Parleys Set to Restart Over Railroad Wage Deadlock
Washington March 5 Wage demands of two million railroad workers will be taken up anew early next week in first wage conference. Director General Hines awaits date and nine union heads will attend preliminary talks with fifteen unions uniting since last August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Brotherhood
Hines
Old Parley
Railroad Executives Committee
Railroad Administration
Interstate Commerce Commission
Macomb Sheriff Foils Convict Escape On Train
Frank Mullen prisoner under Sheriff Sapp attempted to tear loose aboard a Burlington train en route to the state penitentiary. He climbed between cars near Mendota Princeton as the officer kept a revolver trained on him and ordered him back.
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Macomb
Frank Mullen
State
Burlington
Sapp
Mullen
Mendota
Princeton
Sheriff Sapp
Sheriff Grabs Prisoner as Train Surges Ahead
A sheriff wrestled control during a dangerous transfer as the train rushed forward, nearly crushing the prisoner’s arm between the cars. Mullen escaped serious harm due to the lack of slack in speed and the swift action of the officer.
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Mullen
Art booms in Russia under Bolshevik rule
Associated Press dispatch from London reports a Russian art boom as the government pays high sums for approved works. A seven member council oversees art, four favor futurism, with artists paid 7000 rubles per piece, regardless of effort. The system spurs more artists and central control expands. Other item notes Chinese rail suicide disruption on the Nanchang Kiukiang line with 11 deaths in a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Russia
Anchang
China
Nanchang
Kiukiang
Roper to retire as internal revenue head on April first
Washington March 5 Daniel C Roper commissioner of internal revenue will retire April 1 He informed staff his resignation will take effect after the current tax collection difficulties with the first installment of 1919 taxes have been largely met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Daniel C. Roper
Internal Revenue
Former Congressman Bishop Dies in California
Roswell J. Bish op, former representative of Michigan’s ninth district in Congress for six terms, has died in Pacific Grove, California. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and served in the Civil War.
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Ludington
Mich
Pacific Grove
Cal
Roswell J. Bishop
Michigan
Sydney
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