Penn R R Prepares for Strike Danger
Labor leaders plan strike votes as Pennsylvania Railroad faces solid opposition from the four trainman brotherhoods. General Manager urges volunteers to keep service moving if a strike occurs, while Garretson and others argue against halting trains. Ballots distributed to delegates for a nationwide strike vote among 600,000 engineers and trainmen, with talks on eight hour day and overtime pay.
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New York
8. C
Pennsylvania
Big Four
A. B. Garretson
United States
Sass
Pennsyliva Company
Aler
Erie
United
Rail unions refuse arbitration and keep ballot secret
Conference dissolves after railroads reject demands and rail arbitration is proposed by rail bosses. Leaders keep the referendum ballot secret until distribution next week for about forty days of voting and canvassing, with the next conference set for early August.
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A. B. Garretson
Engineers
Interstate Commerce Commission
Strike Threat Alarming Across Railways and NYC
Special to The New York Times from Atlantic City reports Oscar F Ostby predicting a railroad strike could starve New York City within three days if 12 000 cars a day fail to bring food to terminal markets. Engineers show sympathy but unions unlikely to act. Edmund H Walker elected President and Le Grand Parish Vice President of the American Railway Supply Manufacturers' Association.
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Atlantic City
New York City
Oscar F. Ostby
New York
American Railway Supply Manufacturers’ Association
Edmund H. Walker
le Grand Parish
Newark Strike Eases as Plants Grant Demands
Union leaders report 18 of 54 affected Newark plants concede to workers demands, 1800 employees back at work. Strikers seek eight hour day overtime pay and double after four hours. Timothy McEligot warned of a possible general strike affecting 310 plants and 30,000 workers. Strike led by International Association of Machinists with allied metal worker unions in sympathy.
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Newark
Timothy McEligot
International Association of Machinists
Brotherhood of Metal Workers
Amalgamated Society of Engineers
$10,000 Award in Newark Sign Defacement Case
A Newark Supreme Court jury awarded the O. J. Gude Company $10,000 for defacement of its signs by three Newark bill posting firms. The defendants claim they will appeal. The firms named are Newark Sign Company Newark Bill Posting Company and Newark Poster Advertising Company. The suit covered depredations during 1912 to part of 1915.
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O. J. Gude Company
Manhattan
Newark
Gude
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Tite Company
Cutler
Newark Sign Company
Newark Bill Posting Comp
Newark Poster Advertising Company
Samuel Pratt
Hugh J. Kaveny
Thomas Fa Jes Kelly
Union seeks help to curb home sewing amid strike
The Cloakmakers' Union appeals to 60 000 strikers' wives and daughters to detect samples sewn at home for the Manufacturers' Protective Association. Officials warn that employers push work into tenements, while Mary E. Dreier calls for public aid to feed strikers' families and support emergency relief.
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Manufacturers’ Protective Association
Benjamin Schlesinger
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Schlesinger
Mary E. Dreier
Emergencelief
Women's Union League
E. J. Wise
Manufacturers’ Association
Employers’ Association
Wise
Woman Robbed in Crowd Near Times Square Chase
A young woman shouted Stop thief in Times Square as a purse snatching occurred at 6 40 last night outside Claridge s. Policemen Fisher and Shuhr pursued Joseph Snyder who denied the charges but was taken to the West Forty-seventh Street Station with the stolen handbag totaling 10 23 found on him. Two witnesses Miss Norma Gray and Miss Helen Aymskreng followed to the station.
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Times Square
Claridge’s
Broadway
Poiceman Fisher
Traffic Squad Co
Onty-Third Street
Shuhr
West Forty-seventh Street
Sixth Avenue
Joseph Snyder
East Eleventh Street
Tey
Norma Gray
West Forty-fifth Street
Helen Aymskreng
West Eighty-second Street
Iss Gray
Snyder
Iss Armstrong
Mac Snyder
Grinther Indicted in Grand Larceny Case Involving Defunct Candy Firm
William F. Grinther former secretary of the defunct American Candy Company arraigned in Queens County Court on a grand larceny in the second degree charge. He allegedly sold company property kept the proceeds and pleaded not guilty. The firm’s books remain missing and foreclosure sales have yielded about 45 000 with mortgage details noted. The investigation is expected to resume with another Queens Grand Jury.
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American Candy Company
Charles H. Parkhurst
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
William F. Grinther
Dean Street
Brooklyn
Queens County Court
Secon
Grinther
Queens County Grand
Ravenswood
Long Island City
Queens Grand
East Side group campaigns to teach love of flag
The East Side Protective Association launches Americanization efforts to counter I W W influence. An American forum will be held each Saturday in Seward Park or Hamilton Fish Park to boost patriotism among East Side children. Merchants support the preparedness drive and seek volunteers to form a regiment with nighttime drills, resembling Plattsburg training.
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East Side
East Side Protective Association
Plattsburg
Marshall action put off in impeachment inquiry
Washington report says three reports were turned in by the judiciary committee members as it met to consider Representative Buchannan's impeachment against New York States Attorney Snowde Marshall. A vote on contempt is set for Tuesday. possible joint consideration of both cases.
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Pennaybag
Washington
Vania
House Judiciary Committee
Buchanan
Snowde Marshall
New York
House
Marshall
Carlin
Gard
Ohio
Nelson
Minnesota
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Elizabeth
N. J
Cleveland Company
Louis Basserman
Lakfe Bryant
38Th St
Vin
N. Y
UNION
FEAR
Mies Dreier
Committee of Women
W. F. Grinther
AVING
Gustav Stickley
East
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Fifth and
Sixth Avenues
West Forty-third Street
Beach & Bungalow
Superior
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