Steel Workers Embrace Soccer as 8 Hour Day Debuts
Gary Indiana reports growing outdoor games as steel mills shift to an eight hour day. Peter J. Peel notes Chicago experts helping Gary mill workers form teams, with foreigners common among players. He says soccer thrives where workers gain four extra hours daily, boosting health, discipline, and pride.
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Gary
Ind
Peter J. Peel
United States Football Association
United States
Chicago
Czechoslovakia
Indiana
Middleman cost blamed for high prices says state agent
C E Spence, state market agent, urges producers and consumers to act as their own middlemen to cut the two thirds middle profit. He argues federal stats show consumers pay 66 percent more than growers receive and that cooperatives can reduce handling costs while preventing profiteering and lowering consumer prices.
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Portland
Ure
C. E. Spence
Mr. Spence
Government ownership of railroads to be campaign issue
Chicago reports Dr. David Friday, head of the National Transportation Institute research council, says government operation of railroads will be central in next year’s campaign. He argues for a thorough, impartial study of all results and public disclosure to avoid a biased election on the issue.
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Chicago
David Friday
Research Council
The
National Transportation Institute
Michigan Agricultural College
Friday
Miners Aid Distressed Families after Kemmerer Disaster
The United Mine Workers sent a $10 000 telegraphed relief gift to widows and children of Kemmerer Coal Company miners. District Judge Arnold approved 38 settlements totaling 133070.01 with prompt compensation under state law. 56 cases await proof, many claimants living abroad.
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Kemmerer, Wye
Kemmerer Coal Company
Lewis
Green
United Mine
Arnold
United States
Farmers Gouged by Harvester Trust in La Follette's Magazine
The La Follette's Magazine article details the harvester trust formed twenty years ago with a $120 million stock issue. It notes J P Morgan & Co took $3.45 million in service and legal fees, private plant acquisitions in 1903 1904, a wartime price propaganda campaign, and continued high prices after 1919.
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Madison
Wis
Harvester Trust
la Follette
J. P. Morgan & Co
Combine
Trust
The
Organized Bakers Resist Bread Trust in Chicago
The Bakers International Union of America reaffirms its battle against the Ward Baking Company. It cites a 1922 profit above 2 million dollars and alleges a 1923 plan to double profits by lowering wages and expanding hours amid anti-union pressures.
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Chicago
Bakers’ International Union of America
Ward Baking Company
Panama Canal Pays Big Profit for Government
The Panama canal earns a monthly profit of 500000 dollars for the government as Governor Col Jay J. Morrow arrives in New York. He notes the canal pays over 3 percent on the investment and costs about 600000 dollars monthly to operate. In early August tolls topped one million dollars and in nine years 20474 vessels have traversed the waterway. Theatre workers gain in Springfield with a 15 percent wage increase for musicians stage crews film operators and bill posters.
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New York
Panama Canal
Jay J. Morrow
Canal Zone
North
South America
Springfield
Mass
Prohibition Debate and the Volstead Law Split Faces
A historical feature argues prohibition harms temperance by legislative overreach and calls for modifying the Volstead Act to allow low alcohol beverages. It cites Lincoln quotes, wartime policy, and widespread public strain, predicting a 1924 political struggle between liberty and federal enforcement.
Coal Prices Exposed as Operators Seek Higher Rates
A Pittsburgh dispatch to the New York Evening Post argues coal operators demand higher prices not from demand but from a belief they deserve better profits. It notes rising anthracite related prices with little actual buying, suggesting the shift benefits operators over consumers and hinges on sentiment rather than real demand.
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International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
Pittsburgh
New York Evening Post
The
Post
Pittsburger District
Food costs rise across most cities in period
U S Bureau of Labor reports cost of living up to August 15 1923 in 28 of 29 cities led by Philadelphia with 14 percent rise followed by Turin Napoli Manchester and Pittsburgh at 10 percent Detroit Boston Bridgeport Chicago and Newark New Haven Scranton at 7 percent and other centers at 6 to 4 percent Seattle under five tenths of 1 percent D idhiy shows a 1 percent drop.
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Washington
United States Bureau of Labor
Wetlee
Philadelphia
Turuannapoli
Manchester
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Boston
Bridgeport
Chicago
Newark
New Haven
Scranton
Baltimore
Fall River
St. Paul
D. C
Portland
Columbus
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Onahu
Savanath
Houston
Little Rock
Seattle
Didhiy
Employment Lags in New York State August
Albany reports employment receded slightly in state manufacturing plants in August per the New York State Department of Labor. Small reductions have been reported each month since March, but the overall decrease leaves employment levels near the year's start with no clear downward trend.
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Albany
N. Y
New York State Department of Labor
Aimce Marek
Federal injunction orders rate relief for Mountain States
Salt Lake City report states a federal district court has issued a permanent injunction against the state public utilities commission. The order requires Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph to lower its telecommunication rates.
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Salt Lake City
Distret
Colt
Pulse Fig
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Musicians Raise Wages in Hartford Vaudeville Houses
Fragmentary text notes wage increases for musicians in Hartford venues and mentions motion picture houses and vaudeville houses. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
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Hartford
Conn
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