City Labor in Strike Mood in Boston
Boston faces a possible city employee strike after a Local 149 union meeting approved seeking International sanction to hold a strike vote. The vote covered workers in water, sewer, sanitary, paving and street cleaning within the public works department. The meeting took place yesterday afternoon at 995 Washington Street.
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Boston
Gewer
Public Works Department
Washington Street
International Teamsters’ Union
City Workers Weigh Strike Over Wage Demand
Leaders say a strike vote will follow if the city budget fails to grant a $1 daily wage increase for 2600 City Employees Union Local 149 members. Current pay is $4, budget allows $4.50, risks a citywide tieup of water systems and public works.
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Peters
International Union
Chicago
City Employees Union, Local 149
Altar Boys Battle Fire In Church Altar
In Providence on Easter, altar boys armed with kneeling cushions fought a fire behind the altar at the Church of the Epiphany Episcopal after a lighted candle toppled during crowds gathering for the communion service. The blaze was extinguished with no serious injuries reported.
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Providence
Church of the Epiphany
Episcopal
Fire damages church robes during service
A candle ignited valuable ecclesiastical robings behind the altar causing a rapid blaze. Altar boys rushed cushions to fight flames as Rev Henry Bassett urged the congregation to stay. Robings worth hundreds of dollars were destroyed and the altar partially burned. Service resumed after temporary repairs.
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Henry Bassett
Ireland leader calls for peace by British troop withdrawal
President Eamon de Valera told a Clan-na-Gael mass meeting in New York that Ireland seeks peace with Britain but will not sacrifice national identity. He asserted England can have peace by withdrawing its army of occupation and rejected revenge or becoming a catspaw for any nation.
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England
Ireland
de Valera
New York
Eamon de Valera
Irish Republic
Clan-na- Gael
Great Britain
Mundy Couple Celebrate 60 Years at Lynn Home
Captain and Mrs Charles Mundy marked their sixtieth wedding anniversary yesterday at 17 Lagrange Terrace Lynn. Captain Mundy, a retired sea captain, is 86 and his wife 84.
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Charles Mundy
Lagrange Terrace
Lynn
Munday
Easter Blizzard Grips Nebraska and Midwest Rail Lines
Lincoln Nebraska reports an Easter storm with four to six foot snowdrifts abating as temperatures rise, railways reopening main lines after demoralization. Chicago Northern Illinois Indiana Michigan endure blizzard, gales, and heavy snowfall.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Chicago
Ilinois
Indiana
Michigan
Snowstorm Strikes Chicago Area Early Morning
A winter storm hit the Chicago territory with three to four inches of snow reported. Read more details on Page 4 Third Column.
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Chicago Territory
Rockland Police Strike Aims at Acting Chief Minnis
Four Rockland officers refused to report for duty in a bid to force the Selectmen to re elect Acting Chief Archie Minnis. Minnis failed of re election as constable at the town meeting, challenging Rockland’s custom that police heads be elected constables by citizens.
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Rockland
Selectmen
Archie Minnis
Minnis
Officers strike over appointing Minnis as chief
The striking officers demand Minnis be named chief despite precedent, while Minnis refuses. Only Cornelius McHugh, sworn as a special police officer, went on duty. Others say they are not police officers and resist sworn authority. as constables they refuse street duty and plain clothes assignment.
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Minnis
Cornelius McHugh
Immigrant Pattern: Foreign War Widows Large Group Arrive
New York April 4. Foreign war widows pensioners of their governments and other non-producer immigrants, mostly women, form the larger part of new arrivals to the United States, says a statement by the inter racial council chaired by Coleman Du Pont.
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New York
Inter-Racial Council
Coleman du Pont
Women Lead Immigration Surge At The Port State
Officials at the port report women and girls constitute no less than 60 percent of recent arrivals, with women outnumbering men two to one or more in weeks past. The council links policy in foreign governments to female emigration while able bodied male workers face entry obstacles. American emigration remains male dominated as workers abandon factories mines and businesses, taking estimated savings of about 2000 per emigrant. Since the armistice 275000 have left, with about 1125000 more expected under eased passport rules and transport.
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United States
America
Miss Taft Denies Wedding Engagement Report
Miss Helen Herron Taft denies reports of her engagement to Yale professor Frederick J. Manning. She states there is absolutely no truth in the rumor while visiting her aunt in Los Angeles.
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Frederick J. Manning
Yale
Los Angeles
Helen Herron Taft
Taft
William Edwards
Engagement Reported by Local Friends of Miss Taft
Local friends of Miss Taft announced an engagement today in Cincinnati. Details of the couple and the forthcoming wedding plans were not disclosed in the fragment.
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Taft
Cincinnati
Men’s Bodies Like Magnets
Albany April 4 Thirty prisoners at Dannemora State prison were said to be “full of electricity” after illness linked to botulinus germ possibly from canned salmon. Prison surgeon Dr Ransom and Eastern medical experts investigated two deaths and vision loss among inmates. Reports say the afflicted bodies attract small metal and paper fragments.
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Albany
Dannemora State Prison
Charles F. Rattigan
Ransom
Killed While Amusing Child in Greenfield
Ted Jangro fourteen son of Mr and Mrs J P Jangro of 30 Sheldon street was found strangled at the foot of a stair banister with a cord around his neck. Police suggest he tried to amuse his three year old sister by using the cord at the top of the stairs and fell, dazing him and causing the fatal strangulation.
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Greenfield
Ted Jangro
J. P. Jangro
Sheldon Street
Easter Day Demonstrations in Ireland Fall Short of Clash
Dublin dispatch reports Easter demonstrations in Ireland did not develop into a major show of force against the government. The Associated Press notes that despite republican expectations of a strong bid, crowds remained restrained and no large scale clashes erupted on Easter Day.
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Dublin
Associated Press
Ireland
Notable Births and War Debates Mark Anniversary Page
Today's anniversaries note Elihu Yale born 1649 and Elmer H. Capen born 1838. The piece recalls 1917 U S war debate on a war resolution and a Genoa troop departure a year ago. It mentions Germany conceding rights to the Entente at Panzig and the American consulate closing at Odessa as allies withdraw from a city.
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Elihu Yale
Yale
Elmer H. Capen
Tufts
Johnson
Havana
United States
House of Representatives
Italy
Genoa
Germany
Entente
Odessa
Forecast for Boston and New England Weather
Forecasts indicate rain and cold in New England with unsettled conditions. Northern New England expects rain or snow Monday with Tuesday fair and continued cold. Southern New England has rain Monday, colder Monday night, then Tuesday fair as winds shift northwest. Offshore winds turn strong and gale-like, with rain north of Sandy Hook and cooler clearing by Tuesday.
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Vicinity
Washington
New England
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Erie
Atlantic States
Atlantic Coast
Sandy Hook
Sandy Tlook
Hatteras
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