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...contain less than the declared volume." Following a plea of "guilty," the Tugwell order approved a $50 court fine upon the shippers. Tugwell & Wiseman of Florida Inc. President of Tugwell & Wiseman Inc. is Charles Henry Tugwell, father of the new Undersecretary who is himself a stockholder in the juice-canning firm...
...American markets frankly coveted by Japan is the rich U. S. canned fish trade. She has mercilessly attacked the tuna fishing and canning industry of this country by glutting the market in 1933 with 700,000 cases of cheaper-priced goods. The California enterprise is in a desperate plight and the result is appearance of a Japanese delegation offering to settle this trade battle on her own terms...
...Packers were to pay peach growers $20 per ton for their product (last year's price: $6.50). They were also to contribute $2.50 for every ton they packed to a fund with which to compensate growers for their unharvested surplus. Calistan Packers were allotted 77,000 cases for canning...
...young girls in Northampton and Allentown shirt factories. Employers seduced 15-year-olds-or fired them. When a plant was fined for violating the State working code, the boss would take the fine out of the pay of his child laborers whose use had got him in trouble. Canning and food packing compose another industry which will have to purge itself of child labor when it brings its code to Washington for approval. Children are extensively used in the cheaper shrimp and oyster canneries along the Gulf Coast. They stand on wet, sloppy floors working at long tables until their...
...announced 10% raises. Seiberling upped pay 5%. The Pittsburgh Coal Co. was paying 10% more to 8,000 workers. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., largest cotton textile manufacturer, announced a 15% raise at Manchester, N. H. Other textile mills at Dallas, Gadsden, Ala., Lawrence, Mass., Rockville, Conn, swung into line. Canning factories in Florida, a Philadelphia handbag maker, a Suffolk, Va., candy company, upped pay. Sears, Roebuck rescinded a 10% salary cut order...