Larkin Back Again To Father Walkout Threat
James Larkin, Sinn Fein leader and agitator, spoke to the Butte metal mine workers as the I W W backs a planned general walkout across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Larkin may address Columbia Gardens today while planning trips to Spokane and Portland. Local I W W officials and supporters push for heightened action. Moving pictures of Frank H. Little’s funeral were shown in Walkerville amid tensions over bans on the display.
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James Larkin
Butte
Ireland
Chicago
William D. Haywood
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LW. W
Larkin
Finlander Hall
Tom Rimmer
Joe Shannon
John McCarthy
Tom Kennedy
Joe McNulty
Metal Mine Workers Union
App
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Stewart
James Rowan
Spokane
Farkin
Rowan
Jeannette Rankin
Portland
Imperial Wilhelm
Metal Mine Workers’ Union
We W
Frank H. Little
Walkerville
John C Holland
Crown
Jack Melia
Depthes
Holland
Butts
Solidarity
Tom ‘Rimmer
Allied Reply to Peace Plan Faces Vatican Note Pressings
The article reports cautious Allied analysis of Pope Benedict XV’s peace note, with Secretary Lansing weighing every phrase and preparing a possible separate national replies rather than a joint one. It notes delays in concrete steps, and foreign press sentiment from Berlin papers questioning terms about restorations and indemnities, signaling uncertain prospects for peace talks.
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Grand Alliance
Vatican
Difcult
Entente
United States
Curtis
Hemade
State Department
Washington
Merlin Press
Amsterdam
Krene Zettung
Berlin
Taeglische Rundschau
Xave
Austria
Korlaische Zeitung
Virginia mountaineers found guilty in arms dispute case
Big Stone Gap Virginia August 17 J W Phipps and W Mecoy were found guilty by a federal court jury on an indictment charging recruiting men to destroy arms and ammunition of the United States government. The penalty is five years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta.
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Big Stone Gap
J. W. Phipps
Virginia
Sec Troops If Necessary for War Affects Workers Strikes
The Spokane council of defense votes to send speakers into Wheat fields orchards and camps to appeal to workers to keep harvesting and producing for the war effort. Industrial Workers leader James Rowan says strikers will obey laws and violence will not be tolerated. With thousands of lumber, construction, and agricultural workers on strike, aid will be provided where needed though no strike fund exists. Camps for workers will not be reestablished. some Idaho camps were broken up by Governor Alexander and workers imprisoned for defying orders amid forest fire losses and rising fighting costs in Eastern Washington and Idaho.
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Industrial Workers of the World
Spokane Council of Defense
Henry Suzzallo
State Council of Defense
James Rowan
Maho
Montana
Oregon
Washington
Rowan
Idaho
Alexander
Road houses shut. probe on road house operations
Road houses on the flat were closed tight last night and for several nights after hours. County officials found no places open during a late trip. Attorney General Ford has a special representative in Butte gathering information on alleged violations of the law and investigating road house conditions and activities uptown. Ford is expected in Butte today.
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Ford
Butte
Allied Press Forward in Yser Arc Battlefront Action
Allied forces pressed the attack along a 30 kilometer front from the Yser canal to the Lys river. German defenses around Dreigeachten yielded then were retaken as English forces broke through near Langemirck and Pool Kappelle before Langemarck and other positions were reclaimed by evening. Despite continued English assaults near St Julien and Warneton, counter thrusts restored local lines with high morale as fighting shifted toward Artois and Loos.
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Yser Canal
Lys
Dreigeachten
Mart Jevaurt
Bixschoote
Langemirck
Pool Kappelle
Langemarck
St. Julien
Warneton
Artois
Loos
Taft Declares Peace Requires Prussian Caste Removal
Former president William Howard Taft spoke at Cana de Montre on August 1 1918 urging that peace is impossible while the Prussian military caste remains in power He warned against pacifist talk while stating the United States will remain in the fight as he travels to Murray Bay to recover from illness
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Montress
Aug
Watham Howard Taft
United States
Murray Bay
Mr. Taft
May Take Over Coal Industry Direct Distribution by Districts
Officials in Chicago report rising restiveness under high prices and pressure from labor for immediate wage increases. The government may take action to control coal distribution, with operators blaming railroads for car shortages and rail policy. The trade commission expects new DFO powers to fix car disposition under the new law.
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Councils of Defense
Chicago
The
Trade Commission
DFO
Interstate Commerce Commission
Russian army capacity restored predicts vast operations
Petrograd Lieutenant General Korn, commander in chief, states that energetic measures have strengthened army morale and capacity. He calls for complete reorganization and foresees large scale action on the Romanian front and elsewhere, including possible combined land and sea operations, with another winter campaign likely.
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Petrograd
Korn
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