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...Cascadian Hotel of Wenatchee, Wash, employed Mrs. Elsie Parrish as chambermaid for $12 a week. Under Washington's Minimum Wage Law for women she should have got $14.50 for her 48-hour week. She demanded what the law said was coming to her. The hotel offered $17 in settlement. Elsie Parrish spurned it. She sued...
...hard-boiled President James H. Rand Jr., after defying a National Labor Relations Board order to reinstate and bargain with 4,000 of his employes who have been on strike since last May (TIME, March 22), visited Secretary of Labor Perkins in Washington and worked out a settlement with which she announced herself "extremely well pleased." Less pleased with Mr. Rand's terms, the strike leaders pondered, postponed acceptance. Elsewhere in the seething cauldron of U. S. Labor old and new sit-downs and walkouts continued to splash up and vanish in a constant boil...
Governor Murphy soon settled the hotel strikes, persuading both sides to submit to arbitration. But uppity bellboys were the least of the earnest Governor's troubles last week. Nullifying the courts, Governor Murphy had averted bloodshed in the General Motors strike, helped bring a peaceful settlement, made himself a national hero. But he had also taught sit-downers that they could safely defy the law, and last week they were showing that they had learned their lesson well...
Because of the outstanding number of volunteer workers supplied to meet the growing demands of Boston and Cambridge Settlement Houses, Charles L. Burwell '39, Edmond L. Charbonnier '39, and Irving S. Michelman '39 were nominated in the first contest for cabinet positions ever held by the organization...
...exception is possible; his task of transcribing the proceedings of the cabinet meetings and in general assisting his two colleagues accords with the significance of the position. In the last analysis the president must make his own job. And in consideration of the many associations he forms with settlement houses and men outside the University, in view of his supervisory capacity over the functions of the various committees--which involves more contacts, the president of P.B.H. has a better chance for useful initiative than many undergraduate officers...