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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1919
Page
7
William Howard Taft told the National Hardwood Association that labor must organize without hindrance to achieve equality with employers. He stressed the importance of orderly collective action and warned against obstructing labor movements.
The speaker rejects Bolshevism’s appeal in the United States while stressing American unity. He argues for an effective League of Nations to counter retrogression and endorses collective bargaining and union recognition to keep workers from extremists.
State Senate advances to third reading a bill for maternity benefits by Miss Edna Law Lawrence Spencer of Cambridge and, under a rule suspension, to engrossment a bill raising the Lieutenant-Governor salary from 2000 to 3400 effective January 2, 1920.
Peter La Bours 32 formerly a soldier in E Company 30th U S Infantry will be arraigned this morning on the charge of assaulting an 11 year old girl in an alley off Tremont street near Dover between 7 and 8 last night. La Bours discharged May 22 was arrested by Patrolman M J Quilty.
A Springfield Armory exhibit was rushed into Boston to aid a two week recruit drive. The display included Browning machine guns and rifles alongside antique muzzle loaders and duelling pistols. Thirty four recruits were obtained on day four, with eight accepted at Coast Artillery and four for the air service.
Bernard Ginsberg of 66 Myrtle street Boston is the youngest member of Boston University Law School's graduating class. He is 20 years old and served as a Liberty Loan speaker while in the army. He previously attended English High School winning prizes for excellence and studied at Harvard briefly.
Lancashire tomorrow may see a strike by cotton spinners about 300000 workers. Conference efforts by Sir Robert Horne to avert a walkout failed. Workers seek a 46 1/2 hour week and a 30 percent wage rise, while employers offer a 48-hour week and a 16 percent raise. Strike notices expire at noon tomorrow unless a last minute settlement or postponement is agreed.
New York experienced an electric storm on June 20 causing darkness from 4 30 pm for about thirty minutes. Winds reached 50 miles an hour with heavy rain and property damage. Broadway surface cars halted for an hour and traffic jammed across the city.
Mrs. Skeels faces a Massachusetts jury in a double murder case linked to arsenic poisoning of Miss Gay in Andover and sugar of lead poisoning of her brother Albert Wilkins in Bayonne New Jersey. The trial expanded with New Jersey witnesses and evidence as the state aims to prove a shared method and motive across both deaths.
Private Henry P. Burns reports from Camp Hospital in France that after his letter to the Boston Post was published he received 19 letters. He thanks the paper for sharing the message which attracted mail from friends and hometown acquaintances. Burns notes he is discharged from the hospital.
Brockton reports Warren Cousins of Whitman died when his car plunged into Lake Monponsett. He was 20, alone, with a fractured skull.
Two unoccupied barracks at Camp Devens were destroyed by a late day fire. Officers said the blaze likely started from crossed wires. No injuries were reported.
Postmaster General Burleson claims Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts hates his plan to end the Boston pneumatic mill tube service. He cites Gallivan’s 80 shares of pneumatic tube stock as the real motive, noting Gallivan had previously bought and sold tube stocks before Congress. Burleson says he is honored by Gallivan’s disapproval.
In Porto Rico at Mayaguez a large fire destroyed a motion picture theatre last night. Reports say about 150 people were killed or injured including many children. Today 27 unidentified bodies were recovered from the ruins.
Waverly Hall Hyde Park hosted a mass meeting under Friends of Irish Freedom. Main speakers included Edward S. McSweeney former Board of Immigration chairman and Fire Commissioner John R Murphy. Dr David E Hanlon presided.
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