A Pen Picture of Li Normalcy in Hard Times
A writer laments widespread unemployment in Kansas City, noting about half the laboring class out of work across factory, packing, and service jobs. He contrasts starved Mexican families, inadequate charity, and grim living conditions with dwindling wages, pawnshop takeovers, and reduced production at packing houses, calling for attention to the crisis and its human cost.
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Kansas City
R. A
Kansas City Star
Mexico
Santa Fe RB. R. Co
Santa Fes
Europe
Red Cross
R. R
Union
New York
Australia
New Orleans
Workers Demand Evidence Before Trading With Russia
A rallying call to labor and the public criticizes capitalist opposition to trade with Soviet Russia. It urges workers to provide evidence to Secretary Hughes that they reject sabotage and support opening relations, citing unemployment and class conflict while noting a small restaurant offering inexpensive meals to hungry workers.
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Soviet
Russia
Wilson
Harding
Hughes
U. S
Loyd George
In the Bread Line. A Winter Morning at the Mission
The narrator joins a cold bread line outside a City Mission on St. Clair at 14th Street. Hungry unemployed men, diverse in age and origin, endure wind and cold as a bare bun and coffee are served. a preacher and organist lead a brief service before patrons depart into a snowy day.
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Elmer T. Allison
Charity
Lake Erie
City Mission
St. Clair
14Th Street
Mission
House of God
Jesus
Oh Warren Stop Your Joking On Russia Trade
Moritz J. Lobe critiques U S policy toward Soviet Russia and warns that Harding and allies use vaudeville rhetoric to defend private property and free labor. He scathingly questions the logic of tying trade to capitalist guarantees and laments unemployment and social distress.
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Russia
Moritz J. Lobe
Harding
United States
Wilson
Democracy
Warren
Jesus
Germany
Italy
Europe
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Gertrude C. Harmon
White House
Soviet Russia
Lityinoff
Mr. Hughes
Gompers
Claus
White
Congress
Cleveland
Ohio
State of Ohio
Cuyahoga
Toiler Publishing Association
Clark Ave
Walter Bronst
Walnut
Elisabeth Bertram
Kingston
Honda
P. W. Biferth
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