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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1918
Page
10
The New England boys of the 101st and 102d divisions with their supporting artillery cleared the woods of enemy nests. This action demonstrated their effectiveness in woodland combat and contributed to the day's operations.
The narrator shares a quick luncheon trick for unexpected guests. Boiled eggs are turned into a salad using the yolks mashed with butter salt pepper and Al Sauce, then returned to the whites and served on lettuce with available dressing. The Al Sauce is praised as the key to exceptional flavor unlike common stuffed eggs.
In front of Cantigny after capturing the town from the Huns the 102d and 101st Infantry went over the top at dawn to purge snipers in the woods before the American lines on the Montdidier front. Casualty lists received yesterday reflect the cost of the action.
The War Department reports 49 names with seven New Englanders among them from Connecticut and New Hampshire. Corporal Frank A. Morgan of Litchfield, Conn., is the only reported KIA. Captain Alvah Crocker Jr. of Fitchburg, Harvard graduate, is dead in France. Several wounded, missing, or prisoners include Private John G. Doocey, Private Frank Whittemore, Lieutenant Thomas W. Ashley, and others from Vermont and New Hampshire.
Official Rome despatch reports Italian and French troops on the Asiago Plateau captured Monte di Valdella and took 1500 Austrian prisoners.
Count von Hertling the German imperial chancellor will visit Vienna between July 7 and July 9, according to a Vienna dispatch to the Berlin Kreuz Zeitung.
A New England casualty list reports several soldiers and their statuses. Died of disease include Corp. Frank A. Morgan and Capt. Alvah Crocker. patients from 102d Inf and 103d Inf are named with towns in New Hampshire and Connecticut. Other notes show slight wounds and recovering statuses for listed personnel.
Textile workers strike in city mills halt cloth production for army and navy. Federal officials in Washington plan to intervene tomorrow to force workers back to work and prevent disruption of war supplies.
The textile workers union shows strong organization and peaceful picketing while mill agents resist a 5 percent wage increase. John Golden leads the union, ruling out noisy demonstrations. federal involvement is rumored as a government champion visits. Thousands pass the mills as skilled loom fixers and other workers stay loyal, signaling potential continued stoppage.
Amid wage talks, 12 000 to 18 000 workers at the United States Cartridge Company face a potential shutdown as 15 cent an hour demands linger. Police report no violence while mills like Massachusetts Tremont Suffolk Boott Merrimac Appleton Bay State and Hamilton lean toward closure if government intercedes.
In Manchester New Hampshire a labor conference is planned for tomorrow at 10 am between union leaders and Amoskeag and Stark mill agents to settle a strike that left over 18 000 workers idle. Strikers demand a 15 percent wage increase beyond the 12 1 2 percent offered. Mill officials favor arbitration by a state or federal board with a labor representative on the panel.
Clinton July 1. After 110 loom fixers at Lancaster mills walked out at noon a meeting is planned tomorrow afternoon. The strike may close the plant as some weavers halted work for loom repairs. Strikers demand a 5 percent wage increase. Current pay is 27 dollars per week.
Textile manufacturers in Lowell Massachusetts urge the Department of Labor to intervene in an threatened statewide strike that could spread across Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Federal conciliator H J Steffington in Boston has been assigned to conduct an inquiry.
Mayor John D. Ryan of Holyoke pulled nomination papers from the Secretary of State and said he would announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor in a few days. He served in the House in 1914 to 1916 and was a Democratic national convention delegate.
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