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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1919
Page
2
Mary Pickford has decisively decided to quit the silent stage, likely for all time, announced at Pickford studios where she is finishing work on one of three final pictures in her current contract.
The Winsome star plans a spring trip abroad, likely to Brazil in April with her mother and family, then a South American tour. She may assemble a full company for United Artists films in several countries before retiring from acting to collect royalties.
Colonel William Jennings Bryan may run for President as the Labor party candidate. He issued a statement after his rival’s arrival in Washington criticizing the President for refusing a railroad employee wage increase and urging action on labor issues.
The Nebraskan attacks the President’s labor policy and calls for wage increases aligned with the cost of living. He warns against promised price reductions and argues for a temporary, proportionate wage rise funded by precise price changes. He denies talks of a presidential bid.
The New York Hippodrome closed after 412 stage hands walked out leaving the theater half full. The entire cast including 82 principals 201 chorus 94 ballet dancers 69 swimmers 44 animal trainers 12 equestrians 44 musicians and 193 ushers quit and joined Actors Equity, with many advised not to return tomorrow.
The executive council of the railroad shop crafts implies to union locals that Wilson's compromise offer on higher wages should be accepted while awaiting efforts to restore normal price levels.
A letter from union leaders warns 500000 rail crafts may strike if prices stay high, with 2.5 million railroad workers potentially joining. Officials seek Palmer and Ames measures to curb inflation, while warnings of a 90 day head to a possible walkout loom over the labor dispute.
Eight of fourteen Boston Elevated Railway communities will be allocated part of a 4 009 000 dollar deficit. The group failed to appear yesterday at the continued hearing on the Elevated situation before the special recess commission investigating the state street railway system.
Seeking parties pressed on in South Harpswell for the body of Frank J L Baxter of Brookline president of the Bridge Baxter Company leather dealers missing since last Tuesday. His boat was found at Back Bay with a note in his coat reading Im tired of life He served in the 28th Division and was wounded and gassed after Yale 1906 graduation completing Plattsburg Camp training and Devens assignments.
Railroad shopmen in the area will vote tonight on accepting or rejecting the four cent wage hike announced by President Wilson. Special meetings of local lodges of employees from the Boston and Maine, Boston and Albany, and the Northern New Hampshire lines will be held. Orders came from the grand lodge officers and federation officials yesterday.
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