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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1918
Page
7
The Boston Central Labor Union repudiated the parade of workers in Boston at a Wells Memorial Hall meeting. Delegates attacked those blamed for the demonstration amid heated exchanges yesterday afternoon.
August vote blocks the traditional Labor Day parade and a Boston C L A statement denounces the event. Delegates clash over invites to Mayor Peters review from City Hall and a banquet at the Quincy House. A resolution seeks federal intervention to overturn a South Boston Terminal order alleged to bar union members from employment.
This week at the Revere track features three 15 mile motor-paced races and a major World Derby on Wednesday. Manager Nat Butler schedules a busy slate with George Wiley Frank Corry Smart and Madonna to clash in the opener and again in the final 15 mile segment. Amateur and professional sprint races precede the motor-paced events with Wiley Smart Madonna and Corry among the hopeful starters.
A Woodrow Wilson call to make the wartime effort a universal cause uniting labor and soldiers. He argues war aims extend beyond Europe to ensure governments serve the people, urging national resolve, shared sacrifice, and global justice. The piece frames workers as essential to victory and freedom, signed by Wilson.
George W. Brown announced Bumkin Island and Deer Island would contest Wednesday afternoon at Braves Field as the world series returns from Chicago. Proceeds go to the Navy Athletic Fund for the district with a special Chicago to Braves Field wire and scoreboard in use. Additional games on Thursday and Friday are to be chosen. all will count in the Navy league series.
American soldiers entered Belgian soil for the first time and captured Voormezeele as part of broader operations in the same vicinity with the British Army in Flanders.
Practical kitchen instructions promoting corn use in summer meals. Recipes include layered corn tomato onion bake with milk and butter, corn meal desserts, hominy and succotash notes, corn meal mush with hamburger, and a corn meal crust pie filled with pumpkin mixture.
Sailors and workers at the Wilmington shipyard threaten disruption if Sunday baseball is halted. They warn authorities they will paralyze transit and sales on Sundays as retaliation.
The United States government takeover of the railroads will be announced with a Tuesday morning opening of a large consolidated ticket office at 67 Franklin Street Boston near Arch Street. The office will sell all railroad and coast wise steamship transport from Boston to every line, offer sleeping and parlor car services, check baggage, and advise on freight shipments.
Berlin dispatch cites HU report as stating fighting on Scarpe and Somme continues. British offensive largely failed with isolated advances pushed back toward the east while French partial attacks between the Oise and Aisne were repulsed.
A War Department telegram to Mr and Mrs Henry O Gorman of Jamaica Bay reveals their son Mathew E O Gorman was killed in a seaplane accident in France. He was 27, enlisted in Boston 15 months ago as a first class yeoman and served in an aero squadron. He requested to fly when his squadron reached France 19 months ago and was granted.
Daniel Gallagher a Valley Falls bleachery worker died in a Pawtucket hospital from injuries after a group of five men assaulted him on a Valley Falls street. William Healey aided him but was beaten. The attackers fled. motive remains unknown.
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