Steel Ends 25 Day U.S. Steel Strike After Settlement
The United Steel Workers and Republic Steel signed a settlement mirroring United States Steel terms ending a 25 day strike affecting about 60,000 workers. The deal raises average wages by 18.5 cents per hour with a $5 per ton price increase, expiring Feb 15, 1947.
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U.S. Steel
Cleveland
United Steel Workers
Republic Steel Corporation
United States Steel Corporation
Republic
United States Steel
Benjamin F. Fairless
Hopes Held For General Motors Pact
Detroit AP says mediator James F. Dewey convened GM executives led by C. E. Wilson and UAW president R. J. Thomas for talks aiming at ending the 88 day GM strike. Steel settlement seen as hastening negotiations though non wage issues remain. Ford hopes to resume normal production in two weeks while Bendix may threaten six of its 15 plants with strike action.
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United States Steel
CIO
Philip Murray
Carlton Hotel
White House
Snyder
John A. Stephens
Detroit
James F. Dewey
General Motors Corporation
United Auto Workers
Corporation
C. E. Wilson
R. J. Thomas
Dewey
United States
Thomas
Waller P. Reuther
UAW
Reuther
Ford Motor Company
Bendix Aviation Corporation
Hickenlooper Arrives For Speech in Montrose
Sen. B B Hickenlooper landed in Cedar Rapids at 8 p m for a 8 15 p m address at the Montrose hotel en route to Washington after a Lincoln day speech in Oregon. The public talk follows a 6 18 p m Republican workers dinner and a meeting of World War II veterans.
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Cedar Rapids
Sen
B. B. Hickenlooper
Montrose
Washington
Towa
Oregon
Sen. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids Plants Hopeful as Steel Strike Ends
Cedar Rapids manufacturers report adequate steel on hand and near normal operations may resume, though six to eight weeks for full mill shipments. Firms face parts shortages and risk of future delays from upstream strikes. warehouses hold emergency stock for quick relief.
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Cedar Rapids
Pork Export Quotas Expanded by Agriculture Dept
The Agriculture Department mandates federally inspected slaughterers in 37 states reserve 10 percent of weekly hog live weight for export purchases. Beginning Sunday processors must set aside this pork for government export buyers.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Bowles Urges Using Price Hikes Very Sparingly
Washington AP Chester Bowles new economic Stabilization administrator says price increases should be used very sparingly but will not block production He endorses a workable wage price policy and asserts his full authority while Snyder remains the economic boss The President says policy holds with a bulge in the old line and would resolve any disagreements between Bowles and Snyder.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Bowles
John W. Snyder
Truman
Snyder
Vatican Doubts Reds Bar Cardinal-elect
Vatican officials denied knowledge of a report that Russians refused to permit Cardinal designate Josef Mindszenty to leave Hungary for Rome. They said they did not believe the report.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Josef Mindszenty
Hungary
Rome
Russia objects to British command Polish troops in Italy
The Soviet Union urged the United Nations Security Council to address Polish troops under British command operating in Italy. Yugoslavia accused Anders Second Corps forces of near frontier aggression and propaganda activity, linking them to regional tensions and Trieste deployments.
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London
Russia
United Na
Luons Security Council
Italy
Yugoslavia
11-Nation Council
Andrei Vishinsky
Trygve Lie
Poland
Foreign Office
Security Council
Greece
Indonesia
Anders’ Army
Trieste
Japan imposes drastic economic controls to avert crisis
Tokyo reports a sweeping set of government ordinances to stabilize the currency curb black markets adjust prices and force consumer goods to market. Bank deposits are frozen with exemptions for government and financial institutions.
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Tokyo
United States
Roosevelt
Japan
Wataru Narahashi
Weather Springlike but Snow and Rain Expected
Cedar Rapids saw a brief spring feel with sun and a mild breeze peaking at 39 degrees by 2 30 p m. The weatherman warned of a drop to about 15 degrees tonight with light rain or snow possible Sunday afternoon based on 24 hour readings.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Philanthropist George J. Marott Dies at 87
Indianapolis mourns after George J. Marott an 87 year old shoe industry magnate dies Friday. He recently donated his footwear company to his employer and Butler University in a notable philanthropic gesture.
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Indianapolis
George J. Marott
Butler University
Truman Defends Pauley Nomination Amid Ickes Blast
President Truman rejects Ickes alleged attack on his integrity and says Pauley’s undersecretary of the navy nomination will not be withdrawn. He notes Forrestal first proposed Pauley and recalls Ickes praised Pauley in the past. Truman declines to say if he will run in 1948 and expects Senate confirmation.
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Washington
Truman
Harold S. Ickes
Edwin W. Pauley
Ickes
Interior
Pauley
Navy
Forrestal
Roosevelt
Wartime Petroleum Administration
Senate Naval Committee
Mr. Truman
Canada Probes leak of secret information to foreign government
Royal Canadian Mounted Police move to halt a leak of secret and confidential information. Prime Minister Mackenzie King says the data involved a foreign government but not necessarily the atomic bomb. Reconstruction Minister C. D. Howe denies atomic data disclosure. no department details disclosed.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Mackenzie King
C. D. Howe
United Press
Canada
United States
Britain
International News Service
Howe
The
Associated Press
Russia
Royal Mounted Police
S. T Wood
Mounted Police
King Friday
Mounties
Pacific Coast
Workers End Cedar Rapids Strike At LaPlant Choate Plant
The long disruption ends as 700 workers return to LaPlant Choate Manufacturing with a 15 percent wage rise under a 48 hour week. The deal retroactive to Sept 17 1945, expands with possible 40 hour week addenda and a renewed contract through April 15 1946. Officials expect full production within about two weeks.
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John Reynolds
Cedar Rapids
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
The
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
CIO
Roosevelt Hotel
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company, Inc
Jrst
Tire production steady at record levels as strike settles
The Civilian Production Administration said tire production remains at record rates. A strike at National Standards in Niles Michigan affecting 75 percent of bead wire supply was settled, preventing major cuts to tire output. For the week ending Feb 2 passenger tire production ran at 15 million, with CPA aiming for 66 million tires in 1946 versus 55 million in 1941.
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Washington
National Standards Company
Niles
Mich
CPA
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General Motors
Thomas Comment
Hickenlooper
F.D.R
F Petroleum Alde
Walter C. White
Des Moines
U. S
International Steel Settlement
Benjamin Fairless
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