Springfield trolleymen seek $5 a day wage raise
Springfield April 3 The Springfield Street Railway Company says the trolley workers union has asked for a wage rise from 3.87 to 5 a day and eight hour shifts from nine in a new contract due June 1 Platform men would get a proportional increase and other staff too The company will propose counter offers President C W Wood would not comment
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Springfield
Springfield Street Railway Company
Trolleymen’s Union
C. W. Wood
Petitions Seek Review of Massachusetts Toll Rate Decision
P etitions filed in the Supreme Court seek review of Massachusetts Supreme Court rulings that dismissed efforts by the State Public Service Commission to force New England Telephone and Telegraph Co to cancel toll rates set by Postmaster General Burleson and effective January 21. The lower court ruled the United States could not be sued as a party.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Massachusetts Supreme Court
State Public Service Commission
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
Burleson
United States
Postmaster General Sets Telephone Rates Across Nation
Petition claims the current schedule of telephone rates is illegal and in force by the Postmaster General. Lawsuits have been filed in state and federal courts, with actions in at least 25 states cited by petitioners.
Petition Seek Restraint Of Telephone Rates
Petitioners seek to restrain enforcement of intrastate telephone rates arguing users in Massachusetts and nationwide pay above legal rates under a congressional joint resolution. Court officials note granting the petition would delay argument past this term, with only three weeks remaining.
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Massachusetts
Congress
Typhoid mortality drops in major U S cities
Chicago and other large cities show the lowest typhoid rates in sanitary history according to the Journal of the American Medical Association seventh annual survey. Detroit and Baltimore are singled out for notable reductions across cities with populations over 100 000.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Association
Detroit
Baltimore
Boston
Philadelphia
New York
Cleveland
Dorchester Woman's Club Plans School Centre Concert
The Lee Club of the Dorchester Woman's Club presents a concert at Dorchester School Centre tonight under conductor George Sawyer Dunham. Soloist Bertha Lowell MacMillan and violist George Livetti will perform with accompanists Mrs. Charles F. Gettemy and Mrs. Arthur H. Davison assisting. Liberty Unit members serve as ushers.
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Lee
Dorchester Woman's Club
Dorchester
Dorchester High School
George Sawyer Dunham
Bertha Lowell MacMillan
George Livetti
Charles F. Gettemy
Arthur H. Davison
Liberty Unit
Russian Baron Rosen Flees Russia Reaches New York
Baron Roman Rosen former Russian ambassador to the United States and delegate at Portsmouth arrived in New York with his family aboard the Stockholm. He fled Russia last May to Sweden and then to the United States. He said Bolshevik rise alarmed him and endorsed President Wilson on Paris talks while praising U S minister Ira Morse Morris.
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New York
Roman Romanovitch Rosen
United States
Stockholm
Russia
Sweden
Rogen
Elizabeth
Petrograd
Baron Rosen
Wilson
Paris
Ira Nelson Morris
Germans Resist Bolshevik Offense in East Prussia
London dispatch reports German troops resisting a Bolshevik offensive in East Prussia. Telegraph despatch dated Wednesday in Berlin cites reports received there.
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East Prussia
London
Berlin
Takes Some Knack to Know When It's Ready
In Cambridge Centre Vermont on April 3 the most popular diversion in the country sections of Vermont is noted as being highly sought after at this time.
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Vermont
Patton
Maplehurst Farm
Ellen
Ruth Patton
Ellen Patton
Batavia
Columbia
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