Merchants Back Open Shop Plan to End Freight Delays
New York business leaders announce a permanent Transportation Committee to run an independent trucking system, aiming to prevent freight tie ups amid disputes with labor. They vow to operate open shop, hire both union and non union workers, and back strikebreakers to keep goods moving despite longshoremen and union resistance.
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Citizens” Transportation Committee
Citizens’ Transportation Committee
Omoga
New York
William Fellowes Morgan
Merchants’ Association
Busin
Smith
French Lick
Ind
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
William O'Neill
Fection of
Tll
Montreal
Strikes Cost Maritime Trade Billions Says Merchants Group
Merchants Association figures show eighteen months of coastwise ship strikes disrupted one fifth of U S business. Dallas based Sanger Brothers tallies 76 days idle in 119 working days since January 1 1918 across 14 unions causing scarce rail and port efficiency and higher living costs. Estimated losses include 40 million from perishables and 16 strikes on sea routes and tugs.
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New York City
Merchants’ Association
Sanger Brothers Inc
Dallas
Tex
Steamship Company
Cotinues
Boston
New York
Norfolk
Charleston
Savannah
New Orleans
Galveston
Jersey Prohibition Agent Leads Wet Dinner Arrests
George A. Demo, a New Jersey prohibition enforcement agent, helped arrest Joseph Hecht of Newark David Abramovits Samuel Hymann and Harry Winn for violating the Volstead Act after an alleged wet dinner in New York. Four men were charged as whisky was moved from a warehouse on Halsey Street without permits. Demo described the actions as the first step in a broader campaign against whisky peddling in Newark.
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Jersey
George A. Demo
New Jersey
New York
Joseph Hecht
Springfield Avenue
Newark
David Abramovits
New Jersey Railroad Avenue
Samuel Hyman
William Street
Harry Winn
West Street
Bloomfield
John A. Matthews
Demo
Halsey Street
Teacher Ends Life in Apartment Tragedy
John William Hunt a 52 year old school teacher was found dead last night in his room at 462 West Fifty first Street by his brother Dr Charles B Hunt. The deceased had suffered from illness for some time.
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John William Hunt
West Fifty-first Street
Charles 8. Hunt
Dairymen Build Plants to Cut Milk Prices Statewide
The Dairymen's League of New York State operates twelve milk manufacturing plants with plans for fifteen more to reduce costs by cutting out middlemen. About 18 percent of its 82,628 members will deliver milk to league plants within weeks, as the league expands its cooperative model to control production and distribution and to offer a cheaper product while paying farmers a fair price.
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Tribune Watertown
Dairymen’s League of
New York State
League
Dairyman's League Cooperative Association
Utica
Dairymen’s League
Daniels Blasts Navy Bill For Three Major Shortfalls
Secretary Daniels criticizes Congress for not funding Navy expansion on the Pacific nor naval aviation and for failing to authorize a single new ship. He urges stronger aviation support and warns a war scenario would reveal the impact of these omissions.
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Congress
Tribune
Washington
Daniels
Navy
Pacific
Office of Oprations
Tf Belleva
America
Politics Accused Of Holding Back Fruits of Victory
Professor Alfred E Henderson warned at North Presbyterian Church that postwar politics threaten peace. He urged Americans to embrace Americanism over ethnic blocs, criticizing Irish German and Patsgonian influence and urging translations of foreign papers. In Paris, Marshal Foch attended a Sorbonne ceremony where Alsace Lorriane presented a victory statue after a taxi collision.
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Alfred E. Henderson
Henderson School of Oratory
North Presbyterian Church
West 115Th Street
Professor Henderson
Henderson
Rome
Sinn
America
Collo
Church of the Ascension Forum
Koch
Paris
Marshal Foch
Sorbonne
Alsace and Lorraine
Hylan Suggests How N Y Can Be Cleanest City
Mayor Hylan urges strict civic action to curb littering and public filth in New York. He asks police and magistrates to jail violators, shields health by stopping street dust and spittle, and calls forwide cooperation to keep streets clean and free of germs.
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Hylan
N. Y
Clean up New York and enforce laws urges citizens
Citizens are urged to assist police by warning offenders and filing complaints. Vacant lots in bad condition must be cleaned or action will be taken. Billposting on public or private property without owner consent must stop and owners should remove any illegal postings. Observers of lax enforcement should obtain a shield number and inform the Police Commissioner. Proper execution will make New York the cleanest and healthiest city.
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Crisis Transportation Committee
New York City
Organisation of Labor
New York
Advertising Clubs of the World Meet in Indianapolis
The sixteenth annual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World opened in Indianapolis with delegates from across the United States Canada and England. New York Newark and other cities established headquarters. Richard H. Lee of New York gave the keynote address stressing reader confidence as essential to advertising value.
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United States
Canada
England
The
Tribune Indianapolis
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
New York
Claypool
Williams
Newark
N. J
Washington
Tomlinson Hall
University Park
Richard H. Lee
National Vigilance Committee
Jewett
Lee
U S District Court Adjourns Term in Utica New York
Utica June 6 The term of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, set to convene in Binghamton next Tuesday, will be adjourned to June 15.
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U. S. District Court
Utica
N. Y
United St District Court
Northern District of
New York
Binghamton
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Broadway
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Broadway Sales & Company
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