James Michael Curley criticizes Mayor Thomas Hart’s attempts to reduce the city’s work force.

A member of the Boston Common Councilor, Curley declares, “Men are being discharged indiscriminately for their political belief and nothing else. . . I live in a district . . . composed largely of working people, who have large families of six or eight; and I have seen those same families in actual want or suffering during the last month or two, due to no other reason than the men were Democrats.”