Cabinet Won't Intervene in Strikes in Britain
London January 3 The British cabinet decided not to intervene in ongoing strikes as they are not authorized by trade unions. Ministers expect workers to tire without strike pay and restrict action to maintaining order. A Glasgow Provost telegram requesting government help for a 40 hour week was declined by Andrew Bonar Law.
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London
Glasgow
Andrew Bonar Law
Lord Privy Beal
Lloyd George
Old Resident Lyda Obear Dies in New Ipswich
New Ipswich N H Jan 30 Mrs Lyda Ann Swazey Obear a retired school teacher died here yesterday aged 86 years 6 months and 21 days She retained interest in current events and had a remarkable memory of early day history including New Hampshire in the Civil War
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New Ipswich
N. H
Lyda Ann (Swazey) Obear
Obear
New Hampshire
Atlantic Corporation Sues U S Shipping Board in Supreme Court
The Atlantic Corporation seeks cancellation of the 1917 contract and its supplements with the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation for shipbuilding at Portsmouth New Hampshire. It asks quantum meruit payment for materials and labor plus damages for costs incurred at the board’s request beyond contract terms.
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Supreme Court
Portland Mo
Atlantic Corporation
United States Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Portsmouth
N. H
Shipbuilding Company
Arthur R Sharpe
Boston
New England
Maine
Atlantic Shipyard Sues Over Shipbuilding Contract Prices
The Atlantic Company seeks relief alleging government and Emergency Fleet Corporation misled about ship costs during wartime. It claims contracts priced at 160 a ton were impractical, causing financial injury through withholds, labor shifts, material seizures, and forced overheads at Portsmouth. The suit cites actual costs near 195 a ton and seeks redress for altered terms and credit damage.
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Atlantic Company
Govern Board
Government Board
Two Bills for New Street in Boston Plans
Ralph Adams Cram and William J. McDonald filed separate measures in the Legislature proposing an 80 foot street from Eliot and Tremont to Bedford Street and beyond. Cram seeks 19 million dollars for Boston to authorize the project while McDonald requests 12 million dollars for a similar 80 foot highway linking Eliot Tremont to near Avery and Washington streets via Lagrange and Boylston streets.
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Ralph Adams Cram
Boston Planning Board
Eliot and
Tremont Streets
Bedford Street
Lagrange and
Boylston Streets
Avery and
Washington Streets
French Abolish the Vosges Customs Line
Paris January 30 The reoccupation of Alsace Lorraine leads to the suppression of the Vosges customs line A decree will set the French frontier customs along the 1870 line German agents are dismissed and Switzerland frontier openings agreed U NIV
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Paris
Alsace- Lorraine
Vosges
Switzerland
26th Division to Return Home in Early 1919
A letter to Miss Helen Finney from Sgt A Torrance confirms the 101st Band will sail for home on Feb 7. An official telegram from General Headquarters details preparations for the 26th Division to be embarked by rail to Le Mans France and then sail to Brest and Boston by mid March with New England men likely mustered out near their enlistment points.
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New York
Jan
Richard H. Lane
Cohalan
Antoinette Schermerhorn
101St Infantry
Helen 8. Finney
Plymouth
The
Red Cross
A. Torrance
101St Band
Torrance
Fitchburg Sentinel
George W. Shaw
26Th Division
Montigny-le-Roi
France
First Army
United States
8S. O. S
le Mans
Shaw
Atlantic
le Manns
Brest
Bordeaux
St. Nazaire
Boston
Devens
Ohio
Virginia
New England
Strikes in Buenos Aires Reach 157 in Ten Months
From Jan 1 to Oct 31, 1918 Buenos Aires saw 157 labor strikes affecting 61 trades and 121,400 workers. Two strikes were general and 12 involved violence. total lost days amounted to 450. Wages lost were estimated at 1.3755 million dollars.
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Buenos Ayres
Buenos Aires
la Razon
Paderewski protests invasion of Silesia
Premier Paderewski of Poland protested to the Czecho Slovak government over Czecho Slovak troop incursions into Silesia Cracow dispatch reports. The Allied supreme council heard Polish and Czecho Slovak representatives on the clash in Silesia, the contested border region.
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Paris
Paderewski
Poland
Cracow
Silesia
Supreme Council of the Allied and Associated Powers
Czecho-Slovakia
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Georgette Crepe
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Boston & Maine Railroad
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United States Senate
Hog Island
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Fineappia
Wile Ri
Corfee
Rotax
Lion Brand
la Touraine
H.S
ST Food Administration
New Street
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101St
Herman’s “U. S. Standard
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West Point
Yale
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