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...Thomas Myerscough of Pittsburgh, Secretary of the Progressive International Committee of the United Mine Workers (a communist organization attempting to "bore from within" the union) applied for reinstatement in the union. The Committee on Appeals and Grievances denied his request because he had organized a "dual" union (political and industrial...
Meanwhile he had got into trouble with the United Mine Workers. He was suspended from the national organization and his district deprived of its charter for insubordination, for refusing to comply with a request for an accounting of the Kansas district's funds, and refusing to turn over its property to the national organization. He made a fight for reinstatement two years ago and was defeated. The Committee on Appeals and Grievances ruled again against Howat's appeal on the old grounds and because he had organized a "dual" union...
General Harbord stated that the Radio Corporation was the result of the "request of responsible officers of the Navy Department in Washington that there be established a strong, purely American company to engage in the business of international wireless communication, and effectively compete with foreign-owned or controlled companies in that field." By mobilizing the electric patents of the leading American concerns, the Radio Corporation, he claimed, has ended selfish and obstructive rivalry, and greatly furthered the development of wireless communication. Radio Corporation acquired the American Marconi Co. from control of the British Marconi Co., and thus saved the General...
...caused my voice to resound through the corridors. Fearing we would exchange blows, other correspondents jumped between us. There were cries of 'Throw him out!' (meaning me). The correspondent stuck to his guns. Finally I walked outside with the Superintendent of the press gallery, at his request...
Texas Affair. President Obregon applied to the U. S. Government for permission to transport troops through Texas, there being no Mexican railway running from the West to connect the two northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua. In making the Mexican Government's request known the U. S. Government issued the following announcement...