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...accepted these terms, canceled. With unwonted vigor Mr. Green turned on the delegates and declared: "I insist upon your acting favorably upon this proposition." They did-with only a murmur of dissent. Highly pleased, Messrs. Green and Tighe entrained for Washington to put the union's offer to Madam Secretary Perkins and the President. Said Mr. Tighe: "We are not going to be sold out by Roosevelt and we know it." Meanwhile in Washington President Roosevelt was giving up, for the last time, any hope of putting through the comprehensive Labor Disputes Bill by New York's Senator...
...must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of all West Coast I. L. A. members. Because such a majority still seemed to be in a fighting mood no one could yet say that the West Coast's biggest strike was over. In an open letter to Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, the radical New Masses crowed : "You wanted a first-class strike. Come to the Pacific . . and you will...
...General thought it the better part of wisdom to let Edward F. McGrady, Madam Secretary Perkins' able assistant, try to persuade the Rank & Filers to accept the steelmasters' offer of a labor board. Chief Tighe was summoned back from Cleveland to attend the conference. In the presence of his fiery subchiefs, even that conservative old leader could find nothing good to say of the plan...
...agriculture every ten years. By that law an agricultural census would be held on Jan. 1, 1935. The Roosevelt Administration recently decided to spend, in addition to $2,700,000 already voted, $7,540,000 to take a simultaneous census of the unemployed. Secretaries Roper, Wallace, Ickes and Madam Secretary Perkins all urged the change. So did Census Director Austin, General Johnson, Relief Administrator Hopkins. They had excellent reasons...
PEOPLE AT WORK-Frances Perkins- Day ($2.50). Madam Secretary of Labor's report of how labor is protected...