Big Telegraph Union Move Prompts Chicago Meeting
Post and Western Union announce war time policy shifts on unionizing. Postal waives right to discharge workers who join a union for the duration of the war. Western Union calls for a July 10 Chicago meeting to discuss a self governing employee body. Carlton frames plan as non political, while critics warn of weak authority and potential oversight by management.
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Postal
Western Union Telegraph
PSE
Wilson
Yes
Western Union
Chicago
Carlton
Washington
National War Labor Board
Edward Reynolds
Mackay
Ollege
United States
Canada
Carleton
Employes’ Association
Percy Thomas
Commercial Telestanders’ Union
Ohio
Postal Telegraph Company
Western Union Company
Labor Asks Wilson To Take Control of Telegraph Lines
At the AFL annual convention in St Paul a resolution urged President Wilson to assume immediate control of Western Union and Postal Telegraph during a possible telegraphers strike. A second resolution to support Seattle telegraphers was defeated. Officers of telegraph companies and Postmaster General Burleson faced attacks. H B Perham of St Louis accused labor code messages of being held up until decoded. Delegates attacked Burleson.
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St, Paul
Sone
Wilson
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
American Federation of Labor
Seattle
Wash
Burleson
H. B. Perham
St. Louis
Order of Railroad Telegrapher
Thomas I. Flaherty
Washington
President Seeks Settlement in Telegraph Union Dispute
President Wilson privately urged settlement in the rift over discharges by Western Union and Postal Companies of Commercial Telegraphers Union members. Clarence H. Mackay telegraphed a waiver to avoid discharging unionized workers and letters were sent to Mackay and Newcomb Carlton urging mediation. Carlton promised a Monday reply.
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Wilson
Western Union
Postal Companies
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
New York
Clarence H. Mackay
Postal Company
Mackay
Newcomb Jariton
Westernion
Zinc and Lead Men Willing To Be Taxed
Washington reports June 13 hearings on war revenue tax legislation as zinc and lead mine operators express support for higher taxes. Temple Chapman of Joplin Missouri testifies as the first witness to advocate increasing industry taxes citing wartime profits. Others urge tax measures on motor trucks and secret processes, with concerns over excess profits tax inequities.
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Washington
Temple Chapman
Joplin
House
Ways and Means Committee
Chay Shan
George W. Graham
New York City
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce Motor Truck Committee
Edgar Gilbert
New York
Massey Holmes
Kannes City
Southern Pine Association
Coke and
Miss Clearwater to Wed Chauncey Nichols in Elmhurst
Miss Lillian Clearwater daughter of the Rev and Mrs Charles K Clearwater will wed Chauncey Greenleaf Nichols Saturday afternoon at the parsonage Elmhurst Long Island Nichols serves in the Ordnance Corps United States Navy stationed at Worcester Massachusetts
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Lillian Clearwater
Charles K. Clearwater
Chauncey Greenleaf Nichols
Parsonage
Elmhurst
Long Island
Nichols
Ordnance Corps
Worcester
Mass
Lamborn Daughter Weds Naval Reserve Cadet in New Jersey
Ruth Isabel Lamborn daughter of Arthur H. Lamborn of 250 Upper Mountain Avenue was married at St Luke's Episcopal Church in Montclair New Jersey to Joseph A Hofmann Jr a cadet in the Naval Reserve Force son of Joseph A Hofmann of 183 Cooper Avenue.
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Naval Reserve
Montclair
N. J
Ruth Isabel Lamborn
Arthur H. Lamborn
Upper Mountain Avenue
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Here
Joseph A. Hofmann
Naval Reserve Force
Cooper Avenue
14 Day Loyalty Demonstration Set to Start Today
A 14 day loyalty demonstration begins today with public avowals of patriotism leading to a closing parade. The event features participation by local groups and emphasizes national unity during the Fourth of July period.
New York to Observe Flag Day With United Foreign Born Citizens
New York begins a two week loyalty demonstration ending July 4 with a mass parade of foreign born citizens to show unity in the United States. At least 10,000 German and Austrian born participants expected in the Independence Day parade as loyalty events unfold across parks churches theaters and businesses.
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New York
United States
Henry MacDonald
National Defence
Loyalty
City of
Patriotic Flag Day Exercises By City School Children
New York City school children will observe Flag Day with parades and demonstrations. About 3,000 students from the third Liberty Loan campaign will gather at Public School 6 and receive certificates from Commissioner Joseph Yeska. Parents will pledge allegiance in Delancey Street Square as part of the playground dedication ceremony for the U S Steamship Alcor.
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New York City
Public School
Joseph Yeska
Board of Education
Army
Navy
Delancey Street
U. S
Alcor
William Joo
Pt City
Bernard K. Marcus Willl Yung
Ntemashiy
Ordway Heads Civil Service Reformers
Iruway was unanimously elected president of the Civil Service Reform Association at its forty first annual meeting held at the City Club last night. He succeeds Everett P Wheeler who served six years as president and had been active since 1880. Wheeler was elected to the executive committee. Ordway has over twenty years with the association and chaired the law committee and later the executive committee before resigning in 1914 to lead the State Civil Service Commission for two years. Vice presidents named include Charles Collins Bishop David J Groor Charles E Hughes A Jacobi William G Low Levi B Morton Elihu Root Francia Lynde Stetson Oscar S Stand George W Wickersham.
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Iruway
Civil Service Reform Association
City Club
Everett P. Wheeler
Wheeler
Ordway Hn
Utter
State Civil Service Commission
Supreme Court
Whitman
Charles Collins
David J. Groor
Charles E. Hughes
A. Jacobi
William G. Low
Levi B. Morton
Elihu Root
Francia Lynde Stetson
Oscar S. St
George W. Wickersham
Mexicans Now Sons of America Says Editor Here
Manuel Carpio editor of La Voz de la Revolution spoke for Mexican editors visiting the United States at a Bankers' Club luncheon. He said Mexico would produce men who identify as sons of America after the revolution and stressed two kinds of newspapers either for liberty or oppression but believed liberty would prevail. Attendees included James W. Gerard and Mexican officials.
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America
Manuel Carpio
Mexico
United States
Carpio
la Voz de la Revolution
Bankers’ Club
John Bassett Moore
Pan-American Society
Liberty l
Camp Merritt
James W. Gerard
George P. Peabody
Theodore N. Vail
George T. Wilfron
R. A.C. Smith
Jesus Martinez
Alfredo Catarigli
New York
Chile Praises Wilson Address to Mexican Editors
In Santiago on June 13 the Mercurio editorialized that President Wilson's remarks to Mexican editors would usher in an era of peace. The piece credits his words with increasing prestige for American nations and notes his pledge to devote millions of lives to principles he advocates. It also highlights his call for security for all nations and opposition to frontier changes.
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Chile
Wilson
Santiago
Mercurio
Outdoor Life Cures Man Held Incompetent
Alexander M Ross aged twenty four once ruled incompetent to handle a $300000 trust. After three years at Bloomingdale Asylum he married while a minor during a furlough. With his recovery his mother Mrs Florence Potter Shepard and Professor Henry M Maxson seek Supreme Court permission to use funds to buy a 460 acre ranch near Tajique New Mexico for his care. Cambridge Livingston named referee to address the committee plan.
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Alexander M. Ross
Southwest
Ross
Bloomingdale Asylum
Nature
Thea
Florence Potter Shepard
Henry M. Maxson
Colorado
New Mexico
Cambridge Livingston
Hes
Body found of missing American explorer Beyer near Wuhu
A body resembling Frank N Beyer, ex explorer for the American Department for Agriculture, found near Wuhu on the Yangtze Kiang, after he disappeared from a steamship between Nanking and Wuhu. Indications on cause of death were not available.
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Peking
Frank N. Beyer
American Department For Agriculture
Yangtee-Kiang River
Nanking
Wuhu
Missing Girl Found In Mineola Jail
Katherine Madden, a six ten year old missing girl, was identified in Mineola County jail. Sheriff Seaman and his wife, the jail matron, confirmed the girl seen in a Tribune photo. She admitted staying out after curfew and riding in an auto with soldiers before being arrested.
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Katherine Madden
Mineola County
Phineas A. Seaman
Schoolboy Wins Prize in War Savings Poster Contest
Ed mund Kressy a Cleveland high school boy won the national prize in the War Savings Stamps Campaign poster contest chosen from over two hundred entries from grades seven to nine across the nation. The award was announced at the Art Alliance New York and will be used nationwide as a model poster. John W Schmidt of School 60 Buffalo won third prize while Charles A Dunn of the National School Wine and Applied Arts Washington was first prize overall. Winners will be notified by Frank Vanderlin Federal director of the War Savings Stamp Committee.
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Sherry’s
Rodman Wanamaker
Joseph I. Appell
National Defense
Appel
East Side
Russia
Mr. Wanamaker
Leo Pasvolsky
Russkoys Slovo
New York
Pasvolsky
Wanamaker
United States
America
Henry MacDonald
Hylan
Enright
Cleveland H. Dodge
Edmund Kressy
Cleveland
War Savings
Art Alliance
East Forty-seventh Street
Royal B. Farnum
New York State
James P. Haney
New York City
Walter Whitehead
Ray Greenleaf
Pictorial Committee
J. H. Chapin
Scribner's
Frank A. Vanderlin
War Savings Stamp Committee
Olivet College to Close During War Period
Olivet College in Michigan, one of the region’s oldest institutions, will close for the war period after commencement exercises next Tuesday. Trustees cited potential enrollment declines, noting normal enrollment around 300 but this year has fallen to about 150.
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vLlvet, Mien
Luvet College
Michigan
Teachers Demands and Board's Limited Relief Plan
Frank D. Wilsey of the Board of Education outlines that with current funds the board will raise the lowest salaries to meet harsh economic conditions. He notes teachers’ cries for higher pay, cites wartime purchasing declines, and warns relief is unlikely this year but hopes for early 1919.
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Board of Education
Board of Education Pleads Budget Shortfall in Message
The document notes 3 000 000 in special revenue bonds largely disposed of for key needs. It states the Legislature likely won t reconvene until January unless a special session is called and money shortages prevent substantial relief. It expresses sympathy with teachers and asks staff to avoid reproach while stressing lack of funds as the barrier to full justice.
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Board of Education
Official War Review To Be Issued Week Of May 24
The Committee on Public Information will start the Official War Review in the week of May 24 through its division of films directed by Charles Hart. One reel weekly will present latest war footage from United States British Italian and French sources distributed by Pathe Exchange. The project aims to provide a complete pictorial history of the war alongside feature films such as Pershing's Crusaders.
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Committee On Public Information
Charles §. Hart
United States
Sign
Pathe Exchange, Inc
Italian Fete Planned For War Relief Fund
Garden party at Killenworth Glen Cove Long Island to raise funds for the Italian War Relief Fund of America. Italian singers recitations by Carlos Liten and dancing by Isadore Duncan pupils, with Gerege Little Symphony. Boxes 100 dollars, admission 5 dollars. rain date June 29. patrons include Governor Whitman and many prominent figures.
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George D. Pratt
Macchi di Cellere
George D.pratt
Killenworth
Glen Cove
Long Island
Italian War Relief Fund of America
Carlos Liten
Isadore Duncan
Bargere Little’ Symphony
Whitman
Charles B. Alexander
John Henry Hammond
Henry P. Davison
Paul 9. Cravath
J. Pierpont Morgan
George F. Baker, Jr
C. Oliver Tzelin
Harry Payne Whitne
E. H. Harriman
Arthur Ise
Charles Evans Hughes
Henry W. Taft
George W. Wickersham
Urgent Return Loads Movement Aims to Ease Freight
Eastern traffic leaders urged no empty motor trucks on highways as rail freight congestion grows from wartime activity. The Return Loads movement, backed by the Highway Transport Committee, seeks standard rates and year round use of interurban trucks to carry loads both ways and relieve railroads.
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Merchansa' Association of
New York
Yeatardey
Return
Bureaus
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Highway Transport Committee
The
Council of National Defence
A. Musselman
Washington
Federal
Atlantic
Frederick E. Foster
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