Plumbers raise hourly wage in Amarillo dispute
Plumbers and Steam Fitters Local No. 196 notified the Associated Master Plumbers of Amarillo that journey man pay rose from 1.75 to 2 dollars an hour effective January 1. Arbitration will set working rules. no walkout expected. The West Texas Panhandle district aligns with larger cities, with Dallas already at 2 dollars. Bricklayers follow at 1.93 1/2.
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Associated Master Plumbers
Amarillo
O. H. Clendenson
Associated Master
Avlor
J. O. Reynolds
West Texas and Panhandle
Dallas
West Texas
Panhandle
Lubbock
Abilene
Odessa
San Angelo
el Paso
J. E Nicholson
Bricklayers Union
WICC Demands Spending Slash from Texas Delegation
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce urged the Texas delegation in the 80th Congress to push for emergency federal budget cuts and set a 1947-48 spending cap of 25 billion dollars. Led by President H. C. Custard, letters were sent after 100 taxpayer groups adopted an 11 point code opposing big centralized government and peacetime military costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abilene
West Texas
Texas
Butterworth Settles Suit Against Herring Hotel for 700
Lt. Charles A. Butterworth Jr of Los Angeles settles a $5,000 suit against the Herring Hotel Corporation for $700. Judge W. E. Gee approves the agreed judgment. The case arose from an alleged assault by Ima Edwards, a floor maid, at the hotel after the Butterworths checked in January 8, 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Butterworth, Jr
Los Angeles
The
Herring Hotel Corporation
W. E. Gee
108Th District Court
Butterworth
Ima Edwards
Herring Hotel
Shooting Too Slow Says Nazi Boss of Women’s Prison
Johann Schwarzhuber, former assistant commandant at Ravensbrück, testified in an affidavit that women inmates too ill to work were gassed because shooting was “too slow.” The Hamburg statement ties to Nazi genocide practices and underscores coercive abuses in the camp system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Germany
Johann Schwarzhuber
Ravensbruck
German bishop seeks return of eastern lands for expellees
Frankfurt report says Bishop Maximilian Kaller appeals for at least part of former eastern Germany to be returned for use as a home for Germans expelled from the Sudetenland and other areas. The prompt notes a halving of five child families since 1920. City planning and zoning commissioners meet tomorrow at 7:30 P.M. to hear rezoning applications.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Maximilian Kaller
Poland
Sudetenland
City Planning and Zoning Commission
City ‘Hall
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Honor City
Charlie Lambie
Joe Jenkins
Amarillo High School
Julia Dean Evans
Ulysses Booth
Leo Yselding
Ulysses S. Booth
Booth
Wyoming State
Rawlins
Uselding
Wyoming
Potter County
Coke Stevenson
Sullivan
N. C. Brown, Jr
Judy
Corsicana
Inez Sullivan
Carolina
Ol’ Vernon Sez
Wee Ee
Luth and
Buchanan
Oriental Cleaners
Vernon Hancock
Walgreen
Gyalgreen’s
Dependable
Polk Street
Will
Soite Dre
Carter’s Pills
Sinks
Withers Plumbing Company
van Buren
Lucky Tiger
Ulle
JOTI
EPSOM
Dillard's
Colgate
Aqua Velva Williams
Ceradyne
Sargeors
Hill’s
Parke-Davis
Gillette
Iik
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ST. Joseph
DR. West
BOROPHENOF Co +s
DR. Scholl
Pade
Hhme
Pinkham’s
Vitalis
MEAD
SLOAN
KY Jelly
Johnson
Petrogalar
Tampax
LILLY
Adex Sauins
Tin
Clafsen
M. E. Simpson
River Road
Fillmore
Cal Farley
Wunstop Duzzitt
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