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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1920
Page
8
Major-General Leonard Wood has accepted a one year appointment on the board of electors to the Hall of Fame of New York University. The move was announced to Night.
Advertisement claims a run down condition signals illness and promotes Gude’s Pepto Mangan as restoring blood to health. It describes liquid or tablet forms, urges asking druggists for Gude’s and cautions against counterfeit packaging.
The strike endangers about ten days to two weeks of food stocks as embargoes halt freight. New York Central and Harlem corridor bans choke transit, while Boston and Albany may block westbound shipments. Industry leaders warn of slowed production but hope food movement persists.
Four major railroad brotherhood chiefs issue a signed statement asserting the switchmen strike began in Chicago to destroy the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Switchmen’s Union. They say wage demands were injected to deceive yardmen nationwide and promote a one big union. The leaders urge members to uphold existing contracts while the dispute continues.
A statement signed by L. EE. SHEPPARD president Order Railroad Conductors W W G LEE president Brotherhood Railroad Trainmen W S STONE grand chief engineer Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and W S CARTER president Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen and Engine men demands penalties for members engaging in illegal strikes and states these penalties will be enforced.
Washington April 9 Virtually admitting the strike of railroad trainmen and switchmen has gone beyond union control W G Lee president of the Brotherhood of Trainmen telegraphed Representative Cooper asking if present laws apply to renegade organizations or those inciting illegal strikes Cooper a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers took the matter to Acting Attorney General Ames who said the Department of Justice is watching but has no statement yet Senate action followed as McCormick urged an Interstate Commerce Committee investigation into all un sanctioned strikes The committee chair Cummins said the probe would begin next Tuesday and may be by full committee or a sub committee”
A break in the nine day unauthorized strike of switchmen and enginemen in Chicago was announced by A A Whitney vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen after talks with striker delegates from the Chicago & Northwestern. A vote to end the strike on that road within 24 hours was expected with freight movement near normal by next week.
Mayor Peters faced a sharp interrogation as Attorney Lundy pressed motives behind appointing a new infirmary trustees board. Witnesses described poor conditions, inadequate island communications, and disputes over Donlan's resignation amid internal council conflicts and procedural rulings.
A long list of marriage intentions appears with dozens of couples from Boston and surrounding towns. Names include Henry W. Jones and Grace Hall in South Boston, George Farry and Winifred Winn in Cambridge, Adelbert Durkee and Theresa Buck in Jamaica Plain, and many others across Roxbury Dorchester Revere and more. The notice catalogs ages occupations and street addresses for each party.
N Frank age 18 nurse of 26 Mt Bowdoin Street Dorchester and Daniel J Callahan 45 gardener of 232 Brookline Avenue Brookline with Edith M Hayes 27 of 280 Conwell Street Roslindale are named in a local notices record.
Samuel TM Barne of 84 Williams Street Cambridge a salesman joins Winifred D Fairman a seamstress of 205 Ashburton Place Cambridge with Herbert R McDaniel a 26 year old jeweller of 67 Grove Street Melrose and Florence M Scofield a 29 year old clerk of 1137 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge in a listed local notice.
Youngstown Ohio April 9 With switching yards of five railroads tied up by an unauthorized strike of switchmen and engine crews steel mills
Youngstown district plants prepare to close due to coal shortage. If the strike lasts, about 35,000 steel workers will be idle by tomorrow night. The water works has four days of coal on hand, officials report.
In what was described as belated aftermath to the police walk-out, Mayor Peters approved a $4000 payment to John McCourt who lost a leg after being struck by a bullet fired by a volunteer policeman. The City Council had previously authorized the award.
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