2000 Toilers Vote Threat to Strike in Mass Meeting
Thousands of cloak and skirt makers and allied unions met at Madison Square Garden to empower the General Board to declare a general strike against manufacturers who abrogated the 1910 protocol. Samuel Gompers urged unity and pledged labor support while urging fair justice for union leaders amid murder indictments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cloak and Skirt Makers
Madison Square Garden
General Board
L2wuv
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Uwiel
Gompera
New York District Attorney's Office
Gompers
Ludlow
Col
New York City
Geliance
Federation
United States
Aman
Geompers
Iceland Meenery
Scomer Hrosenders
Jacob Panken
The
Union
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
John D
Rockefellers
Lemamia Schlesinger
International
Lawes Garment Workers’ Union
Rai
Everyfort
Morris Kiliquit
Sigman
Woolf
Metz
New York
Twenty-seventh Street
Miller's Estate Valued At 576313 In Final Appraisal
Roswell Miller former Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad chairman left a net estate of 576313 upon death in January. Widow Mary Toulse Miller receives life income from trusts totaling 189100 with residuary estate at 300213. Heirs include daughter Dorothy Miller and multiple stock holdings across banks and companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roswell Miller
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Mary Toulse Miller
East Sixty-second Street
Dorothy Miller
Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Illinois Timber Company
Central Trust Comany of
Ilinois
Westinghouse Air Brake Company
Standard Gas and Electric Company
I’mon Stock Yards Company of
Omaha
Writ Seeks Reinstatement for Former Sing Sing Guard
Hugh Sullivan, a former Sing Sing guard and Spanish American War veteran, sues for habeas corpus to compel Warden Thomas M. Osborne to justify his non reinstatement. Judge Tompkins adjourns to June 15 for the Attorney General to appear. Sullivan alleges a 1915 discharge without a hearing after civil service appointment in January 1912.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
White Plains
Hugh If Sullivan
Sing Siang
Thomas M. Osbornne
Justice Tompkins
Warren
Sullivan
Forty-seventh Regiment
Cuba
Hinchliffe Estate Worth $685,353 In Inventory
The inventory of Senator John Hinchliffe’s estate filed in Paterson New Jersey lists total property at $685,353. Personal estate includes stocks bonds mortgages and notes totaling $550,353.
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Hinchliffe
Paterson
N. J
John Hinchliffe
Frederick Bercgs
Trade Union Women Rally for Peace at Fifth Biennial
The National Women's Trade Union League, representing 100000 members, adopted two peace resolutions at its fifth biennial convention in New York. They urged abolition of arms production, oppose entangling alliances, and backed The Hague peace actions. A nickel fund for a new Labor Temple was launched with Philadelphia leading at seven dollars and seventy cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Women's Trade Union League
Lexington Avenue
Fifty-second Street
Europe
Mexico
National Women’s Trade Union League
United States
Exico
Congress
William Jennings Bryan
Hague
League
League In Convention
Education Committee
Boards of Education
New Labor Temple
New York City
Philadelphia
Alice Henry
Life and Labor
Miss Henry
Trade Union Girls Rise and Sing Ceremony Recap
Miss Henry and Miss 8 M Franklin participated in an afternoon event with a rhyme set to Auld Lang Syne. Opera glasses were presented to Miss Franklin as Miss Henry’s successor. Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chicago, National President, presided over the sessions.
Novice’s Car Parade Ends in Wild Chase
Oscar Greenstein bought goggles and gloves then delivered his own car to his residence. He drove a few blocks before reporting it missing. Police chased a rogue Flivver through Manhattan, ending with a wrecked vehicle and missing peddler. Greenstein was summoned to claim his car.
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Oscar Greenstein
West 143d Street
Greenstein
Broadway
Flivver
New York
Winfield Merritt
Manhattan Bridge
Merritt
Brooklyn
Bowery
Kenmare Street
Third Avenue
Judge Lindsey Arrest Sparks Contempt Case
In Denver a deputy sheriff arrested Juvenile Court Judge Ben B Lindsey in his chambers for contempt of court and concealing perjury. He was released on his own recognizance to return Monday for trial after defending the privilege of confidential communications with a minor witness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Denver
Col
Ben B. Lindsey
Neal Wright
Lindney
Lindsey
Rush
Wright
Supreme Court
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Nfore Than Maye
Morria Bigman
Sol Mets
Julian Woolf
Abraham Weideger
Morrix Stupniker
Max D. Singer
Louis Holger
Ashpitz
Rockefeller, Jr
Critical Times
Hillquit
Miller
St. Paul Road
Warden Osborne
Beuaa Broadway
Temple
Petrograd
London
Smbirsk
Russia
Trafforler
Thirty-fourth Street
England
America
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