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Newspaper
The Evening News
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1887
Page
3
Twenty five Protestant Episcopal clergy joined the Church Association for the Advancement of the Interests of Labor. Speech by Father Huntington urged sympathy with unprivileged classes and that wealth should not define greatness. Resolution adopted. clerics signed the membership roll.
A Vine Street business petition asks the city to abate a nuisance fence on the Altna Insurance Building. An engineer is ordered to remove it and related street restrictions are noted. An assessment ordinance for Academy Avenue tax passes.
The Country People's Patriotic Union organizes around Fairview Pennsylvania to urge Congress to nationalize railroad operations. It argues current railroading harms price fairness and aims to set fixed traffic rates benefiting East markets and farmers, with J. C. Perkins as president.
The James I. Regan Printing Company failed yesterday with liabilities over 125000. Judgments by confession were entered for Union Trust Company 16744 01 and seven in favor of James J. West publisher of the Evening Mail for 44783 22 total 60517 29. The firm employed four hundred workers and did a 350000 year business. Assets are said to be much more.
A New York World report contends that the Cat OU Trust is set to join the Standard Oil Trust, enlarging its already inexhaustible powers. The piece hints at varied forms of incorporation and evolving trust influence across industries.
The Ohio Union Labor Party endorses its Cincinnati platform of February 22 1887 arguing that production and distribution are controlled by syndicates. It calls for abolition of the fee system official salaries tied to service revocation of corporate charters mortgage taxation state printed schoolbooks state banking deposits state regulation of margins futures and equal corporate taxation.
The platform urges a graduated land tax on large estates and opening Oklahoma to homesteaders, purchase of unoccupied Indian lands, and limits on corporate land ownership. It calls for public control of irrigation, a people owned transportation system, and a national monetary system with coinage of silver alongside gold, plus postal savings banks and debt repayment. It condemns interest bearing bonds and supports reduced loan interest.
The document outlines demands for soldier justice, currency parity with gold, graduated income tax, direct Senate election, exclusion of Asian competition, prohibition of private armed guards, universal suffrage, temperance reform, and a call to amend the platform on Transition Money and Income. Colonel Winston introduces a resolution to adopt planks with adjustments.
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