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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1922
Page
2
Friday meeting to include 16 railroad labor bodies as shopmen seek aid from the four major unions. Bert M. Jewell says strike defense hinges on running safe trains and that present railroad executives avoid the president's terms, urging executives to conference in Washington August 11.
JL F Loree chairman of the Eastern Presidents Conference called Harding's new proposal for ending the rail strike an apparent demand for a complete surrender of the railroad presidents position. He cautioned his remarks were personal and no conference decision was made.
Local officials of New England railroads terminating in Boston and the striking shopmen oppose President Harding's suggestion that workers return to duties while the Railroad Labor Board settles seniority. Both sides indicated reluctance at a meeting last evening.
Experts view President's proposal as unlikely to win rail management support as they argue executives chase a law removing striking workers' seniority. The Southern Railroad conference for today was postponed to discuss the plan, with a national settlement seen as the main hurdle.
The Crow Point Club reports a rising trend in hole-in-one achievements with two members achieving the feat in one stretch. President J W Rollin and Ted Learnard provided the notable shots, one at 115 yards and another at 240 yards, fueling conversations among members.
George E. Washburn Jr., 28, of 57 Fremont Street, was wounded when a revolver in his belt discharged while he crossed from the freight to the passenger depot. The bullet struck his left heel. He joined his wife and newborn in Morgan Hospital, and the incident may prompt police action over railroad officers carrying firearms.
Friends of Charles H. McGlinchey push a hard race for Ward 5 State Legislature seat. He backed Mayor Curley in the last contest and recalls his narrow 1914 defeat by 41 votes. North End and Italian-American voters rally to his candidacy.
About 150 trimming cutters from Cutters Local 62 walked out in Lynn factories in protest of wage cuts said to range from 4 to 15 percent. The strike was unauthorized under the mayor’s arbitration plan, with union officials hoping workers return today as they seek to reopen the case. Some locals accepted arbitration-recommended reductions.
Misa Jacqueline Miller also known as Louise McCormack, said to claim Portland Maine as home, arraigned in Central Court for larceny of 55 dollars by a worthless check drawn on Warren D Trask of Boston. Arrested in Cambridge by Inspectors Flaherty and Finn. Pleaded not guilty and case continued to August 15.
Fred A. Cummings, assistant to the chairman of the Public Trustees of the Eastern Massachusetts street railway and a noted New England newsman, was among 212 men and women who recently passed the Massa.
Mr. Cummings born in Lowell in 188, graduate of St Patrick's Boys' School. He served as city editor of the Lynn Telegram and Haverhill Gazette and was a news editor on the Boston Globe. He worked with Lowell, Lawrence, Fitchburg and Worcester papers, is married, and resides at 161 Broad Street Lynn.
Funeral services for Mrs. Margret M. Brooks who died Sunday at her home 89 Call Street Jamaica Plain will be held this morning after a high mass of requiem at St. Thomas Church Jamaica Plain. Mrs. Brooks long known in the district is mother of Joseph T. Brooks of
The obituary notes of a Boston native educated in public schools and a graduate of Notre Dame Academy Roxbury state she died after several weeks of illness. Survived by husband Thomas Brooks and son Joseph T. Brooks.
Francis J. Ford a district attorney candidate told a Jamaica Plain rally last night he sent a second letter to District Attorney Thomas C. O'Brien asking by what right Attorney General Allen did not press the case against Supreme Court Justice Edward Pierce. Ford said the power to not press a case is beyond the interference of judge attorney general or Governor and that Allen's action in the Pierce case was outside the law.
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