Miners Seek Eight Hour Day and Peaceful Pact in Wage Talks
United Mine Workers leader John P. White predicts anthracite negotiations will stay within reason and avoid strikes if operators treat miners fairly. He cites strong industry profits, recent union growth, and a nonsuspension policy as factors shaping a cooperative path ahead of April 1, 1916 contract expiration. Eight hour day planned at Otis Elevator for 2,000 Yonkers workers starting next May after a six month nine hour period.
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Labor notes and strikes widen across industries in jurisdictions
The note cites 2000 New York taxi drivers demanding 3 per day up from 2.50. Wives of a Trenton rubber plant officials filled striking workers’ roles. Metal Trades Alliance members in Syracuse accepted a 9.5 hour day and 5 percent wage rise. Michigan Central clerks across four states strike to press grievances and to meet a union committee.
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New York City
Trenton
N. J
Metal Trades Alliance
Syracuse
Michigan Central Railroad
Michigan
Ohio
Winois
Indiana
Wireless Links Sayville to Germany Reaches Berlin
A Sayville New York wireless station, claimed as the world’s most powerful, sends messages to Nauen near Berlin. The facility spans 100 acres with 500 foot high antennas and wires that flash 25 words per minute, up to 40 in emergencies. Sending to Germany costs 53 cents per word plus 3 cents for land wire to Sayville. Messages travel nearly instant across the Atlantic and can loop around the world seven times per second.
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Long Island
Germany
Sayville
N. Y
Nauen
Berlin
New York City
Toto
New York
Telefuuken
Wasblogten
America
Homer Croy
Lestie
Competition in Savings Sparks Household Savings Drive
An American Magazine anecdote details a husband who, fearing money shortfalls, makes a saving pact with his wife. They split salaries and expenses, track bank books, and both accumulate savings, with the wife surpassing his month by month. The couple now plans to buy a home together.
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American Magazine
The Great Big Moon
The full moon appears deceptively large in the sky but is small in comparison. A three penny piece held at arm’s length can completely eclipse the moon, and the moon can even pass through the Pleiades cluster in Taurus, hiding only a few stars.
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Taurus
Pleiades
Pall Mall Gazette
Cannibal Quibble Over Warfare Excuse Stirs Debate
A Washington Star excerpt depicts a cannibal arguing that civilized warfare excuses their violence due to hunger. The exchange contrasts moral norms with a stark hunger justification.
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Washington Star
Fashion Trends Demand The Next Big Food Themed Look
A man questions the next food inspired fashion women will adopt while another friend wagers predictability could make him a multimillionaire in six months. The exchange hints at changing trends and bold guesses about style revolutions.
Clayton Act Aids Labor Rights vs Sherman Law
James H. Barry argues the Clayton Act redefines labor as more than a commodity, correcting the Sherman Act’s misuses. He notes prior court interpretations treated workers as chattel and praises the act’s clear protection of free speech, picketing, strikes, and boycotts for labor.
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James H. Barry
San Francisco Star
Dr. Johnson
Mita Beecome
Bargula
McAliia
Bor
United State
Danbury
United States
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Print union accord raises pay for Indianapolis papers
After months of negotiations a five year contract raises weekly wages by 1.50 and provides an additional 1.50 after October 1 1918. The agreement also establishes a six hour workday for July 4 Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Typographical Union
Indianapolis
A Woman's Pinion in Courtroom Dinner Tale
The piece recalls a Supreme Court tale about an imported delicacy once contested as fish sauce. Justices, famed for calm argument, split on the item until one member tested it with his wife who declared it fish. The court then upheld the importer's appeal.
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Supreme Court
Francis B. Leupp
Washington
John Jay
Aslecston
Glycerin Peculiar Properties From A Chemical Standpoint
Glycerin resists freezing and evaporation under ordinary temps. It needs 296 degrees F to show evaporation loss. It burns pale like alcohol when heated then tempered. It holds pigments and fine materials, and forms candy like crystals when frozen, though can revert upon melting. Water changes crystallization behavior but does not fully solidify glycerin.
Gunpowder as Medicine in Eighteenth Century Quack Remedies
The piece notes gunpowder was widely promoted as medicine in the 1700s. It cites a Compleat Housewife remedy advising a powdered glaze of gunpowder ingested with milk, then sweating in bed for nine to ten mornings, as a treatment for rheumatism.
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London Express
A Nation's Heroes
A Atlantic excerpt argues that national heroes are those who harmed others rather than benefited mankind and suggests honoring figures like Shakespeare, Darwin, and Luise, while noting citizens most esteemed are those who killed the greatest number of foreigners.
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Shakespeare
Apsley Luise
Darwin
Atlantic
Sacred Elephants in Siam Funeral Rites
A white elephant is sacred in Siam and when it dies the funeral surpasses that of princes. Buddhist priests preside and thousands of devout Siamese follow the body to the grave. Jewels and offerings denoting wealth are buried with the elephant.
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Siam
Phrasing from 1920s American papers on risk and wealth
The sources present light quotes about fear and risk in daily life. A Baltimore American line notes a hair raising experiment while a Detroit Free Press quips that wealth helps enjoyment, reflecting era humor and class views.
Value of unions in American society
The Minnesota Union Advocate argues unions are highly valuable in uniting adverse social elements. It calls public schools the greatest agency for developing the American type, and claims unions are at times more efficient by creating a conscious atmosphere and a motive for common ground of faith and action.
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America
Minnesota
Safety for workers in Pennsylvania foundry code
Pennsylvania adopts a new sanitary code for foundries effective November 1. The plan, drafted by employers and employees with state and union input, requires vestibules in winter, mechanical ventilation where needed, enclosed cleaning areas, wide gangways, unobstructed access, individual lockers, washrooms for workers, and proper hot water for washrooms. It also prohibits handling hot material and heavy cores beyond set limits.
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Pennsylvania
State
Industrial Board
Right to Strike Maintained by Massachusetts Court
The Boston superior judicial court ruled on September 17 that employees may strike to compel union recognition when their employer will not negotiate with union representatives. It marks the first Massachusetts ruling directly affirming a union members right to strike for recognition.
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Superior Judicial Court
Boston
Massachusetts
Eight Hour Day and Labor Moves Featured in U S News
Seven Cloak and Suit Makers' union members on trial in New York for a strikebreaker murder were acquitted. 1914 average weekly wages in the boot and shoe industry did not rise. Cleveland Automatic Machine company munition workers granted an eight hour day with higher pay. A New York Labor Center association forms to discuss social and economic issues benefitting workers.
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Cloak and Suit Makers’ Union
New York
Cleveland Automatic Machine Company
Cleveland
New York City
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