Taft Urges League Backing Despite Partisan Fears
William Howard Taft argues for joining the League of Nations based on patriotic and humane grounds. He outlines four steps including Armament limits Article X and open diplomacy, asserting the League can curb war and protect small nations while preserving U S sovereignty. He warns opposition risks a future, more destructive war.
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League of Nations
William Howard Taft
League
United States
Strike of Bakers Settled in Burlington Meeting
The Master Bakers and the International Association of Bakery and Confectionary Workers union resolved their dispute in Burlington on June 30 after two committees met. Initial stances had employers refusing all inclusive contracts and union members threatening continued strike, but concessions led to a satisfactory settlement for all involved.
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Burlington Bakers Reach Union Contract Agreement
After talks from all angles, employers agreed to sign contracts including bread wrappers and salesmen in the union if stable men firemen janitors and other help were excluded. The agreement satisfied both sides and bakers returned to work. With one plant as exception, every Burlington bakery is now union.
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Ainsworth to Seek Iowa Secretary of State Post
Soldier and former Western Union local manager Lieut. Col. Leon Ainsworth returns from overseas with the 330 field signal battalion eighty eighth division and announces he will run for secretary of state after leaving military service. He will not resume his telegraph job, plans farming and rest.
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Des Moines
Leon Ainsworth
330 Field Signal
Eighty-Eighth Division
Ainsworth
Western Union Telegraph Company
Iowa veteran Ainsworth recalls 1920 campaign aim
Ainsworth, a Spanish-American War veteran, served as Iowa signal officer in 1908 and was chief signal officer for the United States in England for ten months. He hints at campaign plans ahead of the 1920 election.
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Ainsworth
Iowa
United States
England
Iowa War Record Progress In Des Moines
Lieut. Col. Frank F E. Lyman of the adjutant general's office is preparing Iowa war history and a roster of Iowa fighters. Col. Matthew Tinley of the One Hundred Sixty-eighth infantry and the draft team recently reviewed maps and data with minor changes. The full history by divisions will be printed in book form for distribution after several months.
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Iowa
Frank FE. Lyman
Adjutant General's Office
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