No Settlement of Car Strike Delayed to Next Week
Governor's office says resuming car service by Saturday is a physical impossibility while leaders on both sides express hope for an early settlement. A local arbitration board may be formed, with steam train and jitney service expanding as crews stay at posts to handle emergencies.
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Boston
Carmen's Union
B. Loring Young
Weston
Whiteside
Carmen
New Haven
Forest Hills
Back Bay
Heath Street
Boylston Street
Jamaica Plain
Dorchester
Mattapan
Boston & Albany
Riverside
Union officers say committee cannot order men back to work
John H. Reardon and Thomas F. Shine assert the union committee lacks power to force workers back. They contend mass meeting is physically impossible before this afternoon or tonight, even if agreement on a third arbitrator is reached at the governor's conference this morning.
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John H. Reardon
Thomas F. Shine
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America
James H. Vahey
Matthew J. Higgins
William J. Timmins
Charles H. Clark
Timothy J. Mahoney
John J. Cronin
Reardon
Shine
Boston Car Strike Strives for Arbitration Amid Citywide Tieup
As Boston endures a citywide streetcar strike, officials pursue arbitration to end the stoppage. Governor Coolidge and Acting Mayor Ford push a local board with James H. Mahey for Carmen and J Ware Barnum for the Elevated as Taft backstops, while Charlton Ogburn may serve as arbitrator. Detours, rail specials, and mass transit crowding define a tense day of talks and transport disruption.
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Ford
Coolidge
Carmen
James H. Mahey
Carmén
J. Ware Barnum
Elevated
Bitro-Phosphate Advised for Doctors and Hospitals
An advertisement urges physicians to prescribe Bitro-Phosphate for patients who are thin and nervous, claiming substantial weight gain and health benefits. It cites tests at St Catherine's Hospital and endorsements from Frederick Kolle M D and Joseph Harrigan, insisting the product is a legitimate organic phosphate tonic not a patent medicine, while warning against fetotoxic use.
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St. Catherine’s Hospital
Frederick Kolle
M. D
New York
Who's Who
Joseph
Harrigan
North
Fastern
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Lines Altered Amid Strike
Boston surface lines run Salem to Scollay on shared routes while Woburn and Stoneham services halt at Sullivan square. Norwood Dedham Hyde Park cars stop at Grove street. Reading Wakefield and local branches cut back. Traffic delays persist until Elevated strike ends.
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Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company
Salem
Lynn
Revere
Malden
Melrose
Chelsea
Scollay Square
Boston
Causeway Street
Cornhill
Adams
Haymarket
Woburn
Sullivan Square
Winthrop Square
Medford
Stoneham
Sheepford
Fells
Reading
Grove Street
Roxbury
Coastwise Trade Suffered As Port Strike Persists
Coastwise commerce remains tied up as a shipyard and port strike leaves 15 steamers unmanned except for a watchman. Towboat firms struggle. Boston Towboat and Doane Towboat face layoffs, while Ross and Commercial Towboats operate under union conditions but avoid Boston and Doane contract work. The Watertown rests at Long Wharf awaiting resolution.
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New York
Boston Towboat Company
New England
Doane Towboat Company
Ross Towboat Company
Commercial Towing Company
Boane8 Union
Coastwise trade tied up by unions and wage accord
The coastwise commerce tieup is virtually complete except for steamers whose owners accepted the International Seamen's Union demands for higher wages an extra deck watch and the closed shop. Neither the United States Shipping Board nor the other party can be certain of final outcomes.
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International Seamen’s Union
United States Shipping Board
Carpenter dies in loft fall at barn trigger incident
John Wickland aged 45 a carpenter of 17 California avenue died last night after a 10 foot fall from a barn loft at 10 Trask avenue. He suffered a fractured skull and died before aid arrived. Survived by wife and four children.
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John Wickland
California Avenue
Trask Avenue
Wickland
No Decision While Carmen Stay Out of Boston Elevated Strike
The Boston Elevated workers remain off the job as Taft’s promised decision dissolves under Carmen’s union action. War Labor Board fades, funds dry, and arbitration shifts to local Massachusetts authorities or appointed arbitrators under Governor Coolidge and Mayor Peters, with the state leasing the road for 10 years.
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War Board
Boston
Taft
James H. Vahey
Carmen
Vahey
Kansas City
Congressman Fitzgerald
Coolidge
Peters
Ford
James J. Jackson
The
Boston Elevated
Theemen
War Labor Board
Department of Labor
Massachusetts
Elevated strike tests eight hour law and wage demands
Officials of the War Labor Board say the Boston Elevated strike centers on a dispute between the public and its employees. The case could affect street railways nationwide as the eight hour law and a 73 1 2 cent hourly wage are at issue. A new federal Street Railways Commission has been formed to study the problem but has no authority to settle strikes and will take months to report findings.
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New York
Taft
Manley
War Labor Board
Boston Elevated
Elevated
Boston
Federal Street Railways Commission
United States
Squantum Employees Pay High For Travel
More than 5000 workers at the Squantum Shipbuilding Company faced steep jitney and auto truck fares to reach work. Many residents lived near Roxbury areas Grove Hall Andrew Square. Dudley Street terminal was largely deserted except for a few carmen awaiting strike settlement.
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Squantum Shipbuilding Company
Roxbury
Grove Hall
Andrew Square
Dudley Street
Carmen
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