Rail wage dispute stalls as workers strike and resist orders
President Wilson authorizes Director General Hines to consider railway shopmen wage demands on their merits, but notes the strike undermines authority. He urges workers to return and recognize union leadership, warning ongoing work stoppages threaten broader costs and transportation.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Hines
Cummins
Committee On Interstate Commerce
White House
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Senate
Senator Cumming
Railroad Administration
Toney
Unsigned Letters Draw Complaints From Editor
A note urges writers to sign their submissions for the newspaper. The editor warns unsigned letters may be discarded, equating unsigned work with an unsigned check. The message stresses accountability and personal responsibility in piece authorship.
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Mike
City in Brief Highlights Happenings Across Des Moines Area
West end bridge work and various local routines fill the city brief. Notables travel and return from business trips in Des Moines and Cincinnati. Dentists, lawyers, and public officials attend events, while auto thefts rise and a habeas corpus case unfolds in Manchester.
Waterlo o club receives navy optics kit for campaign
The Waterlo o Commercial club donated binoculars and telescopes to aid the navy campaign against U boats. Franklin D. Roosevelt assistant secretary of the navy acknowledged the gift. The note also mentions a separate Dakotas trip, local court cases, a Sixth street runaway incident, and a double Cedar Rapids wedding.
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Navy Department
Waterloo Commercial Club
Navy
Franklin J. Roosevelt
the Navy
BF. A. Jogera
J. C. Brown
W. G. Wood
Wood
George W. Wood
Cedar Rapids
Donald S. Shuey
Thelma Wazebler
Joe H. Estes
Hazel Blood
Buchanan's
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Woodrow Wilson
West End
4Th Street
Buchanan
W. BR. Law
Des Moines
Fidella
Thelma Amos
Cincinnati
J. N. LaBarre
Board of Realtors
Russell-Lanson
B. Cropper
Chicago
Milwaukee
Manitowoc
Wis
W. F. McCarty
Oskaloosa
John Fitzgerald
Frank Will
Kingsley
W. F. Kremenak
Joseph Netley
Sunmit Avenue
J. Wenner
Public Prosecutors
W. L. Harding
A. F. Bronson
Nora Springs
Clayton J.bronson
Iowa
Marshalltown
J. ©. Williams
Manchester
Jis
Waterloo
Tawai State Association of Cleaners and Dyers
Clear Lake
Lee Webert
Corp. C
Asa Smith
Kirksville
Pearl Williams
C. Torrence
Bayard Street
Dakotas
Black Hills
Sixth Street
Warry Miller
St. Francis Hospital
McCullan
C.J. Nauman
Iquor
Gladys Brockwell
Harold Lloyd Mutt
Jeff
Paramount Pictures
Dorothy Gish
Polly
Gale Henry
AND
Gaumont News
Tom
Moore
Man
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Paramount
Cedar Valley
Cedar Falls
J.L. Bailey
Cedar Falls, Ia
Independent Meat & Grocery Company
Peet’s
Onlu
Castile
Japan
Pke
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Armour’s Mi
Morris Supr
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Hamburg
Tomer
California
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