Men Willin to Consider New Terms in Steel Strike War Fund
Senate inquiry opens into the nationwide steel workers strike with John Fitzpatrick testifying that United States Steel would need to arbitrate to end the walkout. He cites a large war fund behind the campaign and says closed shop not an issue while detailing organizing efforts in Chicago and Gary.
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Chicago
Gary
Washington
Senate
John Fitzpatrick
Education and Labor Committee
Fitzpatrick
Senate Labor Committee
United States Steel Corporation
United States
Steel Corporation
Joint Steel Committee
Labor leaders discuss steel industry organizing drive
Senator Jones questions the push to organize steel workers. Fitzpatrick explains there was no central movement by workers, only local meetings. He cites long hours, low wages and harsh treatment as the bad spot prompting AFL action to prevent similar conditions nationwide.
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Federation of Labor
Fitzpatrick
American Federation of Labor
Chicago
Samuel Gompers
William Z. Foster
Calumet
Gary
Ind
Kenyon
Steel Corporation
Labor Organization
Jones
Dem
New Mexico
Pitzpatrick
Senator Jones
Japan Colonizing Coast Warns Senate Immigration Panel
Miller Freman of Seattle and V S Me latchy of Sacramento testified before the house immigration committee about a growing Japanese presence on the Pacific coast They urged absolute exclusion and deportation of Asians already in the United States McClatchy warned the coast image could spread nationwide risking a Japanese province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pacific Coast
Miller Freman
Seattle
House Immigration Committee
Japan
Mother Dies to Save Baby at Lake City Railroad
In Lake City Sept 26 Mrs Frank Atanfield thirty six sacrificed her life saving her two year old from an oncoming passenger train. She shoved the child to safety as the engine struck her. In Washington Sept 26 Senator Hiram Johnson plans a coast tour to push against the peace treaty.
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Lake City
Frank Atanfield
Italian Rebels Seize Three Croatian Dalmatian Towns
Paris reports Italian forces push toward Spalate Savenica and Trau along the Dalmatian coast while Belgrade says Julian soldiers enter Trogir. Disorder spreads to Ragusa and rumors surface of restoring King Nicholas to the Montenegrin throne as his daughter Queen Ljeleva links Italy.
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Paris
D' Annunzio
Ittoras
Adriatic
Spalate
Savenica
National Assembly
Nicholas
Ljeleva
Italy
Steel strike nears peak in Chicago district reports
In Pittsburgh the steel strike shows its maximum in the district as operators push the offensive. Chicago sees more workers returning to duty with 4000 at Illinois Steel and furnaces back online. A disturbance at Waukegan marks the opening clash as unions claim gains despite attrition.
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Pittsburgh
National Committee For Organizing
Iron and Steel Workers
Rankin Mill
American Steel and Wire Company
Chicago
Ilinois Steel Company
Waukegan
Jal McShane
Revolver Firing Claims Firefighter Jeremian in Crowd Incident
A worker named Jeremian shot at a crowd of about 2000 Siikers after they stoned his car. The bullet tore a heel from a shoe and bruised a foot but did not draw blood.
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Jeremian
American Steel and Wire Company
Republicans Warn Johnson Over German Peace Treaty Amendment
Republican colleagues told Senator Johnson that if he moves to advance his amendment granting the United States equality with Britain and its colonies in the League of Nations council, at least eight Republican votes would oppose it. The California senator is reviewing the situation.
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Washington
Hiram Johnson
Senate
United States
Great Britain
League of Nations Council
California
Pueblo
Republic
Wilson
Fire threatens California Redwoods park in Santa Cruz county
San Jose reports fire danger at Redwood Park with W G Dool noting the threat. State forestry department orders mobilization of all available personnel to fight the blaze.
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State Forestry Department
San Jose
Cal
California Redwood Park
Santa Cruz County
W. G. Dool
Rumor Claims Lenine Slain Sparks Circulation
Dispatches from Paris and London report rumors that Bolshevik leader Lenin has been assassinated. Other items note Denikin forces linking with Polish troops near Kerostene and Siberian fronts holding positions around Ishim with a Bolshevik defeat north of Ishim.
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Paris
Nicolai Lenine
Bern
Denikine
Russia
Kerostene
Omsk
Ishim-Tieumen
Ishim
London
Poskoy
Petrograd
Wilson Urges Senate to Act Now in Peace Treaty Drive
President Wilson tours Colorado urging a clear choice on the League of Nations. He presses for acceptance or rejection with reservations treated as rejection, warning against hyphenated loyalty and stressing Article 10 and the council's unaminous power.
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Wilson
Senate
Pueblo
Colo
Colorado
United States
League of Nations
White House
Salt Lake City
Cheyenne
League
Railway Employes Refuse Sympathy Strikes
Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, states they will not engage in sympathetic strikes. He notes no subcommittee meeting has been announced and stresses willingness to aid strikers without resorting to walkouts. Stone is seen as spokesman for the four major railroad brotherhoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren S. Stone
Locomotive Engineers
William Z. Foster
Washington
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Pittsburgh
Stone
Ottawa Postal Petes Sold for US Remittances
Ottawa Ontario reports that due to the high exchange rate with New York the post office department issued orders to sell postal pets for remittances to the United States.
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Ottawa
Ont
New York
The
United States
Trip Called Off on Grayson Orders Amid President’s Exhaustion
A planned trip was canceled following orders from Grayson amid the president’s fatigue. Officials cited undue strain and scheduling conflicts as the rationale for the abrupt decision.
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Trip
Grayson
Readiness at Waukegan as Riots Threaten
Special police deputies in Readiness at Waukegan to quell disorder amid city unrest. In Wichita Kansas September 26 President Wilson cancels remainder of tour by order of Admiral Grayson citing illness and exhaustion from campaigning for the League of Nations.
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Wichita
Kansas
Wilson
Admiral Grayson
League of Nations
Deputies Sworn In As Striker Disorder Fears Rise
Two hundred deputy sheriffs were sworn in at Waukegan to quell potential disorders among American Steel and Wire Company strikers. An appeal to Governor Lowden for troops was made, but Adjutant General Dickson declined to call out the militia, trusting the sheriff to handle the situation.
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Waukegan
American Steel & Wire Company
Lowden
Dickson
Red Flag Incident At Hyde Park High School
Chicago witnesses a flaming red flag with a white center representing a bomb raised at Hyde Park High as students arrive for classes. Freshman Maxwell Hughes climbed a 50 foot pole, removed the flag, and threw it to a jeering crowd while Principal Hiram Loomis orders an inquiry to identify the assailants.
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Chicago
Hyde Ark High School
Maxwell Hughes
Hiram Loomis
Foreigners Back in Mills
In Gary Indiana on September 26 a labor scene unfolds as workers wear green caps and claim many who left were not union members, returning when the steel company offers cars, money, and favors.
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Steel Company
Three Die in Gary Car Crash
Three United States Steel Corporation strikers were killed and twenty five others seriously injured when two street cars collided head on under the viaduct of the Elgin Joliet and Eastern railroad at Buchanan street Gary Indiana. The crash followed defective signals that failed to divert one car to the siding as the southbound car rounded a curve toward the viaduct.
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Cary
Ind
United States Steel Corporation
Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern
Buchanan Street
Here
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