Militants Try to Seize Control at Labor Congress
In Chicago radicals clash with conservatives at a National Labor congress meeting as efforts to push for Mooney and Warren killings relief surface. Debs invited to speak faces uncertain reception while radical resolutions call for a six hour work day and national soldiers council amid push for broader socialist causes.
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Chicago
National Labor Congress
Thomas J. Mooney
Warren Killings
Committee On Resolutions
Italian Labor Commission
American Federation of Labor
Mooney
Nolan
Debs
Eugene V. Debs
National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Council
Warren G Billings
William D. Haywood
William Goldman
Rose Pastor Stokes
Victor L. Berger
Adolph Germer
Paris
Return of 838 enlisted men from Germany camps
Washington reports the War Department released names of 838 enlisted men who have returned to France from prisoner camps in Germany. The list includes Theodore Fisher St Clair Keights Frank Douglas Albert W Rausch Bernard Fronn Conrad A Pechatein Samuel J Peters James Christensen Otto Chick Howard J Shields Rolland H P Short Fred Snow Otto A Gaard and Harry Lamb among others.
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Washington
France
Germany
War Department
Theodore Fisher
St. Clair Keights
Mich
Frank Douglas
Plymouth
Molasses Tank Explosion Kills or Injures Dozens in Boston
A massive molasses tank explosion on Boston waterfront near Commercial Street injures about fifty and kills a dozen, with two women severely hurt. The Purity Distilling Company plant in Cambridge owned the tank. Firemen, municipal workers, and residents suffer casualties as walls collapse and buildings are demolished.
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Boston
Commercial Street
Kenny Square
Purity Distilling Company
United States Industrial Alcohol Company
Cambridge
Boston Elevated Railway
Postage Rates to Drop on July 1 in War Tax Deal
Senate and house conferees adopt an amendment levying a ten percent tax on interstate child labor products and agree to repeal war taxes on first class postage effective July 1. A separate vote on the child labor provision will occur in the house before final passage. The group also plans to address war excess profits taxes and zone rate changes, aiming for presidential action by February. An advisory tax board for administration is set at five members with annual salaries of nine thousand dollars.
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Washington
Senate
Supreme Court
House
Anaconda Prefers Labor Before Other Applicants
Anaconda Mining company, the state's largest employer, announces hiring priority during curtailment. Married men and single men with dependents take first priority, followed by demobilized veterans who worked there before service, then those who were not previously employed. Single men without dependents with no prior induction must relinquish jobs to the prioritized groups.
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Butte
Mont
Anaconda Mining Company
Army
Navy
Company
Brunswick government proposes central north German federal republic
Jan. 16 news from COPWNNTAGEN: Brunswick issues a proclamation calling for the formation of a central north German federal republic with a preliminary constitution modeled on Switzerland. Soldiers and workmen councils in several districts are asked to vote on the proposal.
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Brunswick
Switzerland
Open covenants debated as peace talks go secret
Paris dispatch reports a plan to issue only a daily official communique from the peace conference and keep discussions private. Americans and British oppose, while French Italian and Japanese back the move, prompting protests from U S and British press and a looming clash before the conference resumes.
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Associated Press
Paris
Lloyd George
Wilson
Liberate Wife And Son Of Liebknecht By Abp Berlin
Berlin January 16 The wife and youngest son of Dr Liebknecht head of the Spartacans arrested when his house was surrounded by soldiers have been liberated. Bolshevik documents were seized. Liebknecht's eldest son remains in police hands. Fraulein Jakob Spartacus union secretary among those arrested. No word on Liebknecht Etchhorn or Luxemberg.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Liebknecht
Spartacans
Lebkknecht
Fraulein Jakob
Spartacus Union
Etchhorn
Kosa
Empress of Asia Transits Panama with 1400 Discharged Soldiers
The British troop ship Empress of Asia passed through the Panama canal on Wednesday en route from England to Vancouver carrying 1,400 discharged soldiers. Reports indicate plans to move all western Canadian troops via the canal, west of Winnipeg.
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Panama
Panama Canal
England
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Armistice Terms to Germany as Outlined by Marshal Foch
London Jan 16 The unofficial list of terms to be presented by Marshal Foch includes retaliation for the murder of allied prisoners and return of German machinery seized from France and Belgium. It calls for moving German gold from Berlin to a safe location, surrender of shipping totaling about 4 million tons for food relief, and disposal or destruction of U boats with no new submarines built.
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Ondon
Germany
Marshal Foch
France
Belgium
Berlin
Frankfort
Europe
Authority of Labor Board Questioned
Washington reports that Bethlehem Steel faced a challenge to the board’s authority to enforce wartime decrees after hostilities ended. Taft questioned the company’s good faith as machinists and electricians accused back-pay awards of not being carried out and workers discharged for raising grievances. The board plans a Saturday meeting with employee representatives to discuss possible actions.
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Washington
National War Labor Board
Bethlehem Steel Company
Taft
Bethlehem Company
Guy Currier
Boston
E. G. Grace
War and Navy Departments
Mr. Taft
Currier
California Ranks in States Ratifying Prohibition Resolution
Sacramento Jan 16 California ranks among states that have ratified the congressional prohibition resolution and can be counted toward the three fourths needed without further action, says Attorney General U S Webb while discussing a writ of injunction restraining the governor from certifying the ratification in San Francisco.
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Sacramento
Cal
Califonia
U. S. Webb
San Francisco
Attack Validity of Corrupt Practice Act in Supreme Court
A brief filed in the U S Supreme Court argues the federal corrupt practice act of 1910 as amended does not apply to primary elections. The Michigan election contempt case centers on Frank Blair Allan Templeton and Thomas Phillips refusing to answer questions before a federal grand jury probing primary campaign spending for Republican senator elect Truman Newberry.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Michigan
Federal District Court
New York
Frank W. Blair
Allan A. Templeton
Thomas P. Phillips
Truman H. Newberry
Federal
Legislature Quits Until January Twenty Eight
Springfield IL Jan 16 After brief sessions for bill introductions both houses adjourned to Jan 25 with no sessions next week Speaker Shahanan will study committee preferences and assign personnel. Thirty six bills were introduced Wednesday and await committee action with only two on constitutional convention referred to the special committee.
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Springfield
Ill
Shanahan
T. K. Long
Chicago
Special
Committee
General Wood Promoted to Command Central Department
Major General Leonard Wood, in Chicago, telegraphed orders directing him to assume command of the central department with headquarters in Chicago. He announced the appointment of aides de camp Captain Landon Thomas, Captain George Von L. Meyer, and Second Lieutenant Osborn C. Wood, and said he would split his time between Camp Funston and Chicago until the 10th Division is demobilized. He praised his relations with the people of Kansas as most pleasant.
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Chicago
Leonard Wood
War Department
Landon Thomas
George von L. Meyer
Osborn C. Wood
Camp Funston
Kansas
Red Cross Sends Million Dollar Plague Fund Installment
New York January 16 a check for one million dollars came from the American Red Cross to the National Tuberculosis association. It is described as the largest public health check in U S history and the first installment of a 2.5 million dollar Red Cross appropriation for tuberculosis work in 1919.
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New York
Aginy
American Red Cross
National Tuberculosis Association
United States
Red Cross
Brazil President in Critical Condition in Rio
Rio Janeiro Jan 16 The condition of Dr Rederiques Alives president elect of Erazil unable to assume office since November 14 due to ill health is very grave Three physicians were called to his bedside.
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Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Rederiques
Surplus Stocks of Grain to Be Disposed to Mills
The Food Administration Grain Corporation will start disposing of part of its reserve wheat to domestic mills to curb rising flour and mill feed prices. Sale points include Kansas City St Louis Chicago Omaha Toledo and Cleveland with authority granted to D F Piazzek of the Kansas City office. Previously grain was released only for export.
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New York
Food Administration Grain Corporation
United States
Southwest
Middle States
Kansas City
D. F.piazzek
Grain Corporation
St. Louis
Cheego
Omaha
Toledo
Cleveland
Russian Reds Favor War and Promise Peace
London report quotes R H B Lockhart, former British consul general to Moscow, who says Bolsheviks seek universal war despite pledges of peace. He notes majority peasants oppose Bolsheviks and socialist parties suffer their terror, while liberal press would react to Bolshevik tactics.
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London
British Wireless Service
R. H. B. Lockhart
Moscow
Mr. Lockhart
Russia
Messenger Boy Will Testify At Inquest
Mark Rosenfeld a New York messenger boy who accompanied Jacque Lebaudy to his wife's Westbury home the night he was shot is expected to testify before the Nassau county grand jury as the investigation resumes District Attorney Weeks has sent a detective to Manhattan to locate the boy who was brought here and questioned Rosenfeld said he entered Phoenix Lodge with Lebaudy and was met by the eccentric's wife.
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Mineola
N. Y
Mark Rosenfeld
New York
Jacque Lebaudy
Westbury
Nassau County Grand Jury
Weeks
Manhattan
Rosenfeld
Phoenix Lodge
Lebaudy
Prohibition Amendment Nears Final Ratification
The United States races to reach the 36th state ratification for the federal prohibition amendment as Nebraska Missouri and Minnesota vie to finalize. Oregon New Hampshire Iowa Colorado Utah and others have ratified, with many states needing to certify to the federal government. If completed this month the country could become dry July 1, with enforcement details pending Congress action and court challenges in several states.
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Washington
Nebraska
Missouri
Minnesota
Iowa
Colorado
Oregon
New Hampshire
Utah
Federal
State Department
Virginia
Kentucky
North Dakota
South Carolina
Maryland
South Dakota
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Delaware
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Arizona
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Louisiana
Michigan
Congress
California
Stephens
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
United States
House
Mississippi
Concord
N. H
Plan joint memorial services announced for Senators James and Stone
Washington January 18 joint memorial services for Senator James of Kentucky and Stone of Missouri will be held in the Senate chamber on Thursday February 2 in observance of their deaths.
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Washington
James
Kentucky
Stone
Missouri
Senate
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