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...Louis when Public Service Co. announced a 10% wage-cut for its 3,500 streetcar employes, the motormen and conductors promptly voted to strike in protest. After two days of negotiations, city officials secured from the company and its men a tentative agreement to arbitrate...
Four suits still pend after the tunnel streetcar crash. Helen Sheehy asks $40,000. Jean Sheehy asks $5,500. Irene Roylance asks $6,500; Mrs. Margaret McCabe $50,000. Scout Watson was paid $21,500 in an out-of-court settlement; 36 others have also settled out of court, receiving $11,283.25 in amounts ranging from $4 to $2,500.-ED. Lippmann, Keynes & Strachey...
...about his neck, he would wander nocturnally among the poor and jobless of the city, sleeping and eating with them as public wards. Thus, when a committee of unemployed called at his office to complain about conditions in the city's almshouse and demand free food, clothing, rent, streetcar rides, and a dole of $15 a week, Mayor Mackey was well prepared to exclaim...
...streetcar and the automobile of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson crashed together in Washington. Mrs. Wilson was reported "shaken, but uninjured...
Promulgated by the Cabinet in the form of a decree which luckless little King Vittorio Emanuele must sign, these wage cuts will, it was estimated last week, affect 60% of the wage-earning population of Italy, including street-sweepers, bus-drivers, streetcar-conductors, postmen & postmistresses, policemen, workers on the State Railways, employes of the State Tobacco, Salt, Telephone and Telegraph Monopolies, doctors & nurses in the State Monopolies, school teachers & professors, personnel of the Army, Navy, Air Force and even of the National (Fascist) Militia, the Dictator's personal last line of defense. Explaining himself to the people of Italy...