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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1901
Page
4
Chronology details Lowell area labor activity in 1900 including overtime shifts at Lowell Machine Shop Boott Mills and Middlesex company. wage and hour changes in printing and carpentry. union organizing across leather, textile, and clerical groups. strikes and arbitration efforts. and Labor Day observances.
A January wage hike at Faulkner's Mills signals higher pay across the industry with a 10 percent rise, followed by March strikes to enforce new scales. Firms like Kitson Machine and Mass Mohair Plush also boosted wages while others resisted. By spring, Boott Mills granted increases to weavers, Tremont and Suffolk mills settled on a 9 hour day and 3 cent rise, and several newspapers outlined new weekly pay scales for printers. November saw Courier-Citizen adopt the union wage scale across departments.
A historical ledger records months of labor strife from November to November at Lowell plants. Actions include union firings, wage demands, overtime refusals, and multiple strikes across Print Workers Union, Leather Workers, and textile mills like Merrimack Hamilton Bigelow Faulkner Boott American Woolen and White Bros. The chronicle notes arbitration efforts, police protection, and eventual resumptions of work with varied settlements.
A yearly survey of Lowell welfare efforts shows bequests to Lowell General Hospital and Rogers Hall, wage dividends at Kitson Machine Shop, and large plans for the Lowell Textile School. Reports cover the Lowell Boys' Club's curb on youth, funds for a new textile building, and employee benefits and lectures throughout 1900.
St Louis August 26 Mrs Minnette Westaver sixteen years old filed for divorce from Edward Claude Westaver saying she was married March 5 last when not yet fifteen. She says after marriage he locked her in a room and later abused and threatened to kill her. They separated June 24 after thirty months of marriage.
Mrs. Silas Dodd, in a row boat 80 feet from her sinking schooner Eliza A Scribner, clutched a sheath knife for nine hours awaiting orders to cut the towline. Capt Silas Dodd and crew pumped water, while life savers guided the craft to Oak Island where the vessel was beached and later towed to dry dock after temporary repairs.
New York August 26 The police inquiry heads toward a major turning point as District Attorney Philbin focuses on higher officers. The grand jury reopens with expectations of indicting two or three police captains and possibly an inspector. Secret inquiry methods seek to expose wardman ties to precinct leadership and reform base.
Fire Commissioner John J. Scannell and contractor William L. Marks face indictments in the criminal branch of the supreme court. Scannell is charged with wilful neglect of duty over fire hose contracts and, with Marks, conspiracy in purchases. Defense seeks dismissal over grand jury procedure and evidence concerns.
Chicago officials opened an official inquiry into the city detective bureau this afternoon in the city council chamber. The probe aims to review operations, standards, and possible misconduct within the bureau as council members convened in session.
A telegram to the Governor reports Bob Brown, the suspect who killed J. C. Mcleod near Batesville, is stranded in a Bufala swamp. Bloodhounds have been sent. if captured, he faces probable lynching. The incident occurred last Wednesday in Montgomery County.
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