Commission to study Pacific coast labor troubles
President Wilson appoints a special commission led by Secretary Wilson to investigate labor strife on the Pacific coast and western mountains. The panel will visit governors, labor leaders, IWW agents, and employers to uncover causes and seek a fair wartime basis to avoid industrial disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pacific Coast
Mountain States
Wilson
West
Federal Shipping Board
American Federation of Labor
Arizona
Col. Spangler
Reed
Walker
Marsh
Ilinois
Frankfurter
Baker
War Department
Commission
San Francisco
Secretary of Labor
Department of Labor
Col. J. L. Spangler
Pennsylvania
Werner Z. Reed
Colorado
John TH. Walker
E. P. Marsh
Felix Frankfurter
New York
Portuguese Sailors Lost in Hurricane at Sea
Seven crew members of the Portuguese schooner Undina, sailing from a Gulf port to Europe, perished in a hurricane in the Atlantic. Five seamen were rescued exhausted by an Italian steamer arriving on Sept. 3.
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Atlantic
Undina
Gulf
Europe
British Heavy Guns Pave Way for Flanders Offensive
British forces opened a major attack on the Ypres salient with deep barrages and five preplanned barrages ahead of infantry moving through marshy ground and woods near Inverness Copse Nun's Wood and Glencorse Wood. The bombardment, aided by improving weather, sought to seize key ground along the Ypres Menin road while German batteries faced suppression from sustained artillery.
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Associated Press
Witie
France
Ypres
Inverness Copse
Ypres-Menin Road
Hooge
Ypres-Roulers
Hollebeke
Flanders
Menin Road
Powers of U S censor broadened
Washington reports that a new clause broadening wartime communications censorship has been added to the adminis tration trading with the enemy bill. It authorizes the President to censor mail cable radio and other transmissions between the United States and foreign countries to protect public safety, with penalties for evading such censorship. The measure, already in the conferees report, is viewed as greatly expanding government control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Senate
House
Germany
Runaway Locomotive Kills in Kentucky
Neon, Ky, Sept. 21. Fireman John Allephine and two Black passengers were killed when a freight locomotive ran wild and crashed into a Louisville and Nashville passenger train a mile from Neon. About twenty other Black passengers in a car were injured. The loco was believed started by a Black man fleeing a siding. efforts to catch him failed.
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Neon
John Allephine
Louisville and Nashville
Senate Hearing on Deficiency Appropriation Bill Ends
Washington on September 21 Senate appropriation committee finished hearings on the deficiency appropriation bill. The panel plans to report the measure, likely numbered up by several hundred million, to the full Senate early next week.
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Senate
Washington
Senate Appropriation Committee
Chicago Upholds Mayor Thompson on Peace Meeting
The Chicago legal department, in a Sept. 21 opinion approved by corporation counsel Samuel A. Ettelson, supports Mayor Thompson by allowing the public meeting of the people's council of America for democracy and terms of peace after Gov. Lowden banned the group. It states an executive officer cannot bar a meeting in advance due to anticipated illegality and upholds citizens' right to peaceful discussion as long as war prosecution is not hindered.
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Chicago
Thompson
People’s Council of America For Democracy
Lowden
Samuel A. Ettelson
Prosecutor Paid for Perjury in Mooney Trial Case
E. E. Rigall testifies in San Francisco that District Attorney Charles M. Pickert and chief assistant Edward A. Canta paid him bribes to testify against Thomas J. Mooney. Rigall alleges payments of 150 dollars from Pickert and involvement by Canha after claims Oxman promised money for perjured testimony. Mooney, sentenced for murder linked to the July 23 1916 explosion that killed ten people.
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San Francisco
E. E. Rigall
Grayville, II
Frank Coxman
Rigall
Thomas J. Mooney
Charles M. Pickert
Edward A. Canta
Pickert
Canha
Oxman
Mooney
Jack Dougherty Dies in Milwaukee After Illness
Jack Dougherty former lightweight boxer died Thursday in Milwaukee of appendicitis. Ten years ago he was well known to boxing fans, having fought Horey Mellody Eddie Santry Harry Lewis Jimmy Gardner and others.
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Jack Dougherty
Milwaukee
Wis
War Taxes Low House Members Balk War Tax Plan
Washington Sept 21 Unexpected demands by house members for a big rise in war profit taxes complicate the war tax bill and cast doubt on passage early next week. Ways and Means panel meeting today may push for excess profit figures from 1.06 to 1.5 billion dollars, with high tax advocates threatening floor action if no compromise. The conference hinges on capital definitions and values for patents and trademarks, while advertising, auto taxes, and second class mail rates also feed dispute. Postal rates near settlement, with a zone rate and a graduated increase to under six cents a pound in distant zones.
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Washington
House
House Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Ways and Means
Underwood
Ways and Means Committee
Woman Accepts Job as Crossing Guard at Illinois Central
In Pana Illinois on September 21 Mrs Ethel Elam becomes the first woman to serve as a railroad crossing guard on the Illinois Central system. Her husband is away at war and her father Robert Sumption surrendered the post with company consent.
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Pana
Ethel Elam
Illinois Central
Robert Sumption
Senate Recesses to Saturday for Bills Work
Washington Sept 21 Senate adjourned after a one hour session and a day’s recess granting committees time to complete work on important bills. Several committees are set to meet again Saturday to finalize pending measures.
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Senate
Washington
Sugar Price Cut Plan Endorsed by U.S. Food Admin
Washington reports beet sugar producers and the food administration endorsed a unified price plan with a stable 8 cents per pound, wholesales at 7 1/4 cents on cane basis, and retail not more than 34 cents higher. An international five member committee will oversee purchases and distribution for the United States and allied nations. The plan includes leaders from the American Sugar Refining Co and Arbuckle brothers, with Cuban producers to be brought in for discussion. Cuban President Menocal comments on world sugar shortages and Hoover administration efforts to stabilize prices.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
United States
Manuel de Caspedes
Havana
Menocal
Associated Press
Herbert Hoover
Cuba
Conspiracy Claim Tied to Ward Violence in Philadelphia
Evidence at a hearing links the police officer murder in the Fifth ward factional contest to a plot to kill James A Cary, whose nomination faced Isaac Deutsch. Two Jersey City gunmen confessed to voting for Deutsch and were held without bail as warrants for conspiracies were issued for Mayor Smith, Lt. Bennett, and Deutsch.
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Philadelphia
Select Council
Fifth Ward
James A. Cary
Isaac Deutsch
Jersey City
Deutsch
Cary
Jacob Mascia
Eppley
John Costello
Ryan
Smith
Asault
Thomas B. Smith
David Bennett
James al Carey
Price of copper fixed at 23 1 2 cents a pound
Washington reports copper prices fixed at 23 1 2 cents per pound for four months after government and major producers agreed. No wage cuts are planned. producers pledge maximum production and to curb speculative ownership. Possible government takeover for nonconforming mines under war powers.
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Washington
New York
War Industries Board
Federal Trade Commission
Frank A. Scott
British drive deep into Flanders front at Ypres line
British troops pierced German positions along the Zonnebeke to Gheluvelt line on the Flanders front, reaching about a mile depth in a bold Thursday attack hailed as a great success. Haig reports over 2,000 prisoners and multiple objectives including Hamlet and Polygon Wood captured. Berlin confirms heavy fighting and German losses.
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London
Flanders
Zonnebeke-Gheluvelt
Reuter
Haig
Field Marshal Haig
North Country
Hamlet
Veldhoek
Polygon Wood
Zevenkote
Douglas Hair
Ypres
Ypres Comines
Gawn Thureday
Mike
Field Marshal
Associated Press
Cerny
Hill 344
Samogneux
Berlin
Labor 10 Make Sacrifice In War Supply Struggle
Atlantic City Sept 21 The American industry approved resolutions urging labor-government cooperation to avoid strikes or lockouts during wartime production. Secretary Wilson warned against profiteering and urged employers not to press for excessive profits. Resolutions favor voluntary dispute submission to a new industry board and expansion of government employment agencies. Export control and revenue issues were also discussed.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Wilson
Labor
Industry
Italians report Turks among prisoners on Corso front
Rome dispatch says prisoners taken by Italian forces on the Corso front include several Turks. Italian army officers claim the presence of Turkish troops indicates Austria-Hungary is deploying Turkish soldiers in the fighting.
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Rome
Corso
Austria-Hungary
Swedish Mail Held at Halifax Amid Diplomats Ferrying Data
Four diplomatic mail pouches said to contain data on foodstuffs are detained at Halifax by British authorities. They were sent by the Swedish foreign office to the Washington legation and were taken from a steamship carrying Dr Hjalmar Lundvolm and First Secretary Reutersword. No reason given. Baron Akerhielm pressed state department officials for quick forwarding.
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Washington
Halifax
Foreign Office
Legation
Hjalmar Lundvolm
United States
Reutersword
Baron Akerhielm
State Department
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U.S
Kentucky
Legal Department Upholds
Ettelson
Langermarck
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