MAYOR F. H. LA GUARDIA FLAYS BIG MILK DISTRIBUTORS AND "RESEARCH" AGENCY
Mayor F. H. La Guardia Flays Big Milk Distributors and "Research" Agency President, Aiserlcan Federation of Labor. Advertisers in William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Herald-American received this...
...All three agreed on the need for low-rent homes and the huge volume of business and jobs piled up by the housing program...
...State Unemployment Compensation Commissioner Frank R. Odium, in denying an appeal from an examiner's decision that no compensation be allowed a woman who had quit her Job to care for a sick child, declared that "a child's health is more important than the accumulation of an economic surplus by the parents...
...The questions, he said, were so framed and worded as to be misleading and to catch replies in their favor...
...Pennsylvania PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Backed equally by heavy industry, CIO and AFL unions, plus wide general support, public housing is going to town in western Pennsylvania...
...Minn—The last five of the WPA workers convicted of conspiracy for participating in the sewing project demonstration during last summer's WPA strike were put on 12 to 15 months' probation by Federal Judge M. M. Joyce...
...Fisher said, has ever dominated the council...
...James M. Greene, executive vice president of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce...
...Therefore she is not entitled to benefits under the law...
...He denied the woman's appeal for benefits en the grounds that "the child is still sick and in great need of its mother's care, so that the woman is not available for re-employment...
...Fisher, commenting on this part of the mayor's address, declared that the research body had for 10 years represented both producers and distributors of milk and was supported by 45.000 producers and by both large and small distributors, including six independent dealers...
...and Borden's Farm Products promptly took issue with Mayor La Gnarriia's declarations concerning the purpose of the questionnaire and Edward Fisher Brown, executive vice-president of Milk Research Council, Inc., which sent out the document, characterized the mayor's charges as "unwarranted and untrue...
...B. J. Hovde of the Pittsburgh Housing Authority were Harold Ruttenburg, educational director of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (CIO), Pres...
...William Green, the letter advises firms to advertise in the Herald-American, which is regarded "as fair to the officers and members of the AFL...
...Ill a radio tali: delivered last January the mayor urged all consumers to stop buying Grade A milk and to buy Grade B, which he declared was as wholesome and nutritions'for children and adults as was the more expensive product...
...No company or group of companies, Mr...
...The five men pleaded nolle contendere following the government's dismissal of indictments against 125 workers...
...Recently, however, five new authorities have been appointed in Westmoreland county (coal, steel, aluminum), Cambria county (steel, coal), Johnstown (Bethlehem Steel), Beaver county (steel, coal), and Fayette county (coal, coke...
...My purpose in talking to you today...
...Connecticut HARTFORD, Com.—Connecticut's unemployment compensation law is interpreted as meaning that a mother's place is at home with her sick child, even though she forfeits unemployment benefits...
...The commissioner did not suggest how the mother was to support herself and child...
...Participating in a Pittsburgh conference called by Dr...
...Speaking on the subject "Monkey" Business in Plugging Grade A Milk," Mayor La Guardia accused the "two big companies" of conducting a campaign of "vicious propaganda" in "plugging" the more expensive product...
...New local authorities may more than double that figure...
...Until now the building has been limited to three local authorities in Allegheny county...
...sentences of from 30 days to eight months...
...The Hearst strike committee contends that the letter "does not in any sense reflect the attitude of the AFL rank and file," which has given considerable support to the 16-month strike...
...Inc., which he termed a joint corporation mantalned by "the two large companies...
...Surveys show that steel and coal towns throughout the area have a tremendously large proportion of dwellings unfit for human habitation...
...The mayor then told of the questionnaire sent to physicians by Milk Research Council...
...Disposal of their cases concludes the government's action which started when 166 were rounded up by G-men on conspiracy charges...
...Speaking from WNYC, the municipal broadcasting station, the mayor charged that the two companies had caused to be sent to licensed physicians of the city an unfair and misleading questionnaire, the answers to which were intended for use In an advertising campaign to "plug" the sales of Grade A milk...
...the mayor said, "is to prevent a scare to the mothers in our city...
...Signed by AFL Pres...
...Serious collapse of employment is the alternative, Walters warned...
...The WPA Defense Committee is conducting a campaign for presidential pardons for the 14 workers now serving...
...George Walters of the Pittsburgh Building Trades Council (AFL) and Dr...
...Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS...
...County commissioners, mayors, steel and miners' union leaders and building tradesmen, steel company executives and realtors joined in a demand that the house of representatives pass the pending bill that would provide $800,-000,000 more in low-interest bonds to finance the program...
...Ona of the worst-housed sections of the U. Sv this region has some 4,-000 new homes under construction in the U. S. Housing Authority program...
...Officials of the Sheffield Farms Co...
...Advertisers in William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Herald-American received this circular letter, made public by the Chicago Newspaper Guild (CIO...
...In some areas as many as half are substandard...
...PASS THIS PATER ON It Will Win New Readers Says People Are Seared Into Buying Grade A Produet NEW YORK CITY — Mayor La Guardia left his budget-making labors last week long enough to hurl his second attack in three months against the "two big milk companies" for what he termed their scheme to scare mothers into buying Grade A milk for their children...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
