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...firemen of Woburn, Mass, had their collective pay cut $7,600 last year for economy's sweet sake. The Mayor of Woburn is William E. Kane, and his brother Michael is fire chief. Last week Woburn's firemen, all but the chief, sued
...Woburn for their .$7,600. Mayor Kane retaliated by accusing them of being sleepy heads who never earned their $42 per week and therefore should no longer sleep on the town's charity. He ordered their beds & bedding taken away...
Many a truant moppet is haled into court for failing to go to school. Last week the town of Woburn, Mass. (pop. 20,000) was haled into court for failing to provide for schooling its moppets...
Massachusetts, birthplace of public education in the U. S., has an old school law with teeth in it. Any Massachusetts town that fails properly to support its public schools may be fined an amount twice its biggest annual school expenditure. Recently Woburn's Mayor William E. Kane cut the schools' allowance. Woburn's teachers went unpaid. Thereupon they complained to the State Attorney General. Fortnight ago a Middlesex County grand jury solemnly indicted the City of Woburn, Inc. for school nonsupport. This week the town goes on trial. If it is convicted Woburn taxpayers may be fined...
Hopeful that the refugees would put up a good front in their new world, the chief London refugee relief centre at Woburn House handed the young exiles instructions on proper refugee deportment...