Labor federation to wage fight on sales tax at convention
The American Federation of Labor delegates voted unanimously to mobilize against a retail sales tax and to push for changes in budget administration. They also debated immigration policy and discussed challenging the Supreme Court Coronado coal ruling. Leaders eyed Frank Morrison’s re election and endorsed two congressmen for labor support.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor Convention
Federation
Legislation Committee
Max Greenstein
Jewelry Workers’ Union
Charles L. Bayne
Shoe Workers’ Union
Executive Council
Department of Labor
Frank Morrison
William Clarke
Clarke
Supreme Court
Coronado
Samuel Gompers
Nolan
California
Organized Labor
Frear
Wisconsin
Hale and Baxter Likely Renominated in Maine Primary
Early returns from Maine primaries show United States Senator Frederick Hale and Governor Percival Baxter leading with large pluralities. From 212 of 635 precincts reported, Hale leads Davies and Guernsey, while Baxter dominates Deering and Higgins with strong regional support.
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Portland
Frederick Hale
Percival H. Baxter
Davies
Guernsey
Hale
Maine
United States
Percival Is
Baxter
John P. Deering
Leon F. Higgins
Deering
Higgins
Kellogg Leads Minnesota Primary Early Returns
First scattering returns from the Minnesota primary show Senator Frank B. Kellogg leading the Republican race by about two to one. On the Democratic side Anna D. Olesen holds a slight edge over her rivals. Returns are mostly from Kellogg territory.
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St. Paul
Minn
United States
Minnesota
Frank B. Kellogg
Anna D. Olesen
Hese
Kellogg
Miners and Wives Clash at Lowesville Mine Office
A few hundred miners and wives gathered at the New England Fuel and Transportation Co mine office in Lowesville, Morgantown area. Sheriff Yost and deputies with state troopers dispersed them. John H. Thomas, a strike sympathizer, was jailed for six months and fined 50 dollars for carrying a blackjack. The county’s largest mine has been closed since April 1 amid reopening rumors.
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Morgantown
W. Va
New England Fuel & Transportation Company
Lowesville
Yost
John H. Thomas
Justice of the Peace
A. Posten
Governor Morgan Attends Whitaker Funeral in Wheeling
Governor E F Morgan attended the funeral of N P Whitaker a Wheeling steel manufacturer and highway commissioner at the Whitaker home in Woodadale with state officials. He then left for Charles Town to testify in the Marmet Logan miners march deputy sheriff murder case.
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Wheeling
W. Va
E. F. Morgan
N. P. Whitaker
Wheeling Steel Manufacturer
West Virginia State Highway Commission
Whitaker
Woodadale
R. E. L. Strider
St. Matthews Episcopal Church
Morgan
Charles Town
J. E. Wilburn
Marmet-Logan
Houston G. Young
C. P. Fortney
BE. B. Stephenson
State Highway Commission
Congress to void railroad labor contract restrictions
A bill introduced in Washington by request of Representative Madden Republican Illinois would declare void all provisions in railroad labor contracts that restrict or interfere with a railroad's rights to employ personnel. The measure requires uniform rules and working conditions across crafts and employment forms for all railroad employees.
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Madden
Washington
Republican
Illinois
United States Railroad Labor Board
Insurance agents urged to win public confidence session in Huntington
In Huntington West Virginia June 19 insurance agents heard that a spirit of confidence and cooperation from the public yields best results James L Case of Nor wich Conn national association president told the afternoon session of the West Virginia Insurance Agents Association convention Other speakers included F R Bell Raymond Foose and J G Gardiner An opening address of welcome was given by T M Hays The opening day featured a banquet and officers will be named tomorrow about 100 agents attended the session
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truntington
W. Va
James L. Case
Norwich
E. V. King
L. C. Owrey
A. E. Lagergren
Charleston
C. E. Wildener
Huntington
Imately
Naval bill heads to conference after Senate passage
Washington June 19 The annual naval appropriation bill carrying about 295.45 million dollars and providing for an enlisted personnel of 6000 men was passed by the senate and sent to conference with the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Taft Seeks English Judicial Insights In London Visit
Chief Justice Taft, in London for three weeks, keeps five stenographers busy with invitations. He tours Kensington Gardens and Gray's Inn Hall, where James Beck lectures on constitutional law. He praises England’s greeting and seeks study of its courts to reform U.S. federal process.
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London
Taft
Kensington Gardens
Gray's Inn Hall
James M. Beck
United States
Associated Press
England
Cleveland
Darst Had No Share in State Police Bonding
Major C R Morgan states Darst had no involvement in bonding state police members while serving on the board of control. He explains bonds were secured by Morgan alone with Darst in private life earlier and later not connected to board duties. Morgan notes use of his personal stationery and that no impression of Darst’s influence existed.
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Charleston
W. Va
Johns. Darst
State Board of Control
Darst & Morgan
Darst
Major C. R. Morgan
West Virginia Association of Insurance Agent
Major Morgan
National Guard
Jackson Arnold
Durst
Mr. Darst
Board of Control
Woman Freed in Huntington Killing Case
Mrs Rhoda Ward twenty six faced a common pleas court charge of killing her husband The jury acquitted her after two minutes of deliberation The shooting occurred July eighteenth of the previous year Oneida Adkins alleged to have been with Ward had charges dismissed by Judge D E Matthews The unwritten law was invoked by Mrs Ward
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Rhoda Ward
Court of Common Pleas
Carol Ward
Oneida Adkins
Ward
Byudge D. E. Matthews
Twelve year old girl shot dead in County Cavan home
A twelve year old girl, Margaret Livingstone, was killed by armed raiders at her father James Livingstone’s house in Ardougher County Cavan. The intruders demanded the postmaster and, after being refused arms, fired a volley through the windows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Margaret Livingstone
Ardougher
County Cavan
James Livingstone
Penfield of Austria Hungary ambassadorship dies after brief illness
Frederick Courtland Penfield former United States ambassador to Austria Hungary died at his Fifth Avenue home in New York after a short illness. He was sixty seven and had shown brief improvement before a relapse. He is survived by his widow Anne Weightman Walker of Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frederick Courtland Penfield
United States
Austria-Hungary
Fifth Avenue
Anne Weightman Walker
Philadelphia
Investigation Into New River Coal Field Working Conditions
A committee led by Rev Father R A McGown arrives in Beckley West Virginia to study living and working conditions in the New River coal fields. The group will press on for a week with no press statements until completion, following earlier controversy over starvation claims by Peggy Dwyer and reaction from the New River Operators Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sidny E. Goldstein
Rabbi Vise
Father McGown
New River
T. L. Lewis
New River Coal Operators’ Association
Lawrence
Peggy) Dwyer
International Board
United Mine Workers of America
Dwyer
Rabbi Wise
Lewis
Pistol License Protests Target Mine Workers Leaders
Charleston W Va June 19 Mayor Hall and a chamber committee protested licenses to carry pistols for C F Keeney district 17 U M W and other union officials. Circuit Judge Hudson adjourned the hearing to Friday to allow evidence of prior abuse of the privilege. Protests centered on Keeney Massey Blizzard W M Reese A D Lavender Isaac Scott and Frank Snyder most indicted on treason charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Hall
Chamber of Commerce
C. F. Keeney
District 17
United Mine Workers
Hudson
Keeney
Massey Wm. Blizzard
W. F E. Reese
A. D. Lavender
Isaac Scott
Frank Snyder
Blizzard
Railway Clerks in New York Authorized to Vote on Strike
A strike vote for railway clerks and freight handlers on the New York Central was authorized with ballots to go out tomorrow. Frank W. Grosser said the move is in protest of wage reductions and union officials may call a strike if the membership approves the action. An agenda noted a meeting between miners and railroad workers for cooperative action, with no statements expected from leaders.
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Cleveland
New York Central Railroad
Frank W. Grosser
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship
Associated Press
Cincinnati
Railroad Labor Board
EB. H. Fitzgerald
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Fitzgerald
Brotherhood
Labor Board
General Committee
John L Lewis
B. M. Jewell
Jewell
Lewla
Five Members Family Of Seven Drowned In Flood
Booneville Arkansas June 19 five members of a seven person family were drowned when the wagon of J A Nichols capsized in a creek flood at Miles Ford. Nichols and four children perished while the mother saved herself and one youthful boy from the water.
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Booneville
Ark
Peptit Jean Creek
Here
J. A. Nichols
Miles Ford
Nichols
Former Grand Goblin Sought in Bond Hearing
William Coburn former grand goblin of the Ku Klux Klan left the courtroom as bond was set at 5000 dollars being sought by the sheriff. A deputy appeared to take Coburn into custody but a later check showed he was alone.
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Los Angeles
William 8. Coburn
Ku Klux Klan
Coburn
Farmers not taxed for Bluefield markets says city manager
The city manager C. E. Ridley declared that farmers who bring produce to Bluefield for the Wednesday and Saturday markets will not be taxed. He dismissed circulating rumors as false and rooted in malice or ignorance, stressing no tax plans exist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer
Bland
Russell
Bluefield
C. E. Ridley
Indictment Names Thompson and Auto-Ordnance in Arms Plot
A federal indictment charges Lieutenant Colonel Marcelus H. Thompson son-in-law of George Harvey ambassador to the court of St James with conspiracy to violate neutrality laws by trying to ship arms to Sinn Fein era aboard the freighter East Side. 495 machine guns were found in the bunkers when seized at Hoboken last year. Auto-Ordnance Company and seven others are named. Thompson and two co defendants pleaded not guilty in Newark and were released on 2500 bail each.
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Trenton
N. J
Marcellus H. Thompson
George Harvey
Court of St. James
Sinn Feinera
East Side
Hoboken
Thompson
Auto-Ordnance Company
A. BE. F
Newark
West Virginia coal output exceeds normal by 201300 tons
West Virginia production last week reached 1,701,900 tons, about 201,300 tons above the normal, per James K. Hart assistant WV Coal Association secretary. Gains came from New River field leading with 25,250 tons, Kanawha region 7,100 tons, and Fairmont area 4,000 tons. Minden mines to begin Monday with 1,200 to 1,500 tons weekly.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
James K. Hart
West Virginia Coal Association
Appalachian Power Company
Winding Gulf
Pocahontas
Union
Kanawha
Fairmont
Minden
Bail Bond For Harry Tibbets In Cassville Killing Case
Orestes Tibbets of Piedmont posted 5000 bail for his son Harry Tibbets who is held in the Cassville killing of his brother Charles after Charles shot Anba Wright earlier. Prosecution says Harry acted in self defense. Charles’s body to be buried in Piedmont. Miss Wright remains in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
W. Va
Weeving
Stanley
Orestes Tibbets
Piedmont
Garfield Davies
Harry Tibbets
Charles
Cassville
Anba Wright
Harry
KR. P. Posten
Wright
Oil men plan joint approach to Mexican oil lands
Five oil company heads including Walter Teagle and Amos Beatty will meet Mexican Minister of Finance Adolfo De La Huerta to propose coordinated action. They argue inland Mexican fields require shared storage, pumping, pipelines, and roads to avoid duplicating infrastructure as Gulf coast prospects dwindle.
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New York
Adolfo de la Huerta
Hin & Proposition
Mexico
Mexican Gulf
Mr. de la Huerta
Walter C. Teagle
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
E .L. Dohney
The
Mexican Petroleum Co
Harry F. SinClair
SinClair Consolidated Oil Co
J. W. Vandyke
Atlantic Refining Co
Amos J. Beatty
Texas Company
Wilburn testifies in Blair Gap fight case in Logan turmoil
Reverend J E Wilburn takes the stand in his own defense over the Blair Gap miners deputy clash that left Deputy John Gore and two others dead. He describes the August 29 intrusion into Blair Mountain and denies firing a shot while the trial proceeds amid cross examination and jury rulings on admissible evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Charles Town
W. Va
J. E. Wilburn
Logan County
Logan-Boone
Blair Gap
John Gore
Wilburn
She
Logan
Blair
Blair Mountain
Gore
Minera
George Muncy
Frank
Kentucky
Tennessee
Logan Grand Jury
Don Chafin
Knoxville
Login
C. W. Osenton
Kiwanians Gather for Sixth Annual Convention in Toronto
About 5,000 Kiwanians and guests attend the sixth annual convention in Toronto. The city is decorated and welcoming visitors as the event opens.
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Toronto
Ont
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State Police
F.C. Penfield
Stephen A. Wise
Beckley
R. A. McGowan
NEW York General
Harvey
Blair Gap Fight
Osenton
Winchester
J. M. Woods
J. W. Jeffrey
Prohibition
Jeffrey
Jeffrery
Elmo Gore
Kiwanians
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