Unemployment Among Boston Women Workers Details
The United States Department of Labor Bulletin 182 reports Boston women in retail stores average nearly four years at a place and about 50 weeks per year. Most earn between 7 and 8 dollars weekly, with 63 percent under 25 and 77 percent under 30. Many families rely on their wages. illness causes lengthy absences, and only about half have sickness insurance. The study covers 1156 regular workers and similar numbers of extras, noting seasonal layoffs, short unpaid vacations, and limited access to benefits. Data come from 15 approached stores with partial sampling due to funds.
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United States Department of Labor
Boston
Start of 25000 Dollar Fund for Bunker Hill Boys Club
The article notes a $25,000 fund drive for the Bunker Hill Boys Club with details on earnings across industries. It also cites the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission setting a weekly minimum of 8.71 dollars and annual 453 dollars, with allocations for board, clothing, medicine, and other living costs.
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Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission
New Point in the Swig Case at Supreme Judicial Court
Former attorney general Herbert Parker argued for Simon Swig before the full bench of the Supreme Judicial Court challenging the constitutionality of the corrupt practices act. Parker cited a Superior Court finding that Swig spent or had spent on his behalf 3824.36 dollars for his House of Representatives race. The court did not expect a decision for months.
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Supreme Judicial Court
Herbert Parker
Simon Swig
Superior Court
House of Representatives
Parker
Swig
Woman Sues Landlady for Seven Thousand Five Hundred Damages
Mrs. Gertrude I. Gregory of 81 Ash Street Waltham sues landlady Mrs. Henrietta Vinal in East Cambridge Superior Court seeking 7500 damages after a fall on faulty stairs in her home. The suit alleges injuries from the defective construction.
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Gertrude I. Gregory
Ash Street
Waltham
East Cambridge
Bunker Hill Boys Club Campaign Reaches Early Goal
Ford Hall hosted 250 attendees as $25,000 of the $125,000 clubhouse fund was pledged. The lunch launched a 10 day whirlwind campaign with President George Bramwell Baker Campaign Manager S. M. Bard and Chairman Frederick P. Fish among the prominent figures at the head table.
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Bunker Hill
Ford Hall
George Bramwell Baker
S. M. Bard
Frederick P. Fish
Bard
J. Mitchell Galvin
John J. Attridge
Walton L. Crocker
Henry L. Higginson
Lfe
Bunker Hill Monument
State Street
Board of Trade
Ford
Ashburton Place
Ben Gibbys Book Put Off by Partnership Clash
A Boston political memoir project stalls as Ben Gibby and Lavina Walsh dispute co authorship and profits. Walsh accuses Gibby of unfairly claiming 90 percent and seeks equal share while detailing writing contributions and correspondence pressure.
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Benjamin I’. Gibby
Boston
Lavina Walsh
Benjamin F. Gibby
Benjamin I. Gibby
Not a Decent Living Wage Declared by Civic Service Leader
Philip Davis secretary of the Civic Service House said $20 a week could support a family of eight but is not a decent living wage. He argued the lowest wage to sustain a family harms the American standard of living and urged employers and workers to ensure a decent wage scale.
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Philip Davis
Civic Service House
Mr. Davis
North End
Jess
Police Battle to Prevent Lynching in Civil Rights Era
Police fought to shield a prisoner as a mob threatened to lynch him. A patrol wagon was attacked before the inmate was placed inside and guarded to the station house. A lynching was narrowly averted.
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William Hill
Charles Bartick
Charlestown
Finn
Josephine
Dorsey
C J H Woodbury Dies of Pneumonia
C J H Woodbury secretary and treasurer of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers died at his Lynn home from pneumonia. He was born in Boston, educated at the Institute of Technology, graduated 1873, lectured at Cornell and the Institute of Technology, served four years on the Lynn School Board, and invented fire protection devices for factories.
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J. Hi. Woodbury
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
Baltimore Street
Lynn
John Woodbury
Dorchester
Boston
Institute of Technology
Cornell
Lynn School Board
Woodbury
Seven Weeks Strike Ends in Agreement at Belle Waist
More than 75 dress and waist makers at the Belle Waist Company 1020 Washington Street end a seven week strike tomorrow after both sides sign an agreement settling the dispute.
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Belle Waist Company
Washington Street
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Bunker Hill Boys Club
Crep Pri
Hopron
Pop
the Press Publishing Ga
By C.O’ Payne
Josephine McCarthy
C Street
Federal Street
Dewey Square
Summer Street Bridge
Atlantic Avenue
Fred Finn
Dorchester Avenue
Ben Gibby
Beacon Hill
Ile
Posterity
Mrs. Walsh
Ben
Gibby
Mr. Gibby
Charles Dickens
Wilkie Collins
Partington Childs
Jim Evans
Adams House
C. Partington Childs
Congress
Ben Jim Evans
Jim Eivans
Ward Heelers
Tremont Street
Davis
Neal Institute
Newbury ST
Back Bay
C. J. H. Woodbury
Penn
Horticultural Hall
Penn’s
New Flower Shop
Tremont St
Tausendon
Lady Gay
Dorothy Perkins
Linerarias
Henry Penn
William Penn
Oxford
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