Massachusetts women coremakers face harsh conditions debate
State officials and Boston leaders condemn poor workplace conditions for women at Walworth and Sturtevant plants. Governor Fass defends work as clean but unequal pay persists, noting shifts and wages from $5 to $12 while some forego higher pay. Public officials pledge enforcement and wage investigations by a new commission led by Le Febre and Mrs Evans.
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le Febre
Simmons College
Glendower Evans
Automatic Price Reductions Promised Reward Follow Up
A notice explains an ad misprint in the second price of 19¢ instead of 21¢ and reveals a $5 reward paid for misrepresentation. The focus is the price reduction system and how readers can save repeatedly.
Massachusetts clergy and officials seek law to ban women from foundry work
Prominent Massachusetts clergy, settlement workers, labor leaders and hundreds of notable citizens unite to push a law in the next Legislature barring women from foundry labor. They say such work conflicts with the state’s public spirit and traditions and that men alone are suited for it.
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Massachusetts
Post
Governor Foss Promises Probe Over Missing Labor Notices
Post reporters found no posted notices in the Walworth Manufacturing and Sturtevant Blower Works women’s core departments about hours for women and minors. Governor Foss, head of Sturtevant, pledged prosecution if law violations are found and urged proper posting. The Sturtevant superintendent, after seven years in charge, said he did not know such a notice was required.
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Whitney
State Police
Boston
West
Neal
Sturtevant Blower Works
Walworth Manufacturing Company
Charles A. Olson
4 Post
Maggie Rollins
Lynn
Post
Fass
Sturtevant Blower
Sturtevant
State Labor Meeting Tackles Women Factory Care Makers Issue
At the State branch A F of L executive board meeting set for Sunday October 8 the group will consider a convention directive. The resolution calls for drafting a bill to curb women employed as care makers in local foundries and to seek enactment by the next Legislature. Board members include James W Wall Worcester president John J Fenton Boston J W Powers Fall River E S Alden Holyoke W E Alley Haverhill John J Kearney Boston vice presidents and Martin T Joyce Boston secretary treasurer.
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Haverhill
James W.wall
Worcester
State Branch
John J. Fenton
Boston
J. W. Powers
Fall River
E. S. Alden
Holyoke
W. E. Alley
John J. Kearney
Martin. T. Joyce
Labor praises press on women workers in foundries
General Organizer William John commends the press for backing fair play as the International Molders Union pushes bills to curb female labor in foundries. He notes women work near dangerous furnaces, earning low wages, with others like Mary Kalinoski earning 6.05 for 55 hours and Camilla Lentine 17 earning 6.80 while expressing satisfaction with their conditions.
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William John
Oundries
International Tron Moulders’ Union
Charles A. Olson
Post
Mary Kalinoski
Mary
Camilla Lentine
Anna Jankowski
Ministers to Probe Local Factories Over Women Workers News
A delegation of Congregational ministers will investigate reports about women workers at the Blake Knowles pump works Sturtevant blower works and Walworth Manufacturing Company. A committee will visit the plants and another delegate will confer with the Central Labor Union and report back for protest if conditions match press accounts.
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Blake & Knowles
Sturtevant Blower
Walworth Manufacturing Company
Pilgrim Hall
Central Labor Union
Fifteen-Year-Olds Among Walworth Foundry Workers
A Post reporter observed fifty seven women at work in Walworth Manufacturing Company's moulding area. The youngest worker noted was 15, and the women, though segregated, labored on the factory floor within the women’s care section of the plant.
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Post
Walworth Manufacturing Company
Pyramid Pile Cure Promises Free Sample By Mail
Advertises Pyramid Pile Cure with testimonials and unsolicited letters claiming relief from piles. Offers free mail sample by sending name and address, asks readers to buy a 50 cent box if satisfied, and suggests returning for full treatment at the drugstore.
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Pyramid Drug Company
Pyramid
Prominent Men Deplore Women in Menial Labor in Europe
Mayor Fitzgerald, Joseph H. Walker, and Lieutenant-Governor Louis A. Frothingham denounce European scenes of women in coal shoveling, hod carrying, tar mixing, and street cleaning. They urge American laws or moral pressure to stop such degradation and pledge action if elected.
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Fitzgerald
Massachusetts
Joseph H. Walker
Frothingham
James M. Curley
John J. Attridge
J. Edward Barry
Cambridge
State Board of Health
William C. Hanson
Europe
Vienna
Munich
Buda Pesth
Post
America
House of Representatives
Louis A. Frothingham
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