Foss Urges Men Not to Quit Their Jobs
An outdoor rally near Readville hosted by John J. Connolly and Walter Brown urged workers to strike for higher wages and hours while avoiding force. Police maintained order with patrols from Stations 17 and 18. Union leaders claimed 75 Sturtevant shop workers joined the strike, and warned that nonunion production would be watched nationwide.
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Foss
Readville Street
John J. Connolly
Union 264
Walter Brown
Navy Yard
Roscoe L. Hall
Brown
Metropolitan Park Reservation
Becker Milling Machine Company
Hyde Park
National Machine and Tool Company
South Boston
Joseph Snow
Ernest B. Freeman
Sturtevant
Mr. Foss
Sturtevant Works
Willys- Overland Company
Strike at Foss Plants Could Hit Navy Yards
Labor leaders warn a Foss Sturtevant plant strike may halt blowers used on warships and affect U S navy yards. They plan to stop installation of non union products and urge unions to refuse handling Foss outputs, with a formal appeal to Boston’s labor bodies and broader allied unions.
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Navy Yards
Foss
United States
Sturtevant Blower
Hyde Park
General Executive Board
The
Machinists Union
Washington
Boston Central Labor Union
Teamsters
John Moffitt
U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor
Boston Visit Aims to End Plant Strikes at Noon
An arrival from Springfield plans to address strikers in Boston at a noon meeting in front of the plant. The effort will urge the workers to quit their jobs.
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Boston
Springfield
Holyoke Transit Workers Accept Arbitration Plan
Holyoke August 13 employees of the Holyoke Street Railway Company will accept a three member arbitration commission to settle eight days of strike differences. The union's John H. Reardon proposed the plan with one member from the union, one from the company directors, and one chosen by Governor Walsh.
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Holyoke
Holyoke Street Railway Company
John H. Reardon
Walsh
Reardon Attacks Wood at City Hall Mass Meeting
Mr Reardon addressed 2000 at City Hall in a mass meeting called by Mayor Woods. He charged Charles Wood of unfair conduct and challenged him to prove it on stage. Reardon said Governor Walsh would name a third arbitrator and that the union would reject the state board and arbitration plan. Directors took no action and Skinner called the strike a local matter to be settled without state politics.
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Massachusetts State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
P. J. Conlon
Machinists’ Union
Navy Yards
Building Trades Department of the
A. F. of L
Mr. Reardon
John H. Woods
Charles G. Wood
State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation
Wood
Reardon
Boston
Walsh
Arbitration Board
State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
Joseph A. Skinner
Slayer of 3 Wives Hanged
George Joseph Smith, known as the wife murderer, was hanged today at Maidstone after being found guilty on July 1 of murdering three wives to collect life insurance. Each victim was drowned in a bathtub soon after the wedding. The court praised the jury for its verdict and noted additional robberies in two other marriages.
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London
George Joseph Smith
Maidstone
Smith
Swindled but got his man in Boston scam case
Frank Hill of 261 Athens street South Boston was swindled out of 23.53 for a uniform deposit. He stopped payment at Old Colony Trust and the young man Pasquale Rosetta of 79 Cottage street East Boston was arrested by Inspectors O Neil and Murphy.
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Frank Hill
Athens Street
Boston
Hill
Old Colony Trust Company
O’neil and Murphy
Pasquale Rosetta
Cottage Street
East
Steamer Strikes Schooner Off Chatham Coast
Captain Robinson reports the schooner Charles C. Lister was rammed ten miles off Chatham in clear weather by an unknown steamer. The vessel lost headgear and upper stern, showed distress signals, and was towed to berth after a brief inspection of the other ship. Lister carried piling from St. John to New York.
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Vineyard Haven
Robinson
Charles C. Lister
Chatham
Lister
St. John
N. B
New York
Girl Killed In Marlboro Car Crash
Miss Evaline Quinn twenty three of 92 Sheridan street Jamaica Plain died at Marlboro Hospital after a car carrying four Boston residents struck a telegraph pole shortly before 11 p m Thursday night. William Slater Raymond Murphy of Mattapan and Miss Gertrude Egan of Jamaica Plain were in the car and returned to Boston yesterday uninjured.
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Evaline Quinn
Sheridan Street
Jamaica Plain
Boston
Marlboro
Marlboro Hospital
William Slater
Raymond Murphy
Blue Hill Avenue
Mattapan
Gertrude Egan
War era literary notes and critics in a 1917 era column
A digest of Kipling's wartime fiction and essays, Joffre’s new memoir My March to Timbuctoo, a Belgian relief book sale item, Sara Teasdale poems, Bernard Shaw commentary, naval humor on baptizing ships with champagne, and reviews from The Outlook and Warfarer's Library with brief quotations and author names.
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Joffre
Timbuctoo
Duffield & Co
Authors’ Club
New York
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Gardiner’s Journeys presents portraits of famous figures
A British review of Gardiner’s Journeys, a 40 essay collection on contemporary distinguished men. Notables include Shaw, Sargent, Meredith, Asquith, Lloyd George, Nightingale, Pankhurst, Hardy, Edward VII, and Bryan. The critic lauds the author’s insight while noting biases toward English subjects and praising the Bryan essay as prophetic.
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Gardiner
George Bernard Shaw
John Singer Sargent
George Meredith
Herbert Asquith
David Lloyd George
Florence Nightingale
Mrs. Pankhurst
Thomas Hardy
King Edward
William Jennings Bryan
Germans Free Political Prisoners in Warsaw Amnesty Declared
The German military authorities acting on Warsaw citizens committee proposal declared a general amnesty for political prisoners in Warsaw and released detainees including the noted Russian labor leader Meden.
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Berlin
Sayville
N. Y
Citizens’ Committee of
Warsaw
Meden
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Freeman
James Henderson
U. S
Dent
Becker- Brainard Milling Company
Sturtevant Company
Nathan Haskell Cole
Kipling
England
Mary Postgate
Sara Teasdale
Harper's Magazine
Mr. Shaw
Bernard Shaw
EB. B. Osborn
London Morning Post
Schopenhauer
Nietzsche
Mr. Osborn
A. G. Gardiner
Warfarer’s
ED. P. Dutton & Co
Albert Hubbard
Mr. Gardiner
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Shaw
Morton Prince
Robert G Badger
Prince
Belgium
Soosial Democrats
Germany
Michael O'Halloran
Gene Stratton-Porter
the Harvester
Doubleday, Page & Company
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Waz AX
Bad Boy
Stevenson
Rivermouth
Portsmouth, N. H
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