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At 6 a.m. on April 1, 1913, a noisy crowd of 500 gathered in the street near the plant and kept many workers out of the building. The town became an armed camp as the Industrial Workers of the World
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July 5 marked the return of all workers to the plant. It had cost the company not only a large sum of money but also lost production time. The employees lost 13 weeks pay and gained nothing.
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Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude. Age 16.
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Police Commissioner Edwin Upton Curtis denied that police officers had any right to form a union, much less one affiliated with a larger organization like the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Attempts at reconciliation between the Commissioner and the police officers, particularly on the part of Boston's Mayor Andrew James Peters, failed. During the strike, Boston experienced several nights of lawlessness.
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Two men were robbed and killed while transporting company's payroll in two large steel boxes to the main factory. Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, was shot 4 times as he reached for his hip-holstered .38-caliber revolver; his gun was not recovered from the scene. Frederick Parmenter was shot in the chest and a second time, fatally, in the back as he fled. The robbers escaped in stolen dark blue Buick that was carrying others. The robbers fired at workers nearby while fleeing.
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Bruins team played their first NHL game against their expansion cousins the Maroons, at Boston Arena, with Canadian skater Smokey Harris scoring the first-ever Bruins goal.
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