Labor leaders vow challenge to injunction ruling
In Atlantic City labor officials led by Samuel Gompers plan to move to vacate the injunction against striking shop men. The AFL executive council held secret sessions to discuss legal obstacles and possible actions as railroad labor tensions persist and congress debates constitutional issues.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Daugherty
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Incoherent OCR Summary of Court and Local Notices
Fragmented text references an injunction and court actions with names and places obscured. Mentions judges, a daughter, a home, a five boy case, and wage scale discussions. Content is garbled with many unreadable segments and unclear entities.
Booster Secretary Leaves Montana Development Post
C W Fowler, secretary of the Montana Development association, resigns to become secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Montana Mutual Dairy Loan association, formed in Missoula. The dairy loan group aims to finance Western Montana dairy expansion, import cattle, and run a promotional campaign similar to the Development association’s summer tillage effort.
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Billings
C. W. Fowler
Montana Development Association
Montana Mutual Dairy Loan Association
Missoula
Development Association
Eastern
Montana
Government moves to end rail strike power against unions
The attorney general defends a sweeping order aimed at ending the strike and maintaining open shop principles. He argues the measure preserves unions while preventing labor groups from dictating government policy, asserting U S supremacy in the face of a potential shutdown of railroads and related services. Officials say the order will not halt ongoing work.
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United States
Chicago
Ttornes
Counel
Cirles
New York
Senate
Robinon
Arkansas
Watson
Indiana
Related Returns Show Small Shifts in Vote Totals
Preliminary election returns leave most races unchanged with canvass pending. Riddick holds the Republican lead for U S senator by at least 3000 votes, Wheeler leads the Democratic field, and close contests occur in Congress districts with Leavitt and Evans narrowly ahead.
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Riddick
United States
Wheeler
Who Got the Money War Profiteering Series Begins
American Legion magazine launches a series on war profiteering under the caption Who Got the Money. It cites US costs of about 19 billion dollars, with 15 billion spent on materials, and alleges rotten food sold to the army for 28.6 million, noting shortages of rifles and unequal justice for soldiers versus suppliers.
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Chicago
American Legion
Today
United States
Former Minister Is Charged With Death
Herbert Wilson a former minister was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of Herbert R. Cox. The jury recommended life imprisonment. Cox and Wilson were inmate conspirators in a jail break attempt linked to a mail robbery case and another inmate Eddie O'Brien.
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Los Angeles
Herbert Wilson
Herbert R. Cox
Wilson
Cox
Eddie O’brien
Toledo
Ohio
President Gets High Degree In Masonry
President Harding will be admitted to the third degree of Scottish Rite Masonry at the 110th annual meeting of the Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction to be held in Cleveland on September 16. He is expected to arrive September 19. Details of his visit are not completed.
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Cleveland
Harding
Supreme Council
United States
Éandigate
Columbes
Thousands of Trout Fry Planted Across Boulder Waters
Since July first 243000 trout fry have been distributed from the local hatchery. Fifty thousand were placed in a spring creek into the Boulder above Kirwan on August 19 and 27 were moved to the Eagle ponds. Additional stock was carried to Ander son Springs, headwaters of the West Boulder, and to reserve near the ranger station, with further placements on September 2 and to Sweet Grass and Hello Peter ponds. The fry are in good shape and more releases totaling about 60000 are planned for McLeod ponds and others along Boulder and Sweet Grass creeks.
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Boulder
Kirwan
Eagle Ponds
East Boulder
Anderson Springs
West Boulder
George Knight
Reegan
George McKnight
Big Timber Creek
Bernie Mjelde
Blue Lsnake
Yerkes
Kauffman
Robert Bray
J. W. Hruza
George Cook
Leo Cremer
Gibson
Chas. Pravda
McLeod
Sweet Grass Creek
Seven Men Burned In Bunk House Fire
In Pittsburgh on September 4 thirteen Pennsylvania Railroad officials and employees were questioned at a joint meeting. Seven newly hired workers died in a bunk house fire that had become a tinder box due to saturated grease and waste. Gerald Harper, a victim and Carnegie Institute of Technology honor graduate, hailed from Macksville West Virginia.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Gerald Harper
Carnegie Insstitute of Technology
Macksville
W. Va
Nevada primary narrows race for U S Senate nomination
Reno dispatch notes a tight Republican race in Nevada with Congressman Samuel S. Arats and Charles Chandler vying for the U S Senate nomination. Chandler led by about 180 votes as 2,600 ballots remained to be counted, while incumbent Democrat Key Pittman and others were mentioned as involved.
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Samuel S. Arats
Charles Chandler
Nevada . Assembly
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Key
Pittman
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Wisconsin War Horse Wins Big in Wisconsin Primary
Senator Robert M. LaFollette swept the Wisconsin Republican primary for U S senator leading by 178 333 over W A Ganfield. LaFollette carried the state from top to bottom with Governor Blaine also winning strong and wet factions gaining two congressmen Peavey and Schneider in the Ninth district while Schneider leads Graass in a close Ninth district race.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Robert M. LaFollette
Madison
United States
Wisconsin
W. A. Ganfield
Waukesha
Carrol College
LaFollette
Ganfield
William J. Morgan
Adolphus P. Nelson
Anti-Saloon League
Hubert H. Peavey
Washburn
Peavey
Nelson
la Follette
Senator Down
George J. Schneider
Schneider
Henry Graass
University Head To Be Elected Soon
The University of Montana will elect a new chancellor to succeed Dr. E. C. Elliott who left for Purdue. The board of education will meet September 19 by order of Governor Dixon and State Superintendent May Trumper. Ten outside applications have been received along with several Montana educators’ names for the four state institutions in Missoula Bozeman Butte and Dillon. Budgets for the four schools and faculty changes will be discussed for the upcoming legislature.
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Helena
University of Montana
E. C. Elliott
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
Board of Education
Dixon
Montana
Nebraska Labor Federation calls for nationwide general strike
In Omaha on September 5 the Nebraska Federation of Labor adopted a resolution urging a general strike of all organized labor in support of the railroad shopmen. A committee was appointed to plan moral and financial backing, as T. J. Counbey from Washington urged militants.
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Omaha
Neb
Nebraska Federation of Labor Today
United States
Chicago
T. J. Counbey
Washington
Wrecking Device Found On Missoula Rail
A brakeshoe attached to a rail to derail trains was found on the west-bound Northern Pacific track in Missoula yards. The track lay unused 6 to 9:30 this morning. Investigators believe the device targeted passenger train No. 41, with North Coast Limited No. 2 also delayed. a track walker spotted the obstacle before a freight train arrived.
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Missoula
Northern Pacific Railroad
West End
North Coast Limited
Missoula Train Wreck Plot Deplored by Striking Workers
Missoula railroad shop crafts pass resolutions condemning violence tied to the strike. They denounce an attempted wreck in the yards and the shooting of the Northern Pacific bunk house housing 23 workers. They pledge assistance to bring to justice the perpetrators and to counteract the reign of terrorism.
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Missoula
Northern Pacific
Justice Clarke Resigns from Supreme Court. Sutherland Nominated
Washington reports Associate Justice John H. Clarke will resign effective September 18 upon turning 65. President Harding names former Senator George H. Sutherland of Utah to succeed him, citing Clarke’s wish to serve after leaving public office. Sutherland, born in England, served in Utah’s delegation and the Senate earlier.
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Washington
John H. Clarke
United States Supreme Court
George H. Sutherland
Utah
Harding
Justice Clarke
sTea
Sutherland
Buckingham
England
Senate
Setherland
United ‘States
United States
Norway
Supreme Court
Wilson
Ohio
Tom Johnson
Newton D Baker
Marcus A. Hanna
Scotts Bluff Nedis Wet Sept 4 Event
Fragmentary notice from Scotts Bluff references a September 4 event with wet conditions and local entities BLUFF and Nedis. Details are unreadable.
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Scotts
Bluff
Nedis
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