North Carolina Revenue Proposals Spark Legislative Fight
A 1921 revenue bill introduces an ad valorem tax of five cents on the dollar for schools and a graduated income tax from one to three percent. The plan aims to raise just over ten million dollars for state government and education. Debate centers on the tax’s constitutionality and the political clash between Governor Morrison and opposition in the House and Senate.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
North Carolina
Doughton
Finance Committee
Gallett
Townsend
Harnett
House
Senate
Morrison
Cooke
Davis
Anti-Saloon League
Cook
Templeton
Wake
Edenton Becau
Budget Commission
Friends of the University of North Carolina
Oiecent
RO. Everett
Durham
A. W. McLean
Lumberton
J. J. Baker
Palmyra
Everett
South
California
Charlotte
Greensboro
Asheville
Wilmington
Bob Williams
Chas
Hook
Ready for Big Fight Bill of Rights and Labor Demands
Edward W. Pickard notes labor leaders under Samuel Gompers issue a bill of rights demanding federal action against injunctive power in labor disputes. They threaten potential mass arrests and a social strain if courts and government resist, while urging public support for union protections and collective bargaining rights.
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Edward W. Pickard
Organized Labor of America
United States
Samuel Gompers
Hlinted
American Federatie of Labor
Washington
Gompers
Federation of Labor
America
Iibor
Important News The World Over
A sprawling dispatch surveys postwar diplomacy and unrest. It notes President elect Harding’s cabinet, League of Nations deliberations, and Allied councils in London and Paris. It reports Bolshevik advances in the Caucasus and Persia, Turkish and Greek staking over Thrace, and Irish debates in London. An aviation milestone links San Francisco to Mineola.
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San Francisco
Mineola
L. 1
World War I era briefing from The News of the South
The report aggregates wartime and international items. It notes three soldiers found dead near Woodford Galway, budget figures for France, the Hague poultry conference, Irish policy debates in Britain, Sinn Fein activities, Cork arrests, and a Cork court martial. It also covers U S Cuba policy, British political shifts, indemnity talks, budget tax debates, and immigration restrictions.
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County Galway
Lee
Koetiman
Ministry of War
France
Commission
Chamber of Deputies
The
Hague
House of Commons
Willan Wedgwood Rena
Homer Green Wood
Ireland
House
Sinn Fein
England
John McSwiney
Terence McSwine
Jose Miguel Gomes
Havana
Cuba
Crowder
United States
HH. Anquith
London
Strickland
Ernest Evans
Lloyd- George
Cardigan
Wales
Foreign Affairs and Finance Commissions
Row Laly
Italy approves bread price increase amid budget gap
Rome reports a government backed bill raising bread prices to partly close a large budget deficit caused by prior low pricing. The measure, backed by nearly a two hundred vote majority, allows higher foodstuffs prices for natives where Italian money loses value abroad. Premier Giolitti urged prudent foreign taxation to protect the tourist industry and budget integrity.
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Chamber Ate
Iday
Italy
Signor Giolitt
Washington Battles Over Discounts and Rail Charges
Federal reserve advisory council urges no reduction in discount rates as conditions warrant. Interate commerce commission faces flood of rail overcharge claims during government control. Vice president and speaker decline salary increases this session. Machinery and electrical gear aids Harding speech. Count Bernstorff’s wife seeks confiscated property worth about a million. Senate ready to vote on railroad part-payments on guaranty account. Alabama veteran presented to Wilson with a hickory cane. Democratic National Committee to meet around April 15 for reorganization in St Louis or Chicago. Liberty bond repeal and tax measures discussed. Panama asks U S to help avert bloodshed amid Costa Rican invasion. Champ Clark ill but hopes to return before March 4 retirement. AFL unions urge veto of railroad refund bill and push for open shop opposition. Labor seeks cabinet inclusion of a recognized AFL representative.
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Fordney
House
Wilson
Congress
United States
Belgium
America
State Department
House Judiciary Committee
Kene Vsaw Mountain Laindis
Joana
Treasury
Teague of Nations
Council of the Teague
Paris
Senate Agriculture Committee
Washington
New York
Gompora
American Federation of Labor
Senate
Dillingham
Federal Reserve
Interiate Commerce Commission
Bernstorff
Democratic National Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Panama
Centtral America
Champ Clark
Organized Labor
Diverse 1920s News Snippets From Philadelphia to Chicago
A mixed report covers a 15 year old girl’s fatal stabbing of her father in Philadelphia amid parental quarrel, a New York receiver appointed for Leslie Judge Co publications, Erie railroad labor board hearings in snowbound cities, a fatal air record attempt near Reno, a Memphis bank courier robbery, a government suit against Postal Telegraph, a mob arrest chase in Newark, Alabama coal miner displacement after a court ruling, California wine shipped to New York, a Scottsboro whipping report, New York police cuffs probe, fashion notes on women’s spring shoes, higher transatlantic fares, a diphtheria patient home plan, and 20 000 unemployed Black Chicagoans amid charity claims.
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Philadelphia
Thomas
Felder
Avlanta, Gr
New York
Leslie Judge Company
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Erie Railroad
Chicago
Washington
W. F. Lowas
Reno
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Memphis
Federal Reserve Bank
Court Square
Tenn
United States
Atttorney Barnes
Postal Telegraph Company
Newark
No J
James Alexander
Wena
Hleving
Scottsboro
Ala
Howe
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