Labor Leaders Clash Over Wage Cuts in Railroads
Washington March 11 Leaders of rail labor organizations warned nationwide strikes could follow if railroads press wage cuts without railroad labor board consent. AFL officials urged legality, citing Esch-Cummins laws, while executives pledged to act within the law.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
New York Central
American Federation of Labor
Railway Labor Board
Organized Labor
Brotherhoods
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic
Railroad Labor Board
Ines
Limits Seed Loans to Two Hundred Dollars
Washington announces seed loan regulations approved by Secretary Wallace. Loans totaling two million dollars to drought affected northwest farmers are capped at 200 dollars per borrower and not more than two dollars per acre. Cr. W Warburton will oversee loan distribution from Fargo through county agents. Loans cover wheat oats barley and flax seed with chattel mortgage liens on the crop and mature November 1.
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Wallace
Northwest
Cr. W. Warburton
Bureau of Plant Industry
Fargo
U S Reds Head Russ Revolt
The Hague March 11 Russians deported from the United States are said to play a key role in Russia's new revolution. The Rotter dam Maasbode correspondent notes the exiles hoped for change but found the communistic regime offering only hard labor and starvation.
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Hague
Reval
Rotterdam
New York Central Plans Wages Cut for 43000 Employees
The New York Central announced wage revisions affecting about 43 000 workers across nearly all departments starting April 16. A later conference will set the new pay scale. date and place are not yet decided. The order covers employees under 85 classifications from New York to Chicago.
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New York
New York Central Railroad
Chicago
Real beer for New York announced by Jacob Ruppert
Former Attorney General Palmer announces a public plan permitting beer manufacture for medicinal use with over half a percent alcohol. Jacob Ruppert, head of the Ruppert brewing company, says his firm will begin producing rent beer immediately.
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Palmer
Jacob Ruppert
Fugitive Hero Put in Jail After Rescue at Dietz Club
Omaha police arrested C. M. Wallace on auto theft charges after he saved a man from death in a water filled hole beneath a burning shanty at the Dietz club. He had been fleeing police but responded to a woman's cries for help and rescued the man before being captured two hours later.
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Omaha
Neb
Dietz
C. M. Wallace
Wallace
Employers Activate Move to Enjoin Packers Workers
Omaha March 11 In injunction plans workers conference seeks to block wage cuts and hour changes for packing-house employees. A petition for injunction and temporary restraining order may go to federal court in Chicago early next week if President Harding plea fails. If denied, receivership for the packers is possible, as employees claim contract violations.
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Omaha
Neb
Chicago
Harding
Redmonds. Brennan
Kansas City
Harding Faces US Senate Over League Discussion
Paris reports a French effort to persuade President Harding to back a modified League of Nations. In Washington officials declined comment while Secretary Hughes refused to discuss the matter after a half hour talk with Ambassador Jusserand. Harding plans domestic reconstruction first and will seek foreign views informally.
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Arbassador Jusserand
Paris
Foreign Office
Washington
State Department
Harding
Administration
United States
Ambassador Jusseramd
M. Jusserand
League of Nations
Premier Vivithi and Ambassador Davis Open Information Venues
The report describes Premier Vivithi acting on a mission from Ambassador Davis in London as opening information venues. It notes the President plans further inquiries and that representatives abroad will be sent in the coming weeks. Formal negotiations are expected after initial inquiries.
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Davis
London
Attorney General Pa Opinion on Prohibition Holds
Washington March 11. Attorney General Pa opinion says prohibition officers have no right to seize all prescriptions for whisky beer and wine and that permits may be granted for medicinal manufacture. Harry M. Daugherty, the new attorney general, will review the opinion in a few days but it stands unless reversed. He opposes concentrating all enforcement power in the Justice Department.
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Washington
Harry M. Daugherty
Department of Justice
Jap Attache Tries to Sell Secrets in Court Martial
Naval Lieutenant Tsuru Hamaguchi was arrested in Tokyo and turned over to a court martial over an alleged effort to sell Japanese naval secrets to Capt. Edward Howe Watson, US embassy attache. The plot reportedly offered Formosa maps and Tokyo bay depth data for 1,000,000 yen, with Watson reporting the letters to authorities.
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Tokyo
Tsuru Hamaguchi
Edward Howe Watson
United States
Watson
Nichi Nichi Shimbun
Goto Yapada
Japan
Formosa
Tokyo Bay
Naval Department
Hawmaguehi
Occupation of Rhine Ruhr Ports Nears Completion
Allied forces have nearly completed occupying the Rhine ports of the Ruhr region with only a few villages and crossroads left to seize. General Gaucher of the French units says the occupation is not hostile to residents and aims to secure food and improve conditions, while rumors of factory order cancellations and rising living costs unsettle workers.
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Rhine
Ruhr
Gaucher
Neuss
Ness
Alllied
Duesseldorf
Degoutte
White Russians Gain Ground in Russia War Front
London reports from foreign office authorities that White Russians are gaining ground as Bolshevik forces desert. Helsingfors detachments confirm Petrograd unrest with continuous street fighting and mutinous fleets firing on the city. Many Bolshevist units have deserted and rejected offers from Trotsky.
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London
Mare
Foreign Office
Russia
Helsingfors
Petrograd
Trotuky
Settlement near for Mexican railway strike continues
Mexico City reports settlement talks in the railway strike ongoing after two weeks of disrupted traffic. Government officials expect an adjustment this week while strikers say they would return to work immediately if their demands are satisfied or a compromise reached.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Yankee Troops Stand Apart From Rhine Advance
American troops on the Rhine are standing out and not cooperating with allied efforts to advance into German territory. No new orders have been given to Major General Allen and no inquiries have been made about sanctions on Germany, including customs duties and reparations payments. The State Department notes U S forces operate under the armistice terms and not Versailles, making co operation on a Rhine barrier unlikely.
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Washington
Rhine
Weeks
State Department
Allen
Germany
Rhine and Their Payment To the Reparations Commission
Chicago & Alton Rail Chief Says Wage Cuts Imminent
President Bird of the Chicago & Alton railroad announced immediate steps to cut wages for employees and to reduce freight rates as a measure to ease burdens on the public. The statement came as Secretary Davis plans to brief the cabinet on packing house labor conditions today.
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Evening Journal of Chicago
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Bird
Secretary Davis Meets Harding Over Packing Strike
Secretary Davis traveled to a White House meeting with President Harding to discuss the pending strike in the meat packing industry and seek a plan to avert a walkout.
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Labor Pipe Impe
Sreetaste Evening Journal
Local Man Pleads Not Guilty in Hamon Murder Case
Special to The Evening Journal Ardmore Oklahoma March 11 Clere Smith Hamon enters a not guilty plea to the charge of murdering Jake Hamon.
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Jardmore
Ohlia
Clere Smith Hamon
Jake Hamon
Son to Fly to Ill Princess
William B. Leeds seventeen son of Princess Anastasia of Greece will travel from New York to Athens by a fast ocean liner and an airplane. He departs aboard the steamer Inuperator Saturday and will be met at Cherbourg by a plane for a flight across Europe to Greece after an arm infection from a Sumatra hunting bite.
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New York
William B. Leeds
Anastasia
Greece
Athens
Leeds
Cherbourg
Europe
Grecia
Sumatra
Japanese Diet approves 4 million yen naval and army budget
Tokyo reports the Imperial diet at a night session approved an additional naval and army budget totaling 4,000,000 yen. The figure equals 324,500,000 in pre war exchange.
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Tokyo
Northwest Weather Outlook Signals Cold Wave
Weather bureau forecast warns of a cold wave sweeping the northwest states from Washington through the Great Lakes toward the Rockies. Anomalously high pressure over Alaska and the far northwest drives the pattern, with plunging temperatures expected over the coming days.
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Wshington
Great Lakes
Rocky Mountains
Alaska
Far Northwest
Weather Bureau
Costa Rican Army Demobilization Ordered After Border Clash
Costa Rica orders demobilization following a border clash with Panama. Costa Rican troops retreat after their forces are driven back across the frontier for miles amid the incident.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Erement
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