17 Jun 1912
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1912
Page
1
About 75 000 demonstrators gathered on Boston Common to protest Boston Elevated Railway officials for denying workers the right to organize. A clash with police in Park Square left three officers hurt and 11 people arrested after a Worcester car whistle angered the crowd. The meeting remained largely orderly with temperate speeches.
By its Officers and General Committee the committee outlines positions and actions of the Motormen and Conductors unit. The brief note signals formal representation by the union body and indicates ongoing organizational activities.
Four firemen on a ladder escape 30 feet to the ground when a barn at William H. Allen’s Arlington estate bursts into flames. One, Warren Beares, is seriously injured with a broken nose and facial cuts while the others, Captain D J Sullivan and John, escape.
The Taft faction seeks to contest all eight Massachusetts delegates at the convention floor arguing the states preferential vote favored Taft and citing the Seiberlich issue. An affidavit alleges a Louisiana delegate was offered 1000 dollars to desert Taft for Roosevelt.
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