War Labor Policies Board outlines worker rights and aims
The War Labor Policies Board states no wage or condition rulings yet while pledging workers' rights to organize and bargain. supports union standards, living wages, 8 hours, and equal pay for equal work. It explains wage stability, then details allied bombing evolution, potash shortages, platinum use in war needs, and household refrigeration guidance.
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Committee On Public Information
Washington
War Labor Policies Board
National War Labor Board
Felix Frankfurter
Labor Wage Adjustment Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Arsenal and Navy Yard Standards
Cantonment Adjustment Board
War News Review of the Great War Progress and Quick Strikes
Britain reports Meteren captured in Flanders as Allied thrusts push the Marne salient toward Reims. American casualties rise while French, British, and Italian troops drive German forces back with heavy losses and strategic gains. U-boats sink ships off Cape Cod and the Irish coast as peace term rumors spread and Russia's czarist death is confirmed.
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Flanders
Meteren
Cape Cod
Edward W. Pickard
America
Soissons-Reims Salient
Foch
The
Aisne
Chateau Thierry
Soissons
Neuilly St
Oulchy
Jaulgonne
Barry
Passy
Marne
Reims
Ville-en-Tardenois
Fismes
Ludendorff
Fere-en- Tardenois
Vesle
Aisnie
von Boehm
Ruprecht
Bavaria
Paris
London
Aisne-Marne
Allédon
Rome
Italy
Piave
Adriatic
Albania
Austria
Atlantic Seaboard
Justicia
Europe
Allies seize Fismes and push German retreat to Aisne
Allied forces press the German withdrawal between the Vesle and Aisne rivers as Americans and French take Fismes, capture thousands of prisoners, and force a northern bank crossing. French advances along the Vesle cut German lines near Rheims while La Neuvillette reaches to loosen grip on Rheims.
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Aisne
Vesle
Ling
Rheims
Paris
General Pershing
Fismes
Germany
Soissons
Trops
Freshet
la Neuvillette
Speedy Enactment of Draft Extension Measure
Washington moves to extend the selective service act to all men ages 18 to 45. The bill will be introduced in both houses during the semi weekly recess, sent to the Senate and House Military Affairs committees chaired by Senator Chamberlain and Representative Dent, with swift action expected after August reassemblies.
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Washington
War Department
Congress
Congressional
House
Senate
Chamberlain
Representative Dent
Dent
German U-Boat Makes Foray in Nova Scotian Waters
Three American schooners were sunk by German submarines off Seal Island in Yarmouth county Nova Scotia. The crews landed on the coast. The submarine commander told an American skipper he had sunk more American schooners from Boston and Gloucester recently, but did not name the vessels.
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Halifax
N. S
Seal Island
Yarmouth County
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotian
Boston
Gloucester
Pershing Awarded Grand Cross of Legion of Honor
Paris confirms General J. Pershing commander in chief of American expeditionary forces in France has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor by the French government. Premier Clemenceau telegrammed Pershing the government confers the dignity.
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Paris
J. Pershing
France
Legion of Honor
Clemenceau
Pershing
Reach Republic
Légion of Honor
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WAR Labor Board
Glimerton
Allied Flying Corps
Karlsruhe
United States
Bureau of Markets
Department of Agriculture
Charles L. Parsons
Bureau of Mines
Department of the Interior
Doctor Parsons
Russia
Food Administration
Gilmerton
Immedate
Army
Oil Conservation
United States Fuel Administration
H. B. Miles
Council of National Defense
Daniels
H. B. Allen
Harry Koppel
William H. Kane
United States Naval Reserve Forces
Austin Foss
Harvard
Victor Vandermerck
Avre
Montdidier
Wilson
Japan
Tokyo
Moscow
Murman
Horvath
Siberia
Ukraine
Roumania
Spain
West Front
Belgium
Balkans
Gibraltar
Suez Canal
UNS Racing For
Banks OF Aisne
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