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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1910
Page
5
A Boston laborers union threatens a Wednesday morning strike unless wage advances are granted. The union demands 55 cents an hour for bricklayers and masons helpers and 30 cents an hour for excavators and concrete laborers, claiming member coverage across the city.
Workers vote to raise wages by five cents an hour for bricklayers and helpers and two and a quarter cents for excavator and concrete workers. The mass meeting at Building Laborers' Section headquarters ratified the agreement with key speakers Dominic D'Allessandro and Frank H. McCarthy. A second meeting is set for tomorrow night at Wells Memorial Hall to hear wage scale reports and strike-day plans.
Silberstein Flenner and Gothlieb of New York a hat maker firm signed the wage scale and working agreement of the United Hatters. A national hatters delegate reports last agreement leaves seven firms and more than 100 who started the strike year have not yet met with the union.
Three hundred shops represented at a Wells Memorial meeting as machinists press for a new wage scale to take effect Wednesday. The plan sets eight dollars daily for specialists and automatic-machine operators, four dollars for die and tool makers, and four to five dollars for other machinists depending on rating. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers supports the aims of the A F L machinists, with leaders pledging backing. Officials say a strike will begin at shops lacking established rates or with stalled talks.
The Boston and Maine wage and working agreement committee meets tomorrow with General Superintendent C B E Lee to discuss the 1910 wage scale. Boilermakers car workers and towermen seek four cents an hour rise. the road previously offered six percent to boiler makers which was rejected. The men expect a two and a half cent rise already granted to machinists and push for a three cent raise.
The Rev. George Luther Cady of the Pilgrim Congregational Church condemns Massachusetts liquor interests and the Boston press in a sermon titled Who Owns Massachusetts. He argues political outcomes hinge on liquor money, claims the License Commission in Boston promotes liquor interests, and urges readers to consider the press as a force for good.
Abraham Dennis Samuel Altman Phil Benjamin and Alexander Chechinsky were elected delegates by the Ladies Tailors and Dressmakers Union to form the Hebrew Trades Council in Boston. The state steam engine executive committee met in Boston to arrange a Lynn meeting next week. James A. Brown of Lynn reported all plans are set by the Lynn unions.
John J O Hare born 1867 in St Andrews New Brunswick. He moved to Jamaica Plain at age eight and attended Lowell School. O Hare led the Newspaper Men's Web Press Union from 1907 for three terms and serves his first year as president of the Allied Printing Trades Council.
He served as a delegate at the 1908 Mobile convention and last year’s Omaha gathering. O Hara chairs Boston Central Labor Union committees, leads Newspaper Men's Webb Press Union, and has worked nine years with the Boston Post as superintendent of the color press section. Married with three children Urhila 15 John 12 Augustine 10 resides 55 Fenwood Road Boston.
Mrs William Howard Taft wife of the president sails from Washington to Pittsburg and will go at once to Cincinnati to comfort her ailing father John W Herron veteran attorney and noted citizen authorities announced the arrival.
Mary Janakowski, 402 City Point court, was shot in the right thigh last evening by an accidental discharge of a 82 calibre revolver held by Charles Staines, 22 Nexen, who boards with the injured woman. The gun dropped to the floor and discharged a single cartridge when it struck boards. Mrs Janakowski was taken to City Hospital with a prognosis of a few days recovery.
The Cathedral held Corpus Christi rites led by Archbishop O Gannetts with a solemn high mass. Rt Rev Mer Splaine D D officiated, assisted by Deacon William B Finigan Sub deacon John Mack and ceremony master Charles J Sullivan. Archbishops chaplains included Michael Scanlan and Thomas R McCoy.
Foreign trade expansion prompts the Morley Button Manufacturing Company of Portsmouth New Hampshire to enlarge its plant for the second time within a year. Parker W Whittemore and Sherburne M Merrill of Newton Massachusetts are the largest owners.
An audience packed the Majestic Theatre as Commander Eva Booth described her work among London's slums in a performance titled Tate of a Broken Heart. Dressed in ragged clothes she spoke of mingling with and cheering the wretched in the heart of the city.
St Petersburg notes a 233000 appropriations by the City Council for preliminary cholera preparations this summer as authorities anticipate the epidemic may end this year after three years of spread.
Ottawa reports May 23 that King George birthday on June 3 will be a statutory holiday in Canada but there will be no general observance due to the empire plan to keep May 24 as the general holiday. All banks will be closed.
Frank Cichy from Leaf Mountain is nineteen and was deemed mentally unwell after drinking ice water. Local physicians report his insanity began immediately after the event and has continued, prompting admission to an asylum.
Portsmouth N H May 29 beginning July 1 the hull division and department of yards and docks at all navy yards will carry a payroll for laborers under the Meyer system of reorganizing laborers into the machinery division of the manufacturing department. The change aims to improve efficiency in the yards and docks showing the draw back of the previous arrangement.
An accident in Cleveland on May 28 left Raddatz, a steel worker, with his head severely injured after plunging down stairs and through a window. Authorities investigated the incident as a severe workplace mishap.
Boston moves to curb suggestive posters as Mayor Fitzgerald warns proprietors that strict propriety will be enforced. He forwards the letter to New York Mayor Gaynor seeking cooperation to suppress amusement posters that offend decency standards.
A drop in Halley’s brightness is recorded at Harvard. Professor C. C. Wendell cites a nucleus magnitude of 8.03, about 1.5 magnitudes dimmer than three days earlier, while Leon Campbell notes the overall naked eye brightness at third magnitude. The tail spans around 30 degrees, eight degrees shorter than three days ago, and the dark patch between nucleus and tail has disappeared. Wendell forecasts several more days of visibility.
Boston Lodge recalls founder of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks with memorial rites at Elks Rest Mt Hope Cemetery. Forty seven graves at the rest to be decorated and ceremonies begin at 2 30 p m with memorial address by William McNary.
Tours France May 20 The court refused bail for Countess De Gatigny, arrested last April at the instigation of Mrs Charles Hamilton Paine formerly of Boston now in Paris, on charges of misrepresentation connected with the sale of paintings.
Mary Cook of Bangor Maine reported to police that 244 dollars were stolen from her room at the American House. Police arrested Louis Kerber 22 of 22 Temple Street West End after the missing money was found on his person.
Mrs. Mary McKeague aged 103, likely Maine’s oldest woman, died at her Westbrook home tonight. Born near Belfast Ireland she came to the United States at 19. her maiden name was Gordon.
Principal John W. Freese of the Houghton School Cambridge resigns due to ill health. He will leave effective June 26 after more than 30 years of teaching. Freese is near years old and is one of Cambridge's oldest teachers.
Dr. George I. Perin preached his farewell sermon yesterday at Beacon Universalist Church in Brookline. A large congregation attended as he resigns as pastor but will keep residence in Brookline.
Officers aboard the battleship New Jersey at Charlestown Navy Yard report the theft of a 17 jewel open face gold watch from the navigator's office a few nights ago. The incident unsettles crew and prompts investigation.
Dalou F and A M held a Steee service in the lodge room at speentonv slle this afternoon with about attendees. May
Thousands of sightseers swarm the Beverly estate ahead of a visitors ban on May 31 as Mrs. Robert D. Evans arrives at Dawson Hall. Mrs Taft and the President are due to Beverly after Congress adjourns with the Sylph yacht commissioned June 26 under Captain Charles R. Train.
Three million feet of logs owned by the Great Western Lumber Company at Greenbush Manitoba were burned last night. Rain cleared the fires today, but losses to lumber companies range from two to three million dollars.
James P. Mallard former president of the Boston Terra Novian Society and a notable figure in the rubber shoe industry died early yesterday at his home 217 D street South Boston aged 42. He left a widow and several children.
Claud Hetherton private of Company K Thirteenth Infantry stationed at the Presidio was killed when a firing squad shot him during rifle range practice. He died after two days in the reservation hospital. The accident occurred last week and the funeral was delayed pending investigation.
During an afternoon attack on the embankment Hetherton moved seeking cover as bullets tore his clothing and flesh. He collapsed on a sand mound after a prolonged, fatal barrage with his head grievously injured before markers reached him.
William Jennings Bryan arrives in London from Holyhead aboard the Celtic and proceeds by train toward Edinburgh as delegate-at-large for the United States to the international missionary conference.
The Rev Chauncey J Hawkins urged pensions for all public servants in a sermon at Central National Church Jamaica Plain explaining workers such as teachers clerks and mechanics deserve pensions as an aid to aging laborers. He contrasted police pensions with the pay and risks faced by other workers arguing universal pensions fairness.
Mrs. Mary McCarthy, 69, of 26 Shirley Street Winthrop, collapsed on A Street near I Street in South Boston late tonight and died before aid could reach her. She had been visiting her daughter Annie Moor of 512 East Lights Street.
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