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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Labor Relations Board weighs A. F. of L. charges that a company union has been sponsored here, the integrity of both the University and Building Service local 30 faces a crucial test today...
Died. John Wing Prentiss, 62, investment banker, one of the senior partners of Hornblower & Weeks; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Influential in much automobile financing (Dodge, General Motors, Hudson), he told the Board of Tax Appeals in 1927 that he had thrice offered Henry Ford $1,000,000,000 for Ford Motors. He died the day after the New York Stock Exchange adopted its new constitution, which he helped draft...
Into Chinatown last autumn went an organizer for lively International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, before long organized in Joe Shoong's factory the union's first Chinese local. A National Labor Relations Board election in January established it as sole bargaining agent. Negotiations started. Two weeks later Joe Shoong sold the factory to his foreman Joe Sun and another Chinese. The union thought he had acted in bad faith and its members walked...
...precipitously as they joined. The accusations against the University constitute a strategic manoeuvre on the part of the A.F. of L. to force Harvard to end the irresponsible actions of some of the janitors. By confining its employees to their proper functions the University can avoid a Labor Board hearing which would prove annoying even though it revealed a group of minor employees out of hand and not an anti-Federation cabal in University Hall. Better control of the janitors would enable the University to make its oft-heralded claim of neutrality undoubted fact. The University should act promptly...
...West and New York City were completely omitted, while New England, close to the bottom in its number of applications, provided two Fellows. In addition to equalizing the distribution, officials may well consider whether it is essential to choose the entire Committee on Nieman Fellowships from the Board of Overseers. Harvard should not be afraid to look beyond for a committee which will award future Fellowships to the most competent and promising newspapermen and best fulfil the wishes of Mrs. Nieman...