Eckels Sees Improved New York Outlook for Economy
James Eckels, head of Commercial National Bank and former Comptroller, toured New York and said conditions improved by week’s end. He noted steady prices, rising foreign buying, and a cautious banking sector ready to back crop moving and labor demands without fueling speculative moves. He urged balanced labor rights and administration of business affairs, warning that harsh union tactics could harm the economy. He foresaw a likely coalition among Democrats on a revenue revision and tariff shifts, with conservative democracy possibly guiding policy.
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Debsich
Ribus
Chicago
James Eckels
The
New York
Union Oath Versus U S Oath in Tugboat Trial
Joseph Rutledge a tugboat engineer faces charges for abandoning the Runyon during a strike. He testified he quit to avoid unsafe work as a union member and pledged protection from employers. a judge reserved a ruling as other cases, including Francis Jones and Joseph Cornell, surfaced in the same session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial
Tribune
New York
Joseph Bulledge
Charles ‘Runyon
White Star Towing’ Company
United States
Runyon
Rutledge
Harry G. Crew
No. 70
South Street
Charles Runyon
Dele Eee Commedieu
The
Crew
Union
Mr. Wray
Francis G. Jones
Newtown Creek, Towing Company
Joseph ‘ Cornell
Marine Engineers’ Association
Newtown Creek Towing Company
Boston Mattress Maker Arrested for Forcing Union Silence
Osman D. Baker of Boston faces arrest on a coercion charge for hiring new workers and promising high wages if they will not join unions. One employee, Robert Butler, signed a declaration denying union membership to keep his job. The case, under Statute 106 section 12, marks a rare 1852 first in Boston.
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Commercial Tribune
Boston
Osman D. Baker
Baker
Robert Butler
Butler
Alabama judge rules peonage cases limited to a few counties
In Montgomery, Judge Jeres delivered a special grand jury charge on peonage cases. He said the criminal contract law allowing jail for misdemeanor costs is violative of the Federal constitution as it creates a civil contract. Indictments urged where law violated. cases tied to a few counties.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jeres
United States
Alabama
Jones
Nords
Lockout Ends in Pittsburg as Builders Resume Work
Pittsburg on June 16 reported the lockout declared by the Master Contractors Association and Stone Contractors Association with Builders League approval was called off. About fifty thousand workers were threatened with unemployment, but operations resumed and ten thousand tradespeople returned to work after two weeks idle.
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Pittsburg
Master Contractors’ Association
Stone Contractors’ Association
Builders’ League
Central Federated Union Meet Announcement From New York
Official notice released in New York on June 15 confirms details of a union meet held by the Central Federated Union. The statement outlines event plans and key speakers expected to address members and affiliates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
the."Central- Federated Union of
Rise in Unemployment as Strike Persists
The strike threatens to leave over twenty thousand men seeking work unconditionally. The report notes plans to expand the union and hints that its demands will be renewed at a future date.
Builders Should Adopt Union Methods in Pittsburg Office Interview
In a Pittsburg interview T M Walker editor of the Builder argues that union official meddling has halted an estimated fifty million dollars of construction across the area. He cites bricklayers and stone masons disputes, calls for builders to mirror union tactics, and warns of wage losses and wider economic harm from strikes and gatekeeping.
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Commercial Tribune
Pittsburg
T. M. Walker
Builder
Wdr
Executive Committee
New York City
New York
Citizens' Alliance forms in Shelbyville to aid workers
A new organization named the Citizens' Alliance has grown to about 11 000 members in Shelbyville Indiana. Night meetings are held with many attendees as a restraining order keeps 25 former employees from the Karmi furniture factory. The Finishers Union No 140 is blamed for local trouble though it denies the claim. A wage scale proposed by the union would raise experienced workers by 2 1 2 cents and less experienced by 16 2 8 cents per hour and would take effect July 1.
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Commercial Tribune
Shelbyville
Ind
Citizens’ Alliance
Morris
Karmi Furniture
No. 140
Strike agitator narrowly escapes mob at Missouri Pacific
A union carpenter from Hannibal Missouri identified as T M Hager narrowly escaped mob violence in Kansas City as he urged Missouri Pacific freight handlers to strike for full recognition. Suffering floods and relief relief dependents fueled anger as police arrested Hager to prevent violence.
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Kansas City, Mo
T. M
Hager
Hannibal
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Master Builders Rally Against Journeymen Trades
The Master Builders Association of New Jersey and Montclair area unions adopted a resolution prohibiting nonmember master builders from subcontracting or signing contracts with journeymen. The measure aims to curb journeymen from handling work themselves and is expected to trigger a response next Tuesday morning.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Master Builders’ Association of
New Jersey
Gor
Montclair
Bloomfield
the Oranges
Caldwell
Building Trades
Textile strike faces money shortage threat
Philadelphia reports the textile strike faces a growing money shortage as fund-raising and financing become a major challenge for striking workers and organizers amid ongoing labor action.
Special Committee Formed to Fund Strike Relief
A Special Committee on Ways and Means of thirty six members from local unions was formed to devise methods of raising funds to support the strike and assist strikers and their families in need. The committee will organize early in the week to determine a revenue plan. Suffering among strikers has been limited so far, with temporary relief from local committees in extreme cases.
Strikers Reject Arbitration Efforts in Chicago
In Chicago on June 15 the hotel and restaurant strike showed no sign of a settlement as the strikers' joint board refused mediation. Leaders urged arbitration, but the board held firm and planned further action, with President Gompers expected to push new talks Wednesday.
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Chicago
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Driscoll
Morrison
Joint Council
Strike Threat Looms as 10000 Webster Miners Could Walk Out
Altoona Pa June 1 United Mine Workers officers in the local district open session to decide this morning if a strike by about 10000 Webster Coal and Coke Company miners will be declared. The company has sent fifty police to guard plants and the union pledges to back the action with national treasury funds if demands are not met.
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Altoona
Webster Coal and Coke Company
United
Webster Company
Currie
South Fork
Mitchell
United Mineworkers of America
National Treasury
Richman Fined by Hat Makers Union in Newark Case
New York June 16. David Richman accused of extorting from Newark hat factory employees. He was fined 999.99 by the Hat Makers Union after allegations of soliciting 2 per week from workers and taking money from others. He previously paid a 99.99 fine eight months earlier as a department foreman. He denies both charges and plans to refuse the second fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Newark
N. J
David Richman
Hatmakers’ Union
Richman
Will Organize A Citizens Alliance In Several Cities
T West Goodwin editor of the Sedalia Bazoo traveled to promote a Citizens Alliance joining employers and employees. He has organized lodges in Scranton Sedalia Springfield Bloomington and Peoria and aims to build closer employer employee ties to curb strikes boycotts and disorder during labor troubles.
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T. West Goodwin
Sedalia
Bazoo
Goodwin
Citizens’ Alliance
Shelbyville
Ind
Scranton
Springfield
Bloomington
Peoria
Ill
All Boiler Shops Shut Down by Strike
A citywide boiler shop strike halts nearly a hundred workers after the Boiler Makers Union demands a 10 percent raise and merit-based hiring. McIlvaine Spiegel, Tudor Company, Jones & Co. see stoppages while Norton & Co. keep men at work. Employers offer arbitration and apprentice-friendly terms, rejected by the union as the Metal Trades Association weighs in. A force of twenty workers reportedly heads to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. McIlvaine & Spiegel
Tudor Company
Jones & Co
Norton
Workers’ Union
Metal Trades Association
Deming Is Convicted in Strike Interference Case
In Springfield on June 15 Thomas Deming of Murphysboro was convicted in the U S Circuit Court of violating Judge Humphrey s injunction against interfering with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad during a strike. He was sentenced to four months in Bangamon County Jail for assaulting passenger brakeman Everett Anderson.
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Springfield
Ill
United States
Thomas Deming
Murphysboro
Humphrey
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Bangamon County
Deming
Everett Anderson
Two Hundred Longshoremen Strike for 20 Percent Pay Rise
In Philadelphia on June 15 two hundred lumber handlers went on strike seeking a 20 percent wage increase. The dispute centers on lumber handlers while the American Steamship Line agreed to a uniform freight handler rate of 2.60 dollars daily. prior pay was twenty cents per hour. In Omaha on June 15 building work resumed after bricklayers and related trades ended a four month stoppage. several hundred workers and many others returned to last year’s scale.
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Philadelphia
American Steamship Line
Omaha
Neb
Work Again Stops in New York Following Board Order
NEW YORK June 15 Following a Board of Governors decision the Building Trades Employers Association orders a halt to resumed operations. Members discontinued work today at sites where operations had restarted.
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New York
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Wall of Water Sweeps Ore Town: 20 Feet High
The report describes a wall of water about 20 feet high hitting a town in Oregon. Many residents along Willow Creek are believed drowned. Relief is urged to recover bodies and clear debris as weather warms. Rail yards and tracks are reported damaged beyond ten miles downstream.
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Town
Oregon
Hoppner
Willow Creek
Kefman
Armourdale Flood Worse than Johnstown and Galveston
Edward T. Devon of New York charity groups said Armourdale Kansas City Kansas is the worst wrecked city he has seen, surpassing Johnstown and Galveston floods. He cited vast devastation and 10,000 homeless in East St. Louis. Armourdale’s losses exceed those in the other disasters.
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Kansas City
Edward T. Devon
Charity Organizations of
New York
Denver
Armourdale
Kan
Johnstown
Galveston
East St. Louis
Poisonous Cream Puffs Hospitalizes Teen
Sixteen year old Harold Stackpohl of 735 est Second Street consumed ice cream and cream puffs at a summer resort Sunday evening and was removed to the City Hospital nearly dead from ptomaine poisoning. Doctors say he will recover. In a separate report, Louis Kohl shot young Seacine on March 28 while defending his mother, who Kohl later killed at the Stackpool home on Mill Street.
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Harold Stackpohl
Second Street
Cty
Young Seacine
Louis Kohl
Kohl
Stackpool
Mill Street
Man Admitted After Accident Firearm Shooting
Charles Gray of 1211 Linn Street was admitted to City Hospital after being accidentally struck in the knee by bird shot while guests in Covington examined a shotgun. Doctors say the discharge occurred at some distance from the muzzle.
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Charles Gray
Linn Street
City Hospital
Covington
More To Come in Philadelphia Press
A mother reproaches her daughter for an engagement to two men claiming shame. The young woman defends herself saying she has only been betrothed to one for three days.
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Philadelphia Press
Civil War Ends as Dudmorra Proclaimed Sultan
Tripoli reports the civil war in Wadai has ended and Dudmorra has been proclaimed Sultan. The news confirms a swift political shift following the conflict.
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Tripoli
Wadai
Dudmorra
Shipping News Briefs From Atlantic Port Arrivals
On June 15 various liners arrived or sailed including The Cymric to New York via Queenstown, The Grosser Kurfurst to New York via Plymouth and Cherbourg, The Hohenlollern to Naples and Genoa, and The Umbria to New York. Other movements include Kroonland passing Isle of Wight for Antwerp, Manitou near Scilly bound for Southampton and London, and Mesaba arriving in New York from London.
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New York
Finland
Antwerp
United Statopenhagen
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Bremen
Gibraltar
Genoa
Naples
Liverpool
Grosser Kurfurst
Umbria
Hohenzollern
Glasgow
Montreal
Madeira
Hesperia
Scilly
Manitou
Southampton
London
Dresden
Baltimore
Civic
Lee
Bear Moville
Astoria
Messaba
Jewelry Theft at Mrs Willer's Home
A thief escaped with a large jewelry haul from the residence of Mrs. M. E. Willer while she was downtown. On return she found a dresser drawer forced and several rings missing including a diamond ring valued at 100 dollars, another at 75 dollars, plus pearl rings and gold pins worth 125 dollars.
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M. E. Willer
Spinks contention taken under advisement by court
In Trenton New Jersey June 15 Judge Kirkpatrick confirmed the Tatnall report as receiver of the Asphalt Company of America but took under advisement Spinks contention that stockholders be assessed and proceeds used for gold certificate holders.
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Trenton
N. J
United States Circuit Court
Kirkpatrick
Henry Tatnall
Asphalt Company of America
Henry Spinks
Newport
Druggist Promises Refund If Paig Ointment Fails
An advertisement proclaims PAIG OINTMENT will cure ringworm tetter ulcers pimples and other skin diseases with a money back guarantee. It specifies refunds if the treatment does not work and lists common skin conditions claimed to be treated.
Coroner's Jury Names Suspects in Levee Riot Death
The Coroner's jury in St Louis finds John Bratton W A Brown S J Allen F E Colliver and Frank Hale responsible for the death of Clifford Hamblin a St Louis Naval Reserve member killed in a levee riot on Hast St Saturday night Bratton a noted horseman and the others named are employees.
Letter Confession of Love and Health Remedies
A woman writes to John about loving a doctor but staying faithful while praising health tonics from Dr. Pierce. She describes improved health, nervous fatigue, and plans for a future cottage, then shares letters from others endorsing Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery with testimonials of recovery and gratitude.
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John
Jewel
John Kooman
Grant Ave
Schenectady
N. Y
Dr. Pierce
United States
Dispensary Medical Association
Pierce
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Mr. Bryan
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U. S
Striking Marine
Citizens’ Alliance TO Protect Workingmen
the Hatmakers’ Union
Missouri
Lodge
Jim Dumps
Buffalo
Forcoe
Sunny Jim
Harsemr M. Huxn
University of Buffalo
Chemiat
City of Buffalo
Ner
Tal Brieckron
Iere
Ewe Ewins
Awe
Sete
Pittabure
St. Louie
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Vyda
Cincinnat
Milwaukee
Spinks
Tattnal’l
Asphalt Company
Valentine
MOTT
Kate
R. V. Pierce
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