Weekly News Analysis on Wage Deals Across Unions and Courts
The AFL and CIO meat unions reach wage increases with Swift and Cudahy including night pay and holidays, totaling 12 cents an hour with benefits. CIO unions also seal 52 week employment at Tobin Packing. Courts push back with back pay suits by Steelworkers and Auto Workers against major firms, while Dow Chemical settles $4.66 million for 1200 workers in UMW District 50.
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AFL
CIO Packinghouse
Swift
CIO United Packinghouse Workers of America
Cudahy
CIO Union
Tobin Packing Company
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Supreme Court
Mount Clemens Potters Company
CIO United Steelworkers
CIO Auto
Cleveland
Ohio
Republic Steel Company
American Steel and Wire
Ohio Crankshaft Company
Dow Chemical Company of
Midland
Mich
John L. Lewis
UMW
District 50
Freight rate boosts and royal marriage rumors swirl through news
The Interstate Commerce Commission unanimously approved a 17.6 percent average freight rate increase and a 10 percent rise in passenger fares for rail, plus varied raises for commodities and agriculture. Separate coverage notes John L. Lewis and the UMW stance on government wage issues and a Supreme Court case on government-operated industries. Britain’s Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip engagement rumors spark royal excitement with political implications for Greece and Near East influence.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Great Britain
Philip
Greece
Elizabeth
Germans to hold next big four meeting in Moscow
The Big Four foreign ministers agreed to tackle a German treaty in Moscow next March after agreeing to unify the US and Britain occupation zones to speed Western Germany’s recovery. Europe lags in reconstruction as MoLOLEY promised reporters freedom and facilities for coverage, addressing prior newsroom limits during visits to Moscow.
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Moscow
U. S
Britain
Germany
Europe
Reich
Mololey
Byrnes
Big Train and early cold war era feats mixed in one page
Walter Johnson the famed pitcher known as the Big Train dies at 59 amid retrospective highlights of his 21 year career with the Washington Senators including 413 wins 3497 strikeouts and 114 shutouts. The page also recounts Chalmers Goodlin’s XS-1 test flight and Near East diplomacy involving Iran Greece Turkey and Bulgaria plus US miners wages dispute led by John L. Lewis and Inland Steel president Wilfred Sykes.
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Valhalla
Walter Johnson
Johnson
Washington Senators
New York Yankees
Russia
Near East
Iran
Greece
Turkey
Corymidos
Bulgaria
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Wilfred Sykes
Inland Steel Company
Washington Labor Leaders Face Consumer Shield Threat
Washington observers note growing discontent within unions over autocratic leaders and costly strikes as voters lean toward Republicans. The piece argues labor must align with consumer interests, seeking steady policy, arbitration, and market-wide bargaining while warning against big ownership, unionism, and government becoming dinosaurs.
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WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington
D. C
Congress
20Th Century Fund
Whooping Cough Toll Surprises Health Officials
Northwestern National Life Insurance warns whooping cough causes more child deaths each year than infantile paralysis and scarlet fever. Public Health Service 1943 figures show 1,878 whooping cough deaths vs 251 polio and 422 scarlet fever. preliminary 1944 figures: 1,728 whooping cough deaths, 1,189 polio, 349 scarlet fever. Cases rise through winter, peaking in March or April.
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Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
United States Public Health Service
United Nations backs Spain withdrawal of diplomats
Thousands of Spaniards rally at the national palace in Madrid denouncing foreign interference as the U N political and security committee at Lake Success New York adopts a resolution calling for withdrawal of ambassadors from Spain. The United States abstains as Franco proclaims Spain’s governance a matter for Spaniards alone while touting neutrality and economic openness.
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Madrid
Franco
United Nations Political and ‘Security Committee
Lake Success
N. Y
Spain
U.S
Barbs and quotes on presidents and education in 1918
A fragmented wartime note discusses prospective presidents and public schooling. The speaker argues people face exposure to education but may lack true understanding, noting March 1918 context and reference to college as a path not guaranteeing wiser choices.
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Vouilien
Minure Cabies
Turkey trade and politics mix in early world links
Spanish colonists sent wild turkeys to Europe before 1550. Domesticated birds bred in Europe and returned to the Americas mixed with wild stock. Chiang Kai-shek faced calls to resign as a real-world political figure who seldom gets a chance.
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Turkey
Europe
Gracias
Senores
Chiang Kai-shek
Reading device aids disabled veterans at Portland hospital
A ceiling projection reading machine, designed to help hospitalized veterans with limited mobility, was donated by three Portland Camp Fire Girls groups. Eddie Hall, 21, a Medford navy veteran, tested the device which projects book pages onto the ceiling. The small aluminum gadget lets users turn pages by chin press, aiding bed ridden patients. The $100 machine uses 35mm film and cinema-like pages, with films for books costing $1.50 to $3. It promises to ease reading for disabled veterans and is set to receive films from a national magazine. Camp Fire Girls have long supported veterans and other civic groups, with members aiding in hospitals, USO, Red Cross, and other services across the country.
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Veterans’ Hospital
Portland
Ore
Eddie Hall
Medford
Hall
Camp Fire
The
Blue Birds
Camp Fire Girls
Horizon Clubbers
Camp Fire’ Girls
USO
Red Cross
Trenton
N. J
Zon
Catholic Youth Organization
Staten Island
N. Y
Horizon ‘Club
Cleveland
Ohio
Loretta
Rutkowski
Crookston
Minn
Atlanta
Good Samaritans
Davy
Chichester Auctions Old Hearse From Shed
In Chichester New Hampshire the town offered for sale an 1883 model hearse with interchangeable wheels after years of storage in a shed and a noted car shortage.
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Chichester
N. H
Oregonians Seek Hidden Indian Blood
In Portland area officials note the Supreme Court decision awarding about 15 million dollars to four Oregon Indian tribes for land taken from them. The test to prove Indian status is debated, with Morgan Pryse suggesting quarter blood qualifies and many may reveal undisclosed heritage. Each qualifying Indian could receive roughly ten thousand dollars.
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Portland, Obe
Morgan Pryse
Portland
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Estero Newspaper Union
Packer
U S. Supreme Court
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Lieve
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High Tribunal
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Royal Romance
Mediterranean
Princess Elizabeth
Prince Philip
London
Chalmers Goodlin
Goodlin
Washington Digest
Baukhage
Friends of Labor
White House
Harry’ Truman
John Lewis
Senate
At Labor
Evinour Wisden
Taft
Thurman Arnold
Walter Hamilton
New Republic
U.N
Slap Franco
Tan
By Baukhage
United States
Wnu
Ruth McConnell
Philadelphia
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