State Board Ready to Mediate Boston Elevated Strike
The State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration seeks to settle the Boston Elevated strike through mediation. Officials from both sides have been interviewed but neither party has shown willingness to refer the matter to the board. The board may aid in selecting another arbitration tribunal if invited, with expenses covered by the State. Last Thursday the board resolved a Springfield dispute between the Connecticut Valley Railroad and its workers.
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State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
Boston Elevated
Union
State Board
Boston
Springfield
Connecticut Valley Railroad
State Board Agrees to Help Select Arbitration Tribunal
Members of the State board notified union leaders and the elevated that they will aid in selecting another tribunal for submitting disputed questions for arbitration. The act creating the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration provides Massachusetts will cover expenses for a separate board. Charles G. Wood stated the board members will assist if state aid is not desired.
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State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
Massachusetts
Charles G. Wood
Marchers Arrested After Harvard Square Parade
About 50 youths marched from the North Cambridge car barn to Harvard Square around 8 30 pm amid shouting and cheering for strikers. Four marchers were arrested for disturbing the peace. named are Charles L. O Connor 16 of 135 Rindge Avenue Edward Holmes 16 of 1 Cogswell Place Frederick Holmes 15 of 1 Cogswell Place and George B Madigan 16 of 19 Clifton Street.
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Cambridge
Harvard Square
Charles L. O’connor
Rindge Avenue
Edward and Frederick Holmes
Cogswell Place
George B. Madigan
Clifton Street
No All Night Trains From Either Station This Weekend
There was no all night service by the railroads last night and this morning. The North station saw larger crowds on Sunday than any day since the strike began. An official said the station was more crowded than ever. Extra trains ran all day and hundreds of extra coaches were used on regular trains.
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North Station
Plenty of Men Says L Official On Car Service
Vice President Brush of the Elevated road reports sufficient crews to operate all cars and cites doubled car teams to protect conductors from rear threats. He notes workers who refused Friday work are being intimidated at home, yet the company vows to continue service and duty to the public and families.
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Brush
WM. W. Fagan
Tames E. Porter
Pred N. Weeks
Joseph H. M’carthy
Andrew S. Thomson
David B. Cahill
Boston Elevated Officers Explain Employment Policy 1912
A letter from the Loyal Organization officers outlines employment rules for Monday offer. It states no violence offenders or those discharged may return, with reinstatement applications to be reviewed. The note dates June 9, 1912 and is signed by General William A Bancroft.
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Little
William A. Bancroft
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Boston Elevated Fraternal Protective Association
Support Pledged to Telephone Union in New England Council
The New England district council of the Electrical Workers' Union met in Wells Memorial Hall and pledged support to the Boston Telephone Operators Union. It voted unanimously to endorse the operators' demands on the company officials.
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New England
Boston strikebreaker recalls violent day in Dorchester crowds
J. E. Hicks of New York, part of a group of 68 strike breakers for the Boston Elevated Company, described an anxious day in South Boston. He testified about meals, inspections, a torpedo scare, and crowds at Dorchester street as he rode a special car to work with a 200-man escort and carried pay slips dated June 7.
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J. E. Hicks
New York
Boston
Boston Elevated Company
Dorchester Street
South Boston
Roxbury
Dudley Street
Dickey
Train conspirators in Boston strike drill exposed
A New York man recalls applying to a Wardell Mahon ad for high wages and travel to work as a conductor on a Boston suburban line. He describes a deceptive trip via the Knickerbocker Limited to South Station and Dorchester car barns where workers were split up, paid a dollar, and subjected to a staged strike drill involving air brakes and inspections.
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Boston
Post
City Point Car Barn
North Station
Dorchester Avenue
Broadway
Dover
Tremont Streets
Huntington Avenue
New York City
New York
Wardell & Mahon
Bleecker Street
New London
South Station
Bartlett Street
Dorchester
Suspect Arrested Near Porter Station in Cambridge
Police arrested a suspicious man near the Cambridge Porter street railway line after a struggle that left him overpowered at North Cambridge station. Officers found two loaded revolvers, cartridges, a glass cutter, a chisel, and two old hats on him. he gave names Peter J. Cooper and Cooper S. Saunders of 26 Beethoven street Roxbury. He is charged with carrying loaded revolvers.
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Porter Station
Cambridge
Peter J. Cooper
Cooper S. Saunders
Beethoven Street
Roxbury
East Boston Longshoremen's Union Formed Under A. L. of L.
More than 150 men were admitted yesterday to the new East Boston Longshoremen's Union affiliated with the A. F. of L. T. V. O'Connor of Buffalo, international president, spoke and outlined nationwide organizing efforts from Atlantic to Pacific coasts to create a compact, instantly functioning body.
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New East Boston Longshoremen’s Union
L. T
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