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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1912
Page
6
Washington reports indicate both houses will be urged to take up American passports with Russia. A forthcoming Duma crisis is described as reactionary and anti Semitic, complicating negotiations for a new treaty.
Washington December 11 The Ways and Means Committee faces a contest for its post March 4 leadership as Democrats seek to influence tariff policy with five or six seats to spare. Key members under consideration include Underwood Harrison Kitchin James Rainey Hartley Palmer and Hughes, with looming debates over protectionist and tariff revision positions and vacancies to fill. Texas contenders Garner and Smith emerge among the Ways and Means hopefuls as party factions maneuver.
New York report notes one month to the National Automobile Association exhibition. The two week event will feature more motorcars of pleasure and commercial type, plus motorcycles, accessories and parts in unprecedented quantities. Contracts for steel work decor and sign making are already awarded.
Labor topics span from Michigan Baptist Convention backing workmen’s compensation and a 54 hour week for women to the AFL’s debates on industrial unionism. Other items include Minnesota teachers seeking pensions, wage gains for railway workers, seamen’s push for an American merchant fleet, and calls for a Southern Pacific strike.
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