Labor Meetings Honored Trainmen At Memorial Service
J L Shaw trainmaster of the Portland division cites ICC figures showing a railway employee death every two hours and 15 minutes and one injury every six minutes at the Bunker Hill Lodge 404 memorial in Charlestown. Members, their families, and Eastern Star attendees hear prayers, a memorial address, and a taps salute.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
J. L. Shaw
Portland
Boston & Maine Railroad
Bunker Hill Lodge
Brotherhood of Railroad
Memorial Hall
Charlestown
Boston & Maine
Eastern Star Lodge Wii
H. Brown
A. H. Dean
B. L. Pettingill
W. O. Wood
Wood
William Davis
Lodge
Father Phelan
St. Mary’s Church
Eliot
Martin
Ethel Dean
Vincent
Convention To Start Today By National Federation Of Cloth Weavers
The annual convention opens at 10 o'clock this morning in Naomi Hall at 724 Washington Street. The executive board set preliminaries yesterday. Delegates from Fall River New Bedford Salmon Falls N H and Somersworth N H will attend. Officers will be elected and reports and grievances considered as the group outlines legislation for the year.
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National Federation of Cloth Weavers of America
Naomi Hall
Washington Street
New England
Fall River
New Bedford
Salmon Falls
N. H
Somersworth
Labor notes reflect union appointments and actions in Boston area
Frank M. Curley of Roxbury Carpenters Union was named building inspector in the schoolhouse department. Multiple unions report elections, petitions, and plans including a 10 percent wage increase meeting for Boston Coopers Union 58, and leadership changes in Roxbury Carpenters Union 67, Cable Splicers Union 396, and Sheet Metal Workers Union 17. Boston Bakers Union 7 opposes bakery trust extensions. Labor Day parade approval by Teamdrivers District Council. Cambridge Central Labor Union delegates oppose a 50 year lease of the Boston Elevated. Cornelius Kiley chairs New Haven Freight Handlers Union TO, Jeremiah Murray re-elected secretary.
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Frank M. Curley
Roxbury Carpenters’ Union
John Blanel
Konrad Young
Boston Brewery Workers’ Union
Boston Coopers’ Union 58
Daniel F. Rogerson
Warvey M. Taylor
Roxbury Carpenters’ Union 67
Boston Bakers’ Union 7
National Bakery Trust
Boston
Building Laborers’ Union 223
Thomas F. Fields
John Si. Sullivan
John HH. Donovan
John Linehan
John Buckley
Cornelius Kiley
New Haven Freight Handlers’ Union
Jeremiah Murray
Cambridge Central Labor Union
Arthur J. McCarron
Cable Splicers’ Union
James T. Moriarty
John F. Kennedy
Sheet Metal Workers’ Union 17
Pound Wis Woman Praises Pinkham Remedy
A Pound Wisconsin woman reports lasting relief from dyspepsia and female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Unifier. She had consulted multiple doctors for fourteen years with no cure and urges other suffering women to try the product.
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Pound
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Herman Lieth
Labor to Oppose Expanded Elevates Franchises in Legislature
Organized labor in Boston vows to oppose a bill extending the Boston Elevated and West End road franchises and leases to 1961. All labor men in the Commonwealth will be urged to join the protest. The adopted resolution on the matter states the union stance.
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Organized Labor of
Boston
Boston Elevated
West End
Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Boston Central Labor Union
Greater
Fatally Hurt by Empty Car on Roxbury Street
Miss Katherine Sullivan of Pinckney avenue Roxbury was fatally injured when an empty Mattapan North streetcar backing toward the Grove Hall car barns struck her on Blue Hill avenue near 1433 Mattapan late last night. She attempted to cross in front of the car but could not clear the path as the vehicle sped backward toward the barns.
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Katherine Sullivan
Pinckney Avenue
Roxbury
Blue Hill Avenue
Mattapan
Mattapan- North Station
Grove Hall
Miss Sullivan
Supple Urges Faith and Work at Boston College Graduation
Rev Dr James A Supple delivers the bac calaureate sermon to a large Boston College senior class in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. He warns of godlessness and immoral modern movements and urges graduates to be men of faith and labor, condemning idle living.
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Rome
James A. Supple
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Boston College
Murder Trial Begins Today in East Cambridge
In East Cambridge this morning Judge Hardy will hear a first degree murder case charging Antonio DiFilippo of Newton with dying after a quarrel over tobacco ended when DiFilippo drew a razor and DiMaio drew a knife. A special venire of jurors has been summoned for Giuseppe DiMaio of Newton.
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East Cambridge
Hardy
Antonio DiFilippo
Newton
DiMaio
DiFilippo
Father in Rage Shot Down Four Lovers in Swiss Village
In Vex, Valais, Switzerland, four young men were shot as an ancient Alpine custom triggered a fatal spree. Two victims sustained serious injuries as authorities investigated the village incident in Geneva’s report.
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Geneva
Vex
Canton of
Valais
Boilermakers' Strike Called Off in Boston
After a lengthy joint meeting of Lodge 9 and Lodge 481 at Hayward Place, Boston, the boilermakers decided not to strike this morning. The men, eager for a 10 percent wage increase, agreed to wait as employers indicated improved business conditions. The meeting also advanced plans to amalgamate boilermaker unions nationwide, with another joint session planned for Wednesday night.
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Boston
Lodge 9
Lodge 481
Assembly Hall
Hayward Place
Hoilermakers
Insane Woman Runs Amuck Near St Anthony Church
Catherine Roche 40, single, of 35 Hane street, became suddenly insane near Allston’s St Anthony Church yesterday morning frightening hundreds of children. She broke church basement windows before police subdued her and ordered removal to Austin Farm after a police surgeon examined her. Her sister cited long moroseness since resigning a year ago.
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Catherine Roche
Hane Street
St. Anthony’s Church
Allston
Austin Farm
President Wheeler Criticizes Women Teachers for Boys
President Wheeler of the University of California preached at Dudley Street Baptist Church Roxbury urging against women teachers for boys. He warned it is a bad thing to educate boys exclusively by mothers or women and noted many old maids in schools.
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Wheeler
University of California
Dudley Street Baptist Church
Roxbury
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