. Lesser
Louis M. Nims
Ironwood
Topen
Leeser
Lansing
Nims
Farrell
Ore Shipments Slow Due to Ongoing Steel Strike
The steel mill strike dramatically reduces ore shipments from range mines this week. Anvil-Palms Newport and Republic Steel idle, while Wakefield and Sunday Lake keep aggregate daily outputs. Plymouth continues loading ore as locals fear total idleness if the strike endures. June weddings and local notices interweave with names and places across Ironwood, Wakefield, and surrounding townships.
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Newport
Republic Steel Corporation
Wakefield
Sunday Lake
Plymouth
City Budget 1937-38 Shows Lower Available Funds
The 1937-38 city budget projects $193,944.14 available if all taxes and expected incomes from electricity, water and other departments are received, not $218,000. Over $25,000 of the budget is non cash credits and charges to departments. An estimated income of $87,256.69 is included in the net total, higher than last year, with shortfalls to be reduced. Salary increases reflect restored cuts, while common labor rates rose proportionally.
Three Masses Scheduled at St Marys Church This Summer
Rev Yom Drengacz announces that three Sunday masses will be held at St Marys Church this summer after initial plan for two. An assistant will be assigned for the season, with services at 6 00 8 00 and 10 00 oclock Sunday mornings until further notice.
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St. Mary’s Church
Strikers Halt Log Hauling as Lumber Strike Spreads
Violence marks the lumber strike in the county as tear gas burns a transporter and a driver suffers injures while counter protests and picketing affect log hauls. Connerville Lumber Co resumes work with full crew as federal efforts and local officials pursue peace.
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Connor Co
Leo Isdebski
Howard Anderson
Anderson
Arvid Niemi
Connerville Lumberland Land Co
Conner
Wallace Porter
Glen de Pelshaw, Jr
Shaheen
Town Notes and Local Visits Across Crystal Falls
Local residents trace weekend visits and travels as Misses MacDonald depart for Tomahawk Wisconsin. Nurse Marilys Laberdie returns from Chicago to Reeser. William Kuivinen seeks shoulder treatments in Wausau after a spring injury. Labour crews lay pipe under Jerome Salo and a WPA team works on Eddy Park project. Church renovation plans and budget talk occur as county tax and valuation discussions loom. Budget and valuation figures outline county totals for the upcoming year.
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Jerome Salo
WPA
Eddy Park
Coniition
Objection Heard Over Rental Fees and City Plans
City officials and residents debated rental charges and a park approach with plans for a fence along the west end. The sale of the Rummel house and a city property on the water supply site near M-28 will be held during the same period. A new traffic ordinance, effective July 23, reclassifies north south streets as stop streets and certain east west streets as through streets at key intersections.
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Federal Forestry Service
Hillis
Seen Eddy
Mitvon
Cdoeaday
Harrison
Hancock
Pierce
Two Teachers Resign From Local Schools
Miss Laura Lake and Miss Margaret Kniffke resigning to wed and to take positions in Riverside Chicago area. Lake plans marriage to Gregory Ironwood. Kniffke will teach at Riverside school. Church notes: Midsummer feast at Eddy Park at 10:30 a.m. with service, dinner at noon. summer school and church choir to perform.
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Laura Lake
Andy Lake
City
Joseph Gregory
Ironwood
Orgat
W. Gitt
Methodist Episcopal Church
Richard Burrows
Gregs
Greg
Tchools
Joseph D. Porter
Ewen
Merle Clarke
Walter Firth
Clarke Rae
Nyn
Rummel Homestead
Clarke
Rege
Miss Porter
Wakefield
Jacob Hirvi
Finnish National Lutheran Church
Ellen Ahonen
Hjalmer Ahonen
Andrew Hendrickson
Henry Henderickson
Erwin Township
Aina Ahonen
Lempi Hakala
Carl Ahonen
John Highhill
Margaret Kniffke
Board of Education
Miss Lake
Gregory
Miss
Riverside
Chicago
EV. Lutheran Church
New Eddy Park
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American Legion
Frank Zazeski
Lake Gogebic
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T. R. Ranta
L. G. Wilson
Dr. Wilson
Crystal Falls
Misses
Agnes MacDonald
Tomahawk
Wis
Marilys Laberdie
St. Luke’s Hospital
Reeser
Mary Teppo
William Kuivinen
Wausau
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