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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1934
Page
1
Organized labor sent questionnaires to congressional candidates on labor issues while business groups plan similar polls. The piece notes cross endorsements, debates on government role, and calls for cooperation between capital and labor as a path to industrial freedom amid ongoing tax and policy disputes.
The mass return of cotton textile workers to looms was not 100 percent as many mills opened late after the general strike. Reports claim discrimination against strikers in Georgia and New York, with union organizers alleging state troops kept workers from looms and New England members refusing to work. Roy Lawrence cites 10,000 NC textile workers discharged. Macon mills refused to rehire strikers. Callaway mills in LaGrange operated with no disturbance.
Francis J. Gorman, chairman of the textile strike committee, charged Monday that several employers are discriminating against active union leaders in the re-employment of textile workers.
Thousands of workers return to looms after the long walkout led by United Textile Workers vice president Francis J. Gorman. He aims for one million union members from a 300,000 base as the cost of the conflict rises to sixteen deaths, over 200 injuries, and millions lost in wages and business.
About 200 United Textile Workers members marched to the courthouse in Concord after being told their jobs were filled. They said they would occupy the courthouse until they regained their positions.
Alfred Riggle living eight miles south of Cedar Rapids on highway 161 was unconscious with head bruises after a 3 p m collision as his gravel truck turned into his driveway and struck a car driven by L J Lofgren of Rock Island St. The wreck damaged both vehicles and Sheriff Petrus with Deputy Evans checked the scene.
A reflective piece on the saying it might have been and the converse that one may still become more. It cites John Wesley Emerson and the idea that environment and choices shape who we become, suggesting hidden potential and the unfolding of dreams beyond the present. Copyright 1934.
In the Gresford collieries disaster the death count was officially placed at 26. Only fifteen bodies have been recovered as authorities assess one of Wales’ worst mining accidents.
Recent assay work on the Evening Star Tourist camp property of Mr and Mrs Frank Cargin near Cedar Rapids shows gold and silver traces in soil. The eight acre site along Squaw Creek five miles east of Cedar Rapids lies near Viola and Stone City deposits, with foreclosures tied to 1932 suits.
Senator William Borah urged the American Liberty League be broadened to include economic freedom. He attacked monopoly and price fixing, warning that government backed price control harms small businesses and human rights. Continuous remarks target anti trust policy and economic liberty.
Eleven persons were injured in two Sunday crashes. In First avenue E near Cedar Memorial cemetery a suspected intoxicated driver fled. in highway 11 north of the city limits a head on collision involved two cars. Police say Milton Carter may be at fault in the First avenue crash.
Nearly 1,000 women attended the first four day Personality school led by Miss Janette Serrec at the Iowa theater sponsored by The Gazette. The event featured talks on charm etiquette and nervousness with daily musical interludes and demonstrations, and continues Tuesday with stage exercises and table setting guidance.
Hartley Benton county officials press for an agreed contract adjustment with AAA on hog and corn quotas. Herman Franzenburg Richard Wallace and Dr. A G Black hold multiple sessions to shape a settlement amid protests from Fayette and other counties over perceived unfair cuts and high handed investigators.
Marshalltown Iowa AP Lt Gov Nels Kraschel challenged Republican nominee George W Patterson to explain his opposition to the new tax law in light of his prior Senate vote. Kraschel cited the Senate journal showing 16 of 26 Republican senators, including Patterson, voting yes on the bill.
Captain Robert Willmott locked himself in his cabin about sixteen hours before the Morro Castle fire fearing second radio operator George S. Alagna would throw sulfuric acid. Acting Captain William Warms testified that Willmott told him Alagna carried acid and planned to keep his door locked. Willmott died that evening of heart disease, and he refused to have Alagna irons or a storeroom searched. Warms said the captain ordered vigilance against Alagna.
Armour & Co Wilson & Co and John Morrell and Company packers announce wage increases effective Oct 1 for plant workers nationwide. Armour Wilson raise hourly pay from 44 to 47 1/2 cents for minimum workers with higher gains for skilled and unskilled staff. Morrell adds seven to eight percent to restore 1929 payroll levels in Sioux Falls Ottumwa and Topeka plants. Rath Packing also hikes eight percent with common labor up from 44 to 47 1/2 cents.
Ohio penitentiary warden Preston E. Thomas and daughter Amanda support George Pau lin’s claim of a coded note from Bruno Hauptmann about the Lindbergh kidnapping. They recount how they learned Paulin’s connection to Hauptmann and how radio broadcasts triggered their actions in Columbus.
Federal authorities pursue a suspected accomplice of Bruno Hauptmann in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder. Reports say a German carpenter’s relative may be involved in a “family job” theory while Hauptmann remains the key figure. J Edgar Hoover is ready to return to New York if needed.
New York AP reports the Bronx county grand jury hearing extortion charges against Bruno Hauptmann adjourned to Tuesday after four witnesses. Federal sources say Hauptmann shows signs of weakening in his denials as investigators press for any partial confession amid efforts by Fawcett and district attorneys to reveal “startling information.”
The 1930 headline notes Hauptmann faces a Bronx county grand jury after the Lindbergh ransom saga. Justice McLaughlin swore in twenty three jurors and outlined secrecy and voting rules as Col Lindbergh is expected to testify midweek. Witness Col Henry Breckinridge also anticipated.
Two men were killed and a third injured when the plane attempting takeoff from a pasture west of Tiffin crashed into a tree after a forced landing.
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