Wilson Calls for R. R. Wage Board
President Wilson urged railroad executives and unions to form a bipartisan wage board under the Transportation Act to settle wage disputes. He asked for prompt conference representation and directed that Director General Hines handle preliminary negotiations. Some union factions oppose the act but will cooperate to avoid a strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Brotherhoods
T. DeWitt Cuyler
Association of
Railway Executives
Tha l Aw
Mr. Cuyler
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Railroad Administration
Chicago
Congress
Hines
Ach Gee
Hair on the Head Outvalues a Big Bank Account
Miss Cissie Sewell at Selwyns Park Square Theatre stars in Honey Girl while a New York matron offered vast cash for her hair. The deal collapsed when Sewell refused to part with her crowning glory for any price, preferring independence over wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cissie Sewell
Miss Sewell
Selwyns
Park Square Theatre
New York
Cissie
Cissie. Sewell
Honey Girl
Railroads under federal control post losses in January
Washington March 2 net operating income of railroads under government control in January fell to 11 000 000 due to severe weather and coal strike a 64 000 000 deficit from the average government rental but 53 000 000 from back mail pay reduced the loss to 11 000 000 The director general Mr Hines said the January results do not alter the long term excess of expenses over income for 26 months of federal control and noted heavy tonnage and higher train loads versus prior years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hines
Wilson
Police Inspector Owen Eagan Dies on Street in New York
Police Inspector Owen Eagan of the Bureau of Combustibles, a figure in major bombing cases, collapsed and died on the street in front of the Grand Central Palace in New York. An advertisement about Venus Pencil occupies the page alongside the obituary.
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New York
Owen Eagan
Bureau of Combustibles
Grand Central Palace
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R.h.white Co
Taffeta
Navy
Copenhagen
Poiret
Gabardine
Oxford
Jersey
R. R
Vamps
New England Piano & Phonograph Co
Boylston St
Boston
Mass
Eagan
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Navy Department
Washington, D. C
Boards of Survey
Navy Yards
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Charleston
Naval District
New Eingland Coast
Gloucester
Rockport
Provincetown
Yard
Pier
Board of Survey
Navy Yard
Josephus Daniels
Secretary of the Navy
Pillsbury’s
Pillsbury
Pillsbury Laboratory
Pillsbury Flour Mills
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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