Link-Belt and Union Sign One-Year Labor Pact in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids, Link-Belt Speeder Corp workers and management ratified a one-year contract with a 90-day wage reopen clause. The agreement preserves a prior 5-cent rise, allows wage talks every 90 days, and strengthens union security while liberalizing vacation. Arbitration remains voluntary after the final grievance step.
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Link-Belt Speeder Corporation
Cedar Rapids
Ross
David W. Lehti
Labor and Management
Lehti
UNO cancels spring session vote sets September meeting
London dispatch reports the United Nations General Assembly voting unanimously to cancel the planned spring session. The infant world organization will reconvene for its next meeting on September 3.
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London
INS
UNO General Assembly
World Organization
Cairo riot injures over fifty in anti-British protest
In Cairo on Saturday more than 50 Egyptian students and several police were injured as about 3,000 stormed the streets during a mass demonstration demanding immediate British troop withdrawal. Police and British military police patrolled while Fauid University hosted 5,000 attendees.
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Cairo
Britain
Egypt
Nile River
Lena Russell Pasha
Fauid University
Nile Valley
U S Rejects Soviet Claim in North Africa Trustee Move
In Washington Secretary Byrnes proposed a ten year UN trusteeship for Tripolitania and Italy’s pre war colonies Eritrea Somaliland and Cyrenaica followed by independence. The plan aligned the United States with Britain against Soviet demands for sole trusteeship in the mid Mediterranean. Byrnes did not address Soviet aims in the region.
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Washington
United States
Moscow
Tripolitania
North Africa
Byrnes
United Nations Organization
Italy
Africa
Britain
Russia
Mid- Mediterranean
India
Far East
Cyrenaica
Eritrea
Somaliland
Bowles Not Replacing Snyder In Steel Strike Talks
White House spokesman Charles G. Ross said no change in reconversion leadership is planned as talks over ending the steel strike proceed. Reports had suggested Chester Bowles might replace John W. Snyder with Porter moving to Bowles post amid wage price policy tensions.
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Washington
White House
Charles G. Ross
Ross
John W. Snyder
Chester Bowles
Truman
Snyder
Bowles
Paul Porter
Federal Communications Commission
Czechs Push UNO to Break with Franco Spain
The UN General Assembly reaffirms excluding Spain under Franco. A Czechoslovak demand wins adoption of a Franco boycott resolution offered by Panama with 45 votes in favor, Nicaragua and Salvador abstaining, four absent. The United States supported the motion but stayed quiet during debate.
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London
United Nations Assembly
UNO
Spain
Francisco Franco
Franco
Panama
Salvador
Nicaragua
United States
Kuzma V. Kiselev
Funeral Rites Held for Walter L. Cherry
Walter L. Cherry 72 longtime Cedar Rapids business leader died in Evanston Illinois Tuesday. He chaired the executive committee of Cherry Burrell Corp and led the firm as president and general manager from 1928 to 1943. Services Saturday at the funeral chapel were conducted by Reverends Robert Little and W W Argow with many civic and business leaders in attendance. Burial was at Oak Hill Cemetery. Out of town friends and Cherry Burrell acquaintances joined local officials in paying respects.
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Cedar Rapids
Walter L. Cherry
Oak Hill Cemetery
Mr. Cherry
J. W. Ladd
S. B. Berg
J. L. McIntyre
L. R. Herman
C. A. Wood
O. K. Burrows
Mabel Morgan
Esther McCreedy
Cherry - Burrell Corporation
Chicago
W. C. Hoeltje
St. Paul
Minn
R. S. Damuth
Kansas City
L. T. Brownlee
Sioux City
W. H. Hayes
Omaha
R. L. Blanke
St. Louis
Walter Maguire
New York
Roland Smith
Waukeesha
Wis
A. H. Barber
Hubbard's Wood
Ill
F. J. McCullough
Labor and Management At LaPlant To Meet
A meeting of labor and management at LaPlant Choate Manufacturing in Cedar Rapids is set for Tuesday February 12 at 10 am at the Roosevelt hotel. Attendees include W C Shuttleworth attorney for the company and Keith Churchill head of local No 116 UFEMWA. Walter C White U S commissioner of conciliation requested their attendance. UFEMWA workers at LaPlant Choate have been on strike since November 16.
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LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Cedar Rapids
U. S. Conciliation Service
Roosevelt Hotel
W. C. Shuttleworth
Keith Churchill
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
Walter C. White
Des Moines
U. S
Ufemwa
LaPlant- Choate
Weatherman Sees Mild Weekend Weather in Iowa
Warmer temperatures drifted into Iowa as Cedar Rapids expected a full warm up Sunday after a chilly Friday. By 2 30 p m the temperature was 29 degrees and forecasters predicted 10 to 15 degrees above zero for Saturday night and Sunday with the thermometer rising into the 40s.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
New York Science Editor Tells of Atomic Bombing
Walter Navin reports William H. Laurence New York Times science editor spoke to a Cornell course on atomic history and the Nagasaki and Hiroshima events. He described the bomb’s heat and destructive power, Hanford’s rise and fall, and future paths for science while avoiding political details.
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New York
MT. Vernon
William H. Laurence
Cornell College
Laurence
New York Times
United States
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Madame Curie
New Mexico
Dr. Laurence
General Shimomura Surrenders to Allied Authorities
Tokyo report says Gen. Sadashi Shimomura, linked to the execution of three Doolittle airmen, surrendered to Allied authorities on Saturday.
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Tokyo
INS
Sadashi Shimomura
Doolittle
Truman Proposes 2.7 Million New Homes in Historic Program
President Truman's housing plan seeks 2,700,000 new homes over two years with private builders to dominate construction. The measure calls for federal aid totaling about 850 million and price controls on older housing to be dropped, drawing bipartisan support though real estate boards oppose that feature.
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Washington
Truman
Capitol Hill
Wilson S. Wyatt
Congress
Rep. Wolcott
Mich
House Banking Committee
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Wyatt
Strike Ends at Western Union
In New York City Western Union Telegraph employees voted to end their month-long strike at 12:01 a.m. Monday and to withdraw all pickets. The CIO American Communications Association announced the ratification of a settlement terms were not immediately disclosed. Supreme Court Justice Aaron J. Levy noted that company and union leaders agreed to settle the walkout sparked by a National War Labor board wage decision.
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NEW York
Western Union Telegraph Company
New York City
CIO American Communications Association
Supreme Court
Aaron J. Levy
National War Labor Board
New York City clamps down on fuel oil amid tug strike
Mayor William O Dwyer froze fuel oil supplies and ordered federal operation of tugboats as strikes hit Harbor. Police blocked oil and coal shipments, stationed at tunnels and bridges, and seized an oil truck for delivery to a hospital short on fuel.
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New York
INS
William O’dwyer
O’dwyer
Marine Division
AFL International Longshoremen’s Association
Office of Defense Transportation
Churchill to Call on Truman Sunday
Washington reports that Winston Churchill will visit President Truman in Washington on Sunday. The White House says the meeting is set for 8:30 p.m. Churchill has been vacationing in Florida.
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Churchill
Truman
Washington
Winston Churchill
President Truman
White House
Florida
Vandenberg Not Out for President
London dispatch says Senator Van denberg of Michigan will not seek the 1948 GOP nomination. He declares he is sure the GOP will win and jokes that at 62 he is too old for the presidency.
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London
INS
Sen. Vandenberg
R-Mich
GOP
Cedar Rapids Retail Food Prices Rise 1.1 Percent
Retail food prices in Cedar Rapids increased 1.1 percent from November 13 to December 11 led by eggs up 1.6 percent and fresh fruits and vegetables up 1.9 percent. Sweet potatoes rose 11.9 percent onions 4.5 percent and cabbage 2.2 percent while meats beverages cereals and sugar showed small changes. Dairy fell 3.8 percent.
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C.R. Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
John B. Parrish
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chicago
Stalin outlines new five year plan and war outcomes
London AP reports Stalin in a radio address amid elections detailing a third five year plan to rebuild war torn areas and raise living standards. He calls for massive production targets in pig iron steel coal and oil, credits the soviet system, and notes the Red Army’s victories and need for material readiness to deter future crises.
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London
Stalin
Soviet Union
Russia
Supreme Soviet
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