Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 19), commenced drawing textile workers into C. I. O., signing up man after man in mill after mill, many a bystander wondered what would happen to whom when Mr. Hillman chose to call a strike, 1937 model. Last week, in throwing & weaving mills in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England, he chose to do so. When 40,000 of the 60,000 U. S. silk & rayon workers obeyed his orders, they got an unexpected answer...
...nation-wide strike, commissioned a group of experts to study the financial condition of the $500,000,000 foreign-controlled industry. Last week the commission ordered that the 17 companies, including the Royal Dutch-Shell affiliate, Aguila, controlling 50% of national production, and Standard Oil of New Jersey's Huasteca subsidiary, make wage increases and establish other workers' benefits aggregating $7,200,000 annually. The report called for establishment of the 40-hour week, increase of the minimum wage to 4.90 pesos ($1.38) a day, and setting up of a national mixed commission composed of company, labor...
Died. Frederick Reimold Lehlbach, 61, onetime (1915-36) Republican Representative from New Jersey; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Harris Hammond earns $20,000 per year, aside from the income from his inheritance. He is president of Dominguez Oil Fields Co. which earned $2,000,000 last year, and of Laughlin Filter Corp., a small New Jersey company which manufactures centrifuges. In 1928 Mr. Hammond and Philadelphia's Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Diddle Jr. were among the directors of Acoustic Products Co., which later became Sonora Products Corp. of America. When Sonora went bankrupt and Irving Trust Co. became its receiver, that Manhattan bank charged that Sonora's directors had personally used an option owned...
...States to return Georgia's duly requisitioned criminals. To Massachusetts' Governor Charles Francis Hurley Governor Rivers wrote again to recapture escaped Negro James Cunningham whose extradition was recently refused because of a "sense of humanity." Fed up with such melodramatic refusals of extradition as that by New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in 1932 in the case of Robert Elliott Moore (I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang), Georgia prepared for a legal roundup. "We are going after any others the other States may be holding from us," vowed Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers...