Rates of Proposed Pay Investigated in Railroad Arbitration
Debates over wage bases for western railroad enginemen and firemen focus on profit sharing and standardization. Witnesses describe pay tied to locomotive weight and the need for rule standardization alongside rate increases while managers stress hours and overtime must be factored.
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Chicago
William 8. Carter
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Steinberg
James Sheean
Sheean
Steinberger
Warren C. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Carter
Stone
Sheeua
8. A. Worthington
Eastern Managers’ Sub-Committee
Eastern Railroads
Weather Forecast for Washington and New Mexico
Local rains are likely Saturday with Sunday turning fair. Forecast covers Washington and New Mexico regions with upcoming unsettled and improving conditions.
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Washington
New Mexico
Arbitration notes on productivity and driver formula
The report quotes Sheean supporting full share for Worthing in increased productivity while criticizing investment impacts on labor. Worthing backs the Weighton drivers formula as basis for enginemen compensation. Heating will resume next Monday with no Saturday sessions planned by arbitrators.
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Sheean
Worthingtons
Worthing Alsa
Growing sentiment for submarines in navy policy
Rear Admiral Watt tells the House Naval Affairs Committee that battleships may be sacrificed to expand submarine strength. The Navy plans a 1000 ton submarine to speed twenty mph, with longer submerged endurance and greater range. Rear Admiral Griffin notes progress in the world girdling wireless telegraph network with Arlington and Honolulu stations.
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Morning Journal
Washington
Dec
Watt
House Naval Affairs Cot
MITC
Navy Department
Griffin
Navy
Arlington
Honolulu
Wickersham Tied by Partnership Contract
Governor-elect Whitman may offer George W. Wickersham the New York County district attorney post next month but a binding multi year law partnership with Henry W Taft blocks acceptance. Wickersham prefers public service but contract restricts him from taking the office.
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New York
Charlies SS. Whitman
George W. Wickersham
United State
New York County
Whitman
Henry W. Taft
Indicted in New York for stealing AP dispatches
Grand jury returns indictments against H. J. Linder James Rice and William M. Patton on charges of unlawfully obtaining and revealing Associated Press news. Linder released on bail. Rice and Patton jailed on higher bail. Plea set for Monday before Judge Mulqueen.
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Morning Journal
New York
H. J. Linder
James Rice
William M. Patton
Associated Press
Peng
Rice
Telegraph
New York News Bureau
Atton
Tri- Daily Sporting Bulletin
Mulqueen
Court of General Sessions
Malone
Jade
Linder
Patton
Globe Office
Liberty
Grand Jury
Colonel Alexander Charged With Violating White Slave Act
Providence December 4 Colonel Charles Alexander a retired merchant was arrested on a federal warrant from Chicago charging violation of the Mann white slave act. He allegedly transported Miss Jessie E. Cope of Los Angeles to Chicago in February 1913. Bail set at 7500 and a January federal court hearing scheduled. Alexander vows the case involves an attempted blackmail. He is a prominent club man and wholesaler with residences in Providence Rumestick Point and Williamstown and has a wife and two daughters.
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Morning Journal Special League
Chicago
Charles Alexander
Providence
Charles F. Cline
Jessie Cope
Los Angeles
Calif
R. L
Mann
Jessie E. Cope
Cal
United States
Alexander
Henry W. Hayes
Colonel Alexander
Chamber of Commerce
Hope Club
Squantnum Club
New York Athletic Club
Boston Athletic Association
Alexander Brothers
Rumestick Point
Williamstown
Mass
Miss Jessie Cope Mystery Baffles City Investigators
City investigators in Los Angeles fail to identify anyone who knew Miss Jessie Cope among thousands of winter transients. It is admitted she could have eluded social notice despite potential prominence.
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Los Angeles
Jessie Cope
Weak border policy blamed for 47 casualties at Naco
Reports accuse weak Mexican border policy of causing 47 casualties with one man shot through the heart and an American private wounded in the breast by Maytorena forces near Naco.
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Naco
Maytorena
Washington Refusal Leaves Naco Border Fire Unchecked
Arizona Governor Hunt appeals to Washington for protection of noncombatants as Mexican fire rages on the U S border at Naco Sonora. Coroner Folsom urges response noting 47 shot since siege began, with five dead and two critically hurt.
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Nuco
Ariz
Cgovernor
George W. P Hunt
Arizona
EL A. Folsom
State Department
Washington
Naco
Hunt
Folsom
Mexico
United States
Antonio Hracemonte
United States Army
John Miller
Tenth United States Cavalry
Miguel Remos
Sonora
Mayteurena
Carranga
Benjamin Hill
Nuaco
Folson
Bryan
Wilson
Britain to Aid Russian Finances With Loans Deal
London reports a British government backed plan tied to a 8 million pound Russian shipment. The Bank of England will discount up to 12 million pounds in Russian treasury bills to support exchange for Anglo Russian trade and pay external debt coupons in London.
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Morning Journal
London
Great Britain
Russia
England
Bank of England
Canad
United States
Italy Imposes Tax to Raise Ten Million Dollars
Rome reports government proposes a financial measure to boost revenue by 50,000,000 francs, about 10,000,000 dollars annually. The state has bought one million tons of wheat from Argentina and chartered fire steamers to transport the first shipment.
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Italy
OY Moaning Journal
Rome
Dec
Argentina
Same jurymen at all coroner's inquests in Colorado mines
Denver dispatch reports Walter Curtis, president of Rapson Coal, testifying before the federal industrial relations commission. He argues pit committees enforce discipline and favors firing them, citing unions paying higher wages and fears of losing control. Welborn adds strike statistics for Colorado. McLennan notes courts target miners, not operators, in prosecutions.
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United States Industrial Commission
Denver
Walter A. Curtis
Rapson Coal Company
Federal Commission On Industrial Relations
Rockefeller telegram enters hearing on union role in strike
Testimony shows United Mine Workers of America formed in 1893 with no predecessor. McLennan asserts no trouble in Iowa mines for fourteen years. A purported telegram from John D. Rockefeller Jr. to Welborn and Bowers was read but not recorded, later noted as inadvertently presented. Rockefeller Jr. letter urged operators to accept a settlement offered by Governor Ammons and Foster.
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McLennan
Osgood
Weinstock
United Mine Workers of America
Iowa
Ammons
Foster
John D. Rockefeller, JR
Industrial Relations Commission
J. F. Reade
Denver
Western Union Telegraph Company
Seven Reverses to Germans in Western Zone
Bordeaux dispatch notes the Bulletin Des Armees claims seven major reverses for Germany, detailing failed offensives on Nancy Paris Dunkirk Calais Ypres and a looming retreat. It praises French readiness supplies and improved artillery while noting reinforced British forces and rising Russian influence.
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Wirs
Bordeaux
Paris
Bulletin Des Armees
Nancy
Dunkirk
Calais
Ypres
Germany
Russia
Austria
Typhoid Epidemic Hits German Army in Flanders
Dutch correspondents report a typhoid outbreak among German troops in Flanders and Belgian forces along the Yser due to unsanitary conditions. The disease affects naval forces at Central and a son of the Württemberg king is seriously ill at the German headquarters at Thiet.
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Morning Journal
Leabao Wirg
London
Flanders
Yser
Central
Wuerttemburg
Thiet
German Offensive in Poland Seen Stalling in War News
London dispatch reports see the Lodz battle favoring Russia while Berlin says the Polish advance proceeds without clear gains. Cracow remains a key target as Przemysl resists, with Allied efforts stalled along the Vistula and Warta fronts.
War News of Yesterday Reflects Secrecy Over Fronts
The Paris official communique notes no notable incidents along the western front while fighting persists in the east. Vienna reports quiet elsewhere but unofficials claim Russian gains in Poland and heavy German losses. France plans a 390 000 man 1916 conscription and training likely to start in March. General Christian de Wet is under guard in Johannesburg. Upper Alsace sees renewed French German activity, and Austrian General von Stutterheim is reported killed.
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Belgium
France
Paris
Vienna
Poland
Vistula
Warts
Cathedral of
St. Justus
Trieste
Christian de Wet
South Africa
Johannesburg
Federal Council
Upper
Alsace
von Stutter‘helm
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Wickersham
A. P. News
Portal Telegraph Company
Globe
District Attorney's Office
Criminal Court
Canadian Steel Company
Cline
Jessie EK
Cope
Miss Cope
New Orleans
California
Berkshire Hills
Golden West
Millionaire
Copes
Polk
Boundary Line
Col. C. A. RP. Hatfield
Muytorenu
Pt Committee
Commissioner Garretson
Garretson
Welborn
J. F. Welborn
Colorado Uel & Iron Co
Mr. Curtis
Colorado
John McLennan
Shafroth
Supreme Court
Walsenburg
Walsen
Lodz
Czar
Kaiser
Berlin
Cracow
Hungray
OY Moraing Journal Special Leaseo Wee
Petrograd
Warsaw
Carpathians
Glangary
Przemysl
William
Theront
Seine
New Zealand
Egypt
Emden
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