Rail unions force action amid cost of living crisis
Insistent wage demands trigger government, Congress action as rail unions press for higher pay. Myers calls currency reduction study. Sims seeks federal rail controls. boycott and strikes by shopmen 660000 strong shape tense labor talks amid price protests. Wilson home on yacht duty. partisan House fighting delays stance while advisers handle wage and price plan.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Anator Myers
Montana
Gongresa
Sims Jamkling
Iterstate
Eng
Uae
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Plu Plauw anthGizgng Povernment
American Federation of Labor Livery Employees
Ian
Siemihold
Wege
Wilsen
House
Igoe
Missouri
Federal Trade Commission
Bsex
Price policy actions urged by wartime committee amid shortages
The wartime price committee proposed immediate Congressional steps to ease shortages by selling the current wheat crop at market price and absorbing farmer losses from a 31 billion appropriation. War Department plans expand surplus food distribution via parcel post and local agencies. Shipyard workers demand higher pay if prices stay high. Farmers call for government ownership of key farming and transport sectors to shield agriculture from taxes and profiteering.
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Railway Hines
Colver
the Treasury
LoMngwell
Congress
Cngress
War Department
Alexandria
Blanton compares railroad workers to highwaymen over pay
Representative Blanton charged in the House that the railroad brotherhoods are pressuring Congress for an enormous wage boost. He cited repeated demands and threats to halt railroad activity after October 4 unless gains are granted, recalling past increases under the Adamson law and Hines directives.
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Blanton
Congress
Afr
McAdoo
Hines
Will Enforce 30 Day Cold Storage Provision
Baltimore officials announce active steps to prosecute food profiteers under the 30 day cold storage rule. Attorney general Luteliie indicates enforcement will deter hoarding, with imprisonment or fines for violators. Baltimore city grand jury and a subcommittee will begin immediate action to identify those involved.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Storney
General Luteliie
Grand Jury
Baltimore City
Poverner
Consumers Pay for Food That Rot Says Summers
Representative Flood of Virginia introduced a bill urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate fertilizer and farm machinery prices, while Representative Summers of Texas seeks a farm produce exchange to cut middlemen. Summers argues millions of dollars of food rot yearly due to market access and dated shipping, saying consumers bear higher costs.
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Representative Flood
Democrat
Virginia
Federal Trade Commission
Representative Summers
Texas
Secretary of Agriculture
Illinois Governor Calls Federal Action to Curb Rising Prices
Chicago August 2 Governor Lowden of Illinois warned there can be no lasting relief from industrial unrest until the cost of living is checked. He urged federal government action to halt rising prices and called for cooperation to curb food profiteering and potentially restrict currency issuance or exports if needed. He added Chicago is tranquil as the city contemplates whether the pause becomes a truce or permanent peace.
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Chicago
Eve
Lowden
Illinois
Federal Reserve
Nine Die as Swiss Riots Erupt in Basle Strife
A Geneva dispatch dated August 1 reports fierce Basle fighting tied to a strike. Troops fired on strikers, killing nine and wounding many as police and demonstrators clashed. The Basel labor leadership has called a broad general strike./Subthreshold:
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London
Geneva
Basle
Zurich
Switzerland
Havas
Olten
Soleure
Chicago Cars Ran Again After Fares Hearing Begun
Chicago on August 2 reports surface and elevated street car service resumed after a four day strike by car men. Workers voted to rescind the strike order and accept a wage schedule of 4 cents an hour for surface and 67 cents for elevated. The public utilities commission opened hearings to decide fare increases to cover a 17 cents per hour wage rise. A 7 cent surface fare and 8 cent elevated fare are seen as likely, with a possible 11 cent transfer charge. The original wage demand was 85 cents an hour.
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Chicago
State Public Utilities Commission
Burn Woman's Feet, Get $26,000
Four men break into the Becks home at Somers Point Atlantic City to steal jewelry valued around 25000 pounds and about 1000 dollars. They bind the couple, burn Mrs Beck's feet with a candle, and lash them to furniture before escaping. Mr Beck frees himself and raises the alarm.
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Mr. Be
Mrs. Beck
Beck
Mr. Beck
China and Japan in Crisis Over Shantung Boycott
Far East dispatches warn of rising danger of war between China and Japan as Chinese officials seek authority to resist foreign aggression. Five Japanese gunboats and destroyers at Foochow and Amoy prepare to pressure locals while Japanese marines may land. anti-Japanese sentiment grows across China with student protests and patriotic societies forming.
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Hunan
Tokyo
Peking
Washington Post Co
Far East
China
Japan
Shantange
League of Nations
Shantung
Shantung Province
Manchuria
Wu Pei-iu
Foochew
Amoy
Foochow
Obata
Shanghai
Hankow
Shih Li-pen
Iowa Moves to Cut Living Costs Nationwide Approach
Governor W L Harding orders county attorneys to meet to discuss fighting profiteers. The twofold meeting aims to collect information on food profiteering and inform prosecutors of powers and rights. Grand juries may be asked to probe limits on food sales and farming pools driving prices higher.
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Des Moines
Jows
W. L. Harding
Iowa
Statehouse
China Unites Against Japan as Nationwide Protests Grow
South and north China vow unity against Japanese threats and any yielding policy. Students risk their lives for liberty while workers desert Japanese employers. Tokyo threatens action over protest, Nippon morphia trade agitated. Waichiao Pu urges allied embassies to lift arms embargo as China rallies.
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South China
Peking
Canton
China
Japan
Tokyo
Kiukiang
Nanking
Tsingtao
Waichiao Pu
Foreign Office
North China
Chicago Riots Ignite Stockyards Fire and Race Tensions
Chicago reports list six blocks of stockyards homes destroyed amid ongoing riots. Gov. Lowden blames labor trouble rather than race bias for the fires while troops guard the ruins. Coroner rules Eugene Williams drowned with no mark of violence, and a white man faces murder charges in connection with the death. Authorities detain many suspects as attorneys prepare damage suits against the city.
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Coy. Lowden
Packers
Lowden
Liire
Negro Residence
Koffman
Eugene Williams
Lake Michigan
George Stauber
Wiliams
Theodore Gracia
Federa
Drunkenness arrests rise in July 1919 Boston
Records of Boston's central municipal court show 764 arrests for drunkenness in July 1919, down from 2,396 in July 1918. Despite fewer drunken arrests, the overall criminal cases are rising again, reflecting ongoing city crime trends.
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Washington Post
Boston
Central Municipal Court
District police pay hearings face colored officers issue
A House subcommittee plans hearings on police pay to assess if raises will improve policing in Washington. The panel weighs administration flaws and race tensions as Southern lawmakers oppose appointing colored policewomen without explicit law, while noting existing four policewomen receive lower pay. Senators Calder Ball Kine may convene joint hearings for rapid action.
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Gould
Calder
New York City
District Committee of the
Senates
Ball
Delaware
Kine
Utah
Congress
House
Police Department of
Seppe Sae Shapp
Rey Werner Geta A
Eae Ee
Bavarian Prince Refuses Non German Court Trial
Former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria writes to the Bavarian diet defender of sovereignty says he will not recognize a court where the prosecutor is also the judge. He refuses a non German court and states readiness to appear before a Bavarian court of state.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Prince Rupprecht
Bavaria
theBavariat Diet
Senate panel backs nonintoxicating wine and cider home use
Lawyers for Brewers' Association say war time and constitutional prohibition enforcement is unconstitutional. They urge that Congress lacks power before January 1, 1926, and warn the House bill would impose ex post facto constraints on pre passage acts.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
House
Elihu Heat
Wiliam D. Guthrie
William L. Marbury
United States Brewers’ Association
Congress
Christian W. Feigenspan
Brewers’ Association
Hand
New York Circuit Court of Appeals
United States
Hungary Asks Peace Bela Kun Now a Refugee
London reports the Hungarian government asked an armistice on allied terms and a provisional line on the Theiss River. Vienna notes overtures for peace by the new socialist government. Bela Kun sought refuge to avoid danger. The cabinet under Jules Peidl forms with former Ku ministry members amid cautious stabilizing efforts.
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Budapest
Clemenceau
Paris
Theiss
Vienna
Associated Press
Hungary
Eela Kun
Kun
Bela Kun
Jacob Weltner
Soldiers
Jules Peidl
People's Welfare
Count Karolyi
Bela Ku
Jules Petdji
Pater Agoston
Joseph Haubrich
Paul Garami
Alexander Garbai
M. Dovohak
Stephen Szabe
Kari Payei
Joseph Takao
Joseph Miskic
M. Kaittelhofer
Peidll
Haubrich
Geram
Education Szebo
Karol
Perrons
Ku Ministry
Ord
Allies See Moderate Hungarian Cabinet As Dealable
Paris reports that Hungary's new government is viewed as moderate by peace conference circles. Provisional leaders are described as socialist or right leaning but temperate, with foreign minister Peter Agerston cited as a known moderate ally among delegates.
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Preas
Hungary
Socialista
Peter Agerston
Bela Kun
Gaid
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