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...outrage" was Six Companies, Inc., builder of the Hoover Dam where twelve workers collapsed and died in the Nevada heat last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). And although the convention, encouraged by Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, turned its back on a Federal Dole, one Labor measure advocated by the delegates seemed certain of gaining the ear of Congress this winter. The 21 railroad unions (including the unaffiliated Brotherhoods), whose industry has laid off 250,000 men in a year, demanded a six-hour day to bring men back to work. President...
Political portents at Vancouver: President Green made it plain that the Federation will urge the upping of inheritance taxation, possibly the restoration of the gift tax, to redistribute "superfluous wealth." He also plainly indicated that to provide more work he would agitate the six-hour day for workers in the transportation field, an industry in which the Government largely controls working conditions. The Federation has more than one way of gaining the ear of Congress: by workers' petitions, through Labor's Cabinet representative, by the personal lobbying among legislators and high executives of President Green and his Washington...
...Howe amplified this: "Mr. Edison has been suffering with ulcers of the stomach for the last 20 years. For the last three years he has restricted his diet to two glasses of milk every two hours, and during the last six weeks to one glass every two hours. . . . I don't think he will ever be out of danger." But Mr. Edison, after a six-hour sleep, flung up his hands, exclaimed: "I feel 105% better...
...October before President Hoover roused the country for unemployment help, he put his Battle Creek factory on a five-day-a-week basis to employ 300 more men. The factory has been running 24 hours a day, in three eight-hour shifts, for 2,500 employes. Last fortnight he altered his factory schedule again. To hire still more men, he now runs four six-hour shifts daily. He also increased wages to give every employee at least $4 a workday...
...make more jobs the "big four" railway brotherhoods suggested that the roads shift employment from an eight to a six-hour basis but without any wage reductions. Declared Lawrence Aloysius Downs, president of Illinois Central: "This is a mighty poor time to ask any such thing. The roads have no money to pay additional salaries...