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Milk Wagon Drivers End Cincinnati Strike With Arbitration
In Cincinnati on November 15 1924 1200 milk wagon drivers returned to work after agreeing to arbitration of wage cuts proposed by dairy men seeking a 10 day process They opposed a 20 percent cut but accepted 410 percent reductions Both sides signed the accord Violent incidents followed the strike and a Thanksgiving meeting of Old Glory was announced with Lattle Opfer winning the penny match and refreshments served after the lecture
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Cincinnati
Fred Keightly
United States Department of Labor
Albert Archer
Wilmont Long
Lewia Runals
Cyril Reinders
Stewart Alden Hopkins
Chaplin
Blanche Spicer
Frank Godridge
Pearl Opfer
Charles Yates
Cerea
Marian Sanders
Flora
Gertrude Chamberlin
Pomona
Emily Buckingham
Mary Bober
Darius Holcomb
Fred Prosser
Old Glory
Lattle Opfer