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...International Harvester Co.'s Chicago plant, a strike of 6,500 C. I. O. employes delayed work on several million dollars' worth of Army tractors. Union leaders, charging that the company was holding up settlement by "endless conferences," demanded a 75?-an-hour minimum wage rate for men; for women...
Sightseers in Cleveland usually go to see Karamu House. A cross between a school and settlement house, it got its name from a Swahili word meaning "place of enjoyment," comes close to being the ugliest institution in the U. S. Its five grey shanties squat in the heart of the "Roaring Third," Cleveland's worst slum. Its students, dressed in caps, windbreakers, overcoats, shriek at each other as they work, now & again break off for impromp tu boxing matches. Yet Clevelanders were not surprised last week when the Charles Eisenman Award, Cleveland's most cov eted civic prize...
Phillips Brooks House offers a good opportunity to any one interested in social service in settlement houses in Boston. All those interested in competing for the Social Service Committee report to Brooks House between 7:30 and 8:30 o'clock tonight...
...before he took office, ex-&-exiled President Calles announced from California that he was behind him. Almazanistas have boarded the bandwagon. That wry little labor leader, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, whom Avila Camacho repudiated before his election, has echoed his disapproval of "crazy strikes" and begun trying to negotiate a settlement of a miners' strike in Nueva Rosita, Coahuila...
Being a native South Carolinian, and a frequent visitor to the old settlement ... I must inform you that Ninety Six is still in South Carolina...