Waterloo Engine Plant Strike Hearings Open Before Arbitration Board
Witnesses from the Waterloo Gasoline Engine company testify about a stopwatch based piecework system. They describe an endless buck passing from foremen to officers, wage cuts, and waste blamed on haste to raise earnings, with 1300 workers walking out after a July 21 shutdown.
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Waterloo Gasoline
Iroy
Marding
A. G B. Funk
Piay
A. B. Funk
Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company
Fank
Oneployer
Harding
Waterloo
Frank Sheeley
L W. Witty
Witnesses Cite Wages Cuts and Piecework Pressures at Plant
Dozens of workers testified about shrinking pay as piecework rates dropped from 30 to 24 cents an hour and from 36 to 42 cents per hour for foreman's overtime. They described missing contract copies, continued overtime, and a push for wage retests while management denied concessions.
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Wurr
Miller
Sheeley
Sheeler
Missalle
Pierework
Emory Chissier
Alraggle
G. M. Rogers
Jess
Funk
Joe
Sam Baum
Waterloo
Hkef
Witneases
Tarbel
D.C. Margritz
Ans
Mr. Johnson
Willy
Clawson
Moline
William Mattingly
Paradise
Tarbell
Mr. Sheeley
Plan to Cancel Strikes and Add Wilson to Labor League
A League of American Federation of Labor Members for Partnership and Industrial Democracy urges the president be made a member of the AFL and all strikes halted to confront a perceived threat to democracy. John J. Pierce and Tsadore Epstein helped organize the group. their earlier report proposing a six month industrial truce faced quick repudiation by James P. Holland who dismissed Epstein and Pierce from the committee.
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Ite Associated Press
New York
United States
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
League of American Federation of Labor Members For Partnership
Industrial Democracy
John J. Pierce
Tsadore Epstein
Janes P. Holland
State Federation of Labor
al Stri
Holland
Epstein
Pierce
Senate treaty progress seen as unlikely today
Washington reports little advance expected in the German peace treaty discussion as leaders foresee no major steps until next week. Senator Sherman plans to oppose the League of Nations during today’s session after the treaty is opened at 2 oclock. Engagement announced Miss Noma Smith to Benjamin Waterfield of River Minnesota, with a home wedding set for September 23 at the bride’s Baltimore street home.
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Asse
Washington
Senate
Sherman
Illinois
League of Nations
Noma Smith
Benjamin Waterfield
River
Minn
Miss Smith
Drunk Carpenter Kills Wife Then Himself in Chicago
In Chicago on September 16 Waclaw Kolarek 4748 South Wood street killed his wife Rose 32 and her mother Jennie Tejka with a 12 gauge shotgun after returning from a union meeting. He then shot himself as onlookers watched. The tragedy followed a pattern of drinking and abuse, with neighbors noting his violent temper when intoxicated. The couple’s son Joseph described his father as mean when drunk and the police investigated the liquor source.
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Chicago
Waclaw
Kolarek
South
Wood Street
Rose
Jennie Tejka
Union
Forty-eighth
Honore Streets
Mary Swajé
John Dvorak
Bouth Hoyna Avenue
Dvorak
Saar
New City Station
West Forty-seventh Street
German Deaconess Hospital
Matt Frohlich
Kolar‘eks
Joseph
Hedges School
Forty-eighth Street
Winchester Avenue
Kolin Avenue
Waterloo bank building smolders as janitor starts rubbish fire
A janitor at the Waterloo Savings Bank building attempted to burn rubbish in the heating plant causing a noon smoke outbreak that filled the block. Firefighters responded at 12 40 pouring water on smoldering rubbish after removing rags from the furnace.
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Waterloo Savings Bank
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Mickie
Chissler
Jin
Jett
C. W. Chapman
Ray C. Egwert
Ar. Chapman
J. E. Wiliams
Winnie Stevens
J. &. Jordan
Harry M. Heed
J.C. Murtagh
Wilson
A. F.of L
Hart ,Schaffner & Marx
Madras
Frank
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