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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1919
Page
13
Workmen rapidly shape the Royal Palace and nearby hotels for the peace congress meeting. Preliminary talks between German plenipotentiaries and the five great powers will convene in the Trianon Hotel room used by the supreme Allied War Council during the war.
Describes a plain room compared with the Hall of Mirrors where the treaty will be signed. Space is tight, delegates cannot all sit, windows overlook hotel gardens with yellow and blue curtains. Two adjoining salons will be opened to expand the deliberation space as workers prepare the area.
Today workers install telephones and prepare for the congress. A wire barrier may be erected in a park corner near the Trianon Palace Hotel and Hotel des Reservoirs to control German movement to and from the conference. Paron Leisner objects to movement restrictions, possibly prompting French authorities to drop the barrier plan. The barriers would not be closed before the congress opening.
London April 7 America’s war service is the theme of a painting by Margaret Lindsay Williams. The work titled An Empire's Tribute to the Flag of Stars will be shown at the Royal Academy. Britannia with laurels kneels on the dead eagle of militarism while kissing the Star Spangled Banner, Peace hovering nearby. Williams, a pupil of Sargent, won the Royal Academy gold medal.
A nation wide strike of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers will be ordered soon after May 11. The referendum vote was overwhelmingly in favor at the New England Joint Council of Telephone Workers meeting in Quincy House. The Boston area expects strike orders to exclude New England and for no further local telephone disruption. Samuel Gompers of the AFL issued instructions. Of 18 shops struck, six settled. about 60 men returned to work. Wages sought are 33 dollars weekly plus a 10 percent rise for current earners, plus collective bargaining. The Commercial Telegraphers Local 4 vote also favored a strike, with a nationwide spread. A strike of telegraphers early next month is deemed certain. The meeting also covered sailor and soldier reemployment by Western Union, including denial of benefits and vacations until a year back with the company.
The council appointed a committee of John L. Morley of Worcester and George L. Kelley and Hugh Kane of Boston to wait upon Mayor Peters and express appreciation for his aid in ending the recent telephone strike. Representatives of the strike committee will meet New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. management today to finalize the settlement terms.
The Painters Union Local 11 in Wells Memorial voted on amendments affecting holiday time, dues and installment payments while continuing to oppose a telephone strike settlement. Separately, the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks discussed Article 27 wage conditions with a 15 percent raise under a new agreement, and other locals prepared conventions and elections with dozens of candidates and souvenir programs.
Paris report says the peace conference will present the treaty to Germany Friday or Saturday as the drafting committee worked through the day while the council of three rested from talks.
Dorchester reader corrects Post to note the 301st Engineers, formerly of the 76th Division, took part in the St Mihiel offensive. They served at the front until the armistice and remain in the army of occupation on the Rhine, attached to the Third Army.
The Associated Press reports the final action on the League of Nations covenant to begin today as peace talks continue. French Japanese and Belgian amendments are under review with progress noted in Paris, while Italian delegates Orlando and Sonnino travel between Rome and Paris to push Fiume and Dalmatian coast demands amid widespread Italian demonstrations.
Yesterday passed quietly in Paris as the Council of Three held no meetings to disentangle Italy's claims to Fiume and the Dalmatian coast. President Wilson planned a relaxed day before League of Nations talks and Versailles discussions with German delegates. Lloyd George likewise sought a change of atmosphere with the peace talks ongoing.
Army airplane J N 4 H piloted by Douglas B. Martin of Newport News and mechanic Lt H E Hall of New York landed in Cranston thinking it was a Boston suburb. A wind puff bent the propeller, a new one is needed before resuming the trip. The craft had left Mineola for the Boston parade but weather and engine trouble limited its flight.
Boston University Dramatic Club presents It Pays to Advertise at Devens. Cast includes club members and campus talent while the production aims to entertain soldiers and staff with a lively stage comedy.
The Boston University Dramatic Club presents It Pays to Advertise Tuesday evening at the Soldiers Club Camp Devens under War Camp Community Service. Directed by BU drama, the play debuts publicly in Jordan Hall May 38 with Miss Dorothy Hickie 20 in the lead and Edmund OCallahan 22 as Rodney Martin.
Paris April 27 three sets of golf clubs are in the baggage of the German delegates who have arrived at Versailles. The French government announced that the movement of the German delegates while at Versailles would be restricted. It was wise one buys victory bonds.
Brigadier General Cole spoke to St. John's Council Knights of Columbus Cambridge at their annual communion breakfast in the Thorndike School hall. He recounted Cambridge soldiers in the 26th Division and praised Sergeant Charles Dickerman for valor. About 400 members attended.
Letter to the Editor protests that army nurses from Camp Devens were not invited to the Yankee Division parade in Peabody. The writer notes nurses’ sacrifices and calls Boston to follow New York’s example in recognizing their service. The page also previews Charles D. Mitchell’s cartoon feature in next week's Boston Post Sunday Magazine.
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