RAPS STRIKERS POLITICAL PULL RAPS
The Boston Chamber of Commerce sent a telegram to President Harding condemning political pressure on railroad executives to reinstate strikers while preserving seniority rights. It argues such rights cost the public through higher rates as workers seek wage findings from a government tribunal.
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Harding
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Washington
New England
United States Railroad Labor Board
Railroad Labor Board
Boston Chamber pressures over wage findings and strikes
A Boston Chamber of Commerce telegram urged upholding wage findings and barring strikers from seniority rights, citing harm to the public and rail service. It notes 9500 business members and details alerts to Coolidge Weeks Hoover and Hooper, with warnings of ongoing strikes and potential rate increases.
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Board of Directors
Frederic 8. Snyder
Coolidge
War Weeks
Hoover
Ben W. Hooper
United States Labor Board
Washington
Associated Coal and Railroad
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Strikes Hit Boston System Shops Across Keene and Readville
Boston and Maine system federation announcements say Keene New Hampshire shops are closed and more signal maintainers join the strike. System headquarters in New Haven report engines breaking down and trains delayed, with a strike breaker train late by six minutes. General Manager Bardo tours shops as union officers attend a mass meeting at 99% Washington Street led by Frank McCarthy John Conley Frank Jennings Harold Reardon and Thomas Kelley.
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Boston & Maire System Federation
Keene
N. H
System Federation
New Haven
Readville
Bardo
Washington Street
Frank H. McCarthy
New England
A. F. of
John Conley
Frank Jennings
Harold Reardon
Machinists
Thomas Kelley
Carmen
Suspect Resembles Slayer as Police Seek Man
A description matches a man sought as a slayer. The body was found Friday afternoon, and a suspect resembling the man was arrested in South Royalst after jumping from a passing train on Saturday night.
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South Royalst
Automobile Hit by Train at Nantasket Crossing
Miss Ruth Powers of 10 Holbrook Avenue Allerton had a narrow escape when her car was struck by a train on the Nantasket branch of the New Haven railroad at the Nantasket Avenue crossing. The flagman was reportedly off duty. Powers swerved to avoid the collision but suffered only a ripped fender and bent parts.
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Ruth Powers
Holbrook Avenue
Allerton
Nantasket
New Haven
Nantasket Avenue
Mies Powers
Valley Beach Avenue
Nantasket Junction
Miss Powers
Haverhill Store Manager Denies Ward Murder Link
Joseph Jones of 15 Bartlett street Haverhill manager of United Butchers Store denies crediting Walter Ward with evidence to free him and says he made no statements about Clarence Peters murder to any newspaper man or detective and will not.
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Joseph Jones
Bartlett Street
Haverhill
United Butchers
Walter 8. Ward
New Rochelle
N. Y
Ward
Jones
Clarence Peters
Dorchester Baby Falls 156 Feet From Tree At Park
A one year old boy, Herman Plummer of Dorchester, plunged 156 feet from a tree at Mary Hemen Way Park yesterday. He was rushed to the Veterans Bent Brigham Hospital where his condition was not fully disclosed.
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Fairbanks
Windsor County
T. Q. Stephenson
Boston
Bob
Army
Navy Department
Herman Plummer
Lonadale Street
Dorchester
Mary Hemenway Park
Veter Bent Brigham Hospital
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Boston Post
Edward J. O'Leary
Leon
Crean
Vermont
Young Crean
Henry McMahon
Highland Avenae
Walter Crean
Man
Massachusetts
McMahon
Polnce
State Guard
Osowsky
Town House Square
Peters
Tremont and
Beacon Streets
Mass
Phamomomooe
Ache Wiens
Batiste
Wallace
Stylish
Oxfords
Goodyear
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