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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1910
Page
6
The council gave first reading to a transient merchants and truck vendors ordinance. It sets license fees from two dollars daily to forty five dollars yearly and imposes carload shipping fees of five dollars per car. Some council members and Mayor Rector oppose terms, with changes expected before final passage.
Gov Hadley spoke to the American Federation of Labor in St Louis on the Working Man Compensation. The rest of the day was given to reports of affiliated committees and officers.
Waterloo council votes to abolish the city detective or plain clothes officer created in 1908 during the Doty administration. Four members approve while Merriau abstains, noting merchants favored a capable officer. The position’s former incumbents include A. P. Houston and Maurice Welsh, who recently resigned.
Police conducted a sweeping citywide operation to curb a carnival of crime. Among numerous arrests, Edward Langston was detained in connection with the murder of his roommate Fred Wright a week earlier.
About 1000 church members and Christians from Waterloo assembled at the tabernacle to discuss personal work amid revival efforts. Ministers shared brief plans and urged congregations to intensify outreach, with many pastors absent due to a Congregational convention.
D G Morrow of New Castle Transfer and Storage Co. writes that Rev Mr Sunday and his workers did great spiritual work in New Castle. He urges locals to attend multiple services to reform skeptics and to open doors hearts and pocketbooks for the revival at the tabernacle.
Interest in the Y M C A basketball league grows as the fourth series of games concludes with quick matchups. Team results include No 1 over No 3 8 2 and No 2 over No 4 12 4, with more quick scores and a next series set for Wednesday evening. Harry R Lee announces a hand ball tournament for business men with singles and doubles and a regular schedule for preliminaries and finals.
The article argues the 50 dollar per day peddlers license was too high and struck down as unreasonable. It notes stock and real estate taxes show real costs well under that rate and suggests a new ordinance at two dollars a day is still too much for perishable goods.
The report notes that serving lunches is believed to attract more men, and the experiment will be tried to encourage higher recruitment.
Chicago November 15. Secret conferences between striking garment workers committees and employers failed to produce definite actions for settlement. Both sides say the strike has reached a crisis and may be settled soon.
In a fortnight the parties refuse to concede defeat. Preparations are under way for a possible siege through winter as employers plan to fill strikers' positions.
Eastside workers continue efforts to feed and clothe the needy, organizing ongoing relief campaigns and mobilizing resources for those in need.
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