Building trade war deepens as unions clash with employers
Strikes and stalled contracts widen the building trades dispute in New York. The Employers’ Association rejects arbitration while the unions demand permanent work guarantees. The New York Civic Federation pressures both sides to meet and discuss terms, with a joint conference tentatively planned pending union acceptance.
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Building Trades Unions
Building “Trades Employers" Association
Socia Fe
Employers’ Association
Pthe
Ffairs
John Ab Mackin
Department of Labor
Board’ of Governors
New York
The
Employers’ S Association
William H. Farley
Board of Building, Trades
Tive Federation
Civic
New York Civic Federation
Finer Lon McMillan
Samuel B. Dennellys
Git
Suhorflin
Ite
Organization of Employers
Gaians
Eas
Wis Teseived
WW. K. Herty
Secre
Aramittes Pe
Iste Federation
Fourth Avenue
Sse Fyveritt
Munex
Ottoo
Een Schram
A. R. Smith
Thomas Wwoodlock
ASCOW
Samuel Go Donnelly
James P Terehiuay
Central Federated Uion
Ahd
A. Mogfert
Sricklayers
Mpasone International Union
Ralph =M
John M. Commons
National Civic Federation
Parks
McMillan
Conciliation Commmities
JME
ORCS
Board of Biliios
Ultimatum to Union Men in Charleston Trades
The Charleston tradesmen threaten to hire non union workers in all buildings and expect to stop city building work by Monday. They claim unions will lay off carpenters and joiners, leaving builders firm as plumbers electricians bricklayers and white painters who are non members avoid impact.
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Huableston
Charleston
Building Trades Council
Twe
Eran Firm
Avorkmen
Meetricians
Ani
Coumness
Oilfield Narrowly Escapes Destruction in Texas
Reports from Sour Lake Oil Field in Texas say a fire threatened major facilities today. Early warnings indicated heavy losses, but later accounts suggest damage limited to exterior equipment while tank contents remained stable.
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Paleas
Sour Lake
Texas
Fire Guards Oil Field as 2000 Workmen Fight Blaze
Two thousand men including prospectors and visitors battled a large oil field fire for three hours, building levees to protect tanks wells and derricks. Five acres burned with oil waste. no wells were damaged. Fear of reaching Sourlake Wells was averted by calm winds.
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Sourlake Wells
Runaway Carriage Shatters Summer Party in Bernardsville
A pair of runaways driven by Mr. Walter Stockton rushed through the village center near the Somerset County Golf Club. Passengers Mrs Stockton Miss Henderson and Mrs Hildreth suffered serious injuries as two vehicles were wrecked and a carriage overturned before the horses ran off toward Purbil and were captured.
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New York Times
Bernardsville
N. J
Walter Stockton
Charles
Hildreth
Louise . Henderson
Somerset County Golf Club
Peapack
Stockton
William Albaugh
New Orleans and Gulf Railways Plans Promoted
A New Orleans prom party from Cayeneters returned after a Mexican trip to fund the New Orleans and Gulf Railways and Navigation Company. The plan includes a ship canal cutting 150 miles from Mexican ports, a Grand Isle hotel, and 610,000 acres of swamp land bought between New Orleans and Grand Isle. Promoters expect development to boost population by about 1,000,000 across the La Bourche region and beyond.
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Trede York Times
New Orleans
Ny Cayeneters
New Orleans and Gulf Railways, and Navigation Company
Grant
South
H Wilk
Ahd
Galveston
of & Ae Daliar
Grand Isle
Weiseecnbeits Reynolds
Tt Jie Cleveland
C. W. Hammond
Buffalo
N. Y
People’s Bank
Lathan I. Miller
Ontroller
New York
di .O. Batterson
State Bank
B. Dhangerford
Hank Examiner
Dat Jeones
Dead Man's Bridge Horror On Coney Island Trestle
A rear end collision on the Sea Beach Line at Coney Island Bridge left forty injured and twenty hurled into Coney Island Creek. Emergency crews, police and a naphtha launch rescued victims as the Third Avenue trolley was crushed by an elevated train. Policeman Edward O Rourke was gravely hurt while aiding others and may die. Traffic halted for hours as wreckage was cleared and cars resumed service.
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Coney Island
Sea Beach
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Third Avenue
Coney Island Creek
New York
Henry Fincke
Hoostuckk
Frank
Shateach Palace
John
Nirest
Brookly
Aneteld
Thridge Street
Brooklyn
Vestal Anfield
Grace- and -Ethel
Catlan
Lowis
Eldridge Street
Manhatan
Ubncutta
Joseph
Fourteenth Street
Manhattan
Lee
Cole
Twelfth, Street
Fifth Avenue
Dupfy
James
Boaly
Brincke
Witty
Seventh “Street
Cotsorn
Guestiono
Destramino
Avenue A
Wallace
Joan J
Second Avenue
Brrooklyn
Weidler
Mamie
Gates Avenue
Mary
Twenty-fifth Street
Wohlers
Henry
Nostrand Avenue
Doris
Edward O'Rourke
O'Rourke
Kane
Dooley
Sergt. .Meyers
Houndsman Clark
Tike Company
Ife
Sea -Beach
Coney Tshind
O Rourke
Twenty-first Street
Montana Train Robber Escapes Jail by Lasso and Rope
Harvey Logan, a convicted train robber serving twenty years, escaped from the A DOX County Jail by tying guards with a wire and lassoing them. He seized two doors, forced the jailer to unlock the door, took the sheriff to the stable, mounted the sheriff’s horse, and rode toward the mountains as a posse closed in within an hour.
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Knonvill Fee
Harvey Logan
Wis
Logan
Bell
T.0
Gan
Lowenn
American Coal Company to Rival Pittsburg Firms
Pittsburgh interests push formation of the American Coal Company with $20,000,000 capital to take over Pittsburg Vein and Pittsburg Steam Coal. Samuel C. Grier and Henry Buhl lead, negotiating with eastern rivals in New York. Syndicate controls vast coal lands along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad west of Washington County, with planned railroad connections to Green County and Ohio River lines.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
Pittsburg Coal Company
American Coal Company
Pittsburg Vein Coal Company
Pittsburg Steam Coal Company
Samuel C. Grier
Allegheny
City
Pittsburg -Vein Coal Company
Henry Buhl
Joggs & Buhl
New York
American’ 4 -Gas Company
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Washington County
Brooks
Ohio Counties
West Va
Washington, Penn
Baltingore
Ohio
Wheeling Creek
Ohio River
Jonn I’. Steers
Pittspore Steam Coal Company
Baltimore and Ohio
Green County
Southern Railway Offers Seats for National Dental Assn Tour
Tickets on sale July 21 22 and 26 for a descriptive summer book tour to the Land of the Sky and Sapphire with travel via Southern Railway. Inquiries point to New York offices at 271 Broadway and 1186 Broadway for details.
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Southern Railway
National Dental Association
N.Y
Four-Track News July issue issued by Ady
The July Four-Track News is out as the best issue to date, a travel and education magazine priced at 5 cents by newsdealers. Ady promotes its educational content and accessible travel tales in this edition.
Collision on Long Island Railroad injures several at East New York
A passenger train on the Manhattan Beach division collided with a freight engine at Vesta Avenue and New Lots Road East New York. Several passengers were injured and ambulances took them to hospital or home. A second freight derailment occurred four blocks away as crews worked the first wreck.
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Manhattan Beach
Long Island Railroad
Vesta Avenue
New Lots Road
East New York
Crowen
William S., Jr
Union Street
Brooklyn
Meiner
Mary F
East Twenty-seventh Street
Sherpshead Bay
Sek
Harold FL
President Street
Wilth
Theodore EL
Manhattan
Jones
Bradford Street Hospital
Vesta
Sutter
Avenues
Automobile Run Endangers Girl in Newport
Miss Anna Sands driving toward Wickford boat struck a young girl on John Street and seriously injured her. Sands had the girl taken to her home for medical care and treatment.
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New York Times
Newport
Marly
Runieet
Wickford
Anna Sands
John Street
Poker Players Warned By Minnesota Judge
Judge Finehout of the Municipal Court held that recovery of money loaned to gamblers is barred by public policy and morals even without a specific statute. Heffren had sued Bellow for a loan made while playing poker at Souris North Dakota. the jury had sided with Bellow. The ruling underscores that lenders to gambling activities cannot expect judicial enforcement.
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New York Times
ST. Paul
Minn
Finehout
Hieffren
Robert Bellow
Bellow
Souris
Nod
Heffren
North Dakota
Moncey
Yacht Arrow Sinks Off Atlantic City After Run Ashore
The seventy five foot naphtha launch Arrow captained by Hallinger of Philadelphia ran ashore in the inlet this morning with no passengers aboard. Despite crew and lifeboat help she sank tonight and will be a total loss. The vessel, once the sloop Arrow of the New York Yacht Club, had defeated the schooner America for the International Cup.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Fune
Arrow
Hallinger
Philadelphia
Vibra Vere
New York Yacht Club
America
Movement to build a great female college at Trinity
Durham N C June 27 a plan to establish a large female college linked to Trinity College moves forward with an executive meeting to organize the institution J K Southgate chairman notes a million dollar initial endowment and calls it the Souths foremost effort for women’s higher education with promising music and river scenery on the Hudson Day Line service mentioned is not clearly connected to the main item
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Durham
Trinity College
J. K. Southgate
O Yrustees
Woman's College At
Trinity
South
Bogus Lord Barrington Arrested in McCann Murder Case
The body of James McCann, a St. Louis horseman, was found nude with wounds in a quarry near Bonfils Road. Lieut. Col. F Seymour Barrington of the Horse Guards, Lord of Melrose, was arrested again amid claims of his involvement and a disputed tale of a night at Suburban Garden.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
F. Seymour Barrington
Horse Guards
Melrose
James McCann
McCann
Bonfils Road
J. B.C. Lucas
Mounted Police District
Barrington
Mrs.McCann
Entralia
Tie
Arrivgion
Bridfe
Burrington
Daniel O'Connell Tracy
Cochrane
Miss Cochrane
Broadway
Charles W. Morrison
Leland Flotel
Desmond
Mr. Mettann
Morrison
Plere
Injunction Against Strike Sets Legal Bounds for Unions
Judge Cray of the Hennepin County District Court issued a temporary injunction against the Electrical Workers' Union. He rules that strikes must not conspire to protect contractors’ business, threaten customers, notify customers of unfair practices, patrol contractor premises, or order workers to quit based on contractor choice. The ruling delimits union actions and faces likely appeals.
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Minneapolis
Cray
Hennepin County District Court
Electrical Workers’ Union
Drake a heavy loser on Vincennes race day
Chicago June 27 John A Drake wealth and horse racing fortunes are tracked as he loses large sums at Washington Park meeting. He backs multiple horses with John W Gates, sharing bets with Gallagher. Vincennes wins after they fail to place the money, costing them about forty thousand dollars.
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New York Times
Chicago
John A. Drake
Washington Park
Savable
Drake
South Side
Lucien ‘Appleby
Lord Touchwood
Peter Paul
Faile
Gregory
Big Ben
Ort Weles
Red Comyn
Lester Reiff
High Chancellor
Mr. Drake
John W. Gates
Vincennes
Gates
Tom
Gallagher
George Gould Withdraws From Polo Championship
Philadelphia report says George J. Gould pulled his polo team from the Philadelphia Country Club event amid society gossip over alleged snubs to Mrs. Gould Edith Kingdon. Gould denies any special reason and says he only intended to compete in the junior match and found no mistreatment.
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Philadelphia
George J. Gould
Philadelphia Country Club
Lakewood
N. B
Gould
Gould and Cassatt
Polo Ground
Broad Street
Bellevue
Goulds
Nicholl
John C. Groome
National Polo Association
New York
Cassatt
N. J
Could
Motll to Conduct Here for Ensuing Opera Season
Heinrich Cenried reports Felix Mottl, famed conductor, engaged for the next opera season. Born 1856 in Vienna, Mottl studied at the Vienna Conservatorium and assisted Wagner and Liszt in Bayreuth and Weimar. He has conducted at Carlsruhe and Bayreuth since 1881 and will work under a six month leave from Baden Grand Duke to conduct Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera House.
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Heinrich Cenried
Felix Mottl
Mr. Mottl
Carlsruhe
Bayreuth
Vienna
Wagner
Baireuth
Liszt
Weimar-and- Baireuth
Conservatorium
Henriette Standhardtner
Berlen
Grand Duke
Baden
Herr Mott
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Pushed Playmate From Bridge Leads to Tragic Drowning
Newark New Jersey June 27 Willie Yeager twelve years old living at 520 Mulberry Street is missing. His father learned from companions that he and Hugh Portland also twelve played on a bridge over Pound Creek. Portland allegedly pushed Yeager into the water and the boy drowned. The incident was kept quiet until questioned.
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Newark
N.J
Willie Yeager
Mulberry Street
Willie
Hugh Portland
Pound Creek
Sid
Utah Iron Syndicate Plans Massive Utah Mines Railroads and Smelter
State Senator A S Lewis announced that a powerful Eastern syndicate has acquired heavy Utah iron and coal lands and will invest 25 to 35 million dollars to open mines build railroads and erect a large steel plant. The Utah Iron and Con Company will be incorporated in Colorado with 20 million capital.
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Salt Lake
A. S. Lewis
Eastern
Utah Iron and Coal Lands
Utah Iron and Con Company
Colorado
Lewis
J. Pierpont Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Colorado, Fuel and Iron Company
Pope recalls past Nuncio post during private audience
The Pope received Mgr Belmonte, Papal Nuncio at Brussels, in private. He recalled half a century ago he held the post now occupied by Belmonte and asked after the city, noting changes and expressing a wish for a return. He inquired about the royal family and recalled acts of kindness shown him.
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Rome
Mgr
Belmonte
Brussels
Mer. Belmonte
President Roosevelt Homecoming Stirs Oyster Bay Crowds
President Roosevelt arrived at Sagamore Hill amid cheers as townsfolk welcomed him with bands and parades. Secret Service agents kept order after a drunken assault near the cannon and Mrs Roosevelt led a school procession before the president spoke to neighbors about unity and home.
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Secret Service
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Board of Trade
New York
Maurice Townsend
Lfe
Stamford
Stamford,Conn., and Another, From Mineola. the Oyster Bay
Townsend
Maurice ‘Fawnsend
E. Morgan Griffin
Plein
Rade
Cleerk
Audrey Avenue
Inspector McClusky
Titus
Mr. Roosevelt
Praoiton Navy
Mr.Townsend
Dent
Mrs Roosevelt
Herlovarters
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