Unions Call General Strike At Chicago Stock Yards
Forty two union locals voted to strike unless militia is withdrawn from the stock yards area. Over 400,000 workers are affected as protests over guards and race tensions rise. Officials report 6 blocks burned earlier and rumors of violence circulate amid labor unrest.
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Chicago
Stock Yards Labor Council
Alschuler
Ederal
Nees
Dickson
Garrity
J. W. Johnstone
Stock Yards Council
Thompson
Lowden
Johnstone
Yards
White Yards
Transoceanic radio through earth and water hailed
SAN DIEGO Aug 8 Radiography could revolutionize transmission by earth and water instead of air a naval lab predicts from experiments on a barge in San Diego Bay Lieut R A Morton says the new method proved when a message about the R 34 dirigible sighting was received from Annapolis to the British admiralty He notes underwater cables can be aimed like a gun while aerial antennas are affected by waves from all directions
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San Diego
Cal
San Diego Bay
R. A. Morton
Navy Radio Laboratory
Mare Island
United States Navy Department
Annapolia
Lieut
Morton
Plumb Warns Laboring Man Near Despair Over Costs
Washington August eight Glenn E Plumb counsel for railway brotherhoods testifies on a five hour hearing urging public ownership of railways and signaling that workers may quit due to diminishing returns from labor He links unrest to the rising cost of living and claims the Plumb plan could help reduce freight rates and curb private capital in transport.
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Washington
Glenn E. Plumb
Plumb
Organized Labor
United States
Esch
House Interstate Commerce Committee
St. Louis
Barkley
Kentucky
Mr. Barkley
Cummins letter from Senate panel opposes wage-boost plan
Chairman Cummins on behalf of the Senate interstate commerce committee informs President Wilson that Congress should not pursue new wage legislation. The director general holds power to fix wages and initiate transportation rates, with the ICC’s authority limited to suspension only if later law grants it. The committee sees no need for additional action amid the current emergency.
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Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Cummins
Wilson
Congress
Chatrotan Cunnans
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
House
Commission
Hines
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Committee of the Senate
J. J. Forrester
Brotherhood of Clerks, Freight, Express
Interstate Commerce Committees
Cumming
Hoover Halts Relief to Hungary Amid Hungarian Deprivation
Paris Aug 7 Herbert Hoover head of the inter allied relief commission has stopped all relief supplies bound for Budapest arguing it would be wrong while Romanians are depriving Hungarians of food. American peace delegation said no US troops in Budapest and none will be sent. The supreme council sent a note to Romanian authorities to conform to entente decisions and avoid hindering the inter allied commission. Archduke Joseph has been given temporary supreme powers in the Hungarian government.
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Paris
Herbert Hoover
Inter-Allied Relief Commission
Budapest
Hungary
Council
Supreme Council
Herr Friedrich
Schnitzer
Tanezos
Aew
Prof
Bleyer
Nationalities
Dr. C. Sillery
Agrarians
Social Democrats
Szegedin
Central
Europe
Associated Press
Archduke Joseph
Price of lemons varies by environment in St Louis markets
A shopper exploring St Louis pricing found lemons priced 6.6 to 20 cents a dozen wholesale, 11.6 cents wholesale average, with retail in West End from 19 to 40 cents a dozen and as high as 25 cents across the street from a 15 cent stand, illustrating urban price variation. Beefsteak prices ranged 45 cents a pound north of Forest Park versus 85 cents on the South Side.
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ST. Louis
West End
Forest Park
Kills Herself While Policeman Looks On
New York news reports Mrs. Sybil Boblitt formerly of Memphis Tennessee killed herself in a Madison Avenue office building after a policeman attempted to intervene. Frank H Goddard a New York salesman alerted police and claimed Boblitt was driven by unreciprocated infatuation. The woman, a widow, shot herself as the officer moved to disarm her.
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New York
Sybil Boblitt
Memphis
Cuba May Fix Sugar Export Price Debate in Havana
A Havana report states a House resolution would allow the President to prevent sugar exports from the 1919-20 crop at prices under 6 1/2 cents per pound with a free on board fee. No action was taken on the measure in today’s session.
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Associated Press
Havana
House of Representatives
Wilson to address Congress on high cost of living
President Wilson prepared to deliver a 4 pm address detailing measures to ease price pressures. A legal quorum in the House was uncertain as leaders urged absentees back. The plan focuses on labor, wages, price controls, and extending the Lever act to cover all essentials.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
House
Senate
Representative Blanton
Texas
Mondell
Day's Developments In The Capital
Washington actions push to cut living costs as five major meat firms face Sherman Act and food control law actions. District attorneys report probes into profiteering and hoarding with arrests planned as needed. White House talks between President Wilson and cabinet committee. Congress considers a one billion dollar tax cut for next year via reduced expenditures. Post Office gains authority to raise parcel post weight to 128 pounds. FTC notes food stocks in storage 20 percent higher than last year.
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White House
Wilson
Congress
Post Office Department
Federal Trade Commission
Wilson Letter to Hines on Wages for Rail Workers
President Wilson writes Director General Hines urging action on rail shopmen wages. He cites Senator Cummins, underscores the need for authorized labor representatives, and warns that strikes hinder settlement. He urges employees to return to work and press representatives for prompt action.
Great U S Armada In Pacific Receives Official Welcome
In San Diego on August 7 a vast American armada, the largest to patrol the Pacific, passed the Montana off Coronado beach. Admiral Hugh Rodman led 31 ships as Secretary Daniels and western governors and mayors watched. Daniels called the fleet’s arrival a dream realized from his six years in office.
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San Diego
Calif
Pacific
Hugh Rodman
Daniels
Montana
Coronado Beach
Secretary of the Navy
Pacific Coast
British Profiteers Measure Is Advanced
London August report says government bill to prosecute profiteers and impose penalties cleared first reading in the House of Commons. The measure targets those found guilty of profiteering amid wartime economic strain.
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Associated Press
London
New Military Policy To Cost 900 Millions
Washington August 7 the permanent military policy proposed by the war department would, under revised estimates, need about 960000000 annually for a standing army of 676000 and universal training for 19 year olds General March told the Senate military sub committee He said 798680000 would cover the army and 94066000 for three months training at a per capita cost of 14475 dollars per youth Secretary Baker will present his views next week and General Pershing and other experts later
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Washington
War Department
Universa m
General March
Senate
March
Baker
General Pershing
Portugal President Formerly Physician
Antonio Almeida, former premier and minister of colonies, was elected President of Portugal by Parliament with 123 votes to 31. Almeida, 54, had been imprisoned in the later monarchial era and once practiced medicine.
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Lisbon
Antonio Almeida
Portugal
Conan Howee
Jans My
Merly
President Wilson authorizes wage settlement for railroad workers
President Wilson told Director General Hines he is free to settle wage demands of railroad workers on their merits once workers return to duty. Hines notified unions the railroad administration will act on the wage question with accredited officers after readmitting employed personnel. The move aims to end sporadic strikes affecting about 80,000 workers and normal traffic.
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Board of Railroad
Railroad Administration
Washington
Wilson
Hines
Cummins
Committee On Interstate Commerce
White House
B. M. Jewell
Railway Employes’ Department of the American Eperation of Labor
Congress
Bolshevik Diver Is Sunk by British Torpedo Boats
London August 7. An admiralty statement reports a Bolshevik submarine sunk in the Baltic Sea by British torpedo boats Valorous and Vancenyae. Details are incomplete due to damaged text.
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Admiralty
London
Stroyera Valorous
Vancenyae
Ata Loameah
Todam
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Hoover
Cuba
Palmer
House Interstate Commerce Committees
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