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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1919
Page
5
In Michigan CLEANS Aug a jury awarded nominal damages and costs to Bard Nay against the Chicago Daily Tribune in a libel case. The total costs awarded amount to $50 under state law, with the plaintiff receiving nominal damages in addition to the costs.
Burlington traction company proposes arbitration with business leaders to handle street car workers demands. Mayor Jackson mediates the first meeting as the firm refuses union recognition and warns it will run cars if workers stay off the job. Workers seek 0 cents minimum wage, union recognition, eight hour day, recall of discharged staff, and overtime pay.
A forenoon riot at the Standard Steel Car Company plant in Butler, Pennsylvania, involved several thousand striking shopmen and about 500 non union workers. The mob attacked non union workers with clubs as they tried to enter the plant, injuring about a dozen. State police arrived to guard the plant but tensions remained high as rioting subsided only after police and deputies intervened.
City court yesterday charged four strikers and others with threatening and assaulting Roeland Fant at 7 Lexington avenue and with threatening Graphophone plant workers. Bonds set at 100 dollars each for the first group and 50 dollars each for the second group.
Prague despatch cites Pravo Lidu saying a large group of socialists under Deputy Dukes seeks a five-Slovakia monarchy. It reports the Duke of Connaught as the chosen monarch, uncle of King George V, though he likely is unaware and no official talks have begun.
Soviet propaganda figure Karl Radek, jailed in Germany since last year, will be expelled under an understanding that Moscow will halt anti German propaganda. He remains under military supervision awaiting transfer to Russia and will not resume activities here.
An accused jitney driver, Komarowsky or Kolumrowski, aged 29, of Woite Street faced a fine after failing to complete a route and being detained by police. The incident occurred during a city inspection, with authorities noting violations of jitney regulations.
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