Army and guards move to secure coal fields in strike
Pennsylvania guardsmen and machine gunners move into Cambria and nearby counties to protect reopening mines. Ohio and Michigan units prepare at strategic points as the government plans coal protection and potential federal control. Nationwide measures seek to divert coal flow to rail and port routes amid shortages and a looming winter.
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Associated Press
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Consolidated Coal and Coke Company
Harding
Davis
Michigan
Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corporation
Illinois
John L. Lewis
Morrisburg
Cambria
Indiana
Somerset
Wahag
Westmoreland
Mt. Gretna
New Strike Factor Discussed by Harding Hooper Plan
President Harding invited Railroad Labor Board Chairman Hooper to Washington for talks on the rail strike after a Senate Interstate Commerce Committee conference with eastern railroad executives failed to yield a settlement. Key issues include seniority and pension rights, and a national board of adjustment.
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Harding
Hooper
Associated Press
Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Eastern Railroad
Railroad Labor Board
Cummins
Watson
Indiana
Kellogg
Minnesota
National Board of Adjustment
National Board
Atterbury
Pennsylvania System
Erie
Maryland
National Adjustment Board
Pennsylvania
Senate Committee
Brotherhoods
Chicago
Ben W. Hooper
United States Railroad Labor Board
Broadway Limited
Associates Press
Boards of Adjustment
Maintenance Men to Negotiate on Wages Through Labor Board
Detroit July 21 Officials of the United States Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop Laborers plan to seek a readjustment of overtime pay through the Railway Labor Board. General officers met to discuss the strike situation and a decision will hinge on the overtime ruling. The union seeks time and one half for all hours beyond eight per day.
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Labor Board
Associated Press
Detroit
United States Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Railroad Labor Board
E. F P. Grable
Brotherhood
Tacna Arica arbitration agreed by Chile and Peru
Chile and Peru signed a pact to settle the Tacna Arica dispute by arbitration at a final conference session in Washington. Secretary Hughes hailed the agreement as a major step toward hemispheric peace and a dawn of a new era in Latin American relations.
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Associated Press
Washington
Chile
Peru
Tucna-Arica
Secretary Hughes
Tacna-Arica
Hughes
Western Hemisphere
Harding
Latin America
Latin-America
Hall of the Americas
Pan- American Union
United States
Delay of Mail Charged by Texas Railroad Chairman
Denison Texas July 21 E M Wilson chairman of the federated shop crafts of the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad charged that railroads are delaying the mails to provoke federal troop callouts. He said mail and express trains are sidetracked for less important trains to cause delays.
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Associated Press
Denison
Tex
E. M. Wilson
Federated Shop Crafts
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Tick Eradication Meeting Forms North Louisiana Campaign
Reps from twelve parishes meet at Ruston to plan tick control and cattle protection in tick free districts. Officials pledge joint state federal efforts and set a framework for a permanent organization to drive eradication with a 1925 deadline if funds are not raised locally.
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Louisiana
Ruston
Ouachita Police Jury
S. M. Collins
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Mr. Collins
Collins
Charles W. Phillins
A. M. Heath
Ruston Chamber of Commerce
Lincoln
Bienville
F. D. Vernon
A. G. Whitsow
J. H. Thurmond
Bossier
G T. Mays
R. E. McDade
J. T. McDade
W. B. Wilburn
W. C. Horton
J. G. McDade
J. M. Cornish
W. M. McCall
R. P D. Whittington
Caddo
S. B. Hicks
W. J. Fullerlove
G. T. Shaw
A. G. Hammett
W. E B. Glassell
Hal G. Gatte
W. J Lee
Claiborne
H. H. Coleman
B. G Simmons
C. Hightower
N. M. Wesson
I. T. Roach
H. A. Kennedy
Caldwell
R. A. Lively
M. Jarrell
O. L. Womack
Jackson
T. Griggs
J. F. Garner
C. Anders
J. T. Andrews
S. H. Clinton
H. F Strickland
Ds Wilburn
R. N. Edwards
Re Geess
T. R. Wright
North Scountinuet
Conference at Washington Fails to Unite Rail Factions
President Harding faced a stalled rail peace effort as a Washington conference failed to bridge divides between railroad executives and unions. Hooper was summoned to Washington for talks while 7,300 Chicago and Northwestern clerks awaited a final answer to a compromise proposal. John Manion urged a one day pay from 80,000 telegraphers to aid striking miners and shopmen.
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Chess
Harding
Senate
Hooper
Railroad Labor Board
White House
Chicago and Northwestern
J. Manion
Associated Press
St. Louis
E. J. Manion
The
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Miners in 3 States Ordered On Strike
Six hundred coal miners across Oklahoma Arkansas and Texas, who had been allowed to work since the national coal strike began April 1, were ordered out today by John Wilkinson president of district 21 UMWA. The order targets mines supplying hospitals ice firms and public utilities. Most Oklahoma production serves Henrtta field utilities.
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Chesapeake and Ohio
Iowa
North Carolina
Associated Press
Muskogee
Okla
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
National Coal Miners
John Wilkinson
District 21
United Mine Workers of America
Wilkinson
Indianapolis
Eugene Ross
Henrietta Fields
Pennsylvania railroad reports 42 284 shopmen at work
New York July 21 The Pennsylvania railroad issued a statement reporting 42 284 shopmen actually at work the largest number since the strike began July 1 and near a normal force of 55 000 men with the strike ongoing.
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Associated Press
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Editor William White defies Kansas anti-picketing law
Emporia editor William Allen White awaits arrest for alleged violation of the industrial court anti-picketing law. He defends his window sign showing support for striking railway workers and living wages, while merchants in Emporia and Arkansas City remove or display the posters in sympathy.
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Associated Press
Emporia
Kas
William Allen White
Kansas
H. J. Allen
R. J. Hopkins
White
Allen
Emporia Gazette
Arkansas City
Kans
George H. Mclintosh
Santa Fe
E. O. Harvey
Cabinet plan for coal distribution during strike discussed
Washington July 21 The administration plans to direct coal distribution through a special committee to ensure railroad fuel supply. Secretary Hoover, acting for the President, was to form the commission and announce the plan before night.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hoover
Mississippi DA A J Brown ing dies from self inflicted wound
Jackson district attorney A J Brown ing age 42 was found dead in his garage with a pistol in hand. Police say personal health factors may have caused the act and his wife found him after he did not answer dinner. In Texas officers search for missing soldiers Bruder and Blevin after a wagon accident near Fort Brown. A Port Arthur report uncovers a booze running station with a hidden copper whiskey tank. Vicksburg residents await Sunday blue law changes after a mass meeting backed modification.
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Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
A. J. Browning
Mississippi Judicial District
Uf Health
Brownsville
Tex
Adolph Bruder
Ruben Blevin
Twelfth
United States Cavalry
Fort Brown
Rio Grande
Port Arthur
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Great Lake
Daugherty
Columbus
Cadiz
Harrison County
Lancaster
Lansing
Mich
Alex J. Groesbeck
Harrisburg
Sproul
R. R
Collins Labor
Ruston Meeting
Parker IS
Cto
Vicksburg
Adassa Lodge
Temple Annex
Leon Cohn
Weaks Supply Co
Grenascou
Koufpilaw
Fairbanks, la
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Monroe
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