Non-Union Workers Seek 20 Percent Pay Rise in Coal Strike
Non-union miners in Scranton filed demands with the anthracite strike commission. They seek a 20 percent wage increase for contract and piecework, oppose hour limits, push for a 60 cent per ton minimum rate, protest any UMWA wage controls, and demand protection from violence and intimidation. The statement, signed “Non-Union Mine Workers,” pledges to accept the commission’s decision as final.
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Scranton
Atunion
Lenahan
Joseph Jorneys
John T. O’brien
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
United Mine Workers of America
Commission
Moving for Indian lands reform in Indian Territory
At a Muskogee meeting on November 18 a resolution aims to organize a united move across Indian Territory to remove restrictions on alienation of Indian lands not using homestead rights. Local commercial clubs will seek aid from St. Louis Kansas City and Dallas business groups.
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Muskogee
I. T
Indian Territory
St. Louis
Kansas City
Dallas
Mrs. Blanche Chesbro Molineux Arrives in Sioux Falls
Mrs. Blanche Chesbro Molineux, arriving from New York on November 18, declined interview. A friend says she intends to establish residence in Sioux Falls after the trip.
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Sioux Falls
Blanche Chesbro Molineux
New York
Katy Railroad rush orders for Coalgate extension
Denison Texas November 18 The Katy Railroad company has issued rush orders to build the first forty miles of the Coalgate extension northwest from Coalgate toward Oklahoma City.
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Denison
Tex
Katy Railroad Company
Coalgate
Oklahoma City
Bodies Found After Missouri River Tracing Believed Related to Sechrest Case
Near Leavenworth Kansas the Missouri River yields a woman's hat inscribed to deliver clothes to the Journal office in Lincoln Nebraska. Police link the item to Mrs Al Sechrest and her baby missing after a Kansas City dispute over a board bill ended in a killing by Dr Zorn. Dragging of the river continues.
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Lincoln
Principal Witness Sechrest Missing in Zorn Case
Kansas City reports Mrs. Sechrest, key witness in the Zorn murder trial, was to testify in Kansas City but has not been located by Nov 18. The killing of Sechrest by Zorn was a sensational affair, making her absence notable in the case.
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Baron
San Diego
Cali
Pierce
Universal Brotherhood
Point Loma
Henry Baron
Tingley
Brotherhood
Kansas City
Sechrest
Zorn
Destruction Reported After Guatemala Volcano Eruption
Travelers say Santa Maria volcano area in Quezaltenango Guatemala was destroyed with many lives lost. Refugees reach Champerico as 200 plus flee San Jose de Guatemala aboard the Pacific Mail steamer. Exchange climbs to 12 to 1,000 with no buyers as Guatemala censors limit news. Port of Puerto Barrios reportedly closed. no Guatemalan mail arriving.
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Panama
Central America
Santa Maria
Quezaltenango
Guatemala
Champerico
San Jose de Guatemala
Pacific Mail
Puerto Barrios
Wrong Man Arrested in Brussels Mistake
An arrest in Brussels wrongly identified James Keir Hardie MP former chair of the Independent Labour Party as a suspect. Hardie states he will appeal to the British foreign office and calls the arrest an international issue. He was released after proving he is a member of the British House of Commons.
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Brussels
Hardie
James Keir Hardie
M. P
Independent Labor Party
British Foreign Office
England
Rubina
House of Commons
Dawes commission opens hearings in Atoka with Choctaw aid
Major Tams Bixby and fifteen assistants arrive in Atoka to process about 500 applicants at the United States court house. The Choctaw citizenship commission soon joins, swelling crowds to around 1000 by evening as tickets are issued and cases are heard in order.
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Atoka
I. T
Tams Bixby
Dawes Commission
United States Court House
Choctaw Citizenship Commission
Rise to Presidency of Trust Company Ends in Prison
Ronald F. Brennan, age 22, who climbed from clerical duties to become president of a trust company he organized, was sentenced at Sing Sing in New York on November 18 for a crime not specified in the fragment.
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Cardus
New York
Ronald F. Brennan
Roosevelt to visit several southern cities on return trip
Reported plan states President Roosevelt will tour the South on the return from Memphis, stopping at Stevenson and Tuscumbia Alabama Chattanooga Knoxville Tennessee and Asheville Monroe North Carolina with a second visit this year to Chattanooga Knoxville and Asheville. Also noted is the death of Rev. Dr. Charles C. Lasby pastor of Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church at Green Point New York from heart trouble.
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Peen Sentenccu Vollugb Suser
Memphis
Knoxville
Roosvelt
Stevenson
Tuscumbia
Ala
Chattanooga
Tenn
Asheville
Monroe
N.C
Methodist Divine
New York
Chas. C. Lasby
Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church
Green Point
Indianapolis
Premier Daneff Rebuilds Cabinet in Bulgaria
Sofia Bulgaria Nov 18 Premier Daneff has reconstructed the cabinet after the resignation on Friday. There are no important changes in the ministry.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Daneff
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John Wittman
Heinz
McTlhenny
Faust
Howell Bros
Tyler Haswell
Fred Varath
Territorial Street
Benton Harbor, Mich
Soa, Fred Unrath
Cardui
Cardvi
Wine
Houston
Hendrx
Washington House
Washington Avenue
Justice Matthews
Lanham
Austin
Col. Lanham
Thos H. Ball
Huntsville
Jack Beall
Waxahachie
John N. Garner
Uvalde
Okla
George Lukert
Uence, Capes
San Antonio
Campbell
Washington
Edwin C. Madden
Brown
Opera House
Me By Brown
H. B. Dorsey
Entist
J. N. Goodwin
James & Hart Drug Store
Bryan, Texas
Houston & Texas Central
Texas
Dallas, Austin, Waco FT. Worth
Houston, Corsicana
B. Morse
T.J. Anderson
M. L. Robbins
EY D. Garrett
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