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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widely ballyhooed community banquet (1,000 guests), Kankakee toasted a pair of local boys, Harry Stella and Allen Bergner. Born within eight months of one another (the year before thg U. S. entered the Great War), young Stella, son of an Italian immigrant, wanted to be a soldier; young Bergner, son of a German immigrant, wanted to be a sailor. Playmates from boyhood, both made the football team at Kankakee High School: Stella at right tackle, Bergner at left tackle. When they were graduated, Stella went to West Point, Bergner to Annapolis...
Last week, having labored to level local obstacles and brought all the utilities except big Nebraska Power Co. into line, Banker Myers rejoiced at a milestone which seemed to assure complete success for the "Myers Deal." The Federal Power Commission approved the sale to his clients of the Nebraska part of Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Co., second biggest in the State, for $20,195,991-a compromise figure considerably higher than FPC's cost valuation but slightly under Iowa-Nebraska's original cost valuation...
...Georgian strike, called by local 106 of the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Union, A. F. of L. affiliate which organized Harvard dining hall employees last year came as a result of an alleged refusal by the management to abide by a State Arbitration Board ruling, a ruling which both sides had previously agreed to accept as final...
Labor trouble at the popular rendezvous of local cafe society came to a head six weeks ago when employees struck for a 25 percent wage increase, a 48 hour week, and a vacation with pay. They went back to work two days later when representatives of employers and employees signed an agreement agreeing to submit the dispute to the State Board, "whose decision shall be final and binding on both parties...
...Board's ruling, made on December 29, awarded the workers a 10 per cent increase in wages, a 48 hour week, and deferred the vacation question until sometime later. But, according to Joseph Stefani, business manager of local 106, the management refused to accept the agreement and is demanding a review of the case...