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...gross tons. Fares on at least the smaller six will be $125 from Manhattan to Trieste. California. At Newport News the Panama Pacific Line's new California, largest commercial ship ever built in the U. S., last week was practically ready for experimental trips. By Jan. 28 workmen will have completed her fittings and she will sail, with 751 passengers filling every one of her cabins, from New York to California ports by way of Havana and the Panama Canal...
...significance. Those men could recall the bloody Homestead Strike of 1892 when Mr. Schwab, then one of the late Andrew Carnegie's "young men" and a superintendent of the Carnegie Steel Co., was obliged to proceed violently against the steel employes. The company had ordered wages reduced. The workmen refused to work for less money and took possession of the steel 'works. The company hired Pinkerton detectives who, armed with Winchester rifles, came up the Ohio River on two barges. The workmen threw up barricades of steel billets and railroad ties, mounted a cannon on each side...
Immigration is the biggest row the Secretary of Labor has to hoe. Three years ago strict quota laws went into effect to try and keep U. S. work for U. S. workmen and not overcrowd the "land of opportunity...
Illuminating gas engineers were amazed last week. They could not account for the explosion in Pittsburgh of a gas storage tank said to be the largest in the world. Supposedly, it was empty; workmen were repairing its top. Suddenly, unaccountably, the tank, capable of holding 5,000,000 cu. ft. of gas, blew up. It caused two lesser (and full) gas tanks to explode; it blew buildings apart; it killed some two dozen people, injured several hundred...
...Vermont would need all the aid Washington and the Red Cross could send. The President sent Attorney General Sargent and asked Secretary Hoover to follow this week. The Vermont Emergency Board, established in 1923, met for the first time. Governor Smith of neighboring New York, sent over truckloads of workmen & supplies. Army planes flew from Boston, under Major General Preston Brown, to Vermont's assistance, carrying mail & medicines...