Mine Workers Accept Proposal to Negotiate Wage Scale
Associated Press reports that US miners accepted Secretary Wilson's proposal to negotiate a national scale wage agreement. J Lewis, acting UMW president, denies bad faith in coal strike talks. Green argues a 60 percent wage rise is needed for an American standard of living. Also notes many miners plan to stay out until Washington talks yield an agreement.
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Green
Washington
Wilson
Join Lewis
United Mine Workers
Chicago
Chicago Prepares for Selling Booze
Hundreds of saloonkeepers reapplied for liquor licenses and transport plans were set for 20 million gallons as downtown cafés booked reservations in anticipation of a favorable federal ruling. Judges Carpenter and FitzHenry said the injunction decision would come next week.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Peoria
Carpenter and FitzHenry
Moonshiners Arrested in Kentucky Mountain Bust
Twelve alleged moonshiners were arrested and several large illicit stills destroyed yesterday by revenue officers in the mountains of Laurel and Letcher counties Kentucky.
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Louisville
Laurel and Letcher Counties
Raids Seize Scores of Radicals Along the Pacific Coast
San Francisco November 1 1920 raids on the Industrial Workers of the World and other radicals continued coast to coast. Scores of prisoners were taken with charges including criminal syndicalism inciting riot and vagrancy.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
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Industrial Workers of the World
Pacific Coast
I W W Members Arrested in Morgantown West Virginia
Justice agents and eight deputy sheriffs arrested twelve members of Scott's Run local of the Industrial Workers of the World in Morgantown West Virginia on November 15 and jailed them there.
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Morgantown
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Department of Justice
Scott's Run
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Industrial Workers of the World
Cotton Markets Wire Report From Liverpool and New York
Cotton market wires show opening prices in New York for December to May contracts with mixed early bids and late weakness, while Houston and Galveston reports note steady to unchanged spots and specific middlings. Trading activity lists sales volumes and arrivals in Galveston and Houston, with midland prices noted and no new arrivals in Galveston.
Conference postponed as railway wage talks stall
Washington November 15 The hope for an immediate settlement of the four railway brotherhoods demands faded as further conference sessions between Director General Hines and union leaders were postponed indefinitely.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hines
Soviet Envoy Held for Contempt in New York
New York reports the Soviet ambassador Ludwig K. Martens was held in contempt by the joint legislative committee probing radical activities. A warrant for his arrest would be requested as the hearing continued.
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New York
Ludwig C. K. A. Martens
United States
Joint Legislative Committee
New York State
Major Higginson Dead Founder of Boston Symphony
Major Henry Higginson banker and founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra dies in Boston at age unknown, reported today. He built the orchestra's early fame and supported musical culture in the city.
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Boston
Henry Higginson
Boston Symphony Orchestra
House rejects Jim Crow car provision in Esch bill
The House votes 142 to 12 against a measure to require abolishing Jim Crow cars on Southern railroads used to separate black and white passengers. The vote marks a setback for civil rights efforts in railroad desegregation.
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Wasington
House
Southern
A A U Meeting in Boston Gathers for Changes
Boston November 15 Many amendments to the Amateur Athletic Union constitution by laws and rules are proposed by the national legislation committee. The annual meeting opens tomorrow at the Copley Plaza and runs through Monday with at least thirty four amendments to consider. The Pacific Coast association backs a rule to bar athletes from other countries from national championships.
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Mass
Amateur Athletic Union
National Legislation Committee
Copley Plaza
Pacific Coast Association
D Annunzio Sails On New Adventure With Troops
Paris reports D Annunzio undertakes another Dalmatian coast venture. He sailed from Fiume aboard the torpedo boat Vallo with 300 shock troops aboard a supporting steamer. An Italian warship trailed to observe. Debarkation point likely Zara.
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Paris
D'Annunzio
Fiume
Vallo
Zara
Insurgent Army Seizes Black Sea Coast in Moscow Report
Moscow wireless says an insurgent army of 70 000 men has seized the eastern coast of the Black Sea from Yelen shik to Sochy behind Denikine. Soviets have been formed.
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London
Black Sea
Yelenshik
Sochy
Denikine
Moscow
Bolsheviki occupy Omsk says Moscow communiqué
London dispatch reports Omsk the capital of the All Russian government has fallen to Bolsheviki according to a Moscow official communique.
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Bosheviki
Omsk
London
Moscow
Senate adopts cloture to speed peace treaty
Washington November 15 cloture to shut down debate on the peace treaty was adopted by the senate. Republican and Democratic leaders voted together for the cloture limiting any speech to one hour until the treaty is disposed of. The vote stood 78 to 16 and sped the reservation program with the next item adopted within a minute. It related to mandates.
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Associated Press
Wasington
Senate
Brazil marks 30 years as nation today
Today the Republic of Brazil celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. A victory dinner in St. Louis honors national prohibition with the National W C T U convention. A Chicago congress of race representatives will discuss U S Czech Slovak questions. A 9600 ton freighter will be named Omaha and launched in Wilmington N C. Ruth Rea and Lt Cmdr George B Judkins wed at Bryn Mawr Pa. A Public Ownership League of America conference opens in Chicago to promote public ownership of utilities.
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St. Louis
United States
America
Chicago
Omaha
United States Shipping Board
Wilmington
N. C
Ruth Rea
Samuel Rea
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
George B. Judkins
Rea
Bryn Mawr
Public Ownership League of America
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