Word: waltham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dudley Bell of Waltham...
Dudley Bell of Waltham...
...game, from 4.15 until 5.15, the Cottage Farm Bridge will be "one way" going towards Boston and the Temporary Bridge "one way" going towards Cambridge. Half of the Harvard Bridge is now open to traffic and is "one way" coming from Boston. Automobiles coming from Waltham and Watertown should come via North Beacon Street to Market Street to the Speedway...
...George Fechtner of the Machinists' Union of New England, a leader in the recent strike at Waltham, addressed the La Follette-Wheeler club last night in the Faculty Room of the Union, and declared that the present progressive political movement is a manifestation of an age-old struggle of the common people to secure better and larger lives for themselves...
After the address, Mr. Fechtner explained in a short interview the workman's point of view in the Waltham strike, of which he was a leader. "During the past two years", said Mr. Fechtner, "the wages have been reduced 40 percent. When it was announced that there would be a further 10 percent reduction, the workers, though unorganized, universally struck...