Labor calls for removal of Fisher and Ross from state board
The Boston Central Labor Union voted to urge Governor Cox to remove Chairman Edward Fisher and Samuel Ross of New Bedford from the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration. They cite the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway award as unfair and accuse the board of issuing premature certificates of neutrality to employers.
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Edward Fisher
Samuel Ross
New Bedford
State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
Cox
Organized Labor Movement
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company
State Board
Boston Central Labor Union
Wells Memorial Building
Ross
Carmen
Old Bay State Street Railway Company
Labor
Fisher
American Federation of Labor
Clerks Fight New Post Office Efficiency Standard
Local 100 Boston National Federation of Post office Clerks opposes a new efficiency standard across all post offices. John A. Kelley and William A. Collins say the plan gives supervisors vast power, raises promotion barriers, and increases dismissal and salary reductions for minor infractions. A Massachusetts convention in Worcester on July 10 will debate revisions.
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Local 100
National Federation of Postoffice Clerks of
Boston
John A. Kelley
William A. Collins
Postoffice Department
Kelley
William Collins
Massachusetts Federation of Post Office Clerks
Worcester
Boy Fatally Struck by Auto in Portsmouth Street
In Portsmouth New Hampshire 12-year-old Robert Parrott son of Mr and Mrs Tuscan Parrott was struck by a car driven by Fred Johnson as he stepped from the sidewalk at 124 Middle Street. The vehicle was traveling 15 miles per hour and Parrott died before reaching the hospital. The driver was released.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Robert Parrott
Tuscan Parrott
Middle Street
Fred Johnson
Moonshine incident at relief station nearly swallows tongue
A portly man aged about 45 under the influence of moonshine was brought to a Relief Station. Attendants used crank pumping, ear rubbing, massage, and pedal tickling for two hours until the patient revived and departed in good spirits.
Boy Falls From Fort On Governor's Island
Fourteen year old James Ballizozolo of 19 I Street South Boston climbed 25 feet up the fort at Governor's Island for a view and fell into the harbor. J S Harrington signalled a motor boat, the ambulance met the boat at New Haven docks, and the boy was taken to the relief station with possible internal injuries.
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James Ballizozolo
James
I Street
South
Boston
Governor's Island
J. S. Harrington
New Haven
Yale in China Holds Annual Meeting in New Haven
The annual Yale-in-China meeting took place in Dwight Hall New Haven Conn with President Clarence H. Kelsey presiding. Speakers included Professor John P. Rice of Williams College who was a visiting professor at Yale-in-China last year.
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Yale-In-China
New Haven
Conn
Dwight Hall
Clarence H. Kelsey
New York
Yale Foreign Missionary Society
John P. Rice
Williams College
David and His Little Sling to Open in Boston Post Magazine
Mildred Cram presents another Signor Pug adventure as David and His Little Sling will be printed in full in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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Mildred Cram
Signor Pug
David
Little Sling
Boston Sunday Post
War Peril of Britain Revealed in Silver Dollar Sale
Washington June 19 si The mint resumed coinage of standard silver dollars after seven years and began replacing 279 million dollars taken from the treasury for sale to Great Britain. By late March about 20 million dollars had been coined as silver certificates and other notes were retired. The Pittman act enabled swift sales to relieve India’s silver famine, with shipments guarded and rushed to ships bound for India.
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Washington
Mint
Treasury
Great Britain
Federal Reserve
Congress
England
India
Glass
Mesopotamia
Baker
Secret Service
Missionaries' Trials in Zululand Describe Salvation Army Work
Thomas Estill of the Salvation Army eastern territory spoke at the First Baptist Church Cambridge yesterday afternoon, detailing the trying conditions faced by Salvation Army missionaries while preaching the gospel to natives in Zululand, Africa.
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Salvation Army
Zululand
Africa
Thomas Estill
Salvation Army of New York
Cambridge
Army
First Baptist Church
League council invites candidates for judges of ICJ
Geneva June 19 Elihu Root Judge George Gray John Bassett Moore and Oscar S Straus invited by the League of Nations council as Hague arbitration tribunal members to name four candidates for election as judges of the international court of justice with at most two Americans among them. Tokyo June 19 flood in Fukushima prefecture drowns sixty with damage estimated at 36 million yen. London June 19 US Rotary delegates lay wreaths at Whitehall cenotaph and Westminster Abbey then attend service. Paris June 19 five automobile bandits rob Boulevard St Martin jewelry store of 500000 francs. gunfire disperses onlookers. Manchester England June 19 Sinn Fein attacks target railway signal boxes. one box burned and a signalman wounded near Stockport.
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Elihu Root
George Gray
Delaware
John Bassett Moore
Oscar
Straus
Council of the
League of Nations
Hague Arbitration Tribunal
International Court of Justice
London
United States
Rotary Clubs
Edinburgh
Whitehall
Westminster Abbey
Abbey
Paris
Boulevard St. Martin
Manchester
England
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