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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1895
Page
9
Readable parts show numerous lots of clothing and footwear with listed values and sale prices. Items include negligees marked 166, duck pants, and men’s russet calf shoes with specific prices and quantities noted.
The Organ ized Labor Machinery and Brass Moulders Union 106 traces its lineage to the Iron Moulders of America and its later titles. In Boston it remains faithful to trade union principles amid disturbances, reporting strong local growth and a Chicago convention bid led by A McDougall and W John. Wages cited range from 2.2 to 3.75 dollars daily with a $3 admission fee.
The Socialistic Labor Party convened at Union Hall 47 Bennet Street with about twenty one delegates from Boston South Boston Holyoke Clinton Lynn Lawrence Roxbury Fitchburg North Adams Taunton and Greylock New Bedford. N Wentworth of Lynn was chairman and Max Plemmer of Springfield secretary. Committees were named and resolutions approved supporting textile strikers and warning against outside testimony on issues like silver or rum. The platform favored socialization of industry and cooperative commonwealth with a call for world peace.
The text advocates full jury representation, juries as judges of law and fact, and favors reducing work hours as machinery replaces labor. It also attacks the present ballot law as fraudulent and a profitable injustice upheld by the Republican party.
The rubber workers held a Saturday meeting at A O H Hall Hyde Park to hear the strike committee report. Wilbur Page was arrested for alleged assault but released on bonds after union members claimed a meeting with Klous was needed. observers say the effort aimed to disrupt the strike. The death of striker Miss Connolly in a passenger train accident prompted a condolence resolution and a funeral march by the group.
The Typographical Union No 13 endorsed the sfting of the Crawford shoe boycott and announced it in its monthly circuit. A dues regulation was adopted prescribing twenty dollars and upwards pay twenty banla per week, 636 Oil receiving.
A union statement declares opposition to introducing politics into the trade group. The discussion mentions wage-based payments, noting less than twenty dollars weekly and a one percent wage share.
At yesterday's Building Trades Council meeting, resolutions urged police commissioners to enforce laws against unnecessary Sunday work on the many buildings now under construction.
The sanitary department union Local 6064 of the A F of L. enrolled sixteen new members yesterday at 45 Eliot Street. By a vote the Mayor, superintendent of streets and deputies will be invited to the union picnic on July 16 at Lovell's Grove.
Police searched all day for the miscreants who placed objects on the South Boston track near Seventh and Ninth streets, causing a Dorch ester streetcar to derail into an electric light pole and nearly fatally injuring a motorman. Superintendent Tripp investigated motive and possible culprits, including mischievous youths or a grudge against the road.
The finance committee seeks 20000 dollars in two weeks to fund a large Boston convention. Two tents on Boston Common and Mechanics Hall designs will serve as state headquarters, with 8000 plus choir members, large auditoriums, and a 15000 daily restaurant capacity.
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