The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-19
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vote taken by workers Tn Chicago ! stockyard plants shows 2S,796 are in | favor of striking against increased | hours and lower wages, and only 3S7 l against strike.
 French Foreign Omce announced letter recently written by President to President Obregon was simply an acknowledgement of receipt of letter from Obregon announcing his taking office as president of Mex ico.
 John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, an- any attempt to reduce wages of coal miners.
 According to report from Bomar Congo Free State, natives in the district of the Congo Free trading posts.
 Pedro Zamora, one of the most for midib1e bandits operating in the west ern part of Mexico, is dead as a result of wounds received in battle with Federal troops at Zemzontla, state of Jahsco.
 German merchants have been urged by the central committee of the Ger man whoSeSale trade organization to boycott non-esSential goods of Allied countries inf1icting economic penal ties on Germany.
 c. A. Phelan, general manager and receiver of the Missouri & North Ar kansas Railroad, announced suspen- sion of operations as a result of strike.
 T- lockout of workers in the iron and metal industry, textile, shoe, brick factories, and in the sawmills in Den mark. A strike was called in retalia- ton. involving 100000 workers.
 Dodge Brothers motor car plant at Detroit reopened with a force of be- tween $500 and 4,O00 men. The plant was closed last December.
 Garcia Calderon, Peruvian Minis ter to Belgium, has resigned.
 House of Commons passed the bill authorizing collection of 50 per cent. taxon German exports.
 Revenue Agent Ernest Langley will succeed Daniel c. Chapin as Super visor Federal Prohibition Agent of the State of New York. Chapin will return to the Chicago district. 
 One immigrant agent and two sol diers were hurt and two Mexican liquor runners were woundkd in a fight in which several hundred rounds of ammunition were fired across the Rio Grande near Fl Paso. Three sacks containing 57 quarts of whis- key was confiscated.
 Work of filling Assures of Plymouth Rock, at Plymouth, Mass, was begun by workmen to protect the historic rock against the clements by g. weatherproof coating.
 SfXty-five Spanish radicals were de- ported on the steamship Mongolia, which left for Vigo, Spain.
 Green bugs have been discovered in Kansas wheat for the first time according to S. J. Hunter, entomoIo- gist of the state.
 Department of Labor announced retail food prices declined g per cent. during last month.
 Exports from the port of New York for the month of February amounted, to s2s7.7s4,46o, s11S,513,- 40 less than January, 1921. Imports totaled SOS, 4427.293, decrease of S5,0O0,000 from previous month
 Controller Craig, of New York City, annoced Interb rbourough Rapid Transit Co.,. filed a suit for $2,260,- 534 against the city under a mold contract calling for municipal help in buying improvements.
 Leading sugar refining companies of New York advanced price A cent to Sas cents.
 A resolution was adopted by the Reichstag proving for classroom study of the Versailles Peace Treaty in the advanced classes of graded schools.
 Submarine N-2, which went aground on Watch Hill reef while rnaneuvring was fioated and taken in tow for the submarine base at New London.
 Representatives of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. Ohio Grange and Ohio Farmers, Grain Dealers. As sociation meeting in Columbus ap- proved plan of American Farm Bureau for cooperative marketing of grain.
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