Commission to Determine Future Wages and Conditions
The 1920 coal strike ends with a 14 percent wage rise and a presidential commission to set future wages and working conditions. The settlement, aided by Acting President Lewis and Secretary Treasurer Green, aims to prevent further public fuel shortages while keeping operators from profiting on higher prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Pickard
Garfield
Wiksons
Lewis
Green
Washington
Railroad Administration
Wilson
Palmer
Indianapolis
Fuel Administration
Wilson and Carranza News Mix in 1920 Convention Plans
President Wilson signals hands off on Mexico to avoid embarrassment as Fall's resolution on severing relations stalls. Carranza pushes oil bills and blocks fuel oil shipments while the Senate and House actions unfold. The Republican national committee picks Chicago for the 1920 convention set for June 8 with 984 delegates and redefines party structure including a new council with both members and outsiders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Senate
Mexico
Fall
Pall
Carrangy
Lansing
Jenkins
Puebla
Carranza
Mexican Senate
Republican National Committee
Washington
Chicago
St. Louis
Congress
Hughes
New York
North Carolina
Alabama
Arkansas
Massachusetts
Tennessee
Texas
Resolutions Committee
Paris council pressures Germany to sign peace terms
Reports from Berlin describe rising German truculence as four Iron Division trains diverted from the Baltic to Memel threaten Courland. In Dorpat the Bolsheviks and Esthonians negotiate likely armistice while Narva sees fierce fighting. Polk and other American delegates depart Paris as Clemenceau and Lloyd George discuss the Turkish question in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Supreme Council
Paris
Iron Division
Baltic States
Tilsit
Allied Commission
Memel
Courland
Koenigsberg
Baltic
Dorpat
Esthenia
Narva
Polk
League of Nations
League
London
Clemenceau
Lloyd George
Goldman and Berkman Seek Supreme Court Relief on Deportation
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman asked the US Supreme Court to hear their case after failures to阻阻阻. Federal officials disclosed that Goldman Berkman and other aliens would be shipped out within two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Goldman
Alexander Berkman
Russia
Supreme Court of the
United States
Berkman
Miss Goldman
Australian aviator caps 11,500 mile England to Australia flight
Capt. Ross Smith completed a 11,500 mile flight from Houndslow near London to Port Darwin Australia in thirty days. He won a $50,000 prize plus other winnings for the record journey. The route included Paris, Rome, Saloniki, Damascus, Baghdad, Bushire, Delhi, Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore and Kalidaitt West Java.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Australia
Ross Smith
Houndslow
London
Port Darwin
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American Federation of Labor
Railway Brotherhoods
Gompers
Bona Fide Labor Movement of America
America
Louisiana
Ransdell
Gay
McNary
Sugar Equalization Board
Equalization Board
Tausig
Tausalg
New Industrial Conference
Henry Clay Frick
New York City
Sandy Hook
John F. Turner
Philadelphia
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem, N.C
John Holbrook
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Jas. Stone
Geo. M. Knight
Co.t
Cross
Optimist
Oxford
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