Strike Called Off as Carpenters Told to Aid Victory
Union officials submit to President Wilson by urging carpenters in eastern shipyards to return to work. William L Hutcheson leads the call, while Gompers assures the president that labor supports the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Eastern
William L. Hutcheson
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Jomers
Hotel Continental
Wi-Bod
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Josper
AML
Shipbuilding Wage Adjustment Board
Nimir
White House
Sammel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Gompers
Wilson
Senator Chamberlin case and other Capitol notes
Senator Chamberlin of Oregon underwent appendectomy and was reported to be successful. Representative D Vo Stephens opened debate on amatrgd bell tolling private carriers, opposing federal control time limits. Bankers syndicate announced a $100 60G600 loan to market the sugar crop. Bolsheviks captured Kiev with 4000 deaths. Suma Hians threaten Odessa. land nationalization urged. private banks abolished. Russian capital faces starvation. Railroads testify majority concede higher pay under current cost of living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chamberlin
Oregon
Senate Military Affairs Committee
D. Vo Stephens
Bankers’ Syndicate
Petrograd
Kiev
Suma
American Plan Wins War Council Debate
Washington reports show Allied central control policy backed by executive departments. British opposition viewed as troubling but not decisive, as Lloyd George praised the American plan and urged unity with France, Italy, and the United States amid wartime harmonization efforts. General Bliss led U S delegation at Versailles.
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Washington
Trermiany Wieed
Bio
France
Thaly
White House
Premer Lloyd George
London
War Council
America
Inca
House of Commons
Versailles
Lloyd George
Vand Jagic
Parker TH. Bliss
United States
Arthur T. Frazier
Paris
Supreme War Council
Draft pact would mobilize 250000 men for service
Washington reports treaties between the United States and Canada outline mutual wartime conscription plans. The pacts would make more than 250000 men available for service across both nations, with a portion to be drawn from the American Canadian wartime corps.
Bolshevik government agrees to peace terms after notable capitulation
The Russian government signs a peace pact under German terms at Brest Litovsk. German forces push into Russia along a 400 mile front from Riga to Lutsk. Dvinsk falls as Lutsk is entered, signaling a rapid advance toward Kiev and Petrograd as Lenine and Trotzky announce the capitulation.
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London
Germany
Troizki
Russia
Teutonic
Riga
Lutsk
Galician
Dvina
Dvinsk
Petrograd
Smolensk
Volhynian
Kiev
Nikolai Lenine
Leon Trotzky
People’s Commissaries of
Armiafes
Brest-Litovsk
Drive for 20 000 men in British Canadian draft drive
Brig Gen White says the British and Canadian recruiting drive aims to enlist 20,000 men in two months from the United States. He notes an impending U S Britain draft convention will allow British subjects in the U S ages 20 to 40 to be drafted into the American army, with hundreds of thousands of potential recruits still unoffered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
W. A. White
Great Britain
Sioning
Germans Advance as War News Brims With Front Moves
German armies push from Riga to Lutsk and Dvinsk amid a widening war picture. Western front expectations hint at a major spring offensive possibly diverted to Italy. British fear intensified bombings prompt Allied resolve. French troops repulse a German push in Champagne. An American anti aircraft crew claims a hit on a raiding German aircraft near a hospital town.
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Russia
Riga
Lutsk
Dvinsk
Arras
St. Quentin
Champagne
Hoover Foods Bill Aims Ration System in U S
Washington. Food Administrator Hoover pushes a twin bill to ration the nation with strict limits on bread, beef, pork, sugar, and dairy. The measure gives broad power to regulate from farm to table and enforces portion sizes in public places. Some Republicans back the plan. opposition centers on specific paragraphs. The cotton and corn price bill faces bitter, secretive opposition and may be stripped. The rationing bill likely heads to the House floor after the administration bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
Lever
House Agriculture Committee
Two Cent Piece Proposed to Aid War-Era Commerce
Washington representative Denton of Indiana introduced a bill authorizing a copper two cent coin as a better medium of exchange. The proposed coin would be larger than one cent, bearing the inscription two cents on one side and a declaration of liberty on the other, aiming to ease the price of everyday goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Indiana
Tie
Cain
Kaiser Attacks Russia in Baltic Theater Move
Report states Germany renews invasion of the Russian coast provinces. German forces cross the Dvina and press toward Petrograd to strike Bolshevik positions with Austria described as passive. Berlin aims for a swift advance and encroachment in Estonia and Livonia via the Baltic route.
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Esthenia
Livonia
Stockholm
Austria
Germany
Russian
Petrogradiyo
Dvina
Kavel
Uftatye
Potatoes Decline in Price Amid NJ Shortages
New Jersey reports amid shortages and rising prices in many foods, potatoes remain plentiful and their price is falling according to the Bureau of Markets. Bayonne records a fatal fire where 12 year old Elizabeth Lupenine died after her dress caught fire while reading at home.
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Trenton
State Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets
Bureau
Bayonne
Elizabeth Lupenine
John Walther
Times
Port Norris
South Jersey
Ocean Grove
Fountain House
Surf Avenue
Freeholti
John Steen
F. B. Dubois
Little Mills
Qevan Grove
Neptune Township
Camp Meetings Association
Frank
Smith
Glasshborn
Pompton Lakes
Home Rule League
Darling’s Hall
Atlantic City
New Jersey Library Association
Ednar B. Pratt
Pussule
Julia Sehneider
South Orange
Charles M. Luin
Chatham
Irene Hackett
Tncglewood
Mary G. Parsons
Morristown
Twin County Baseball League
National Army
Haskell
West Hoboken
Edward Bowers
New Jersey
Edge
Fredon
Sussex County
Newton
Sussex County Board of Agriculture
Philip S. Wilson
Hampton County
Vito Regina
Sherif Chardavoyne
Fred L. Cassidy
William G
Thompson
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal
State Highway Commission
General Goethals
Adolph Metzner
Thirty-second
Indiana Volunteers
Sheriman
Summit
Leonard Wellbourne
Sampson
Michael Costello
Kearny
Costello
German Valley
Andrew Clawson
Clawson
Schooley's Mountain
Neshank
Clover Fill
Somerset County Board of Freeholders
Hackensack
Tralley
Paul Xiques
Ritherford
New York
Public Service Railway Company
Pompton Plains
War Relief Committee
Tangier Hospital
Brooklyn Women’s War Relief Committee
France
Whitehouse
Roselle Park
Te Home Gardens and
Parent- Teacher Association
Mothers’ Community Club
Sherman School Parent-Teacher Association
Newark
Rahway
Richard WG
Mason
Merck Chemical Company
East Scott Avenue
Ralway
Elizabeth
George McCracken
Fort Johnson
Maecksenville
McCracken
Jersey Street
Cedar Grove
Bertha Steiner
Emma Steiner
John I
Steiner
Jane
Newton Alek, Bugbee Constrntion Company
Bugbee
Municipal Dock
Delaware
Burbee Company
Andarry Morgan
City Commission
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Sir Henry Wilson
Robertson
The
Royal Staff College
Versailles Council
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Toos
Trotzky
Baltic
Bolsheviks
Sir WM. Robertson
Sir William Robertson
Imperial Staff
British Isles
U. S
Bill
Kaiser
Sussex County Board of Freeholders
Calvin N. Kendall
Department of Public Instruction
McAdood
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
New Jersey Central
Courciil
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