Steel industry pledge to abolish 12 hour day questioned
In York July 6 verification of a pledge to end the 12 hour workday was presented to the United States Steel Corporation board by chairman Elbert H. Gary. He cautioned that timing depends on labor conditions and warned that abolition would raise production costs by about 15 cents per unit.
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Ge Hilbert H. Gary
Board of Drama of
United States
Ge Gary
Gary
Baeze
Jary
American Iron and Steel
Ige
United States Steel
Wf Corporation
Levertte
Ateel Trust
Steel Trust
Gary Deetamninee
Mosslves
William I Connell
Scranton
Conciliation Board
Percy Madeira
Washington
United States Coal Commission
Atlantic City
John Hayes Hammond
Hammond
Atantic City
William H. Rodgers
Department of Labor
Labor Department
Condition of Henry Simmer Jr. Improves Slightly After Shooting
The health of Henry Simmer Jr. remains grave after an accidental Tuesday shooting in Cleveland. He showed slight improvement but is still perilous, with parents present and doctors providing care.
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Nay Simmerly, JR
Henry Simmer Jr
Cleveland
Steel Hot Mill Workers Receive Ten Percent Wage Rise
New Castle Pennsylvania July 6. A ten percent average raise was granted to all hot mill workers at the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company effective July 1. About fifteen hundred local workers benefit. others not included. The raise is based on tin plate selling prices per the agreement between company and workers.
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New Castle Pa
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Liberty bonds unpaid form major US public debt
Washington reports nearly fifteen billion dollars in Liberty bonds remain outstanding from the war era, constituting most of the public debt. The treasury lists each issue’s amount and notes overall debt totals, recent debt reduction, and projected future liquidation aided by a projected annual surplus and economy drives under President Harding.
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Washington
United States
Treasury Department
Treasury
Liberty
Harding
District 100 principal quits over $200 raise
Tiffin Ohio July. Ralek Brode, principal of Lyk Centrailsed High School, Bloonville, resigns after the school board boosts his salary by $200 annually from $1,800, citing the raise as the reason for stepping down.
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Tiffin
Ralek, Brode
Lyk
Bloonville
Ohio
Brode
Board of Education
Labor Leader Blames Bluff in 12-Hour Day Fight
Washington July 6 The American Federation of Labor chief assails Judge Gary and steel magnates for delaying abolition of the 12 hour day. Gompers says only steel workers organized can end the practice while immigration policy and labor surplus shape federal action.
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Congress
Harding
Labor Davis
Gary
Lemuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Tacoma
Mrs Stannard Appeals Reinstatement At State School Hearings
Testimony supporting Mae Stannard in her appeal for reinstatement as chief matron at the girls industrial school near here was entered as hearings proceed by the state civil service commission. Proceedings, to be moved to Columbus, include witnesses for Director Harper as the prosecution rests.
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Delaware
Parsons
Mae Stannard
State Welfare
Harper
Girls Industrial
Here
State Civil Service Commission
Columbus
Columus
H.S. Macayeal
Akron
Stannard
Macayesi
Esmund 8. Baehr
State Bureau of Juvenile Research
Cabinet split over Alaska policy shocks Harding trip
President Harding faces a cabinet rift over how to govern Alaska with Dr. Hubert Work favoring unified Interior Department control and Henry Wallace resisting ceding forestry reserves. The dispute echoes past Ballinger Pinchot tensions as Alaska development hinges on centralized authority and timely access for settlers and miners.
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Hubert Work
Interior
Continental
United States
Washington
Department of the Interior
Henry C. Wallace
Agriculture
Ballinger- Puchot
Wallace
Albert 3
Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Harding
Work
International News Service Today
Geome
Interior Department
Ha ‘F Fela
Agricultural Department
Department of Agriculture
Forestry Bureau
Miners Demand Big Wage Increase In Opening Talks
The impending anthracite wage talks in Atlantic City open with miners seeking a 20 percent raise and a $2 daily increase for all, plus reforms on hourly rates, eight hour shifts, and tool provisions. John L. Lewis pushes for open press access amid secretive operator stance.
Chorus Girls Visit City on Long Hike
Three show girls walking from New York to Los Angeles paused briefly in the city. Verne Sage Jean Gibson and Margaret Sage travel for pleasure claiming they are "buying the time of their lives." A crippled woman died after a fall in Newark on July third.
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New York
Los Angeles
Verne Sage
Tanserine
Jean Gibson
Margaret Sage
Verne
Murray's
Newark
Mery Porter
Edna Marsh 7 Hit by Auto at Bath Street Corner
Seven year old Edna Marsh daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Marsh of 237 Bath Street ran in front of a car at Bath Street and Lake Avenue after stepping from a street car. She suffered severe bruises to the shoulder elbow and hip and a knee injury but was judged not seriously hurt after treatment by a physician.
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Edna Marsh
Ernest March
Bath Street
Lake Avenue
Tom Dager
Elytia Construction Co
Gas well contract let for Murray ridge site
County commissioners awarded the gas well drilling contract to Herbert F. Smith of Howe Street for a site at the county home on Murray ridge. They hope for a strong flow to aid local supply and savings in kitchen and baking room.
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Murray Ridge
Herbert F. Smith
Howe Street
Papal Encyclical Aims at Catholic Soldiers Abroad
London reporting on a New Leader article says Pope Pius XI plans an encyclical threatening action against any Catholic soldier who bears arms outside his homeland. Vatican sources say the encyclical will address purely moral statements and is to be issued tomorrow.
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London
Rome
Vatican
Observation Balloon Explodes at McCook Field in Storm
An observation balloon at McCook Field exploded and caught fire during a severe electrical storm at 1 30 this afternoon. Officials said no crew were in the basket and initial casualty reports were denied. Static electricity is suspected, with possible lightning involvement.
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Dayton
McCook Field
Fifty Thousand British Dock Hands Strike in London
London workers walk out in mass action halting port operations. About eighteen thousand dockers in London and fifty thousand across English ports refuse to work, threatening food shortages and rising prices. Railway staff may join, and a government inquiry into wage cuts is demanded.
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London
Rail Untas
Rites Friday for Avon Auto Victim Loretta Weerec
Avon July 6 Funeral services for Loretta Weerec will be held at Marys church at Ave met era ow o'clock. She died at St Josephs hospital Lo-Tain from an auto accident Wednesday.
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Mins
Loretta Weerec
Way
St. Joseph's Hospital
Lo- Tain
Mary's Church
Aves
Lemetrew
Lowden Warns On Federal Constitution Amendments
Frank D. Lowden former governor of Illinois voices concern over open amendment era to the federal constitution. Speaking at Covington near the Kentucky election, he warns that rapid moves toward centralization threaten states rights. He pledges to resist the trend if elected.
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Frank D. Lowden
Mimois
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