Auto Workers Strike at GM Amid Wage Demands and Nazi Trial Opens
The CIO UAW mass walkout at General Motors over a 30 percent postwar pay rise tests industry stability as Chrysler and Ford wage talks continue. Separately U S Prosecutor Robert H Jackson opened the Nazi leadership trial, detailing Goering’s challenge to Allied court authority and outlining the rise of the Nazi state through arrests, purges, and labor suppression.
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CIO
United Automobile Workers
General Motors Corporation
John W. Gibson
G.M
UAW
Ford
Chrysler
OPA
U. S
Robert H. Jackson
Hitler
Germany
Jackson
Marshal Goering
Goering
Admiral Richardson Reveals Roosevelt Hawaii Aide Pearl Harbor Views
Admiral James O Richardson testifies in early Pearl Harbor hearings that President Roosevelt favored basing the Pacific fleet at Hawaii to restrain Japan while warning a military government would know the fleet was undermanned and unprepared He lists concerns over supply transport security berthing and space and notes a 1941 conference on a blockade plan from Hawaii to the Philippines and beyond that was dropped after Japan took no action
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Pearl Harbor
Big, Bluff
James O. Richardson
U. S. Navy
Roosevelt
Hawaii
Richardson
Japan
U. S
Thailand
Dutch East Indies
Malaya
Philippines
Navy
Knox
Burma
China
Samoa
Warn Against Postwar Credit Boom Dangers Seen
A Northwestern National Life Insurance report warns postwar boom risks rise if installment credit expands excessively. With heavy demand and over 100 billion dollars in consumer savings, liberal credit could fuel dangerous excesses. Total consumer credit hit 9.5 billion dollars in fall 1941, about 6 billion being installment credit. Wartime credit regulations and followed by unspecified measures.
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Family Economics Bureau
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
Bishops Call for Peacetime Training and Fair Play to Avert World War III
The U S Catholic hierarchy endorses compulsory peacetime training and urges realistic handling of East West differences to prevent atomic conflict. They criticize European policy post Moscow 1943 for Russia imposing domination on neighbors and call for support for overseas relief and rejection of mass vengeance, population transfers, slave labor, and mistreatment of POWs.
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U. S
Russia
Air Accidents Dangerous Trend Warns Of Crashes
Col. George C. Price of the Army Air Forces warns of a rising civilian crash toll as 70 percent more accidents occur since V J Day through October 31. With 300000 planes in the air over five years, he projects about 48000 serious crashes and 5000 fatalities annually in the early 1950s. He notes wartime losses were heavy but peacetime rates remain high. The AAF offers safety data to civilian agencies to reduce hazards.
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Army Air Forces
George C. Price
Office of Flying Safety
AAF
Price
Productivity Rise and Employment Stagnation in 40 Years
The National Bureau of Economic Research reports that production in agriculture manufacturing and public utilities rose while manpower per unit fell by 50 percent in the 40 years ending 1939. Total industry output grew 200 percent with only 75 percent more workers, a disparity the bureau says masks improved product quality.
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National Bureau of Economic Research
American Legion Ends 27th Convention With Policy Stance
The American Legion wrapped its 27th annual convention in Chicago with demands for compulsory military training for youth, civilian control of atomic research, aid to allied nations, and unification of armed forces. Other notes include new WWII veterans honored as vice commanders and discussions on postwar German population shifts and textile innovations.
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Chicago
Ill
American Legion
Army
Navy
John Stelle
Illinois
The
Legion
Fred LaBoon
Chickasha
Okla
Dudley Swim
Twin Falls
Idaho
UNRRA Funding Seen As Test Of World Co operation
Washington columnist weighs UNRRA 500 million appropriation and its fate in Congress. He notes isolationist pressures and the bill as a bellwether for not only Europe relief but US world role. He cites past delivery delays, praise for food shipments, and warns that failure risks totalitarian drift.
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Washington
London
Russia
Far East
Europe
UNRRA
Congress
U. S
United States
World Organization
Food Board
Barbs and Bugs: New Tiny Cars and Laster Strikes
The piece notes three wheeled tear drop cars powered by airplane engines heading to market around a thousand dollars with more use for DDT. It cites 800 lasters in 26 shoe factories on strike and questions how long a laster lasts. It mentions the Justice Department holding over 97 million fingerprint cards including the speaker’s, and rubber makers predicting revolutions in sports wear curtains and wall coverings with new water and oil resistant coatings.
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Rudolph Hess
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Nuernberg
Star Witness
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Admiral Richardson
Reich
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Hungary
East Prussia
Winston Churchill
Science Today
American Chemical Society Journal
Washington Digest
Allied Relief Agency
Baukhage
WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
Bankhage
Laster
Department of Justice
DeWitt Chevrolet Co
15Th
Kansas City
Stover Candies
Missouri
O. L. Stroman
Mission
Tex
Branson
C. O
Jewel Optical
Pickwick Ridg
ex-Marine
L. Burton
Kans
Farm Machinery & Equip
Schenkelberg Mfg. Co., Inc
P. O
Omaha
Neb
Otto Huffman Paola, Kans
John Ackeret
Kansas
L. G. la Miller
Falcon, Mo
Chas. Hudson
Harrison, Ark
Route 1
Ozark Farm
Salem
Black Top
Daily Mail
E. W. Vogel
Home Furnishings & Appli
Etzner mM Stove Repair CO
Kansas City 6
Q. Bunch
Welch
Minnesota
Auman Pigeon Lofts
High Street
Galena
K.O
27Th St
N. Pritikin & CO. Dept
Aberdeen St
Wahlert & Guntzler
Saint Louis
Clark Kennels
E. 15Th
Galva Creamery Company
C.O.D
Clockman
Kirksville, Mo
WNU
Dean
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