Wilson Defends U S Job Service in Senate House Hearing
Secretary William B. Wilson defended the U S Employment Service amid criticism of union bias and inefficiency. He cited wartime work, described policy choices to place both union and non union workers, noted initial missteps, and argued the system shifted to state unit coordination to improve cooperation with states while expanding job placements nationwide.
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New York Tribune
Washington
William B. Wilson
Department of Labor
Senate Committee On Education and Labor
House Committee On Labor
Smith
Michigan
Kenyon
Kenyon and Nolan
Labor Department
United States
Federal Reserve Bank
Chip
Unti
Yeo
Ity & Bioney
Businese
Kansas
Ignation Division
Pipers
Immi
Public works as labor reserve in idle periods
The speaker argues against compensation for unemployed workers and favors using public construction as a labor reserve to provide jobs in idle periods. He notes workers sent from the West to fill jobs and contrasts this with England’s approach, urging practical employment through public projects.
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West
England
Wire Strikers Parade Before Offices Here
Striking workers with Don’t Scab badges gathered before Postal Telegraph and Western Union offices across the city to press their case in the ongoing dispute. About 600 attended a meeting at the Pulitzer Building, the largest since the strike began, challenging company claims of few strikers and signaling possible gains after Percy Thomas’s return from an AFL convention.
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Postal Telegraph and
Western Union
Percy Thomas
Atlantic City
American Federation of Labor
Pulitzer
Wesley Russell
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Newcomb Carlton
Edward Reynolds
Postal
New York
Western Union Telegraph Company
French Miners Refuse to Abide by Settlement
Paris June 19. Miners declare the strike settled and work to resume tomorrow in northern France mines. Officials say ministers Colliard and Loucheur agreed to arbitrate but the strike committee insists arbitration is an eleventh hour ploy and vows to continue until an eight hour day is secured after miners descend and exit.
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Paris
France
M. Colliard
Louis Loucheur
Leon Jouhaux
Federation of Labor
Brass Strikers Reject Ansonia Mayor's Peace
Ansonia Connecticut June American Brass Company strikers voted not to return to work under a mayor secured agreement. They said the mayor lacked authority to negotiate for the strikers and demanded written signed terms before resumption. The company planned to reopen mills tomorrow with mayor and sheriff providing protection. organizer Joseph Ettor detained by police.
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Ansonia
Conn
American Brass Company
Mead
Reilly
Joseph Ettor
Industrial Workers of the World
New England
Sing Sing bound man for fatal auto crash killing McDevitt
Louis Kaufer thirty seven was sentenced to Sing Sing yesterday for manslaughter in the death of Edward McDevitt twenty two of 690 Grand Street. He allegedly drove recklessly April 22 1917 at Eighty sixth Street and Central Park West, killing McDevitt and injuring Katherine Connolly and John McGovern and fled the scene. A prior charge for killing John Lehning by reckless driving in 1910 was dismissed for lack of identification. Kaufer had prior imprisonments for grand larceny in 1911 and in the workhouse in 1899.
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Edward McDevitt
Grand Street
Louis Kaufer
Justice Davis
Criminal
Supreme Court
Kaufer
MeKewyt
Katherine Connolly
John McGovern
Eighty-sixth Street
Central Park West
John H. Lehning
Ninetieth Street
Lexington Avenue
Talley
Wellaville Soldier Receives War Cross in War Department
Washington June 19 War Department announced the Distinguished Service Cross award to officers and men including Lieutenant Clarence W Geer of Torrington Conn Corporal Bradley Short Villa N Matthew Brennan Hoboken N J and Private Owen F Duffy Wellaville N Y for heroism in action amid ongoing conflicts detailing the recipients names and hometowns.
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Washington
War Department
Clarence W. Geer
Torrington
Conn
Bradley
Short
Russian radicals in wartime records and a Martens bureau
Testimony and documents from a congressional hearing reveal lists of radicals, letters, and broadcasts tied to the Russian Soviet Bureau in New York. Names include Hillquit Debs Lerner and others amid debates on propaganda, espionage acts, and support networks for socialist causes abroad.
Dr Ben Reitman Promoting Red Emma in New York
Dr Ben Reitman on hand in New York with a calling card noting physician on Chicago Health Department staff. He appeared to discuss Red Emma in a public setting, continuing his political and social activism legacy.
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Ben Reitman
Emma
Chicago Health Department
Ben 5
Reitman
New York
Soviet Bureau Charges Hostility at Inquiry
The Russian Soviet Government Bureau accuses the Lusk committee of pursuing the bureau with hostility and secrecy in a long statement. It says hearings are held behind closed doors and presses sympathetic to the bureau are barred from minutes, while noting Socialist greetings from U.S. Socialists are not surprising given the bureau’s socialist government.
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State Committee
Lusk Committee
United States
Bureau
Mayors Mobilize to Guard Cities Against Reds
Mayors nationwide reply to American Defence Society warning by pledging readiness. Boston Mayor Andrew Peters reports adequate precautions to shield Bostonians from anarchist uprisings. Trenton Mayor Frederick W. Donnelly cites a strengthened police force, an active Home Guard, and a 100-strong secret service bureau to deter sedition. Other city leaders follow suit.
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American Defence Society
Boston
Andrew Peters
Trenton
Trenton Home Guards
Bolshevism Test in School Denounced By Teachers' Union
The Teachers Union denounces a June 12 1919 high school Bolshevism exam as political propaganda and spying. Members condemn the procedure as undignified, unprofessional, and a threat to school morale, urging that papers be graded on official answers not scientific facts.
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Teachers’ Union
Ne Seia
Anyother
Mr. Goldman
Russia
City's Appeal in 80 Cent Gas Rate Fight Heard
The United States Circuit Court heard the city appeal of Burr's denial to intervene in Consolidated Gas Company's suit to declare the 80 cent gas rate unconstitutional and confiscatory. Gas company counsel Garver argued the city lacks personal stake and that Attorney General Newton and Public Service Commissioner Mixon should be defendants, claiming the company cites daily voltage loss from distribution.
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Burr
Julius M. Mayer
Consolidated Gas Company
Ward, Rogers and Hough
United States
Circuit Court
John Garver
Newton
Public Service
Mixon
City gas rate case prompts investment figures and debate
The discussion cites about $14,000 in investments and notes global returns on capital have risen, making past gas plant returns an unreliable guide. Mr. Burr argues the city has stake due to thousands of consumers affected by a gas rate increase and the 80 cent law. A decision was reserved.
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Burr
Graduates Betrothed Despite School Pledge in New Jersey
Newark reports 500 New Jersey normal school graduates pledged not to marry for two years amid wartime duties. Several brides to soldiers overseas plan summer marriages, others leave plans to allow soldiers time to adjust in France. Montclair president declined comment on authority actions. Twenty of Montclair's 105 graduates refused the pledge.
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New Jersey
Newark
Montclair
France
W. S. Willis
Stars and Stripes Earns 700000 From A E F Service
After sixteen months in Paris the 143 soldiers and two officers of the Stars and Stripes depart for home leaving a small staff to settle accounts. A check for 3500000 francs about 700000 dollars will go to the U S Treasury, with Congress considering directing the surplus to the war orphans fund. The paper began February 8 1918 and started in a back room at Neufchatel.
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Stars and Stripes
Paris
the Stars and Stripes
United States Treasury
Washington
A. E
Advocat
Congress
United States
Neufchatel
U S Property Wantonly Burned Says Engineer
Congressional inquiry opened on wartime War Department spenditures with Sergeant Charles Malcolm testifying he saw government property burned by fire. He cited salvage officers not sorting equipment as the apparent reason. Brigadier General Lord would be the first witness next Monday before the foreign expenditures subcommittee.
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Washington
Congressional
War Department
Charles 8. Malcolm
Company L
Malcolm
Special House Committee
Lord
Woman Dives 1000 Feet In Parachute Test at Atlantic City
In Atlantic City on June 19 Major Ordo Loos and Miss Sylvia Boyden tested the Guardian Angel parachute, adopted by the British RAF as a premier aerial fire deterrent. They ascended with Eddie Stinson’s airplane to 1000 feet, then dove head first as the parachutes deployed smoothly. Spectators included Glenn H. Curtiss and Aerial League figures. tests to repeat Saturday.
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Atlantic City
Royal Air Force
Ordo Loos
R. A
Sylvia Boyden
England
Eddie Stinson
Major Loose
Miss Boyden
Glenn H. Curtiss
Henry Woodhouse
Aerial League of America
A. Abell, Dd
The
Aero Club of America
G. W. Shaw
Albert T. Bell
Atlantic City Aero Club
Cuban Peace Envoy in Rome to Present Havana Flag
Dr Antonio Sanches de Bustamente Cuban delegate to the Peace conference arrived in Rome with his wife and son to present the Havana flag to the University of Rome. He met Premier Orlando Marquis Botsarelli di Alfreddo Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs and newly elected Mayor Adolpho Apolloni during a round of visits.
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Rome
University
Antonio Sanches de Bustamente
University of
Lapsed War Risk Policies Reinstated Under Regs
The War Risk Bureau reports many discharged service members can reinstate lapsed policies within nine months of discharge. If no premiums were paid since leaving service, reinstatement rules apply based on time since discharge and health. Policies cancelled may be reinstated under similar conditions with past due premiums and physician reports.
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Hoo, Voy Jachington Beate
Washington
War Risk Bureau Today
Bosch Co. Lawyer to Press Palmer Charges Before Senate
Harvey T. Andrews, attorney for Bosch, said charges of irregularities by A. Mitchell Palmer as Alien Property Custodian in managing Bosch Magneto Company stock will be pressed before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Palmer is to appear, and Andrews cited the trading with the enemy act against undisclosed principals in the sale. The stock was sold for 4.15 million dollars to H. C. Griffith in Chicopee, Mass, with two bidders, and the buyers later tied to Palmer’s reorganized American Bosch Company.
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Ovew
Washington
A. Mitchell Palmer
Bosch Magneto Company
Senate Judiciary Committee
Palmer
Harvey T. Andrews
Bosch Company
Andrews
Bosch Mageneto Company
H. C. Griffith
Chicopee
Mass
Transaciion
American Bosch Company
Missing Jersey City cashier warned by postcard
Miss Lucille Hilbreet, nineteen, vanished after leaving home for her Woolworth store on Washington Street. A postcard mailed from Hoboken warned, We've got your cashier, You're next, the only clue found near Bowers Street and Paterson Plank Road, with detectives suspecting a blind.
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Lucille Hilbreet
Paterson Street
Jersey City
Woolworth
Washington Street
The
Stars
Hoboken
Bowers Street
Paterson Plank Road
Man Shot Found on West Side Street Corner
Police at the West 100th Street station found a semi conscious man clinging to an iron railing before the West Side Presbyterian Church at 105th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. He, later identifying as Samuel Ferguson, a painter of The Columbus Avenue, had a bullet wound in the left breast and could offer no details about the wound. A revolver was recovered near the blood pool.
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West 100Th Street
West Side Presbyterian Church
105Th Street
Amsterdam Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Samuel Ferguson
Columbus Avenue
50th Street Recreation Pier To Be Returned to People
Colonel Frank H. Phipps of the Army Transportation Service said the West Fiftieth Street recreation pier, now used for disembarking wounded soldiers, would be reopened to the public. He noted action at the request of State Senator John J. Boylan to return the pier to the people.
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50Th Street
Frank H. Phipps
Walner Transportation Division
Th Army Transportation Service
Broadway
West Fiftieth Street
Phipps
John J. Boylan
West Side Children's Welfare and Recreation Conference
Robert A. Peyton
Meyer Hylon
Fvejstet Uumitters
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Sec. Wilson
U.S
Joint Committee of Congress
Mills
Wellaville
N. Y
Lenine
Bakhmetev
Lusk Saide
Martens
Wesily Trimiloff
Jamel Logan
Norfolk
Lusk
Stevenson
Leonard Abbott
Ferrer Association of
Anarchists
Robert W. Bruere
I. W. W. Annial
William B. Hayward
Chicago
W. Huebsch
John Lovejoy Elliott
National Civil Liberties League
Carleton Hayes
Columbia University
Hruere
1. W. Wiz Mortis Hillquit
Paul A. Kellogg
Santeri Nuorteva
East Side Socialist Party
Cleveland
Nuorteva
Vwher
John Reed
Schiedemann
Reed
Reds
Frania
the Revolutionary Age
S. P. Com
Chan. Samplar
Sec'y
N. Schaffer
Ly Kitchin
International Workers’ Council
Bill Denison
12Th War
Bernard Tamarkin
Proletarian University
Paul Poschenko
Tony Truppo
Mexico City
Glen E. A. Gale
Mexico
Nuortev
Washington, D. C
Hell
A. A. Heller
Adolph Germer
Socialist Party
Nuarteya
International Congress
Buffalo
Nuorteye
Nuorteya
Elmwood Music Uait
Martin B
Heisler
Denver
George N. Falconer
Tremont Street
Theodore Pedatoft
Anton Tultzen
Mr. Stevenson
Lurtens
Nikolai Lenine
Petrograd
Morris Hilluit
Hillquit
Tatagraph
Debs
Morris Hillquit
Saranac Lake
Evans Glark
Commercial Department
War Trade Board
Clark
George M. Bodman
Intelligence Department of the War Trade Board
Emma Goldman
Alexander Berkman
Jefferson City
Greenwich Village
Brevoort
Rochester
Berkman
Atlanta
Emme
East Thirteenth Street
East Twenty-eighth Street
East 128Th Street
Defence Society
Resolution
Teachers Union
Civic Club
West Twelfth Street
Louis Goldman
John L. Tildsley
Lan Ae
Tildsley
Joseph Jublonower
Abraham Lefkowitz
Union
Central Federated Union
America
Kowitz
Guardian
Ange
Bureau At Capital Issues
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