Meeting of Executives to Consider Rail Strike Settlement Plan
Washington July 27 executives of 118 major railroads to meet in New York next Tuesday to study a tentative settlement plan for the strike. No definite basis was ready, but discussions with President Harding and labor leaders aimed to cover seniority and related issues.
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New York
Lewis
Associated Press
Washington
T. DeWitt Cuyler
Association of Railway Executives
Harding
Cuyler
White House
B. M. Jewell
Railroad Labor Board
RB. M. Jewell
Railway Employes Section
American Federation of Labor
W. H. Johnston
International Association of Machinists
J. A. Franklin
Boilersmakers
M. P. Ryan
Timothy Ealey
James Burns
Edward Evans
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Mr. Jewell
Railway Executives Association
Alfred P. Thom
Association of
Railway Executives
Daugherty
Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore
Sasana
Miners Protest Troop Deployment in Pennsylvania
Five district presidents of the miners union protest to Governor Sproul against sending troops into soft coal regions. They demand withdrawal and uphold the constitution, law, and rights to free speech and peaceable assembly in mining communities.
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Philadelphia
Miners Union
Sproul
Pennsylvania
Woman Linked to Seized Ships in Prohibition Bootlegging Case
New York reports a woman linked to three seized ships aimed at smuggling liquor. A 19 year old, Edith Stevens, is jailed on liquor charges with $20,000 bail as authorities tie her to a Bermuda cargo route aboard the Edith. Captain Charles Oman faces trial while Anthony Cassese and other crew are held.
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New York
New York Harbor
Coast Guard
Poist O' Wods
Long Island
Coast
Seco
Marion Mosher
Sandy Hook
Edith Stevens
Ith
Anthony Cassese
Edith
Charles Oman
Bermuda
Lilly Wins Votes by Speech in McDowell County
General A. A. Lilly campaigned in McDowell County promising support for the Dyer anti lynching bill and opposition to the Esch Cummins measure He drew the colored vote to his column with a platform plank and labor backing Multiple stops included Welch and planned speeches in Mercer County Bluefield Friday and a mass meeting in Bluefield were scheduled to bolster his Southern West Virginia bid.
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Welch
W. Va
A. A. Lilly
United States
Mcddwell County
Dyer
Lilly
West Virginia
Mercer County
Bluefield
Guardsmen Ordered Off Yellow Creek Mining Property
Governor Morrow ordered twenty five guardsmen and two officers from Bell county to leave the Yellow Creek Mining Company property after reports of miners being attacked by armed men along the Tennessee border. A deputy sheriff was said to be wounded in the incident.
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Frankfort
Yellow Creek Mining Company
Bell County
Tennessee
Morrow
New Pythian Degree to Be Confined to Wheeling
Wheeling district Knights of Pythias to confer grand lodge degree on a class of past chancellors during the district meeting on Anas 19. Previously the grand lodge degree was awarded only at the state grand lodge meeting.
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New Pythian Oor
Wheeling
W. Va
Knights of Pythias
Knights of Pythias Elect Officers in Clarksburg Meeting
Knights of Pythias district No. 3 comprising Marion, Harrison and Taylor counties met in Clarksburg West Virginia on July 27 and elected officers for the year.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Knights of Pythias
Marion, Harrison and
Taylor Counties
Conenesen
Western Roads Stand Firm On Seniority Rights Amid Strike
Western railroads say seniority rights must be preserved for current workers if strikes end and they return to service. A Chicago based executive committee claims public interest favors protecting workers who stayed at work, while transportation conditions remain near normal. E R Grable filed wage and condition disputes from eighteen railroads with the labor board. hearings have no set date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Association of Alway
Western Railways
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Santa Fe
Illinois
Burlington
Labor Board
E. R. Grable
United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Mr. Grable
Ares
Mountain Climber Falls to Death at Mount Siyeh
Glacier Park Montana July 27 Dr Frank B Wynn of Indianapolis renowned mountain climbing leader died in a fall from a cliff while leading a party up Mount Siyeh.
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Glacier Park
Mont
Frank B. Wynn
Indianapolis
United States
Mount Siyeh
Woman Accused in Love Rivalry Funeral Procession
New York dispatch reports the Marginal murder case unfolding as Bertha Katz, accused of killing for supposed love theft, is buried amid crowds. Police reserves kept streets open while John Reisler the barber and family faced angry spectators. District Attorney Ruston said grand jury will decide indictments for Reisler and relatives.
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New York
Abertha Katz
John Reisier
Ruston
Reisler
Morris
George
Max
Officials deny knowledge of Youngstown steel merger
Officials of Youngstown steel firms deny any knowledge of a proposed merger between Youngstown Sheet and Tube, the 6 Trumbull Steel Co, and the Kor Hill 8 Co, a report said to have originated from a New York banking house via Chicago in the North American Steel Reports.
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Youngstown, O
Youngstown Steel Companies
Roef of
Youngstown Sheet
Trumbull Steel Co
Kor Hill 8
North American Steel
New York Bankery
Chicago
Developments of Day Rail and Coal Strikes
A tentative proposal to end the shopmen strike emerged from a conference with President Harding and B M Jewell and other crafts officials. Western railways pledged to protect seniority for both striking and newly hired workers as Chicago area lines report normal transportation and growing hiring. Grand Trunk shopmen in Montreal threaten to strike over repairs of U S road equipment during the dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
B. M. Jewell
Western Railway
Chicago
Grand Trunk Railroad
Montreal
United States
Miners seek interstate talks to resume work
J. L. Lewis leads striking miners toward an interstate joint conference within days to restart mining. Indiana Governor McCray warns he will seize mines if the strike lasts beyond five days to ensure fuel supply. Cleanup continues in the southwest district as seven Pennsylvania mines reopen with state protection promised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Lewis
McCray
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Fight Continues Over Wool Schedule In Senate Tariff Debate
Washington July 27. Republicans oppose wool schedule tariffs while Democrats push a scientific tariff as a substitute. Senate debate features Lenroot and Nelson protesting steep rates. committee plan approved by large margins. Nelson denounces 100 percent ad valorem on wool cloth under four ounces as an outrage.
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Washington
Finance Committee
Senate
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Nelson
Minnesota
Storage Mail Car on No 16 is Robbed
A seventy foot storage mail car on Norfolk and Western Train No 18 from Cincinnati to Norfolk was robbed between Roanoke and Lynchburg. Two unknown men escaped with mail sacks, tearing open hundreds of packages. the car was unoccupied after Roanoke until arrival at Union Station Lynchburg.
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Lynchburg
Norfolk and Western
Cincinnati
Norfolk
Roapeke
Roanoke
Union Station
Dean as Straw Man Tied to Railway Labor Message
Samuel Gompers, AFL president, says J Cleve Dean posed as a fictitious official in labor circles to mail a message to President Harding predicting use of military force in mines and railroads. Gompers doubts Dean’s ties to the Railway Employes Publicity Association and questions the White House response. Chattanooga event notes Dean to be called before local Federation of Labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
American Federation of Labor
Associated Press
New York
President Harding
White House
Samuel Gompers
JS. Cleve Dean
Railway Employes Publicity Association
Mr. Gompers
J. Cleve Dean
Eader
American Labor
Hinton Lunatic Surrenders Ending Twelve Day Siege
John Fredeking of Hinton, held in a barricaded home after seizing control of his family property, surrendered after twelve days of isolation. He sustained gunshot wounds to his right arm and endured gas exposure during the siege. Officials plan to return him to the state hospital for the insane.
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Charleston
W. Va
John Fredeking
Hinton
State Hospital For
Fredeking
William Lipscomb
Lew Maddy
Five Shots Fired in Skirmish at Concord
Five shots were fired in a skirmish in Concord New Hampshire between National Guard troops guarding the Boston and Maine railway shops and a band of unknown assailants late tonight.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire National Guard
Boston & Maine Railway
Storm Hits Morgantown Area Causing Heavy Loss
A severe storm swept western Monongalia county causing overturned derricks and buildings and inflicting substantial losses, with communications crippled and figures still incomplete as reports came in.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Monongalia County
Pickets Active Here Thursday Amid Railway Strike
Pickets intensified as the railway strike neared, with shopmen and clerks protesting at yards and shops. Police Chief Dillow defended neutrality and warned of warrants for workers armed without license, while strikers watched Washington talks hopeful of a settlement and Bluefield stock prices rose on optimism.
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Gare
F. A. Graham
Dillow
Dillon
Bluefield
Iuefield College
Washington
B. M. Jewell
Railway Employees Department
The
American Federation of Labor
Harding
Troops Arrive in St Clairsville Ohio From Cleveland
Sixty seven men two officers and fifty horses of troop A Ohio national guard arrived in St Clairsville at 11 35 PM aboard a special train from Cleveland. They camp at Belmont county fair grounds and are under Major Caldwell with Captain Perkins commanding. Telegrams indicate a later redeployment to Crabapple Junction. William Rey vice president of Ohio miners voices concern over troop deployment amid calm conditions.
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St. Clairsville
Troop A
Ohio National
Cleveland
Belmont County Fair Grounds
Ralph Perkins
Don Caldwell
Crabapple Junction
Bellaire
William Rey
The
Ohio Miners
Belmont County
Mr. Roy
Dodge Brothers Buy 7.5 Acre Windsor Factory Site
Dodge Brothers of Detroit have purchased a seven and a half acre factory site in Windsor Ontario to build a large plant to service the Canadian trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
Ont
Dodge Brothers
Detroit Automobile Manufacturers
Interstate Joint Wage Conference Probable Soon
Philadelphia July 27 Powerful influences are at work to arrange an interstate joint wage conference to end the soft coal strike. John L. Lewis says a conference of the central competitive field will be arranged within a few days. Union leaders expect a call once tonnage is assured for a basic wage scale. Officials deny any move toward ending the strike in the central field.
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National Coal Association
Philadelphia
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Illinois
Washington
Alfred M. Ogle
Sailors Union Great Lakes Votes for Strike
Chicago july 27 ninety four percent of the sailors union membership of the Great Lakes has authorized the executive committee to call a strike on ships of the Lake Carriers Association. The association mostly handles ore coal and grain freighters and excludes passenger boats. About four thousand sailors are in the union.
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Chicago
Sailors’ Union of the
Fusillade Wounds Miner as Strike Tensions Rise
Middlesboro Kentucky July 27 one miner was wounded and several others narrowly escaped injury when alleged strike sympathizers fired on miners en route to Bryson Mountain Tennessee. The district remains tense after an armed miners parade and reports say many workers are leaving the camp amid threats of battle if state troops intervene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Middlesboro
Bryson Mountain
Tenn
Army Dirigible Flies New York to Washington
Army dirigible C-2 left Washington at 6 o'clock Thursday for a nonstop flight to New York. It was sighted at Governor's Island at 12 35 a m heading toward the city. The airship, traveling high, circled the bay near the Statue of Liberty then crossed over Manhattan.
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New York
Washington
Governor’s Island
Manhattan
Two Negroes Wounded as Crowd Fire Backed by Hidden Gunmen
In Macon Georgia tonight two black workers were wounded when unidentified men hidden in a field opened fire on a crowd of workmen walking from the railroad shops. Police searched for suspects as the victims were treated at a local hospital.
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Macon
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