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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1921
Page
5
About 7,000,000 pounds of wool stored in army warehouses at South Boston Mass will be offered for sale there on November 3 the War Department announced today.
Washington Oct 26 United News reports Attorney General Daugherty will seek an injunction if a rail strike affects mail service and interstate commerce. Leaders could be restrained from halting transportation.
The article notes courts have long held power to restrain injunctions in interstate commerce cases. Debs and officers were jailed for six months after an injunction, and the strike waned with railroads returning to normal by August. Officials warn agencies are ready for a possible October 30 disruption and the post office plans to move two mail trains daily.
Japanese women abandon smoking as uplift work expands nationwide. Previously women of all classes smoked publicly and at home, but social efforts are changing habits across regions and social strata.
The text recalls the Pullman strike of 1894 with Eugene V. Debs testifying that leaders defying an injunction could be jailed. It notes the government’s early use of habeas corpus appeals, Supreme Court Justice Brewer’s ruling on federal power over interstate commerce and mail transmission, and the potential to deploy troops only in extreme emergencies as trains are manned.
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