Rail Men May Strike Over Wage Offer
Wilson rejects a high raise and offers a 4 cent increase to shopmen, prompting the possibility of a railway strike as labor leaders consider action.
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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1919
Page
2
Wilson rejects a high raise and offers a 4 cent increase to shopmen, prompting the possibility of a railway strike as labor leaders consider action.
President Wilson responds to demands about war measures and wage issues amid labor tensions. Reports detail policy debates on relief, strikes, and funding for military and public works. The piece also notes rising cancer deaths and a riot in Charlotte with police and workers clashing. American troops are ordered to Silesia with regiments to Coblenz for staging before deployment.
Rioting followed efforts of receivers of Pillsburg Railway to break a carmen’s strike. Three thousand strikebreakers were brought from eastern cities as crowds gathered at car barns and the first trolley was wrecked and forced to return.
H Percival Dodge a veteran diplomat has been named the first United States representative to the Kingdom of the Serbs Croats and Slovenes. Dodge formerly headed the Latin American bureau of the State Department.
Reported pursuit of Mexican forces near the border as American troops push into mountainous terrain sixty miles from the line. Mention of a paymaster arrest connected to the action and a broader operation involving the Mexican border area and Valor.
Iwe Bandits fatally hurt fifteen others captured by troops in a terse crisis report.
Col Langhorne praised by Mexicans as troops withdraw from the Texas border. Reported gunfire and a planned punitive expedition involved Mexican and American forces, with orders from General Hick and Major General Baker shaping the response.
Amid a string of fires in Missal and Fortin districts, countless acres burned as crews battled flames along rivers and hills. Reports describe new blazes in multiple counties while economic fallout appears in shoe factory wages and a proposed imprisonment penalty for profiteering under a food and fuel act.
Oakland shipyard owners lay in a supply of California champagne to christen ships amid sea superstition. George A. Armes of a shipbuilding company says sailors avoid sailing on vessels not launched with a bottle broken over the prow.
Reports describe smuggling attempts by air routes and border seizures at Washington and across Europe. Officials mention confiscations of contraband goods including arms and ammunition, with arrests in Minden Westphalia and a Polish arms procurement case linked to broader smuggling networks. A German defense ministry denial accompanies mentions of former soldiers involved in unrest in Upper Silesia.
Report by Leonard Mathack, from Marfa Texas, says four Mexican bandits including Jesus Janke and Francisco Janie were killed by American troops after a pursuit near a mountain pass. Two escaped, and hostile fire followed a blockhouse search as American forces pressed the punitive expedition near Laredo and Marfa. Local witnesses report a tense border clash with Carranza forces observing.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee debates granting a hearing on self rule for subject peoples as Egyptian representatives press in Washington. Women jurors in a murder case attract attention as George S Hacknell seeks trial by jury. Britain and the United States settle troop transport costs and tonnage payments, totaling 88 million dollars. Forest fires threaten central and western Montana and northern Idaho, endangering timber and ranchers with no immediate relief. White pine timber worth eighty two thousand dollars is burned in the Coeur d Alene forest region.
Reported appeal for 15 000 army recruits as tensions rise over the Mexican situation. Camp Grant is cited as the recruiting center for volunteers and national defense readiness.
Washington reports a flare in Mexican bandit activity with calls for U S intervention. A manifesto from Alfredo Kebles Domingies in Mexico City blames Carranza allies while American officials debate troop withdrawal and possible occupation to pursue bandits in northern Mexico and Texas.
Investigators report vast stockpiles of butter and sugar found in New York storage facilities including breweries. Mit tan announced that among the items discovered were 5 million pounds of butter 5 million pounds of sugar and several million pounds of other commodities.
Reported holdup at First National Bank of Newton Kansas yielded about 48000 after a lengthy chase across cities. Investigators traced 18000 in cash and Liberty bonds to the robbery, with a suspect charged for selling contraband pills in a separate case involving a Chinaman.
A will filed seeks a 170 million settlement to ex Kaiser Wilhelm II for his civil losses after forced abdication as debates over Weimar legitimacy unfold. The U S government reportedly questioned Tinoco constitution validity and recognition of governance amid Costa Mesa ties. In Los Angeles a crash injured twenty six watching a sightseeing bus carrying actors.
Warsaw announces a crushing defeat of Bolshevik and Soviet forces as Polish troops pursue them across northeast Volhynia. The fortress of Rovno is reported captured and Poles advance toward Minsk and Brest Litowsk region, with further movement north of the Tripwt marshes.
Hammond Indiana city and county officials appeal to Governor Gowtrich at Technopolis for troops after Standard Steel Car Company employees strike, storm streets, defy police and deputies, following rejection of a compromise offer by company officials.
Mrs Pauline Waterbury of 5358 Michigan avenue won a divorce after Attorney Erbstein presented a private detective’s evidence from St Louis. The detective, hired by Harold A Waterbury, sent a letter to the judge describing the staged stake and the police station nearby. The case names an Ethel Root as a witness or figure in the dispute.
San Francisco’s Comstock Tex mill owner and sheep rancher married Mrs. Joseph Hurt, wealthy widow of Ashland Oregon, at St Luke's Episcopal Church on Van Ness Avenue. The bride, famed as a northwest big game hunter and fisher, was widow of refrigerator magnate Joseph Hurt. The groom stood by as she shot a black bear during a hunting party in the northwest.
Olga Celeste Murphy resumes leopard troupe work after leaving a broken marriage. She describes escaping a troubled childhood, living in a barn with hay for food, and moving from training heroes to the big cage with leopards.
A confrontation at Mrs. Currie Brooks of Mimmi Okia ends with an armed shot from her house. The crowd included Iwo Hien two boys and a woman alleging a prior beating of a three year old. The incident occurred around 10 am as delegation approached.
Market brief covering hides and pelts pricing including green salted hides and branded kip and calf categories, metal markets with copper and lead prices, livestock values for cattle and hogs, and cash grain notes. Also cites money market terms in New York and Chicago produce prices for butter and eggs.
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