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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1916
Page
9
About 200 United Fruit Company freight handlers at Long Wharf walked out yesterday in a one day strike. They allege a co worker was discriminatorily denied employment for arriving late. The protest followed on a local dispute regarding hiring practices.
The incident marks the third strike in six weeks at the fruit wharf as workers resume duties after management restores the employe to his position.
A jubilee meeting at Ford Hall celebrated ten days of a campaign to raise fifty thousand dollars for thrift promotion and usury stamping. Yellow tickets and red roses highlighted the effort, with Miss Josephine Bruerton collecting pledges of one hundred dollars each, boosting the fund by a thousand in minutes.
Miss Mary Antin led a Jubilee meeting where she spoke for the Credit union project and auctioned red roses raising nearly 1500 dollars. Louis D. Brandeis received a unanimous congratulations message. speakers included Philip Davis Maxwell Copelot Felix Vorenberg Charles Burrill Max Mitchell Nathan Sallinger and George Coleman.
June 1 report says the City of Savannah bound Calcutta to Boston and New York had its engine room flooded and fore section damaged. The aft bulkhead leaks badly and unloading of cargo is planned after the ship reached shore.
Annie Sharko a four year old daughter of James Sharko of Cambridge was run over by an automobile truck near her home on Cambridge Street East Cambridge last night and died soon after at Cambridge Relief Hospital. The driver Cornelius J Guiney of North Cambridge was questioned then released by police.
William Munroe Trotter editor of The Guardian is a surgical patient in Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital recovering from neck surgery performed Sunday by Dr A T Howard a Harvard class of 1895 member.
Members of the Church of Christ Hancock street Everett welcomed Rev. L. F. Sanford as pastor at a reception with many city denomination representatives. A tercentenary Shakespearian celebration is planned for June 9 at St. John’s Charlestown, with a 40-voice choir and a specially written prologue. The Gate for West Newton Second Church dedication is set for Oct 1 and the old building remains in use until completion. Nine theological students were ordained to the diaconate at St. John’s Memorial Chapel Cambridge, with Rev. Endicott Peabody delivering the sermon. Death notice: Catherine Bray of Cambridge died June 1. funeral June 4 at 2 from Mrs. Donovan’s residence.
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