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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1913
Page
6
Lima Ohio residents debate restoring the mourners bench at Second Baptist Church as the preacher removes it, prompting questions about tradition and mourning practices in the community.
Boston Typographical Union 13 nominated candidates in Faneuil Hall for the annual officers election on May 28. Incumbents were renominated with nominees listed for president vice president treasurer secretary assistant secretary sergeant at arms. The union also voted to aid flood sufferers and pursue affiliations, conventions, and home-supply buying efforts.
The article lists nominees for multiple union positions including William C. Trump as sole board trustee nominee and John Wickens with John W. Gourlay for the Mt Hope Cemetery lot trustee. It covers auditors executive committee delegates to the ITU conventions for book and job and news branches, plus state federation delegates. It notes unopposed judges for election, six new members initiated, and a $10 donation to Aetna Mills strikers.
Two new A F L unions were instituted yesterday by local officers. Ice men formed a union at Wells Memorial building with leaders addressing the group. Department store drivers, all from two major local stores with existing grievances, also organized at yesterday's meeting.
Officers of Bottlers and Drivers Union 122 announced a three year contract granting weekly wage increases of 50 cents for inside workers, 1 dollar for teamsters, and 2 dollars for chauffeurs. The accord also envisions a gradual move to an eight hour work day.
The Journeymen Horseshoers Union met at Wells Memorial Hall to hear the wage and working rules report. The committee plans another conference with the Master Horseshoers' Association next Wednesday night after a prior rejected offer. Members seek a $3 weekly wage increase to $22 and a year round Saturday half holiday. A special meeting Friday will decide if members will report for work on Monday May 6.
At a Boston and Maine Freight Handlers Union meeting the general committee reported satisfactory conferences with company officials regarding grievances. President Michael J. White announced that all grievances at Warren Bridge yards are settled by Agent W J Doherty and General Foreman John Fitzgerald, with harmony projected moving forward.
Miss Sarah G. Flint lectured at the Museum of Fine Arts on detecting fake rugs. She explained acid and hot iron treatments destroy durability, urged checking pile roots and back color, noted old rugs used better dyes and tighter weaving, and described gilded Polish rugs as cheap in substance but rich in appearance designed for monarchs.
The Stationary Firemen's Union 243 executive board voted to strike at once against Boston Development and Sanitary Company if full union wage rates and working conditions are not granted for firemen at Spectacle Island and nearby plants. The union seeks an eight hour day for Dorchester Ice Company workers and says an agreement is overdue.
Delegates at the State Council of Wood Wire and Metal Lathers unions announce new agreements granting higher wages and improved working conditions. The increases take effect Thursday for members in Boston Quincy and Brockton.
Charles L. Titus told the Boston Hardware Employees' Association at the Y M C A building yesterday that small profits in the U S hardware trade stem from intense national competition. He noted American hardware is often sold cheaper abroad due to over production and foreign competition. The talk is part of a series of hardware talks on alternate Sundays.
The Inspectors' Protective Association of the street cleaning watering and oiling divisions held a dinner at the Langham Hotel. They completed plans for the meeting next Sunday when Sanitary Inspectors' Union members will be enrolled.
A blaze on Curzon street in Jericho Rhode Island caused about 30000 in damage to five businesses housed in a frame building used by John Nolan and James J McGlynn blacksmiths and Arthur Bourques paint shop. Seven autos and other vehicles being painted burned for 12000. Attorney General Herbert A Rice owned one car. The fire spread to a double tenement house before being checked and furniture dealer A Blanchet also reported water damage.
In Winsted Connecticut on April 27 a newspaper ad asking for a middle aged good looking widow as housekeeper for a family of grown ups attracts many replies. The ad promises steam heat electric lights a piano grafanola mandolin and weekly moving pictures. W A Pease of Lee plans to need a larger post office box to handle mail from applicants.
Paris April 27 Sailors in the French navy are described as becoming dope fiends threatening national efficiency. Admiral Belleu cites 163 opium smoking dives at Toulon and many more in Brest Cherbourg Lorient Rochefort and other ports. Opium is said to come from Indo China. An amendment imposing heavy penalties is planned, and the Minister of Marine will be questioned.
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