Pier and Rail Strikes Near To Settlement
Indications last night show waterfront and railroad strikes easing with union leaders predicting workers back by Saturday. A Washington conference with Attorney General Palmer and Joseph W Folk produced a near settlement for rail floats and longshoremen, while state court rulings target illegal union actions in freight transport and a January strike at Burgess Bros. Inc. port activity.
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Palmer
Washington
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
Folk
Edward McHugh
Frank Boland
Railroad Labor Board
New York District
Yester
Mr. Folk
Erie Railroad
Arbor
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Fawcett
Brooklyn
Burgess Bros. Inc
Bugess Bros. Inc
Justice
Walter Gordon Merritt
Citizens' Transportation Committee
Robin Bears Family In Tied Up Freight
A lumber dealer shows how rail delays affect freight. He has $879,000 worth of lumber stalled since December on a Southern line. An inspector found a robin nest in a car on a siding and the bird hatched its brood while the car waited.
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Merchants’ Association
Longshoremen strike threat prompts union meeting call
Union leaders plan a vote to end the strike or call another meeting as pressure builds from marine workers fearing disruption to coastwise freight. Thomas Healey urges longshoremen to send a committee to Washington to secure increases for coastwise lines while rail freight rate hikes await ICC action. Alfred Marling reports to the New York Board of Trade on harbor conditions as merchants push to move goods.
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Lee Kohns
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
International Longshoremen's Association
Boston
Galveston
Thomas B. Healey
Marine Workers’ Aiistalion
Washington
Inter- State Commerce Commission
T. V. O’connor
International Longshoremen’s Association
American Federation of Labor
Montreal
Alfred M. Marling
New York State Chamber of Commerce
Membra
Pledge drive and lumber strike threaten New York plans
Merchants appeal to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States as donations near 5,000,000 while a longshoremen strike cuts Southern lumber supply by about 20 million feet. Officials from city business groups press for legislative protections and universal safeguards. A Sea Breeze Home opens at Coney Island hosting 300 mothers and children for a two week visit, funded by the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.
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Merchanta
New York
Sea Breeze
Coney Iton
Vote on Two Plans To Check Strikes
Chamber of Commerce members urged a public utilities vote on two recommendations to curb strikes by public service workers. Proposals call for explicit legal prohibition of strikes and creation of binding tribunals to settle disputes between employees and employers. The plan aims to prevent paralysis of transportation and protect public welfare.
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Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Chamber
New York
Preas
Pecapeien
Archer Kills Two Bears in Yellowstone Hunt
Dr. Saxon T. Pope of San Francisco killed two grizzly bears with bow and arrow in Yellowstone Park under a U S government permit to provide a habitat group for the California Academy of Science. The hunt is financed by Ogden Mills of New York. Dr. Pope hopes to kill two more bears.
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San Francisco
Saxon T. Pope
Yellowstone Park
California Academy of Science
Pope
United States
Academy
Ogden Mills
New York
Fone
Four Dry Law Violators Are Sent to Jail
Federal Judge Chatfeld in Brooklyn announced a shift in sentencing for prohibition law violators. He said offenders who plead guilty would face prison terms or fines, and those who go to trial and are found guilty will receive ten days in jail. James Marino, owner of a Flatbush Avenue restaurant, got ten days. his chauffeur was fined ten dollars and two days in jail for liquor transport. Over twenty defendants pleaded guilty under the new stance, with William Woerz, owner of a Prospect Park saloon, receiving one day in jail.
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Chat Seld
Brooklyn
Bishe
Supreme Court
James Marino
Flatbush Avenue
Chatfeld
William Woerz
Prospect Park
Fifteenth Street
Whisky Shower In Brooklyn Leads To Fine And Fateful Jolt
George Call, aged eighty eight? no, seventy eight, fined 25 dollars and sentenced to one day after a whisky shower spectacle near Ocean Avenue and Tennis Court in Brooklyn. A wagon wheel broke and 100 cases of liquor overturned. vessels sprayed bystanders as bottles rolled into gutters. Foster, owner at 125 Ashland Place, had liquor permits but police let him take the remaining load. Separately, a motor truck carrying 7 152 quarts of Newark whisky was hijacked near Newark by two gunmen. drivers Ansilio and Adolph Michielini reported the raid and notified police.
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George Call
Ocean Avenue
Tennis Court
Brooklyn
E. A. Foster
Ashland Place
Foster
Newark
Esaie
Manhattan
Ansilio
Adolph Michielini
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