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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1915
Page
7
A program titled Build Now aims to create employment for unemployed residents in theWorkless area by coordinating training with local firms. Officials say the effort includes apprenticeships, construction projects, and rapid placement services to reduce joblessness.
Reader Charles Judkins discovered plastering collapse and a new ceiling need at his laundry. The Post notes the Build Now campaign, led by George Morton and Henry Dennison, mobilizes state wide unemployment relief through the Clear ing House at Oxford 7000, urging Mayors to accelerate municipal work and use Ready aid for carpenters, painters, plasterers, and laborers.
Letters from New England mayors outline work projects to curb unemployment. Cambridge plans water filtration hospital tuberculous hospital expansion and a schoolhouse while liaising with private firms through a free employment agency. Somerville reports water main sewer work with doubled crews and high unemployment versus prior years. Salem expects 150 workers with a high pressure water service plus 150 more for a park swimming pool. Everett sees jobless from Boston and other cities with storm drainage work ready to start. Newburyport notes street work pending appropriation funding men. Woburn seeks gypsy and brown tail moth control and malden resumes sewer work after a $30,000 bond.
Washington February 5 The House approved the naval appropriation bill retaining the clause to build two new dreadnoughts despite protests led by Majority Leader Underwood. He warned of a possible treasury deficit next year of 35 million dollars as economy advocates cut more than 6 million from submarine, transport, and hospital ship appropriations.
The bill before the Senate allocates 144,648,902 for a construction programme including two battleships at 7,800,900 each, six torpedo boat destroyers at 925,000 each, one sea-going submarine torpedo boat at 1,400,000, eleven submarines at 550,000 each, and an oil-fuel ship at 1,140,000, plus a hospital ship at 2,500,000 and a transport at 1,106,000.
Dr Frank C Davis president of the American Medical Association of Vienna complains to the Vienna Neue Freie Presse about being molested three times in the Austrian capital for speaking English. A cafe owner ordered him to leave and a woman tried to eject him from a street car. The editorial notes 100 million English speakers and condemns the insults to American doctors aiding Austrian soldiers.
The Board of Trade appeals to local industries to reduce unemployment in the city. Mayor MacDonald sends a supplementary forestry budget to the Board of Aldermen to create work. Plans include a new bathhouse and branch library, started once approved. Holyoke lays off two week vacationing city workers, rehiring others, and has completed extensive job-creation work. Additional public works are planned as municipalities respond to the committee’s efforts.
Emperor Nicholas arrived at the Russian army headquarters at the front today to oversee operations as the czar intensifies involvement in the battlefront developments.
The Russian general staff reported fierce battles on multiple fronts including East Prussia along the Sohesehuppe and Vistula rivers with heavy German reinforcements. In the Carpathians near Dukla and Mt Wryszkow, Russian troops faced intense assaults, captured two trenches near Borjimov, and withdrew from mount positions after hard-fought engagements. The note mentions capturing two prisoners and ten machine guns, and says enemy offensive efforts near Mt Wyszkow were repulsed with heavy losses.
Paris reports night of Feb 4 5 sees German trench attempts near Notre Dame de Lorette repelled. French gain in Champagne north of Beausejour and Bagatelle in the Argonne. Alsace attack south of Altkirch repulsed. St Die bombed with four civilian deaths. Subsequent Feb 5 briefing notes activity by German aviators and trench actions near Arras Lille Adinfer Pozieres Ham and Noyon with gains and counterattacks.
Berlin states on the western front no major actions occurred besides a French probe northwest of Perthes. Russian assaults east of Memel and near Bolimow were repulsed. Since February 1 26 officers and about 61 men were taken prisoner in the Bolimow area.
Russian forces repelled German attacks along a seven mile front between Goumine and Borimov in a three day battle. German casualties exceed 25,000 with Russian losses heavy but the Russians recaptured all positions lost in the prior week and Warsaw appears safer.
A relief fund for Lithuanians in a war zone has been launched. Treasurer K Sidiaus Kas of Boston reports receipts to Feb 1 totaling 9858.24 from Lithuanians nationwide with local gifts from J G Geguzis 50.00 and others listed, bringing the grand total to 10184.24.
Berlin reports via overseas dispatch that Germany condemns Russia for treating the balloon incident as a crime. The Cologne Gazette calls for harsh reprisals against Russia war prisoners.
Melbourne reports Australia offers a further expeditionary force of 10 000 men accepted by the British government. This is in addition to reinforcements of 4000 men monthly.
Geneva reports General Von Bordungen, head of German operations in Lower Alsace, forced to retreat to Mulhouse after allied air attacks on his headquarters. A German plane fell near Basel with two officers seriously injured. In Germany, bread regulations force hundreds of bakers along frontier to close.
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