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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1910
Page
10
The piece notes money will loosen globally in four to five weeks with funds flowing to monetary centers, easing gold demand. In England electioneering may delay money returning to London in January, keeping Bank of England reserves low for two months. It warns bullish commitments should be cautious as market makers struggle to gain momentum.
The editorial notes a bear driven slide with the two leading stocks averaging 105.68 on Friday and 106.40 on Saturday. It explains large financials pulled support after Jan 1 money moved elsewhere, signaling aims for lower figures to attract buyers, aided by renewed public and foreign buying.
The report highlights shocks from the Rock Island flurry to potential Sherman anti trust actions and proposed corporate dissolutions. It notes higher money rates, appeasement of dividends, wage gains at several firms, and currencies easing as markets anticipate tighter regulation and possible policy shifts.
Dividends payable include Hocking Valley 2 percent on common and preferred, Pacific Coast Power 2 142 percent, Ex-Dividend St. L. & San Fran. first preferred, and others such as Am. Shipbuilding preferred, Bell Tel of Penn, Central Coal & Coke, Texas Central, Wells, Fargo & Co. Meetings are listed for Laclede Gas Light, Minn' l Gen. Elec., and Utah Copper among others.
District Assembly 30 of the Knights of Labor in Charlestown urges adding two members to the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration. One would represent the 6000 Boston port freight handlers and longshoremen. the other, steamship agents and stevedores. They ask Governor Draper to appoint the new members.
Andrew Verbiskue and Walter Verbiskue, both from South Boston, plus Louis Clouch of West Third Street, were attacked in a boarding house serving Polish and Lithuanian workers when two men, posing as visitors, rang the doorbell. Clouch tried to help and was slashed. The assailants fled.
Edward F. McSweeney told Boston Central Labor Union delegates that public health neglect costs lives misery and money far more than dangers from transportation commerce sea and preserved foods urging labor unions to take duty and opportunities in health defense.
John F. Tobin, president of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union, leads a 30,000 member international body founded in 1895. Based at 246 Summer Street, Boston, the union under his leadership provides extensive sick and death benefits and active arbitration. Tobin, born in Ontario and long based in Massachusetts, is a renowned labor speaker and organizer.
Boston Central Labor Union delegates condemn the pairing evil in Massachusetts Legislature urging union allies to vote for the pending measure. The meeting also studies public schools, staffing concerns, and strike impact while forming a union label section and planning a Labor Day parade.
The speaker argues that tuberculosis costs lives and money, urging the Boston Central Labor Union to form a health committee. He cites 1909 mortality data, calls for health education, and asks unions to organize workers statewide to stop the disease and protect wage earners and families.
The laborers' unions of Boston Cambridge and Brookline plan a united wage increase demand this spring. Representatives from each local will meet Wednesday night to draft the wage scale and working agreement requests to be submitted to employers.
In a May 1 push organized machinists across New England will demand an eight hour day. Six special organizers of the International Machinists Union arrive in Boston to confer with Vice President Thomas L. Wilson and be assigned to districts to spread union organization.
President Curtin of Coal Team Drivers union 68 installed the recently elected officers of Team Drivers Union 379. Edward Murray spoke as Curtin outlined craft condition concerns and plans for general betterment of the trade. Musicians Protective Union held a meeting at its Hanover street headquarters to discuss 1910 price lists for band, theatre, dance and orchestra services.
Boston Central Labor Union delegates protest Parker S. Davis proposed 28 ounce loaf and 5 cent loaf elimination. They urge Legislature to defeat the bill and to cooperate with federal authorities in prosecutions of restraint of trade and monopolistic activity driving up food fuel and clothing prices.
The Boston Central Labor Union delegates adopt a resolution protesting a Davis bill to reduce legal loaf weight from 32 to 28 ounces and to abolish smaller loaves citing hardship for the poor. A site visit to bakeries in Roxbury and Dorchester finds many stores lacking required price and size signs, with weights around 26 ounces at several Blue Hill Avenue shops.
The District Assembly 30 K of L endorsed eight hour and old age pension bills and a civil service protection bill. Thomas H. Canning as legislative agent will back measures to better Boston. An adjourned meeting is set for Feb 20 at Clyde Hall with officers to be elected. Various locals formed and re elected officers, set wage scales, and planned meetings at Barbers Hall and other venues across the city.
A Boston committee of 15 trainmen from five locals met at the United States Hotel to form Boston 15 a club for union delegates. Officers are A F Amadon chair L H Brown secretary W H Roberts treasurer with membership open to lodge presidents and a plan for a ladies night on April 10.
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