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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1902
Page
5
At a meeting of the Lumber Trade Club the retail dealers of Boston and vicinity unanimously voted to close yards and wharves until further notice due to the strike of teamsters and tally men. Work will stop at 7 am Thursday March 3, with far reaching effects on building and related trades.
A strike committee led by Thomas N. Canning urged Mayor Collins to halt Brine teams used by H. P. Nawn in city projects. The water department was criticized, but the mayor found no evidence of Brine teams being used by city departments or contractors. Nawn defended his contract, saying his own teams handle the work and denied any conflict with workers.
About 26 members of the Wool Handlers Union went out yesterday morning. They refused to load or unload trucks, though willing to work on stock in warehouses. Nearly all fleece wool dealers east of the Summer street extension bridge lost most workers by noon. The strike is sympathetic with no stated grievances and has not yet seriously disrupted business. A meeting may be called if the situation persists.
At a regular meeting of Typographical Union No 13 executive committee yesterday, members voted to recommend an appropriation of 800 for the Allied Transportation Council currently on strike.
Tonight's meetings of the Boston Building Trades Council and the Boston Central Labor Union are anticipated with anxiety. The unions are expected to endorse the strike after debate, with potential sympathy strikes among affiliates. About 99 groups attend the Central Labor Union, and 35 join the Building Trades Council, representing all building crafts. If both call a strike, up to 20 000 workers, including carpenters and iron workers, would join, with bricklayers numbering 2000 unaffiliated.
Michael Murphy president of the Stationary Firemen's Union urged members to remain at their posts until further union orders. A special meeting is set for Friday at Wells Memorial Hall to decide a course of action. A non union coal handler's delivery at Hotel Touraine led all eight hotel firemen to quit, but Murphy ordered them back to work until the meeting dictates otherwise.
Walter Powers a 38 year old Chase & Co driver was convicted in Municipal Court for disturbing the peace by interfering with another driver during work. He received four months at the House of Correction and was held on $500 bond on appeal. Union members attended as Powers plans to contest police claims in upper court. This marks the first arrest since the strike began.
Superintendent Donovan and Purchas ing Agent Kelcher will confer with the strike committee to arrange delivery of city material. A lumber consignment is held up and more material may pile at freight yards unless action is taken. Strikers are expected to permit city officials to obtain the needed items.
The plant manager reports two workers on strike, about twenty lumber handlers and eight teamsters idle. He says business is completely tied up, with two teams operating today and plans to hire more teamsters if possible.
Under federal protection a large corps of draymen led by Michael Barr unload and haul merchandise from wharves to appraisers and depots with no union interference. The Custom House operation remains largely unimpeded though reduced, as strike observers predict growing trouble when the backlog and rush to move goods resumes.
United States immigration commissioner Colonel Billings warned of strict checks for contract laborers at Boston port. He said two Nova Scotia ships are due and instructed assistants to scrutinize every arriving man for violations. He stressed personal vigilance and denied expected trouble, noting Canadians can reach Boston by rail faster than by sea. He added concerns about Italian workers and vowed to block any suspected contract arrivals.
Esley reported from New York that Ralph M Heasley is about to depart for Boston to meet Frank P Sargent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Daniel J Keefe of the International Longshoremen's Union Charles Francis and others designated by the Massachusetts State Board of Arbitration to discuss the strike question and seek a settlement.
Mayor Walter B. Morse of Marlboro, partner in Wheeler, Esterbrook & Co., led a company drive yesterday after abandoning Marlboro operations Tuesday. The firm controls about 20 teams with a Marlboro branch. With most drivers gone, only one stays loyal as Morse and partners push four teams while drivers report fair pay but avoid antagonizing the union.
Leaders from little Italy moved to protest Italian laborers filling strikers places at docks and sheds. Badaracco and others urged men to refuse work, citing unity with union men. Some workers reportedly resisted, with docks supposedly locking in workers and providing meals and beds. The report notes uncertainty about full details but strong sentiment in the North End.
Lowell March 12 The strike disrupts local grocers as Boston green goods fail to arrive and wholesale orders cannot be fulfilled. Corporations reroute shipments via Ayer Hitchburg line Rotterdam Junction and New York Central to the West. Pork prices rise by a dollar per hundredweight.
Cambridge coal dealers faced disruption as workers quit, with Bay State Fuel Company 110 workers, H. L. Carstein 12, Metropolitan Coal 40, Wellington and Wild 9 1 2, Wellington and Buck 26, Coleman Bros 40. Several large Cambridge concerns plan closures due to supply shortages, including National Biscuit Company Cambridgeport suspending operations affecting 0 workers, and Page Box Company shutting down, putting 12 out of work.
H C Knight of F Knight & Son warns in Boston that thousands of tons of merchandise have already vanished, with more losses likely if the strike lasts. He cites a 100 ton weekly Class freight withdrawn permanently and notes 30 teams were active yesterday, with plans to hire 100 more as operations resume today.
Brewers warn 23 city plants may suspend operations within 48 hours without coal. Massachusetts Brewers, controlling 16 firms, fear closure will put over 3000 workers out of work. A no nonunion hiring rule and potential coal-delivery strikes could trigger a broad economic impact, delaying wages and sales across breweries and retail taverns.
An advertisement touts Dr. T. A. Slocum’s free emulsion and remedies claiming to prevent and cure consumption and other lasting illnesses. It invites readers to write to 98 Pine Street New York City for the complete combination, noting life expectancy gains and offering Emulsion Coltsfoote Expectorant Psychine Tonic and Ozorell. Readers are urged to cite the Boston Post in their request.
A conference of Boston business leaders convenes to probe the strike and explore settlement options. Attendees include I R Carter and J Mason Little of the Associated Board of Trade, Amory A Lawrence, A C Farley, E H Walcott of the Merchants Association, J Jones and G H Leonard of the Chamber of Commerce, plus labor reps led by Samuel Gompers. Governor Crane may be briefed on progress.
Longshoremen of Charlestown and East Boston within Noddle Island Assembly 5789 and OConnell Assembly 1174 voted unanimously at a Boston & Maine Freight Handlers and Freight Clerks meeting the night before last to quit work. The action threatens to halt all steamship traffic to Europe and the Mediterranean and the coastwise trade already blockaded by Longshoremen's Union 304.
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