Facts and Blame in Chicago Labor War
In Chicago May 5 the strike crisis stems from Montgomery Ward and Co refusing to re employ 19 garment workers. Employers seek to break the teamsters union and press the fight with money and lawyers. Teamsters and garment workers, numbering tens of thousands, threaten to resist and seek arbitration, while the public suffers as war prices loom.
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Jacob Waldeck
Chicago
Montgomery Ward & CO
Teamsters’ Union
Strongéat
Teamsters
National Wholesale Tailors
United Garment Workers’ Union
Thangana Garment
Wholesale ‘Tailors’ Association
Garment Workers’ Union
Garment
Ward & Co
Striking Teamsters Tie Up City Freight Network
A broad interlocking strike collapses deliveries across Ward & Co, department stores, wholesalers, and express services as drivers refuse loads. Injunctions and large-scale strikebreaking follow, with unions accusing employers of a planned anti union campaign while bosses push for control of labor and prices.
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Srocera
Ward & Co
Feamsters
Anereta Inss
Ward
Tos Junction
Wis
Employers’ Association
Arte
Mamsters
Delare
Teamsters
Typhoid Cases Rise. Water Supply in Question
In Milwaukee, over a hundred typhoid fever cases are reported with officials fearing the city water supply as a potential source. The misspelled and garbled text notes the involvement of J. B. Doe’s wife, once assistant secretary of war under President Cleveland, in a now unclear context.
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Crippe Mwrre Press Association
Milwaukee
Wis
Cmy Offerals
Ten
J. B. Doe
Cleveland
Verbal contracts under fire in Cleveland Leader dialogue
A Cleveland Leader column riffs on a legal dispute with a joking exchange about verbal contracts. Petty Fogger and Exd discuss suing over a breach of contract while dismissing a verbal agreement as worth little.
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Petty Fogger
Ace Mo Eony
Hiram
Exey
P. Fogger
Cleveland Leader
Wage hike eyed by Amalgamated union in Detroit
Mid May report from the wage committee of the Amalgamated association is completed but kept secret until next week. Delegates expect a rise from 19 to 13 percent on all work classes. The ongoing feud between Shafer and Gompera surfaces as push to present a plan to guard a climate toward an Industrial Union meeting in Chicago.
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Detroit
Amalgamated Associaion
Weix
Shafer
Gompera
American Federation of Labor
Interva
Gerd
Industrial Union
Chicago
Rail News Location survey completed for Southern Indiana line
Location survey for the Southern Indiana was completed Thursday from Black Hawk to the river bank. Erection work will start at once with tuning expected to begin by January. Three civil engineers from Leipzig passed through Indianapolis en route to St Louis to study the St Louis passenger station. A new passenger station 48 is planned at Leipzig on an extensive lease. The Itt Four time card will remain unchanged until June. Missouri River & Telegraph Railway president traveled through Indianapolis on private car to the west. Six engineers of the C H C have been reduced to five due to surplus. The Big Four moved 28 cars in Indianapolis in April, up 59 from last year. The Leckawana railroad is near completion of a block signal system for the Buffalo division. J Phillips, signals chief, surveyed the division to locate block signal towers.
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Indiana
Mlack Hawk
White River
Leip
Germany
Indianapolis
St Lous
St Lomas Paasenger
Letpsie
Madianapolis
Leckawana
Buffalo Division
J Phillips
Fishermans Web See Trout Season Prospects Near Alpena
Special from Alpena Michigan May opening of the trout season draws fishermen to expect good catches after a hard winter. Local streams including McGinneries the Wolf River Thunder Bay River and Sucker Creek show strong stocking and healthier conditions. Water levels are low in swamps but the streams have promise for productive fishing this year.
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Alpena
Mich
May
Fisherman's Web
Thunder Bay
Enay
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