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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1922
Page
2
About 610000 coal miners are on strike with 185000 at work according to a Labor Department survey. The report notes large losses from strikes, rising food costs, and ongoing industrial unrest shaping national policy and futures.
A broad coal and railway crisis summary notes Harding's plan to reopen mines with nonunion labor and a wage-arbitration commission failing to win unanimous support. Governors diverge on action while North Dakota and Illinois face specific labor and competency hurdles. The article covers the The Hague talks ending without agreement, Germany reparations steps, and Irish Free State gains alongside U S political tidbits.
In Chicago workers on surface and elevated lines await word from international president W D Mahon in the east. Delay hints at possible negotiation resumption and strike avoidance, but residents may face transit disruption as negotiations drag. France grants a short moratorium on German cash payments for three to six months while demanding tight supervision of German finances.
A delegation of sentimentalists presented a petition of one million signatures urging general amnesty for 87 political prisoners in federal penitentiaries. President Harding replied he would not pardon criminals who preach destruction of the government by force and would not consider general amnesty. The answer was welcomed by supporters of strong law enforcement.
In a Boston Evening Transcript exchange Edith objects to a society group photo praising its horrid portrait of the conceited Miss Gushing while Isabel defends the image as perfectly fitting the social scene.
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