15 Aug 1922
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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1922
Page
1
Washington Aug. 15 President Harding has abandoned railroad strike mediation and plans to assure railroad executives federal and state backing in operating trains to serve the public. Advisors say he will speak of government aid without urging new legislation and is described as having his back up.
The Corbin Kentucky railroad strike was called off today after a conference between Brotherhood chiefs and officials of the Louisville & Nashville. Manager B M Starks announced the agreement and said a delegation would go to Corbin to address the union members and explain the settlement. Details of the settlement were not disclosed.
Washington leaders of railroad labor groups rejected President Harding's settlement offer while mediating directly with railroad execs. In California and Nevada strikers were arrested as trains moved, guarding measures escalated, embargoes persisted, and officials warned of dangerous conditions around Roseville and Las Vegas.
Muscovites after eight years of war and revolution find relief in newly opened summer gardens. There performers present elaborate vaudeville acts nightly, offering humor about their hardships and the Soviet era.
A Blountville adjourned court rejected a move to shift bond issuing power from the county court to the people via election. Instead Magistrate J H Pettyjohn saw adoption of a second resolution that places $200 000 in bonds under county court control for the Kingsport to Bristol railway project. The county road commissioner retains authority for the remaining $200 000 until court action permits use.
Mrs. Liza Dickson 35 wife of John Dickson was found dead in her farm home near Fordtown road four and a half miles from Kingsport early Sunday afternoon. A four to five month old baby cried beside her. Cause of death unclear with no physician, coroner not expected. Funeral at 4 pm at home with burial at Childress Cemetery.
Kingsport Business Men's Club debated a Kingsport Fordtown telephone exchange for about an hour at the Community Y. Inter Mountain Telephone proposed flat or toll terms, with $2 yearly per subscriber or 10 to 15 cent calls. The club named a committee to press a $125 yearly offer to Inter Mountain, plus related road and city projects were discussed.
Performers tease the government while audiences laugh at jokes about worthless money and the claim that a million rubles buys only a few carats of food. The scene captures public frustration and satirical humor.
Hensley and Gibson start building a three story flour mill on Poplar street near Dale street. The $10,000 structure with electrical power will yield 35 barrels per day and include flour corn and feed operations. Construction began last week with foundation complete and completion hoped within 60 days.
Field Marshal Earl Haig elected a director of the Distillers' Company at Edinburgh. The firm, best known for whiskey, plans to vastly increase output in Ireland and Scotland. Haig will not be a figurehead and will share responsibility and work on the board. The company has acquired half the United Distilleries of Belfast and aims to take full control soon.
In Cleveland both operators and miners ratified a settlement to end the soft coal strike. Formal signing was delayed to a joint meeting. The agreement creates supplemental contracts and a reorganized six state conference replacing the central field bargaining. Miners retain wages with no cuts.
Cleveland spokesman T. K. Maher said soft coal operators in conference with union miners would sign the scale agreed in principle last night. A miners committee split exists, but the majority favors acceptance. Signing is planned for this afternoon at a joint meeting.
Governor Morrow observed trains on the Cumberland Valley division of the Louisville and Nashville railroad in Corbin Kentucky where non union trainmen operated today. Police dispersed crowds after a tense night and the scene remained quiet early this morning.
Snipers fired on employees and property of the Magic Collieries Company seven miles from Madisonville. State troopers arrived with six men to the mine, where the strike action was reported, and found the scene quiet.
Sullivan County court set the 1922 tax rate at 1.24 dollars, up 4 cents from 1921. The state levy is 36 cents and the county levy 88 cents, with deliberations noting a bond issue funds road repairs and a new state fair levy.
The American technical commission to Poland under Colonel A H Barber will end its activities this summer. Formed in 1919 to advise on transportation, the commission aided the restoration of Polish railroads. Col Barber becomes the first American awarded the order of Polonia Restituta for distinguished service.
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