AFL CIO leaders decry Smith anti strike bill
William Green and Philip Murray denounce the Smith anti strike bill as a threat to freedom and national defense. Murray calls for CIO affiliates to mobilize against anti strike legislation and schedules an emergency meeting and coast to coast broadcast. Senate action seeks to curb labor power amid holiday recess debate.
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William Green
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Philip Murray
CIO
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Challen
Murray
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Utah
Labor Committee
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Kilgore Proposes Unified Defense Bill for a National Dept
Sen. Kilgore of West Virginia introduces a bill to create a national department of defense coordination. It would absorb war and navy defense purchases, mobilize industrial resources, and coordinate civilian activities, with a president appointed secretary and a staff of under and assistant secretaries.
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Department of Defense Coordination and Control
Sen. Kilgore
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War and Navy Departments
Department
Senate
Labor policy debate on defense strikes and nationalization plan
A Senate group critiques the Smith bill amid calls to curb defense strikes. The committee warns against penalties that might lead to federal troops, urging a clear national policy to handle labor disputes during the war. Sen Daggar proposes a nationalization plan for vital industries to support war effort.
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Canada
Ketchum Killed Near Proctor in Prison Transfer Incident
Philip Ketchum, 20, son of Warden M E Ketchum, was killed tonight near Proctor by a convict being moved to Moundsville state penitentiary. A former Marshall College student and bus driver at the penitentiary, he had completed his junior year and was awaiting possible Army draft. Survived by his parents of Wayne.
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Wayne
Penitentiary Officials Cite Short-Term Inmates Names
From Mercer county list James W. Allen Thomas Gray Giles Withrow Frank Withrow Earl Robbit Dave Covington Elmer Ashi Keene Leon Lewis. From Wood county Nelson Reed Jesse Avon Bowen and David Frank Kiger. Penitentiary officials said most of the men were short-termers. Former Marshall student Huntinton.
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Smitherman
Nathaniel
Bus) Taylor
Henry Ceous
Charles Crawford
Phillip Wagoner
Joe Massey
John Riddle
Buford Adams Staples
Edward Roberts
Lando Raines
Jesse Webb
Robert Roberts
Mercer County
James W. Allen
Thomas Gray
Giles Withrow
Frank Withrow
Earl Robbit
Dave Covington
Elmer Ashi Keene
Leon Lewis
Wood County
Nelson Reed
Jesse Avon Bowen
David Frank Kiger
Marshall
Huntington
Churchill Leads Tories in Victory Over Labour
The article reports Winston Churchill and the Conservative party achieving a victory over the Labour opposition amid a debate on conscription and a nationalization amendment. Attlee and Morrison press the government’s war-focused policy while Atlee appeals for government support, warning a vote for change would threaten the war effort.
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Clement Richard Att Tee
Labor
Herbert Morrison
Home Secretary
Home Security
Atlee
Reds and Poles Sign Pact of Friendship and Aid
A printed treaty pledges a collective armed force to halt Hitlerite aggression and ensure a durable just peace after World War II. The document links aid for a redemptive postwar order among democratic nations and Germany’s destruction as a security aim. A baby’s christening on a flag draped table marked by a ship’s bell accompanies the ceremony aboard the British destroyer Amazon.
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Europe
Jon Ated
Amazon
Convict Seizes Gun Fatal Bus Shooting of Guards
On a bus from Raleigh to the state prison a convict grabbed a gun and killed guard Ketchum before Metz was shot again. Howard Williams and Claude Inge helped subdue him. Fowler and other inmates assisted. Ketchum died of a heart wound after the vehicle halted. Gibson, a Kanawha County escapee, is named as second offender.
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Metz
Fowler
Gibson
Claude Inge
Raleigh County
Howard Williams
Kanawha County
Sissonville
Charleston
Minister Dies at 61 in Martins Ferry
The Rev. Albert Addison Reaveley a 31 year Methodist minister died at his Martins Ferry home. A native of St Catherines Ontario he served in Bridgeport East Canton and Freeport in the Eastern Ohio conference. He is survived by brother Chad W Ketchum sister Mrs Russell Pemberton Mrs Homer Edwards and Miss Harriett Ketchum all of Wayne.
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Homer Edwards
Harriett Ketchum
Wayne
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