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Charleston Gazette

Location

Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 01, 1944

Page

10

17 000 Strikers Grip War Plants in 1944 Dayton WV area

The Charleston Gazette reports widespread strikes at multiple war plants. In Buffalo 2 500 Houdaille Hershey workers return amid wage deduction protests. 1 700 join. Ashland Kentucky sees 2 400 United Steelworkers walkout halted. Detroit GM plants idle with 7 000 workers. Granite City Illinois and Roebling plants report layoffs as wage and pay disputes continue.

The Charleston Gazette Associated Press Buffalo Houdaille-Hershey Cocpa Houde Engineering United Steelworkers Union CSO Ashland Shell Clayton Manufacturing Co Nick Conley Detroit Chevrolet Gear & Axle Division General Motors Corp Pratt & Whitney United Automobile Workers (Cio Granite City General Steel Castings Co Commonwealth John A. Roebling’s Sons & Co Hoebling N. J Trenton Anaconda

Obituary notices for Callaway and several Charleston deaths

Obituaries note the death of Simon Whitfield Callaway 53 at home in Garten and services at Mt Zion Baptist Church Wolf Creek with burial at Pierce cemetery. Surviving are sons Beaver Sam Willie. five daughters and a brother. Also listed are deaths of Mrs Burma Williams of Charleston, Mrs Mary D Draper 76, Dr Cecil B Ford of Peoria and Mrs Emile Zola Holbrook 38, with service details. Additional brief notices cover Marguerite Le Hand, Rev Newton Anderson, Charles Ambrose.

Simon W. Callaway Simon Whitfield Callaway Garter Mt Zion Baptist Church Wolf Creek H.R. Williams Pierce Cemetery Dodd Mortuary Beaver Sam Garten Willie Huntington Callie Painter Fayetteville Ella Leach Minnie Shipp Mae Callaway Alice Barksdale Atlantic City N. J Willie Callaway Affinity Mary D. Dranet Mary Dannally Draper Tackson Barlow Chapel J. Moody McNab Spring Hill Cemetery Andy V. Brawley Brown Truslow Harry Kemp Hugh Draper John Donachy Vincent Rogers Cecil B. Ford Cecil Bruce Ford Peoria George W. Ford Charleston Tate Maj. Ford Vera Ford Powell Emile Zola Holbrook Rayford Charleston ‘Hospital Pryor Mortuary Ast Bank Greene Holbrook James L. Freeman

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