AFL Meets To Consider Ousting CIO Over Split
The AFL executive council met in secret to weigh expulsion of the rebel CIO. a summit could call a special convention within 30 days to vote on ouster. John L. Lewis learned of the council’s talks, while Green faced possible removal from the miners union CIO affiliate.
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AFL
CIO
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
United Press
John L. Lewis
Green
Miner’s Union—Cioq
Referendum Denied on Sick Commissioner Law
Secretary of State William J. Kennedy refused to order a referendum on the law criticized as the sick commissioner measure. Ed D. Schorr the Republican state chairman argued the emergency clause violated the Constitution. Opponents claim the bill aimed to secure Democratic appointments in Lawrence and Clark Counties upon vacancies. A Clark County vacancy was filled by a Democrat after a commissioner’s death.
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Columbus
AU P
William J. Kennedy
Ohio
Ed. D. Schorr
Lawrence
Clark
Clark County
Three Men Found Dead In Shared One Room Attic
In a dingy one room attic in Cleveland three men were found dead amid signs of struggle over possible food poisoning or coal gas fumes. The room had previously seen two victims overcome by gas, and one man died last year in the same space. In Steubenville Peter Trombetti, 26, died after a 10 ton ladle spilled molten metal spraying ten workers at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp plant in Mingo Junction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
WPA
Burns Steubenville
Peter Trombetti
Mingo Junction
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Former judge Kerr dies in Steubenville at 74
Frank H. Kerr age 74 former probate judge of Jefferson County 1900 1906 and a member of the constitutional convention in 1912 died at his home in Steubenville Wednesday night.
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Steubenville
J.P
Frank H. Kerr
Jefferson County
Congress backs Roosevelt economy drive with spending cuts
In Washington Roosevelt’s drive to trim expenditures gains traction as sponsors of the Wagner housing bill Jones Farm Tenancy proposal and the Harrison education measure seek to cut requests to a quarter or less. The House Labor Committee backs a permanent CCC with 300000 enrollees while a Vinson Anti-Stream Pollution bill faces a vote 188 to 157. The Ways and Means Committee plans summer hearings on extending nuisance taxes.
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Washington-Aup
Roosevelt
Congress
House
CCC
House Labor Committee
Civilian Conservation Corps
Ways and Means Committee
Mrs. Carpenter Dies at Home in Athens County
Mrs. Jane Cook Carpenter age 86 widow of Parker Carpenter a former Athens businessman and county sheriff died at her home 187 East State Street after a long illness following a hip fracture. Funeral services will be held at 2 30 Friday at the home with interment in West Union Street Cemetery. She was born in Alexander Township and survived by four children Fred Carpenter Roll Carpenter Louise Biddison and E R Walker. She was the last of her immediate family with two sisters Lucinda Welch and Josephine Miller and another sister Miss Mary Cook killed in a Columbus traffic accident.
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Jane Cook Carpenter
Parker Carpenter
Athens
E. State St
W. Union St
Fred Carpenter
Columbus
Roll Carpenter
Cincinnati
Louise Biddison
E. R. Walker
Carpenter
Lucinda Welch
Josephine Miller
Mary Cook
Economy drive wrecks Roosevelt farm program
President Roosevelt orders strict economy curtailing the new farm program pushed by Henry A. Wallace. Wallace said some parts may be salvaged on a diminished scale while others like tenant aid and crop insurance face cuts. Soil conservation continues at present funding.
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Washington
U.P
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Roosevelt
Coal Operators to Discuss Price Increase in New York
Anthracite coal operators will meet in New York next Wednesday to consider a proposed May 1 price rise. They indicate higher costs from a 35 hour work week necessitating the increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
U.P
New York
Hum! Measure QO. K. approved after governor’s recommendation
The House Taxation Committee unanimously recommended passage of Huml stop-gap relief, backed by Governor Davey, to allow towns and counties to use excess intangible tax revenues over last year. The plan targets larger counties and could ease local distress while a longer program is debated. The governor predicts improved school funding and potential removal of the deficit by 1938 end, while the Harter redistricting bill remains pending with push for early reconsideration.
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Columbus
U.P
House Taxation Committee
Davey
House
Bishop Kilpatrick
Trumbull
Congress
Madrid bombardment kills and wounds hundreds
Rebel artillery struck central Madrid with about 100 shells on the l1th day of a bombardment. At least 150 people were killed and more than 300 injured as workers and marketgoers filled the streets before retreating to cellars and subway stations. The shelling lasted from 6:00 to 7:30 a.m. and left many casualties, with two confirmed dead among roughly ten initially recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
U.P
Hotel Employers Strike Milwaukee Workers Idle
Milwaukee hotel workers went on strike today to demand wage gains as labor difficulties leave about four thousand employees idle in the city. The action involves hotel employers and affects multiple downtown properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
U.R
Milwaukee Hotel
Gable Testifies in Defense in Extortion Case
Clark Gable was called as a defense witness in a case where an Englishwoman Mrs Violet Wells Norton accuses him of fathering her daughter and faces mail fraud charges for seeking support. Norton identified Gable as Frank Billings and claimed a prior romance dated to 1924 in Billercay Essex.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Clark Gable
Violet Wells Norton
Gable
Gwendoline
Norton
Frank Billings
Essex
Morris Lavine
America
Pacific Northwest
Ohio Wagner Act Sent to Senate After House Approval
The Little Wagner Labor Bill moved to the Senate, stripped of the sit down strikes ban. The House approved 83 to 37 after reversing a Tuesday vote that rejected retaining the amendment 56 to 66. The bill outlaws company unions espionage intimidation the blacklist and creates a labor relations board to handle disputes.
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Columbus
U.P
Senate
Ohio
House
Thomas A. Christy
Monroe
Christy
John L. Lewis
Dancer Burned to Death as Grass Skirt Ignites
Los Angeles report says 22 year old hula dancer May Purdue died from burns after a spectator allegedly touched a match to her grass skirt during a waterfront barroom performance. Matthew Donahue, 57, was arrested on suspicion of murder.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Burns
Matthew Donahue
Poice
Donahue
May Purdue
Unions Split Georgia Federation Convention
In Atlanta the Georgia Federation of Labor split as AFL followers walked out and set up their own convention across the street. Steve Nance, appointed by John L. Lewis to organize Southern textile workers under CIO, chaired the session before the split.
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Atlanta
U.P
Georgia Federation of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
A. F. of L
State Federation
Steve Nance
John L. Lewis
South
CIO
100 More Veniremen Summoned for Murder Trial
Sheriff Evan Harrod ordered 100 additional veniremen from Henry County to assess eligibility for the murder trial of Brigadier General Henry H. Dénhardt. The case hinges on circumstantial evidence with Mrs Verna Garr Taylor found dead by a .45 caliber pistol shot. Denhardt claims it was self defense.
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New Castle
U.P
Evan Harrod
Henry County
Henry H. Dénhardt
Verna Garr Taylor
Lewis Groups Gaining Strong Hold in Steel
Pittsburgh report says Wheeling Steel signed a collective bargaining contract with John L. Lewis' organizing committee. SWOC said conferences would open with Jones & Laughlin for a contract. SWOC announced 76 contracts signed with steel firms.
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Lewis
Pittsburgh
Wheeling Steel Corporation
John L. Lewis’ Steel Workers Organizing Committee
SWOC
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Great Lakes Hit by Season's Worst Storm
The 1937 navigation season's worst storm swept the Great Lakes Wednesday night. A northeast gale struck the upper lakes with heavy snow. All ships in the Straits of Mackinac and the St. Marys River dropped anchor as winds shattered moorings.
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Cleveland
Great Lakes
Upper Lakes
Straits of Mackinac
St. Marys River
Akron-U.P. council to discuss emergency public transit
City officials and a utilities committee joined labor representatives in Akron to consider emergency action to provide public transportation facilities.
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Akron
U.P
Council Utilities Committee
Son Is Born While Baby Daughter Dies
In Wetzel County Hospital New Martinsville Ohio mother Mrs. Lester Schindler of Hannibal watched her two year old daughter die from scalding burns and then gave birth to a son in an adjoining room. The baby boy was born Wednesday a few minutes after the girl died.
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New Martinsville
W. Va
U.P
Lester Schindler
Hannibal, O
Wetzel County Hospital
Anti War Day Observed as National Student Strike
The United Student Peace Committee expects 1,000,000 participants for the fourth annual anti war strike. College students nationwide will skip classes to hear speeches condemning war. Student leaders plan to administer the Oxford pledge where feasible. About 75,000 high school students will attend supervised peace assemblies, with no pledge or strike in high schools.
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New York
U RP
United Student Peace Committee
Oxford
DAR Moves That U S Ban Communist Party
Washington U P The National Defense Committee of the Daughters of the American Revolution urged that the Communist Party be declared by law an illegal party with no right to protection under our constitutional form of government.
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Washington
U.P
National Defense Committee of the Daughters of the American Revolution Today
Communist Party
Child Killed In Wagon Accident At Hopedale
Five year old David Calvisi died after a play wagon overturned on the sidewalk in Hopedale near Cadiz. The wagon was struck by a car driven by Mrs. Dora McCarthy, authorities reported.
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Cadiz
O.R
David Calvisi
Hopedale
Here
Dora McCarthy
Coal Operator Ted Creech Faces Perjury Charge
Swarthy Ted Creech of Harlan Kentucky coal operator is shown denying to the Senate Civil Liberties committee that he threatened a coal miner witness. He was served with a warrant charging perjury as he left the Senate Building. The miner testified Creech threatened prison for the witness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Creech
Harlan, Ky
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Senate
Creech
Protection of Witnesses in Hearing Sought
The La Follette Civil Liberties Committee moves to shield key witnesses in its Kentucky mining dispute hearing. Lawrence Howard a grocery clerk testified he faced death threats, prompting chairman La Follette to vow prosecutions for intimidation. Earlier witness R C Tackett reported threats from Ted Creech tied to perjury charges.
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Washington
la Follette Civil Liberties Committee
Kentuky
Harlan” County
Lawrence Howard
Mountaineer
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr
Harlan County
Howard
R. C. Tackett
Ted Creech
Kentucky
Creech
District of Columbia
Negro Suspect Killed In Battle With Police
In Filbert Pennsylvania a three hour gun battle left Hamilton Lestwich shot dead after firing on State Trooper Joseph Hopper who was seriously wounded. Lestwich a Fayette County jail fugitive barricaded in a mine house. the confrontation ended with machine gun fire.
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Uniontown
U.P
Pennsylvania
Filbert
Here
Hamilton Lestwich
Fayette County
Joseph Hopper
Man on way to see brother killed by train
Albanus Ross aged 52 from Hazelwood Pennsylvania traveled toward Cleveland to visit his brother George after 10 years. He rode freight cars and was killed when struck by a Nickel Plate train in Cleveland yards.
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Man
Brother
Cleveland
Albanus Ross
Hazelwood
George
Albanus
Rival of CIO Initiates Campaign for Membership
Daniel M. Robins, president of the American Labor League, launches a national drive to attract workers into a rival to John L. Lewis’s CIO. The Detroit based group says it will seek loyalty pledges and vows to oppose sit down strikes with a mass meeting planned for Sunday. The league claims more than 3,000 Detroit members and seeks AFL cooperation.
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Saginaw
Mich
U.P
American Labor League
Michigan
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Daniel M. Robins
Chevrolet Iron Foundry
Loyal Workers League
C.so
Robins
League
Detroit
Detroit Auto Workers
American Federation of ‘Labor
C.L
Guards Patrol Shoe Factory Area in Maine
National Guardsmen patrolled Auburn Maine after a 28 day strike by workers allied with the Committee for Industrial Organization. Courts prohibited picketing as factories prepared to reopen. CIO officials Hapgood and four others were arrested for inciting a riot amid tensions in Stockton California and other areas.
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United Press Labor
Lewis O. Barrows
Auburn
Committee For Industrial Organization
Powers Hapgood
New England C.I.O
C.so
Committee For
C.S.O
Hapgood
Washington
Lewis
Stockton
Cal
Harvey Odell
San Joaquin Valley
Oshawa
Ont
General Motors
Ci.o
Brooklyn Strikers Face Prison Terms in Sit Down
Sixteen workers and their union president were convicted under a rare 1881 law that criminalizes refusal to work amid a sit down at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital on March 15. Sentencing set for April 30. A 9 year old died as hospital chaos halted routine care. Defense argued the statute unconstitutional and feared its use to compel labor in future strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
U.P
Brooklyn Jewish Hospital
Faithful Mary Affirms Split With Father Divine
In New York Faithful Mary says Father Divine is just a man and not God admitting a dispute over property deeds she holds. She describes the split as serious, noting she no longer regards him as divine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Father
New York
Britain Ready for World Economic Conference
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told the house of Commons Britain is willing to participate in a world economic conference. Adolf Hitler indicated in a talk with George Lansbury that Germany would join if the proposal came from a standing governmental head such as President Roosevelt.
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London
Stanley Baldwin
House of Commons
Adolf Hitler
Germany
George Lansbury
Ceremany
Roosevelt
Gov Martin L Davey to attend Elks dinner dance
Gov Martin L Davey will attend a dinner dance in connection with the seventh annual spring conference of the Ohio Elks Association in this city Saturday night.
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Ju.r
Martin L. Davey
Ohio Elks’ Association
Two Killed in Vehicle Collision Near Findlay
Dr. Peter Mathewson a 53 year old veterinarian and Henry Basinger a 65 year old farmer both of Jenera were killed when their car was struck by a Nick Plate passenger van Wednesday night in Findlay.
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Findlay
U.P
Peter Mathewson
Henry Basinger
Jenera
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