Strike Year Ahead for Rail and Industrial Sectors
Washington reports a government official forecasts a spring labeled strike year with five major labor actions since January affecting railroads and intercity transport. Low wages and long hours drive disputes led by Switchmen's union North America and Railroad Telegraphers' union with arbitration as the mechanism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Espey
Washington
United States
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Maryland
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Great Northwestern
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Railroad Telegraphers’ Union
Big Four Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Martin A. Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Charles P. Neill
Chicago
Erdman
Mesars
Knapp
Switchmen
American Federation of Labor
Federal Board of Arbitration
E. Herberling
Switchmens’ Union of North America
C. R. Gray
St. Louis
San Francisco
Steven S. Gregory
Horace Baker
J. J. Dermody
Wm. J. Kirby
American Catholic University
G. H. Gross
Kirby
Neill
Baltimore & Ohio
Arbitration efforts seek to avert nationwide railroad telegraphers strike
The article notes that a general strike could disrupt nationwide quick communication, echoing a disruption from eighteen months earlier. Arbitrators chosen by Chairman Knapp and Commissioner Neill are using all means to reach a satisfactory working arrangement between operators and employers to prevent stoppage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Chicago
Philadelphia
Traction Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commissioner of Labor
Knapp
Neil
Neill
Seek Location for Expositions by U S Agricultural Exposition Co
Four directors led by E A Taylor of Hartford arrive in Indianapolis and hear inducements from the Commercial club for locating a $1,000,000 exposition near the city. The firm seeks 250 acres and suitable buildings to host fairs arts and mining and agricultural displays drawing up to a million visitors yearly. Chicago St Louis and Kansas City will be visited before a decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Agricultural and Industrial Exposition Company
E. A. Taylor
Hartford
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Hat Pin Ordinance Likely To Pass In City Council
Mayor Shank backs a hat pin regulation to limit pin length, with Councilman Rubens introducing the measure for tonight's council vote. The report also notes a proposed district budget item for plat books and a weekly pay plan for street department workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shank
Rubens
Committee On Finance
C. F. Copeland
Haag’s Purchase Of Sentinel Building In Indianapolis
L. E. Haag and associates who run cut rate drug stores bought the old Indianapolis Sentinel building at Ili nois and Pearl streets last Saturday for about 100000 dollars. The structure has served as a hotel and storerooms in recent years and the deal is described as an investment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. E. Haag and Associates
Indianapolis Sentinel
Ilinois and
Pearl Streets
Syrian to Answer for Theft in Ohio
Simor Heli a Syrian will be returned to Cincinnati. Heli was arrested Saturday trying to sell two unset diamonds to a jeweler on North Mecidion Street. The police have learned the stones were stolen in Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simor Heli
Cincinnati
Heli
North Mecidion Street
Indiana Board Seeks Pedagogy Exam For Licenses
State Board of Education proposes that all Indiana high school teachers seeking licenses after January 1, 1911 must pass a pedagogy examination. The board endorses scientific knowledge of teaching methods and subject mastery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Education
Indiana
Indiana National Guard Officers to Attend Ft Atler School
All artillery officers of the Indiana National Guard will attend a thirty day school of instruction at Fort Atler Kansas beginning in June. The course is specially adapted to guardsmen and a large number of officers from the regular army and guards will attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eee
Indiana National Guard
Ft. Atler
Kas
Regular Army
National Guard
Pure Food Law Sanctioned By Men Of Indiana
Indiana figures in hearings on the pure food law before the House Interior Committee. Dr. Wiley and Prof. Barnard testify while William Wolff Smith publicizes against benzoate of soda. Sears and Remsen board debates and Roosevelt's role loom over the controversy.
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MEN OF
Indiana
Committee On Expenditures
Interior Department
House of Representatives
Representative Moss
Hamvey W. Wiley
Agricultural Department
Barnard
Indiana Food Commission
Congress
William Wolff Smith
Indianapolis
Pittsburg
Mr. Smith
William H. Smith
Charles Warren Fairbanks
New York
William W. Smith
George P. McCabe
Department of Agriculture
Smith
McCabe
Niagara Falls
Washington
Morse
Dr. Dunlap
Dr. Wiley
Remsen
Representative Graham
Pitsburg
Willam Wolff Smith
Denver
Wiley
National
Gathering of Food and Dairy Commissioners
Wilson
Dunlap
Food and Drug Board
Roosevelt
Russell H. Chittenden
Yale University
Roostvelt
Chittenden
United States
Long
Northwestern University of Chicago
Chris
Tian A. Herter
College of Physicians and Surgeons of
University of California
Yale
Northwestern University
Chicago
Remsen Board
Benronte
American Medical Association
H. L. E. Johnson
Girl Attempts Suicide Over Ill Health
Mary L. Starks a domestic in 2521 North Alabama Street drank carbolic acid yesterday afternoon and threw herself on the bed. Mrs. Jourdan, who employed her, heard screams and summoned police. Starks was taken to City hospital where doctors say she will recover. Worry over ill health prompted the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary L. Starks
Woman Guilty of Forgery in Marion Trust Case
Christiana Johnson was found guilty of forgery in a criminal court Saturday afternoon. Sentencing will be set this week by Special Judge William T. Brown. She allegedly forged her mother Mrs. Barbara Mueller’s name to checks and drew 750 from the Marion Trust Company after a $1,000 deposit. Mrs. Mueller received judgment against the bank for the missing funds and pursued charges against her daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quilty
Christiana
Johnson
Criminal Court
William T. Brown
Marion Trust Company
Barbara Mueller
Mueller
Marion Trust
Railroads Carrying Mails See Large Fine Decline
Washington report notes fines against railroads for late mail service dropped from 675000 in 1908 to 34000 last year as a result of a legislative omission. Officials say the change reflects no real improvement but a repealed provision allowing penalties, with little enforcement since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
House Committee On Post Offices and Post Roads
Post Office
Congress
Department
Post Office Committee
Purdue Demonstration Meeting Aids Danville Orchards
Hendricks county growers partner with Purdue University station to hold a practical orchard demonstration near Clayton in Danville on Friday March 25. The program runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., indoors or outdoors, with pruning, spray techniques for San Jose scale, apple scab and codling moth, plus a Q and A session for diseased trees. Local chairman Paul K. Christie and C G Woodbury at Lafayette plan the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Ind
Hendricks County
Department of Horticulture
Purdue University Experiment Station
San Jose
Clayton
A. W. Mitchell
Purdue
Paul K. Christie
Hadley
C. G. Woodbury
Purdue Experiment Station
Lafayette
Railway Fines Impartiality Questioned by Department
The department reports indicate that fines have not been assessed as impartially as in the past and that the rule delay was charged to railway service. The reading suggests scrutiny of enforcement and accountability in the railway system.
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Tim
Woodruff
Timothy L. Woodruff
Republican State Committee of
Taft
Senator Root
Sentinel
HAAG
Sun’s
Washington Service
Hibbs Building
Sun’s Washington Service
Hibbs
Goulden
Hitchcock
Dr. Pierce
Still
Gr. S
Vazoment wPmaxz
People’s Common Sense
R.V. Pierce
M. D
Address World’s Dispensary Medical Association
R. V. Pierce, M. D
Buffalo, N. Y
Dodge Power Transmission Machinery
Vonnegut
Hardware Company
Polk’s
Baim Co
Atlanta
Eber Drug CO
Tungstoker
Indianapolis Light & Heat Co
Circle
Monument Place
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