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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1921
Page
2
The Federal Reserve Board reports December saw further price declines and higher unemployment alongside ongoing business readjustment. It notes a continued overall improvement in general business and financial conditions as the year ends.
Lawrence January 2 Amalgamated Textile Workers of America leaders say American Woolen Company will not announce wage cuts. A. J. Muste cites lack of justification for Wood to cut wages and warns workers against divisions amid a manufacturers’ drive and Wood’s stance.
The Chicago district reports favorable progress in liquidating bank loans while farmers suffer from low prices. Retail trade holds, but movement slows. unemployment up and transportation improves. Kansas City notes slowing business but hope for a rebound. Dallas forecasts large carryovers into 1931. San Francisco sees steady crop movement and favorable livestock profits.
A fragment from Fanny Heaslip Lea's story The Vamp hints at a young heroine learning the right way to attract attention. The Boston Sunday Post Magazine will print the full tale next.
A member of the Post night desk withdraws from journalism today to devote his talents exclusively to practicing law.
Samuel C Converse resigns from the Boston Post after three years to practice law with Wells & Hale in Haverhill. Born July 15 1890 in West Somerville, he studied at Kimball Union Academy and Laconia High School, attended Boston University Law, and graduated in 1920. He serves as president and director of the Bradley Counter Company and is active in the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Early yesterday morning Cambridge police raided 18 Clerk Street and arrested ten men for being present at gambling activities.
Henry B. Sawyer of Stone and Webster endorses Representative Treadway's plan for a government tax on daily bank deposits. He says the tax would burden individuals minimally yet yield about two billion dollars annually if set at a quarter of one percent.
London meeting with several thousand transport workers unanimously backs a plan to amalgamate all non railway unions into a single federation. The proposal would pool resources and establish a central office staff under Harry Gosling, a leading figure, presiding.
Ernest Bevins of the Dockworkers Union says the new amalgamation would reach about half a million members. The plan merges dockworkers vehicle workers and stevedores but excludes railwaymen from the unified organization.
Giovanni Costello named by a prisoner at Waupun Penitentiary as planning to blow up a Cambridge police station is not known in this section. Cambridge authorities also disclaimed knowledge of the man.
The Rev Paul Revere Frothingham urged his Arling ton Street Church congregation to avoid being too conservative. He said Boston is the most conservative city in the nation and that some wish to keep things as the fathers left them. He urged that progress is the law of life and nothing can stay still.
Albany report says the decent element of New York City and New York State demand an investigation of the greater city administration. Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson and Assemblyman Joseph Steinberg, both Republicans, announce plans to ask the Legislature to convene next Wednesday for a formal inquiry. They charge the city is suffering from probably the worst and most corrupt administration in its history.
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