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Altar to Our Lady of Help, Mott St., Brooklyn, N.Y. (LOC)

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  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Mott Street is actually in Manhattan, not Brooklyn. We'll fix this in the catalog record.

Cleveland trolley car strikers at Lakeview barns (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    The Washington Times (Washington [D.C.]), May 16, 1908, (Last Edition), P. 1, Col. 3.
    - www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1908-05-16/ed-1/?sp=1&amp...
    describes the start of the strike in Cleveland and includes:
    "Cause of Strike
    The strike is the result of the refusal of the Municipal Traction Company to carry out contracts made by the Cleveland Electric Railway with its employes prior to the consolidation of the
    Cleveland electric and the old 3-cent lines.
    This contract provides that, in case the Cleveland electric secured a franchise renewal before May 1, 1908, all employes should get a raise of 2 cents an hour, with free transportation.
    The employes claimed that the security franchise granted at the time of the consolidation was a franchise in accordance with the agreement, and demanded the increase. The Municipal Traction Company disputed the claim, but offered an increase of 1 cent an hour, with free uniforms, employes to pay their own fares. Arbitration was proposed by Mayor Johnson, and it was generally believed that it would be accepted."

K. Takahira, Japanese ambassador, leaving State Dept. with unidentified gentleman, Washington (LOC)

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    K. Takahira, Japanese ambassador, leaving State Dept. in carriage with unidentified gentleman, Washington (LOC)

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