Dorchester Street Car Strikes Spark Egg Attacks and Quarantined Routes
Dorchester crowds gather after rotten egg attacks on Field’s Corner and Quincy cars amid a strike by Boston Elevated Railway workers. Police guard car stables while service is cut back. union organizers urge conductors to join action. Harvard student employment officers note noncombatant stance.
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Fred F. Lincoln
Faulkner Street
Fields Corner
Fitzgerald
Freeport Street
McNeil Mills
Dorchester
Codman Square
Norfolk Street
Boston
Neponset
Field’s Corner
Milton
Wilkins
Pponset
Quincy
Hancock Street
Wollaston
Fay
Pierce
Police Department
Tripp
Transit Department of the Elevated
Fellows
Billings Hall
Adams
Dorchester Avenue
Harvard Denies Involvement in Strike Dispute
A letter to the editor states Harvard University is an educational institution and has not been a party to the elevated dispute. The writer refutes a Bostonpaper story claiming Harvard students acted as strike breakers and asserts the university will not engage in the conflict.
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Harvard Students’ Employment Office
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Boston Elevated Railway
Edward Eyre Hunt
Harvard
The
Post
Boston
Harvard University
To Mothers Father John's Medicine Cough Helper Claim
An advisory urging mothers to give children Father John's Medicine for coughs and exhaustion. It touts the product as pure wholesome food medicine that rebuilds strength and emphasizes it contains no alcohol or dangerous drugs.
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Father John
Passengers Ordered Off Cars as Cambridge Strikes Rock City Streets
A mass disruption near Ruggles and Washington streets halted two Cambridge cars, with stones hurled at crews and thousands walking from Dudley Street terminals. Motormen and conductors suffered injuries as crowds attacked and police struggled to control the scene.
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Cambridge
Ruggles
Washington Street
Dudley Street
Mattapan
Neponset
Fields Corner
D. J. Sullivan
Harry Davis
W. H. Powderly
Bullets Fired at Northbound Elevated Train
A fusillade of bullets struck a northbound elevated train near Thompson Square Charleston shortly after midnight narrowly missing several passengers and guards near the last car platform. The incident disrupted service and caused alarm among riders.
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Thompson Square
Charleston
Striking Union Pledges Confidence Amid Tie Up
Union leaders at 724 Washington Street say they are confident of victory as talks were refused and arbitration denied. Organizers report large, enthusiastic meetings in Division 3 at Field's Corner and Division 5 in South Boston with many long-serving workers participating.
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Washington Street
Fay
Division 3
Field’s Corner
Division 5
South Boston
Boston
O and Third Streets
Worcester Line to Give Wage Increase
The Boston & Worcester Street Railway Company notified conductors and motormen that starting July 1 1912 wages will be voluntarily increased. First year men receive 22 cents per hour, rising to 27 12 cents per hour after five years of service.
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South Framingham
Mass
Boston & Worcester Street Railway Company
Housing Breakers Housed in Barns as Boston Elevated Deploys Strikebreakers
The Boston Elevated Railroad Company bought over 1000 cot beds and blankets for strikebreakers with about 600 placed in carbarns. Nearly 150 men are housed at West Somerville carbarns and others at Lenox Street Forest Hills and North Cambridge carbarns. Remaining workers sleep in lodging houses near the West End Roxbury divisions. Oak Hall in East Boston can accommodate up to 2000 if needed. Meals are provided at barns.
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Boston Elevated Railroad Company
West Somerville
Lenox Street
Forest Hills
North Cambridge
Oak Hall
Boston
West End
Roxbury
Demands Rise in Strike Over Wages and Union Recognition
The survey covers proposed wage scales for surface and elevated rail workers, with 8,000 employed by the Elevated Railroad Company and 4,500 in the Amalgamated Association. It notes 2,000 loyalists opposed to the strike and reports a Cambridge night of clashes with police using revolvers, stones flying, and arrests including a former motorman.
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Elevated Railroad Company
Road
Amalgamated
Association of Street Railway Employees
Loyalists
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Dudley
Roxbury Carpet Company
McCarthy
Roxbury Street
Roxbury Court House
Harry Caplan
Warren Street
Inspector Kelley
Worcester
Ellis
Massachusetts Avenue
Collins
Frank Conway
Porter Station
Nelligan
Peabody Square
Harvard Square
East Cambridge
Central
Kelly
Douglas L. Coleman
Central Square
Joseph Halligan
Miller Street
Roe
Posner
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