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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1917
Page
8
Robert McRoy, former secretary of the American League and later tied to the Boston AL club, has died in Milwaukee after residing in a sanitarium since July. Burial planned in Chicago. survived by a widow and one child.
Johnny Donovan of South Boston meets Harry Carlson of Brockton in the feature bout at the Commercial Club on Friday. Carlson previously won a 12 round decision. Semi finals pit Young Buckley versus Tony Watlin, with Teddie Murphy facing Tommie O'Toole in the opener.
Stars from Keith's Boston and other theatres staged a benefit at the Hippodrome for the regimental fund of the old Massachusetts Ninth, now the 101st. Mayor Curley praised local support and noted Boston voted 300000 for soldiers dependents with plans for larger future aid.
The strike at Western Electric’s plant has been settled. Executives and Public Safety Committee leader Henry B. Endicott agreed to rehire four-fifths of the employees immediately and recall the rest as needed. The decision was approved by striking workers by a narrow majority of 11 votes.
After a 56 hour session the union voted 11 to 0 in a secret ballot to accept a partial reinstatement plan. A fiery speaker triggered turmoil and calls for reconsideration as organizers struggled to restore order. The meeting split factions and accusations flew against international officers and committee members.
Charges of alleged intimidation by Boston police and private detectives against Ferguson and Fox bakery striking employees and union pickets will be presented to the grievance committee of the Boston Central Labor Union. The central body is expected to take up the matter with police department executives.
More than 50 taxi drivers employed by the Fenway Garage at the Copley Plaza Copley Square and the Brunswick hotels walk out over wage increases and changed working conditions.
Multiple union actions and leadership changes unfold across New Haven and Bay State locals. Eight hour day and 75 cent daily raise pressed by Pioneer Lodge No. 5 with O R T and Clerks. I M Burns elected president of Bay State Lodge 102 Carmen. Local 126 Carriage Drivers vote next week. City Sewer Inspectors plan third Thursday elections. Readville Read car shops workers threaten strike over one day off in seven. John I Stevens to Washington for open shop talks with President Wilson. Julia O Connor sails to Washington for Women’s Industrial Commission session. Coal Teamsters and Chauffeurs union 68 names officers for December 9 election.
At a Reischtag main committee session on Friday Polish Deputy Sayda said Lithuanian food supplies were insufficient and mortality had risen alarmingly. He added that Poles in Lithuania suffer more under German administration than under the former Russian regime.
Street car service in St Paul was interrupted when a large crowd of men said to be union sympathizers halted all downtown cars, smashed windows and forced operators to flee. One trainman was injured resisting the mob.
Faculty Coach Earles W. Peckham reports Concord High School football went 5-3-1 this season across nine games. The team totaled 71 points for and 70 against, claiming five wins, one tie, and three losses.
Harry Lauder, on tour for war relief, tells Boston crowds at the Shubert and Majestic that America must back the Allied fight with service and sacrifice. He invokes liberty, courage, and a warning against conscientious objectors while urging support for Wilson and Allied aims.
A wartime speaker recalls the need for sacrifice and unity among English speaking peoples. He urges Britain and America to ally, contrasts peaceful postwar life with the brutal front, and tells of frontline scenes including a Highland raid and German brutality.
A wounded man describes wartime sacrifice and the call for unity amid burning world fires. He exhorts soldiers to stamp out red danger, reminds that the English speaking world must unite for good and noble aims, noting shortages in Britain and urging collective sacrifice.
Vianna Cheeney aged 17 from Somerville was arrested at Fort Strong three hours after marrying Coast Artillery private Charles F. O'Neil whom she had known ten days. The warrant was withdrawn by her mother who forgave her. Lieutenant Kennedy escorted the couple to Boston as the mother awaited at the police station.
Frank Carvello is at Cambridge Hospital with five bullet wounds and is expected to die. He left his home on Horner street to meet a “certain party” and was found later on Cottage street in East Water town. Two men named Frank Tito and Patsy Servello, both cottage street residents, were arrested but claim no knowledge of the shooting.
Eight suits totaling 400000 will be filed Tuesday by suffrage pickets against the District of Columbia commissioners, the Occoquan workhouse superintendent, and the district jail warden. Grounds are assault, illegal detention and false imprisonment. Each plaintiff seeks 50000 dollars. Attorneys include Dudley Field Malone and Matthew O’Brien.
Joseph J. Leonard of Jamaica Plain, a City Council candidate, won a warm reception at a Shawmut Club gathering in Roxbury as he touted his past public service and pledged honest council work if elected. The sermon at Fourth Baptist praised Governor McCall and Assistant AG Brown for aiding Black Americans and urged support for federal action.
Charleston West Virginia girl Nellie Kellenberger figures in the Johnson case. The indictment rested on her evidence, and Governor McCall refused extradition.
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