Plan Increase of Benefits Plan Increase of Benefits
The judiciary committee reviewed a report on workmen's compensation proposing state insurance to fund benefits and speed payments. A safety director would coordinate prevention efforts and inspect boilers and elevators with higher weekly benefits set to raise injuries benefits to $7 and minimums to $16. Supported by Holman of US Mutual Liability Insurance and Textile Council rep Tansey.
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Committee On Judiciary
Recess
Cavanagh
Dudley M. Holman
United States Mutual Liability Insurance Company
James Tansey
Textile Council of
Fall River
Credit to Czecho-Slovakia and Belgium set by Treasury
Treasury establishes credits of 6.33 million to Czecho-Slovakia and 900,000 to Belgium. The Belgian loan raises allied total to 9,016,229,000 with Belgium at 341,435,000. United States advances total of 41,330,000 to Czecho-Slovakia, funds used largely for arms, ammunition and food for Siberian forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Belgium
United States
New Republic
Siberia
Mass Meeting for Ireland on Easter Sunday
A mass meeting supporting Irish self determination will be held on Easter Sunday April 20 at the Common under the Associated Irish Societies. The event seeks recognition of the Irish republic, seating of Irish delegates, release of political prisoners and evacuation of Irish territory by British troops with Cardinal O Connell and numerous officials invited to speak. John Kelly of the Gaelic School will preside.
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Ireland
Associated Irish Societies
Republic of Ireland
Cardinal O'Connell
Governor Coolidge
United
Berlin Bank Strike Demands Pay, Weathering Negotiations
In Berlin on April 8 a large majority of organized and unorganized bank workers resolved to strike nationwide unless bank managements open talks with the national minister of labor to set a definite wage schedule and settle other disputed issues. The strike would start Thursday if demands are rejected.
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Berlin
Greater Berlin
Germany
Lawrence Delegation Heads to Meet Governor on Strike Arbitration
Mayor John J. Hurley leads a Lawrence group of city officials and business leaders traveling to Boston for a 10 o'clock conference at the State House. They will urge Governor Coolidge to press mill owners and strikers to accept talks.
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Lawrence
John J. Hurley
Boston
State House
Coolidge
Coolidge may order probe into underground maneuvres amid textile clash
Governor Coolidge may order an investigation into alleged underground maneuvres amid a textile strike clash. Police brace for violence as strikers confront mill owners' intransigence, with riots, clubbing, and revolver fire reported near The Plains. Three officers injured as Syrian strikers join the protests. Cardinal O Connell likely to stay out of the dispute. Father Waters has briefed the cardinal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolidge
John B. Prendergast
Leon
Waite
Michael A. Murphy
Timothy O’brien
Cardinal O’connell
Father Waters
Brighton Seminary
Inquiry Postponed on Lawrence Strike Probe to Next Wednesday
Governor Coolidge to confer in his office at 10 30 this morning with Lawrence city officials and businessmen about the strike. The House rules committee postponed action on Representative Stone of Boston for a legislative inquiry into the Lawrence strike until next Wednesday. Speaker Warner denied prior knowledge of the order’s introduction and declined to name the source of the alleged information.
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Legislative Committee On Rules
Stone
Boston
Lawrence
House
Joseph B. Warner
Representative Stone
Warner
Porter KE. Sargent
Harvard Liberal Club
48 Hour Week Bill Heads to Governor Coolidge
Massachusetts considers a 48 hour week and a nine hour day for women and minors in key industries. The bill passed both houses with a 205 to 5 vote in the House to forward to Governor Coolidge for final approval, with five opponents named.
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Massachusetts
Coolidge
House
Collins
Edgartown
Ellsworth
Barre
Johnson
Worcester
Mellen
Powers
Newton
Lawmakers Debate Amendments and Veto on City Bill
Representative Powers of Newton seeks postponement to print amendments and gather more information. The House rejects several amendments and kills the bill requiring furniture movers to register relocations. It also refuses to pass over the Governor's veto on widening I street in South Boston. Committee reports on foreign and domestic commerce and authorization to take the Union Freight Railroad Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
I. Street
South
Boston
Committee On Waterways and Public Lands
Peters
Commission On Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Commission On Waterways and Public Lands
Union Freight Railroad Company
High rents drive family to tents in Brooklyn
On April 9 in New York Mrs. Anna Michael of Brooklyn asked Mayor Hylan for permission to pitch tents on unused city lots for her six person family. She said a $10 rent increase is beyond their means and they cannot find cheaper housing, so they will try rent life.
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York
Anna Michael
Brooklyn
Hylan
Kin of Two Presidents Dying in Pittsfield
Mrs Sophia L Fleming aged 89 died at home of her daughter Mrs Louis K Willis 41 Newell Street Pittsfield She was a distant relative of Presidents Wilson and Taft widow of Roswell J Fleming daughter of Wheaton and Sally Taft Wilson of Dummerston Vt born there last of a family of 12 children
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Pittsfield
Sophia L. Fleming
Wilson
W. H. Taft
Louis K. Willis
Newell Street
Eternal Light at Tremont Temple Delights Audiences
The Eternal Light opened Monday at Tremont Temple under the Catholic Art Association. The vast film portrays events from the life of Our Lord, inspired by Fausto Calvaiori, with over a thousand performers and scenes drawn from famous paintings and sculptures. It draws large crowds and will run for another week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Temple
Catholic Art Association
Fausto Calvaiori
Obér Ammergau
Household health items and prices in a small ad list
A compact listing of consumer goods with prices including Lyons Tooth Powder 19c, Pyorrhocide 95c, Peroxide Hydrogen 18c, Witch Hazel pints 35c, Milk of Magnesia 39c, Hind’s Honey and Almond 39c, Hubbard’s Germicide 1.17, and Lather Brushes 2.40, plus iodine solidified 10c, among other items. Local goods appear in a vendor ad style typical of a period catalog.
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Hind
Hubbard
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Fitzgerald and
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Mer. M. J. Splaine
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Thomas H. Dowd
George Fred Williams
James T. Gallagher
Roland Sawyer
John J. Kelly
George Curran
Mellody, Niland
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Orlando
Order of Orlando
Big Smoke Circle
The
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United Cigar
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ARS
William R. Twomey
Post
Rence
Wonder Mist
Wonder-Mist
MEG. CO
Jordan Marsh Company
Palmer’s Skin
Laco Castile
Mennen
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