The Professor and the Whale Bone Dig
Professor Sweetzer, a small pale naturalist, arrives in Connecticut after a whale backbone is found in a gravel pit. He praises the bones and chaperones a dig at Widow Webb’s farm, while local suitors plot, debate hands, and witness his shifting charm toward the widow.
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Sweetzer
New England
Connecticut
Rodan
Ife
Pram Stebbins
Tiram
Arank Notting
Eck
Witam
Widder Webb
Hiram
Siram
Hiram Stebbins
While
Physeter Macrocephalus
Notice to Unions Seeks Local Labor News and Notices
Labor Argus invites local unions to mail news and notices for publication. Secretaries should send readable copy to the office by Tuesday each week, printed on the paper’s own sheet.
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Labor Argus
Special Labor Argus Offers and Union Meetings
Urgent request extends the Grid Offer to Christmas Day with credit for new and old subscribers. Reports of Painters, Layer, and Bartenders union meetings scheduled Friday evening, Tuesday night, and Sunday attendance noted. Union members urged to subscribe to The Labor Argus and support organized labor in Charleston and beyond.
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Painters Union
Inter State Conference Fails to Forge Agreement
A meeting in Indianapolis between coal operators and miners from Illinois Indiana Ohio and western Pennsylvania adjourned without a deal on reestablishing the interstate pact. T L Lewis acting head of the Mine Workers presided. President Mitchell is recovering. A renewed effort is planned for December 14 to pursue another interstate agreement.
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Indianapolis
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvan
Todent
T. L. Lewis
Mitchell
Mistie
Let Us All Join In
A reader letter by J Me in Mine r Journal urges a national goodwill offering to President John Mitchell upon his resignation and handover of the gavel, calling for wide local participation across the United States. The piece frames the gesture as a responsive civic duty and a memorial of leadership.
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Miner Journal
John Mitchell
United States
Unity Rally Asks All Workers To Support Mr John Mitchell
Leaders urge miners printers plasterers carpenters and all union and non union workers nationwide to contribute a mite. Funds to be presented when he leaves the gavel at the convention hall.
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John Mitchell
Labor Union Members Subscribe to Local Trade Paper
Local Union 132 Carpenters and Joiners of America in Washington D C voted to subscribe the body to the Trades Unionists local labor paper at a rate of 1 6 cents per member. The move, praised by editors and aligned with U S labor union policy, aims to strengthen organization and support labor papers amid opposition from open shop advocates.
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Carpenters and Joiners of America
Washington
D.C
Trades Unionists
Sam de Nedrey
Charleston
Torms
U. S. of L
Labo
Labor press under attack by cheap politicians
A fragment from a labor union letter denounces attacks on the labor press by local politicians and a West Virginia group. It blames the Victor Record for worker harm and warns that those who try to destroy labor press become enemies of the working people and state.
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Diditer Labor Aru
Che
Victor
Col
James Peabody
Virginia
West
Five Thousand White Girls Lose Jobs to Japanese Competition in California
California labor statistics warn that five thousand white girls have been displaced from waitress and domestic work by Japanese competition. Agents report workers are forced into lower paid or less desirable roles as jobs vanish and inequality grows.
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California
Eomissioner
Smithers News Letter Praises Local Union Efforts and WV Mining Community
The Smithers letter celebrates Local Union 660 growth and successful miners’ committee work in adjusting grievances. It praises Richard Reynolds for collecting initiation fees, warns against West Virginia conditions, and urges joining UMWA to avoid girded labor. It notes illness of President Mitchell and offers sympathy while urging ledger updates and active membership.
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Rorror Lanor Angus
Ant
Richard Reynolds
John Nugent
New River
Cabin Creek
West Virginia
United Ming Workers Union
Light
Tom
Dranuary
Mitchell
Sy DE Smithers
W.V. Thicker
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