Wage Stabilization urged by War Labor Board on Little Steel
The War Labor Board urged organized labor to accept a wage stabilization policy that grants Little Steel workers 44 cents extra per day instead of the $1 requested by the union. The measure aims to maintain purchasing power from January 1941 and prevent a wage price spiral while urging labor restraint and leadership during total war.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Labor Board
Organized Labor
William H. Davis
Iabor
Steel Union
Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
CIO
George W. Taylor
Tank Plant Idle as Strike Brings Talks to Impasse
Flint July 17 A seven man strike committee and representatives of state and federal conciliators plus War Production Board met with GM tank plant officials with no agreement to end the walkout. About 60 pickets stood outside as negotiations focused on smoking break times while the plant reported only about 20 percent of the day shift present.
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Flint
General Motors
Here
War Production Board
Paul Ricketts
State Labor Mediation Board
S. W. Duncan
Harry Rouli
Ford Co Work Stoppage Continues in Iron Mountain
In Iron Mountain the Ford Motor Co plant remains at a standstill as about 475 workers across the No 2 body shop and chemical department stay off the job. CIO United Automobile Workers members protested outside the facility while a company union conference was planned to address weekly wage payments, bi weekly bank payments, and the return to a standard work schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iron Mountain
Midh
Ford Motor Company
Chemical Department
W. Johnson
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
John Jacobs
Hyo-Men
American Soldier Condemned 10 Die in Melbourne Murder Trial
Private Edward J. Leonski, ex New York grocer clerk, was convicted by a U S military court in Melbourne of murdering three women and sentenced to death by hanging. The 10 member tribunal reached the verdict after about 50 minutes. the sentence awaits review by the U S armed forces commander in Australia. Leonski, under guard since mid May, showed calm as he heard the verdict and exhibited a faint smirk while leaving the courtroom. The victims were Gladys Hocking, Ivy Violet McLeod, and Pauline Thompson, all strangled between May 3 and May 9. confessions obtained after arrest were introduced, while defense called him a psychopathic personality amid testimony of unusual beer ketchup ice cream pepper mixtures.
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Melbourne
Edward J. Leonski
New York City
United States
Australia
Leonski
Gladys Hocking
University
Ivy Violet McLeod
Pauline Thompson
U. S
Michigan Over The Top in Rubber Collection Drive
Michigan reports it contributed 20 000 tons of scrap rubber in the drive far exceeding the five pound per capita quota. Howard Coffin and Kenneth Burns said some counties reached over 25 pounds per person while all county totals await finalization. Rubber will be sent to Cleveland stockpile awaiting RC funding release.
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Detroit
Michigan
Howard ‘Coffin
Michigan ‘Petroleum Industry
Kenneth M. Burns
The
State Salvage Committee
Cleveland
Offi
Cor
Poration Rubber Reserve
Brief Sit-Down Staged at Ford Bomber Plant
In Detroit a short sit down at Ford Willow Run bomber plant halted work for over an hour. Ford Personnel Director Harry Bennett blamed a CIO steward Harris for a protest over discontinuance of two telephone service workers. Union officials denied authorized strike and could not identify Harris. Bennett said the telephone service had been installed without proper management arrangement and ordered halted. Production resumed by 7:30 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Willow Run
Ford Motor Company
Harry H. Bennett
Ford
Uaw-Cio
Harris
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Bennett
Parachute search near Roosevelt estate renews dawn
Mysterious parachutes reported near President Roosevelt’s Hyde Park home sparked a dawn search by military FBI and state police, but townspeople suggested balloons from a religious festival. A Rhinebeck hotel clerk recalled fireworks and Italian celebrants near Glasgow across the Hudson as authorities weighed balloon versus parachute explanations.
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President Roosevelt
Hyde Park
FBI
Robert Milroy
Rhinebeck
Glasgow
Hudson River
Pot
Finland and United States drift toward open break in relations
Wallington July 17 Finland and the United States stood near an open break as Helsinki prepared to close all its consulates in the United States per Washington’s request. The State Department said consular commissions in Finland are being canceled and American consulate functions in Helsinki will end. The move mirrors earlier German-American tensions. Finland’s actions relate to its conflict with Soviet Russia, but the department stressed it reflects Finnish restrictions on consular duties, not treaty rights. Hull warned that friendship requires Finland to halt offensive operations against Soviet territory.
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Wallington
United States
Felsinki
Washington
State Department
Finland
Helsinki
Siice
Russia
Germany
Hull
Pantano Jury Verdict Sparks Violent Uproar at Death Sentence
Pantano was sentenced to death after a tavern robbery killing Policeman Charles Williams on Dec 10, 1941. As jurors and prosecutors were escorted to safety, Pantano's twin brother Tony rushed the bench, breaking through guards in a chaotic scene echoed by family and spectators.
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Pantano
Charles Williams
Tony
Chin
John
British Lee tanks join center desert fight near El Alamein
Cairo July 17 British forces surge in the El Alamein desert center adding American made General Lee tanks to bolster defense in a violent battle. The bulletin notes enemy tanks knocked out and losses unknown while RAF fighters press constant attacks on Axis positions along the coast and at Ruweisat Ridge as the crisis near Egypt deepens.
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Associated Press
Cairo
el Alamein Desert
General Lee
General Grant
Egypt
RAF
Ruvweieat Ridge
Union Officials Wounded in Chicago Painter Gunfight
In Chicago two Paint ers Union bosses were wounded and the wife of one killed when gunmen struck at their home after a council meeting. Loretta Youngblood, 39, died from breast wounds. her husband was shot in the arm. Arthur Wallace, secretary treasurer of Council No. 14, was found wounded in the abdomen. Police traced the shooting to a confrontation after a late-night meeting.
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Chicago
Painters’ Union
Loretta Youngblood
West Side
Tocal 147
Painters’ District Council
Marvin Nelson
Arthur Wallace
Painters’ District Council No. 14
Wallace
Franklin Boulevard Hospital
Youngblood
Council
Nelson
Daniel Gilbert
State's Attorney's
Union
Elsie Hennemen
George Henneman
Negro tenor claims he was beaten and jailed in Georgia
Calhoun Georgia July 17 AP Ro jland Heyes famed Negro tenor claims he and his wife were beaten and jailed after a Rome shoe store incident. Police deny the beating and say no case was filed while a $50 bond was returned. Heyes says he was struck and dragged by an officer and handcuffed.
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Calhoun
Api—Rojland Heyes
Rote
North Georgia
Charles I. Harris
Hayes
Harris
Rome
Africa
Fred Higgins
Higgins
Hitler
British Bombers Strike at Germany After Daylight Raid
London reports a force of Stirlings, Britain's large four engined bombers, attacked submarine yards near Luebeck Flensburg and Kiel Rostock targets in Germany just before dawn and in daylight. Some bombers missing. Berlin radio says German factories at Leamington suffered damage.
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London
Britain
Germany
Luebeck
Flensburg
Ruhr
Flensburg Attacks Were Meager Butian
Air Ministry
Lue~beck
Berlin
DNB
Leamington
Warwick
England
Liebeck
IAAFs Attacks On Germany Fall Short Of Hopes
London July 17 Britain's air offensive against Germany remains below expectations says British experts after 47 nights since the Cologne raid. About 8 750 bomber trips have been flown with only two raids of a thousand or more bombers on Emden and Bremen. Poor weather, fog and airfield risks hinder mass attacks, delaying intensive central and eastern targets until autumn.
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London
Britain
Germany
RAF
Cologne
Associated Press
Churchill
Emden
Bremen
Hitle
United Nations
RAE
HAF
American Cities Honor War Heroes Across Nation
On American War Heroes Day July 17 cities and towns held bond and stamp rallies amid nationwide honors. Events included Chicago’s breakfast funded by war bonds, Boston’s buttoned bomb case autographs for messages to Tokyo and Berlin, and Cincinnati parade plans. Mothers of service members, free postcards in St Louis, and a Des Moines service Sunday highlighted the nationwide commemoration.
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Washington
Advisory Council of the Treasury
Chicago
Boston
Tokyo
Berlin
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Mothers of
St Louis
Des Moines
Indianapolis
California
Flint
Kansas City
House Naval Committee approves fee ban on war contracts
Bulletin from Washington notes the House Naval Committee, with unanimous approval, moves to outlaw commission fees on government war contracts after Navy demand to curb profiteering. Roosevelt signals no imminent policy on 18 to 19 year olds joining the colors. Lend lease aid to the United Nations and allies reaches $708 million in June, total since March 11, 1941 hits $5.205 billion.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
Navy
Roosevelt
United Nations
Russian Front Battles Ramp Up as Germans Push South
Across the Don steppes German forces reportedly renewed a major offensive supported by tanks while Soviets yielded ground toward Stalingrad and Rostov. Reports describe heavy combat near Kamensk and Voronezh with tanks destroyed and large German losses, as counterattacks and air raids shape the crest of summer warfare.
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Moscow
Don Steppes
Red
Stalingrad
Rostov
Kamensk
Donets
Millerovo
Kamensi
Voronezh
Red Army
Don
Lavestia
Sevastopol
Crimea
Soviet Information Bureau
Hitler
Leningrad
Voronezh Front
Nikolai Zhuravlev
Jebal Sevastopol
Kursk-Kharkov
Berlin
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Labor Board
AFI
W. D. Cashdoller
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
AFL
Master Builders ‘ Association of
Allegheny County
Wight Construction
Ford Co
Gulf Coast
Hantic
South América
Os Filp
AdjGisemt
West
Andy Adams
Ajaly
A—Vauelan
Cattaurnt
Restau
Fils
Josephine
U.S
Batile
Bullet
Negro Tenor
Georgia
Fremont
Neb
Updike Grain Company
Kiel
Rostock
Baltic
Danzig
IAAF
Bulletins
Lansing
Liquor Control Commission
Ralph Thomas
Office of Price Administration
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