Striking Cloud Over Boston Freight Council Action Today
A crucial Boston meeting at 10 a.m. within the Chamber of Commerce will decide whether a sympathetic strike follows recent freight labor troubles. The Brine Transportation Company remains the sole signatory holdout, with unions and employers urging restraint while awaiting Brine’s stance.
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Boston
Lincoln
Chamber of Commerce
Freight Transportation Council of Boston
Minster Teamsters’ Committee
Teamsters
Teamsters’ Committee
The
Transportation Council
State Board of Arbitration
Teamsters’ Union
Brine Transportation Company
Brine
Brine Driver Targeted by Charlestown Mob Amid Wagon Showdown
A Brine Transportation drayman John Cleveland faced a volatile mob in Charlestown as union tensions sparked stones and shouts while police protected the four-wagon stand at Jameson Bros. stable. The driver, harassed at each turn, delivered goods to sheds and a Philadelphia boat amid heavy crowd disturbance.
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R. S. Brine Transportation Company
Jameson Bros
Lawrence Street
Charlestown
John Cleveland
Main
Cleveland
Rutherford Avenue
Mounted Police Use To Quell Brine Office Strike
Boston’s mounted police were deployed amid a strike by R. B. S. Brine Transportation drivers. Deputy Superintendent Hanscom led the force with crowds lining India street and Wharf, ready to protect Brine teams. Officials praised the action as moral influence and a peace measure for downtown.
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Hanscom
Robert F. Clark
Board of Police Commissioners
Clark
Freight House Blockade as Brine Teams Face Street Resistance
Atlantic avenue buzzed with protests as Brine company drays and two long-pipe loads clashed with barricades. Police cleared Congress street, while stevedores, wharves workers, and snowballing crowds delayed passage to freight sheds amid renewed demonstrations.
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Congress Street
Lincoln Withdraws From Strike Settlement
President William H. Lincoln of the Chamber of Commerce says he withdrew from any party in the Brine company strike settlement. A special chamber meeting was discussed but not called. directors decided to take no action. Lincoln emphasizes his actions were personal and not on behalf of the chamber. He says his efforts to harmonize matters were separate from the Brine dispute.
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William H. Lincoln
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Transportation Committee
State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
Lincoln
Brine Company
Brine Firm Faces Unions as Pneumonia Fails to Halt Work
Robert S. Brine struggled with incipient pneumonia but kept his stables and business moving amid a strike. Brine and Harrison Loring described ongoing overtime efforts and claimed several large firms would resume or redirect business after the disruption. Police protection by Mr. Hanscom was praised for maintaining order during the day.
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Robert S. Brine
Mr. Brine
South Boston
India Street
Brine
Harrison Loring
Toomorrow
Hanscom
Police Strike Drags On With 18 Hour Shifts Across City
Police officers have endured about 18 hour days since the strike, sleeping in station houses. Nearly 1100 officers patrolled yesterday under Deputy Superintendent Hanscom, with Captains Foster Hoffman and Cain supervising trouble districts. Reassigned personnel from Joy Street East Dedham East Boston harbor West Roxbury Roxbury Dorchester Station 12 South Boston Jamaica Plain Brighton Charlestown Pinckney districts strengthened Court Square Station. Sergeants led posts at India Street Central Wharf India Wharf Atlantic Avenue Congress Street and others. Inspector Burke oversaw 12 inspectors and Sergeant Stone commanded 36 mounted police. At noon the HRine company teams paused for dinner as patrols continued.
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Hanscom
Foster
Hoffman
Cain
Joy Street
Court Square
Dedham Street
Hanover Street
Boston
Harbor Police
West Roxbury
Roxbury
Lagrange Street
Dorchester
Court Square Station
South Boston
Jamaica Plain
Brighton
Charlestown
Pinck Bay
India Street
Fessenden
Central Wharf
Hollahan
Sergeannt Hickey
India Wharf
Pendergast
Atlantic Avenus
Rear
Arrests in South Boston and Charlestown after wagon incident
John Scott, 24, of 138 Tudor street South Boston, charged with cutting rope around a Brine wagon at India and State streets at 2 o'clock. George Whitney, 17, of 113 Tudor street South Boston, charged with throwing mud and rocks at the driver at the same corner and time. John T. Reardon, 29, of 47 Chelsea street Charlestown, charged with inciting boys to riot. arrested on India street at 3 06 p m and released.
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John Scott
Tudor Street
South Boston
India
State Streets
George Whitney
John T. Reardon
Chelsea Street
Charlestown
India Street
Scott
South Boson
State Street
Pendergast
John Reardon
Brine
Hanscom
Central Street
Milk Street
An Open Letter to R S Brine Transportation Co
William P. Cherrington writes to challenge Brine Transportation's stance on wages and hours. He argues the post undervalues workers and urges accepting the public arbitration, noting long hours, low pay, and the need for living wages to improve sobriety, family welfare, and business goodwill. He invites Har rison Loring Jr to swap places with workers to feel the injustice.
Mounted Police Charge Rioters On State Street
Mounted police and teams clashed as Brine drays moved toward depots. Riders cleared India and State streets to disperse rioters, with clashes growing more dangerous in the afternoon. A four-horse dray aided by crowds blocked the Brine team at Merchants' Row.
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India Street
State Street
Merchants’ Row
Brine Team Faces Police Charge in Crowded Boston Streets
A mob of strikers clashes with police as Brine team drivers push through crowds on India and State streets. A truck driver injures a police horse, arrests are made, and threats fly as the six Brine teams head back to the stable with mounted guards.
Strike Leaders Call Off Violence Amid Aid to Teamsters
Strike leaders directed workers to abstain from violence while merchants dealing with the R. B. Brine company were warned of union-run penalties if they switch business. Messages of support came from labor groups in Portland New York Buffalo Philadelphia Baltimore and Charleston. Oscar F. Cox stated that Loring understood the union demands and the city would benefit from fair wages and union recognition.
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R. 8. Brine Company
Teamsters
Portland
New York
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Charleston
D. C
Oscar FF. Cox
Loring
Brine Firm Declines Arbitration After Meeting Invitation
Mr. Loring said last night that the R. S. Brine company will never give up and had obtained seven new customers yesterday. He stated the company has plenty of business. Earlier a letter was received by the State Board of Arbitration from Mr. Loring on behalf of the R. S. Brine company declining to enter arbitration or respond to the board's invitation to meet for consultation.
More Firms Sign Schedule The Team Drivers Union reports signed firms
The Team Drivers Union announces that L. R. Martin Jeremiah Mahoney George E. Hildreth Dearborn Bros Solomon Mohnan Joseph P. Mc Carthy Holt Wright Co F P Grown Co F Prince J W Haynes H Gove Sons F W Webb Co P Nolan E C Blake W J Plummer Gur vey Heat Company and A F Scott Cambridgeport have signed. Officials say Brine notified President Tuttle of Boston & Maine to hand over all goods to Boston Forwarding Co as they cannot handle freight.
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L. R. Martin
Jeremiah Mahoney
George E. Hildreth
Dearborn Bros
Solomon Mohnan
Joseph P. McCarthy
Holt, Wright & Co
F. P. Grown, Co
F. Prince
J. W. Haynes
H. Gove & Sons
F. W. Webb & Co
P. Nolan
E. C. Blake
W. J. Plummer
The
Gurvey
HO TROUBLE AT ARMSTRONGS
Ef Sherbern, president of Armstrong Transfer, avoids comment on the teamsters strike. He says no strike is planned and that all he knows is what the newspapers report. Lt Freese, head of the employees' association, claims members are satisfied with their treatment.
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EF. Sherbern
Armstrong Transfer
Teamsters
Freese
Armstrong Transfer Express Company
Hospital admissions rise amid strike injuries in Boston
In the Emergency Hospital this day several strike related injuries were logged. W. J. Clarke of 278 Beston Street South Boston telegrapher suffered sprain and contusions of the left shoulder from a crush on India Street. David Goodwin 21 Morton Street a teamster was struck with a brick causing a forehead laceration. Michael Brenna of 576 Third Street a teamster with Boston Forwarding Company fractured bones of the left foot. Daniel Crowley 15 Whinboro Street a freight handler with the Nin N. H. & H. fell from a pallet spraining the knee.
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W. J. Clarke
Beston Street
South Boston
India Street
David Goodwin
Morton Street
Teamster
Michael Brenna
Third Street
Boston Forwarding Company
Daniel Crowley
Whinboro Street
Nint N. H. & H
Parrel
Boston Bill to Abolish Board for Superintendent Plan
Rep Edward L Logan of Boston introduces a bill to replace the present 24 member Boston school committee with a city wide elected superintendent and nine assistants. The measure shifts school house control to a schoolhouse commission and allows voting on the act, creating a two year term for the superintendent with a $6000 salary and $4000 for assistants. The plan emphasizes non political administration and empowers voters to approve the law.
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Edward L. Logan
Boston
Logan
New School Board
City of
Schoolhouse Commission
Eliot
Board of
Riot at Congress Street as six Brine drays are attacked
Ten thousand men surge through Congress street and Dewey square aiming at six non union Brine drivers. Mounted police and patrolmen shuttle between crowds and drays while workers threaten violence and vigil over the South Boston stable ends with the six teams safely housed.
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Dewey Square
South
Boston
Battle Imminent On The Isthmus
Jan 22 Panama reports imminent battle as Panama and Colon reinforce defenses for a possible attack before the Colombian gunboat General Pinzon arrives. General Carlos Alban is killed on the Lantaro amid exchanges with the Padilla. Lantaro sinks and Alban’s body unrecovered.
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Colon
Panama
General Pinzon
Lantaro
Chucuito
Carlos Alban
City Brevities Reports From Boston Area Accidents
At the Grand Junction wharf Joseph Germain 24 of 102 Marginal street was crushed between two railroad cars and badly lacerated his arm. Joshua H Cornell was arrested for conveying a leased diamond ring. A fire at 134 Washington street Dorchester caused 500 in damage from an overheated furnace. Ira Curtis 54 of Watertown was thrown from a two horse caravan on West Boston bridge and fractured his right leg. Thomas Toole 27 without a home fell on Howard street and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with rheumatic fever.
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Grand Junction
Joseph Germain
Marginal Street
Boston & Albany
Massachusetts General Hospital
Joshua H. Cornell
FF. &. Butler & Co
Washington Street
Dorchester
Albert Morse
Rosa Larrando
West Boston Bridge
Ira Curtis
Irving Street
Watertown
Division 3
Curtis
Thomas Toole
Howard Street
Boston Arts and Crafts Club elects officers at annual meeting
The Boston Arts and Crafts Club held its annual meeting at 14 Somerset Street yesterday with a lecture plan for February through April. 104 members and 82 crafts men progressed, sales and commissions totaled 1186.03, and officers were elected including Arthur Astor Carey as president and H Langford Warren as vice president with multiple council members and terms listed.
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Boston Arts and Crafts Club
Somerset Street
Onin Weenman
Cram
Howard Pyle
Arthur Astor Carey
H Langford Warren
Henry Whitman
A. W. Longfellow
Frederick Allen Whiting
Templeton Coolidge, Jr
Henry Lewis Johnson
H. B. Warren
J. Samuel Hodge
Frederick I. Warren
H. Heinzmayr
Hartley Dennett
John Peabody
Frederick A. Whiting
C. Howard Walker
J. Kirchmayer
Newfoundlanders Ball Decided for February 10
The Newfoundlanders Mutual Benefit Association met last night and set its annual ball for Monday evening February 10. The committee of arrangements includes Martin Kent as chairman Jeremiah Halloran as secretary J F Cantwell as financial secretary and C Dordur as treasurer.
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Newfoundlanders’ Mutual Benefit Association
Martin Kent
Jeremiah Halloran
J. FP. Cantwell
C. Dordur
Two Pedestrians Crushed by Train Near Mt Bowdoin Station
Benjamin Robinson aged 22 from Miller street and Jacob Friedman of Lauriat avenue were struck by an inward-bound express on the New York New Haven Hartford line near Mt Bowdoin station. Both were taken to City Hospital. Friedman died en route, body taken to the morgue. Robinson was pronounced hopelessly endangered.
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Benjamin Robinson
Miller Street
Jacob Friedman
Lauriat Avenue
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Mt. Bowdoin Station
City Hospital
Friedman
Robinson
Captain Silva Re elected President of Masters and Pilots
Captain John C. Silva of Boston was tonight re elected president of the American Association of Masters and Pilots.
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Silva
Washington
John C. Silva
Boston
American Association of Masters and Pilots
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William P. Cherrington
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Frank Brown
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Armstrong
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