Labor Meetings Forge Amalgamation Of Boilermaker Lodges
Lodge 9 of the Boilermakers Union yesterday voted unanimously to amalgamate with lodge 431. Lodge 431 is to vote on Thursday night. Officers say the merger will strengthen the craft union, creating one of the United States' strongest boilermaker unions. A message from John J. Dowd in New York outlines a wage scale of four dollars daily for boilermakers three dollars for holders on and heaters and two fifty for helpers, which Dowd believes the Bart lett & Hayward Company will accept.
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Lodge
United States
John J. Dowd
Seventh International
New York
Bartlett & Hayward Company
Cement men seek wage increase in June
Building laborers unions call for a five cent an hour raise starting June 1 to match mason tenders and general building workers. No other raises are requested this year. Members say yesterday's meetings authorized strikes on any job where contractors have not agreed to the raise.
Labor notes on Boston unions discuss consolidations
The Boston joint council of City Men's unions yesterday debated consolidating park public grounds and death departments and sent the matter to a special committee for report next meeting. Several unions reported progress on contracts and labor actions including unions for sheet metal painters and bricklayers with officials in attendance across the city.
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Boston Joint Council of
City Men's Onions Yesterdar
James T. Moriarity
Sheet Metal Workers’ Union
Newunion
Eastern Faded Metal Company
Boston Sign Writers’ Union
International
Joseph A. Kelley
The
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers
Boston Painters’ Union 11
Austin Fales
New Steamfitters’ Union
United Association of Plumbers, Gas ,and Steamfitters
Star Brass Foundry
William H. O'Brien
Boston Ie. B
New York
Exec Pe Gaecort
Sanitary and Streeting Department
Foss
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Aids Local Woman
Greston Iowa woman reports long inflammation pains headaches and nervousness eased by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after other medicines failed. She says nerves stronger and able to work and urges others to inquire among neighbors who have used the remedy.
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Greston
Iowa
Lydia E. Pinkham
Wu Seals
W. Howard St
Ion
Pinkham
Boston Labor Union backs city lighting plant plan
The Boston Central Labor Union asked City Council members to approve municipal lighting funding today and opposed Commissioner Rourke's proposal to lease 2000 to 3000 gas lamps to Edison Electric for electric operation. The union education committee was told to study the Chamber of Commerce vocational council and its ties to the school committee.
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Boston Central Labor Union
Rourke
Edison Electric Company
Chamber of Commerce
Vocational Conference
Boston School Committee
Vocational education clash and street lighting protest in city
Mrs Emma Steinauer led a rally opposing vocational education plans seen as stripping parental control and pushing children into factory work. The union attacked a Boston School Board move and urged restoration of district representation while condemning overseas study of German models. A separate wage and lighting dispute urged city Council to fund municipal lighting and reject Edison plans, amid broader labor concerns and upcoming charity conference notes.
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Emma Steinauer
Teachers and Parents’ Association
Stenauer
Boston Chamber of Commerce
National Industrial Educational Association
Steinauer
Boston
Emeritus Junot
Boston School Board
Brooks
Moving Picture Operators Union reports Boston theatres unionized
At a meeting of the Moving Picture Operators Union 182 held yesterday in Homestead Hall Boston theatres are all unionized with Brockton to Worcester covered. The 199 member body admitted two new members and elected Lawrence Tempest and Bernard Corbett as delegates to the Buffalo international convention. Concert tickets netted several hundred dollars as entertainment at the Columbia drew a large crowd with acts by Mantel Driscoll and Perry Sacks and Harding and others.
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Moving Picture Operators’ Union 182
Homestead Hall
Washinington Street
Boston
Brockton
Worcester
Lawrence Tempest
Bernard Corbett
Buffalo
Columbia
Harry Mantel
Driscoll
Perry
Sacks
Harding
Bernie
Moore Amusement Company
Mead Amusement Company
Bill Posters Union 17 Installs Officers and Raises Dues
The recently elected officers of the Bill Posters Union 17 were installed yesterday afternoon. A new constitution was adopted and the initiation fee raised from 10 to 15 dollars. New officers include President A Thomas Noonan and executive board members A Christy, Richard Armstrong, William Jones, Thomas Brown, and John Bennett. Ex-President Richard Armstrong directed the ceremonies.
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Union 17
A. Thomas Noonan
Oscar Whevanaar
George J. Hackett
John E. Lyons
Daniel F. Messing
James Cleary
D. F. Spellman
Richard Armstrong
Frank Johnson
John Hines
A. Christy
William Jones
Thomas Brown
John Bennett
Union to Insist on a $1 a Week Wage Hike
The Boston Coal Teamsters and Handlers Union GS reported at a special meeting at the Weils Memorial building that after rejecting a three year contract offer with two 50 cent weekly raises, it will press for an immediate $1 per week raise starting May 1. Secretary Agent John J. Fenton spoke of last week’s conferences following the Sunday prior vote.
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Boston Coal Teamsters and Handlers’ Union
Weils Memorial Building
John J. Fenton
Reception for Marathon Runner-Up at Freight Handlers Meeting
The New York New Haven and Hartford Freight Handlers Union held a business meeting and a reception for F. J. Madden, a member who finished second in the BAA Marathon. Reports stated plans to present to railroad management a nine hour work day and a $2.25 daily wage rate agreed by the KOL and AF of L councils.
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New York
New Haven
Hartford
Handlers’ Union
A. FB. of L
F. J. Madden
K. of L
A. F. of L
Plan Mass Meeting to Effect a Union
Blacksmiths Union 209 held a session at 45 Eliot Street and arranged a mass meeting of carriage makers, vehicle smiths and finishers at 18 Kneeland Street Thursday night to form a local union. The AFL decision unites these trades with the blacksmiths for organizing work, and high enthusiasm among vehicle workers signals strong turnout.
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Blacksmiths’ Union 209
Eliot Street
Kneeland Street
American Federation of Labor
Market Teamsters Strike Averted After Wage Settlement
The Market Master Teamsters Association wage committee signed a pact Saturday afternoon to grant single team drivers a $1 raise for four weeks and to consider shorter hours, averting a threatened strike by 500 drivers in Market District Local No. 651.
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Market and Commission House Teamsters
Market Master Teamsters’ Association
Secretary Dyche Aids Strike Settlement Talks in Boston
John C. Dyche international secretary of the Ladies Garment Workers Union arrives from New York to confer with local union officers on general trade matters and to press for a settlement for White Goods Workers on strike at a Kingston Street shop. He will address the Cloak and Skirt Makers Union at 31 North Russell Street tonight.
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John C. Dyche
Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
Boston
New York
White Goods Workers’ Union
Kingston Street
Cloak and Skirtmakers’ Union
North Russell Street
Delayed in Fog Off Montauk With 200 aboard
New Bedford May 21 The agent for the schooner Elizabeth T Doyle reports the Providence owned vessel with over 200 Bravans and Cape Verde Islanders onboard is stuck in heavy fog off Montauk Point without food or water. The ship is 34 days from the Azores and about 10 days behind normal. Captain Green communicated the plight to a passing vessel and the information was wired ashore.
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New Bedford
Elizabeth T. Doyle
Azores
Montauk Point
Captain Green
Wise
Boston
Scarlet fever outbreak at Wellesley may close college
Wellesley Massachusetts May 21 An outbreak of scarlet fever at Wellesley College threatens temporary closure if new cases arise. Five freshmen are ill and quarantined with three more cases today raising alarm among authorities. Names kept private, students fear disruption of commencement preparations.
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Wellesley
Wellesley College
Cottage Street
Preacher Delivers Discourse at Worcester Annual Session
A preacher delivered a discourse on the M. Cc. oO. F. as the preliminary feature of the annual session held on Wednesday in Worcester, marking the opening of the gathering.
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Worcester
Sermon by Canon Higgins Draws Large Congregation
A large crowd gathered at the Church of the Immaculate Conception yesterday morning to hear a sermon by the Very Rev. Prior Gilbert Higgins of the Canon Regulars of the Lateran in London. Rev. Charles E. Lane of Boston College celebrated the mass. The sermon topic was The Spirit of Prayer Its Need and Its Efficacy.
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Church of the Immaculate Conception
Gilbert Higgins
Lateran
London
Charles E. Lane
S. J
Boston College
Solemn High Mass For M. F. Dead At Sacred Heart
Yesterday morning at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Acast Boston a solemn high mass for the deceased members of the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters was celebrated by Rev. Patrick J. McCarthy with a full clergy assisting including Rev. John M. Burke deacon Rev. Owen Doherty sub-deacon and Rev. James H. O'Neil master of ceremonies.
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Church of the Sacred Heart
Acast
Boston
Order of Foresters
Patrick J. McCarthy
John M. Burke
Owen Doherty
James H. O'Neil
New Catholic Parish St Bene dict’s Holds First Services
In Somerville Archbishop O Connell set aside St Bene dict’s as a new parish. Services yesterday morning at 9 and 11 in Hadley Hall were led by Pastor Rev Garrett J Barry. The first baptism occurred last evening. Father Barry aims to expand territory in fall as hall loaned by Broadway Athletic Association.
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St. Benedict's
Somerville
O’connell
Hadley Hall
Garrett J. Barry
Father Barry
Broadway Athletic Association
Rebecca Bartlett Grounded Off Gloucester In Dense Fog
The schooner Rebecca Bartlett with Captain Hafey and five crew ran aground on High People's Rocks in fog while carrying 40 000 pounds of pollock from Maine. Tug Nellie freed her at 4 pm, towing her to port with a damaged keel and shoe for repairs.
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Gloucester
Rebecca Bartlett
Hafey
Maine
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