New York Drives Overalls Movement Gains Citywide Support
Thousands of New Yorkers join a clothing cost relief campaign by wearing blue denim. De Witt High School students, Columbia University, and other groups adopt khaki and denim attire as a demonstration, with organizers stacking denim supplies to ward off price hikes.
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Cheese Club
Branatic
de Witt High School
Columbia University
Columbia
Strike not traceable to radical activity says Morrison
Frank Morrison, AFL secretary, rejects Palmer’s claim that the railway strike stemmed from radicals. He argues railway executives found the cause to be a plain demand for higher pay and says there is no revolutionary power behind the outbreak.
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Frank Morrison
Washington
Palmer
American Federation of Labor
United States
Morrison
Wood and Lowden gaze at Montana in pivotal talks
Important conferences shaping the Wood and Lowden campaigns occurred in Chicago. They covered Montana Oregon Indiana and the Montana presidential primary set for April 23. The candidates named include Wood Governor Lowden Senator Johnson and Hoover.
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Chicago
Wood
Lowden
Monetana
Oregon
Indiana
Montana
Mystery Danube Yacht Tragedy Leaves 11 Dead
Romanian authorities probe the Ostava which stranded at Sulina on the Danube after 11 Russian men and women were found dead with head wounds. 14,000,000 rubles and jewels were aboard. refugees drifted ashore under guard as storms tore the tow lines and halted rescue attempts.
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Bucharest
Ostava
Sulina
Danube
Valafein
Skadoveki
Falzfein
Odessa
Constanza
Salina
Soldier Bonus Bill Is Ready for Full House Vote
Republican members of the house ways and means committee approved the soldier bonus and land reclamation provisions in general terms. A composite bill will be reviewed by the full committee tomorrow for final action with details on cash amounts eligible classes and payment basis still unsettled. Land reclamation funding totals eight hundred thousand dollars for reclamation and twenty million over ten years to be allocated among states including irrigation drainage and land recovery for soldiers homes.
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House
Ways and Means
Mondell
American Legion
Administration Board
Secory of the Interior
Secretary of the Treasury
Con
Paar
President Wilson Invited to Estes Park Summer Meeting
April 16. Governor of Colorado and other state officials telegraphed an invitation to President Wilson to establish the summer White House at Estes Park Colorado. The message signals plans for a presidential stay in the Colorado resort during the upcoming season.
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Kempers
Louisville
George Smith
Scranton
Colorado
Wilson
White House
Estes “Park
Colo
Arbitration action may affect employees and gases policy
Action taken may have far reaching impact on workers and gas regulations. Proceedings outline a path to arbitration involving employee concerns and industry standards.
Butte Associated Industries Announces Arbitration Pact
The text notes an agreement by Butte Associated Industries addressing employee relations and union involvement. It describes a permanent arbitration framework for immediate settlement of grievances and outlines how employees will be managed under this system.
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Aera
Butte Associated — Industries
Arbitration stance by As elated Industries press statement
The executive board of the As elated Industries issued a formal statement after a meeting in which the entire industrial situation in Butte was discussed. The organization declares that all grievances must go to arbitration and that a permanent arbitration board will consider all industrial questions, a move praised by a prominent member as the most advanced stance by any representative group.
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As Elated Industries
Butte
Asolated Industries
Promanent Arbitration Board
Nebraska May Eliminate Bryan in Primary Fight
Philip Mullen predicts Bryan’s fall in Nebraska’s primary, while factions brace for the impact on national politics. The piece also notes power struggles between Wood and Johnson, and a contest with Hoover interests shaping the Republican side.
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Omaha
Neb
Tulsa
William Jenni
Hiram. Johnson
Leonard Wood
Nebras
Arthur F. “Mullen
Bryan
Tyers
Mullen
Wil Abbott
Herbert Hoover
RR. Howell
Pershing
Woo
Gilbert Mite
Wilson
Wight Wines
Hitchcock
Ryan
Chicago School Engineers Prepare Strike Action
The Chicago board of education meets to discuss a 225 engineer strike that closed schools today affecting thousands of pupils. Superintendent Mortensen says spring vacation will be observed next week. Engineers demand raises of 5 percent, from 1582.10 to 2100 annually. Edwin Davis, president of the school board, notes offers of substantial increases already made.
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Chicago
Board of Education
Mortensen
Edwin 8. Davis
Wood Speech Backs Republican Nomination in Newark
General Leonard Wood addressed a Newark meeting urging support for his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. he closed with a steadfast line about fighting for the same causes as Americans despite costs. The report notes the venue and that the remarks were delivered on April 16.
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Newark
N. J
Leonard Wood
German Officials See Revolt Threat as Berlin Troops Mass
Berlin reports a rising mood as government troops concentrate in central Berlin after Premier Braun returns from Ruhr. Officials fear a new revolt amid reports of activity by reactionaries in Pomerania and Germany. Subversive networks are alleged to be forming with German Russian detachments noted.
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Berlin
Herr Severing
Ruhr
Danaigdis
Germany
Hammerstein
Woat
Proseia
End of Nationwide Railroad Strike Seen as More Men Return
AP report says early end to the nation wide strike with 500 Pennsylvania firemen and enginemen at Baltimore going back to work. Reports of defections in the brakemen ranks and improved service on Middle and Far West roads indicate a broad breakdown in the strike.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
Stern Railway
Toledo
Ohio
Inbor
General Wood Popular Choice for Republican Nomination
Special Dispatch reports General Wood leads for the Republican nomination in the Literary Digest poll with 11,000,000 ballots mailed and 25,198 votes tallied in installment one. Pershing, Capper, Butler, and Cummins trail as other GOP options while Cox leads Democrats with Edwards second.
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Standard New York
General Wood
Literary Digest
Wood
Pershing
Capper
Butler
James Cox
Ohio
Edwards
New Jersey
New York Delegation Pledges Wet Plank Support
April 16 York delegation to the Democratic convention signals a move to include a wet plank in the platform. Norman E. Mack and Buffalo colleagues express opposition to prohibition as federal policy and favor permitting light wines and beer or spirits for medicinal or other purposes.
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York
Democratic State Committee
Bryan
Norman E. Mack
Buffalo Volesd
Administration's Mexico policy attacked in Senate hearing
Former ambassador Henry Lane Wilson told a Senate investigating committee that the current administration's policy toward Mexico caused vast costs and deaths. He blamed U S policy for sustaining Carranza, the border death toll, pestilence and famine in Mexico, and a large Mexican treasury deficit. He criticized Secretary Bryan's management of the State Department.
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State Department
Carranza
Sonora
Henry Lane Wilson
Mexico
Senate
United States
Wilson
Diaz
William J.bryan
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