Coke Region Strife Over Wage Offer Sparks Regional Telegrams
Special telegrams from the coke region detail labor leaders opposing a 4 percent wage advance as a “trap.” McClure and Schoonmaker works resist, Frick Company favors regional price alignment, and guards are avoided to prevent further trouble. Sheriff Miller surveys conditions as coke shipments drop and rail traffic slows.
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Coke
McClure
Schoolmaker
Schoonmaker Company
Miller
Fayette County
FRICK
Lynch
Frick Coke Company
Attuathon
Schoonmacer
Serta
Wank
Frick Company
Peetenens
Moyer
Charlotte Furnace
Aanamantel Snox
Tre Coke Company
Uniontown
Fairdhance
Kyle
Redstone
Oliphant
Flint Glass Workers Briefly Meet With Manufacturers Over Scale Change
Flint glass workers asked for a conference to discuss changes in the wage scale. The manufacturers declined to consider a change before next January when their year’s agreement ends. A meeting was held in the Stevenson Building with Jenkins Jones and others present for the manufacturers and union reps Smith and Dillon.
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Diecuss
Bellaire
Stevenson Building
Jenkins Jones
D. B. Bryce
Captain Armstrong
Messrs. Smith and
Dillon
Mr. Jones
Musicians Reach Accord Between Witteberg and Cleveland Groups
John Beck of the Cleveland Mutual Musical Protective Union met the local board yesterday to resolve union frictions. The Pittsburg local opposed his bid and played as rivals, but Cleveland musicians secured a pledge they will not perform as rivals and Beck will withdraw the admission objection.
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Mahoning
Shenango
Cleveland
Buffalo
Detroit
Sees. Louis
John Beck
Cleveland Mutual Musical Protective Union
Aa Se Musical Union
Knights of Labor
Pittsburg
Pittsburgers
Leader of NK P U Strengthening the Organization
President McBride of the National Progressive Union of Miners and Mine Laborers spoke to a large turnout of coal miners at Sawmill Hall last evening. The meeting was titled a great success with many new members showing interest in joining the federation.
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President McBride
National Progressive Union of Miners and Mine Laborers
Sawmill Hall
Prosecution Drive Aims to Return Imported Glassworkers
District Attorney Lyon and Immigrant Inspector Layton backed by the Trades Council plan to seize and deport imported Jeannette glassworkers as soon as Secretary Windom decides they must go back. If test cases fail, workers may be brought back. Evans signals readiness for a legal battle to enforce the law.
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Lyon
Layton
Trades Council
Jeannette
Europe
Windom
England
Central Trades Council
Joseph Evans
H. Sellers MokKee
Supreme Court
Evans
Treasury
McKee
Pst
Campbell
Green Bottle
Secretary of the Treasury
Still Idle at Rankin Catch Any Workmen
The Carrie furnaces at Hankin station remain idle as employers claim wages are too low to attract workers. Howe Brown Co seventeenth street mills restarted after two gas shortages, with Park Bros Natural Gas supplying fuel. Eight hundred men lost jobs during the stoppage while Drake Stratton Co and Keystone Construction plan an around the clock electric plant at Viaduct station near South Fork.
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Carrie
Hankin Station
Howe, Brown & Co
Seventeenth Street
Park Bros.’ Natural Gas Company
Murrayeville
Allegheny River
Drake, Stratton & Co
Pennsylvania Railroad
Viaduct Station
South Fork
Keystone Construction Company
Orc
Westinghouse
Wilmerding
Clinton Mill finishing department to reopen after 12 months
The finishing department at Clinton Mill resumes operations today, bringing employment for 200 men. The unit had been idle for over a year since Graff Bennett Co assigned.
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Clinton Mill
Graff, Bennett & Co
Diffusion Process Improves Sugar Manufacture Yields
A report from Magnolia station Louisiana on diffusion sugarmaking notes improvements despite German cutter defects. Guilford L. Spencer cites 1,855,230 pounds produced with diffusion outperforming mill work by about 54 extra pounds per ton of cane, with diffusion averaging 222 pounds versus 167.9 for mill.
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Washrndton
Magnolia Station
Lawrence
Warmouth
Guilford L. Spencer
Department of Ulture
Spencer
Uncle Bills Tales of Webster and War Hero Coachman
Boston reports Daniel Webster’s former coachman known as Uncle Bill died at Togus Maine. He served in the Thirty fourth New York and Third Massachusetts Cavalry and fought at Cedar Creek. He claimed Webster once rode with him to Washington with no money.
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Dispatch
Boston
Bill
Webster
Daniel Webster
Togus
Maine
Statesman
Washington
Sheridan
Cedar Creek
Winchester
New York
Libby
Third
Massachusetts Cavalry
Fragmented News Story Highlights Local Vote and Crimes
The report mentions Salt Lake City election outcomes with council seats and a House result. It also describes a fatal shooting in Princeton Kentucky, a dog attack case, a sham lottery exposed by a girl with winning numbers, and an Austrian government arrest tied to a 12 year old. A posse pursuit and legal penalties are cited.
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Salt Lake City
Gentile City
Princeton
John Hutchins
George
Albers
Lewis Brothers
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Eumoes
President M'Bride
P. U
Siog-saki
Ganien’ Sa Tokamak
Rankin
Park Bros
Bill Webster
F. M. Boshiber
Grange
Indorse Pinatt
ROYAL
Wall Bt
Diane Bright
Spafer
Polcic Medical Institute
Pennave
Polypa Medical
F. Uw
Sanford
Owl
Ashland
Weist
Dingeist
Ore
Hite
Rocco
Dirs
Saldere
Price, Curie Se
UG and Chemical Corporation
Cal0aco Corszt Co
Chicago
Chas. Pfeifer’s
Smithfield Street
Federal BT
Allegheny
Capone Ae
Apollinaris
Bedford
Poland
Salusaris Strontia
G.d.simen’s
Ohio ST
Sanctuaky
Keech’s
Cash and Credit House
Penn Ave
Remedy Comp'ny
Liberty Street
Douglas & Mackie’s
Corsata
Federal Street
R. P. Wallace & Co
Wood St
ST. Charles
Aud Wreo
East Pittsburg Improvement Co
Wilmerding, FP. BR. H.,or
Weestinghouse Builpine
Pittsburg, PA
John Flocker & CO
Flocker
WORKA
East Street
Atlantic City
N. J
Aplési
Roberts
Atlantic Ciity, N. J
Hotel Gin Pew
Raiaee Hentagrant Eee Tm Ged
Tata Abeehootase
Aee
Hotel
Lafayette
Soteawe
Prs Heights
Morgan & Parsons
Tomson
Kane, McKean CO
Pennsylvania
Jyvil Uwren G. H. Kemp
Base Ete
Jora
Renovo Hotel
Renovo
Clinton Co
Iories del Contin
Kemp
Batata
Alamanca
Gangstown
Prom Chartier
Nor
Mansfeld
McKeesport
Elisabeth
Eilsabeth
McKesspery
I . Fwil
City Ticket
Llegheny Valley Railroad
Eave Union Station
Prise Nt Estern
Day
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Toledo
Kane Boller
Dar
Pullman
Ida
Aris
Aia Bo Me
Union
Western Pacific Pepresy
Seity
Serrchi Limited Express
Greensburg
Pennsylvania Divisi Mailrain
Cemuectia
Allogi Organ
Monongahela
Union Fissenure
Mononganela
Sundin Eays
Lvania
Union Station
Chiara
Ong Castle
Douge
Svery
Cumberland
Connellaville
Ialogtown
Mount Pleasant
the.’ Builders’. Sale
Lord Fauntleroy
Kayemanns
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