NYC strike looms as 4000 AFL workers authorize action
AFL Brotherhood of Electrical Workers won authorization from 4000 members to strike in New York City possibly halting all building activity. No date set, but the action could involve over 250000 trades workers amid a long dispute with Consolidated Edison over plant work assignments seen as a company union. A separate 60 member strike occurred at a Naval ammunition dump near San Diego over working conditions, not wages or hours.
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Manchester Union Yet To Ratify Parachute Fabric Agreement
Manchester Connecticut reports that the union must ratify an agreement whose terms have not been released. The involved firm manufactures parachute fabrics and machine parts for airplane factories.
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Manchester, Conn
Icebound Minot's Light keepers jailed five days
In Cohasset Massachusetts the three keepers of Minot's light were imprisoned for five days after 120 foot waves piled ice around the offshore beacon sealing the exit.
Texas youths register for military service tally
A Texas tally shows 34,530 youths registered for military service on July 1 across 351 local selective service boards. Harris County led with 2,759 registrants, Dallas County followed with 2,415, and Tarrant County earned praise for efficient processing with 3,963 registrants cleared without a single appeal. About 34,126 of the registrants were men now 21 or older since last October.
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RAF Bombers Attack Le Trait Shipyard and Rhineland Targets
British air force fought over western Germany and the Nazi coast with heavy bombers and a fighter escort. They attacked the shipyard at Le Trait west of Rouen and bombed Cologne Ostend Calais Boulogne with limited observations due to bad weather. One German fighter was destroyed and two British planes failed to return.
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Calais
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Woman tries to reclaim baby abandoned in Dallas bus station
Pauline Baker, 20, who left her month-old son in a Dallas bus station rest room, pleaded from her jail cell to be allowed to continue her trip to Houston with the child. She expressed regret, saying she loves the baby and wants to give him a home, while facing child desertion charges. Her husband was killed in a car crash near El Paso last November.
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Dallas
Pauline Baker
Standardized Men’s Clothing in London
London on July 11 announced by Metford Watkins director general of Civilian Clothing that standardized men’s clothes will appear in Britain this fall with women’s and children’s wear following. Men’s ready made tweed suits priced at 65 shillings and worsted suits at 75 shillings will meet a minimum quality standard. A Houston bound bus at Corsicana was stopped by sheriff’s deputies and returned to Dallas as a Arkansas woman traveling from Little Rock to Houston stated she was visiting her parents’ home to the sheriff’s office.
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