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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1922
Page
2
President Harding convenes a meeting with coal miners representatives and coal operators to steer negotiations after a looming wage cut and a nationwide strike. The scene shifts to Germany over Rathenau’s murder and Dublin’s fierce clashes.
Spagna of the shop crafts told railway executives the strike would be sanctioned unless the board’s wage reduction order was ignored and working rules restored. The six international unions, led by Willian Tholinston of the Machinists, announced the action as railway managers expected limited disruption. The labor board’s internal rift and public-railway divisions cloud the move, with officials summoning shop craft leaders and executives for an inquiry.
President Harding asserts coal will be mined in sufficient quantity to avert a fuel famine next winter. He warns that if peaceful measures fail, more drastic action will follow and invites miners and operators to a White House conference.
The AFL warns in its Cincinnati convention report that propaganda for industrial feudalism tied to political bureaucracy has entered the White House. It condemns the President’s remarks opposing labor’s right to strike against industrial oppression.
The piece notes a governor facing conspiracy charges with little trace of misused funds, a governor’s wife dying after a stroke at a home celebration, and widespread political opportunism during bereavement. It covers German Upper Silesia violence, Rathenau’s efforts, French reparations policy impact, Dublin’s Four Courts battle with around a hundred casualties, de Valera praising irregulars, and China’s ongoing power struggle as Sun Yat Sen plans a Canton retake and the Peking government pushes toward a United States of China.
Front page report states bandits captured A. Bruce Bielaski former DOJ chief and held him for 85000 ransom before he escaped badly beaten. They also seized 85 oil workers in Tampico area and released forty Americans before taking 85 employees of a Dutch British company, including six Americans.
Litvinoff and Russia demanded credits or goods as the first item at The Hague talks, insisting credits from foreign governments or firms be granted before discussing private property debts or Russian bonds. British French and Italian experts resisted, leading to a concession to proceed with the discussions.
The Republican and Nonpartisan League alliance toppled Senator Porter J. McCumber after 23 years in the Senate and as Finance Committee chair, choosing former governor Lynn J. Frasier who was recalled. Wisconsin Democrats also picked a woman for the Senate, Mrs. Rea Hooper of Oshkosh.
A new Wall Street Messenger features a blue cap and jacket trimmed with red a steel five pound safety box is chained to the messenger for carrying securities or valuables locked inside the box provides secure transport for items in transit
A famed barrister in a London scene questions a witness who calls the prisoner a thief because she confessed and repaired shoes afterward. The exchange highlights the lawyer’s sharp wit and ends with him being told to stand down by the man of law.
A courtroom quip features Mrs. Mixer revealing her husband’s job as a Salvation Army Santa Claus. The judge notes the man’s worry about returning to work, highlighting the unusual occupation in a holiday season context.
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