Committee Report Held Up for Time
A 45 minute session ended with Mayor Peters and Mr. Storrow avoiding details on whether the Citizens committee will report. Storrow canceled a planned north woods vacation, signaling possible future meetings. Meantime police recruitment continued and fund contributions for public safety surpassed $200,000 with diverse donors including a working woman and a laboring class draw.
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Kingsley Hall
Ford Building
State House
Custom House
Determinners of Public Safety
Coolidge
Restored to Duty as Kelley Quits Union and Stands Trial
Mounted Officer Edward Kelley of Station 16 Back Bay returns from vacation to duty after a union resignation. He had been away when a strike occurred, was suspended, and upon contacting union officials he swore he was not in the union and was reinstated. He must face trial for violating Rule 35 paragraph 19 by joining an outside organization.
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Edward Kelley
Back Bay
Policemen’s Union
Kelley
New Hampshire
45 Strikers Present at District Attorney's Office Session
About 45 striking policemen met with Frederick Sheenan at the district attorney's office yesterday afternoon. They entered after hours, produced credentials, and left with papers in hand. Attaches refused to discuss the conferences, and DA Pelletier was away in New York during the meeting.
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District Attorney's Office
Frederick Sheenan
District Attorney’s Office
Pelletier
New York
Mr. Sheeran
Fifth Day of Steel Strike Keeps Conditions Unchanged
The company announced plans for a large influx of workers when whistles blow Monday morning. They argued that a week of idleness and dwindling funds would push many strikers to accept old jobs, noting many workers remain at work.
Steel strike turmoil and union rights clash in Pennsylvania
The article details firm actions by William Z. Foster and the steel workers national committee as they plan protests and plant shutdowns, while police and local authorities restrict meetings. It covers federal testimony by Samuel Gompers on workers rights, and clashes over free speech, with references to Bethle hem Steel, Jones & Laughlin, and U.S. Steel. It notes bail bond reports and ongoing arrests linked to strike activity.
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William Z. Foster
Steel Workers’ National Committee
Pittsburg
Mr. Foster
National Committee
Bethlehem Steel Company
United States Steel Corporation
E. G. Grace
Foster
Clairton
Homestead
Natrona
Sheriff Haddock
Allegheny County
Haddock
Union Committee
George Lysle
McKeespert
Mr. Lysle
Duquesne
Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Senate Labor Committee
Gompers
Organized Labor
Gary
Pennsylvania
John Fitzpatrick
Union Furnishes Bail Bonds For Release Of Prisoners
According to Mr. Foster the union has furnished more than $7000 in bail bonds to obtain the release of men arrested in this district.
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Foster
Weirton Steel operates at full capacity amid guard presence
Weirton, a company town in Ohio, reports its plant operating at 100 percent as of Sept 26, with deputies heavily guarding Weirton. Steubenville plants remain idle, and all other district plants are down. Workers at Weirton Steel are not organized according to company officials.
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Weirton
Steubenville
Weirton Steel Company
Arrest Two Men for Hurling Stones at Auto Plant
Gary Ind Sept 26 Two men were arrested today charged with throwing stones at an automobile believed to be returning workers to the United States Steel plant. No injuries were reported among the car’s occupants.
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Auto Gary
Ind
United States Steel Corporation
Steel Mills Resume at Farrell and Shenango Furnaces Open
Farrell, Penn., Sept 26. The American Sheet and Tinplate Company said mills here will resume next week. Shenango Furnaces at Sharpsville began operating today.
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Farrell
Penn
American Sheet and Tinplate Company
Shenango
Sharpsville
Indiana Steel plant reopens with 8000 workers back
Gary Indiana Sept 26 Indiana Steel Company's plant of United States Steel reports 8000 of 18000 regular workers at work as strikers gradually return. billet mill open hearth furnace four blast furnaces 75 of 2400 coke ovens operating. rail mill started yesterday then shut for steam. officials and clerks toil shoveling coke. third floor dormitory, garage theatre for workers. fifty waitresses resign rather than serve non union men.
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Gary
Ind
Indiana Steel Company
United States Steel Corporation
Merchants
Chemical Laboratory
Boston Brewery Whiskey Heist Triggers City Reparations
A Boston looting night steals three barrels of whiskey from J. L. Gebhardt Brewing Company of Roxbury. The brewery seeks 1165 dollars from the city as part of a total 7656 in claims filed yesterday, raising overall claims to 28000.
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Boston
J. L. Gebhardt Brewing Company
Roxbury
Harris Hanfield
Bunker Hill Street
Haymarket Tire & Rubber Company
Paul B. Watson, Jr
Portland Street
W. B. Wilber
Broadway
David Izen
Harrison Avenue
Kneeland Street
Ben Myers
David Ruthberg
Washington Street
Neuhoffs
Friend Street
Chipman Bros
State Street
Inland Steel Works Employee Sends Telegram On Strike Return
A. K. Perkins of Inland Steel at Indiana Harbor telegrammed Senator Kenyon claiming 90 percent of about 700 employees want to return to work and have nothing to strike for. He cites eight hour day pay, profit sharing, a collective bargaining plan, Christmas bonus, and high wages for skilled workers. He says the strike was called without demands and cites mob threats to 3,000 outsiders as blocking workers.
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Indiana Harbor
Ind
A. K. Perkins
Inland Steel Company
Kenyon
Senate Committee On Education and Labor
Inland
John Fitzpatrick
Strikers anxious to return to work at Brier Hill
In Youngstown Ohio on September 26 193? eighty percent of the 7000 workers at the Brier Hill Steel Company said they would return if guaranteed protection for themselves and families. President W A Thomas announced the clear demand as workers gathered to vote on resuming production.
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Youngstown
Brier Hill Steel Company
W. A. Thomas
Brier Hill Company
NC 4 Flight to Boston Details Onboard Crew
The NC 4 faces rough air near Cape Cod as it nears Boston for a planned visit. Lieutenant Walter Hinton will pilot from Rockaway Beach with Ensign Peter Talbot and Chief Boatswain L R Moore. Lieutenant Herbert C Rodd will handle wireless messages. The crew totals 12 to 14 passengers, with a seaplane capable of 50, following engine upgrades after the Plymouth trip.
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Cape Cod
Portland
Rockaway Beach
Boston
Walter Hinton
Stone
Peter Talbot
L. R. Moore
Herbert C. Rodd
Read
E. S. Rhoades
C. S. Kessler
Chatham
Plymouth
England
NC-4 Seaplane Tours Coast Before Dismantle
The NC-4, unchanged aside from four liberty engines and wing fabric, sails a coast city tour from Portland to the Gulf of Mexico on its last navy mission before dismantling. Read and crew enjoy civic events, a golf outing, and joy rides while a mascot dog Brownie travels aboard. Two original crew members remain missing after Atlantic coast operations.
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Read
Europe
Portland
Gulf of Mexico
Navy
Grand Trunk Cocks
Carr Kk. Milliken
Chatham
Melville
A. Pride
Somerville
F. Ju. Burk
Brownie
Congress Square
Atlantic
J. L. Breese
Elmer i
Canada Geis Werner Horn Held for Extradition in Canada Case
Jersey City New Jersey September 26 Werner Horn the man who dynamited the Vanceboro Maine International Bridge in 1915 arrived under guard from Fort Oglethorpe and was ordered held for extradition to Canada to answer a charge of blowing up a Canadian Pacific railway bridge at McAdam New Brunswick on February 2 1915 United States Commissioner James J Carpenter Jr ordered Horn held under a treaty with Great Britain In 1919 Horn was convicted in Boston of illegally transporting dynamite from the United States into another country.
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Jersey City
N. J
Werner Horn
Vanceboro
Atlanta
Fort Oglethorpe
Canada
McAdam
N. B
United States
James J. Carpenter, Jr
Horn
Great Britain
Boston
Boston Fair Draws Large Crowds at Readville
About 15 000 people attended the Boston fair at Readville with ideal weather. Crowds packed the horse cattle and dog show rings and watched thoroughbred judging while runners and trotters kept spectators around the track.
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Readville
Four-Masted Schooner Mary B. Pierce Launched in Maine
Boothbay Harbor Maine September 26 The four masted schooner Mary B Pierce was launched at the Atlantic Coast Company yard. The 198 foot vessel was built for Crowell Thurlow of Boston. One day is long enough to be troubled with a cough Adamsons Balsam cures.
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Boothbay Harbor
Mary B. Pierce
Atlantic Coast Company
Crowell & Thurlow
Boston
Adamson
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