Lewis and Murray Clash Over Wage Bargaining Limits
Washington United Mine Workers leader John L Lewis said he would not back a CIO resolution to bargain within Truman wage price policy. CIO chief Philip Murray defended the plan amid a heated exchange at a labor management conference executive committee session.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Truman
Lewis
CIO
Philip Murray
Labor-Management Conference
Fred C. Smith
Murray
Mr. Truman
Eric Johnston
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Ira Mosher
National Association of Manufacturers
Not Gagged Pearl Harbor Witness Faces Inquiries
Washington observers report Capt. Alwin D. Kramer asked questions from Reps Gearhart and Keefe about the winds code and wartime messages. Kramer denied being held incommunicado at Bethesda Naval Hospital and said he could testify fully after discharge.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Alwin D. Kramer
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Kramer
Naval Operations
Gearhart
R-Wis
Japan
United States
Keefe
Robert E. Duncan
Labor Conference Endorses Collective Bargaining Principles
Washington group reports all six conference working committees fully endorse the principles of collective bargaining as stated by Labor Management Conference Secretary George W. Taylor on Friday.
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Washington
Llp
Labor Management Conference
George W. Taylor
Labor conflict over price and wage controls at conference
Murray accuses United States Steel of arrogance for refusing to resume bargaining as CIO seeks support for a price and wage limit resolution. Lewis and AFL President Green oppose the move arguing for free enterprise and unrestricted bargaining. Lewis cites wage comparisons between American and British miners to explain price differences.
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Lewis
Murray
United States Steel Corporation
AFL
William Green
Great Britain
United States
Britain
Attlee Heads to U.S. for Parley Air Travel
Prime Minister Clement Attlee departed London in a C 54 Skymaster at 6 35 p m Friday for the United States, according to No 10 Downing Street.
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London
Clement Attlee
United States
No. 10 Downing Street
Committee To Vote Tuesday On Youth Drill
Washington US March 1945 report on the house military affairs committee to vote Tuesday on a Republican plan to delay action on universal military training for youths. Rep Short led a postponement bid, but Rep Kilday blocked a vote on a technicality while May pledged a first‑thing Tuesday vote.
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Washington
House Military Affairs Committee
Truman
May
D.ky
Rep. Short
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Short
Rep
Kilday
Texas
House
G.O.P
Iowa's Oldest Mason Walter E Hunt Dies at 94
Fayette Iowa Walter E Hunt 94 believed Iowa's oldest Mason died after a brief illness. He was honored by the lodge with a special booklet praising his work in Free Masonry.
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Fayette
Walter E. Hunt
Iowa
Hunt
Thhe Lodge
Army Seeks to Identify 22 000 Unknown G I Dead
Paris reports the United States Army is intensifying efforts to locate and identify 22,000 American soldiers buried in nameless graves from Normandy to Berlin. Graves Registration Service teams work to name the fallen, many found in foxholes or unofficial graves, with 3,362 currently unidentified among 37 European cemeteries.
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Paris
United States Army
Normandy
Berlin
America
United States Graves Registration Service
Marne
Ardennes
Anzio
Appenines
Italy
United States
Chheck
France
Belgium
England
Ireland
Holland
Luxembourg
Cold Wave Grips Iowa As Snow Hits Midwest
Winter storm sweeps from Canada dropping temperatures across Iowa with lows near 10 to 21 degrees and snow totals up to an inch in the northwest. Cedar Rapids reports 1.94 inches of rain through Thursday while cities like Glasgow Montana see 19 below zero and Calgary records 24 below. The forecast calls for continued cold through Saturday with possible rain or snow Sunday and a new cold wave early next week.
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Cedar Rapid News
Midwest
Chicago Weather Bureau
Iowa
Spencer
Estherville
Spirit Lake
Sioux City
Knoxville
Des Moines
Monroe
Dubuque
Fort Dodge
Mason City
Decorah
Atlantic
Charles City
Marshalltown
United States
Glasgow
Mont
Montana
Dakota
Canada
Calgary
Laredo
Texas
Chicago
Lakes
New England
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Upper Plain
Pembina
N. D
Mercury
Chambers-Inskeep
Iowa City
Albia
Iowa Weather Bureau
Bellm Slashes Wrists in Slaying Case in Michigan Jail
In Pontiac Michigan sheriff said Edward Bellm awaiting questioning in the murder of Alberta Rose Young slashed his wrists while alone in the county jail. He was rushed to a hospital in serious condition after the self harm while authorities pursued leads linking Mrs Young's finances to a coworker Lawrence J Theis who had an apparent alibi after being extradited from New York.
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Pontiac, Mich
Edward K. Thomas
Edward Bellm
Alberta Rose Young
Bellm
Coe on Parade for Its Grads
On Friday the Coe college campus revived a prewar spirit as students paraded in a Homecoming display through the loop. Floats mocked Cornell with lines like Here lies Cornell and We have Cornell in the hole, reflecting hope that Cornell’s status might fall after the weekend.
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Jack Illian
Coe College
Coe
Cornell
Big Test As Chinese Nationalists Clash With Communists Near Great Wall
American-transported nationalist troops have moved to battle positions near Shanhaikwan as fighting with Communists builds along the Great Wall eastern flank. Marines and U S forces hold strategic posts while tensions rise but full-scale war has not yet erupted.
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Chinwangtao
China
Great Wall
North China
Manchuria
Shanhaikwan
Gulf of
Chihli
United States
Daniel Barbey
Chiang Kai-shek
Wedemeyer Faces New China Civil War Clash
In Chongqing Lt Gen Albert C Wedemeyer returning from Washington denies US intervention in China's civil war while acknowledging minor skirmishes by his troops. Communist New China Daily News claims bloodless intervention and accuses US forces of spearheading nationalist advances. Washington calls rumors of 3000 planes false.
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Chungking
Albert C. Wedemeyer
China
Washington
United States
Wedemeyer
New China Daily News
Shanghai
Richard Cushing
North
Daily News
Communist
Daily Worker
New York
State Department
American sergeant quotes Zhukov on postwar plans at Berlin reception
Philadelphia sergeant Harold Kempner reports Zhukov said Allied occupation could finish in under ten years if Germans cooperate. Zhukov expressed desire to visit the United States, offered views on social ties between Allied soldiers, and urged messaging to American troops as World War II ends.
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Berlin
G. K. Zhukov
Germany
Harold Kempner
Philadelphia
Grooper
Kempner
Zhukov
Eisenhower
Russia
Lithuania
United States
Eisenhower to Testify in United States on Consolidation Plan
Gen. Eisenhower will leave Franfurt for the United States to testify before congressional committees. He is expected to support Gen. Marshall’s plan to unify the army navy and air forces into a single defense department. He will return to Europe by November 23 for a farewell to his European command before becoming army chief of staff.
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Franifurt
Germany
Eisenhower
United States
George C. Marshall
Army
Navy
Air Forces
Defense Department
Europe
Marshall
Eisenhower Arrival at Logan Airport Planned
General Eisenhower is set to land at Logan International Airport in East Boston from Frankfurt, Germany at 1 p.m. Monday, weather permitting.
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Boston
Eisenhower
Logan International Airport
Frankfurt
Germany
Keenan Named to Jap Trials Post
Gen Douglas MacArthur named Joseph B Keenan former assistant US attorney general as counsel for the Allied powers in trials of accused Japanese war criminals. MacArthur also disclosed plans to arrest 300 more suspects and ordered Japan to deliver them to Omori prison Yokohama at the earliest practicable date.
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Tokyo
INS
Joseph B. Keenan
United States
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
11Th Army Corps
Omori
Yokohama
Auto Unionists Level Unfair Labor Practices Charge at GM
The UAW-CIO accuses General Motors of unfair labor practices under the Wagner Act and seeks government mediation in the wage dispute. Walter P. Reuther says GM refuses to discuss ability to pay profits and price, and that bargaining in good faith is required. Government conciliation assistance is requested.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
Frank H. Bowen
National Labor Relations Board
Walter P. Reuther
Uaw-Cio
Reuther
General.Motors
Edgar L. Warren
U. S. Conciliation Service
Truman Signs $1x Billion Tax Cut For 1946
President Truman signed a broad 1946 tax cut totaling 5.92 billion dollars. The measure lowers individual taxes, excludes 12 million people from the tax rolls, and trims business levies by 3.136 billion. It also repeals the $5 use tax on autos and boats and freezes the social security levy at 1 percent for 1946.
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Truman
Washington
White House
Mr. Truman
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Treasury
Kisses in Lieu of Rent Irk Chicago Landlady
Mrs Cele Siegel told Municipal Judge Leon Edelman five men tenants kissed her to avoid rent payments. Walter Mack, 42, denied nothing and was fined $2 for each of the five kisses. An evicted tenant had previously faced similar conduct.
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Chicago
Cele Siegel
Leon Edelman
Mack
German Marshal Mackensen Dies
Field Marshal August von Mackensen died at 96 at his Celle estate in Germany. Once a leading eastern Front commander and close adviser to Kaiser Wilhelm he joined the Nazi movement early and aligned with Hitler. He resigned from Stahlhelm in 1935 after Goebbels attacked its leadership. Three months later Hitler awarded him a country estate.
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August von Mackensen
Celle
Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm
Hitler
Stahlhelm
Goebbels
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