Railroad Strike Crisis Moves Toward Government Action
Attorney General Daugherty signals government may use the transportation law to enforce railroad board rulings. War Dept orders troops with rail experience to be ready as wage board chiefs are called to Chicago for explanation. Hooper arrives with President Harding’s plan for nonstrike settlement to avert a rates cut and breathing spell for debate.
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Hooper
Chicago
Harding
Washington
Get
Daugherty
Railroad Labor Board
Iis
United States Supreme Court
Department
Usen
United States
War Department
Army
Railway Wage Board
Brotherhoods
Benjamin W. Hooper
Railway Labor Board
ThePresident
Federation of Labor Nations
Interstate Commerce Commission
R. M. Barton
GG. W. Hanger
J. J. Farman
Ofhemandy
Fragmentary Quote on Big Four Split Discussion
A partial excerpt shows talk of a possible split with the big four ridiculed and a claimed need for a common understanding on how to split. The text reflects discord over alliance boundaries and strategic moves.
Buck Weaver Sues For 20006 Back Salary In Writ
Buck Weaver former White Sox shortstop and one of the players implicated in the gambling case filed a writ of attachment in municipal court to collect 20000 six dollars back salary claimed under contract. Attorneys Charles A Williams and Julian Byer filed the suit. Weaver says the salary was not paid and the American League club dropped him from the payroll unjustly.
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Kienge
George Ya
Buck) Weaver
White Sox
Charles A. Williams
Julian ©. Byer
Weaver
House Extends Emergency Tariff Including Dyestuffs
By a 187 to 74 vote the house passed the bill extending the emergency tariff law and the dyestuffs embargo to February 1, 1922. Most Republicans supported it with 60 Democrats joining. only amendment sought by Rep Newton to exclude flaxseed tariff failed.
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Washington
Get
House
Newton Republican
Minnesota
Tax riot in Teo leaves two dead in Spain October
Two villagers killed and several wounded as tax collectors accompanied by police faced resistance in Teo Spain during an October clash.
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Teo
Spain
Johnnei Cowles Elected Sovereign Grand Commander
Johnnei Cowles of Louisville was elected sovereign grand commander of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, United States.
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Washington
Oct
Johnnei Cowles
Louisville
Southern Jurisdiction
United States
Lloyd George to Attend Parley With Washington Delegation Named
Prime Minister Lloyd George said he hopes to join the Washington conference on disarmament and Far Eastern issues when feasible. The British empire delegation will include A J Balfour Lord Lee of Fareham Sir Auckland Geddes and Admiral Beatty with Chadwick Cavan and Higgins as military and aviation experts. Dominion representatives are Canada Sir Robert Berden Australia George Foster Pearce New Zealand Sir John Salmond India Zrinavasa Zastri and South Africa via British government appointees. Livy Maurice flankey will serve as secretary.
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London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Washington
A. J. Balfour
Lord Lee of
Fareham
Admiralty
Auckland Geddes
Weabington
Lioyd George
Dominions
Canada
Robert L. Berden
Australia
George Foster Pearce
New Zealand
John Salmond
India
Zrinavasa Zastri
South Africa
Dby
Karl Beatty
Grand Fleet
Chadwick
Lord Cavan
Italy
Higgins Wold
Livy Maurice Flankey
Business optimism urged as crisis passes says Harding
W P G Harding governor of the federal reserve board writes in System magazine that the business crisis has passed. He says prosperity was overstated and depression never as low as it seemed. He urges constructive optimism, honest production and distribution, and notes some prices rise while others fall as the economy readjusts.
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Chicago
Qet
W. PG. Harding
Federal Reserve Board
System Magazine
Harding
Ubsert
Tedanv
Hard ing sees business turning corner amid farm prosperity
Governor Harding weighs price relations, reserve notes in circulation and wholesale levels to judge the economy. He cites reduced reserve note circulation and improved farm prospects as signs that business may be recovering with a brighter trade outlook ahead.
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Federal Reserve
Harding
Ulster Arming Force of Fighters Demonstration Reported
Reports from Belfast and Lisburn confirm the Ulster volunteer force is being organized with ex service men enrolling. In Lisburn about 14000 ex service men formed under commandants and marched with arms, while other unrest unfolded at Spike Island with prisoners destroying blocks A and B and burning kits amid smoke and injuries.
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Belfast
Ulster Volunteer Force
Lisburn
Cork
Spike Island
Queenstown
Grand jury to probe Parker led Co operative Society case
Federal authorities plan immediate grand jury action into the Co operative Society of America and affiliated Great Western Securities after Parker sought to explain manipulated figures to receivers. Discrepancies emerged in receipts for securities tied to Higgins and the Randolph building stock as Julius Moses pressed for clarity.
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Harrison M. Parker
Co-Operative Society of America
Chicago
Great Western Securities Corporation
Clyne
Evans
Peoples Life Insurance Building
Parker
Julia Moses
Central Trust Company
Gronup
Mr. Parker
Charles C. Higgins
The
Great Western
Edith Stubbs Parker
Moses
Higgins
Randolph Building Corporation
People’s Life Building
Western Pinapte corporation Peculiar Case in Banking Audit
In a murky accounting session Parker and Moses clash over stock movements from City State bank and Parker subsidiaries. Higgin's returns and 121 shares tied to Chiesye offices raise questions while a mass of cooperative and Great Western figures prompts demand for precise certificates sold and unaccounted balances.
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Mr. Moses
Charles Heonaker
Parker Companies
Great Western
Mutt and Jeff Copyright Case Before Taft Courts
The Wheeler Syndicate and Fisher petitioned the Supreme Court to decide if copyright on Mutt and Jeff drawings forbids Star Company from using the characters in different poses and expressions from those shown in the copyrighted cartoons.
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Fisher
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Unitted States Supreme Court
Wheeler Syndicante
Ioo
Marty
Congressmen in Tilt Over Strike in Heated House Debate
Washington October 19 in the house a bitter clash over a threatened railroad strike ended without violence. Rep Blauten Texas accused railroad leaders of fomenting insurrection while Rep Burke Pennsylvania Republican denied the charge and clashed, an uproar ensued, and both sides withdrew remarks as the issue moved on.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Blauten
Texas
United States
William J. Burke
Pennsylvania
Burke
Mr. Burke
Arias Rodgers
Texas Congress
Representative Blanton
Mr. Blanton
Towitch
Warren Stone
Judge Barton Calls Strike Arbitration Not Required
Judge Barton states that the current strike should not be resolved by arbitration. The decision affirms that compulsory arbitration is not mandated in the dispute.
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Barton
President Harding Frames Yorktown Peace Speech on Friendship
At Yorktown he pledges enduring friendship between the United States and Great Britain and says any future war between the two nations is unthinkable. In Chicago Judge Barton declares arbitration under the Transportation Act mandatory for railroad labor disputes, with the Labor Board’s decision final if no agreement is reached.
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The
Evening Journal
Chicago
Bareton
Federal Railway Labor Board
Barton
Labor Board
Britain
Aoenine Journal
Yorktown
United States
Great Britain
Harding
Revolutionary Army of
Washington
Cornwallis
Scheidemann Shot At German Meeting in Westphalia
Philipp Scheidemann former secretary of foreign affairs was fired upon during a German People's Party meeting in Ludenscheid Westphalia. The volley missed him and five people were arrested. Printing workers and newspapers went on strike, leaving no papers this forenoon.
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Berlin
Philipp Scheidemann
Foreign Astairs
German People's Party
Ludenscheid
Westphalia
Herr Scheidemann
Senate ratifies peace treaty with Germany and Austria
The Senate ratified the peace treaty with Germany. Eighteen Democrats and two Republicans Borah of Idaho and LaPollette of Wisconsin voted against ratification. Austria’s treaty was ratified as well.
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Senate
O. K
Washington
Germany
Borah
Idaho
T LaPolletia
Wisconsin
Austria
Klan Probe Dropped After Simmons Testimony
Washington reports the house rules committee chose not to hear additional witnesses after William J. Simmons imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan testified. The move was read as eliminating further congressional inquiry into the Klan.
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House
W. J. Simmons
Washington
House Rules Committee
William J. Simmons
First Fox Hunt Trial Near Parkersburg Draws Multistate Hounds
The first trial of the Ohio Valley Po Hunters' association took place near Parkersburg with 12% hounds from Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia. A red fox was raised but after a five mile chase the fox escaped into brush after a feuding run.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Ohio Valley Po Hunters’ Association
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
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