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Freight Handlers. By vote of 6 to 1, the convention voted to suspend from the Federation the union of railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station employees unless it should abandon claims to jurisdiction over drivers and chauffeurs, etc., who belong to another union. The delegates of the suspended union, which has 160,000 members, threatened that their union would withdraw from the Federation rather than yield...
...Dalton was once a "poor underpaid boy on Cleveland's ore docks." Now he is manager of Pickands, Mather & Co., a large ore and shipping concern, and President of the Interstate Steamship Co., operators of the second largest fleet on the Great Lakes. He is an engineer familiar with shipping problems and also a competent business man. Cleveland calls him "the silent iron-king...
Transportation. Liberals will wave sheets of figures landwards to prove that the partially government-owned railroads are solvent and should be let alone; seawards to prove that the North Atlantic Steamship combine's rates are too high. Conservatives will wave other figures to prove that the Government railways are worse than broke and should be turned over to private operators; will make only a few passes at the shipping question in the interest of large Conservative shipowners...
...Bull Insular Steamship Co., which bought one ship, the Lake Winthrop...
Sinai. Announcing that Joseph Smith Jr. had made enough revelations to last 20 years, the Yankee Moses put his faith in hard work and sermonizing. He laid out his city, instituted communal economics, established a stream of immigration from the East and Europe by steamship and handcart caravans, drove the Mormons to make their wilderness blossom as a rose with a plentiful mixture of hard sense, humor, reproach and simple sincerity. He made friends with the Indians and fenced successfully with Washington. Under him, polygamy, previously furtive, became a public duty. Men took crones and pining spinsters as well...