City May Lose Garment Industry Says Protective Association
The Cloak Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Protective Association says New York’s garment industry faces collapse as 125 shops relocate to other cities to avoid union pressure. It cites factory moves to New Jersey and other states, while buyers remain in New York.
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New York
Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers’ Protective Association
Benjamin Schlesinger
International Ladies’ Garments Workers’ Union
Han
Charles Isaacs & Scheer
Clergy Decries Cloakmakers Strike as NYC Moral Crisis
The Rev Dr Charles W Welch of Park Avenue Presbyterian denounces the cloakmakers strike as evidence of a deeper fault between New York employers and workers. He urges calm analysis and a church led program to improve relations and prevent famine like conditions, stressing a shared duty to foster fair play and humane work conditions.
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Charles W. Welch
Park Avenue Presbyterian Church
New York
Welch
Dr. Welch
New York City
Rail unions plan strike vote after conference in New York
Heads of the four railroad brotherhoods with 800 delegates left New York with 1000 ballots for a strike vote among 146000 Pennsylvan ia Railroad workers. A August 1 meeting could empower a strike if eight hour day and overtime demands remain unmet. Railroads warn of halted trains and salaries. volunteers urged to maintain transport. New York Central to appeal to its employees soon.
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New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Central
Machinists Talk Strike Over Eight Hour Day Demand
Philadelphia machinists demand an eight hour day without wage cuts by July 1. Mass meetings at Broad Street Theatre mobilize 35 000 workers and plan further organizing through July with a blacklist to be announced. Union leaders predict July 8 strikes in noncompliant shops and July 20 full enrollment.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
International Association of Machinists
Broad Street
Edward Keenan
Central Labor Union
Charles Nicholson
National Executive Board
Zionists to Convene as 700 Delegates Gather in Philadelphia
Seven hundred delegates will attend the Federation of American Zionists annual convention opening next Sunday at the Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia. Speakers include Louis D. Brandeis and Louis Edward Levy among others. they will urge support for Zionist aims and report progress toward persuading the public to return to Palestine. Street collections were postponed until after the convention and funds will be announced by wire after counting.
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Federation of American Zionists
Metropolitan Opera House
Philadelphia
States Supreme Court
Louis D. Brandeis
Louis Edward Levy
8. Levin
Russia
Mossinsohn
Palestine
Harry Friedenwald
Baltimore
Julian W. Mack
Chicago
Westfield Ferry To Be Broken Up For Kindlings
On the eve of its fiftieth anniversary the Staten Island ferryboat Westfield, which blew up years ago, was moved to Twenty-ninth Street East River and will be broken up for kindlings. The Coakley lifeboats saluted as the Westfield pointed upriver. the Helen Sue replaces her.
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Westfield
Staten Island
Whitehall Street
Twenty-ninth Street
East River
Coakley Liferds
Jackson Street
Helen ~ Suewe
$100000 Memorial to Mrs A R Gorgas at Alabama Library
The University of Alabama Alumni Association announces a $100000 memorial library for the late Mrs Amelia R Gorgas mother of Surgeon General William D Gorgas. The library will be the state's largest and cost half funded by the university and half by alumni with Prof George G Brownell chairing the committee.
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University of Alabama
Amelia R. Gorgas
William D. Gorgas
Alumni Association of the University
Gorgas
Ordnance
Confederacy
University
Pease
John Gayle
Alabama
Gorges
Glee Club
George G. Brownell
Department of
Memorial Library Committee
University, Ala
Automobile Fatality Takes Durham Executive
David A. White, general manager of White Mebane Furniture Renufacturing Co., was killed when his car overturned this afternoon near Durham after leaving a rural church service. He was years old.
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D. A. White
New York Times
Durham
N. C
David A. White
White Murniture Renufacturing Company
Mebane
CAPT. HARTLEY TO TESTIFY IN GUARD DISCRIMINATION INQUIRY
The inquiry by Adjutant General Stotesbury, ordered by Governor Whitman, continued today. Testimony focused on alleged discrimination against Jews in the National Guard with evidence from the Second Field Artillery and mentions of the Twenty second Corps of Engineers and the Eighth Coast Artillery. Captain George B. Hartley, who resigned from the Eighth Coast Artillery last April after differences with Col. Loeser, was expected to testify about conditions he believed should not exist in the guard.
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Adjt
Stotesbury
Whitman
National Guard
Second Field Artillery
Max I. Klein
Twenty-second Corps of Engineers
Eighth Coast Artillery
George B. Hartley
Loeser
Shubert and Hartley Case Set for Police Court
J J Shubert theatrical manager of New York and Francis Hartley Yale junior face police court tomorrow but the hearing is continued to Friday by agreement. Hartley, a chorus member Nancy G Williams of the Winter Garden company, alleges Shubert struck Hartley after a collegian spoke to Williams at the Shubert Theatre lobby near midnight. Both men were released on small bond after being taken to the police station.
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New Haven
PRESS CLUB DINING WILSON AT WALDORF JUNE 30
The New York Press Club will host President Wilson as guest of honor at its annual dinner in the Waldorf Astoria on June 30. The event, soon after his renomination, is expected to launch his re election campaign while remaining non partisan. Prominent Republicans and Progressives urge inclusion on the reception list. Seatings cover about 50 men with two women invited to occupy boxes above the floor.
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New York Press Club
White House
Grant
Wilson
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Preas Club
Woodcraft Grand Council Event In Greenwich
Boy Scouts and Woodcraft groups from Greenwich, New York, Brooklyn, and Staten Island attended a grand council at the Finchery estate of Ernest Thompson Betton in Greenwich. The event featured council fires, tub tilting, one legged chicken fights, singing and moving pictures with Mr Seton, Chief of the Woodcraft League of America, addressing the gathering.
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New York Times
Greenwich
Mr. Seton
Woodcraft League of America
Council Rock
Priests Split Over Catholic Decree Bans Dances
Catholic priests across New York react to Cardinal Farley and Father Brann supporting the church decree banning church dances. Brann cites shocking hotel dances and says the poor remain loyal while the educated lead in wrong doing, signaling potential parish financial worries if dances end.
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Mgr
Henry A. Brann
St. Agnes's Church
Forty-third Street
Cardinal Farley
Father Brann
New York
St. Joseph's Church
Lower Sixt Avenue
Wes
All Saints
Harlem
Bsia Oe
Churaoh
Bronx
Manhatte
Athanasius
St. John Chrysostom's
St. Augustine’s
Christian F. Relanern
Grace Methodist Church
Methodist General Conference
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St. Peul's Chapel
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Automobile Exchange
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Hampton
Hampton Shops
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Woodcraft Grand Council
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