Labor Board Action Shocks Rail Workers Strike Looms Across Nation
About one hundred thousand railway shop workers and a matching number of maintenance staff walk out as wage cuts and rate reductions take effect. Presidents of six international unions pledge support, while rail managers prepare for limited disruption and Harding convenes a White House conference to seek settlement.
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Pullman
B. M. Jewell
Rail“Way
Federal Labor Board
Railway Employees’ Department
William H. Johnston
International Association of Machinists
J. W. Kline
International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers ‘and Tielpers of America
J. A. Franklin
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
Iron Shipbuilders and Helpers of America
J. J. Hynes
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers
International Allance
James P. Noonan
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Martin F. Ryan
Brotherhood of Railway Car Men of America
Ben Hooper
Labor Board
Russia
Shop Crafts International
Labor union regulation criticized by AFL policy committee
The AFL policy committee denounced Harding's December statement advocating labor union regulation, accusing the White House of propaganda for Industrial feudalism. The Cincinnati convention was urged to consider the labour rights and the president's stance on strikes.
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Congress
American Federation of Labor
Cincinnati
White House
United States
Russian Delegate Litvinoff Heads Hague Conference Session
The Soviet delegation led by Litvinoff arrived at The Hague last week with a hard stance demanding credits from other nations before discussing any other topics. He stated Russia preferred goods or credits and expressed a desire to buy abroad, while cash was unnecessary. The British French and Italian experts opposed, and Litvinoff agreed to proceed after initial credit talks.
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Litvinoff
Britain
France
Italy
Assassination Rumors Veil Canton Crisis In China
Reports claim Gen Chen Chiung Ming who led forces against Sun Yat Sen was killed during a military council. Sun Yat Sen, said to be free, plans to retake Canton with northern troops and restore his regime. Peking leaders push for a United States of China.
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ERMAN
Walter Rathenau
Wirth
Rathenau
Bavaria
Reichstag
Berlin
Upper Silesia
Europe
Germany
France
China
Chen Chiung-Ming
Sun Yat Sen
Canton
Sun
Peking
United States of China
Republicans oust McCaumber in North Dakota primary
Republicans and the Nonpartisan League defeated Senator Porter J. M. McCumber for renomination in North Dakota. Lynn J. Frazier, recalled former governor, to replace him. McCumber, 23 years in the Senate and former finance chairman, suffers a major setback to the old guard. Wisconsin Democrats also chose a woman candidate, Mrs. Ben C. Hooper of Oshkosh, for the senate.
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North Dakota
Nonpartisan League
Porter J.M McCaumber
Lynn J. Frazier
McCumber
Senate
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Ben
Oshkoeh
Respect for the Dead Across Rites and Mourning
A World-Herald and SUN essay discuss funeral customs in America, urging respect for varied rites while honoring mourners. The piece notes processions delaying traffic and laments impatience, then references a satirical notion of tear gas from onions and supposed gas from Washington through the Congressional Record.
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America
World-Herald
Washington
Congressional Record
SUN
Gas quiz stretches elastic English in Detroit class
Washington reports a Detroit high school quiz where about sixty students answered "What is gas" with varied definitions. Responses included coal derived fuel, a poison used in warfare, and mustard gas that causes pain.
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Detroit
Finally Went Crazy About Their Editor
A Kansas community story recounted in an exchange shows how strongly residents reacted to their editor and the media coverage. The piece highlights local voices and the evolving role of the newspaper in shaping community opinion.
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Kansas
Bouquet For Kansas Editor Sparks Town Parade
Citizens honored a Kansas editor with a bouquet and a small church quartet sang as a minister spoke. Six strong men carried the editor from the house to a model 1921 sedan while the town formed a parade behind the car. The crowd returned home content to have brightened a local newsman’s life, even if after his death.
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Kansas
Aso
Lfe
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