Steel wages rise for laborers as industry predicts prosperity
United States Steel Corp boosts day labor pay by 20 percent starting September 1, affecting about 1,000 workers and 156,000 total on the payroll will gain 30 to 36 cents per hour. Independent firms likely to follow, signaling hoped for recovery amid prior cuts and wage reductions.
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United States
New York
United States Steel Corporation
James L. Farrell
Steel Corporation
Independent Steel Firms May Raise Wages Following U S Steel
James A Campbell head of Youngstown Sheet and Tube says the firm will match U S Steel with a 20 percent raise for day laborers starting September 1, with fair adjustments for other workers. Leaders of independents foresee a similar move impacting about 3000 workers in the Youngstown district.
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Youngstown
Ohio
James A. Campbell
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
United States Steel Corporation
President Harding cancels trip to Mooseheart
President Harding calls off his planned Mooseheart trip due to the ongoing industrial crisis. The White House says leaving Washington would be inadvisable during the current national situation.
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Washington
Harding
Mooseheart
White House
IOWA BANK CLOSES DOORS
Sheffield Iowa bank closes after failed collections. President L. Jd. Carhart states no depositor losses expected and promises reopening after financial readjustment to facilitate liquidation.
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Iowa Bank
Sheffield
Sheffield Bank
Ll. Jd. Carhart
Five Escaped Death In Alpine Fall At Geneva Fair
Five young climbers roped together without a guide slid from a 1000 foot Alpine ledge into the valley. Rescue teams reached them as others carried on with a rescue party. Soft snow cushioned the fall and all survived with only minor bruises.
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Geneva
Illinois and Indiana End Coal Strike Simultaneously
Illinois and Indiana miners reach agreements based on the Cleveland pact. About 90,000 bituminous workers return to wages from April 1, with mines rapidly restarting to avert winter fuel shortages. Railroads expect near normal service to move the coal nationwide.
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Chicnago
Illinois
Terre Haute
Indiana
Illnoois
Cleveland
State
Illnois
Germany Defends Prisons and Reparations Dilemma
Berlin reports Finance Minister Hermes signaled that pledges of Rhine forests and Ruhr wines cannot serve as German reparations guarantees. The German Society of Former POWs protested James W Gerard’s claim that Germany mistreated prisoners, while Morgenthau paused Austrian reorganization efforts to fix German difficulties first.
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Berlin
Financce
Hermes
Rhine
Ruhr
German National Society of
James W. Gerard
Germany
Nite Suprey
Gerard
London
Henry Morgenthau
Turkey
Morgenthau
Record of Remarkable Juvenile Exile to Siberia
One of the largest men alive, recently left Hungary for his father land to aid in farm labor. He is three years old, nine feet three inches tall and weighs 458 pounds, consuming more than four times the ordinary nourishment.
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Lreft
Hungary
Siberia
House Passes Tariff Measure Amid Party Split
The House approved the Ford ney McCumbey tariff measure by a 198 to 60 vote after a party dividing debate. Three Democrats Lazaro Louisiana Lee California and Campbell joined Republicans in favor of moving to conference. Campbell accused Democratic managers of colluding with importers to raise prices post enactment. Garner pressed Campbell on timing. Campbell offered no forecast.
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Repubeans
Iwo
Ways and Means Committee
Lazaro
Louisiana
Lee
California
Campbell
Catepbell
Ruies Committee
Garner
Texas
Ways and Weans
Insurance agent seized in death murder case in Denver
Denver police arrest Albert J. Shaw on murder charges linked to the death of Edna J. Skinner a Bloomington MI school teacher aged twenty two. Investigators say Shaw induced Skinner to buy an insurance policy naming him as beneficiary after a month long probe into the gasoline stove explosion death at Greeley Colorado.
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Denver
Colo
Albert J. Shaw
Greeley
Edna J. Skinner
Bloomington
Shaw
Lia
Deadlock in Hard Coal Wage Talks Continues
Philadelphia reports a deadlock between mine workers and operators over wages beyond April 1 as restoration to old rates remains agreed but a post April plan is unresolved. Southwest Conference in Kansas City seeks terms to restart production amid prior walkouts and prep work by managers and workers.
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Philadelphia
Fayette County
Smithfield
Southwest Coal Peace Scen
Kansas City
United Mine Workers of America
Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators’ Association
Southwest
Idle Fleet at New Orleans
Forty five vessels of the United States Shipping Board lie laid up in the Mississippi below New Orleans with a combined dead weight of 240 246 tons. An officer said ships are in first class condition overall with many needing only minor engine repairs. No effort is made to keep them ready for instant service as operations are unlikely soon.
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New Orleans
Tporty
United States Shipping Board
Mississippi River
Bord
Alure
250 RAIL CLERKS STRIKE FLAWS SHUT FREIGHT SERVICES
Salisbury reports 250 rail clerks strike causing passenger trains to be manned by company workers and freight to nearly halt through Spencer. The walkout is joined by two Spencer and Salisbury Southern offices clerks as disruption spreads. In Des Moines Rev. Charles Leseault, pastor of the French church in Earlham, Ia., dies in a crash involving a rural mail carrier.
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Salisbury
N. C
Brotherhood
Spencer
Southern
Des Moines
Charles Leseault
Earlham
Statesman G Leevland Dies in Christiania at Aug 23
Christiania Norway Aug 23 G Leevland former premier and minister of foreign affairs died here. For many years he was one of Norway's most distinguished statesmen.
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Christiania
Norway
G. Leevland
Seaplane Arrives in Nassau on South Atlantic Leg
Nassau Bahamas August 23 The American seaplane piloted by Lieutenant Hinton arriving here after leaving Palm Beach on another leg toward Rio de Janeiro.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Hinton
Palm Beach
Rio de Janeiro
Fifty-Four Chinese to Be Deported
Fifty four Chinese arrested in a raid on a ship ring board steamer will be deported at the expense of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
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Seattle
Wash
Pacifi Mail Steamshin Company
Wreck blamed on defective locomotive at Gary Ind
J F McGrath, vice president of the railway employees department of the American Federation of Labor, says the Michigan Central wreck at Gary was caused by an unfit locomotive. He denounces railroad charges of plotters and calls for an impartial technical inquiry, noting prior engine trouble and ongoing equipment deterioration during the strike.
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Chicago
Michigan Central
Gary
Ind
J. F. McGrath
Railway Employees’ Department
American Federation of Labor
Detroit
MccGrath
Union Seeks Accounting of 88 Million in Mine Wages
A petition filed in Pittsburgh Common Pleas asks United Mine Workers District No. 5 officers to account for about 88 million dollars allegedly collected from miners since 1918. The filing is signed by George Wisher, Michael Halapy and Charles Chambers, identified as union members.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
George &. Wisher
Michael Halapy
Charles Chambers
Big Red Arrests In Bridgeman Michigan
Between 80 and 10 alleged Russian communists were taken into custody at Bridgeman Michigan by six Chicago Department of Justice agents led by Jacob Spokanski. J P Rooney said causes for arrests would come from Washington and state police aided in the operation. Deportation action was expected against most detainees.
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Chicago
Bridgeman
Berrien County
Michigan
Department of Justice
Jacob Spokanski
J.P. Rooney
Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Removal Demand Aimed at Prohibition Chief Haynes
Congressman Hill of Maryland urges Secretary Mellon to remove Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Hill accuses Haynes of defrauding the government by using Treasury mail franks to send personal political propaganda for himself and the Anti-Saloon League.
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Washington
Hill
Rep. Md
Mellon
Haynes
United States
Franks
Treasury Department
Anti-Saloon League
Three Die In Truck Fire After Rail Crash
Three passengers were burned to death when the north bound Toledo Detroit flyer of Michigan Central struck a motor truck loaded with turpentine and gasoline at a Dixie highway crossing in Rockwood, Michigan, about 20 miles from Detroit on August 28.
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Detroit
Mich
Michigan Central Railroad
Dixie Highway
Rockwood
Graham Patterson Leads Bible Celebration Committee
Graham Patterson, chairman of the American Bible Celebration Committee, organizes 15th anniversary exercises for the Bible Revision committee. The original meeting occurred October 4, 1872, at Bible House, Astor Place, New York, with representation from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Rochester Theological Seminary, and Union College.
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Grahan Patterson
American Bible Celebration Committee
Bible Revision Committee
Bible House
Aster Place
New York
Patterson
Christian Herald
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Columbia
Rochester Theological Seminary
Union College
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Joseph E. Sheedy
Marthas Vineyard, Mass
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Lasker
France
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Fordney-McCumber
Fordney McCumbey
Counferenc
Sayer
Jim
CMON
Mississippi
Southern Railway
U. S
Rail Union
Maryland
Toledo
Detroit Flyer
Graham Patterson
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