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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1919
Page
8
George C. Jee of Lee Higginson Co. urged Boston business leaders at a luncheon to back a drive for 174000 to wipe deficits on the Boston Y M C A plant. He said men must visualize the association's impact on manhood and will fund to their means.
Storm clouds of a general strike of about 35 000 textile mill workers in Lawrence gathered as employees of two of four major American Woolen Company mills voted in secret ballots to reject a company 48 hour work week with 48 hours pay.
The campaign committee reports $83 629 raised with $30 000 needed daily over three remaining days. Major gifts include Lee Higginson Company 5100, William H. Wellington 1670, and others from businessmen and firms across Boston, aiming to push the drive to victory. The hearing on the New England Telephone toll rates is postponed to allow a new permanent injunction bill.
In a third mill, 12 to 7 delegates vote to accept the 48 hour with 54 hours pay proposal, provoking anger among workers who feel the delegates misrepresented them. The Prospect mill votes tomorrow. a nationwide push for a 48 hour week with 54 hours pay looms as a general strike threat grows.
About 300 Boston and New England soldiers arrived in Hoboken aboard the transport Mongolia from France. The wounded unit shouted a nickname “Flat-foot farm” as they docked, insisting to tell folks at home they survived the worst and can endure anything.
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