Poincare Rebuffs Berlin Amid Ruhr Talks and Labor Upheaval
Berlin faces a crisis as Stresemann forms a broad cabinet while unions press for eight and a half to ten hour workdays and coal tax repeal. Industrial magnates demand concessions, clashes with labor ignite protests, and reparations talks loom. The Reichstag trembles over the authorization bill as political chaos and a plunging currency fuel uncertainty.
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Ruhr Talks Break as France Rejects German Conference Plan
The Stinnes group and the Otto Wolff trust negotiated with France in the Ruhr independently of Germany. Paris, led by Premier Poincare, rejected Chancellor Stresemann's proposal for a France Belgium Germany conference in the occupied zone to resume work, stating Germany's passive resistance was a local matter.
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Stinnes
Lloyd George Warns of Future War Threats in Canada
AVID LLOYD GEORGE, touring Canada, warns wars are not finished and the next war could destroy civilization. He praises the British empire as the effective league of nations and urges it to harden its stance while imperial conference in London discusses making the empire an economic unit with food pools, trade ties, empire preference, and markets for British goods. There is noted disagreement among empire premiers over Baldwin’s policies.
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Canada
League of Nations
London
Great Britain
AFL Convention Votes Against Labor Farm Party Unity
The American Federation of Labor in Portland rejects uniting with farmers to form a national party. Of 114 bodies on the roll call only 87 endorsed the resolutions committee report affirming a partisan approach to principles rather than parties. The convention also declined to recognize the Soviet government of Russia until the Russian people vote on their rulers.
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Stresemin
Ebert
Stresemann
Germany
Russia
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Northwest
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Portland
Ore
Resolutions Committee
Indiana Man Denies Wrongs Amid Financial Troubles
Indiana business figure faces bankruptcy proceedings and civil suits after weeks of public embarrassment over allegedly irregular note signing. A grand jury probes the case while he vows to reveal all facts, denying wrongdoing and accusing political blackmail.
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Indiana
McCray
Coolidge Sees Broad U S Prosperity Across Industries
President Coolidge reports general national prosperity with promising business conditions. Agricultural markets for corn cattle and hogs are satisfactory. Fruit shipments suffer from car shortages. agriculture and railroads work with growers to ease strain. Textile and steel show fair results. some mining lags. Oklahoma oil faces local difficulties due to westward overproduction.
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Coolidge
United States
Department of Atriculture
Oklahoma
Coolidge Renews Hands Off Stance on European Peace Plan
Leaders in the Senate welcomed hints that President Coolidge will not intervene in the Hughes plan for a reparations commission to judge Germany's ability to pay. Lloyd George endorses the plan, most European nations favor it, but France opposes. Coolidge reportedly sees no gain from a world economic conference until European conditions change.
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Coolidge
Hughes
Germany
Lloyd George
France
Europe
Portugal’s new president faces uprising risk
EIXEIRA GOMEZ, the new president of Portugal, confronts repeated revolutionary outbursts and growing threats. Historians note similar patterns in prior administrations as foes warn of possible assassination or exile amid ongoing instability.
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Eixeira Gomez
Portugal
Ford keeps Muscle Shoals offer before Congress
Henry Ford states his bid remains under consideration by Congress and will not be withdrawn. He blames Secretary Weeks and political pressure for the bid's rejection and for the selection of the Gorgas gas plant portion in Mr Bud's offer.
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Muscle Shoals
Congress
Weeks
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