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...union) wages, Administrator Hopkins brought them sharply to heel by ordering them barred from home relief (TIME, Aug. 19). Last month, under pressure from American Federation of Labor as well as from the necessity to make more jobs, he permitted New York City's WPAdministrator to cut skilled workmen's hours in half, leave their pay the same, thus giving them approximately union wages...
...idle by a shortage of skilled labor. From the U.S.S. Houston last fortnight, Presidential Guest Hopkins abolished the rule requiring 90% of workers on PWA projects to be drawn from relief rolls. In New York City, needing 12,000 skilled workers, WPA officials planned to call in non-relief workmen if the shortage was not quickly supplied by volunteers from home relief...
...know that the Comintern of Moscow is not that funny kind of Russian cabbage soup with sour cream in it. Exceptionally enlightened as to Communists, Canadians were offered a chance to elect Red M. P.'s last week by Incendiary Tim Buck who rushes about trying to win workmen's votes by showing them cablegrams of encouragement received from the World Communist Party Congress in Moscow (TIME, July 29, et seq.). Presenting candidates in only 15 ridings last week, the harried Communists offered Canadians a small chance to vote...
...tried to get the clamors of their metropolis abated. Last week loud Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia headed those noise-haters and ordered his policemen to compel a measure of silence in Manhattan. Policemen gave particular heed to motor car horns, radios and cutouts, to motor truck clattering, to workmen, revelers and electioneers making loud talk after 11 p.m. Milkwagon horses, police horses were shod with rubber shoes. Apparently the rest of the vast community gave some heed. After a night of muffling had passed, sound engineers reported that the din of Times Square dropped from 72 decibels to 68 decibels...
...strictly orthodox Jewish synagog murals in the U. S. They were commissioned by Rabbi Elias Gamze of the Loop Orthodox Synagog which used to be in West Madison Street and attracted such visitors as Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Ben Bernie, Jack Pearl, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois. Last week workmen were cleaning up the Synagog's new $25,000 quarters?over a restaurant and next door to a cheap cinema? for the opening of the high holy day, Rosh Hashana (Sept. 25). Already in place on two walls of the Synagog were ten large murals depicting the Ten Commandments. They...