Metal Trades Reject Debs At Labor Convention
The Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor tailed to endorse Debs. Gompers supporters led by moderates backed construction measures. A large vote upheld maintaining separate trade divisions, while a push to unite all international unions failed amid conservative resistance. Delegates anticipate the broader convention will continue the dispute as war era dynamics loom.
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Lantic City
Motal Trades Department
Ameria Federation of Labor
Rulisle
WOC
Torn
America
Keen’ Federation
Jahoy
Tracking Bombers construction policy for labor nationwide
The convention faces vital problem debates on profiteering in food products and the prohibition issue. President Gompers is still recovering from injuries suffered in a New York taxi accident shortly after returning from Europe. Secretary Morrison and department chiefs attend preparatory conferences. Leaders expect strong resolutions protesting a bone dry nation as an overreach of constitutional rights.
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Gompers
New York
Europe
Frank Morrison
Russia
Well Beaten Coxey Sees Gloomy War Prohibition Repeal Outlook
General Jacob S. Coxey arrived from Washington and warned the repeal of war time prohibition looks mighty gloomy. He said his proposals for an initiative and referendum and for veteran employment were introduced in Congress. Coxey claimed revolution fears prompted President Wilson to seek repeal. He was staying at the Waldorf.
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Jacob S. Coxey
Washington
Coxey
Congress
Wilson
The
Waldorf
Rochester Socialists Repudiate expulsion and name delegate
Rochester Local of the Socialist party at the Labor Lyceum repudiated the party executive committee demand to expel Russian Polish Lithuanian Ukrainian Lettish Hungarian and South Slav groups. They also named a delegate to the Left Wing convention to be held in Albany as part of a broader radical stance.
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Rochester
N. Y
Labor Lyceum
Rochester Locas
Socialist Party
Radical Army
Albany
Police Rally 100 Crews in Hunt for Bomb Plotters
Police teams mobilize to trace a wide web of leads in a mass identification effort for a body linked to a bombing plot. Investigators rely on clothing, hats, footwear, and a derby by Lamson & Hubbard to confirm identity as officials assess missing-person reports.
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Offer
Philadelphia
Offey
Lamson & Hubbard
New York
Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn
East Twenty-ninth Street
Mr. Offley
Bomb Scare In Philadelphia
Philadelphia reports a loaded high explosive shell found at Eighth and Market, triggering a federal and city probe into last Monday night’s bombings. Investigators pursue missing TNT and other explosives once stolen from wartime plants, with workers suspected of taking small quantities to show friends what they looked like.
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Little Brothers
Washington Square
J. R. Clay
Frankford Arsenal
Noone
United States
Francia Fisher Kane
Todd Daniel
Philadelphia
Department of Justice
Clay
Eighth
Market Streets
LW W Advises Attack on Prison
Chicago June 7 Investigators seized a letter from a woman S W W sympathizer showing IWW members in Leavenworth Penitentiary plotted violent action. The letter dated April 9 urged organizing a machine gun assault and using sawed off shotguns to attack officials. Immigration Inspector Landis announced the release of Eimile Mari, cited as a Red, amid the raid aftermath.
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Chicago
Secret Service
Leavenworth
Landis
The
T. Wow
Harry R. Landis
Eimile Mari
Anand McDonough
Mari
Seven Arrests Promised By Pittsburgh Police
Pittsburgh officials say they are pursuing seven more arrests in the bomb case tied to threats against Federal Judge Thomson and Chief Immigration Inspector Sibray. Detectives and federal agents are combing the Monongahela Valley and Clairton for suspects, with eight others held for immigration authorities and twelve bureau members aiding the effort. The investigation links revolutionary IWW literature printed in Chicago to the case, while Cornelius Shea remains unrecovered.
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Loreal
Pittsburgh
Prvice
Department of Justice
H. S Thomson
Wator
W. W. Sibray
Clyde
Edeburns
Monongahela Valley
Benaniier
Lawrence County
Clairton
Themelves
LWW
Chicago
Cornelius Shea
Russians Seek Exit from U S Without Deportation
Russians abroad urge leaving the United States if borders open, arguing deportation not needed to free the country of radicals. Peodor Kueshnarev of the Federated Unions of Russian Workers says many would depart voluntarily. He claims Russians here seek return to Russia to witness post-revolution conditions and laments broken meetings, raids, and arrests.
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Peodor Kueshnarev
America
Russia
Extra patrolmen guard Police Headquarters after bomb threats
Two additional patrolmen were posted outside Police Headquarters in eight hour shifts to deter any bomb attempt. The guard, reinstated after recent bomb outrages, will monitor the building day and night. The move follows a prior removal of the outside guard a month earlier.
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Police
The
Elizabeth
City to Send 500 Labor Men to March for Beer
Five hundred labor representatives including Ernest Borkin will travel by special train from the city to Washington on Saturday to join an anti prohibition demonstration. Organized labor nationwide plans a parade on Pennsylvania Avenue and a protest at the Capitol steps to oppose wartime edicts and the federal amendment. Elliott Woods, Capitol superintendent, assists with preparations as labor delegates head to the capital to express opposition to government actions and the influence of an organized minority.
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New York
Washington
Ernest Borkin
Central Federated U
Capital
Besylvania Avenue
Capitol
Fective
Anne of Lebor
Th P Roceeilings
Elliott Woods
Bochin
Winnipeg Reds Final Soviet Attempt Fails
Winnipeg Manitoba June 7 The Winnipeg strikers last effort to form a Soviet government failed as bread and milk deliveries were fully restored and city distribution established. Mayor Gray's appeal reduced fears of violence among over 1000 veterans while 2000 special police and reserve forces deterred unrest. Returned soldiers shifted to loyalty, but the strike risks persist with railway brotherhoods potentially joining.
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Peg
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Gray
Citizens’ Committee
Citizens Army
Ralway
Metal Trades Coun 1
Mooney Defence League Sees General Strike Approval
The Mooney Defence League reports broad union support for a general strike over a new Mooney and Billings trial. Weighed by union, miners, oil workers, railway carmen show strong backing while barbers and printers oppose. AFL convention in Atlantic City to decide.
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Mooney Defence League
Anton Johannsen
Thomas J. Mooney
Warren K. Billings
San Franci
Uch
American Federation of Labor
Atlantic City
N. J
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