Trial by Jury and Injunctions in Labor Conflicts
Clarence S. Darrow argues that government by injunction replaces jury trials in strikes, favoring the rich and corporate interests. He contends federal judges favor property rights over labor liberty, and that injunctions criminalize worker actions while shielding corporate leaders. He cites the Debs case to illustrate abuses and defends the historic value of trial by jury for working people.
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Fedral
Uberty
Ufe
United States
Union
Debs
Atlantic
Pacific
American Railway Union
Actu
Hanna's Chance to Answer Open Questions for Hanna Bryan Debate
A Republican candidate for president faces a demand to answer twenty nine pointed questions from Edmisten of the Populists. The open letter asks Hanna to state views on equality, natural rights, taxation, Porto Rico, the Philippines, and related policies, with emphasis on clear, direct responses to end equivocation.
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Hanna
Bryan
Campaiga
Edmisten
Hunn
Edmiraten
Wberry
Porto Rico Taribis
Bates
Sulu
Porto Rico
Congress
Preacher Drifts Into Bryan Camp Organizes Kane Club
Dr Hiram W. Thomas pastor at Peoples church, lifelong Republican, supports Bryan saying a government of the people ends syndicate rule. Kane County Alschuter club of Chicago forms with 50 members. Thomas elected president and will actively campaign and promote Bryan.
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Bryan
Hiram W. Thomas
The
Peoples Church
Kane County
Ilinois
Chicago
Kane County Alschuter Club
Dr. Thomas
Thomas
Bryain
Mr. Bryan
Republican
Hordera
Mark Hanna
Alachuter
Corey Sees Defeat Warns GOP Backers In New York
George J. Corey, president of the National Commercial and Industrial League, told a New York meeting last Wednesday that if party leaders believe recent league teague reports, defeat looms. He warned of apathy and money shortfalls harming McKinley’s campaign, citing alleged reliable statistics from Illinois that Tribola would go Democratic if the election were held tomorrow.
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George J. Corey
National Commercial and Industrial League
MckKinley
New York
Hanna
League
Corey
the Times
Harrison
Buelicas
Wall Street
Snandera
Ilinois
Leader of Miners John Mitchell Portrait and Career
John Mitchell executive of the United Mine Workers of America, born February 4 1869 in Titnois, rises from farm labor to coal mining, joins Knights of Labor, travels to Colorado and New Mexico, mentors in Spring Valley, presides over athletic and educational clubs, and earns the nickname the boy president for his youthful look and strong oratory as a leading labor organizer.
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John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Titnois
Vernon Braidwood
Dimeek
Braceville, ML
Colorado
New Mexico
Samuel Gompers
Spring Valley
Board of Education
Chinese Funeral Customs and Beliefs
A fragment discusses Chinese funeral rites and beliefs across oceans. It notes that adherents of three major religions hold that the deceased retain consciousness after death and that happiness or misery depends on grave location and offerings by relatives.
Labour leader Mitchell’s rise from Knights to UMWA president
The narrative traces Mitchell’s ascent from a Knights of Labor secretary treasurer in 1895 to president of the United Mine Workers of America by 1899, aided by his sharp rhetoric and strategic wins like the gros weight and anti-trust laws. It notes his growing influence, reelect in 1890, and leadership of about 43,000 members expanding to 150,000 under his tenure, plus later roles and a brief, odd digression into beliefs about the afterlife and funeral rites.
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Spring Valley
Catherine O'Rourke
Mitchell
Knights of Labor
North Illinois
Springfelt
Wan
United Mine Workers of America
M. D. Ratchford
National Industrial Commission
Pittsburg
Indianapolis
American Fever Pine 5 Peetherset Cee
Aids to Farmers in Government Network
A id to farmers describes a 3000 strong workforce working in Washington country stations and experiment stations. About 2000 in Washington include many scientists. The system includes bureaus divisions offices surveys weather service animal industry laboratories and meat inspection quarantine work.
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Washington
Maryland
Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
Bureau of Animal Industry
Consid erations By the Way
Optimistic English physician laments modern life dangers and neurotic trends while arguing better health and wealth do not guarantee life’s greatest good. He notes German studies finding about a quarter of schoolchildren with hearing defects and questions societal provisions for welfare.
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Sayetha
Earthen Inport Tomatora Engtish evatiationg
There is a large and rapidly growing importation of tomatoes. Tomatoes were once an article of luxury in Great Britain, used by the rich, but now they have become common on the tables of the working classes.
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Great Britain
Hrntiah Horses Show Advantage of Small Drafts
The report notes that the Hrntiah in South Africa demonstrate small horses outperform larger draught animals in warfare. They endure longer without food, require less work, and present a smaller target to enemies.
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Was
Hrntiah
South Africa
Carnegie Promoted His Telegrapher to Prominent Role
James D. Reid, organizer of the Old-Time Telegraphera association, oversaw the construction of the first telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore. He taught Andrew Carnegie to operate a telegraph and now manages Carnegie's Beotch estates.
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Carnegie
James D. Reid
Telegraphera! Association
Washington
Baltimore
Andrew Carnegie
Steel Man
Beotch
Marriage Choices Across the Empire Face Rejections
The text notes marriages with a deceased wife’s sister in various regions including Australia, Canada, Barbados, Ceylon and Mauritius. It mentions bills to legalize such unions in Great Britain passed several times since 1876 by the imperial House of Commons but repeatedly rejected by the Lords.
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Australia
Canada
Barbadoes
Ceylon
Mauritius
Great Britain
Imperial House of Commons
House of Lords
Monument to Dirck Wesselen Ten Broeck Unveiled at Clermont
A monument honoring Dirck Wesselen Ten Broeck, who served Albany as magistrate commissary recorder and mayor in the late 1600s, was unveiled in Clermont New York. Erected by his descendants, the stone bears the inscription noting his birth on December 18 1688 and burial date September 18 1717.
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Dutoh Bettion
Dirck Wesselen Ten Froeck
Albany
Clermont
N. Y
Dirck Wee- Ten Broeck
Roelof Janson
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