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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1904
Page
2
Fall River cotton mill operatives, after voting to strike next Monday to resist a 12 percent wage cut, grew more bitter following this afternoon’s mill owners meeting. Workers see the owners’ stance as a challenge and vow to fight the measure to the end.
Labor unions vote on strike as operatives face pay cuts to four eighty a week. Merchants post cash-only notices starting Monday. Manufacturers vote to reopen mills, with pickets and police prepared for Monday entry. Public fears prolonged distress and citywide economic harm as tensions rise.
Providence, July 21. Company representatives warn wage curtailment or complete shutdown of many Rhode Island cotton mills is inevitable. Although a reduction is unlikely before the Fall River strike outcome, raw material costs about 12 cents per pound while product sale bases at 10 cents, making extended operation impractical.
Fall River report states Textile Council executive committee members James Tansey Thomas O'Donnell and Thomas Taylor will issue the formal strike order within 48 hours. The vote showed, if three of five unions vote for a strike, all five unions will strike, binding carders and spinners to quit regardless of their stance.
The steamer Admiral Schley under Captain Jansen arrived from Jamaican ports, docked at Quarantine, with 26,498 banana bunches contributing to 90,500 total stems at Long Wharf. Jansen reported passing a dangerous sunken wreck near Chatham yesterday.
Mrs Florence Maybrick reached Rouen from England today amid heavy secrecy. She traveled from Southampton and took an express to Rouen where she was met by her mother, the Baroness De Roques, at a residence on Rue de Tannery with high walls. Visitors were refused, and both women stayed inside the grounds while the baroness was believed to return within a week.
James Spear, 25, of 363 West Third street South Boston, drank cyanide of potash in a Lincoln street machinist shop after months of unemployment. He died on arrival at Emergency Hospital. He left no note and refused charity from his brother and father.
Metropolitan park police from Revere Beach led by Sergeant Bickford raided Alphonso Martins unlicensed premises at 265 Boulevard. Officers seized 93 bottles of ale and Martin is expected to appear before Chelsea Police Court to answer the charge.
The 10 month old Roby C. Banks, child of Mrs. Rachel Banks, rolled from a top window about 8 am in the rear house at 81 Middlesex street. He was found seriously injured, with head and internal injuries, and taken to Malden Hospital. Heat kept his bed near the window, and the infant slipped to the ground.
The speech argues for government ownership of railroads by states rather than federal control, and for municipal ownership of municipal franchises. It urges embracing a telegraph system under Post Office care, opposes private monopolies, and notes the party’s past support for an income tax while pledging to pursue imperialism and racial issues with Parker’s potential presidency.
The Creedmoor ship burned to the water’s edge while en route to Liverpool from New York. Twenty lives were reported in peril as survivors were rescued by towboats and tugs, with Portuguese sailor John Mark among the listed loss. The vessel, built in 1884 at Gardiner's Creek, New Brunswick, measured 214 by 40 by 24 feet with a gross tonnage of 1509 and net 1399. Captain Humpreys was on his first voyage aboard. Fire Island observers reported thick smoke from what was believed to be an oil cargo.
Captain John Humphries recounts the Creedmoor disaster off Fire Island as 450000 gallons of naphtha and benzine ignited on the poop deck. The ship tried to reach Sandy Hook but exploded after a series of blasts, with one crewman, a Portuguese sailor named Mark, lost when not rescued from the forecastle.
Alfred Rock, 25, of 62 Second street Chelsea, was thrown about 15 feet by electric Car No. 3101 of the B and N street railway on Ocean avenue near Chester avenue while rushing to a Boston train. He escaped with a gashed forehead and a severely bruised side.
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