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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1918
Page
13
In The Bronx a general strike by Union Railway Company workers prompted police guard deployment and suspensions for organizing efforts. Negotiations sought federal conciliation as crews reported wage and staffing discontents amid heightened tensions and potential wider action in Manhattan.
Newark New Jersey reports a North Jersey strike on Public Service Railway lines halted after extended disruption. The War Labor Board will arbitrate wage and related disputes, chaired by William J Taft and Frank Walsh, with a plan to adjust differences between the company and workers.
A wage dispute involving women conductors and male workers led to a return to work at 30 to 40 cents an hour after mediation. The Federal board may grant increases effective today. A committee met with Thomas N. McCarter and mediator John Rodgers, with support from city officials and union leaders. About a thousand strikers voted to end the walkout, though Paterson and Hoboken districts faced delays due to local resistance to telephoned orders.
Labor leaders denounce Western Union Telegraph Company for alleged defiance of the National War Labor Board. Samuel Gompers and Frank Morrison warn the move could spur Wilson to seize telegraph lines. AFL officials pledge unified support for war needs as convention opens with over 6,000 delegates expected.
National advertisers gathered in Chicago for the Association of National Advertisers session. The group endorsed a slogan to crush Prussianism and debated a zone postage reform, avoiding a public stance seen as disruptive to wartime unity. Speakers included Ward Hurley Ray Wilbur and Paul Werigod. The event concluded with a banquet and patriotic rhetoric.
Washington June 7 federal managers were appointed for Southern railroads and Louisville and Nashville. Fairfax Harrison and Milton H. Smith were removed as chief operating officers but remain presidents with salaries paid from corporate funds. Samuel Rea and Daniel Willard replaced other railroad presidents as officers. The move aligns with McAdoo policy to group lines for unified management and reduce federal managers.
A Brooklyn grand jury probes alleged half million dollar fraud tied to Todd Shipyards and naval repair work. Federal raids yield five truckloads of labor records from Tebo yards and Todd offices in Brooklyn and Manhattan as agents investigate private work billed to government contracts.
A letter from Thomas A Edison read at a convention of Edison phonograph dealers in the Waldorf Astoria stated the world is safer now than last July. William Maxwell read the note and quoted Edison urging speed in war measures and declaring, after the war, they would be prouder of the old man. It stresses a focus on decisive action rather than restraint.
Four members of the American naval forces were awarded medals for heroism in lifesaving. Quartermaster Frank Monroe Upton of Denver and Ship's Cook Jesse W Covington of Grace Mount Oklo received the Medal of Honor and a $1000 gratuity for rescuing a survivor from the Bicamer Florence H. after an internal explosion on April 17. They swam through wreckage to reach the man when small boats failed. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury sent a silver lifesaving medal to Setman Franke Le Bebvre of New York City for saving a woman and her daughter who fell overboard at Glenwood Landing, born August 30 1917. Fireman Stowe A Studley of the U S Northern Phellix received a silver lifesaving medal for leaping overboard May 8 to rescue a shipmate knocked overboard from the Pitapsco. Studley’s home is Ritzville Washington.
Lieutenant D R Grant Cornell graduate died in an airplane accident after entering aviation service last September. He sailed for England in February with the United States Squadron. His father David C Grant is president of Lincoln National Bank. The casualty list includes New York and New Jersey residents among forty-second W ershing reports.
District Attorney Swann opens another probe into war charity fund-raising in New York. He targets The 7th Regiment United States Box Scouts and vaudeville shows that used the name for donations. Key figures include Colonel John B Smith and Scout Captain Gardiner Jones. Further investigations cover The Immediate Rub Society and The Godfather's League of Our Allies with substantial sums raised.
The Board of Estimate rejected a proposed wage relief for subway contractors fueling fear of a large scale strike. Contractors claim the plan ignores the Lockwood law and would delay settlements, threatening completion of unbuilt lines unless the city funds increase. Ex-Justice Ransom and Public Service Commission opposed the Board’s move.
A Royal Naval Division witness recounts a German atrocity on the Russian front where 40 British prisoners died after being tied to a pole and suspended by their feet for hours across fourteen nights. The claim ties to a ruling that 36 British inmates would die in reprisal for killings of German prisoners.
London reports June 7 that remaining Russian fleet in Odessa and Sebastopol will be manned by German crews and used against the Allies in the Mediterranean. The Ukrainian paper Delo, cited by Stockholm, says German engineers are active at Sebastopol’s Nicholas Arsenal while Russia agrees to surrender the Black Sea fleet on condition ships are restored after peace and German operations halt.
Lieutenant W F Pierce of the Lake Division of the American Red Cross warned at a Bond Club luncheon that the coming year would be pivotal for the United States. He urged American effort to support France and morale, noting German forces remain unbeaten and the war hinges on U S actions in the next twelve months. Prosser defended Wall Street from profiteering charges and contended the war demands unity over politics. He cited a Bankers Trust Building tenant survey showing that all draft-age residents and their sons were serving, illustrating broad sacrifice. He recounted Paris bombardment in vivid contrast to U S reactions to submarine threats off the coast.
Three hundred delegates from the United States and Canada, representing over a quarter of 40 million Jews, attended the Jewish Labor Congress opening in Central Open House. Dr. C. H. Zhitlowsky urged an independent Jewish republic in Palestine and a Jewish national loan. The congress aims to aid Palestine rehabilitation and continued through today and tomorrow.
Letter to editor argues Tribune Institute guidance on meat prices misleads readers and that patriotic eating is not the sole motive. It challenges price reporting methods, cites beef veal and porterhouse trends, and defends Hoover food policy while noting official market observations and broad American cooperation in wartime provisioning.
General Market Conditions II notes varied retail pricing with whiting at 6 cents a pound in chains and cheaper fish like haddock and mackerel at 15 to 25 cents, while beef and veal receipts shrink and pork becomes plainer as land prices rise. Prices for pork chops, lamb, and veal chops appear, and fruit and vegetables show oversupply for some items with fluctuating wholesale to retail costs. Heavy New Jersey and New York strawberries arrive amid improving Georgia peaches and 30 cent quarts in Washington Market.
The club offers candied fruits at 37 to 46 cents per unit with 30 dozen case prices at 46 cents a dozen. Pasteurized butter tops at 48 cents a pound, lower grade at 50. Dried beans and larger prunes available to members at reduced rates, with beans 11 to 15 cents per pound and prunes 12 to 15 cents. Club service numbers MORNINGSIDE 7794 7795 or 8775. Market column appears on Saturdays.
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