Textile Workers to Quit Union Reach Yet Not Reached
An agreement remains unsigned between mill owners and about 700 000 textile workers regarding employee announcements. The dispute centers on conditions and terms of employment across the industry.
01 Feb 1919
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Newspaper
Warren Evening Times
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1919
Page
1
An agreement remains unsigned between mill owners and about 700 000 textile workers regarding employee announcements. The dispute centers on conditions and terms of employment across the industry.
New York and Boston report looming nationwide walkout by 700,000 textile workers over proposed 48 hour weeks starting Monday. Leaders forecast mass strikes unless mills grant shorter hours. large mills united under national associations resist. Lawrence and Lowell actions mirror broader dispute with state arbiters rejected by workers.
Madrid reports the royalist movement widening across Portugal with wireless patches broadcasting monarchist support. Royalist troops advancing south of Guarda proclaim the monarchy as Guania, a fortified town in Beira, Portugal, lies on the Seda Estella about seven miles northeast of Coimbra.
Washington police baffled by a triple murder in a fashionable north Seattle area 923 Katara Ima Road tied to a Chinese educational mission. Victims include Dr. Theodore T. Wong and two George Washington University students C I Hsie and Bei Zu Wu. A fourth Chinese man missing after answering a door call remains at large. Police consider robbery unlikely and pursue a possible employer robbing pattern or a lone assailant amid untouched papers and a discharged 33 caliber revolver. Br. Wong's daughter attends University of Michigan.
Washington state Senator Thomas of Colorado warned that national bankruptcy and revolution loom if Congress keeps lavish spending. He urged a sober look at the nation’s purse and warned taxpayers face growing debt service as government expenses rise. The exchange came as debate on appropriations continued in Washington.
A Bombay dispatch reports the cotton strike resolved when workers lay down in front of shops, blocking entry as crowds watched in sympathy. The employers surrendered unconditionally, following the workers threat to die for access.
Washington reports that American soldiers in Paris are not responsible for a crime wave. General Pershing cables Secretary of War Baker to deny the charges. He urges strong refutation to inform the American people.
Paris Feb 1 1919 US stance on league of nations and war responsibility discussed with President Wilson and the American delegation. No final statements issued as talks hinge on the fate of captured vessels to be allocated to smaller nations, the league, or new policies.
Thirty survivors from the wrecked American steamer Piave were landed at Dover and thirty more at another port, with 29 others believed aboard. The Piave, broken up by heavy seas, is a total loss. German and Swiss papers discuss neutral trade bases as Germany readies postwar business with allies. Heroes aboard tugboats helped rescue the lifeboat occupants.
London February 1 A troop ship carrying 2000 troops went aground on Bembridge Rocks near the Isle of Wight. Tugs faced heavy seas but crews pressed the rescue. At latest reports soldiers were being removed from the stranded vessel.
Berlin Feb 1 Over 200000 persons are out of work due to coal shortage and strikes. The coal famine is critical with factories idling and more workers expected to lose jobs. Government pushes rural relocation while Spar tacus riots stir agitation across the country. Brandenburg soldiers council seeks to bar army reform and dismiss ministers Scheidemann and Noske. German actions from Libau to Kovno hint at renewed activity against Poles and Bolsheviks.
Washington February 1 details of how Albert Ballin friend of William Hohenzollern and Hamburg-America director killed himself with poison are reported from Zurich via wired information to the French high commission. Ballin asked 50 minutes to gather papers as revolutionaries entered his office. he was given five minutes. He seized poison, was carried to a hospital by his secretaries, and died in ten minutes in great pain.
Washington February 1 Republicans charge that powerful financial interests are conspiring to reduce the 1929 wheat crop price guarantee to a scrap of paper. Representative Steenerson demanded an immediate congressional investigation into the Democratic majority's failure to pass adequate enforcement legislation and backed the move with a resolution for inquiry.
General Edward F. Glenn of the 83rd Division states Pontaven Camp at Brest is undergoing gradual sanitary improvements. He reports an official inspection found the camp upgrading despite prior charges of unsanitary conditions. The remark comes as he returns from Brest via Ohio and addresses concerns raised about the embarkation site.
Washington Feb 1 Rear Admiral Archibald H Scales has been named superintendent of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis replacing Read Admiral Edward W Berle who seeks active sea duty. Scales serves at the Great Lakes naval training station and will assume duties at Annapolis this afternoon.
The West area forecasts fair in town early with a Lake Fire warning. Snow is expected near Lake area tonight. Sunday will bring increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer temperatures across the region with light winds.
Washington report says President Wilson presses for open covenants of peace reached openly and publicly, with Senator James Hamilton Lewis and Senator Johnson of California stressing publicity as crucial to the success of his peace program. Senate debate noted as supportive of an open door policy.
Captain Edward A. Smith heads an Army Intelligence inquiry at Rockford Illinois into Lieut Wiley H Dohner recently discharged and alleged to have accepted 600 dollars from four enlisted men. He is said to be in Detroit with potential military or civil charges.
New York Feb 1 Raymond Daley son of a Rochester banker and Marcus Bassett of Manhattan were arraigned in Brooklyn court charged with stealing George Stanton of Brooklyn's automobile. They were arrested three days after leaving the car in Bridgeport on a garage owner's tip. Daley denied being Raymond Daley until a district attorney check proved the identity. They were remanded for sentence Monday.
Exclusive cable report from Berlin says ship owners and the sailors union agreed on a wage of 220 marks monthly for fetching food from the United States. The amount equates to about 45 dollars per month.
Exclusive cable from Berlin reports Lieut Rogalla, a German parliamentarian, killed in East Prussia. He died after being eaten by rifle butts following conflicts at the peace table.
Washington reports the U S Army has surpassed one million discharges. General March says total discharges reach 1,013,448 with 61,237 officers. 1,596,000 assigned for demobilization, including 1,243,000 who served domestically and 113,000 overseas. Casualty breakdown for divisions noted, with comparisons to other divisions.
Boston Pep 1 The body of Nathanial C Goodwin famous comedian who died in New York after a physical breakdown will rest in the family lot in Milton cemetery beside his brother Edward Goodwin well known tragedian who died ten years ago Arrangements for the interment and for private funeral services at the home of Goodwins parents in Roxbury probably Monday were completed today.
Paducah Ky February 1 Home guards were ordered to the jail housing Gus Nolan a Black man charged with confronting a white woman authorities said they did not expect a mob to demonstrate despite reports a crowd of excited men planned to march on the jail last night guards were summoned to prevent trouble
Exclusive: In Amsterdam on February 1 an ambitious plan to purchase Dutch newspapers to sway peace delegates toward Hungary collapsed as the financial agents involved in Holland begin returning home.
New York City hosts the nineteenth annual auto show tonight at Madison Square Garden and the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory. Dealers will fill the exhibits for two weeks, displaying models from affordable roadsters to luxury palace cars, with both gasoline and electric types featured. The popularity of closed cars for year round use is reflected as many manufacturers show this type.
Berlin reports a vorwärts dispatch stating a general parliamentarian was killed. The Socialist organ Vosch Vorwaerts condemns a peace conference without German delegates as likely to yield a dictatorial and unjust peace.
Copenhagen reports eleven sailors died when the Norwegian fishing vessel Sunn struck a mine off the Norwegian coast today. The disaster left the crew of eleven unable to escape the sinking boat as the explosion occurred near the coast.
Feb 1 reports say the dockyard strike ended with a substantial wage increase for striking workers in London. Soldiers with fixed bayonets guarded Glasgow streets to maintain order as Rosyth’s shutdown was settled and unrest appeared elsewhere. Rev Edward F Gibbons, Buffalo pastor, named Bishop of Albany. Vienna mobs pillaged amid unemployment protests. Czech troops occupy Austrian Silesia after defeating Poles. Captain and crew of the stranded Piave landed at Ramsgate.
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