Wage Rise Signals Broad Cotton Industry Shift
Fall River mill owners raise wages by 19 percent for 30 000 workers, likely affecting nearly 100 000 operatives across Southeastern Massachusetts Rhode Island Eastern Connecticut and several other towns. Rhode Island mills plan to match increases benefiting about 20 960 workers plus 15 000 in Eastern Connecticut and 5 000 more in Rhode Island.
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Boston
New England
Fall River
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Bedford
Providence
AFL Work Congress Debates AP Denouncement Motion
The American Federation of Labor meets in Minneapolis and weighs a motion by Daniel Russell of the Commercial Telegraphers union to denounce the Associated Press over telegraphers’ treatment. The council may place AP on the unfair list after a full inquiry if no accord is reached. The session also settles jurisdiction lines among brewery workers engineers firemen and teamsters under separate charters and rejects a Berger proposal to keep affiliated groups from militia ties.
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Minneapolis
American Federation of Labor
Daniel L. Russell
The
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of North America
Associated Press
Executive Council
Execu Council
North America
Victor I L. Berger
Milwaukee
Hamilton Riots Halt Streetcar Service Amid Army Arrival
In Hamilton Ontario on November 24 rioters clashed with police as streetcars attempted to run. The mayor sought troops and 100 regulars were reported en route from Toronto. Strikebreakers had arrived on November 12 and were driven out by mobs.
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Hamilton
Ont
Hamilton Street Railway
Toronto
Wages Raised at U.S. Steel Subsidiaries May 1
B H Gary, on behalf of the United States Steel board, announced a 10 cent daily wage increase for common labor in subsidiary plants effective May 1. Day and turn labor wages will be adjusted accordingly.
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New York
B. H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Judge Cowles Killed by Streetcar in Los Angeles
Judge A F E Cowles, a former Michigan circuit judge and Lansing resident, was instantaneously killed when struck by an eastbound West Adams streetcar at La Salle Street corner. He had arrived in Los Angeles two months earlier to visit his daughter.
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Los Angeles
Cal
A. F E. Cowles
Michigan
Lansing
West Adams
la Salle Street
Oyster schooner captain found guilty under shanghai law
Norfolk authorities report Captain Andrew Crockett of the James A Whit ing dredge James A Whit ing convicted under the federal shanghai law. He faces a $500 fine or up to six months in jail as sentence is handed down on November 24.
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Norfolk, Va
Andrew Crockett
Chesapeake Bay
James A. Whiting
Shanghai
Dee
Colonel Pitcher Denies Criticism of Troops
Washington dispatch says Colonel William H. Pitcher of the Twenty seventh Infantry denied criticizing the negro troops transferred to Fort Sheridan. He wrote from Camp Colombia Cuba to explain remarks reported by the press amid a broader wartime context. The letter, dated November 24, counters claims of disloyalty or fault finding in the troop transfer.
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Washington
War Department
William H. Pitcher
Camp Columbia
Cuba
Fort Sheridan
Pitcher
Republican Club Dinner in New York for Governor-elect Hughes
More than seven hundred Republicans from across New York attended the Waldorf Astoria dinner for Governor-elect Charles E. Hughes hosted by the New York Republican Club. General Henry F. Tremain presided as toastmaster Timothy L. Woodruff. Governor Higgins and Senators Platt and Depew were absent. Regret letters came from Secretaries Root and Taft.
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New York
New York State
Charles EK. Hughes
Republican Club of
Waldorf-Astoria
Henry F. Tremain
Timothy L. Woodruff
Higgins
Platt
Depew
Root
Taft
Jealous husband kills man hiding in wife’s flat
In Cleveland, John Young fatally shot Hermann Brobst after finding him crouched in a closet at Mrs. Young’s apartments. Brobst sought shelter there as Young arrived unexpectedly. a shot meant for the wife missed. Young, long separated from his wife, acted due to jealousy over Brobst.
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Cleveland
Navy
John Young
Hermann Brobst
Norfolk and Southern Railway to Lead Merged Lines
In Norfolk on November 24 stockholders of the Norfolk and Southern Railway company the Virginia Carolina Coast Railroad company and the John I Roper Lumber company approved a merger forming a single holding structure with terminals in Norfolk. The new arrangement unites several Eastern North Carolina and Virginia rail lines under one head.
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Norfolk, Va
Norfolk and Southern Railway Company
North Carolina
Virginia
Norfolk and Southern Railroa Ceepany
Virginia, Carolina Coast Railroad Company
John I. Roper Lumber Company
Trans Mississippi Gariversial congress adjourns to 1907
Kansas City reports the Trans Mississippi Gariversial congress adjourned after electing H D Loveland of San Francisco as president for the ensuing year and adopting resolutions including endorsement of a proposition by Secretary Elihu Reed to encourage merchant moving and increase intercourse with South America by adequate free facilities.
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Kansas City
H. D. Loveland
San Francisco
William J. Bryan
Committee On
Elihu Reet
Niutving
South America
Transmississippi Gamiversial Congress
I Es
Muskogee
Four Guilty of Peonage Conspiracy in Pensacola Case
The jury found W. S. Harlan C. C. Hilton and S. L. Huggins guilty of conspiracy to commit peonage in Pensacola Florida. Sentencing will follow. In St. Louis Cornelius Sullivan, eighteen, pleaded guilty to two fraudulent registration charges and received a five year penitentiary term. Elihu Root spoke at the Cincinnati Commercial Club dinner urging South American trade and Panama Canal support with foreign guests present.
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Pensacola
Fla
W. S. Harlan
C. C. Hilton
S.L. Huggins
St. Louis
Cornelius Sullivan
D Efircuit
Sullivan
Cincinnatui
South America
Elihu Root
Cincinnati Commercial Club
Mr. Root
Ignacio Calderon
Bolivia
United States
Enrique Cortez
Colombia
Albert Yoacham
Washington
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Republican Club
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Commercial Club
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