Union Men Plan Mass Meeting to End Boycott
Union leaders announce a major mass meeting and parade planned for Sunday with the Boston Central Labor Union and state AFL officials. Barges will transport strikers boycotting the Elevated, while the company reports a largely normal schedule and relief of guard duty after a quiet Wednesday. Eight Mechanic Arts High School students were hospitalized after a collision involving two Boston Elevated Railway cars at Harrison Avenue and Dudley Street, with 25 to 30 people injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Central Labor Union
State Board
A. F. of L
South Boston
Roxbury
Mechanic Arts High School
City Hospital
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Harrison Avenue
Dudley Street
Lowell
Boston
Mahon
Central Labor Union
Greater
Springfield
Seattle
Washington
Vancouver
Switch Left Open Triggers Dorchester Street Car Crash
An accident on Dudley street Dorchester results from an unclosed switch by a conductor and a new motorman. Seven boys and several adults are injured as inbound and outbound streetcars collide near Harrison avenue. Hospitalized victims include Russell McPherson and Eric Morton with multiple injuries. investigation notes a double track and a cross over switch contributing to the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dudley Street
Blue Hill Avenue
Grove Hall
Ashmont and Milton
Boston Elevated Railway Company
City Hospital
Ashmont
Milton
Harrison Avenue
Dudley Streets
Station 9
Russell McPherson
Walter Dolan
Eric Morton
Roagh C. Boyden
Paul Brazier
Robert A. McKay
Harold S. Loudon
Kenneth Nelson
Wesley W. Chandler
Union Satisfied as Labor Rally Plans Mass Meeting
President W D Mahon of the Carmen Union says they remain united and ready to arbitrate with either a single arbiter or a two to three member board. They report accidents from strike breakers injuring 17 people and outline plans for a mass meeting on Boston Common with Chief AFL official Samuel Gompers to mobilize more than 50 000 marchers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Mahon
Carmen’s Union
Tuttle
Harrison Avenue
Dudley
Washington
Roxbury Crossing
Park Street
Field's Corner
Springfield
Worcester
Brockton
Lowell
Boston
Central Labor Union
American Federation of Labor
Boston Common
Samuel Gompers
Greater
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Employees of America
Carmen
Elevated Company
Fay
Arbitration row clouds street car strike stance
The refusal of Lucius Tuttle to act as arbitrator prompted union leaders to reiterate their willingness to submit grievances to a board of arbitration. Strike leaders spent the day at headquarters organizing and planning a long battle to secure a fully detailed system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucius Tuttle
Boston Elevated Railway
Twenty Diplomas Granted at Medical College Commencement
Twenty diplomas were awarded at the College of Physicians and Surgeons commencement in Blackwell Hall. Henry O. Marcy spoke on The New Medical Man of Today, and George F. Butler addressed Some New Duties and Responsibilities of the Physician. Degrees were conferred by Joseph Bennett with diplomas distributed by Francis A. Carroll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. D.S
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Blackwell Hall
Huntington Avenue
Edwin O. Taylor
Henry O. Marcy
George F. Butler
Joseph Bennett
Francis A. Carroll
A. D. Kingsbury
Victor A. Ellsworth
Arthur B. Morong
Edward L. D. Turner
Barges to Run for Boycotters in South Boston Strike
A rival transport line by South Boston and Roxbury strikers will run barges and auto trucks from City Point to downtown Boston with routes to Dover Washington streets and to Adams squares via South Station. fare is 10 cents and profits fund the strike. Roxbury Crossing line will serve downtown. Police and Elevated officials clash over badge confiscation as pickets guard car barns amid a broad campaign for state action.
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South Boston
Roxbury
Dover
Washington Streets
Broadway
Postoffice
Adaims Squares
South Station
Gallivan
Roxbury Crossing
John J. Shea
Third Street
South
Boston
Shea
Elevated
Greater
Harvard Freshmen Injured In West Peabody Auto Crash
Four Harvard freshmen riding with James Greenough Jr were seriously injured when the car wrecked at West Peabody. James Greenough’s foot was amputated following the accident. William P. Mandell, the driver, suffered bruised body and possible rib fracture and has been taken home to 46 Fenway. The others remain at Stillman Infirmary in Cambridge recovering from multiple injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan Phillips
Newton
John C. Talbot
Milton
R. C. Emmet
St. James
Long Island
New York
Greenough
Mandell
Thomas Hospital
Peabody
Robert Greenough
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard
James Greenough, Jr
West Peabody
Stillman Infirmary
Cambridge
William P. Mandell
Fenway
Young Mandell
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Gompers
Merryland Street
Dorchester
Frederick McPherson
Alban Street
Thomas A. Dolan
City Ospital
Carruth Street
William Morton
Reagh C. Boyden
Samoset Street
Frank Boyden
Saxton Street
William H. Brazier
Robert A.mckay
Houghton Street
Robert McKay
Centre Street
J. W. Loudon
Gibson Street
Samuel H. Littlefield
Ashmont and
Frank Billadeau
Emerald Street
Dover Street
Billadeau
Carlin Kruse
Lambert Street
Field’s Corner
Regent Street
Mark Cross
Tremont Street
Temple Place
5Th Ave
E. W. Burt & CO
Carmaton
Atlantic Ave
Chase & Sanborn’s
Elevated Railway
Brush
The
Philadelphia
Barry
Ferncroft Inn
Danvers
Soldiers Field
Phillips
Talbot
Emmet
Randolph Hall
Russell Hall
Harvard Auto
Chas. H. Fletcher
J. Briggs & Co
Providence
R. I
E. W. Stucky
Indianapolis
Ind
Henry R. Gray
Montreal
Que
W. G. Marshall
Cleveland
Ohio
Owens & Minor Drug Co
Richmond
Castoria
Fletcher
Brannen
Lam
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