Cleveland Tensions Fueled by Blocking Wagon
A description of violent demonstrations surrounding a Brine company wagon in Boston during a strike. Police guard a six-passenger team as crowds shout scab threats, ice chunks fly, and the Post reporter rides all day to document non-union protection and driver Cleveland's perilous route through Merrimac, Causeway, Lowell, and Brighton streets toward the freight house.
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Haymarket Square
Cleveland
Merrimac Street
Causeway
Lowell Street
Station 3
Minot Street
Post
Brighton Street
Wiagons
Brine Company
India Street
South
Boston
John M. Cleveland
23 Strike Arrests Read Like A Street Disorder Roundup
A Boston report lists 23 arrests for disturbances in the street, with thirteen youths and men named by address. Additional arrests follow for loitering, loud outcries, and resisting officers, including a 14 year old who struck a patrolman on Merrimac street.
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Brine
India Street
Charles J. Brady
Flagg Street
William H. ‘Mullen
Norton Street
Dorchester
Alonzo Peppard
Forest Street
Roxbury
Thomas J. Casey
Loring Street
Henry L. Harrington
Rutherford Avenue
Charlestown
Jacob Shensky
Lowell Street
Richard Welch
N Street
Boston
Charles Riley
Dorchester Avenue
William Morrison
Broadway
East Somerville
Abraham Wax
Barton Street
James W. Donovan
Alpine Street
Somerville
James McKenzie
Sprague Street
James J. McCarty
Havre Street
Fred L. Rankin
Chelsea
Michael O'Donnell
Granite Street
South
Congress Street
John Parry
Julian Street
Arthur G. Woodward
Stocktom Street
Atlantic Avenue
Patrick G. Quin
Seventh Street
South Boston
John F. Cronin
Alley Street
Woodwa
William A. Buchanan
Essex Street
Sleeper Street
South Bottom
Timothy Ayes
Cambridge
Warren Bridge
James H. Roust
C Street
Summer Street
Charles Crane
Kelly
Division 3
Merrimac Street
Crane
Police Clear Private Freight Yards for Load Transfer
Inspectors Wolf and Burke answered a call and took charge to clear private freight yards so Cleveland could back in to retrieve his load. As dusk fell, a mob formed along Union street and a bottle was thrown, injuring the wagon driver and a window. Cleveland was struck by ice and the jumper once during the blockade before the procession moved under heavy police escort to the South Boston stable.
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Cleveland
Brine
Post
Scab
Wolf
Burke
Union Street
South Boston
Waterfront labor clash as lumpers strike Brine drivers
At Atlantic avenue and the Congress street yards police and guards face a noisy scene as non union drivers clash with strikers near Central wharf. A lumper mistaken for a driver joins the action then surrenders to the mob. Police struggle to clear the blocked wharf as tensions rise.
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Billy
Lumpers
Lumper
Frank Kenney
Crowd Fights Brine Wagon Run Through State Street
As Cleveland drives the Brine wagon up India and into State streets a whistle from a construction crew signals a crowd surge. Wagons jam intersections and a mob, aided by policemen, presses along two blocks behind, shouting and clashing as the procession proceeds.
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Cleveland
India Street
State Street
Card of Trade
Long Way to Freight House as Unions Clash in Boston
The scene around State Street and Quincy Market in Boston grew chaotic as police escorted a team bound for the freight yards. A driver shouted John Cleveland’s name while bystanders jeered scabs. Mounted and foot officers opened a path through crowds, then repeated actions toward the Haymarket area.
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Cleveland
John Cleveland
Union
Post
Merchants’ Row
Boston
State Street
Quincy Market
Haymarket Square
Boston & Maine
Freight Yards Robbery and Ride to Wharf
A small rouble hit the freight yards then, with the Freight Yards looted, Cleveland and his jumper quickly loaded a dray without help from shed handlers. They moved to the India street office, drove to the Philadelphia wharf, and returned. An officer noted the youth should begin after dinner.
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Cleveland
India Street
Philadelphia
Riotous chase blocks truck through city streets
A mob roared as a convoy tried to move from Indian Street toward Congress Street freight yards. Police called for reinforcements, clearing a path to Atlantic Avenue then regaining order as drivers faced taunts and a renewed blockade near Congress Street. The cap’n questioned the alert officer as the scene unfolded.
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Indian Street
India Street
Congress _ street
Atlantic Avenue
Congress Street
Mob blocks team during labor dispute in New Haven yard
A crowd blocks a freight team delaying passage as police confront a driver. A struggle ensues with a man on a car roof hurling taunts before a cop apprehends Michael O'Donnell of South Boston. He is taken to Station 6 for custody.
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New Haven
Michael O'Donnell
South
Boston
March Home of the Brine Teams in City Blockade
Crowds along India and Wendell streets confront non union Brine teams as police restrain drivers amid a chaotic march to the wharves. Aerial street battles, arrests, and a lengthy convoy ending at Rowe’s wharf mark the clash with order restored by 5:33 PM.
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India Street
American Telephone Company
Wendell Street
Custom House Square
Battery March
Telephone Company
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Stuart Robson
Henrietta Boston Museum
Roughan Hall
William J. Fern
Lawrence Street
Hampden Street
John J. Murphy
City Hospital
John Hasson
Browning
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Matthew King
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Oxford
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Fort Hill Square
Little Park
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Stockton Street
Patrick Quinn
John P. Cronin
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R. 8 S. Brine Transportation Company
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