C. M. Schwab Steel Magnate Leads Bethlehem Strike
Bethlehem steel boss Charles M Schwab faces a wage dispute as workers strike for better pay and conditions, prompting company responses and ongoing negotiations in a tense labor confrontation.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1910
Page
1
Bethlehem steel boss Charles M Schwab faces a wage dispute as workers strike for better pay and conditions, prompting company responses and ongoing negotiations in a tense labor confrontation.
Senator Allds testifies he never demanded or received money to influence legislation. Counsel for both sides plan final summaries as the Malby-Stevens bill fate looms. committee anticipated to vote Friday with cross examination to follow.
Speaker Joseph G Cannon votes against funding and purchasing embassy buildings overseas, citing fiscal restraint and national priorities. The decision highlights ongoing tensions over government spending and diplomatic property expansion. Cannon’s stance reflects a broader debate in Congress on foreign investment versus domestic needs.
City officials move to curb disorder as 1000 additional police join the force and National Guard stays ready. Mayor Reyburn cites an old statute on employer employee settlements while council debates action and RPRT board influence. Striking workers delay court appeal as talks stall and safety concerns mount.
Washington reports efforts to prevent a threatened strike by conductors and trainmen of the Baltimore and Ohio by arbitration. The Interstate Commerce Commission and Commissioner of Labor Nell offered to mediate after negotiations failed and a majority of workers voted to strike. Leaders Knapp and Neill acted as a settlement board under the Entente act and advised both sides via telegram after President Willard signaled submission to arbitration.
In Claveland on March 4, about 4,000 people are homeless as floods from the Hood devastate the area. Damage tops $1,000,000 with the Licking and Muskingum rivers surpassing 1908 highs. Over 900 are fed by authorities. rail lines and streets suffer blockages and attempted dynamite attacks are reported in Warren.
The flood along the Mohawk near Schenectady forces evacuations as water swamps houses and river currents surge. Seaboard volunteers form a makeshift raft party, rescuing residents and transporting them to upper towns amid rising waters and submerged foundations.
The First National Bank of Warren in Pennsylvania publishes a brief history noting its charter date August 6, 1864 and successive extensions every 20 years through 1904. It highlights interest on time deposits paid per cent and compounded semi annually.
A new view of the general situation surfaces in the last twelve hours. Public sentiment appears ready to back a strike in sympathy, with 2,000 members of a Chicago body telegraphing readiness. In Pennsylvania, assurances of sympathy strikes reach across the state as officials prepare police and employers to prevent gatherings.
General Leonidas Wood, who underwent two operations at St Johns Hospital, is improved and will leave tomorrow to resume duties at Governor's Island. Mrs Wood says he is entirely well and has taken no further blinds during his hospital stay.
Detectives arrested five Woods Run youths aged 14 to 18 after a string of burglaries in the Northside. Names are William Schwartzwelder, Michael McCarty, Robert Crummey, Ed Rickard, and George Kerwin. Robberies targeted stores on Prably and nearby avenues, including a grocery store, barber shop, and wallpaper shop. Police watch followed the five as Special Policemen Powell and Lorish placed them under arrest behind the Woods Run zincery.
A fragmentary notice reports a society dispute involving Stetti and Beli Yoss over a payment to Wolfe from her trial, with unclear details. The readable text centers on a financial action in a social context and hints at a familial or social friction.
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