Teamsters Strike at People's Gas Company Spur Violent Clashes
In Chicago on April 15 Teamsters joined a walkout of People's Gas Company workers including meter setters and repairmen. Union officials claim striking drivers violated the pact and must return. Two non union firemen were captured from the steamer Lycoming and held at strikers headquarters for hours. Police guarded the vessel as strike breakers approached while about 50 strikers waited outside the police lines.
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Chicago
Teamsters
People’s Gas Company
Teamsters’ Union
Lycoming
South Shore Carpenters Win Wage Increase Agreement
Cohasset and Nantasket carpenters avert a strike as contractors concede May 1 wage hikes. Foremen rise to 3.30 dollars a day, first class to 2.80, second class to 2.50, affecting all carpenters in Cohasset and Nantasket.
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Cohasset
Nantasket and Cohasset Contractors
Cohasset Carpenters’ Union
L Cent
Cohasset and
Nantasket
Lowell mill men push for unions books during hearings
The State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation completed verbal testimony in Lowell as it investigates the textile strike. Witnesses including William S. Southworth and John J. Connell examined on wages, production, and requests to submit union books to the board, with tensions flaring among operatives.
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Lowell
State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation
Lowell Mills
New Bedford
William S. Southworth
Massachusetts Mills
Lowell Mill Agents’ Association
John J. Connell
Tremont and Suffolk Corporation
Nourse
Lawrence Company
Boston
Lawrence Hosiery
Connell
Mr. Connell
Robert F. Conroy
Textile Council
Beamer
McVey
Dunbar
Tremont
Suffolk
Fall River
Lawrence Manufacturing Company
Boilermakers and Shipmen Demand Wages Rise
The Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders request a May 1 wage increase of about 10 percent plus eight and nine hour work rules. They seek minimum hourly rates for various trades, overtime pay at two and a half hours per hour, Saturday half-holiday pay, job travel expenses, and employment restricted to union members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New England Association of Boiler Manufacturers
Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders of America
Fitchburg Strike Settled After Arbitration Conference
The State Board of Arbitration mediated a meeting between Agent Lowe of Park Hill Manufacturing and a Mills A and B weavers committee. Striking workers, 110 in total, approved returning to work next Tuesday after accepting a 5 cent wage increase while rejecting 2.5 cent raise demands.
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Fitchburg
State Board of Arbitration
Lowe
Parkhill Manufacturing Company
North Shore Carpenters Postpone Strike In Salem
North Shore carpenters union waits for a proposed conference with master carpenters to settle wage disputes. The union seeks 50 cents more per day for eight hours, bringing $2.50 level to $3 and $2.25 level to $2.75. Some employers offered partial increases but no agreement, while work stops on several buildings and Salem Hospital faced delays. In Lynn, Painters Union demands were settled with $2.80 eight hours, and Streeter Bros. & Co. agreed to recognize the union and pay 35 cents per hour for eight hours.
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Salem
Carpenters’ Union
North Shore
Gloucester
Ocean Side
Magnolia
John W. Day
Lynn
Union 111
Master Painters’ Association
Master Painters
Nniion
Streeter Bros. & Co
Painters’ Union
Superintendent yields to Teamsters on contractor team use
D D Driscoll and union leaders met Superintendent Donovan of the street department to address alleged unfair teamsters hired by Charlestown contractor J P O Riordan. Donovan ordered all O Riordan watering carts removed under union price and conditions. Delegates praised the action and expect compliance. The Web Pressmen union named Bannigan, Kelley and Whitten as delegates to the International Printing Pressmen Union convention in Cincinnati in June.
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Donovan
D. D. Driscoll
Central Labor Union
Albert Young
Teamsters’ Union
C. P. Shea
Union
T. J. Minihan
Street Department
J. P. O'Riordan
Charlestown
O'Riordan
The
Web Pressmen’s Union
Fred Bannigan
Robert F. Kelley
F. H. Whitten
International Printing Pressmen's Union
Cincinnati
McCrane to Start Brassworkers Union Work Next Monday
George H. McCrane the new business agent of the Brassworkers' unions was instructed by the executive boards to begin organizing and business work next Monday. The committee on a permanent hall and office reported progress.
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George H. McCrane
Vanderbilts Stay Indoors During Quiet Boston Visit
The Vanderbilt couple spent their second day in private dining in their fourth floor suite with meals served publicly in the hotel. They received only a few letters and did not receive upstairs calls though Boson visitors left cards. They may attend the Horse Show opening with Alfred Vanderbilt and his wife, rumors of Mrs. Jack Gardner’s visit could not be confirmed.
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Boston
Newport
Jack
Vanderbilt
Vanderbilts to Canada After Boston Honeymoon
Reginald C. Vanderbilt and his bride reportedly planned a Newport honeymoon in spring, but the couple announced a change of plans. They will skip Europe via Boston for a stay in Canada to avoid curiosity seekers, possibly traveling to Montreal afterward.
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Vanderbilts
Canada
Newport
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Boston
Europe
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Quebec
Montreal
High Jinks in Newport After the Vanderbilt Wedding
In Newport the Vanderbilt-Neilson wedding reception sparked playful chaos aboard the ferry General. Guests including Harry Lehr Harry Payne Whitney and Peter Goelet Gerry tossed roses at women on the lower deck and mocked with a cane and a dog bark, creating lively postnuptial revelry before the General sailed to Wickford Junction.
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Newport
New York
Wickford Junction
Wickford
Harry Lehr
Harry Payne Whitney
Peter Goelet Gerry
Mr. Lehr
Drivers Form Plan For Union At Charlestown Meeting
Four hundred drivers from the market and commission house wagons gathered at Monument Hall Charlestown to discuss permanent organization. T J Minihan of Team Drivers Union 2% presided with speakers Albert Young president of the international organization William J Joyce of the Building Trades Council and C P Snex business agent of Team Drivers 91.
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Monument Hall
Charlestown
T. J. Minihan
Team Drivers' Union
Albert Young
The
International Organization
William J. Joyce
Building Trades Council
C. P. Snex
Team Drivers
Manufacturers State Position at New Orleans Convention
At the New Orleans manufacturers congress on April 15 the National Association of Manufacturers adopted resolutions on fair dealing labor rights and anti boycotts disapproving strikes while endorsing equitable adjustments between employers and employees Carroll D Wright commented on worker intelligence and rights noting both labor and capital groups should avoid militant conflict while pursuing harmony in industry
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New Orleans
Manufacturers’ Convention
James F. Taller
Cincinnati
Jones
Toledo
National Association of Manufacturers of the
United States
National Association of Manufacturers
Organization of Labor
Carroll D. Wright
Commissioner of Labor
Manhattan Elevated workers press nine hour day demand
A crisis in negotiations broke out as a committee of Manhattan Elevated employees asked for a nine hour work day. Directors refused, citing current short hours and high pay. Union president Pepper warned of a possible strike if demands are denied. The meeting occurred at August Belmont’s Interborough Rapid Transit Company offices.
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New York
Manhattan Elevated Railway
Manhattan
Pepper
Union of Manhattan Employees
August Belmont
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Employees’ Union
Cholera Strikes Pershing Troops in Mindanao
Cholera reaches Captain Pershing's forces in Mindanao with five confirmed cases and many suspected. disease suspected to have been contracted near Bacolod, captured April 8. Patients forwarded to Camp Wickara hospital. Government plans 10,000 carabaos for plantation restocking, selling at cost, using half of a $3,000,000 grant from Congress.
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Manila
Captain Pershing
Mindanao
Bacolod
Camp Wickara
Congress
Cambridge Board Rejects Riding School Permit
At a Cambridge Board of Health meeting an application by Mr. Rainey for a stable permit on Fayette Street to operate a riding school was denied after residents objected to the stable in a fashionable neighborhood.
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Cambridge Board of Health
Fayette Street
Rainey
Cambridge City Hall Janitor Charles Gay Resigns
Charles Gay Cambridge City Hall janitor plans to resign late this week after mayor removed his assistants two weeks ago leaving him to handle duties alone. Gay has long service in the office including time in the old building.
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Cambridge
Charles Gay
Cambridge City Hall
McNamee
Mr. Gay
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London
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Rue de la Paix
Paris
B. Towns & Co
Sydney
Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation
Sole Proprietors
WEB Pressmen’s Delegates
Brassworkers’ Business
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Washington Street
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J. W. Day & Son
Tremont Street
J. W. Newcomb
West Broadway
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Dorchester Avenue
Ross Bros
Hanover Street
Samuel ‘Simons
Charles Street
Boylston Street
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F. K B. Hathaway & Son
Merchants Row
M. Sheehy & Co
Edgar FE. Gould
Roxbury Crossing
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