War Labor Board polices urge better conditions and unions
The War Labor Policies Board outlines principles for workers to organize and bargain collectively while preserving wage stability. It supports eight hour days where laws apply, equal pay for equal work, and maintaining production levels. It also explains bombing history and potash shortages affecting 1918 operations, plus conservation measures for kerosene and straw.
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Committee On Public Information
Washington
Labor Policies Board
War Labor Policies Board
National War Labor Board
Felix Frankfurter
Labor Wage Adjustment Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
County Seat Removal Petition Filed Today
Douglas chamber of commerce secretary John A. Boyle and attorney C. V. Manatt filed a county seat removal petition in Cochise County. The board set August 12 for a hearing while critics, led by Attorney O. Gibson, protest delaying action until the Supreme Court resolves the prior Douglas petition.
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Allied Flying Corps
Karlsruhe
Chamber of Commerce & Mines
C. V. Manatt
Douglas
Tombstone
Karger
Mr. Gibson
Removal Fight in Cochise County Taxes and Courts Clash
A columnist warns against county seat removal, uniting Tombstone, Warren District, and Cochise County against Douglas and Pirtleville. The piece cites wartime sentiment, real estate interests, and a 1915 statute while threatening Supreme Court action to block any petition and keep a writ of prohibition in force.
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Cochise
Cial
Douglas
Tombstone
Bisbee
Willcox
Bowie
Benson
St. David
Pirtleville
United States
Isues
Supreme Court
Warren District
Cochise County
Census of Cochise County School Children Report
Miss Elsie Toles and Miss Helen Benedict report the Cochise county school census for the past fiscal year shows a slight drop to 12 677 children. White youths aged six to twenty one total 12 595 with 6 264 boys and 6 331 girls. colored youths total 82. Among eight to sixteen year olds white 2 044 and colored 46. Public school attendees total 9 847 white and 64 colored. private school attendees 278 white and 7 colored. not attending 2 471 white and 10 colored. Native born with native parents 6 606. native born with one foreign-born parent 909. native born with both parents foreign born 1 838. foreign-born in county 3 324.
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Cochise County
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WAR Labor Board
Gilmerton
Bureau of Markets
Department of Agriculture
Charles L. Parsons
Bureau of Mines
Department of the Interior
Deetor Parsons
Germany
Russia
Food Administration
War Department
Army
Oil Conservation
United States Fuel Administration
H. E. Miles
The
Council of National Defense
Daniels
H. F E. Allen
Harry Koppel
William H. Kane
United States Naval Reserve Forces
Austin Foss
Tombstone Daily Prospector
John
A. Boyle
Board of Supervis
Ors
C. Karger
Board of Supervisors
Sparks
Rock
W. M. Johnson
California
Messrs. Boyle and
Manatt
O. Gibson
Payer
Supreme Court of
State of Arizona
Peti
Tion
Baxter
Bition
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the Supreme Court of
Jurisdic
ANN
Bidg
San Francisco
Miss Elsie Toles
Ty School Superintendent
Sistant
Helen Benedict
Mexico
Foreign
Swift & Company
Ray
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