Hearing develops living wage debate across unions
The hearing outlines two bases for a living wage. Union leaders Jewell and Grable push for a minimum of 48 cents an hour and a descent hourly minimum, citing labor board conclusions and maintenance costs.
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W. Jets F Lauck
Union
Pl Grable
Jewell
Bexaid
Arthier Sturgis
Labor Board
Cests
Transporta “Tian
B. M. Jewell
Thing
Board
Whopmen
International News Wire
Washington
Watts
Ave
Unlone
Brotherhoods
Switchmen’s Union
UAL Yeast
Hla
Uaders
Washington, D. C
Aub
William J. Johnston
International Association of Machinists
Tig intaTsLaty ‘Commerce Commussion
President Faces Supreme Test of His Leadership
Fragmented text discusses President Marding facing leadership pressure amid an emergency. Critics urge him to assume control of the regional government branch while opponents question his readiness and timing. The report hints at ongoing political strain and upcoming decisions.
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Poonipinm Lia
Tavgr One
Cidetese
Declins
Congress
Andy Pe2in
Marding
Nat
Ofhce
Regialailva
Boovern- Frem
Eeuine
Iowa train crash injures photographer and two dead in Cassoon
A railroad wreck near Cassoorastinge miles north of here killed two people and injured several, including photographer George Sipcal Tus. The derailment occurred as a passenger train neared, with a motorcar collision and a short circuit sparking the disaster.
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Ibhtatcis
de Vrs
Here
Cassoorastinge
Passemger
Nan Wis
George Sipcal- Tus
Attorney Named to Fill Polk County Court Bench Vacancy
Gov Kendall appointed George Hramner as district court judge for Polk County to succeed Judge John D Wallingford who resigned to join the Panama Canal Zone bench. Brammer is expected to assume duties immediately as district judge.
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Dis Maoines Awk
George Hramner
Kendall
John D. Wallingford
Polk County
Wallingford
Panama Canal Zone
Brammer Ie
Police Judge Bears Down on Sassy Coast Police
Police Judge Galtz suspends Officer Nile Lake for 30 days after contempt ruling and order to eject attorney Yeaman from the court. Lake’s action followed a clash in the police court room. civil service commission sanctions the suspension as part of a crackdown on insubordination in the force.
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A. F. Lake
Golly
Nile Lake
Yeaman
Galtz
Think Corn Crop to Be Fed to Cattle
Sioux City Iowa August 31 With more than 7000 stockers and feed slated to go to northwest Iowa northeast Nebraska and South Dakota territory last week indications that the shipment this week will double that number Sioux City livestock men predict that most of the bumper crop of corn in the region will be fed by the growers this year The demand for stock cattle is said to be steadily increasing.
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Sloaux City
Iown
Nebraska
Dakot
Bloux City
Unik Geetinn
Plea for Bright Student Made at Teachers' Meet
A teachers’ meeting hears advocate Kilna call for education reform. He cites 660000 teachers, 200000 with no high school diploma, and 800600 lacking professional training, urging elimination of weak subjects and tighter standards to raise student progress.
Speeding Auto Kills Boy Near Sioux City
A speeding car struck 8 year old William Reames as he jumped from a buggy on a suburban road near Sioux City. Ward A Peterson 18 drove the car. his father Dr A L Peterson Omaha and Mrs Peterson were in the vehicle headed to the Black Hills. The coroner investigated and released them after questioning.
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Sioux City
William Reames
Ward A. Peterson
AL OL Peterson
Omaha
Peterson
Black Hills
Watt
Wallace announces birth of daughter Me in Des Moines
Mr and Mrs J W Wallace of Des Moines announce the arrival of their daughter Me Wallace. Me is the granddaughter of Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace. In Sioux City Iowa the Mina Bank near Aberdeen was entered by burglars at about 1 29 a m today and $1700 was stolen.
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Es Aleines
J. W. Wallace
Des Moines
Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Vo Wallace
Sioux City
Atite
Mina
Aberdeen
I. D
Wilton Convicted as Youth Quarrels with Authorities
Thelma Wilton, 44, a Black resident, is convicted amid confusion over her placement. She is too young for state reform school, jailed, or county facility, and a married woman cannot be sent to the girls’ industrial school.
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Thelma Wilton
Thes ‘Tan
Girls’ Industrial School
Marshalltoy
Rail Strike Violence Turmoil Tangles U S Rail Lines
In the wake of a rail workers walkout violence erupts on several lines. Explosions damage bridges near Cincinnati and Indianapolis. cannisters found on tracks near Alton Illinois. deputies guard property amid clashes in Missouri and Illinois. Freight service resumes on Missouri Pacific as crews return. Interstate Commerce Commission grants priority shiploads west of the Mississippi.
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Cineinnati
Alton
Jil
Ae Beadalin
Big Four Roundhouse
Indianapoulla
Chicago
New York Central Western Express Telua Chicago & Alton
Fadfrat Raurt
Miagouri
Kansan
Osawacomie
ALN
Missouri
Desuto Mo
Desuto Mo, Closed Indatatraly
Interstate Commerce Com
Terricory
Missingippi River
Four Dwellings Dynamited. Blame Lands Labor Troubles
Early today in the Garrett Haighta area four houses under construction were wrecked. foundations of other structures were loosened and windows shattered over about a half mile. Police say bombs caused the damage, with arson destroying shattered buildings to their foundations. damage estimated at 409,000.
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Vieveiani
OJ Ang
Garreltt Haighta
International News
Wilmington
Del
Fourteenth Street
Pennsylvania
President May Lay Detroit Cornerstone
President Harding today laid the cornerstone of a new Masonic temple in Detroit. He planned to visit Cleveland the next day after the ceremony and continued his itinerary in Washington and abroad.
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Detroit
Washington
DL OL
Harding
Newberry
Michigan
Cleveland
Boy Scouts Assist At Legion Convention
Waterloo scouts to aid American Legion state convention September 7 8 9 1919 as subguides guides and helpers guiding trains and entertaining delegates while information booth duties and detail work are handled under Camp Director D G Palmer who will supervise the effort
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BOY Scouts
Couts of
Waterloo
Towa
The
American Legion
D.G. Palmer
Miner Jailed in Hearin Slaying Case
Marion authorities arrest Ota Clark a coal miner for murder in the Hearin massacre near Ferrin. Prosecutors frame Clark as part of the June 22 killings, with Attorney General Brundage hailing the move as a signal to indict other suspects in Williamson County.
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Chnternational News
Marion
Ota Clark
C. K., McVawell
Soutthern Iinele Oul Company
Ferrin
Clark
Evan Herri
England Resents U S Consul Pressure on Sea Traffic
London reports Britain has withdrawn recognition of American Consul Blazer and Vice Consul Brooks based in Newcastle for pressuring British subjects seeking passports to travel on American ships. The Newcastle U S Consulate was closed and a notice announced the withdrawal of consular powers.
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London
Great Britain
Blazer
Vicw
Russell Brooks
Newerastle
United States
Newcastia
Eng
Ned
Elephants Stampede Town in Cal City
A circus herd stormed through Hanterd California near the Southern Pacific station early today. Two large bulls led the stampede raiding businesses and residences for about two hours. Citizens fled doorways seeking safety. no injuries were reported. Trains recaptured the elephants.
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Hanterd
Cal
Aug
Staphanets
Southern Pacific
T Rainers
Navy reports 16 saved from sunken cruiser Nitaka typhoon
Tokio August 81 The navy department announces this afternoon that only 1 member of the crew of the coast cruiser Nitaka has been saved after sinking off Sanghalien in a typhoon. A few bodies have been recovered as the cruiser lies on her side submerged near Be Point.
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Tokio
Navy Department
Nitaka
Sanghalien
Roxy Department
Men Seek Dangerous Missions Over Flapper Culture
United Fresh Chicago reports Dr. Paul Rader says many red blooded college men are quitting American life to become missionaries. About 460 have applied to the Nyark mission school in New York for perilous postings near closed lands like Afghanistan. They seek danger, travel, and isolation to avoid American flapper influence.
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United Fresh
Chicago
Paul, Rader
Christian Missionary Alliance
Len
United Press Today
Rader
Nyark-in-the-Hudson
New York
Hlacks
Ernest
Afghanistan
Arrests Nip Plot to Wreck N Y C Train
Police say arrests foiled a plot to damage New York Central trains after union meetings in Cleveland. The Chicago & Alton railroad faced $14 million debt with receivers named by Federal Judge Carpenter amid strikes and financial woes.
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Transportation Brotherhoods
Cleveland
Chicago & Alton’ Railroad
William G. Bierd
W. W. Wheelock
Chicago
Carpenter
Chicago & Alton
Million Dollar Fund to Defend Train Wreckers
Chicago August 31 Attorneys for the striking shop crafts union and the American Federation of Labor said a million dollar defense fund was raised for a full investigation into the arrest of four men in connection with the wreck of the Million Dollar Express at Cary Tecpotly. They claimed they would prove the wreck and probe charges that prisoners were brutally beaten to obtain confessions they later repudiated.
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Chicago
Uulong
American Federation of Labor
Cary Tecpotly
Ageel
Head of Shop Crafts Shot by Shop Worker
In Sacrament o California on August 31 William Mero president of the Federated Shop Crafts was shot and killed by H E Debolt a railroad strike breaker employed in the local Southern Pacific shops Debolt is said to have confessed and claims the shooting was not in self defense
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Sacramanto
Cal
William Mero
Ganrnimento
H. EH. Debolt
Calvi n Austin Steamship in distress near Stratford shoals
New Haven Conn Aug 91 The steamer Calvin Austin of the New Fyn Steamship company sailing from Boston to New York with 400 passengers is disabled four miles east at Stratford shoals. The vessel remains in no danger as rescue boats head to her. Arlington N H Aug 31 A hydraulic press cylinder head exploded at E I Dupont De Nemours Co injuring and likely fatally harming William Campbell Belleville, operator of the press.
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New Haven
Conn
Calvin Austin
New Fyn Steamship Company
Baston
New Yorks
Stratford Shoals
Tuga
Arlington
N. 3
E. Nl
Dupont de Nemours & Co
William Campbell
Belleville
Water cost may boost city levy
City waterwork officials filed four certificates seeking a 6 mill levy for the water fund, potentially increasing the general city levy to 62.7 mills from 2.4 mills. The earlier 4.5 mill request was treated as tentative, with officials debating whether to amend or repeal the water fund section.
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City Waterworks
Clark
Aakin
General Walter Fund
General Water Fund
Reparations Board Accepts Compromise of Moratorium Plan
Paris August 31 The Reparations Committee unanimously approves the Belgian compromise on the German moratorium proposal after a long interview with Premier Poincare. England alone supports the motion while France Belgium oppose it and Italy abstains. The plan grants relief from cash payments for 1922 and sets later 1928 terms to be discussed within 1922-23 delivery contracts for coal and wheat under German government and industrialist arrangements.
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Assortarad
Paris
M. Dubois
Poincare
John Bradbury
England
France
Belgium
Italy
Germany
Mago Stinnes
Knocked Out Once by Referee Wins Ring Battle
Tack Wray, a gentleman of color from Pyranayilie, halted Battling Jim Johnson in the second round after a dispute with the referee. Wray later resumed and won the eight-round decision in a bout marred by an apparent foul.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tack Wray
Pyranayilie
Peevers
Jim Johnson
Black
Wray
Brown
Negra Raferea
Johnson
Company Petitions for Rehearing of Coronado Coal Case
Coronado Coal company files in the supreme court a petition for rehearing of the Coronado coal case decided last June. The court had held organized labor could be sued and that the unincorporated association could be prosecuted under the Sherman act. The petition argues the facts show the alleged violence was not to restrain interstate commerce, thus overturning district court damages against the United Mine Workers.
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Washington, D. C
Coronado Coal Company
Supreme Court
Coronado Coal
Viol Tancea
United States District Court
United Mine Workers
Policeman Jailed for Violating Rail Strike Injunction
In St Louis Aug 31 Police Sergeant Oscar Steers aged 64 from Hannibal Missouri was sentenced in federal court to three months in jail and a $250 fine for violating a rail strike injunction. Arthur Cole, also of Hannibal, received six months and a $500 fine for the same offense against the Chicago Burlington and Quincy shopmen’s strike injunction.
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St. Louis
Oscar Steers
Hannibal
Jtall
Arthur Cole
Chicago
Burlington & Quincy
Wik
Funeral services for Nellie Grant held at home
Funeral services for Nellie Grant Jones daughter of General U S Grant were conducted at her Chicago home at four o clock with Dr J G K McClure of McCormick Theological Seminary presiding. Burial will take place in Springfield Ill the following day as the extended family travels by the Singing Central railroad.
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Chicago
Nellie Grant Jones
U.S. Grant
Springfield
Ell
J. G. K. McClure
theCormick Theological Seminary
Nellie Grant
White House
Algernon Sartovis
England
America
Franklin Hatch Jones
Eugene Field
Silingis Central
Johnsons Majority in Primary Grows and Richardson Winner
In California with 5 85 of precincts reporting Hiram Johnson leads C G Moore for U S senator by over 64 004 votes. Richardson leads Stephens for the Republican governor nomination by about 14 738. Los Angeles County’s Thomas Lee Woolwins leads Mattison B Jones for the Democratic governor nomination by over 20 000.
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San Francisco
Cal
California
Hiram Johnson
United States
C.G. Moore
Johnson
Moore
Friend W.ilerardson
William D. Stephens
Richardson
Stephens
Thomas Lee Woolwins
Los Angeles County
Mattison B. Jones
Glendale
Negotiations with Soviet on Economic Commission Closed
Washington officials say informal talks with the Soviet Union over sending an American technical survey commission to Russia were closed. The United States would not meet terms set by Soviet authorities for the inquiry. Negotiations involved Russian and American investigation committees.
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Washington, D. C
Russia
Bern
Tocal Exchange
Revolt of Odessa Soviet Spreads in Crimea Reported
Dispatches quote Odessa reports that an anti Bolshevik revolution has begun in southern Ukraine and is spreading into Crimea. An Odessa soviet urged citizens to unite against the communist usurpers as crowds reportedly attended the event near the port city.
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Odessa
Crimea
Hoerlin
Ukraine
The
Daily Mail
Driver and Negro Held on Liquor Charge and Steel Plant Merger Protest
In Buchagan County, Robert Cohn and Ella Flogg were arrested in Independence on illegal transportation charges related to liquor. Separately, the Federal Trade Commission filed a formal complaint opposing a merger among Midgate, Republic Iron and Steel, and Inland Steel as an unfair competition method. named respondents include Midgate Biel & Ordnance Co., Republic Iron & Steel Co., and Inland Bless companys, with 44 days to answer.
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Deanp
Robertohn
Ella Flogg
Neeresas
Mquar
Ysandora Williama
Buchagan
Cohn
Washington, D. C
Federal Trads Commission
Midgate, Republics
Intland Steel Companies
Irada Commission
Midgate Biel & Ordnance Co
Philadelphia
Republic Iron & Steal Co
New York City
Inland Bless Companys
Chi- Congo
Bro
Aa Raspondenta
Twenty Injured In Tube Train Collision In Jersey City
Twenty persons were injured today in a collision between two Hudson River tube trains near Jersey City. The trains, bound for New York, were rushed to hospitals as investigators sought the cause of the crash.
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Jersey City
N. J
Hudsonibe
New York
Bald Wins National Pub Links Championship
Toledo August 31 Edile Bald of St Louis defeated Richard Walsh of New York to win the national public links championship, edging ahead in the final rounds and securing the title.
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Toledo
Ediile Bald
Rt. Louis
Richard Walsh
New York
Sioux City Beauty Crowned Fair Queen
Sioux City resident Bonnie Murray won the Iowa state fair beauty contest as announced by Governor Kendall this afternoon in Des Moines. A separate crash in Alto killed one man and injured three others when a truck struck a milk wagon. Frank Katal, the truck driver, died from a fractured skull.
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Sioux City
Beauty
Des Moines
Mias
Bonnie Nurray
Sinux Ciy
Iowa
Alto
Chicago
Ang
Frank Katal
Mrs Candler Sails to Defend Husband in Suit
Mrs Walter Candler sails from Honolulu to Atlanta to aid husband in defense of a $100,000 lawsuit filed by Mrs Clyde E Field. She will visit Pasadeon to see her parents and plans to bring her seven months old baby girl. The Candlers separated earlier, but she chose to stand by her husband.
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Honolulu
Walter Candler
Atlanta
Clyde E.field
United States
Pasadeon
Candlers
Candler
Asa C. Candler
South
U. S. to Recognize Mexico by Oct 15, Cabinet Predicts
A cabinet official told United Press that the United States will grant recognition to Mexico by October 16. The unnamed officer, echoing the majority party’s program in Congress to be unveiled, indicated recognition is imminent as opening actions proceed.
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U. S
Mexico
Mexico City
United States
United Press
Maxsen
Congress
Rail shopmen strike declared broken by executives
New York reports the Association of Halfway Executives claims the rail shopmen strike is broken and workers are returning to jobs. Figures show 16,122 men employed in the period from last Saturday morning to Tuesday night.
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New York
Association of
Halfway Executives
Plea to Retain Army Officers Urges Immediate Action
Maj. Gen. Harbord deputy chief of general staff and Representatives Anthony California Curry urged the house Military committee to act at once on legislation. It would retain in service a number of army officers who would otherwise be dropped under the army appropriation bill.
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Washington, D. C
Harbord
Anthony
Kansas
Curry
California
House Military Committee
Officer Wounded in Leggers Battle Near Chicago
Police Sergeant Edward McAvoy was seriously wounded in a gun fight with alleged beer runners. He was reported dying today and it was not believed he would survive the day.
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Chicago
Pollee Ser
Edward McAvoy
Nine Miners Killed in Coal Mine Explosion
Victoria B C August 41 Nine miners were killed and 17 injured by an explosion in a coal mine of Canadian Collieries Dunsmuir near Cumberland Shee. A disputed from that place to ay. New York banker dies. William Alexander Nash formerly president and later chairman of the Corn Exchange Bank died suddenly in New York. Born in Hudson New York in 1840 he was connected with several financial institutions.
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Victoria
B. C
Dunsmuir, Ltd
Cumberland
New York
William Alexander Nash
Corn Exchange Bank
Hudson
Chicago & Alton stock sale at New York Exchange
Three thousand shares of preferred stock of the Chicago and Alton railroad, now under a receiver, sold at 4, off 0 1 4. Five thousand common shares sold at 3, off 2 percent at the opening of the New York Stock Exchange.
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C. & A. Stock Law
New York
Chicago & Alton Railroad
New York Stock Exchange
Lincoln Lieut. Gov. Barrows resigns guard post for vice presidency
Lieut. Gov. Pelham A. Barrows resigns his Burlington guard job to become vice president of the Nebraska Automobile Association. Cheyenne reports Gov. Carey headings the Republican gubernatorial primary to John W. Hay. Springfield notes Hatola L. Dodd declared officially dead after disappearing in 1914 at age 28. heirs gain possession of $10,090. Jacksonville covers Judge Clayton ruling shipping board vessels cannot be seized for alleged violation of prohibition laws. Chicago reports indictments of twelve including board of education members and a commerce commissioner aide for irregularities in school transactions. A final line notes a distant reference to an Atlantic event felt in Birmingham.
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Neb
Pelham A. Barrows
Burlington Railroand
Nebraska Automobile Association
Cheyenne
Wya
Carey
Shipping Board
Chicago
Board of Education
P. H. Monihan
Ninolts Commerce Commission
Freckles Begone with Othine Double Strength
Advertisement promises removal of freckles using Othine double strength. Apply night and morning for rapid fading. even dark freckles begin to disappear while lighter ones vanish. One ounce typically enough to clear skin. offered under money back guarantee if it fails.
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