Workers Walk Out Quietly Across Nation in Indefinite Tieup
Washington June 7 President Konenkamp of the Commercial Telegraphers Union announced a nationwide strike upon reaching Chicago. He said the date and scope were undecided, but the action would support Western Union employees in ten southeastern states who were ordered from their posts. The Southeast rested in near silence as Western Union offices closed from Richmond to Tampa, with Atlanta expected to bear the brunt as strikebreakers arrive from New York and other cities.
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Washington
Konenkamp
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
Chicago
Postal Telegraph-Cable Company
Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company
Western Union Company
Burleson
Atlanta
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Richmond
Tampa
Mississippi River
Atlantic Coast
Southeast
Charleston
Winston-Salem
Spartanburg
Charlotte
New Orleans
International
S. J. Konenkamp
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union and Telephone Operators’ Association
New York
Western Union
Piedmont
Ansley Hotels
Governor asks border troops to guard Texas frontier
Austin June 7 Governor Hobby requested the War Department call out two brigades of Texas cavalry for border guard duty. He cited the Angeles Villa operations and fears of a Mexican raid as well as rising gun smuggling and petty crimes along the border.
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Austin
Tex
Hobby
Texas
War Department
Texas Cavalry
Angeles-Villa
Mexico
Wide fight on U S packers
London dispatch says Britain will seek New Zealand aid against American packers. New Zealand may sell meat in London at a fixed price to curb the trust. If the trust reduces Britain, New Zealand must beat it on its own ground.
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London
New Zealand
Great Britain
Daily Mail
Christchurch
Poles and Ukrainians in renewed fighting around Lemberg
Copenhagen reports widespread Ukrainian revolt after Polish advances. A Ukrainian delegation arrived at Lemberg to seek armistice as Paris peace talks worry over continuing hostilities. Fierce battles raged around Lemberg Galicia with Polish gains noted.
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Copenhagen
Ukrainia
Lemberg
Paris
Galicia
Esthonian Foreign Minister Seeks Aid in Paris
Paris June 7 M Poska foreign minister of Esthonia arrived to seek help from the great powers for the small Esthonian army fighting Bolshevik forces southwest of Petrograd He will confer with the council of four to discuss possible aid and support.
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Paris
M. Poska
Esthonia
Petrograd
Conseil of Four
War Dept to Trim 400 Million From Next Year’s Budgets
Washington June 7 War department estimates for the coming year will be reduced by at least 400 million dollars by the house military committee. A 4000000 army size instead of 500000 is planned and the overall bill aims at a 20 per cent cut from 1 263000000. Senate debated immigration bans and stricter alien controls and a national employment service with 4 million dollars for 1920 was proposed.
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Washington
War Department
House Military Committee
Department
Oce
House
Graham
Senate
Kenyon
Iowa
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Wilson commutes soldier's death sentence to ten years
President Wilson, acting on General Pershing's recommendation, commuted Private Philip Solin's death sentence for desertion in the face of the enemy to ten years' imprisonment. Pershing cited the extreme youth of the accused as a key factor in the clemency decision.
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Pershing
Washington
June T
Wilson
Philip Solin
One Hundred and Ninth Infantry
Burleson Denies Return of Wires in Senate Wire Control Fight
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee unanimously pressed legislation to repeal the wire control resolution despite Burleson’s order that had kept operations under government supervision. The panel amended the bill to maintain telephone toll rates for 90 days after wires are returned, while Burleson insists no property has been returned and the order dissolves the operating board.
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Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Washington
Burleson
Senate
Interstate Commercce Committee
Cummins
Congress
N. C. Kingsbury
American _ Telephone and graph company
Appea
Kingsbury
Senatorlogg
Board of Control
Mr. Kingsbarry
Flom
Senator Kellogg
Wire Control Board
Minnesota
Mr. Kingsbury
Kennee
Watson
Indiana
Answ EE Ser
Burma
Belgian Red Cross Chief Visits America and War Wounds
Col Antoine Depage of Belgium, famed for wartime surgery leadership and Belgian Red Cross head, is in America thanking the nation. His wife died on the Lusitania while carrying funds for Belgium. The hearing discusses the Burris Burman order and wire control shifts with senators questioning the impact on private control before and after.
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Col
D. Antoine Depage
America
Belgium
Belgian Red Cross
Lusitania
Belgiui
American Peace Delegation Opposes Public Treaty Release
Paris June 7 The American Peace delegation led by President Wilson opposes making the peace treaty public now. The Senate had passed a resolution seeking the text and questioning private copies in New York. The delegates believe full disclosure should wait until Germany signs, so the treaty in its present form will not be sent to the U.S. Senate.
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Wilson
U. S
Favorable report on repeal of daylight act
The House Interstate Commerce Committee voted 10 to 8 for a bill to repeal daylight saving law. An amendment shifted the clock change from the third Sunday after approval to the last Sunday in October, altering the original proposal.
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Washington
June
House
Interstate Commere Committee
President Wilson to sail for America on June 13
Paris June 7 It is announced that President Wilson will sail for America on Friday June 13 from Paris aboard a liner. The trip marks a return home after international diplomacy in Europe.
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President Wilson
Paris
Wilson
America
Two Munich Reds Executed After Midnight
Berlin reports two communist leaders were executed at midnight. Herr Levine, editor of the Red Flag of Munich and a Bavarian uprising teacher, was put to death Wednesday. Herr Nus sen, another leader, is also reported executed per Augsburg and Munich dispatches.
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Herr Levine
Elitor
Herr Nissen
Berlin
Red Flag
Munich
Bavaria
Abendzeitung
Augsburg
Herte Nussen
Judge rules evidence admissible in Ford libel suit
In Mt. Clemens Michigan on June 7 Judge Tucker allowed testimony about conditions in Mexico and at the Mexican border to be used in the Chicago Daily Tribune defense against Henry Ford in a libel action.
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Mexico
Tribune
Mt. Clemens
Mich
Tucker
Mexcan
Chicago Daily Tribune
Henry Ford
Bulgars Move On Serbia Frontier Mobilized Force
Copenhagen dispatch reports part of the Bulgarian army mobilized and marching toward the Serbian frontier as tensions rise in the Balkans.
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Serbia
Frontier
Copenhagen
Former Mexican General Davil Dies in Oaxaca Battle
Mexico City reports Jose Inez Davil, once governor of Oaxaca and a former federal general, has been killed in battle in Oaxaca after more than four years in revolt against the government. His death ends a lengthy civil conflict involving a key regional figure.
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Mexico City
Jose Inez Davil
Oaxaca
Davil
Towers Given New Post
Commander John H. Towers, flight commander of the navy transatlantic seaplane squadron, was relieved of all duty with that squadron and assigned to service with the commission for air terms now gitting at Paris.
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Towers
Washington
John H. Towers
Navy Transatlantic
Paris
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