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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 13, 1902

Page

8

Roxbury Peabody Home Auxiliary Hosts Pink Tea Benefit

The Roxbury auxiliary of the New England Peabody Home for Crippled Children held a reception and pink tea at the Dudley Club Roxbury to raise funds for the Mary A. Livermore Hall building fund in Hyde Park. About 1% of guests attended and a handsome sum was netted for the purpose.

Roxbury New England Peabody Home For Dudley Club Kenilworth Street Pbuilding Fund Mary A. Livermore Hall Hyde Park

Copper Stocks Slump In Weaker Market On Mixed New York Show

Copper shares fell as low priced issues led losses while New York markets showed strength in certain favorites. Amalgamated dropped to low points amid dividend speculation and bank loan pressure appeared on Osceola and other coppers. Old Dominion and Mass declined, with Centennial and Arcadian down sharply. General Electric and Westinghouse rose, rail stocks strengthened, and market liquidity cooled as talk swirled around possible management changes at the Old Dominion Upper Company.

New York Boston Centennial Arcadian Osceola Amalgamated Gue Lawson Trinity United States Mining Utah Old Dominion Mass General Electric Westinghouse D Electric Missouri Pacific Reading Common Manhattan Virgoen John Stanton Old Dominion Upper Company Ill Steel E Gas & Coke Allouez Millain Enreyek Am Ag Arnold Mining Foie Atlantic Mining Bonanza Mining Boston Elevated Iss Dom Coal Minin Dom Iron & Stee East Boston Es Edison el Fl Elm River Fitchburg Gen Electric Guanajuato Isle Royale Mass Electric Mass Minin Ib Tee Mergenthaler Oe Michigan Mont C & C NEB Gas & Mont & Bosnewh Nor & Wor Reen Old Colony Mining Old Colon RR Old Domin Mining West End St Ry Western T & 1m Weating Elec Winona Mining

Norfolk railway cars run without guards amid unrest

In Norfolk Virginia March 12 reports indicate Norfolk Railway and Light Company cars continue with no military guards and no violence. Eight companies of the Seventy-first Infantry remain in Norfolk until danger subsides while four commands from nearby areas have been relieved from duty.

Norfolk Norfolk Railway and Light Company

Building Trades in Boston Face Major Slowdown

The 20 000 building trades workers face a work stoppage as lumber yards close and material shortages mount. Union and non union tensions block supplies, threatening paralysis of city projects including Har rison avenue and Zeigler street, Huntington and Gainsboro, Parker and Gainsboro, and the City Hospital site. The Building Trades Council plans a meeting tonight.

Boston Harrison Avenue Zeigler Street The Building Trades Council

Ottawa dockyard truck collision at Hoosac Tunnel yards

About 40 French Canadian workers from Ottawa were injured or unsettled after a truck ran into the Hoosac Tunnel yards yesterday afternoon. The men were unloaded, fed, and planned for overnight assignment tomorrow to replace freight handlers. Police guarded docks as longshoremen prepared ships with limited turnout. An assembly meeting in Roughan Society Hall voted to strike. the union totals roughly 400 members.

Ottawa Hoosac Tunnel Roughan Society

Grocers Clerks Endorse Strike After Special Meeting

A special meeting of Grocery and Provision Clerks convened at 995 Washington Street with about 400 members. The union endorsed the strikers’ action and formed a ten member committee to address grievances with non-union drivers. A report of two clerks being discharged by M. O’Keefe was called untrue by the union.

Washington Street Association M. O'Keefe

Moulders Strike in Cleveland Demand 3 Dollar Day

In Cleveland Ohio today about 500 union machinery moulders walked out to press for a minimum wage of 3 dollars per day. Eleven shops halted operations as the strike began.

Cleveland

Clues Rule Out The Weld Crew In NE Amateur Assembly

A special NE Amateur Association meeting, urged by 14 clubs, voted 15 to 12 that the Weld Harvard Boat Club was not a member for unpaid initiation fees and dues. The session, among the largest, drew 32 clubs represented and about 100 people, with 75 delegates.

Weld Harvard) Boat Club New England Amateur Association John J. Corrigan

Boston and Maine men on notice to return to work

B. and M. workers notified their bosses they would be at work this morning, and more are expected to return. No new hires occurred as the railway sought to give the men a fair chance.

Ffair Boston B. A. Atkinson Boston & Maine

Union dispute costs Sumner & Goodwin ten workers jobs

Ten men employed by Sumner & Goodwin Company were discharged about 9 yesterday after refusing to handle goods moved by non union stevedores aboard a wagon from the E Libby Company. Frank Sumner oversaw the action, marking what the Steam Mens Detective Union 9792 A F of L called the first step in a new dispute.

Sumner & Goodwin Company Congress Street E. Libby Company Frank Sumner Steam Mens Detective Union A. F. of

Striking Painters Spark City Building Trades Walkout

In Pittsburg three hundred building trades workers quit the Arrott building in sympathy with striking painters. Knights of Labor painters from Washington replaced strikers. Leaders vow to call out all building trades on projects employing non union painters.

Pittsburg Penn Arrott Knights of Labor Washington, D. c

Rope Cut Delays Dray in Charlestown City Square

About five o'clock a two horse dray owned by R S Brine Transportation crossed City square Charlestown when the rope binding the load was cut. The act was done by boys and no arrests followed as teams were interfered and several incidents were reported.

R. 8. Brine Transportation Company City Square Charlestown

James MacLardie Drowns Near Lynn

The body of James MacLardie seven years old was found in the Saugus River near the Boston Revere Beach and Lynn railroad this afternoon. He had been missing since Monday. He was a skilled shoemaker from Glasgow Scotland and a noted poet. He leaves a son and two daughters.

Lynn James MacLardie Saugus River Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn MacLardie Glasgow Scotland

Merchants Discuss Strike at Boston Hotel Meeting

The Boston Merchants' Association held its regular monthly session at Young's Hotel with President Amory A. Lawrence presiding. The transportation committee reported extensive talks with labor leaders but no definite agreement, while a Longshoremen's Union representative called the strike a fight to catch one corporation, naming Brine Company in effect.

Boston Merchants’ Association Young’s Hotel Amory A. Lawrence Transportation Committee Association Messrs. Cox Ryan

More Freight Handlers Out In East Boston Tie-Up

Five hundred fifty freight handlers of Lodge No. 5789 K of L Noddle Island Assembly East Boston voted to stop work this morning. This threatens a complete shutdown of steamship lines in East Boston with Cunard Warren Leyland and Dominion lines unable to move freight. The Saxonia on the Cunard line is due at 11 with about 5000 tons of cargo, one of its heaviest loads here. Further large European liners are due Friday and Saturday.

K. of L Noddle Island

Plymouth Weavers Strike Over Loom System Affects Mills

Plymouth March 12 The 175 workers at Puritan mills a unit of the American Woollen Company voted to strike tomorrow in sympathy with Providence and Olneyville strikers. The dispute centers on the double loom system and involves many employees beyond the weaving department.

Plymouth Puritan Mills American Woollen Company Providence Olneyville A. L

Royal Blue Line Announces Washington Tours From Boston

The Royal Blue Line offers personally conducted tours to Washington for teachers friends and travelers from Boston March 14 to 28. The $25 rate covers all expenses including five days in Washington with visits to Philadelphia and New York plus stop-over privileges. Also tours to Old Point Comfort Richmond Gettysburg and more. For itinerary and guide apply to Joseph P. Taggart N. E. P. A. 211 Washington Street Boston.

Royal Blue Line Washington Boston Philadelphia New York Old Point Comfort Richmond Gettysburg Joseph P. Taggart Washington Street

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