Organized Labor Backs Regulation of Packers
Organized Labor urged full federal regulation of the packing industry. AFL counsel Jackson H. Ralston presented a bill to the agriculture committee to separate packers from stockyard ownership and to bar selling non meat products. Henry Sterling of the federation warned against outsized capital aggregations and cited alarming profits.
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Washington
Organized Labor
Jackson H. Ralston
American Federation of Labor
Case Agriculture Committee
Labor
Henry Sterling
Federation
Legislative Committee
Liberty-Purgin Shoe Plant Closes After Strike
Haverhill plant shuts down at noon after 40 packing room workers strike over foreman assigning work. The action affects 275 employees and centers on whether certain work should be done by an operative.
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Haverhill
Liberty- Purgin Company
Lynn Coal Workers Go Out On Strike
Lynn coal workers including teamsters chauffeurs and wharf men employed by Lynn dealers walked out over wages. They spurned a $5 weekly rise offer and demanded $7 more each week, with 160 to 350 men said to be involved.
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Lynn
Adrift in Lost Plane After 16 Hour Ordeal
Major Sidney E. Parker of the British army and Miss Blanche Frazer were rescued after 16 hours afloat in a seaplane. They departed Palm Beach for Bimini Island when fog halted fuel, forcing a descent. Captain Carey found them 15 miles southeast of Jupiter, exhausted but alive.
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Baltimore
Sidney E. Parker
Blanche Frazer
Hilton
Carey
Major Parker
Miss Frazer
Jupiter
Florida
Parker
Palm Beach
Bimini Island
Bahamas
Bimini
Largest illicit whiskey stills found near Acushnet raid
Internal revenue agents under Prohibition Supervisor William J. McCarthy raided a woodland site near Acushnet catching three 60 gallon and one 140 gallon stills in operation. Four mash barrels and one molasses barrel were seized as occupants were subdued with revolvers drawn during the swift seizure.
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Acushnet
Internal Revenue
Prohibition
William J. McCarthy
Discharge of Two Women After Right of Search Incident
Miss Anna Coviello of 16 Broadway and her sister Mrs Assunta Freda of 1% West Fourth Street South Boston were discharged by U S Commissioner Hayes after a four minute hearing. The pair were among the first women in the city affected by aggressive police liquor searches. Patrolman Thomas E Murphy of Broadway station accosted them near D street and Broad.
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Anna Coviello
Broadway
Assunta Freda
West Fourth Street
Boston
United States
Hayes
Thomas E. Murphy
D Street
Broad
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Educators
Daniel Duggan
Wentworth Institute For Eastern Arts
Eastern Art Association
Wentworth Institute
Massachusetts
R. O. Small
Division of Vocational Education
O. D. Evans
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Murphy
Washington St
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Washington Corner
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Bedell
Big Saturday
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