Unions Expose Vast New York Building Trust Co-ops
Federal indictments are returned against four land concerns and eleven individuals in New York as the Building Trust inquiry reveals extensive cooperative organizations among manufacturers and contractors. Testimony shows clearing houses exchanging buyers bids and contracts as well as daily stock reports.
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New York
New York State
Trust
Legistrative Committee
Building Trust
Arthur Jerome Eddy
Samuel Untermyer
American Column Company
United States Supreme Court
Chicago
Wm. J. Matthews
Clark McKircher
Department of Justice
Matthews
Untermyer
Eddy
Mr. Untermyer
National Association of Electrical Ntractors
United States
Canada
Portland Cement Association
Arraignment of 77 Constabulary Soldiers Postponed
Seventy seven soldiers charged with murder in the December 15 riots were arraigned but postponed indefinitely at the defense counsel’s request. Eight face sedition charges with trials starting January 3. sixty nine others pleaded guilty. Murder charges to be taken up after sedition cases are resolved.
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Manila
Constabulary
Senate Probe Committee Confers With Dan W Sims
Washington October 29 members of the special senate committee investigating the bituminous coal situation held informal talks for several hours with Dan W Sims of Indiana who resigned as special attorney in prosecutions of coal operators and union miners on federal conspiracy charges. The panel said Sims would not be called presently and Dr Harry A Garfield would meet in executive session tomorrow. Palmer denied sending a coal price questionnaire and further hearings will wait until conferences conclude.
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Washington
Sims
Calder
Anderson
Indianapolis
Garfield
Wiltiess
Palmer
George H. Cushing
American Wholesale Coal Association
Labor Legislation Dinner Highlights U S Workers Protection Debate
New York December 29 speakers at the American Association of Labor Legislation dinner urged Congress to extend workmen's compensation to longshoremen and sailors. Rev John A Ryan Rabbi Wise and Whiting Williams questioned industrial autocracy and endorsed worker ownership through cooperatives. Williams urged national state employment bureaus and noted greater radicalism among English laborers.
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New York
United States
American Association of Labor Legislation
John A. Ryan
Catholicversity of America
St .S. Wise
Free Synagogue
New York City
Whiting Williams
Hydralic Pressed Steel Company
Congress
Ryan
Friends of Justice
Williams
England
Solidarity Theme Marks Uruguay US Talks
At Montevideo banquets Secretary Colby hears Uruguayan praise for Pan American friendship. President Brum recalls his 1918 U S visit and war aims as humanity driven, not conquest, while Colby defends the Monroe Doctrine as a century of stable government and liberty across the Americas.
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Associated Press
Montevedio
Uruguay
United States
Bainbridge Colley
Brum
Colby
Government
Wilson
America
Artigas
Americas
South America
Europe
Shorter Day Higher Pay for Hoisting Engineers
Philadelphia December 29 Hoisting engineers win an eight hour day and wage increases from the anthracite board of conciliation effective January 1. The board schedules a meeting in Wilkes Barre next Monday to discuss next steps. The Arch mined workers scale committee and operators have yet to fix a meeting time for ongoing wage negotiations.
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Philadelphia
Anthracite Board of ‘Conciliation
Wilkesbarre
Extensive raids in Dublin conduct house to house search
The military conducted extensive raids and searches of residences and businesses across Dublin. In Rutland Square five hundred soldiers carried out a house to house inspection and about a score of young men were arrested.
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Dublin
Rutland Square
Oil Tank Explosion Kills One in Brooklyn Drydock
One man is dead and two others injured in an oil tank explosion aboard the Vacuum Oil Company tanker Charles M. Everest at a Brooklyn drydock. One of the injured is reported to be in critical condition.
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New York
Oil Company
Charles M. Everest
Brooklyn
D Annunzio says not worth dying for Italy with Fiume evacuation
Rome reports D Annunzio proclaims it is not worth dying for Italy and plans to leave Fiume by airplane. Semi official word says the Fiume agreement may be concluded. Description of late Fiume fighting shows legionnaires using ambushes, hidden machine guns, and grenades against regulars, with women aiding in gunfire. Alpine troops and Carabineers resist three hours.
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Rome
D'Annunzio
Italy
Fiume
Rowell Resigns Shipping Board Post for State Railway Commission
Chester H. Rowell of Fresno announced he will soon leave his United States Shipping Board duties to join California's state railway commission. The move follows his recent appointment by President Wilson.
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Shipping Board
Sacramento
Cal
Chester H. Rowell
Fresno
Calif
Wilson
United States Shipping Board
California
State Railway Commission
Water rate hike approved in Harvey Wisconsin
Madison Wis Dec 29 water rates in Harvey a town raided by prohibition agents yesterday were advanced fifty per cent today by the state rate commission. The Water company asked for a sixty nine per cent increase.
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Madison
Wis
Harvey
State Rate Commission
Millionaire Banquet Raises Over Two Thousand Per Plate
New York one thousand wealthy attendees joined Herbert Hoover for a postwar relief banquet praising aid to Europe. Guests paid about $2,000 each for boiled rice meal served from army kitchens while Fritz Kreisler entertained. Hoover noted 1 000 guests paid $2,011,221 total. line honored invisible child guests with a vacant chair.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
European Relief Counsel
America
Europe
John J. Pershing
Hoover
John D. Rockefeller
August Belmont
Fritz Kreisler
Luis Nation
Neral Pershing
Mr. Hoover
Uyope
Five Arrests in Connection with Thacker Shooting
Five men were taken into custody over the past two days in a Thacker area shooting incident December 18. No one was wounded. Bonds set at 500 each pending hearings tomorrow. Suspects include Corbett Estep Hatfield Dewey Coppiey Lee Sipples and Doc Sloan. Estep and Hatfield alleged they were fired upon first. others say they were attacked. Three of four Union mines in Williamson district are idle with Bishop Hatfield wagon mine operating. Alma Thacker Fuel Superior Thacker Mine and Pr M C Coal Company reported closed for lack of orders. District described as quit in military headquarters.
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Corbett Estep
Hatfield
Dewey Coppiey
Lee Sipples
Doc” Sloan
Estep
Thacker Coal and Coke Company
Thacker
Union
Williamson
Bishop Hatfield
Alma Thacker Fuel Company
Superior Thacker
Pr. M. C. Coal Company
Ashurst Seeks Mine Bill Fate in White House Visit
Senator Ashurst of Arizona spent hours chasing information on the mine assessment bill sent to the president on December 21. He learned only that the president had not yet signed, with no firm action by midnight January 4. He pressed Tumulty and visited the interior department and White House executive offices multiple times.
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Washington
Congress
Ashurst
Arizona
Interior Department
White House
Tumu
Wilson
Secretary Tumulty
Tumulty
Interior Payne
Pinehurst
N. C
Inter State Commission refuses coal rate cuts on Kanawha and Michigan routes
The inter State commerce commission today refused to cancel joint rates on bituminous coal car load shipments from mines on the Kanawha and Michigan Railway in West Virginia to southeastern points. It said proposed schedules would raise rates and discriminate against coal operators.
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Washington
Inter- State Commerce Commission
Kanawha and Michigan Railway
West Virginia
Civil and Postoffice Bills Reach the House in 1917 Budget Fight
Two of fifteen bills with government appropriations reached the House as Republicans promise to cut costs. The sundry civil bill totals 383,611,292, a 52,237,514 drop from last year and 420,914,192 below administrations estimates. The post office bill stands at 573,964,721, up 69,530,021 from this year but down 11,442,181 from requests, with the overall package adding about 17 million to next year’s outlay.
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Washington
House
Post Office Bil
Post Office Department
Appropriations Committee
Newbern Steel Plant Workers Strike Over Profit Sharing
Employees of the Newbern Iron Works and Supply Company voted to ignore the new profit sharing plan and strike. Last week’s pay under the plan fell ten percent from the prior week as profits below operating costs prompted discontent.
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Newbern
N. C
Newbern Iron Works and Supply Company
Constance Talmadge Weds NYC Tobacco Merchant
Constance Talmadge, film actress, married a tobacconist from New York City at Greenwich Connecticut ceremony held last Sunday. The bride was joined by her mother and sisters Norma and Natalie as witnesses.
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Constance Talmadge
New York
Pialeglo
New York City
Greenwich
Connecticut
Norma
Natalie
Harding in talks with Hays Knox on inauguration plans
President elect Harding met today with Will Hays and Senator Knox to discuss inauguration preparations. Other conferences covered coal production, naval construction, regulation of live stock, and domestic issues with Chicago and Detroit delegates, signaling early cabinet prospects.
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Marion
Ohio
Harding
Daniel Th Weats
Philadelphia
National Coal Association
Wentz
Fred Upham
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Patrick A. Kelley
Michigan
House
Kelley
Stafford
Everett C. Brown
National Livestock Exchange
Kay Wood
Victor F. Lawson
Chi Daily News
Charles B. Warren
Detroit
Hays
Knox
Pennsylvania
Merion
J. B. McLeany
Red Cross Adds Funds to Fight Salem Typhoid Epidemic
Washington announces additional appropriation for typhoid outbreak in Salem Ohio where about one in ten of 9500 residents were struck in three months. Red Cross notes the epidemic is under control and cites prior funding of 50000 dollars.
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Washington
American Red Cross
Salem
Ohio
Red Cross
Panhandle Leased to Pennsylvania Railroad
The Panhandle line trustees met in Pittsburg to vote on leasing the Panhandle’s property to the Pennsylvania Railroad. A total of 828778 shares were voted in favor, at par value, with total capital figures around 84.5 million dollars.
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Panhandle
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
The
Pittsburg
Thelvania Railroad
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Fedreal Grand Jury
Untermeyer
Senate Probe Committee
Dan W. Sims
ONG
Pan-American Ust
John Ryan
Bram
Blood
D’annunzio
Senator Ashurst
Bill
Qundry
National Music Teachers Association
R. G. McCulachan
MA. Harding
Moan
Ante Wicht
Will H. Hays
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