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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1912
Page
18
A six member legislative committee on labor toured the Blake Knowles pump works in Cambridge to inspect conditions in the core rooms where women are employed. They visited without notice to the company yesterday afternoon.
Chairman Charles L. Carr led a labor committee delegation to inspect Blake Knowles pump works and a Woven Hose Company facility. He found some heavy lifting done by men and lighter, less ideal conditions for women, but said most work is not beyond safety rules and noted many workers do not speak English. He noted some charges were later admitted wrong after site visits and that legislation may be considered.
Three killed and seven injured as police fired on a mob that attacked the Rock Island police station. Mayor H M Schriver faced recall pressure after clashing with a local editor and suppressing a newspaper issue. Sheriff Bruner sought militia while recalling district attorney candidate H M McCaskrin and mobilizing police and fire crews.
Fifty representatives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers led by Warren E. Stone voted to submit to a strike vote the issue of wage increases and standardization refused by the Eastern railroads. Ballots will be distributed over several days with April 10 set for public results in New York.
President Charles S. Mellen of the New Haven line toured North Station with James Brady known as Diamond Jim Brady. Brady wore immense jewelry and met with Sam Bernard the comedian while railroad circles noted the visit amid talks of Boston and Maine equipment plans.
Mrs. Carl L Goddard of Everett petitions the Probate Court in East Cambridge for separate support from her husband Frank Goddard a well known local real estate man. She alleges his love for adventure and liquor led him to desert their five children and wife, to whom they were married twelve years.
Nearly 25 sleeping Chinamen were roused from cots and hurried into Oxford street after midnight by Patrolman Bresnahan who found a brisk fire in the Charles Fong & Co. store at 34 Oxford street. The store on the ground floor of a brick building fed a lodging house above. An alarm from box 54 was sent. the blaze was confined to the store with small loss.
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