Building Trades Vote Conference Looms as Treaty Issue
Democratic leaders in Washington plan to back President Wilson on the peace treaty at the quadrennial meeting of the Democratic National Committee. The committee aims to endorse Wilson ahead of the national convention likely held in Kansas City or San Francisco, heightening the treaty’s campaign prominence.
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Democratic Party
Democratic National Committee
Kansas City
San Francisco
Wilson
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Chicago
St. Louis
New York Denies Seats to Five Socialist Assemblymen
Albany Jan. 7 five socialist members of the New York assembly were denied seats pending an eligibility investigation after Speaker Sweet denounced the socialist platform. Leaders Claessens Dewitt Orr Solomon and Waldman opposed the resolution.
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Albany
N. Y
Assembly
Sweet
Socialist Party
New York
United States
Louis Waldman
August Claessens
Building Trades See Joint Conference With Employers Planned
Delegates from eight unions vote to meet with Montana Associated Industries to discuss wage and work conditions for 1920. One union opposed, two representatives from each craft will join a conference board of 18. The aim is to stabilize wages, regulate prices, and reduce profiteering while proceeding with a joint conference within two weeks.
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Building Trades Council
Montana Associated Industries
Painters
Carpenters’ Union
Red Mannuell
Mannac
Mree
J. H. Ndneaene
Montana Associated Industr
McIntosh
Colunell
Employers’ Association
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Olson Placed In Jail After Kennedy Sporting Goods Robbery
Eugene Olson sits on a jail bench refusing to eat sleep talk walk or smoke dead in his hands as Donald Vandevere is jailed for complicity in the Kennedy sporting goods store robbery in Minneapolis. The pair were arrested in Butte Montana and brought back to city custody yesterday.
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Minneapolis
Eugene Olson
Olson
Donald Vandevere
Butte
Mont
Kennedy Sporting Goods
Navy
Hines and shippers divide on rail consolidation plan
In New York on January 7 Director General Hines urged compulsory railroad consolidation under public and labor involvement to avert private control return and possible government ownership. In Chicago on the same date the National Shippers conference memorial opposed guaranteed earnings for lines and compulsory consolidation and urged early return to private control with state rate commissions maintained.
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New York
Hines
Bar Association of
New York City
Chicago
Congress
National Shippers’ Conference
Cummins
State to vote at closed primary is decision of court
Montana voters in April must declare party affiliations and receive that party ballot from officials, ending the old system of secret crossballoting. District Judge W H Poorman ruled that the legislature’s closed primary emergency measure cannot be paused for a statewide referendum.
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Poorman
Helena
Montana
W. H. Poorman
T. Stewart
Sam Goodman
Secretary of
Stewart
Attorney General’s Office
Supreme Court
Railway unions plan cooperative buying to ease cost of living
Washington reports officials of the four large railway brotherhoods and affiliated crafts aim to form a cooperative network for buying, production and distribution after failing to secure wage hikes or anti profiteering relief. The plan follows a court decision allowing legislative action on initiated laws. details remain under study as cases move toward higher courts.
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Washington
Associated Press
Railroad Administration
Department of Justice
American Federation of Labor
Start probe of Finan for five years condition
A formal inquiry begins into Finan over a five year condition. Officials initiate probes to assess compliance and potential implications for ongoing operations.
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FINAN
City to appoint trio for audit of finances
Mayor Stodden will name three members to draft a questionnaire guiding an auditor’s examination of city finances. The move follows a council resolution as Alderman Frudenstein pushes for a five year audit amid claims of pencil entries and understaffed auditing.
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Stodden
Wilson
Fruedenstein
Montanans Among Injured In Milwaukee Train Wreck
Thirty seven people were injured when four cars derailed and three turned over on Milwaukee westbound train No. Columbian between Watauga and Mobridge South Dakota. Eight were seriously hurt. many victims from Montana. Conductor H. K. Brooks of Mobridge severely injured internal injuries. Victims were taken to Mobridge hospitals.
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Butte
Mobridge
HK. KE. Brooks
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Hickey
George Benz
Algona
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