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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1921
Page
4
Officials announce that disciplined wage cuts across departments saved five million dollars this quarter. The measure, described as well organized, aims to balance budgets while preserving essential services and staff integrity.
New York reports that about 29,000 workers at Interborough and Brooklyn Rapid Transit voted to accept 10 percent wage cuts, saving an estimated five million dollars annually. The plan creates employee representation with elected committees, facilitating discussions with management on conditions and wages. Americans imprisoned in Moscow are expected to reach Jamburg tonight, with supplies arranged for Petrograd and delivered to the Crimea to aid starving populations fleeing Volga and Ural regions.
A meeting of the Women's Sixth District Republican club at Mrs. Carl Rack's home on Oak street drew a strong turnout. The program focused on political engagement and primary registration with Mrs. H W Fleck and Mrs Theodors Stelber urging women to participate and mobilize others in the city.
Bridgeport will host the fourth annual Sons of St George convention next August after a vote at the previous meeting in Bridgeport. About 160 delegates attended, with 48 new grand lodge members installed. Mayor Clifford B. Wilson spoke on "Service" and tours of Bridgeport followed. George H. Wood and James Youngs were elected grand president and grand vice president, installed with other officers.
The ad pitches Prince Albert tobacco as ideal for rolling cigarettes or packing into a pipe. It touts the product as 80, delightfully good and refreshing, claiming it is as enjoyable in a cigarette as in a jimmy pipe and describes it as friendly and appetizing.
Behind the scenes in the Supreme Council a move to undermine the disarmament conference is under way. France and Britain aim to safeguard their positions at the Washington talks, with Premiers Briain and Lloyd-George potentially steering toward political gains.
Monignor Samuel A. Stritch, channel lng of the diocese of AYA, has been appointed Bishop of the Toledo Catholic Diocese. Information from the Vatican says Stritch will succeed Bishop Behrenmba, who becomes bishop of the Cleveland diocese. Behrenmba will assume his new duties in September.
Fire on Main street in Stamford damaged a building owned by Abraham Spelke, with total losses around $20,000. The blaze began in the beauty parlor of O. fi Robile, causing $2,900 damage there and additional losses to Gruber's Woolen Garment Shop, Pickwick Candy Shop, Stewart Grocery, and several office tenants. Sparke, the building owner, sustained fire and water damage.
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