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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1913
Page
6
The Pilgrim A A hockey team claims the amateur championship and yesterday issued a challenge to the Boston A A for a series of games to settle the question beyond dispute.
In Boston the Rev. John H. O Rourke S J quoted St Paul to decry social ills. He named politicians who use power for gain, divorcees, wage injustices, vice in theatres, and negligent parents as seeking the living among the dead. The Cathedral crowd heard a vivid Easter message on the resurrection and moral renewal.
A preacher denounces drinking and moral decay urging men to quit alcohol with Orrine as a remedy and money back guarantee. The text condemns operatic pleasures corrupt politics and abortion, calling some leaders traitors and urging focus on Christ and spiritual life. It contrasts living standards with the dead and ends with a exhortation to seek Christ and purity.
Sergeant Daniel Toomey and Patrolmen Shea and Allen of Station 15 unearthed three wells hidden under lumber in Ellen Callahan’s cellar at 7 Tufts Street Court. The first well held ale, the second lager, and the third contained about three gallons of whiskey.
J H De Angelis died at his parents home after a short pneumonia illness. He belonged to the Foresters of America and St Josephs A A and was famed as a top all round athlete in the West End. Funeral at Sacred Heart Church and burial in Malden cemetery.
Officers of the Boston Team Drivers' Union report three large express companies signed the new higher wage agreement. Affected are 150 men employed by the three firms. The meeting featured International President Daniel J. Tobin who spoke from his Cambridge home and 15 new members were admitted.
The Boston Bartenders Union elected James J. English John W. Conley and former secretary Thomas E. Mooney as delegates to the Bartenders Cooks Waiters Waitresses and Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union biennial convention in Denver in June. Special guests Michael Land J Isaacs and A Cozzoline from Newark study Boston voting methods.
Mayor Fitzg erald sent word that the proposed wage increase to 2 50 a day for city employees will be definitely settled within a few days. The notice came to Sanitary and Street Cleaning Teamsters and Helpers Union 149.
Stephen O'Meara won the mayoral race in Boston after a labor meeting held at Faneuil Hall. The preferential voting plan used a new voting machine, with 62 of 300 members casting ballots. Opponents included John F. Fitzgerald James M. Curley James J. Storrow John R. Murphy and Thomas J. Kenny.
Committees from the Ladies' Tailors and Dressmakers' Union and the Ladies' Tailors Association held a conference from 3 to 10 p m yesterday but reached no settlement on the strike of workers in the garment making branch.
In a preferential voting tally O'Meara won with 43 votes while Fitzgerald had 34 and Curley 33 after first second and third preferences. Donahue explained the system’s mechanics and its potential city wide adoption.
The Theatrical Stage Employees Union voted to send delegates to the Seattle convention in July and backed the Moving Picture Operatives Union in placing certain houses on the unfair list. Delegates to the international convention were elected at a Boston Capmakers meeting. A reception for international leaders was planned for April 18 at Hibernian Hall Charlestown.
In Bangor Maine a meeting of about 250 members and committeemen of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Locomotive Firemen discussed the Bangor and Aroostook strike. A New England executive committee meeting followed lasting until past midnight with no public statement on any decision. Prominent officials from the B of L E and B of L F men attended.
International President John J. Hart spoke to the Boston Meat Handlers' Union about pending issues in the Quincy Market district. Special guest Miss Mary K. O'Sullivan of the Women's Trade Union League attended as a speaker and observer.
The executive board of the Boston Street Carmen's Union 589 will meet today to finalize Wages and working conditions schedules for submission to officials next month. The board report goes to tonight's shopmen's branch meeting and to sessions of girl collectors uniformed platform men and porters Thursday. The first annual hall committee plans at Mechanics' Building are to be completed today for the April 2 event, with more than 25,000 tickets already sold.
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