Labor party rejected by Boston Central Labor Union vote
The Boston Central Labor Union defeated a motion to affiliate with a national Labor party by 51 to 20. Instead the group backed the AFL campaign “elect your friends and defeat your enemies” and named a five member committee to work with the AFL national campaign. The union also backed equal pay for equal work for male and female teachers and referred a rent control resolution to the executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Central Labor Union
National Labor Political Party
American Federation of Labor
National Campaign Committee
Boston High School Teachers’ Union
Central Labor Union
Labor unions endorse stance after mixed referendum vote
The committee including Senator George R. Curran and P. Harry Jennings examined a referendum from unions on endorsing the Labor party. Of 79 unions voting, 38 favored, 35 opposed, with three doubtful and three nonparticipants. Delegates then defeated the measure, while Local 97 of Cigarmakers backed a resolution condemning United Shoe Machinery Company Beverly for trying to force individual contracts and endorsing the plant employees strike.
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George RE. Curran
Charles J. Hodgson
State Branch
A. F
P. Harry Jennings
Anna Niland
Boston School Teachers’ Union
J. Frank O'Hare
Pressmen’s Union
Labor Party
Cigarmakers’ Union
United Shoe Machinery Company
Beverly
Bayer Aspirin Package Claims and Uses in Early Marketing
The text describes Bayer aspirin as genuine aspirin in Bayer packaging with directions for headache cold pain and rheumatism. It notes Bayer as the physician prescribed brand for nineteen years and mentions 12 tablet tins costing a few cents. It also defines aspirin as Bayer’s trade name for monoacetic acid ester of salicylic acid.
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Bayer
Longshoremen Strike to Unload Palms for Sunday Services
Union members vote unanimously at Hibernian Hall Charlestown to unload the Clyde line steamer Fari bault if needed to obtain palms for church services next Sunday. After locating the palms the rest of the cargo will be reloaded in place. Union officers will press the offer with Clyde line management.
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Hibernian Hall
Charlestown
Faribault
Clyde Line
Union
Gibson Buys Controlling Interest in Life Magazine
New owner Charles Dana Gibson, famed artist, takes control of Life the weekly humorous publication on April 1 after purchasing the majority stock from the Mitchell widow. G B Richardson and George Ulassey join in publication.
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New York
Charles Dana Gibson
Life
G. B. Richardson
George Ulassey
Gibson
John A. Mitchell
Magazine
Germany seeks larger Schleswig frontiers in plebiscite plan
The German government presented a note to the plebiscite commission seeking a frontier line that would leave a large part of the first Schleswig zone to Germany and include Tondern. Germany proposes to grant Denmark economic concessions while Danish agitation over Flensburg continues. The international commission has urged Schleswig agitators to return home.
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Copenhagen
Germany
National Tidende
Flensburg
Tondern
Denmark
Second Schleswig
International Commission
Schleswig
Wellesley College Class Tours Commonwealth Pier Immigration Station
Immigrant station tour by Wellesley College immigration class. The group examined Commonwealth Pier aboard the liner Cretie and spoke with officers, using their linguistic skills to converse with arriving aliens.
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Wellesley
Commonwealth Pier
Wellesley College
Manchuria Arrives from Europe With Birds and Monkeys
The liner Manchuria arrived in New York carrying canaries that sang across the Atlantic and three monkeys along with swans. The animals were consigned to Louis Reek of the city. Captain Adrian Zeeder led the voyage, which started in Hamburg and included a Holland port stop. Passengers urged aid to Germany in raw materials and food and supported trade relations with Germany, seeing a stronger Germany from the Kapp revolt.
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New York
Atlantic
Manchuria
Hamburg
Bremerhaven
Holland
Southampton
England
Louis Reek
Adrian Zeeder
Germany
America
Women Aid In Burglary In Brooklyn Drug Store
Two women joined two men in a Brooklyn drug store robbery. They tore a $600 ring from proprietor William T. Blair, while the men covered him with revolvers. The quartet rifled a cash register and fled in an automobile, the engine left running. The women appeared well dressed and veiled as they asked to view perfume.
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New York
Brooklyn
William T. Blair
Dr S Hardiker predicts religious war with Britain
At the Workingmen's Forum in International Hall last night Dr S Hardiker of India warned that a united Hindu Muslim religious war could erupt against Great Britain as a fight for political freedom in Ireland India Arabia and Persia.
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Great Britain
Ireland
India
Arabia
Persia
S. Hardiker
Workingmen’s Forum
International Hall
Rumanians Bar Refugees at Bessarabian Frontier
Rumanians keep a strict guard along the Bessarabian frontier and refuse passage to more refugees. Among them are Bolshevist suspects. Those crossing the Dniester River are fired upon.
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Bucharest
Dniester
Postal workers urge Congress to restore wartime bonus
Chicago March 21 Federal Judge K M Landis addressed a meeting of post office clerks and federal employees who voted to petition Congress for restoring the $240 annual bonus and adding another 240 for those earning under 2500 yearly. Landis called the 240 bonus abolition a rank injustice and urged leaving public service if possible. Other speakers noted no wage increase since 1914 except an inadequate 240 bonus.
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Chicago
Post Office
K. M. Landis
Congress
War Nurse Named Head Of Hospital
Miss Vera A. Allan a renowned war nurse has been named superintendent of Lynn Hospital by the board of trustees to succeed Dr Hilda A Simon Allan a member of the first Harvard medical unit sailed for Europe in 1916 under Dr Hugh Cabot She is a graduate of Boston City Hospital and Boston Lying-in Hospital and was cited by Field Marshal Haig for work at Damnes Camieres base hospital in France Her home is in Toronto
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Vera A. Allan
Lynn Hospital
Board of Trustees
Hilda A. Simon
Miss Allan
Harvard
Europe
Hugh Cabot
Boston City Hospital
Boston
Field Marshal Haig
Damnes-Camieres
France
Toronto
Babson and Swift Clash Over Socialism at Ford Hall Forum
Morrison I. Swift condemned capitalism as the foe to democracy and praised Socialism including the I W W and Bolsheviks. Roger W. Babson defended capitalism’s incentives while urging suppression of Socialism and arguing it harms production and market laws.
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Ford Hall
Morrison I. Swift
Roger W. Babson
Swift
Babson
Armenian Prima Donna Berberian Sings Folk Songs in Arlington Recital
Miss Berberian a distinguished Armenian prime donna appeared in old national costume at the Arlington Theatre with a program of Armenian folk songs, Italian masters selections, French songs, and excerpts from Carmen. She recently arrived from Constantinople and gave her first New York recital at Jordan Hall. Nearly 1000 attended.
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Manning Berberian
Arlington Theatre
Arlington Squate
Berberian
United States
Constantinople
New York
Jordan Hall
Paris
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