Free Speech Real Issue Says Gompers In Steel Strike
Samuel Gompers, leader of the AFL, testifies before the Senate labor committee that the steel strike centers on workers right to be heard and to organize. He cites detectives used to suppress union activity, claims foreigners dominated by corporate power, and notes the aim to prevent strike leadership.
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Gompers
Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Senate Labor Committee
Organized Labor
Steel Corporation
Sterling
South Dakota
McKeesport
Iron and Steel
Gompers Attacks Steel Power Over Workers in Pennsylvania
Samuel Gompers accuses United States Steel of dictating public authority in Pennsylvania and suppressing union activity. He cites strikes, privateering rhetoric, and arrests of organizing agents, including Jefferson Davis Pierce of Worcester, as examples of corporate influence and anti union measures.
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Pennsylvania
United States Steel Corporation
Jefferson Davis Pierce
Worcester
Mass
Food Ration Cuts Announced in England
The food ministry declared a state emergency requiring ration reductions. Butter is limited to one ounce weekly per person and sugar to six ounces, with meat rationed to the value of 20 pence per person.
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London
Food Ministry
Million Gift From Rockefeller For Medical Education
New York reports the General Education Board announces a 20 million dollar gift from John D. Rockefeller to improve medical education in the United States. This major philanthropy aims to strengthen medical schools and training nationwide.
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John D. Rockefeller
New York
United States
The
Ceneral Education Board
Railroad Crew Reports Meat Train Robbery at Pine Riot
Missouri Pacific freight train crew told police four armed men halted the train at a crossing west of Pine Riot Arkansas and robbed a refrigerator car of a large quantity of meat. The meat was driven away in a waiting automobile, the workers said.
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Pine
Ark
Missouri Pacific
Here
Interned Germans Bound for Home On Pocahontas
One thousand seven hundred thirty one German detainees, including sailors from the Moewe and Prinz Bite Vreidrich crews, march silently aboard the Pocahontas in New York to return home. Guards escort them as Stars and Stripes fly over former German ships now under American authority.
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New York
Irene
Germany
Vaterland
Imperator
Kronprinzess
Cecilic
Imperial Germany
Lloyd
Moewe
Hans Berg
Clare
Pring Bite Vreidrich
Willman I. Frye
Newport News
Max Thierichens
Court Bars Ficketing In Chicago Steel Strike
Judge Landis issues an injunction banning picketing at Pollak Steel in Chicago as the steel workers strike enters its fifth day. The move targets organizer T J Wind and national strike member John Fitzpatrick with others named in the order. Expectation centers on Monday actions as Pittsburgh district leaders foresee a large return to work or new layoffs.
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Landis
Chicago
Stee
South Chicago Mills resumes as injunction limits picketing
The injunction bars picketing that intimidates by violence or threats or blocks workers returning to work or interferes with their right to work. The open hearth plant of the Monveis Steel Co at South Chicago resumes with two old furnaces operating and ore conveyors supplying them. about 800 workers are at work and 1,200 inside the walls. In Versailles, Sept 27, Ambassador Wallace and Frank L. Polk opposed minister Lanferre during the inauguration of the indepence room at the Versailles museum.
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South Chicago
Minoeis Steel Company
Bessemer
Versailles
France
Hueb C. Wallace
Frank L. Polk
Lanferre
Versailles Museum
Foster assailed in Senate speech by Pomerene
Senator Pomerene of Ohio branded W. Foster head of a national steel workers group as an autocrat and syndicalist who would ruin the labor cause. He cited a pamphlet on syndicalism and a Foster article urging W ob to work through the A F L to form a revolutionary union.
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William Z. Foster
Steel Workers’ National Committee
Pittsburgh
Washington
W. Z. Foster
National Committee For Organizing the Steel Workers
Senate
Pomerene
Ohio
Foster
Friends of Labor
Poster
God
Labor
Sammel Gompers
Tabor
T. W. WW
Wat
Chiengs Federal District Attorney
L W. W
American Federation of Labor
Wilson III cancels tour on doctor orders
President Wilson cancels remaining speeches on advice of his physician Admiral Cary Grayson citing nervous exhaustion and digestive disturbance. He will return to Washington from Wichita with five addresses left on his schedule, including Little Rock Memphis and Louisville.
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Kan
Wilson
Cary T. Grayson
Washington
Grayson
Deetor Grayson
Oklahoma City
Kansas City
St. Louis
Little Rock
Memphis
Louisville
White House
Senate
Capitol
Naib Hussein Kashi Executed After Kashan Rebellion
Official dispatches from Teheran report the execution of Naib Hussein Kashi a notorious bandit and rebel who for a year held Kashan defying the government looting caravans and seizing landowner property A military expedition forced his surrender and he was put to death in Teheran.
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London
Teheran
Naib Hussein Kashi
Kashan
Government Prepared to Use Army in English Rail Strike
London reports the government may employ soldiers and sailors to operate railway lines amid a nationwide strike. War Office orders suspension of army demobilization and halting of leaves as Lloyd George meets labor leaders to seek a settlement. If needed, troops could run trains and assist food transport and passenger service.
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London
War Office
Lloyd George
James Henry Thomas
Railway Ten
Fred Bromley
Lacomotive Engineers’ Society
United Kingdom
London Underground
Washington County's Only Daily Evening Journal
The Evening Journal serves Washington County with daily news updates, local government coverage, and community notices from Worthington to county seats. Readers find city briefs, school reports, sports results, and business updates in this regional newspaper.
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Evening Journal
Washington County
Railway men walk out in body to-day strike status
Railroad workers stage a full-scale walkout today in a general strike action. Union leaders mobilize crews nationwide, halting many services and triggering emergency measures as job actions unfold.
Famous singer dies in Wales at 76
World renowned prima donna dies at home in South Wales at age 76. The obituary notes the loss of a famed singer whose career spanned decades and who captivated international audiences. news mentions the broader day’s events in London with a nationwide rail strike disrupting train service.
Adalina Patti Dies at 76 in Wales Estate
Special to Evening Journal reports Adalina Patti, renowned prima donna and queen of singers for forty years, died this morning at Craigynes Castle Pengene South Wales at age seventy six.
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Adalina Patte
Evening Journal
London
Adalina Patti
Craigynes Castle
Pengene
South Wales
Patti
Senate Asks about Marines in the Adriatic Action
Secretary Daniels told the senate inquiry that the Navy had no information on American marines landing at Tran Dalmatia to compel evacuation by Italian forces. Reports from Copenhagen and Paris prompted Daniels to ask Rear-Admiral Andrews in the Adriatic for confirmation, but no reply had been received.
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Washington
Daniels
Knox
Rep
Pennsylvania
Senate
Tran
Dalmatia
Copenhagen
Paris
Navy Department
Adriatic
Jess
Fiume
Andrews
Portland Shipyard Strike Threat Over Wage Increases
About ten thousand steel shipyard workers in the Portland district threaten to strike October 1 unless Director General Ackerson delays wage increases agreed to until after the Washington Industrial conference starting October 6. Officials of the Steel Workers' union disclosed the plan.
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Portland
Ore
Portland Distriet
Ackerson
The
Shipping Board
Washington
Steel Workers’ Union
German Samples Arrive in Tokyo Signal Market Plans
Tokyo reports samples of German goods such as chocolates and condensed milk arriving. Merchants see this as an indicator that Germany may soon place dyes chemicals or experiments on the market, with quotations rising in consequence.
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Tokyo
Government Plans Sale of 11 Million Pounds Steel
The War Department through ordnance officers at Philadelphia will offer for sale about 11,000,000 pounds of finished and unfinished steel. The items range from steel plate to unfinishe d trench helmets.
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Philadelphia
Boston
Washington
War Department
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