Montana labor news., 1934-03-29
EASTERN LABOR
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NEW YORK-(FP)-Dental me-
chanics clamped shut the false teeth
industry when they walked out of 450
New York City shops. The walkout
was complete. All skilled mechanics,
the 1000 members of New York Den
tai Technicians Equity, are asking a
SIS to $55 weekly minimum wage, de-
pending on the job performed, recog-
milton of their union, a closed shop and
enforcement of NRA code hours, which
are 40 a week. Despite code provi-
sions, some of their men are earning
Sc and SO a week.
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Dental Equity is an independent un-
ion not a year old. Its members ex-
pect their demands to be met quickly.
| They are willing to make recognition
agreements with individual laboratory
! owners, but they'll continue to picket
the shops of those who don't sign up.
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! No work will be done outside of the
city because the Dental Teehnicians'
Council of America will stage a strike
in any other place where the work is
sent.
The 5000 hard coal miners who
walked out of the Lehigh Navigation
Coal Co.'s mines at Tamaqua, Pa, on
March 5, in protest against the COM
pany's running double shifts at Tam
aqua while keeping their Rain col
liery closed, were ordered to return
to work three days later by John l..
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers of America.
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Union officials maintain that strikes
are prohibited by the agreement be-
tween the operators and the miners.
When the agreement was ratified in
August, 1880, union officials hailed
it as a victory for the miners.
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Postoffice substitutes in New York
are protesting Postmaster-Gen. Far
ley's order for eurtailment of substi-
tute employment. The subs, as it is,
average little more than Sc a week.
If the order goes drought, 1920 in
New York alone will be relegated to
the breadline. There are 1900 subs
in the country.
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Two cents an hour is a wage paid
in some instances for work done in
private homes in New York state.
Charging shocking abuses" in indus
trial homework, Industrial Commits
sioner Elmer Andrews is supporting
a bill in the Legislature to license all
homework manufacturers and contrac-
ors.
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The mar who manufacturers the
largest quantity of NRA labels is one
of the most fragrant ~violators of the
NRA code. Charges against him are
being pressed by Typographical I'm
ion No. 6, and Printing Pressmen's
Union No. 81, which claim that the
Ever Ready Label Corp, maker and
distributor of more than half-a-bil-
lion Blue Eagle stickers, have intimi-
dated and Disseminated against union
members.
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There have been three strikes at the
plant. The company refuses to rec
ognize the A. F. of L. unions, al
though 81 of the AZ printers en-
ployed there voted union last Septem-
Der. The men have been worked as
much as 80 hours a week.
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Long before the steamer Observa-
ton blew up in 1882 with the loss of
72 workers lives, she was an old rot
ted boat, plaintiffs counsel declared
in opening statements in a $575, 900
damage suit brought against New
York City and six contractors by nine
widows.
Deckhands were ready to testify,
counsel said, that M side of the yes
sci was so rotten that a rope had to
be passed over the deck and fasten-
ed to the other side before she could
be moored. The boiler leaked badly,
it was charged, and the ship had a
bad list.
The victims were building trades
men transported to jobs on the new
Riker's Is. prison in the East river.
More than 10000 employees of the