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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1910
Page
6
Local meeting reports 12 more firms signed a six to seven dollar weekly wage increase with a shorter workday under a union contract. Leaders cited unanimous support for parade plans on Labor Day and discussed a new fund-raising method for unions in Boston amid strike embroilment.
James W. Cline, general president of the International Brotherhood of Black smiths and Helpers, backs a strong organizing drive in Boston. The union has 500 locals and over 25,000 members in the U S and Canada. Boston hosts two locals, Blacksmiths Union 208 and Union 44, with about 150 members and growing. First vice president William J. Dougherty has aided the campaign. The union offers 7 dollars weekly strike benefits, though strikes have been rare and most disputes settled by arbitration.
Labor Day parade plans by Expressmen's Union members were announced. The group will form with Teamdrivers' District Joint Council under the Central Labor Union. Businesses report canvassers soliciting funds for a death benefit, deemed an unwarranted advertising scheme by the local council. Police urged business leaders to reject the swindlers as a menace to the community.
In New Haven today the Federated Trades Council of the New Haven railroad system meets with management to push a six cents per hour raise for 16 000 craftsmen in the shops. The council, representing carmen and various shop crafts, had asked months ago for the increase but was told to wait until conductor and trainman scales were settled. Management invited the council to attend today’s session.
Piano and Furniture Movers Union 343 calls a morning strike at five Boston barns seeking a wage increase. Most union members work at these sites, with management set to concede under pressure. Strike HQ listed at Kossuth Hall Tremont Street, and broad support from the Boston Central Labor Union and Team Drivers' Joint District Council.
The wage scale committee of Baggage Transfer Drivers' Union 612 secured a 1910 11 agreement with Armstrong Transfer Company increasing auto truck operators wages by 1 00 a week and teamsters and helpers by 1 a week. The pact takes effect this morning. Harry J Jennings, union president and head of the Team Drivers District Joint Council, announced details after meetings with Charles Sherburne, company president. The local expressed appreciation for Sherburne's interest.
Readers urged to regain flesh and strength this season with Father John’s Medicine described as the best tonic and body builder by physicians. The ad promotes the product as a reliable tonics option for the weak and run down.
Boston hosts the next biennial convention of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks in June 1912. Delegates from New Orleans returning to Boston report strong growth and widespread organizing in Greater Boston. J. M. Carrigan of Memphis is elected president. James J. Forrester of New Haven named first vice president. Co M Bailey of Providence to chair the general executive board. Local delegates include Thomas F. Fardy W B Currier Fred E Perry Richard G Stearns C H Bassly J E Wall Joseph Hart and E J Fitzgerald.
William J. Dougherty of Buffalo international vice president met local smiths officers to plan thorough organization of the craft in Boston and vicinity. A mass meeting for union and non union members is set for tonight at 45 Eliot Street with many prominent speakers.
A dense labor journal summary notes multiple union meetings in Boston area. The Teamsters and Helpers Assembly 1873 admitted several applicants and named a committee for a smoke talk. Bay State Lodge 102 and the Boston & Maine lodge of car workers held meetings with many delegates and candidates admitted. The Boston & Maine Federated Trades Council attended with about 50 delegates. wage increase demands were aired. Boston Women’s Trade Union League schedules an educational hour with a reading by John D. Barry and speaker Thomas L. Wilson. Reports from Trimountain Lodge on wage hours remain with an arbitration board in New York. National executive board of the federation of state city town employee unions to meet in Wells Memorial. A special Teamsters joint district council meeting at Wells Memorial, with Trade matters to be considered. Allied Printing Trades considers new union label forms and Labor Day parade planning under C L U. Boston Lodge 97 sets May 22 for its 25th anniversary with three living charter members named. Several new applicants admitted and others pending. a New York campaign leader is to depart this week.
Delegates at the Central Labor Union meeting discussed funding options to assist locals with striking members and referred the issue to a special constitution revision committee. A key report proposed renaming the union label committee to grievance and unionizing and making it a standing panel of 15. Updates on the Stablemen’s Union at Johnson Street stables and Springfield Brewery stables were reported as fair or satisfactory. Mayor Fitzgerald replied via letter denying quoted criticisms of labor unions and reaffirming support for union doctrines.
Mayor Fitzgerald to be visited by Park Department officials from Assembly 7576 seeking union rate payments for park department mechanics. The group will also decide Labor Day parade and picnic plans at the next meeting, following remarks by P J McCarthy national head of the Knights of Labor Master Workman Patrick MacKenzie and Timothy Sullivan at a social session after the business meeting.
John J. Fenton secretary treasurer of Coal Teamsters and Handlers Union 68 will today present the union demand for the 1910 agreement to J A Bentley secretary of the Boston Coal Exchange. Terms not released yet. Fenton says relations between employers and the union are cordial and points will be settled at future conferences.
The time for closing entries for the workhorse parade has been extended to May 7. Exhibitors are urged to send entries soon. The association office at 15 Beacon Street remains open. Seventy judges are needed and must be competent and impartial. Two names were removed from the list after reports of inhumane treatment of their own horses.
Mayor John F. Fitzgerald spoke before about 100 Catholic men in Somerville at Eberle Hall. He urged steps toward forming a Catholic union, emphasizing unity and communal action.
May Day sees widespread labor friction in New England as nearly 10 000 workers oppose employers over wage demands. 4200 union trolleymen in Springfield Worcester and other western Massachusetts towns and in Connecticut await national officers approval to strike against the New England Investment & Security Company trolley lines tied to the New York Hartford railroad. Some lines have already granted wage increases of five to 10 percent in recent months, contrasting with active disputes.
About 2800 workers in Providence Pawtucket Newport Auburn Rhode Island and Fall River will strike for higher wages this morning with smaller contingents in Fitchburg Gardner Leominster and Portland Maine. Additional disputes include International Paper mill unrest Stillwater Woolen Mills and Roxbury carpet mills wage demands while railroads prepare for arbitration and June 1 contract dates loom.
Charles Walton a 50 year old lobsterman from Seabrook New Hampshire was lost at sea while dragging lobster traps. Heavy seas against friends advice led him to launch a dory alone. The empty craft was found drifting in the harbor about two hours later.
The Leviathan, a Portland bound steamer for Boston, ran aground when its circulation pump failed off Rye. Wallis Sands life saving crew assisted as a tug stood by and towed the vessel into Portsmouth.
The Boston Post reports immediate relief provided to the Laughlan family at 2 Princeton Place and to Mrs. Haggerty and her eight children, who moved into a new apartment on Lark Street in South Boston. The father declined charity, seeking an honest way to earn his living.
The body of Rev. Fr. Daniel J. Sullivan who died of tuberculosis last Friday lay in state yesterday at St Augustine's Church on Dorchester Avenue South Boston. Father Sullivan was about twenty eight years old and was ordained to the priesthood last year.
Pittsburgh May 1 after a year of research 12 physicians in this region report onions are a promising remedy for consumption they say onion soup and onions have relieved numerous tuberculosis cases while not declaring an absolute cure they urge further testing by doctors nationwide to pursue potential cures
About a year after a Fort Pitt Hotel meeting, a group of 12 physicians including Dr. Harry M. Goehring reported that tubercular patients who ate onions showed improvement. They decided to urge other doctors to adopt the onion treatment, noting one late-stage exception. Names listed include Grubb, Bumpus, Peck, Wright, Kline, Detmering, Lawrence, Dorance, Tibbets, and Frank L. Goehring.
Archbishop O'Connell's four lectures warned that socialism destroys the sacred home. Large crowds attended across the city yesterday afternoon with Mgr. Splaine delivering the keynote at the Catholic Union rooms, voicing strong critique in part.
A religious sermon warns that false leaders among workers threaten the family and state by undermining marriage, parental authority, and gender roles. It urges Catholic workingmen to uphold the home, educate children in faith, and model Christian virtues as central to society.
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