Great strike spreads across steel centers in 1930s
Pittsburg and Chicago districts report plant closures and reduced operations as labor unions and United Steel Corp wage a major conflict. Union leaders claim up to 75 percent of 90 000 workers out, with Mahoning Valley seeing large plant shutdowns and Bethlehem Steel preparing to call workers.
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Bethlehem Works
Steel Company
Pittsburg
United Steel Corporation
Chicago
Youngstown
Carnegie Steel Co
Braddock
Rankin
American Steel and Wire Company
Cary
Hammond
Mahonry Valley
Buthlehemh
Bethleham Steel Corporation
Workers should share profits but not losses urged by Viscount Finley
Viscount Finley formerly Lord High Chancellor of England urged at a New York luncheon that workers should receive a paid up interest in their business and a share of profits without being required to share factory losses. The address was delivered in his honor in New York on September 23.
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New York
Viscount Finley
England
School Trustees Discuss Pupils Welfare And Epidemic Prevention
The School Trustees debated preventing epidemics and keeping pupils away from quarantined children. Dr. Gershaw urged greater parent cooperation, and a committee of Dr. Gershaw Black and Supt Hay will meet the Board of Health and report back. The board also heard from Suskatchewan Bridge and Iron Co about iron fire escapes and from North West National fire insurers about renewals. Salary and janitor issues were left for the building and financial committees.
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Hay
Gershaw
Black
Board of Health
Suskatchewan Bridge and Iron Co
Bennett
Maanager
C. 8. Isaacs
Riverside Schools
A. Hosie
Lm St
Rotary District Convention Set for Calgary in April
Delegates at the Rotary Clubs conference in Fort William Port Arthur agreed to hold the annual district convention in Calgary with President Albert E Adams attending. The event runs April 9 and 10 though dates may shift. Edmonton Calgary Regina and other clubs in the 19th district will participate. The Edinburgh International Convention is favored for 1921 with plans for an ocean liner charter for North American Rotarians.
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Crawford C. McCullough
Calgary
Winnipeg
Fort William
Port Arthur
Sagkatoon
U.S.A
Edinburgh
Scotland
British Isles
Rotary
Medicine Hat
Paul Harris
England
France
Spain
Peace Conference Unrest Over Fiume Situation
Paris in late September reports growing uneasiness in peace conference circles about Fiume. The D Annunzio movement fears spreading along the Dalmatian coast risking occupation of Zara and nearby towns with sizable Italian populations amid Slavic majorities.
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Paris
Rebgerd
Fiume
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Dalmatian
Zara
Cattaro
Geddes and Lloyd George Hold Rail Strike Crisis Conference
London September 23. A sudden British railroad wage dispute triggers a conference between Sir Eric Geddes and Premier Lloyd George after railway workers complain wage reductions under the new pay system. The talks focus on labor friction and government handling of wages.
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London
Sir Eric Geddes
Prener Lloyd George
British Aviator Flies Over Alps Lands After Mont Blanc Loss
Geneva Sept 23 Capt Bradley a British aviator landed at Lausanne after flying over the Alps. He reported losing his way in clouds above Mont Blanc at about 15000 feet in a 110 horsepower plane traveling from London via Paris.
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Lausanne
Mont Blanc
Geneva
Bradley
Alps
London
Paris
Carpet Ball Team Plans Early League Practice
With the Carpet Ball League opening soon a practice game is set for Thursday at 8 p.m. in the club rooms. All players are urged to attend to help form the strongest possible team for league games.
Soldier's Widow Struck by Auto in Victoria
Victoria Sept 28 After coming to receive from the Prince of Wales a posthumous Military Medal for Lieut Bernard Shipton of North Vancouver her three year old son and the widow were injured when struck by a motor car last night Both are in hospital and the Prince may visit to present the award.
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Victoria
Prince of Wales
Bernard Shipton
North Vancouver
Prince
Shipton
Marshal Foch's Famous Despatch Found
Paris Sept. 22. New confirmation of Foch's famous dispatch to Joffre during the first Marne battle. Raymond Recouley discovers the original record stating My centre is giving way my right is retreating the situation is excellent I am attacking.
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Paris
Marshal Foch
The
Marne
Raymond Recouley
Foch
Joffre
Woodsworth To Speak At Empress Theatre This Evening
J S Woodsworth addresses Empress Theatre on who will control Canada. The labour leader tours Western Canada and draws crowds, often turning attendees away. He is expected to discuss Winnipeg’s great strike and the Strikers Defences Fund.
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J. S. Woodsworth
Empress Theatre
Canada
J. £. Woodsworth
Medicine Hat
Woodsworth
Winnipeg
Soviet resolution stirs Dominion Trades Congress in Hamilton
Reading a resolution urging a Soviet form of government and troop withdrawal triggers debate at the Dominion Trades and Labor Congress in Hamilton. The motion, presented by George Armstrong of Winnipeg, is referred to the resolutions committee while delegates note radical aims and headquarter opposition. The executive council warns against broad strike use for political aims, arguing it harms production and national interests.
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International Unions
Hamilton
Ont
Dominion Trades and Labor Congress
Russia
George Armstrong
Winnipeg
W. Kennedy
Toronto
Committee On Resolutions
Lkely
Trades Union Movement
Executive Council
Council
Austro-Hungary Found Responsible for War Outbreak
Vienna report from archives shows a July 7 1914 privy council meeting nearly decided to begin war on Serbia. The publication credits the Austro Hungarian ministry led by foreign minister Count Leopold Von Berchtold as solely responsible for the outbreak of hostilities.
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Privy Council
Prove
Serbia
Vienna
Austro-Hungary
Leopold von Berchtold
Hope to Arrange Early Opening of Gym
Yesterday's News reports citizens donated to the Gymnanisium Fund but $400 remains. A gymnasium committee meeting at City Hall tonight at eight aims to raise the balance for an early start. Rev. W. J. McLean, eight years pastor of Hanover Presbyterian, has left for Thamesville.
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Gymnanisium Fund
W. J. McLean
Hanover Presbyterian Church
Thames- Ville
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McCullough
D’annunzio
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Geddes
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