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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1918
Page
3
More than 400 union employees of the Middlesex and Boston street railway will strike Saturday morning. They will cease work with the storing of the last cars near midnight Friday. The walkout halts work at Waltham Watch Company and Dennison Manufacturing Company plants.
An advertisement offers a free trial of a new asthma treatment at the sender’s expense. It targets all asthma forms from hay fever to chronic cases, regardless of climate, age, or occupation, and seeks hopeless cases after failures with inhalers and patent remedies. The notice urges immediate action by mailing a coupon and promises prompt relief and a permanent end to breathing trouble.
Long Manufacturing Company and several smaller concerns will be affected by the measure though details are incomplete. The note indicates broader impact on local industry and related businesses.
The executive board of Division 600 ordered a strike yesterday afternoon. The action will affect 22 cities and towns with lines from Westboro to Newton and Needham to Waretown. The dispute centers on wages after the company refused arbitration by the National War Labor Board. workers now earn 33 to 40 cents an hour, plus a 12 1/2 cent per hour bonus the company had given but which workers say is in their pay envelopes.
Melvin Kep ford of Harrisburg Pennsylvania walked into the Atlantic National Bank on Broad way and grabbed two packages each containing five thousand dollars. He fled but was pursued by bank staff and bystanders and captured after dropping one package in the street.
Western Union Telegraph Company announces that all former employees discharged over affiliations with the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America during the dispute with the union will be eligible for reinstatement. Vice-President Atkins says 650 to 700 men are affected and reemployment is aligned with government policy.
Washington August 21 The massive revenue bill is practically finished except for excess profits rates affecting about ten percent of corporations. The income tax provisions remain to be finalized, along with the three percent differential against unearned income and administrative details.
The House Ways and Means Committee adjourned to Saturday to draft final language with Chairman Kitchin and Treasury experts. They weigh two plans for excess profits tax with an 8 percent deduction plus exemptions and varying rates, or a 40 percent rate on profits between 8 and 20 percent and 70 percent above 20 percent. Treasury objects to any increase over current law. The panel also set a flat 10 percent minimum on war profits and keeps 9 percent of business under war profits tax.
The proposal would yield between 200 million and 300 million dollars more than current excess profits rates, with Treasury seeking no change. Without an alternative war profits tax, the plan would produce 800 million to 900 million dollars more than the existing law.
San Francisco August 21 The State Supreme Court denied Mooney and his counsel's petition to grant a new trial alleging district attorney malfeasance. This is the second denial since his 1920 conviction for the Preparedness Day bombing murder. Mooney awaits execution at San Quentin.
Boston will stage a large Labor Day demonstration featuring a street parade by metal trades workers. The Metal Trades Council of Boston decided at a meeting at 995 Washington Street to make the event one of the era’s great displays, led by President Richard Magee and his colleagues to highlight war effort contributions.
The Rev. Timothy J. Donovan of St. Thomas Church Jamaica Plain left for Camp Zachary Taylor near Louisville Kentucky. He will take intensive chaplain training and expects overseas duty in several weeks.
The National War Labor Board affirms the right of employees at Smith & Wesson ammunition plants to organize and bargain through chosen representatives. The ruling, made public today in Springfield Massachusetts, supports collective action amid the wartime labor dispute.
The board ordered restoration of employees discharged in violation of the award and back pay for time lost. It condemned restrictive personal contracts during the war and barred employers from firing workers for union membership or activity. Representatives to present grievances should be elected by employees near the plant, and the decision was called highly significant by Joint Chairman Walsh.
A War Labor Board principle aimed to prevent employers from forcing workers to refrain from joining unions as a condition of employment, promising workers the right to organize without retaliation.
Frederick Monroe Dyer president of the Bay State Fishing Company pleads not guilty in Superior Criminal Court to an indictment accusing him of conspiring to control the fish industry and raise prices during war times. Joshua Paine, a leading state fish dealer, also appears and with Dyer posts 2000 bail for a special October session.
Parishioners of SS Peter and Paul in South Boston gathered in the parochial school yard for a harvest party. The event featured a joyful reunion led by Rev. James A. O Rourke pastor. The party ran from afternoon into early evening finishing around 11 o'clock.
Captain N P West of Province town identifies a large catch from Hayward's Creek East Braintree as a sunfish. He notes sunfish are uncommon in New England waters though he has seen some off Provincetown in his career.
Bedford assessors announced a rate of $19.50 per thousand, down $1.50 from last year due to town economy in appropriations a larger valuation and income tax return.
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