Labor Chiefs Warn Labor To Target Congress Next Elections
Cincinnati June 12 The American Federation of Labor reports bitter attacks on Congress and anti labor forces. It calls for aggressive future action, opposes sales tax and subsidies, pushes for labor-friendly reforms, and vows to oppose many current lawmakers in the coming primaries and elections. It denounces court rulings on child labor and injunctions, urges a national labor board and new employment services, and outlines a broad program of constructive labor activism.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Congress
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Federation
Russia
Federal Employment Service
Co-Operative
Kansas Industrial Court
Supreme Court
Anderson
McClintic
Harding
National Labor Board
Railroad Labor Board
Esch-Cummins
A. Railroad Labor
Senate
House
United States
Engeland
Lfe
Ithe
Councll
Earthquake Shocks Recorded at Marquette Seismograph
Milwaukee reports two shocks at 12 55 am lasting forty five minutes and one at six am lasting eight minutes. Estimated to be two thousand miles southwest the shocks are noted as part of a broader discussion on industrial morality and the courts. A call goes out to restore good faith and avoid anti strike injunctions, urging public conscience to oppose encroachments on rights and liberties. The text condemns the Worisas Industrial Court and Kansas law as failing to compel work when workers choose otherwise.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Marquette University
Our
Republic
Worisas
Tornado Toll Tops Fifty Dead in New York
A rare New York tornado left fifty dead and about a hundred injured as it struck City Island and the surrounding Sound Island area. Telegraph lines cut between Syracuse and Troy. City Island saw the heaviest losses with up to thirty fatalities. In New York City six died and twenty seven were injured when the Clason Point Ferris wheel collapsed.
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New York
New York State
Syracuse
Troy
City Island
Sound Island Sound
New York City
Clason Point Park
Cyclone hits Buckeye Lake resort. three dead
Columbus report says a tornado struck Buckeye Lake resort killing three and injuring more than twenty. Rescue parties search the waters for victims while five pleasure craft remain missing and over fifty cottages are destroyed.
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Columbus
Ohio
Buckeye Lake
Democrats of Texas Meet in Austin Today
In Austin on June 12 the State Democratic executive committee met to decide which candidates go on the July 22 primary ballot. Chairman Frank C. Davis and J. W. Halesey led twenty-three committeemen with four proxies. Former Governor Ferguson seeks placement for U S Senate but his filing timeliness is debated. Several key decisions awaited late in the day.
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Austin
Texas
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Frank C. Davis
J. W. Halesey
Ferguson
United States
Governmental turmoil in China deepens
Pekin June 12 Sun Yat Sen head of the Republican government issues a manifesto threatening the imprisonment of the Chinese parliament to prevent the presidential election if Wu Ting Fang resumes the premiership to succeed Yen Hue Ching the temporary premier amid growing political strife.
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Pekin
China
Sun Yat Sen
Wu Ting Fang
Yen Hue Ching
New Grain Futures Bill Demanded by Farm Bloc
Washington June 12 Farm bloc congressmen press to keep Congress in session this summer until a new grain futures bill is enacted to replace the one struck down by the Supreme Court.
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Washington
Congress
Supreme Court
Pine Organ Recital at First M B Church South
A pipe organ recital is announced at the First M B Church South on Monday evening June 12. Mrs H M Jackman will be assisted by Catherine Newell on violin and W Fr Coulthard as tenor. The program is under the Women's Missionary Society with no admission fee and a silver offering for the green fund.
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Pine
M. B
iMra
H. M. Jackman
Catherine Newell
W. Fr. Coulthard
Woman’s Missionary Society
Oreen Fund
Btte
Mexican train dynamited by Mexican bandits near Nogales
Mexican bandits dynamited a train on the Mexican Southern railroad near Tomelín in Puebla state, killing five military escort members and wounding several others. They looted sixty thousand pesos in gold. A passenger train was held up and plundered at the wreckage, six guard members were killed, and the attackers fled into the mountains led by Juan Ramirez, Reyes Gil and Lorenzo Alvares.
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Nogales
Arizona
Tomelin
Puebla
Juan Ramirez
Reyes Gil
Lorenzo Alvares
Railroad Workers Face Third 50 Million Dollar Cut
Chicago June 12 The railroad labor board will announce a third 50 million dollar pay cut this week affecting clerks signalmen truckers and freight handlers. The forecast is a five cent an hour reduction. Also note Home From Texas Mrs I R Peddycourt returns from two months with a sick father reporting improvement. In Good Farms and Handies J R Daughtry Roswell New Mexico.
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Chicago
Railroad Labor Board
Texas
I. R. Peddycourt
J. R. Daughtry
Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell Plans Welcoming Day For Amarillo Visitors
The Roswell Chamber of Commerce outlined plans to greet Amarillo business men arriving by a special train Wednesday at 4 PM. A reception committee will meet the train, a district march with band may occur, and a 5:30 PM city ride by car is planned. Dinner at the Gilder follows at 7. A Chamber smoker and Flag Day dance at the Elks are also on the agenda with further details to come.
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Debs
D. W. Griffith
Ophanus
Paris
Griffith
Versailles
Louis Seize
Chevalier de Vaudrey
Salon de la Paix
Kate Claxton
United Artists Corporation
Princess Theatre
Louis Quinze
Petrograd
Moscow
Chamber of Commerce Committee
C. B. Stowe
W. H. Stine
J. D. Mell
John Umfleet
Www
F Witt
Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Elks
Santa Fe
Wilkinson withdraws from county commissioner race
Personal note from Mrs. W. J. Wilkinson explains her withdrawal from the county commissioner race for personal reasons. She thanks supporters for their kindness and encouragement during the canvass, calling it repayment for her labor and time. The page also includes small ads for a photography service and a studio offering photography "anywhere, any time."
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W. J. Wilkinson
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