Wilson appoints three member coal wage commission
President Wilson named a three member commission to settle the anthracite wage dispute. William O. Thompson McAdoo Neal J. Ferry and William L. Connell represent the public miners and operators. Hearings will be held in Washington, with a decision expected within 60 days. Any wage rise would be retroactive to April 1 and form the basis for a new agreement. No strikes or lockouts will occur during the process.
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Wilson
William O. Thompson
Ohio State University
McAdoo
Neal J. Ferry
United Mine Workers of America
William L. Connell
Scranton
Washington
Davis to Succeed Under Secretary Polk
Washington June 4 Under secretary of state Frank L Polk has tendered his resignation to President Wilson who accepted it effective June 15 Norman H Davis an assistant secretary of the treasury and adviser to the American peace delegates at Paris is expected to succeed him
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Washington
Frank L. Polk
Son
Norman H. Davis
the Treasury
Paris
Lucas
Memorial Program For Cherry Creek Observed On May Day
Memorial Day observance at Cherry Creek school near Shawmut included Sunday school and officer elections followed by a program led by Mrs. J. M. Casebolt and the school. The event featured recitations, songs from the choir, and a flag ceremony with students Ruth Miller Georgia Farthing Kenneth Casebolt Ben Frederickson and Mildred Berg among participants. Dinner for about forty followed, with sandwiches potato salad cottage cheese lima beans pie cake and coffee. The note praises community gatherings and recounts a day of remembrance and unity.
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Cherry Creek School
Shawmut
J. M. Casebolt
Ruth Miller
Sleaphilslv Svan
Mildred Evelyn Berg
Repub- Hield
Flanders Field
Kenneth Casebolt
Georgia Farthing
Don Farthing
Frederickson
Supreme Court Bans Barleycorn Prohibition Victory
The Supreme Court upholds the prohibition amendment and the enforcement act as constitutional in a unanimous decision. Justice Vandevanter writes a sweeping ruling validating federal and state enforcement powers, while justices McKenna and Clarke dissent on concurrent enforcement.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Justice Vandevanter
Congress
New York
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Rhode Island
McKenna
Clarke
White
Reynolds
Ohio
York
Women Pickets to Pester Big Meeting in Chicago
In Chicago on June 7 the National Woman's Party plans a peaceful picket of the convention with about 150 banners along the sidewalk in front of the Coliseum. Alice Paul aims for White House style restraint while picketing through the convention sessions and pressing governors for a suffrage special session.
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Chicago
National Woman's Party
Thompson
Abby Scott Baker
Doris Stevens
Vermont
Connecticut
Sproul
Pennsylvania
Alice Paul
Coliseum
White House
Hon Alfred Myers Dies Pioneer Leader in Montana
Hon Alfred Myers a Montana pioneer and landowner died at his Hardin home aged 80. A founder of the state constitution and long active Democrat he helped shape Park and Yellowstone counties and owned vast Shields River valley holdings. Survived by four daughters and his wife Mabel Russell.
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Hardin
Alfred Myers
Park
Sweet Grass
Benjamin F. Myers
Board of Commissioners
Park County
Shields River Valley
Livingston
Billings
Alfred , Myers
Montana
Macon
Mr. Myers
Missouri
Judge E. Myers
Virginia
West
Meyers
Myers
First National Bank of Billings
Stock Board Association
Chicago
Yellowstone County
Richards
State Board of Education
Masonic Order
Mabel “Russel
Let. Me _Morrow
the Treasury
Walter Hammer
Hal van Deran
Miss. Co
Postal Employees Get Wages Raised
The Senate, after brief deliberation, passed the postal pay bill without a roll call. The House acted the same day and sent the measure to conference. The plan would affect about 300,000 workers in the United States and territories, boosting the payroll by 234.375 million the first year and about 83.7 million annually over the next three years.
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Washington
Senate
House
United States
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Alaska
Joint Congressional Commission
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C. N. Skillman
U. S
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