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.TRADES UNION LEAGUE TO
GREET MRS. ROBINS
A dinner to welcome home Mrs.
Raymond Robins, who has been in
the east for the past four months,
and in honor of members of the na
tional executive board, who will hold
a meeting in Chicago on January
22, 23 and 24, will be given this
evening at Hull House by the
Women's Trade Union league of Chi
cago. Guests of honor will be Mrs.
Raymond Robins, national president;
Miss Melinda Scott, New York, vice
president, recently appointed by
Gov. Whitman of New York as mem
ber of the state industrial council,
the only woman serving in this ca
pacity; Miss Mabel Gillespie, sec'y of
the Boston league, member of Mas
sachusetts minimum wage com'n;
Miss Rose Schneidennan, who con
ducted the successful general strike
of the white goods workers in New
York three years ago; Miss Louisa
Mittelstadt, sec'y Kansas City league,.
and Miss Nellie A. Quick, sec y St
Louis league.
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FORMER EASTLAND OFFICERS
SAY STEAMER WAS SAFE
Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 22.
Testimony of three former com
manders of the steamer Eastland in
the preliminary hearing of six in
dicted officials, charged with crim
inal negligence inv connection with
the Chicago river disaster last July,
was to the effect that the boat Was
a first-class craft, seaworthy in
every respect and among the best
boats plying the great lakes.
Capt Claude M. Bnnis, master of
the Eastland in 1913, who brought
the boat to Chicago from Cleveland
in the spring of 1914, praised the
steamer in his testimony- in U. S.
district court this morning.
"In all the time I had charge of
the Eastland," he said, "she never
showed any signs of beiog unsea
worthy. When L brought her to
Xaka MichiganJ-had her.Dassenger 1
allowance increased from 2,000 to
2,200, for I believed her perfectly ca
pable of carrying that many persons
safely."
Joseph A. Shay, first officer of the
Eastland in 1905, and Albert R. Jef
ferson, first officer in 1904, both tes
tified that the Eastland appeared
perfectly seaworthy while they op
erated her.
NEW YORK DELEGATES TO HOBO
CONVENTION PINCHED
St Louis, Jan. 22. It looks bad for
the Empire state. Its two delegates,
G. Harvey Stork and Charlie Shea,
to the national convention of hoboes
in St Louis, were nipped off a boxcar
In Pennsylvania yesterday and settled
in jail for six months.
Dr. James Eads Dow, millionaire
hobo and president of the organiza
tion, got into town today and at once
began pleading by wire .with the.sen
tencing magistrate at Jenkinstown,
Pa., for the release of the delegates.
How said reports from all sections
Of the country indicated the attend
ance at the convention, to be held
here Jan. 25 to 28, would break all
records. He said he expected the de
tention of other delegates who have
Btarted on their side door Pullman
trips.
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PROSPECT OF ANTHRACITE COAL
STRIKE DIM
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 22. Pros
pects that coal strikes will be avoided
this Bpring are brighter now. Two
developments in connection with the
convention of the United Mine Work
ers of America in session here caused
miner leaders to take this view.
President White announced that in
Indianapolis are representatives of
one of the biggest financial institu
tions of this country watching the
convention, having received a cable
gram from one of the allied warring
nations to watch and learn whether
America is to suffer an industrial war
hat would affect the. manufacture, of
war munitions.
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