Boston police vote to strike.

Officers vote to strike by a margin of 1,134 to 2 at a meeting in Fay Hall, at today’s 117 East Berkeley Street. The strike is to take place if the Boston Police Department does not recognize the union that officers voted to form three weeks earlier and does not raise salaries, which had remained the same since 1898. Police Commissioner, Edwin Curtis, who had already refused a recommendation by a citizens committee to allow the own union, refuses their demands and promptly fires Ptl. John McInnes and 18 other union leaders, prompting a strike the next day.*