Labor Board Delays Wage Cuts as Strike Looms
Chicago October 26. The U S railroad labor board told railroads to postpone seeking further wage reductions because the docket is crowded and no ruling could come before July 1922 while rules and working conditions are being settled. Carriers insist they will not abandon their demand for wage cuts, arguing wages must fall before rates. Unions criticize delays as they press for action before the strike hearing.
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United States Railroad Labor Board
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Walway
Vrigagé
Associated Press
Yoads
Labor Board
Washington
Daugherty
New York
Cleveland
Buffalo
Indianapolis
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Warren S&s. Stone
Carter
Walker D. Hines
Cincinnati
Houston
Houston — International
Great Northern
George Rothwell Brown
The
Washington Post Co
United States
Brotherhoods
Congress
Railroad Labor Board
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
Organized Labor
Harding
Kite House
Congress Members Reported Victims in Northwest Robberies
Two members of Congress suffered losses as thieves robbed several northwest area residences and offices. Items stolen included a $1000 red and white Persian rug with a diamond design from the House Office Building cleaning room and jewelry, cash, furs, and personal items from multiple apartments and businesses.
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Congress
Thomas B. Dunn
New York
Amos H. Radcliffe
New Jersey
Fourth Street
Hazel Tune
Kalorama Road
Jim
Mary Blaxton
Fifteenth Street Northwest
Philip Hardin
Moving Picture
Railroads gain union victory amid looming restrictive laws
The piece argues the wage protection won by railroad workers delays further pay cuts until midsummer, while Congress targets rail earnings with Esch Cummins reform. It portrays a government investor crisis, a postponed strike, and a looming industrial clash affecting business and policy.
Auto Hurls Woman Into Path of Train at Tracks
Winsted Conn Oct 25 A man George Morton accelerated his auto to beat a Central New England train near the tracks a mile west of Winsted flinging his wife onto the rails. She crawled to safety as the locomotive passed. she suffered a left ankle injury but was able to be about her home the next day.
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Winsted
Cond
Central New England Railroad
George Morton
Morton
President Harding Delivers Short Stop in Virginia and North Carolina
President Harding tours the South aboard his special train and greets crowds in Charlottesville near the University of Virginia where Senator Underwood receives a warm welcome. He declines a long speech and travels on toward Birmingham with Mrs. Harding and Cabinet members amid orderly cheers.
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Washington Post Co
Charlotte
N. C
Birmingham
Ala
Virginia
Carolinas
Heart of Dixie
Southland
Harding
War Weeks
Underwood
Alabama
George B. Christian, Jr
Charles E. Sawyer
Holmes
Col
Sherrill
Huntington
W. Va
Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Alderman
Jefferson
Fair
Monroe
United States
Woman seeks real mother of baby she believes was swapped
Ada M. Robbins, former Dyhart Iowa resident, suspects a Chicago hospital supplied a baby to her via spirit medium Sylvia Wheeler. Robbins, now a Spiritualist, claims a five day old girl was placed in her arms while she slept, and insists the infant is not hers. She plans a broader search in Chicago and California for the child and its biological mother.
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Washington Post
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Ada M. Robbins
Dyhart
Robbing
Chicago
Sylvia Wheeler
Profit Tax Vote Clouds Blanton Expulsion Bid
The House weighs expelling Texas Democrat Thomas L. Blanton over an obscene affidavit printed at the government printing office. Mondell seeks action while leaders move swiftly to expel or substitute a censure as the Senate hones a final repeal of the excess profits tax.
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Reed
Missouri
Associated Press
House
Thomas L. Blanton
Texas
Congressional
Government
Mondell
Wyoming
Blanton
Washington
Wheeling
W. van
Mr. Mondell
Concrete policies to meet armament limits proposed
The Associated Press reports the American delegation will submit concrete proposals at the forthcoming conference on armament limitation. A naval arms plan is included and was outlined after meetings at the State Department and with President Harding. Japanese views, noting a defensive navy, are anticipated to shape responses.
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Associated Press
State Department
Denby
Naval
Harding
Kashima Maru
Japan
Far East
Ita
Tampa Streets Flooded Three Feet by Gulf Storm
Jacksonville reports Tampa business district submerged under three feet of water due to gulf storm. Florida's west coast isolated as communications fail. no deaths yet, but lights telegraph telephone and streetcar service are out. Severe rain and crop damage reported inland around Lakeland and Plant City as highways become impassable from fallen trees.
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Associated Press
Tampa
Florida
Plant City
Lakeland
Key Shore
Bay Shore
Pensacola
Bia
Index to Today's Issue Features Wide Range of News
The page outlines topics from rail policy and wage cuts to Ireland, politics, crime, and society. It notes entries on labor, foreign affairs, education, and new schools while listing sections for sports, photos, and financial items.
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Ireland
U. of V
Harding
Congress
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Diaz
China
Briand
U.S
Guy Stillman
Financial
Newa Pictures
Charles Accepts Hungarian Terms and Exile Beginnings
Vienna and Budapest dispatches report former King Charles accepting terms from Regent Horthy and moving to the Benedictine Abbey at Tihany. Zita is said to be free to travel, while Charles faces renewed exile and possible loss of dynastic claims. rumors of asylum in Italy and assassination attempts circulate amid royalist arrests.
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Associated Press
Charles
Admiral Horthy
Tihany
Platten Lake
Whany
Sitwagid
Bugipest
Tate
Sovaros
Bimen Falvy
National Army
Charies
Budapest
Ludwig Windsch-Graetz
Zita
Italy
Maj. Ostenburg
Komora
M. Soredanyi
Hungary
Stopting
Kemorn
Charles the Rash
Girl Disappears From Ship In Colonial Sister Mystery
Miss Hloise Honfbarten 28, a stenographer from Pawtucket Rhode Island, is reported missing from her stateroom aboard the steamer Cambridge on the Colonial Sister Cambridge voyage. The crew and authorities seek clues about her abrupt disappearance while the vessel sailed toward Washington.
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Washington
Pawtucket
Hloise Honfbarten
Cambridge
Deadlock Over Erin Irish Issue Before Next Conference
London editors report a tense Irish conference stalemate as Sinn Fein seeks Irish unity before allegiance to the crown. A four member committee led by Lloyd George and Chamberlain met again without a date set for reassembly while Sinn Fein and Irish unity plans complicate the Ulster question.
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Associated Press
London
Lloyd George
Austen Chamberlain
Arthur Griffith
Michael Collins
Sinn Fein
Sean McIlroy
Sinn Sein
House of Commons
Tyrone
Hamar Greenwood
Eamon de Valera
Trablir
de Valera
Downing Street
Ireland
Germany Pays 2 Billion in Reparations Estimated
London reports Lieut. Cembady Edward Milton Young told the house of commons that Germany’s total reparations credits up to September end may total about £400 million equal to $2 billion. He cited food provisions under Spa and occupation costs including Allied forces, noting 15 gold marks per pound for calculation.
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London
Cembady
Edward Milton Young
House of Commons
Germany
Reparations Commission
Young
Will leaves girl 10 full million estate in Chicago
Marian Stewart Honeyman was named heir to the entire million dollar portion of Jean Stewart’s estate in probate filings. Jean Stewart, daughter of James K. Stewart founder of the Stewart Warner Speedometer company, died October 10 leaving seven million dollars in total estate.
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Chicago
Marian Stewart Honeyman
Jean Stewart
James K. Stewart
Stewart-Warner Speedometer Company
Belgian Reds Protest Prompt Mass Communist Meeting
In Brussels on October 25 leaders of Belgium's communist party met and issued an order amid unrest. The dispatch notes a mobilization for supporters of Sacco and Vanzetti and references a night of possible action.
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U. 8
Sacco and
Vanzetti
Brussels
Communist Party In
Belgium
Sacco
Nzetti
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