Shipyard workers press wage raise to one dollar an hour
Skilled shipbuilding workers urge the Labor Adjustment Board on the Shipping Board to raise wages to $1 an hour with double time for overtime a year round Saturday half holidays and a 10 percent night shift bonus. They seek changes beyond the current 75 cent hourly rate after a six month settlement period linked to Delaware workers.
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Washington
Labor Adjustment Board
The
Shipping Board
Philadelphia
Delaware
Urge for More Electric Facilities in War Program
Secretary Baker and War Industries Board Chairman Baruch told the House commerce committee that shipbuilding and war efforts risk serious delays without expanded electric power in industrial centers. They urged passage of the Rims water power bill to give the President power to operate existing plants and build new ones. Baker said he does not share bias against public ownership of such plants.
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Washington
Baker
Baruch
War Industries Board
House Commerce Committee
Lieutenant Brickley Returns with German War Souvenirs
Charlestown native Lieutenant Henry A. Brickley of the 2nd Infantry U S served a year abroad and returns to Camp Dix as an instructor. He brings German crosses surgeons’ kits a French gold watch in a gas case German stamps shoulder straps a U S holster a dog collar a cigarette case and a German helmet.
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Henry A. Brickley
Charlestown
2Nd Infantry
U.S
Foreign Service Sa
Camp Dix
Brickley
John A. Brickley
Police Department
Harvard
Plattsburg
France
Chauteau Thierry
United States
Hull Gala Day Observed At Bayside Playground
Hull gala day will be celebrated today at Bayside Playground Hull under Hull Gala Day Association with hundreds of citizens and guests. From 9:30 a.m. a full day of games races water sports junior baseball exhibitions drills band concerts and dancing is planned for the afternoon and evening.
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Hull
Bayside Playground
Pumkin Island
United Sales Coast Artillery
Fort Revere
Father Donegan to Take Up Army Work
First Lieutenant John J. Donegan will leave for Camp Gordon Atlanta Ga Monday to begin work as an army chaplain. He was commissioned recently and assigned last week. A Dorchester St. William's Church curate since 1916 he is a Boston College and St Johns Seminary graduate born in North Abington with family residing there.
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John J. Donegan
Camp Gordon
Atlanta
Father Donegan
St. William’s Church
Savin Hill
Dorchester
Boston College
St. John's Seminary
North Abington
St. William's Church
Endicott Settles Cambridge Strike
Henry B. Endicott, food administrator and Public Safety Committee member, has settled the labor dispute at East Cambridge company A. Henchley & Co. The workers will return to work this morning after negotiations over wages hours and other details. No strike or lockout will occur during the war and future disputes will be referred to Endicott.
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Henry B. Endicott
Public Safety Committee
A. Henchley & Co
East Cambridge
Mr. Endicott
Schooner Elk Sinks With 250 Tons of Coal
The two masted schooner Elk, owned at Provincetown and bound from New York for Camden with 250 tons of coal, sprang a leak today and sank five miles west of Monhegan. Captain and crew of three rowed to Ram Island and were picked up and towed to Boothbay Harbor.
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Boothbay
Starbor
Elk
Provincetown
Mass
New York
Camden
Monhegan
Ram Island
Sixth marriage for prominent Portsmouth janitor
Eugene Sheafe 69, longtime Morley Button worker and janitor, wed Clara Emma Brown 44 at City Hall, the ceremony led by Rev William P. Stanley. Mrs Sheafe's West Rye home and past marriages noted as public record. Weather affected prior spouses.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Eugene Sheafe
Morley Button Manufacturing Company
City Hall
Clara Emma Brown
Sheate
William P. Stanley
Midle Street Baptist Church
Pastor Volunteering for YMCA Work Heads to Russia
The Rev Julian S Wadsworth D D pastor of the First Methodist Church in Fitchburg volunteers as one of the first YMCA workers to Russia. A linguist he will use his Russian language skills to aid American fighting forces and will depart soon for foreign service after preliminary Red Triangle training in New York.
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Fitchburg
Julian S. Wadsworth
D. D
First Methodist Church
Russia
Wadsworth
New York
Red Triangle
First Methodist Church of
Head Out Of Window Struck By Street Car Death
Nils A. Ivarson an 85 year old Roxbury man and Boston Elevated motorman was killed yesterday when he stuck his head out a street car window at Kingsbury and Washington streets Roxbury and was struck by a passing electric car on his way to work.
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Nils A. Ivarson
Codman Hill Street
Roxbury
Kingsbury
Washington Streets
Ivarson
Boston Elevated
New Regulations for Magazine Paper
Washington announces paper conservation rules from the War Industries Board. Magazines issued weekly bi monthly and quarterly must use lighter paper and cut total paper tonnage by ten percent this year. No guarantee of adequate supply. Advertising rebates tied to circulation guarantees are banned and other wasteful practices are halted.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Shortage of Pupils for Cambridge Schools
Cambridge schools face closures as student exodus to industrial jobs grows. Superintendent Fitzgerald notes record work certificates issued as students quit to work for wartime wages, leaving some schools possibly unable to reopen next month.
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Cambridge
Fitzgerald
Red Cross Arranges Food and Clothes for Prisoners
The American Red Cross said food and clothing will be provided to American prisoners by French relief agencies upon arrival at camps. To speed aid, French committees will report arrivals to the Red Cross in Berne and begin regular shipments, bypassing delays caused by camp transfers.
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Washington
American
Red Cross
Germany
American Red Cross Committee
American Red Cross
Berne
Prices Set for Reworked Wool by War Industries Board
Washington Aug 23 maximum prices on reworked wool from 46 grades of old rags were fixed by the War Industries Board. Rates range from 27 cents a pound for dark skirted cloth to 93 cents a pound for knips. Effective until Oct 1 and subject to data review, these are just below July 31 public prices.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Mellen Divorce Requested by Wife in Pittsfield
Mrs Katherine L Mellen seeks divorce from Charles S Mellen alleging repeated abuse on 1916 and 1917 and later false charges. She asks for custody of four children and 3500,000 for her and the children's support. Libel filed in Superior Court by M B Warner. children now with Mrs Mellen at Council Grove Stockbridge.
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Pittsfield
Charles S. Mellen
Katherine L. Mellen
M. B. Warner
Council Grove
Stockbridge
Mr. Mellen
Katherine Mellen
Maplewood Hotel
Auburn Judge Webber Dies by Suicide at 38
Judge Harris J. Webber of the Auburn Municipal Court shot himself at his home in Auburn Maine today. Friends attributed the act to despondency. He was 38 years old.
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Auburn
Harris J. Webber
Auburn Municipal Court
Endicott Denies Candy Claim About Boston Telephone Girls
Food Administrator Endicott repudiates a statement claiming Boston telephone operators consume 20 tons of candy monthly. He states the principal exchange girls eat about one ton a month and praises their self denial and ingenuity in creating substitutes for wheat sugar and beef.
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Endicott
Boston
Mr. Endicott
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