Plan appeal to city and state on next year works
President Moses Touvin of the Cigarmakers' Union urged unions to seek municipal and State action to create jobs for the unemployed. He noted his union offers strong benefits but many families still live on a pittance. The Boston Central Labor Union met with about 200 attendees to plan another conference at Wells Memorial building Friday with full union representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses Touvin
Cigarmakers’ Union
Morrison I. Swift
Boston Central Labor Union
Boston
Wells Memorial Building
Labor Notes on Boston unions seek Saturday half holiday
A Boston union meeting urged a May 1 to November 1 Saturday half holiday for horseshoers with employers largely approving. New lodge formed for boilermakers and iron shipbuilders at Charlestown navy yard. Branch 4 pantry workers union established with headquarters at 38 Piedmont street. Master barbers plan 1908 wage and holiday changes and closer ties with journeymen. Freight Handlers leaders discussed B and A management layoffs with Locals 70 and 80.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Horseshoers of
Boston
Jeremiah O’leary
Michael J. Roche
Bunker Hill
Navy Yard
Charlestown
P. I. Donahue
David Chaisson
Thomas McEvilly
Fred Jones
Charles Vincentz
William Neal
Charles Parella
Antonio Lorenzo
Francesco
Clampaglia
Vincenso di Scuillo
Carmine Martella
Paolo Contestabile
Gonpertag
Retreat Opens at Immaculate Conception Church
About 2500 women attended the double service retreat at the Church of the Immaculate Conception with sessions in upper church and St. Valentine’s Chapel. Speakers included Rev. E M Corbett S J Rev Joseph M Jorge S J Rev Matthew McCabe S J Rev J Haven Richards S J and Rev Francis X Brady S J. The Boston Catholic Alumni Sodality and Boston College officials were represented and benediction closed the opening night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Immaculate Conception
Church of the Immaculate Conception
St. Valentine's Chapel
E. M. Corbett
S. J
Joseph M. Jorge
Matthew McCabe
J. Haven Richards
Kingdom of Heaven
Ife
College Sodality
Catholic Alumni Sodality of
Boston
Francis X. Brady
Baltimore
United States
David W. Hearn
Boston College
Labor union actions and meetings in Boston area report
The Boston labor scene includes delegates chosen for a memorial at Faneuil Hall for Gregory Gershuni, a donation to a free speech defense fund, and leadership changes in multiple unions. Elections occur for Ward 7 Wage Earners Club and Stablemen's Union 407, while a May convention is planned for state steam engineers. The AFL building trades department receives its charter and mass meetings address strikes and button distributions, plus wage decisions at Boston cigar factory strippers and public labor organizers’ visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faneuil Hall
Gregory Gershuni
Switzerland
Philadelphia
Quincy
Building Trades Department
American Federation of Labor
Boston Newsboys’ Protective Union 9077
A. F. of L
Hanover Street
Daniel Cronin
Lancaster
Penn
Brotherhood of Railroad Freight and
Boston
Frank Morrison
Church Loot Strikes Cambridge Parish in Silver Heist
The First Parish Church in Harvard Square Cambridge reports a theft of church silver used at socials including six dozen teaspoons four dozen knives and forks one dozen tablespoons a teapot and a plate. Two men John Murphy and Joseph Hagen were arrested in Boston after officers found matching silverware in bags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First
Harvard Square
Cambridge
Boston
Rooney and McCauley
Boston Police
John Murphy
Joseph Hagen
Garden Street
Knights of Labor reject five percent wage cut
Freight handlers clerks roundhouse and fuel and crossing men of Knights of Labor reject President Lucius Tuttle's 5 percent wage reduction on the Boston and Maine railroad system. They propose a shorter work week instead. District Assembly 30 K of L will report results by Wednesday with locomotive engineers firemen trainmen and conductors near a tie on the 5 percent concession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Labor
Lucius Tuttle
Boston & Maine Railroad
District Assembly 30
K. of L
Wage talks and union meetings press for 1908-09 deals
The Wage scale committees and unions including Wharf and Bridge Builders, Freight Handlers 80, Coal Teamsters and Handlers 68, Carpenters District Council, Ship Carpenters and Joiners, and Boston Plumbers 12 prepare wage agreements and discuss abolishing the helpers system. Meetings and lectures on water tube boilers, led by McDonald and Walker, conclude the program at Boston Association 12, N A S E.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrison
Boston & Albany Railroad
Union 80
Union 68
Carpenters’ District Council
Hanover Street
Ship Carpenters and Joiners
Boston Plumbers’ Union
Boston Sheet Metal Workers’ Union
Messrs. McDonald and Walker
Boston Association
N. A
S. E
Washington Street
Mrs Eliza Trask Hill Dies After Lifelong Public Service
Mrs Eliza Trask Hill a noted woman suffragist and temperance worker dies at 68 in Somerville after a long illness. Born in Warren she led Massachusetts I O D and S S T U efforts, founded Magona Home and Bethany Mission, and served as WCTU Norfolk county president and Winter Hill WCTU president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza Trask Hill
Somerville
Greater
Boston
Hill
Warren
George H. Trask
Fitchburg
Sycamore Street
Winter Hill
Massachusetts
International Order of King's Daughters and Sons
Magona Home
Bethany Mission
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Van Alen Expands Flower Venture in England
London March 29 James J Van Alen grows premium flowers for English markets from his Rushton Hall garden He aims to recover funds previously paid to English tradesmen and has hired James Carmichael former head of Windsor Castle gardens earning about 10000 dollars annually
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
James J. van Alen
Rushton Hall
van Alen
James Carmichael
Royal Gardens
Windsor Castle
Frank Gaynor Dies Sudden in South Royalston Mill
Frank P. Gaynor a 37 year old unmarried secretary of the George C Whitney Manufacturing Co South Royalston was found dead in his mill office with a hemorrhage in the head. Dr Bowker said death likely natural and that he may have been dead since Thursday night when last seen alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hol
Frank P. Gaynor
George C. Whitney Manufacturing Company
South Royalston
A. V. Bowker
Cambridge Man Mysteriously Missing
William C. Greenleaf of 80 12 Magazine Street Cambridge is missing since last Friday night. He is described as five feet eight inches tall, light complexion, sandy mustache, about 180 pounds, wearing dark clothes and a derby hat, with a signet ring engraved W G. He suffers melancholia and nervous prostration after losing his job four months ago near North Station. He is unmarried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Greenleaf
Magazine Street
Cambridge
Greenleaf
North Station
W. G
Alabama Railroad Penalty Laws Ruled Unconstitutional
Judge Thomas G. Jones of the U S Court holds Alabama railroad penalty laws unconstitutional and ruled that railroads’ suits are not violations of the twelfth amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Thomas G. Jones
United States Court
Prince Helie Sees Anna Gould in Secret Meeting
New York March 29. Despite opposition from George Gould and her suitor, Mme Anna Gould and Prince Helie DeSagan meet with friends Mr and Mrs Tyler Morse. They lunched at the St Regis and left separately to prevent publicity, with Mme Gould later taken to Miss Helen Gould's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George Gould
Mme
Anna Gould
Prince Helie DeSagan
Tyler Morse
Morses
St. Regis
Mme. Gould
Helen Gould
Prince
Lynn labor leader dies after long union career
Lynn March 29 Napoleon Woods 74 a longtime Lynn labor leader and pioneer in organizing turn shoe workers died suddenly tonight He was a principal figure in leading an extensive shoe workers strike in 1860 and remained active in the movement for years
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Napoleon Woods
Turn Shoe Workers
Mr. Woods
Living Daughter of a Revolutionary Soldier Granted Pension
Utica March 29 Miss Jeannette Blair four years old residing at Madison Madison county and believed to be the last living daughter of a Revolutionary soldier in this State after persistent effort on the part of her friends has just been allowed a pension of eight dollars a month by the federal government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utica
Jeannette Blair
Madison
Madison County
May Leave Poetic Wife Paris Court Fight Over Divorce
In Paris March 29 reports say Comte Mathieu Noailless seeks legal separation from his wife, a famed aristocratic poetess, on incompatibility of temperament while she argues that her poetic output is hampered by an unsympathetic critic in the household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Comte Mathieu Noailless
Ecomtesse
To Cure a Cold in One Day Patent Remedy Claim
An old advertisement touts Laxative BromQuinine Tablets as a one day cure for colds. It claims druggists will refund money if the remedy fails to cure, with E. W. Rove’s signature on each box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Rove
Third Victim of Gas Tank Explosion Dies in Greenfield
In South Deerfield on Depot street the gas tank blast claimed James G. Stoddard 60 the third death. He died at Franklin County Hospital Greenfield after regaining consciousness. Two others injured Joseph Coogan and Mrs Collins at Warren House were struck by bricks and glass. Collins cut severely. William Driscoll listed as comfortable and expected to recover soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Deerfield
James G. Stoddard
Depot Street
Franklin County Hospital
Greenfield
Stoddard
Professor Stoddard
Smith College
Joseph Coogan
Collins
Warren House
William Driscoll
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William O. Greenleap
Alabama
R. R
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Prince Helie
Anna
Tyler Morses
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Union Pacific
Willard Massey
Washington St
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Chis
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Winter St. Tel. Ox
Tremont St
Greenfield Hospital
David J. Ingraham
Temple Place
R.H. Stears
J. S. Waterman & Sons
Dudley Street Terminal
George H. Waterman
Frank S. Waterman
Roxbury
Marconi
Cable
White Dental Parlors
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R. H. Whitte
Church of the Assumption
Martin
Mary T
W. Martin
West End
Resfield
Requie St. Philip’s Church
Harrison Avenue
Penbey
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Cal
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Quigley
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St. Germain Street
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Everett
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