Today -100: April 16, 1920: Overalls over all

Dirty-Sounding Headline of the Day -100: 

Volunteer scabs against the railroad strike, along with their male counterparts, including Princeton and Rutgers students. The owners’ association demands that strikers return to work within 48 hours or else, although they reserve the right to fire strikers guilty of violence, intimidation, or... seditious utterances. The teamsters call off their sympathy strike after winning wage increases, averting the threat of a butter and milk famine in NYC. The feds arrest a bunch of railway union leaders in Chicago. Special Assistant Attorney General Harry Mitchell says they interfered with the health of the entire nation by stopping food shipments and prevented industry getting fuel and it’s probably “a conspiracy to aim a blow at the government.” 

In other “strike” news, people (mostly college students, it sounds like) objecting to high clothing prices are wearing overalls in protest. This movement, originating in Florida and the South, has reached New York. There will be a march on Broadway today, weather permitting.

Sen. Warren G. Harding admits that his presidential campaign committee is spending quite a lot of money, but he says it’s probably not corrupt and he thinks there are no corporate donors. He objects to Sen. Borah’s bill to limit campaign spending to $10,000 per state, because he only plans to campaign in 2 or 3 states.

Margaret Bondfield, who will eventually be the first woman member of the British Cabinet, loses a by-election in Northampton.

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