Railway unions outlawed as strike spreads nationwide
The United States Railroad Labor Board outlawed six railway shop craft unions after their Saturday strike. The board ordered formation of new employee associations to represent workers before the board and said remaining on the job during disputes is morally and legally valid to keep essential railway service uninterrupted.
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Railway Labor Board
Associated Press
Chicago
Unite States Railroad Labor Board
Menro
Ben W. Hooper
Labor Board May Reconsider Wages to Avert Strike
The Labor Board may reopen wage reductions to avoid a broader walkout by about 400000 maintenance of way workers. Detroit leaders urged stalling the cuts, awaiting a conference with Labor Board members McMenimen and Hooper, to base any action on living-cost data and the strike vote. Union claims and railroad officials differed on strike impact and employee turnout.
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Labor Board
Chicago
United Rd
Etat Railway Laboprs
United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Detroit
Walter L. McMenimen
Ben W. Hooper
B. M. Jewell
Gompers Denounces Railroad Board as Bolshevik in Tone
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor denounces the Railroad Labor Board action as Bolshevik and autocratic. He likens it to communist control of unions and urges defense of free collective bargaining against government dictates. He argues unions exist for workers and cannot be destroyed by board orders.
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Washington
United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Mr. Gompers
Workers of America
Railroad Labs
Russia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Railroad Labor Board
Morton Resigns From Sullivan County Court
John M. Morton tendered his resignation from the Sullivan County Court for the 11th civil district citing ill health and time needed for his business. He had been a longtime member and recently returned from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after over a month of treatment.
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John M. Morton
Sullivan County Court
11Th
Morton
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Do Rats Talk to Each Other Asks Mr M Batty
A feed store owner in Rhode Island reports using Rat Snap bait at five cakes and spreading pieces around. He notes about six dead rats daily for two weeks then none, asking who told them about Rat Seep. Products priced 65c to 1.25 and sold by Kingsport Hardware Co. Inc.
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Mr. M. Batty
R. I
Kingsport Hardware Co., Inc
Maximilian Harden Attacked by Assassins Near Berlin
Maximilian Harden editor and political writer was attacked near his Grunewald home in Berlin. He suffered five head wounds and was taken unconscious to his house. two assailants were arrested. Harden, a noted European publicist, had criticized the German government in Die Zukunft and was briefly suppressed in 1917.
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Berlin
Maximilian Harden
Grunewald
Walter Rathenau
Harden
Die Zukunft
Wilson
Emigration Urged as Answer to Japan Population Pressures
Osaka Mainichi argues 429 Japanese per square mile make emigration essential. It says South America offers the best prospect for political and economic stability, with Brazil’s Rio centennial visitors examined as potential settlers, though official support is denied.
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Associated Press
Osaka
Japan
Osaka Mainichi
Mainichi
South America
United States
Canada
Manchuria
Siberia
Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Russia launches big bread loan in post Genoa push
Moscow reports Russia starts a 10,000,000 poods rye bread loan repayable in grain after harvest. Subscriptions roll in as posters spread across the country. Special grain funds secured by the government gold reserve back the loan, with peasants allowed to pay the natural grain tax in loan certificates.
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Moscow
Russia
All Russian Central Executive Committee
Ex Service Men Begging in London
American visitors see distressing scenes as ex service men, many with gallant records, beg on London streets. They struggle to find work and sustain themselves by begging, peddling, street performances, or organ grinding while the rich flaunt lavish lifestyles and ceremonies.
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London
Associated Press
Russia’s new mercantile class taxed heavily under reform
A year after freer trade in Russia, the mercantile class pays a large share of earnings to the government through taxes. In addition to fixed license fees, luxury taxes, and rent, a new turnover tax of one to two percent is levied on gross receipts each month.
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Russia
Six Belgian War Hero Dogs Survive From 16
In Ghent Belgium six war hero dogs remain from an original 16. The canines earned praise for bravery on the battlefront and for peaceful deeds such as saving children stopping runaway horses catching burglars and guarding homes. Three survivors bear the Cross of War for heroism.
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Associated Press
Ghent
Belgium
Begium
Sleeping cars no longer squeak in Pullman cars
Chicago reports that the American sleeping car has eliminated squeaks except from steel buffers. Pullman officials describe the 70 ton steel car with an indestructible underframe and four I beams preventing telescoping. The piece traces wood removal, lamp evolution, light levels, and annual material usage for 1921 including soap, towels, matches, drinking cups, and laundry figures.
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Chicago
Ill
Pullman Company
Pullman
Free medicines for Moscow's poor aid from American relief
An American drug store run by Caroline Klein Robbins of Brooklyn College of Pharmacy now dispenses medicines free to Moscow’s sick. Operated by the American Relief Administration, the dispensary receives strong backing from Moscow’s Board of Health. Doctors may send patients who cannot pay to Miss Robbins for free prescriptions.
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Associated Press
Moscow
American Relief Administration
Caroline Klein Robbins
Brooklyn College of Pharmacy
Moscow Board of Health
Socialist Deputy Turati proposes fixed deputy salaries
Rome. Socialist Deputy Turati has introduced a bill in the House of Deputies to fix the salary of members at 1 000 lire a month and 50 lire extra for each sitting attended. This equals about 50 dollars monthly and 2 50 dollars per session. The present deputy salary is about 450 dollars a year.
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Associated Press
Rome
Turati
House of Deputies
Open switch on Reading Railway kills seven
An open switch on the Camden Atlantic City night express caused seven deaths and about 75 injuries. The wreck occurred at Winslow Junction as the train, traveling at full speed, left the rails. Engineer Walter Westcott died. operator John F. De Walt is in collapse. Investigations are under way by the Reading Company, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the New Jersey Board of Utilities.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Camden-Atlantic
Hammonton
Walter Westcott
Charles H. Ewing
The
Reading
Cape May
Interstate Commerce Commission
New Jersey Board of Utilities
Kentuckys mountain jurist Hirami Jo son dies
London Kentucky funeral set for Circuit Judge Hirami Jon son a noted mountain jurist who died yesterday after a period of nervous strain. He gained state fame for ending feuds in Clay County and became a symbol of mountain justice.
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Kentucky
London
Hirami Joson
Johnson
Clay County
Surrender of Irish Rebels Nears as National Army Attacks
Dublin reports national troops surround the Gresham Hotel, headquarters of irregulars, using smoke bombs and grenades. Armored cars bombard positions as Hamman Hotel on Sackville Street, held by insurgents, comes under fire and is captured later with thirty men surrendering to Free State forces.
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Dublin
Wess
National Army
Free State
League of Nations Disarmament Plan Presented
Paris reports the League of Nations disarmament plan presented to the temporary mixed commission. It calls for all nations to sign a disarmament agreement and pledge regional defense in case of aggression. The United States would be met by a regional approach under the Monroe Doctrine.
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League OF Nations
Paris
Escaped Irish Prisoners Recaptured After Looting Run
Belfast reports twelve men jailed for looting were freed by comrades in a commandeered lorry but all were later recaptured. Commandant McKenna Michael Donnelly and John McGurk, seized at Drogheda last week, escaped from Westgate Bar racks last night.
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Belfast
Dundalk
McKenna
Michael Donnelly
John McGurk
Drogheda
Westgate Barracks
Maintenance of Way Workers Do Not Acknowledge Board Authority
Chicago unions declare they no longer consider themselves bound by the Federal Labor Board and threaten to pull a lone car to aid the strike. Maintenance of way leaders seek an agreement amid talks with board members to curb a looming general strike by common laborers. President E G Grable says he will revoke the strike order only if the wage cut from last Saturday is rescinded.
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Maintenance OF Way
Chicago
Federal Labor Board
E. G. Grable
Women Snipers Reported Captured in Dublin Shootout
London reports unofficially that Countess Markievicz and several women snipers were captured after running out of ammunition. Free State forces occupied three more buildings in Sackville street Dublin late today.
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London
Countess Markievich
Sackville Street
Dublin
Free State
Shop Workers Strike 100 Percent Complete in Lexington
Lexington Ky union officials say the shop workers strike is 100 percent effective with no non union help hired. Workers remain out and demonstrate for labor issues as reported from Lexington.
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Lexington
Oklahoma Congressman Takes to the Air in Re election Tour
Memphis report notes Oklahoma congressman Manuel Herrick left for Perry by air in a new bil blanc to begin a district tour as part of his campaign for reelection.
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Oklahoma
Money Recovered in $2 Million Mail Truck Robbery
Bonds and securities valued at $400 000, part of the $2 000 000 mail truck heist last October, were found today in an apartment. Two men were arrested bringing total recovered to $565 000.
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New York
Peru and Chile Accept Tacna Arica Compromise
Washington reports Peru has accepted the Tacna Arica compromise reserves proposed by the United States and already accepted by Chile. The agreement centers on territorial arrangement and postwar status.
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Peru
Chile
Washington
United States
Senator Stanley Attacks Progressive Legislation at Tammany Hall
Senator Stanley of Kentucky rapped the progressives at a New York Tammany Hall event calling their socialistic legislation insane and pernicious and warned that traditional American government principles are being abandoned by the movement.
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Stanley
New York
Kentucky
Saturnalia
Congress
Tammany Hall
Opium Production Falls Sharply in Mishima District Japan
Opium farming in Mishima district on Shikoku Island dropped about 60 percent this year compared with last year due to a law revision on opium sales. The region had thrived after wartime medical opium imports halted, with government encouragement and soil noted as well suited to poppy cultivation for six years.
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Osaka
Japan
Mishima
Shikoku
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