New Plans To Stabilize Labor In New Jersey
Radical changes aim to use a federal state municipal employment bureau card showing last job and reason for leaving. Governor Bryant denies approval while Warren C. King claims consent, with plan to curb job hopping and boost wartime labor stability and shipyard needs. Women may be employed more in skilled and light work to meet demand.
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Trenton
New Jersey
Manufacturers’ Council of
Warren C. King
Bound Brook
Bryant
King
Colonel Bryant
Labor Committee
Manufacturers' Council
Avor
Manufacturers’ Council
State Labor Department
Ing
Mr. King
Oing
Shnl
Federal
State
State Employment Bureau
Motor Truck Club of
Council
Council of National Defense
Iabor
Allies Push in Amiens Sector Amid Frontline Shifts
Allied forces advance along the Lys and Amiens sectors as German activity shifts southward. British and French units report bombardments near Merville and Flanders while patrols seize high ground near Tanard and Villers-Bretonneux. Optimism runs through Allied spokesmen amid a lull in major infantry action.
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London
Elanders
Ypres
Channel
France
Givenchy
Neippe Forest
Lys
Flanders
Merville
Armentieres
Arras-Lens
Tan Rard
Villers-Bretonneux
Amiens
Castel
Holland
Switzerland
Americans in Great Battle in France Gas Attacks
American troops along the Picardy front in France faced a violent gas attack Saturday night as 17,000 shells were fired and new glass container shells called toppers detonated. The defense stood firm with all ranks eager to repel Fritz and endure the unprecedented gas weapons.
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France
Picardy
Amiens
Fritz
Largest winter wheat crop forecast by Chamber of Commerce
Worldwide news roundup notes the U S Chamber of Commerce forecast of a record winter wheat crop for the nation. Other items report draft eligibility cases, a Supreme Court ruling on selective service, shootings in Nantes, suspension of the Brooklyn Freie Presse, the launch of the Tuckahoe coal carrier in Camden, and peace talks in Vienna.
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New York
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Committee On Statistics and Standards
Washington
Supreme Court
Nantes
France
Josephine Alvarez
Victorine
Brooklyn
Freie Presse
Camden N. J
Tuckahoe
Charles M. Schwab
Singley
Shipping Board
Vienna
Recruiting American Merchant Marine Officers and Seamen
The United States Shipping Board recruits American citizens aged 21 to 30 with no sea experience to train as firemen cooks messmen sailors and more aboard modern training ships. After about six weeks of instruction apprentices join merchant ships as seagoing crew while remaining exempt from military duty, with bases in Boston New York and other ports. Nearly 50 000 men are expected to be trained and druggists across states serve as enrolling agents to aid recruitment.
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Joston
United States Shipping Board
Shipping Guard
Ovneder
Shipping Board
Merchant Marine Service
Henry Howard
Boston
Shipping Board Recruiting Service
Ean
New York
Atlantic Gulf and Pacific
United States
Slipping Board Recruitme
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Merchant Marine
US States
Riverside
Alhambra
Martin Peyan
Ronnell & Connelly
Willan Haute
Cape May County
Daretown
Monroeville
Whig Lane
A. SK. Leuckel
Mercer County Board of Taxation
Harold Vaughn
Thomas Wolf
Bridgeton
Glaysboro Board of Education
Verus T
Board of Education of
Burlington
Quartermaster’s Department
Port Newark
John F. Sinnott
Newark
Senate
Clifton Board of Education
Walsh King bill bans IWW and allied groups
Washington senate passes Walsh-King bill making membership in IWW type organizations unlawful. Violations carry up to a $5,000 fine and ten years in prison. The measure targets advocacy or defense of violent acts by such groups.
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Washington
Senate
Walsh-King
Industrial Workers of the World
Mnake
French chief of Ireland named in British war front
London announces Field Marshal Viscount French appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Edward Short MP Newcastle named chief secretary for Ireland. French is described as Ireland’s foremost soldier and long time commander in chief in France.
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Erin
London
L’rench
France
Ireland
Edward Short
Newcastle
Viscount French
Newfield Women Form Fire Auxiliary In New Jersey
The women of Newfield organized a fire department auxiliary with Mrs. Eugene Miller as president and Mrs. Howard Davis as vice president. Gloucester plans a large Memorial Day observance led by Mayor Anderson with full city participation.
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Newfield
Fire Department
Eugene Miller
Howard Davis
L. Morrell
Howard Smith
Gloucester
Anderson
Edge
State Highway Department
Pusey & Jones Company
Gloucester Ship
Atlantic County
Red Cross
Ruth Adams
State Normal School
Absecon
Warren Tilton
New Ways Landing
Atlantic City
Bethel Estate
Charles P. Estbill
West Uhile
Federal
Hackensack River
Tuckahoe
Camden
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Doctor Kendall
Normal
Montclair
Hudson County
Innenage
Democratic State Comittee
Democratic State Committee
Democratiic State Committee
State Highway Commission
George H. Blakeslee
Jersey City
Blakeslee
State House Commission
Wadsworth Post
Somerville
Sheridan
C. S. Hoffman
Weather Bureau
Amiens Sector
Teuton
Hindenburg
Petain
Teutons
Haig
World’s News
Norway
America
Vance C. McCormick
War Trade Board
Fridtjof Nansen
W. W
New Jersey State
Rosenhayn
Cumberland County
B. Gerson
Frederick Fedodoff
Tony Tachin
Russia
Tachin
CW. W
Henry L. Haines
Farmers’ National Bank
Mullen Hill
Woodhaven
James Duffy
Avalon
Middle Township
Cape May
Erwin A. Buehl
Paulsboro
Marshall Kennedy
Swedesboro
Millville
Board of Health
Audubon M. E. Church
C. F. Miller
Standard Metallic Products Corporation
George B. Conover
Civic Club of Absecon
Emily Rossiter
R. A. Elwood
Vincentown
Ella M. Haines
J. W. Jones
Elva Hughes
Howard
Stackhouse
State Department of Health
Logan
Burlington County
New Lisbon
Francis I. Brannan
John R. Chappel
Mount Holly
Rhode Island State College
Addie Parsells
MillyiNe
W.C. T. UC
Albert TD. Anderson
John O A. Anderson
Stryker Free Poliic Library
Lambertville
Burlington County Freeholders
William M. Kennedy
The
North Baptist Church
Miullville
Camp Wadsworth
Spartanburg
D.C
Philip I. Pearson
St. Pauls Lutheran Church
Col Hngswood
Vocational Board of
Pleasantville
W. B. MacDougall
Retail Merchants’ Association of
DuPont Powder Works
Gibbstown
Water Committee
Woodbury Council
Cohansey
Thomas Uhland, Jr
Charles TH. Woodrut
Uhland
Woodruff
Arcola Country Club
Arcola
North Jersey
Daniel Cleary
Grand Street
Cartaret Club
Bergen Avenue
Tie
Uouity Commission
Consolidated Gas Company
Asbury Park
Long Brancl
West Long Branch
Commission
Innies
Pacific
Hoboken
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