Rail wage cuts hit clerical and station staff nationwide
The railroad labor board announced a final wage slash affecting over 420000 employees, primarily clerical and station workers, signaling a broader pay reduction across rail jobs. The cuts take effect July 1, with 180000 white collar workers losing 3 to 4 cents an hour, while some roles remain unchanged such as train dispatchers and dining car stewards.
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Railroad Labor Board
Jand
Son Railroad
Cincinmati
Marine Culinary Workers’ Association of Californian
Partizan
Dean of American medicine honored by alma mater at 100
Dr. Stephen Smith of Montour Falls New York, age one hundred, received the honorary Doctor of Science degree at this year’s Columbia University commencement. Known as the dean of American medicine, he founded the American Public Health Association and served as its president, with numerous official professional appointments.
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Stephen Smith
Montour Falls
N. Y
Doctor Smith
Columbia University
American Medicine
American Public Health Association
Homes Destroyed on Long Island in Massive Fire
More than four hundred bungalows and hotels valued at 5 million dollars burned at Arverne and nearby areas on June 17, leaving about 20 000 people homeless. Refugees crowded roads to Far Rockaway as police and fire crews worked to keep access open for firefighting equipment. Coast artillery patrolled the coast and warned looters. coast guard dynamited houses in the fire path to halt spread.
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Arverne
Far Rockaway
Five Boroughs
Fifty-eighth Coast Artillery
McTiges
Coast Guard
Indiana miners to deal only with state operators in wage talks
Indiana mine operators abandon interstate talks and plan a state level wage conference with Indiana miners to settle strikes. Wagon mine representatives in Vigo Clay and Vermilion counties seek court action against groups alleged to interfere with nonunion workers as Hoover secures a price prevention agreement between national coal bodies.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association
Illinois
Ana
Vigo
Clay
Vermilion Counties
Hoover
Washington
National Coal Association
National Retail Coal Merchants’ Association
Hoover Says Coal Market Averts New Stock Push
Officials report no coalstock advance above last week’s levels as miners’ strike lingers. Hoover forecasts price cuts and urges operators to curb selling expenses to Garfield price plus costs in districts including Pennsylvania and West Kentucky. Guards to defend strip mine camp near Herrin during potential mining attempts.
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Hoover
Slenner
Herrin
Lester & Sherwood
Marion
Bonus Bill to be Halted in Senate
Washington June report says Senator McCumber agreed not to press the soldiers bonus while tariff action continues and will propose making the bonus unfinished business after the tariff. Harding prefers ship subsidy matters to follow the tariff, delaying immediate action.
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Washington
McCumber
Senate Finance Committee
Republiccan
Moentiay
Harding
House Debates Ship Subsidy Bill and Liquor Ban on Vessels
Washington June 17 The house merchant marine committee favors the administration ship subsidy bill while rejecting the Bankhead liquor ban for ships at sea The Edmonds proposal to bar foreign or American ships selling liquor within three miles faces uncertainty Volstead warns the Edmonds plan could clash with treaties as leaders push for passage next week under a special rule
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Washington
House Merchant Marine Committee
House
Bankhead
United States Ship Board
Green
Merchant Marine Committee
Harding
Congress
Repub Viewn
Pennsylvania
United States
Volstead
Idmonds
Campbell
Edmonds Proposes Separate Bills On Hone Dry and Benedy
The House rules chief Edmonds announced a hone dry amendment would be redrafted as a separate bill to bar ships selling liquor during voyage from entering U.S. ports. If Bankhead offers his rejected amendment as a separate bill, Edmonds will submit his benedry bill as a substitute.
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Edmonds
Bankhead
Inmate Kills Pontiac Guard at Reformatory
Byron Corbridge, an inmate, fatally beat guard J. B. Jones at the Pontiac reformatory. Witnesses said Corbridge attacked Jones with a gas pipe about two feet long, alleging no provocation.
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Ill
Jones
Pontiac Reformatory
Byron Corbridge
Jacksonville
Corbridge
Vera Cruz Strike Near End
The Vera Cruz strike in the maritime zone has been settled with steamers loading sand and unloading. Watchmen unions remain unresolved and streetcar workers are still on strike with no return date. Bread shortages and high food prices affect the city as troops and police remain deployed. President Obregon ordered readiness of troops if needed.
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Vera Cruz
Obregon
Six Die in Wisconsin Storm Toll Rises in Four Counties
Prairie Farm Wis June 17 Six persons are known to have lost their lives and ten to twelve others were seriously injured as a violent storm swept four Wisconsin counties Thursday night.
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Prairie Form
Wis
Wisconsin
PRESS WINS FIGHT FOR HAGUE NEWS PRESS WINS
The Hague June 17 Foreign Minister Van Karnebeek capitulated to reporters at the Carnegie peace palace after a morning denial of access. About fifty correspondents arrived to seek credentials as guards announced exclusion. Negotiations with the British legation and palace officials led to pressrooms being prepared in the palace for the journalists.
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the Hague
van Karnebeek
Holland
Carnegie Peace Palace
Emssary
Canton Falls but Sun Yat Sen Palace Guard Holds
Dispatch from Canton reports Chen Chang Ming’s troops capture Canton while Sun Yat Sen’s palace bodyguard resists in the presidential palace. Sun is said to have fled to Whampoa on a gunboat. Major obstacles to China’s reunification are deemed removed.
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Peking
China
Chen Chang Ming
Canton
South China Republic
Sun Yat Sen
Sun
Whampoa
Chang Tso
Soviet Reneges on Genoa Pact Ratification
Berlin dispatch cites Moscow telegram noting the Soviet government rejected ratification of the Russia Italy treaty signed by Krassin and Tehitcherin at Genoa. It claims the accord does not align with terms from the latest all Russian executive committee conference. The foreign commissariat is ordered to resume negotiations for an early acceptable treaty.
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the Times
Berlin
Moscow
Leonid Krassin
George Tehitcherin
Genoa
Executive Committee
Foreign Commissariat
Mrs. Mallory Defeated in Kent Championship Semifinal
London June 7 Mrs. Molla Mallory American lawn tennis women champion fell to Miss McKane in the Kent championship semifinal in women's singles at Treckenbaum with a match score of 61 24 63.
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London
Molla Biursted Mallory
Kent
Treckenbaum
Miss. McKane
Belfast Postal Officials Arrested in Dublin
Dublin reports that two Belfast postal officials, Joseph Cooper and William James, have been arrested and are presumed to be interned.
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Dublin
Belfast
Joseph Cooper
William James
Fred Starek Nominated for War Finance Corp Post
President Harding nominates Fred Starek former Cincinnati Enquirer war correspondent and adviser as director of the War Finance Corporation to replace Angus W. McLean whose term ends May 17.
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Fred Storck
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Washington
Harding
War Finance Corporation
Angus W. McLean
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