General Motors offers 10 cent pay raise to unions
GM proposed a temporary 10 cent hourly raise for 265 000 hourly workers subject to renegotiation next August. UAW pressed for 23 1/2 to 24 cent raise for 220 000 GM workers and filed a 30 day strike notice against Chrysler. Rubber and electrical unions seek substantial increases.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
CIO
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler
Walter P. Reuther
UAW
Washington
Russell Nixon
United Electrical Workers
United Rubber Workers
H. W. Anderson
Ford Motor Company
Iowa Retail Sales Exceed Records in 1946 Year
Des Moines AP reports Iowa retail sales hit 1.758 billion dollars in 1946 with 35.167 million in sales tax collected. Collections rose nearly 10 million over 1945. The number of retail firms ended the year at 662,330, more than 6,000 above 1945.
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DES Moines
Lincoln Bus Strike Ends With 12 Cent Raise
Lincoln City Lines drivers and shopmen end a four day strike after accepting a 12 cent hourly increase across the board. Top drivers will earn $1 per hour plus a future pension contribution. About 103 workers affected. union sought 30 to 22 cents more.
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Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln City Lines
National City Lines
Food Groups Back Move To Lower Prices
The National Association of Retail Grocers urged President Truman to push suppliers to lower food prices to reasonable levels. Patsy D Agostino led calls for round table talks with retailers and suppliers to curb rising costs. Meat dealers and the American Meat Institute noted efforts to keep meat prices down amid record beef production and signaling price reductions.
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Chicago
National Association of Retail Grocers
Truman
National Association of Retail Meat Dealers
American Meat Institute
Patsy D’agostino
New York
NARG
Chrysler Hit By 30 Day UAW Strike Notice
Walter Reuther announced the CIO United Auto Workers filed a 30 day strike notice with Chrysler in wage talks. The notice covers about two days earlier and would expire in roughly 28 days, potentially enabling a strike under the War Labor Disputes Act. No notices yet filed for General Motors or Ford.
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Washington
Walter Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Chrysler Corporation
Reuther
UAW
Chrysler
General Motors
Ford
Marshall Dances With Russian Operator to Open Army Week
Secretary of State George C. Marshall attended a United States enlisted men's dance in Moscow opening Army week. He danced with Irene Petrovna, a blonde telephone operator at the American embassy, then with 15 year old Ann Shepherd daughter of Col. and Mrs. Charles Shepherd.
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Moscow
George C. Marshall
United States
U. S
Marshall
Irene Petrovna
Mr. Marshall
Ann Shepherd
Charles Shepherd
Miss Shepherd
Big 4 To Tackle 40 Year Pact Plan
MOSCOW AP reports foreign ministers agreed to take up on Monday the American proposal for a 40 year four power pact against Germany. They will also return some German issues to Berlin deputies and the Allied Control Council for discussion at a later date. This signals a possible final deadlock at the Moscow conference.
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Moscow
Germany
Allied Control Council
Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Twelve Belgian Nazis Executed by Gun Fire
In Brussels twelve Belgian Nazis accused of torturing and murdering concentration camp inmates were executed by gunfire on Saturday. The defendants faced charges of brutal crimes against Allied captives and collaboration with the enemy during World War II.
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Brussels
INS
Belgium
Lewis Reopens Mines Amid Shift to Normal Coal Output
John L. Lewis authorized reopening of coal mines where safe conditions are found, signaling a move toward near normal production. About 176,000 miners were at work in 1,569 bituminous mines, with daily output near 1.325 million tons, while union finances and court fines linger unresolved.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers District
Lewis
Centralia
Ill
Federal District Court
Coal Mines Administration
Act To Avert Milk Strike
U S Conciliator Howard Plank asked Chicago milk companies and dairy unions to meet Tuesday to avert a possible milk strike. The Associated Milk Dealers of Chicago face stalemated negotiations with Local 754 of the Dairy Employes Union, which has filed a strike notice in Washington. The union seeks a $5 weekly wage increase and a five day work week.
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Chicago
U. S
Howard Plank
Thomas B. Gilmore
Associated Milk Dealers of
Washington
National telephone strike stalemate over bargaining scope
Washington reports the six day old nationwide strike remains deadlocked over whether bargaining should cover all NFTW affiliates or only the long lines division of AT&T. AT&T rejects open negotiations and labor officials push for a new formula to resume talks. No progress expected over the weekend.
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Washington
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Labor Department
Long Lines
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Ind
Bell System
Western Eleca Co
A. T
Secretary of
Labor
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
NFTW
Joseph A. Beirne
Schwellenbach
Long Lines Union
Akin
Overland Greyhound Strike Postponed
Lincoln Nebraska AFL leader announces postponement of a 1100 worker strike across 13 states on the Overland Greyhound lines. The walkout had been set for April 18. Union seeks a $125 monthly pension and a disability plan.
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Lincoln
Neb
INS
F. C. Powers
Afl-Interstate Transit Division
Overland Greyhound Bus Lines
Truman marks third year in office with visit to mother
President Truman arrives in Kansas City to visit his bed-ridden mother Martha E. Truman, reflect on crises, and broadcast Roosevelt memorial remarks. He consults doctors, dismisses talk of a telephone strike, and notes his strengthened political position amid ongoing labor and inflation concerns.
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Associated Press
Margaret Truman
Grandview
Washington
Martha E. Truman
Kansas City
Truman
White House
Jackson County
Grandview Airport
Grandview Cafe
Muehlbach
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wallace Graham
San Antonio
Mr. Truman
Charles G. Ross
Wallace
Missouri
Russia
Byrnes
Commerce
Wallace denounces Truman policy in London tour comments
Henry A Wallace denounced Truman imperialism in London and Manchester speeches while denying plans for a new party. He urged UN support and warned of a potential third world war if Truman policy persists, drawing sharp criticism from Manchester Guardian and London Times.
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London
INL
Henry A.wallace
Truman
Wallace
Manchester Guardian
London Times
Britain
U.S. Commerce
Manchester
Russia
Friday Wallace
Demonstration to Protest New Jersey Anti-Strike Law
One million CIO AFL and independent union members plan a one day work stoppage this week in protest of New Jersey publicity utility anti strike law. The action follows Gov Alfred E Driscoll ordering 14000 telephone strikers back to work or face penalties. The joint committee will meet in Trenton to announce detailed strategy.
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Newark
N. J
CIO
AFL
New Jersey
Alfred E. Driscoll
Trenton
Lewis Herr
Price Cuts Urged By Exchange Head
Emil Schram president of the New York Stock Exchange urged voluntary action to avoid price deflation and called for cooperation from government business labor and farmers to lower prices and boost production. Schram, honored by the Sons of Indiana, stressed free markets and lifting living standards through more and better goods.
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NEW York
Emil Sehram
New York Stock Exchange
Carl C. Helm
Schram
Peru
Ind
Mayor O'Dwyer orders citywide smallpox vaccination drive
New York Mayor William O'Dwyer announced a citywide program to vaccinate every resident against smallpox within the next three weeks. The plan, disclosed late Saturday, aims to curb a potential outbreak and mobilizes city health services for mass vaccination.
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New York
William O’dwyer
Britain Speeches Stir US Debate Over Wallace Attacks
Senator Vandenberg urged President Truman to answer Henry Wallace’s abroad criticisms of US policy in Greece and Turkey. Democratic and Republican leaders debated Wallace’s stance and the need for White House repudiation while Wallace campaigns in Manchester asserting anti communism plans.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Mich
Henry A. Wallace
England
Truman
White House
Wallace
United States
Greece
Turkey
Senate
Michigan
Middle East
Manchester
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
Glen H. Taylor
D-Ida
Luciano Ciano Returns to Italian Jail in Deportation Case
Genoa Italy Charles Lucky Ciano once a New York vice lord known as the boomerang was taken off a deportation ship by 10 police and jailed at Marassi. He will await transfer to Palermo Sicily for an inquiry into his clandestine departure to Cuba after a 1936 pandering conviction and partial prison term.
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Italy
Charles “Lucky” Ciano
Tive Land
New York
Marassi
Palermo
Sicily
Cuba
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