Railroads Demand 25 Percent Rate Increase Amid Wage Pushes
Rail unions press for a 14-cent raise to total 30 cents per hour for 1,050,000 non operating workers, claiming wartime grants undervalued postwar cost of living. Carriers seek a 25 percent freight-rate hike to cover rising operating costs while proposing continuation of a 10 percent wartime passenger fare boost. Government also moves to restore wartime slaughter quotas to ease meat shortages in major packing centers.
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U.S
Anderson
OPA
Chicago
Swift, Armour and Wilson
Britain offers big enlistment bonuses in postwar efforts
Britain pushes voluntary recruitment with a $100 enlistment bonus and $100 per year for three to four years, plus $52 or a suit on completion, as Attlee seeks 187,000 volunteers. Canada lifts army pay to attract a 25,000-strong postwar force, privates getting about 95 dollars monthly. Tobacco tax revenue rose 8.3 percent to 164.2 million, with a 11.9 percent federal rise.
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Britain
U. S
Canada
Attlee
Postwar production surges as OWMR reports higher output
The Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion notes first quarter 1946 output above initial estimates. Production at 180 billion in goods and 64 billion in agriculture signals peacetime records, with key industries and consumer appliances near or exceeding prewar levels. A hopeful path toward peace hinges on limiting veto power in the United Nations and fostering international cooperation.
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Office of War Mobilization and ‘Reconversion
OWMA
OWMR
WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington
D. C
Hunter College
Bronx
N. Y
United Nations
Executive Council
University of Chicago
Atomic Energy
Corbett
Department of Political Science
Yale University
Shippers Fight Rail Rate Hike Targets May Chicago Meeting
The National Industrial Traffic League calls shippers to assemble in Chicago on May 7 to oppose a 25 percent railroad freight rate increase. A league spokesman calls the proposal a staggering blow and urges an early ICC hearing before rates go into effect. Domestic steamship operators in New York weigh a parallel water rate rise, while Water Carrier and Joint Maritime Commission actions loom with the ICC.
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National Industrial Traffic League
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
League
New York
Joint
Maritime Commission - War Shipping Administration
ICC
Wsa-Usmc
Maritime Commission
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