Railroad executives back wage data committee plan
Washington date Feb 10 the committee of railroad executives offered cooperation to Director General Hines for a data gathering panel on the wage problem. They stressed the value of expediting the wage issue. Washington Feb 19 the wage provisions in the redrafted reform bill were highlighted as central to today’s talks between Hines and 25 leading railroad executives.
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Railroad Wage Talks Probe Union Stand in Detroit Meeting
Detroit February 19 executives of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes met to discuss wages and possible independent action. Washington February 19 protesters plan to send letters to the President and Director-General Hines over wage provisions of the railroad bill, with AF of L and railroad union officials framing the approach.
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Hines
Detroit
Mich
Brotherhood of Maintenance Way
Washington, D. C
American Federation of Labor
Federation
U S Soldiers' Bodies Will Be Brought Home
Washington February 19 The War Department announced that bodies of American soldiers buried in England and in France will soon begin arriving in the United States Seventeen bodies have been disinterred in English cemeteries and are ready for shipment This marks the first homeward movement besides those returned last November from Archangel
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Washington,d. C
England
France
War Department
Archangel
Canada or out of league if amendment goes
Arthur Meighen argues in Winnipeg that either Canada or the United States would withdraw from the League of Nations under the Learoot reservation. He says Canada would insist on its right to the place and that membership without voting power would be a sham. He warns the signs are not reassuring.
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Canada
United States
League of Nations
Senate
Arthur Meighen
Interior
Board of Trade
League
Minster Meighen
Deschanel urges France to face its economic needs
President Deschanel told the Senate and Chamber of Deputies that France must clearly explain its diplomatic military economic and financial situation to the people and call on citizens to provide their fair share of support to the government.
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Paris
President Deschanel Vn
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
S. S. New York Returns to Commercial Service
New York February 19. The American line steamship New York, veteran of two wars, resumes commercial service. Fresh from shipyards she sails today under Captain W. J. Roberts with passengers and cargo to Plymouth Cherbourg and Southampton.
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Southampton
Senator Sherman Lampoons Ford and His Lizzie
In Washington on February 19 Senator Sherman attacked Henry Ford and his works. He accused Ford of knowing everything instantly from birth and of creating a financial menagerie while using congressional aid for political ends in Michigan. He mocked Ford’s automobile as an international pest.
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Senate
Sherman
Ford
Michigan
Edigel
Turkish Matter 19 Unsettled Despite Allied Talks
Paris february report says Great Britain resists allowing Turks to stay in Constantinople and opposes their control of the capital. The Allied Supreme Council has reservations on the plan, awaiting Premier Millerand’s return to London for a decision. France favors ousting the Turkish government from Constantinople.
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Supreme Council
Constantinople
Great Britain
Petit Parisienne
Millerand
London
Turkish situation dominates Adriatic talks in London
The Turkish issue remains central as discussions on the Adriatic situation continue in London. Peace terms including retention of the Turks in Constantinople stir strong parliamentary opposition to a settlement without Commons reference. The Allied Supreme Council resumed debate on the Turkish question today.
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Adriatic
Lonon
Constantinople
Supreme Council
Rioting in Genoa as workers clash with troops
London reports serious fighting between workmen and troops in Genoa's industrial region. Many casualties occurred as factory owners announced temporary wage reductions and workers refused the proposal, halting production at the plants.
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London
Genoa
Rome
Revolutionary forces capture Vladivostok in bold uprising
Vladivostok reports a thousand strong revolutionary force using artillery and machine guns seized government buildings and disarmed over fifty loyal officers. By ten o clock the city was under revolutionary control with units pledging allegiance to Zemstvo authority and thousands parading with red flags. Three trains of Nikolsk revolutionists arrived in the afternoon to further support the uprising.
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Rozanoff
Maritime
Kolchak
Offihére
Zemstvo
Nikolsk
Parcel Post Extension Urged By Post Office Official
Washington Feb 19 Additional replies from farmers to post office questionnaires show growing dissatisfaction. Blakelee Fourth Assistant Postmaster General urged extending parcel post facilities to bring consumers and producers into closer contact, in a letter to Senator Dial made public today.
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Washington, D.C
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Blakelee
Senate Post Office Committee
Senator Dial
Blakslee
Informal Republican Meetings in New York Precede Carnegie Hall Event
New York informals among Republican state leaders press toward an unofficial convention at Carnegie Hall. Delegates seem inclined to go uninstructed at the national convention. The state named four big delegates: Hu is Root, Wadsworth, Calder and William Boyce Thompson.
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Carnegie Hall
Hithu Root
Seiktors
Wadsworth
Calder
William Boyce Thompson
Fess Proposes Court Defined Disability For President
Representative Fess of Ohio announced a plan for a constitutional amendment to have the Supreme Court determine presidential disability and to declare it by a concurrent resolution of Congress. The amendment would allow the Vice President to assume the duties of the office.
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Washington, D. C
Fess
Ohio
Republican Congressional Committee
Congress
Charleston Naval Mess Hall Burned
Fire destroyed the mess hall and galley of the naval hospital in Charleston at an early hour. Local insurgents from the hills paraded through the city, while Allied troops largely consisted of Americans Japanese and Czecho-Slovaks and kept a neutral stance amid revolutionary occupation.
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Charleston
Naval Hospital
Martens outlines Soviet changes before Senate committee
Ludwig Martens testified on Soviet reforms including priest voting rights and end of press censorship. He said religion would be made free and that groups criticizing the Soviet could publish. He argued the majority may use force against a suppressed minority.
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Washington,d. C
Ludwig Marten
Senate
Wate Ellis
Martens
Ellis
Treaty Fight in Senate Drags on Amid Compromise Talks
Washington D C Feb 19 leaders in the treaty debate said the controversy would be allowed to drag on while the Senate handles railroad and other important legislative business. Negotiations are continuing informally as the stalemate persists.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Labor Must Meet Capital Half Way Says Howard Figg
New York report from February 19 notes Howard H. Figg, assistant US attorney general, speaking at the National Dry Goods Association convention. He lists six reasons for high living costs, cites profiteering by some dealers, and urges labor to cooperate by extending work time while preserving wages.
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Howard H. Figg
United States
National Dry Goods Association
Figg
Austria abandons tobacco monopoly plan
Vienna report says negotiations between the Austrian government and a Franco Dutch syndicate to sell the tobacco monopoly have been abandoned, according to financial circles in the city.
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Austria
Vienna
Germans Pleased at Entente Plans for Extradition
Berlin reports a foreign office official stating Entente recognition of Germanys view on the impracticality of extraditing war crimes defendants. He warned internal chaos would follow and said the German cabinet position was strengthened by the London Supreme Council decision.
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Entente
Germany
Foreign Office
Supreme Council
London
Davidson to England for major financial ventures
London reports Henry P. Davidson of the J. P. Morgan Company plans a European visit to promote important financial and commercial enterprises. The Pall Mall Gazette says one goal is a great money combine to finance large national and private efforts in Europe.
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J. P. Morgan and Company
London
Europe
Henry P Davidson
J .P. Morgan Company
Pall Mall Gazette
Sweden Considers Joining League of Nations
Stockholm February 19. The government has submitted proposals that Sweden join the League of Nations along with supporting documents. The package outlines arguments for and against membership and notes concerns over the United States failure to ratify the peace treaty, while hoping Washington will approve soon.
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Stockholm
Sweden
League of Nations
Rikedag
United States
Washington
Newberry Navy Movie Under Grill Today
Grand Rapids report says testimony in the Newberry elections conspiracy trial details Our Navy film actions. Arthur Heyman identifies Thomas P. Phillips as requesting the Dawn Master Play Company circulate the film in the state and testifies to payments totaling $3 400 for the work.
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Newberry Navy Movie
Grand Rapids, Mich
Newberry
York Park
Arthur Heyman
Dawn Master Play Company
Thomas P. Phillips
Newberry Publicity Staff
Dawn Company
Wilson Completes Adriatic Note in Two Hours
Washington February 19 The President finished his reply to the Allied Supreme Council on the Adriatic issue in two hours and sent it to Acting Secretary Polk for dispatch. The note reportedly addresses the Council point by point and adheres to the February tenth position.
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Supreme Council
Washington, D. C
Polk
Wilson
Lette
Waterfront back to normal as thousands return to work
On February 19 in New Orleans the waterfront largely resumed normal operations after about three thousand union coastwise longshoremen and freight handlers went back to work, ending the latest labor slowdown.
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New Orleans
Union
Jenkins Case in Supreme Court
Mexico City February 19 The Jenkins case involving W O Jenkins United States consul agent to Puebla is before the Supreme Court amid a jurisdiction dispute. Jenkins authorization to act provisionally as consular agent has been revoked and he faces expulsion if convicted.
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Puebla
W.O. Jenkins
United States
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Supreme Court
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German Ship Sale Enjoined by Court Action
A temporary injunction halted the sale of thirty former German liners offered by the Shipping Board. Justice Bailey of the District of Columbia Supreme Court granted the order. Shipping Board Chairman Payne planned an immediate DOJ appeal. Hearst was expected to post a bond to cover potential losses from idle ships.
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