Unions Hit By New Wage Cuts Across Rail System
The Railway Labor Board ordered wage cuts totaling about 60 million dollars for over 400 000 shop craft workers effective July 1. The decision, opposed by three labor members, affects machinists boilermakers blacksmiths and other crafts and delays telegraphers’ changes. A union vote on accepting or rejecting the order is due by June 30.
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Chicago
Railway Employees Department
American Federation of Labor
Railway Labor Board
Albert O. Wharton
W. L. McMenimen
Albert Phillips
Labor Board
United States
B. M. Jewell
Federated Shops Crafts
Jewell
Railway Employees’ Department
Labor
Publc
Proper share of money in circulation per person
Treasury Department figures show June 1 money in circulation at 5 846 832 497 dollars. With a continental U S population of 109 605 090 the per person share is 48 78 dollars.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Continental
United States
Daugherty Would Not Trade Office For Million Dollars
Washington Attorney General Daugherty said he would not resign and told reporters he would not trade the office of attorney general even for a million dollars. He noted he would not have given 30 cents to obtain the job in the past.
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Washington
Daugherty
Harding
Senate Fight Opens Over Soldiers Bonus Report
Washington report notes the Senate discusses the soldiers bonus bill after early opposition. Senator McCumber filed the report and moved the bill to the calendar amid debate and cloakroom maneuvering. The long finance committee report estimates tax cost at 3.845 billion dollars.
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Washington
Senate
Underwood
Alabama
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
McCumber
Finance Committee
Williams
Washington in turmoil as coal strike prompts government seizure talk
Senators urge fresh action to seize and run coal mines to supply fuel. President Harding backs naval oil lease policy in a letter to the Senate. Officials clash with Italy over tariff as domestic concern. Ricci may not return from leave. Watson calls tariff meddling a closed matter. La Follette warns Coronado ruling ominous for unions. Naval bill allows ongoing ship construction. Railroad pay cuts total 60 million yearly. Harding veto threat persists on the bonus bill. Geddes forwards speech to Hughes. Brookhart seen as rising progressive in Iowa race.
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Harding
Senate
Fall
Ricci
Italy
Watson
Indiana
State Department
la Follette
Wisconsin
Supreme Court
Coronado
United Mine Workers
Railroad Labor Board
Geddes
Hughes
Dame
Brookhart
United States
Iowa
Washington
Hays Demands Purified Movies in Industry Ultimatum
Will Hays fires a firm ultimatum to major studio heads and firms urging immediate removal of objectionable content. The letter to Fox Laemmle Zukor and others stresses moral and artistic standards and warns of possible dismissals for noncompliance as productions for next season begin.
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New York
Moving Picture
Will H. Hays
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
William Fox
Fos Film Corporation
Frank J. Godsel
Goldwyn Distributing Corporation
Earl W. Hammons
Educational Film Exchanges, Inc
Carl Laemmle
Metro Pictures Corporation
John M. Quinn
Vitagraph Inc
Lewis J. Selznick
Select Pictures Corporation
Adolph Zukor
Famous Players- Lasky Corporation
Joseph M. Schenck
Ways
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc
United States
Adam and Eve Charged Over Maine Game Law Violations
Carl A. Sutter and his wife known as the modern Adam and Eve faced charges for killing deer and partridges out of season in Northern Maine. Wardens report their six week wilderness sojourn violated state game laws.
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Houston
Carl A. Sutter
Adam and Eve
Maine
Sutter
Union Strike Could Make Labor Unions Liable Under Sherman Act
Washington says the Coronado decision could render unions liable for conspiracy in restraint of trade. Ralston of the AFL warns that both union funds and members' property may be seized, urges immediate incorporation, and treats labor groups as near to corporations for liability purposes.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Coronado
Jackson TI. Ralston
American Federation of Labor
Ralston
Incorporated
Ste
Leaders of 1 200 000 railway workers plan appeal to Harding
Cincinnati reports that railway workers facing pay cuts will seek a federal appeal to President Harding to block further reductions. The piece also notes locust swarms in Illinois and other brief items.
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Cincinnati
Railroad Labor Board
Harding
Chicago
Fox River Valley
Belgrade
Alexander of
Jugo-Slavia
Marie of
Marie of Roumania Have Married At Gorgeous Ceremony. New Orleans.—Mark .Boasberg
Jack Sheehan
Foster
United States District Court
Los Angeles
Ku Klux Klan
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Inglewood
Seattle
Richard A. Ballinger
Tutt
Vancouver
B. C
George Carmack
Boston
Cox
Massachusetts
Harvard University
Marking of Canadian War Graves by Imperial War Graves Commission
The Imperial War Graves Commission will mark and care for six thousand Canadian Expeditionary Force and Royal Air Force graves in about 1,200 Canadian cemeteries. The effort includes a few alien enemy graves under postwar treaty terms and provides perpetual upkeep.
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Canada
Imperial War Graves Commission
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Royal Air Force
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Jules Bache
Paris
HAYS
Wife
Harry K. Eustice
Mighty Hunter
Africa
London
A. F. L. Council
World’s News
Goodyear
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