Settlement Ends CIO Strike at International Harvester Plants
A 30,000 worker CIO strike at International Harvester, the nation's top farm equipment maker, ends after 10 days of talks in Washington. Early ratification could see workers return to 11 plants and resume production. Terms include an 18 cent hourly wage rise previously agreed, an arbitration clause, a three week annual leave for 15 year employees, and a new loss compensation provision. Company plants span Chicago area plus Rock Island East Moline Rock Falls Bettendorf YV Auburn Richmond and LaPorte, Indiana.
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CIO
International Harvester Company
Labor Department
Washington
J. I. Case Company
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Iowa
Allis-Chalmers Company
LaPorte
Ind
John W. Gibson
Chicago
Rock Island
East Moline
Rock Falls
Auburn
N, Y
Richmond
Bettendorf
Sheriff on Unfair List Ties Nash Finch Labor Row
Cedar Rapids Sheriff Jim Smith is placed on the Teamsters Local 238 unfair list for backing Nash-Finch labor actions. James D. White says a deputy invited strike breakers onto union docks, prompting a walkout and financial losses to the union. Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor may mirror the action.
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Cedar Rapids News
Linn County
Jim Smith
Teamsters Union
Nash- Finch Company
James D. White
Teamsters
White
Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor
Nash-Finch Company
Smith
R. D. Spooner
Nash Finch
Nash-Finch
No Egg Rolling Cited Amid Food Shortage Crisis
President Truman vetoed Easter egg rolling on the White House grounds due to the world food crisis. The White House said Washington should set an example in food conservation and avoid wasting eggs as the country feeds starving millions.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Nine month Draft Extension Upheld by House Committee
Washington AP reports the House Military Affairs subcommittee backed a nine month extension of the draft and a $400 yearly pay increase for all officers and enlisted men. The panel also set manpower ceilings for July 1 1947 and proposed farm youth exemptions and farm-board deferments with local draft boards final on deferrals. The Senate committee delayed its decision, but signals pointed to alignment with the House measure.
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House
Washington
House Military Affairs
House Military Committee
Congress
Senate
House Committee
Senate Military Committee
Temperatures Set To Rise In Cedar Rapids
Weather forecast predicts a warming trend starting Thursday as a weather presenter, dressed for chilly 50 degree temperatures at 2:30 pm, predicts light showers. Tuesday highs reached 55 between 2 and 4 pm, with temps 47 at 7 pm and 33 by 7 am Wednesday.
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Ceder Rapids
Chambers
Falls 15 Floors Back Is Wrenched
Chicago scene reports James Anderson, 29, fell from a Dearborn hotel scaffold on the thirteenth floor. A rope swung by partner Phil Walsh, 53, looped about Anderson as he passed eight floors, allowing a dangerous descent to the third floor before he struck ground. Doctors said only a wrenching of the back occurred.
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Chicago
James Anderson
Dearborn
Anderson
Phil Walsh
Walsch
St. Luke’s Hospital
Traffic Regulations Following Fire Apparatus
The driver of any vehicle not on official business shall not follow a fire apparatus closer than 500 feet or drive into or park within the block where the fire apparatus has stopped in response to a fire alarm. This is the fifteenth city traffic ordinance in the series.
Quaker Oats Idle as CIO Union Meets
The Quaker Oats Cedar Rapids plant the world’s largest cereal mill stood idle Wednesday as about 700 union workers joined “continuous meetings” with a 4 p.m. climax planned. CIO Local 110 said the action was sympathy for Akron protests after a night watchman dismissal. No strike was declared.
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Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
Wes Kopecky
United Cereal Workers (Cio
Quaker Oats Walkout Expands Across Midwestern Plants
Nearly two thousand workers at Quaker Oats Cedar Rapids and St Joseph plants walked out in solidarity with Akron unionists. The stoppage, linked to a CIO walkout by 700 Akron workers, has shut all company facilities. Cedar Rapids claims to be the world’s largest cereal producer. The labor action began last Wednesday with 30 Akron feed department workers leaving, and continued through midnight.
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Quaker Oats
Akron
Ohio
Akron, Ohio
Quaker Oats Company
Cedar Rapids
St.Joseph
CIO
St. Joseph
Man Sues for Divorce After Wrongful Hospitalization
Frank Krall, 61, sues Ella C. Krall for divorce claiming she had him committed to the state hospital as an inebriate. He says the Linn county insanity board confined him Jan 16 after her charges, was paroled April 3 on Dr. Stewart’s recommendation, and that she sought guardianship March 6 accusing him of spendthrift and infidelity.
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Rina Dorheim
State Hospital
Frank Krall
Ella C. Krall
Third Street NW
Krall
Independence
R. A. Stewart
Linn County Insanity Board
W. A. Glassgow
Cedar Rapids
R. F. Keech
Arthur Axmear
Axmear
Kraill
Linn Board
State Board of Control
Stewart
Mrs Roosevelt Shuns Politics for 1946 Fall
Washington sources report Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt will not enter politics this year. Democratic leaders hoped she would back a 1946 state ticket with her as U S Senate candidate and Mead for governor. She refused, saying she would not be involved this fall and urged no Roosevelt in politics this year. The move comes as family mourning for the late President continues and contrasts with son James Roosevelt who has been active in California politics.
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William K. Hutchinson
Washington
INS
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Roosevelt
United States Senate
James M. Mead
Roosevelts
James
Democratic State Central Committee
California
William F. Knowland
Independent Citizens Committee of
As Arts, Sciences and Professions
Wheat Crop Outlook Good for 1946 Winter Wheat
Washington reports the agriculture department forecasts a winter wheat crop of 830.6 million bushels for 1946, up from 823.2 million last year. If spring wheat surpasses 1945, total U.S. wheat production could exceed one billion bushels for the third straight year, easing international food strains. The winter estimate surpasses the prior December forecast of 750.7 million.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Iowa corn stocks fall to lowest since 1937
Iowa corn reserves on April 1 were 201,010,000 bushels, down 28 percent from a year earlier and the lowest for this season since 1937, according to AP reporting from Des Moines.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Senate Group Backs British Loan 14 to 5
The Senate Banking Committee approved a 3.75 billion dollar British loan by a 14 to 5 vote to send it to the floor for debate. Senator Barkley announced the plan after a closed meeting, predicting passage by a substantial majority.
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Senate Group
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Barkley
D-Ky
Senate
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Great Britain
United States
Taft
Cape~hart
Britain
Capehart
Glass
D-Va
Bankhead
D-Ala
Radcliffe
Dmd
Capper
Capeart
Millikin
R-Colo
Trucker Union Seeks Dissolution of Injunction
The Teamsters union in Cedar Rapids filed a district court motion to dissolve injunctions tied to its strike against Nash-Finch. Union officials admit a boycott and picketing while claiming lawful conduct within constitutional rights. Judge Thompson set April 12 for the hearing.
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Cedar Rapids News
Teamsters Union
Nash-Finch Company
Cedar Rapids
AFL
James White
Nash- Finch
G. K. Thompson
Nash-Finch
Wallace Denies He Asked Purge
Wallace rejects claiming he called for a purge and says he favors a two party system. He spoke before the Women's Democratic club about party discipline and urged self discipline for members who vote against leadership on major issues. He testified at a Senate interstate commerce committee hearing and defended past discussions with President Roosevelt.
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Washington
Wallace
Roosevelt
Women's Democratic Club
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Sen
Reed
Senate votes 41-33 to cut price controls from housing bill
The Senate rejected a Revercomb amendment to limit ceilings to rentals and new construction, striking from the veterans emergency housing bill a provision to cap existing homes and lots at resale. Administration opposition cited inflation fears. Republicans argued it infringed property rights. Differences with the House will go to a joint committee.
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Washington
Senate
Veterans Emergency Housing
Sen
Revercomb
R-V.va
House
Sen. Hickenlooper
R-Ia
Capehart
R-Ind
Wherry
R-Neb
Sen. Barkley
D-Ky
Overton
American Federation of Labor
Iowa Senators Back Amendments To Veterans Housing Bill
Washington AP reports Iowa's two Republican senators supported amendments to strike a provision that would guarantee a market for 200 000 prefabricated homes and a building material subsidy from the veterans housing bill.
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Washington
Iowa
Veterans Housing
Washington High Considered for Housing Project
Civic leaders discussed converting the old Washington high school building, being razed, into 104 fire resistant apartments. Architect C B Zalesky said plans were drawn in 1938 but acquisition by Carleton Beh stalled. Conversion cost then was about 200000 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Washington High School
All-Veterans Housing Committee
C. B. Zalesky
Zalesky
Carleton Beh
Des Moines
Cedar’ Rapids
Zaleszky
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Arthur Poe
Poe
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