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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
1
Wholesale resignations of Chicago firefighters threaten city services as unions push for higher pay. About 700 quit, with 1800 expected to follow. city officials warn of possible drafting. Arbitration set to attempt settlement while the budget bumps salaries across departments, matching demands for raises.
In Albany on April 1 five Socialist assemblymen from New York City were expelled for disloyalty after a lengthy hearing. The votes were 116 to 23 for Waldman and Claessens, 116 to 28 for Solomon, and 116 to 40 for DeWitt, with Orr also expelled. No special elections can be held due to the timing.
The new wage agreement raises pay for more than 490000 miners by twenty seven percent in a two year contract that takes effect immediately. John N. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers, says efforts will begin on a satisfactory adjustment for the anthracite sector. T. L. Lewis of the New River Coal Association notes limited production gains until operators secure adequate car supplies.
VLADIVOSTOK March 12 All Siberia will be put under the soviet form of government on April 1 when the communist party opens its convention at Nikolsk near here. Two thirds of eastern districts have developed since the revolutionary regime took control and authorities have waited for Bolshevik officials from Moscow.
Labor organizations in Tokyo consider a joint May Day observance marking the first such event in Japan. Leaders anticipate a gigantic street demonstration to voice grievances and demands. The Japanese Socialists will participate in the event.
Chicago April 1 federal mediators tried to settle a dispute with 900 striking stock handlers at the stock yards company. No cattle are being used and plants operate on stock slaughtered before the strike. Fresh meat prices rise with pork loins wholesale at 33 cents per pound up 5 cents. Lard and prov isions advance as Chicago butchers import beef and pork from St Paul and Cincinnati. Other packing centers prepare to take over as stock shipments head there. No receipts or quotations on livestock in Chicago.
In Louis Ma, April 1, Joseph Woodlock faced trial on a first degree murder charge for killing Ursula Broderick’s stepfather. Ursula, 14, testified of repeated assault attempts by Woodlock. she says she killed Woodlock to defend her honor. The mother Lillian Woodlock and the girl are accused of plotting the murder.
Berlin strike action stalls as workmen refuse new terms and protest violent unrest splinters the Ruhr region. Germany grants 48 hours for the Ruhr workers to decide on the ultimatum while negotiations continue in Berlin and Paris observers anticipate possible settlement without wider fighting.
Mrs. Elmer Cowart told doctors in Elk City Oklahoma that she fatally hurt her five children early today and then slashed her own throat. The tragedy occurred at the Cowarts tent home near Elk City. The father found the bodies on returning from work. In a written statement she blamed sickness and loneliness for unbalancing her mind as she admitted using an axe knife and razor on the children.
The Globe says Jan MacPherson, chief secretary for Treland, has resigned and will likely be replaced by Sir Hamar Green Wood, under-secretary for home affairs. A railroad strike on Southern Pacific de Mexico divisions is expected to begin tomorrow per Governor de la Huerta’s communique to railroad officials.
Washington April 1 Organized Labor backs tighter regulation of the packing industry. AFL counsel Jackson Hy Ralston presented a bill to the House agricultural committee to separate packers from stockyard ownership and prevent salting other products. Henry Sterling urged Congress to curb large capital aggregations. The committee waits for Attorney General Palmer to explain the consent decree against packers.
The Italian government notified Gabriele d Annunzio it will accept Wilson’s Adriatic settlement. An envoy was sent to Fiume to relay the decision to the insurgent commander. Also US troops on the Rhine remain under the president’s orders as commander in chief. Population figures from the census show Pine Bluff 19280 and Manistee 9690 with respective increases and decreases.
In Copenhagen March 31 a first step toward the general strike ordered by Danish trades unions in protest against King Christian’s dismissal of Zahle’s ministry was taken as Copenhagen bakers quit work and refused to return Thursday. Stokers on four Dutch steamers also struck while negotiations aim for settlement proceed. Zahle party urged meetings Saturday to seek agreement on an electoral bill, with government consent to the parliament’s consolation and immediate passage hoped to satisfy the unions.
Front dispatches note only artillery duels and light skirmishes on the Polish front with the Bolsheviks withdrawing units from near Odessa. In Washington, Robert Lansing told the Georgia Democratic committee he is not a candidate and requests his name be kept off the presidential primary ballots.
From Honolulu dispatches the two day clash near Nikolnevsk in Siberia reportedly left seven hundred Japanese troops and civilians dead. Russian and Japanese forces fought at Nikolaevsk at the mouth of the Amur with reports of forty Russian deaths and eighty wounded. The article notes possible spread of guerrilla warfare if Japan evacuates and details shifting Japanese policy toward Manchuria and Mongolia.
In Denver on April 1 plasterers were granted a wage increase to $10 per day effective this morning affecting about 20 workers. Carpenters were denied any raise to $9 and declared a strike. existing contracts keep the old plasterer rate of $8 until new building contracts begin.
The United States will not be represented when the peace council meets at St Remo, Italy this morning. State Department officials said the country has not been officially represented since Under Secretary Frank L. Polk and other delegates departed Paris last December.
Two armed men in a motor car held up Swift and Company messengers on the 23rd street viaduct in Kansas City this morning and escaped with a handbag containing $45,840. The robbery was reported from Missouri.
In Steubenville Ohio on April 2 1923 Mike Onunck a Russian was charged with killing Frances South whose body was found near Adena Ohio last Thursday He was arrested in Ramsey Ohio yesterday News sparked excitement in Adena but authorities fear no lynching attempt against the prisoner.
Tokyo cables report Emperor Yeboah of Japan is seriously ill with senitica at his winter villa in Hayama near Yokohama. Physicians say he shows symptoms consistent with a spinal ailment. The report comes via a Japanese language newspaper.
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