Three Day Work Week Reported to Keep Pits Open
John L. Lewis reportedly offered a three day work week to keep mines open while new contracts are negotiated. The plan would affect about 480,000 miners as the annual vacation ends, signaling a shift from the usual no-work policy. Negotiations involve soft coal operators with major talks in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia amid broader industry disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Potley
UAW
Lewis
Lewit
Pittsburgh
George H. Love
Tope Unseats Waters for Young Republicans Chair
In Salt Lake City on June 28 John Tope of Michigan won the Young Republicans chair over California’s Laughlin B. Waters by 222 to 208 on the first ballot. Waters’ camp challenged the tally arguing Tope did not reach the 226 ballots claimed as majority. Jon Bartlett carried only West Virginia’s lone vote and Philip Willkie received none. Tope’s victory followed a heated convention clash.
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Salt Lake City
John Tope
Young Republicans
Huré
Tope
Dark Horse
Laughlin B. Waters
California
Tape
Gordon Allen
Colorado
Elections Committee
Waters
Bet Tap
Bartlett Gete
Jon Bartlett
West
Irnia
Philip Willkie
Wendell
Willkie
Cal
Sunday Features In The State News Pages Delivers Local Interest
The Charleston Gazette The State Newspaper highlights Sunday features with local and statewide interest. Articles cover Morris Harvey football prospects Saint Marys Centennial preparations and a carnival split exit. Readable photos accompany the Amateur Snapshot listings and science features on page 32.
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Nicholas County
West
Virginia
Tcc
BAEC
Wises
Gues Rage
St. Marys
Charleston
Federal Controls Die or Wine As Fiscal Year Nears Its End
Federal controls are expiring as the 1949 fiscal year ends, with price drops and shortages noted. Provisions include credit controls on consumer installment buying and anti inflation measures, while controls on tin, fats, oils, and rice may continue or be renewed. The War Assets Administration faces possible abolition or transition to a new General Services Agency, as Congress weighs reorganization and funding.
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Washington
U. S
Dingree
Selective Service
Senate
House
War Assets Administration
Congress
General Services Agency
WAA
CIO to Push Working Plan for Relief Legislation
CIO President F Murray urged quick action on a seven point relief program to curb rising unemployment. He called on national unions to press the White House and lawmakers for higher unemployment benefits, expanded public assistance, tax relief for low income groups, and immediate public works spending including pedestrian projects.
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Murray
Washington
INS
CIO
F Murray Todey
Au National Cio
Vineman
Approaches Fail on Hawai Strike
Honolulu June 25 The 2000 CIO Longshoremen and Warehousemen strike continued with three proposed angles failing to bridge the gap. Workers seek raises from 40 to 173 per hour while employers offered a one cent increase then walked away, as a state board nears its next report and Farrington pushes negotiations with Hawaii's legislature.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Ree
CIO International Longshoremen
Awa
Man Leaves Tots On Lonely Island For 24 Hours
In Syracuse on June 3 a five year old girl and her three year old brother described spending 24 hours on a small uninhabited island in the Seneca river. The children Peggy and Patrick Fr were found on the mosquito-nest island and brought to Syracuse by deputies. Their father Donald Frazier, 31, surrendered to deputies at his home and is being held for questioning.
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Lonely Island
Syracuse
Seneca River
Peggy
Patrick
Syracweer
Will
Donald Frazier
Joseph Tal
U S Unions Back World Federation Forming Anti Communist Body
In Geneva American labor leaders backed a new anti Communist world federation, with APL and CIO support. George Meany announced the move as a rival World Federation of Trade Unions meeting in Milan continued, signaling a split with the Communist dominated group.
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Geneva
APL
CIO
World Ister
Milan
World Federation of Trade Unions
George Meany
James Carey
Union
Equipment Union Fights To Keep CIO Charter
Chicago June 25 The executive board of the left wing Farm Equipment Workers union vows to remain in the CIO James Murray president of the CIO would seek to revoke the charter of the FH and any other unions not following CIO policy The Perm Equipment W has defied the CIO board by resisting merger with the CIO United Auto Workers and asks CIO to promote unity on two fronts
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Thelupecutive Board
CIO
Farm Equipment Workers Union
James Philip Murray
Cleveland
Thas
CIO Pe
Perm
Snard
United Auto Workers
Coonskin Park Drive Proves Slow in Kanawha County
Kanawha County taxpayers await a $200,000 park project near Charleston as two years pass since a bond issue vote. Citizens seek outdoor recreation while the site remains undeveloped amid heat and public questions about progress.
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Kanawha
Charleston
Kanawha Ca
Watt Powell
Senators
House panel urges iron fist program against foreign-born communists
The House Un American Activities Committee approved a plan to bar foreign born communists from the United States, strip alien communists of citizenship, deport them, tighten surveillance on fund drives, and enforce the Livinov agree ment to curb Soviet influence. The report cites the American Slav Congress as a purported front and calls for prosecutions of subversive groups and closer monitoring of Slavic Americans in industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
House un-American Activities Committee
Inj
Congressional
American Slav Congress
Clark
Russia
United States
Asky Bari
Allen Reis
Red Underground
Actioviz
Livinov
Ruissiz
Sat
Blockade Poses Puzzle in China
Washington reports Nationalist forces seal off Chinese waters north of Foochow forbidding entry to foreign ships while avoiding a formal declaration of war. The move risks provoking international tension as 1,000 Americans remain in Shanghai with properties at stake. fate of the city draws State Department concern.
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Washington
China
United’ S States
Caxton
Foochow
Tate
Masi
Shanghai
State Department
Test Turn Regulations Cause Westbound Delays
A garbled report from Kanawha Biya describes drivers ignoring turn rules on Capital Street and at the Union building. An Westbound driver blocked traffic for several blocks while waiting to left into the city levee parking lot, highlighting a lack of enforcement and driver courtesy in the area.
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Capial St
Union
Western Allied set deadline for Berlin strike end
Berlin authorities demand 15,900 anti Communist workers resume jobs by Tuesday to restore unemployment benefits and limit city losses. Western commanders frame the 35 day walkout as no longer justified and threaten reduced pay under a Soviet backed plan, with union leaders to meet tomorrow to decide next steps.
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Berlin
Tomer
West Starks
Wester
Wesemu
Fiwinist Union
Uio
Tege
Romeo returns $5,000 not enough says widow
Chicago June 2. Sigmund Z Engel, 72, known as Romeo for a profit, met a Chicago widow and returned 3000? to Mrs. Reseda Corrigan. She rejected it as settlement, claiming Engel promised marriage and swindled her of about 6700. Detectives pinned him on a confidence game charge. bonds set at 12500.
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Pauline D. Langton
Associated Press
Sigmund Z. Engel
New York
Engel
Chicago
Virginia
Romeo
Sigmund Z. Eogel
Reseda Corrigan
Lordsy Engel
Corrigan
Bin
Wernight
Shey
Cherge
Reds Offer Blunt Deal to Free Cardinal Bevan
Vatican dispatch says the Hungarian government offers to release Cardinal Bevan if the Vatican recognizes the Communist regime. Reports claim Bevan faces arrest in Prague where he is effectively captive as tensions mount in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Unconfirmed rumors claim the Communists seized Bevan’s seal and used it to sow Catholic splits amid pressure on clergy.
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Vatican City
Poersismat
Vatican
Josef Cardinal
Herma
Ortupying
Ted
Britain and U.S. Jets Open Nine Day Air War Games
Britain hosts a joint air maneuver with American and RAF jets to test defenses against high speed bombers. Shooting Star and Meteor aircraft join the drill named Foil, aiming to shield England from atom bomb threats and mark a peacetime Western European Union air exercise.
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London
England
Britain
Shooting Star
RAF
Foi” Tt
European Union
Aly Marshal
Basil Ebry
Jst
Ger
Leon Johnson
Cnm
Navy Plans Tests Of Tiny Missiles At 7000 MPH
The Navy aims to test miniature missiles at speeds around 7000 mph, exceeding sound by tenfold. Models with a four fifths of an inch diameter will be fired from a 20 mm cannon in a closed tube at White Oak Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Md. The tests, measured by carved pressure changes, seek to forecast full scale weapon performance.
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Washington
Navy
Meir
White Oak
Naval Ordnance Laborator
UAW Agrees to Sign Harvester Contract
The United Automobile Workers union and the Harvester Co have agreed to sign new contracts, subject to ratification by members. Meetings to consider the deals are set for July 24, with implementation planned for August 23 for one year. Provisions remove the wage freeze and allow either side to refuse negotiations on general wage levels during the contract term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CCAM
Aivester Co
CIO United Automobile Worker's Union
Focal
Unions Sign For Old Scale In Arbitration Ruling
Arbitration settles wage dispute between heating and plumbing contractors and unions Journeymen Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 681 and 625. Iron Workers Local No 51 resigns from AFL to join District 59 United Mine Workers. Arbitration preserves the $2.25 per hour scale for now and a long term contract path is outlined.
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AFL
Linion
Steel
AFL Iron Workers Local No. Sbi
District 59
United Mine Workers
Seale
Hossing and Plumbing Contractors
Arbitrzy Phvase Turno Fage
Hunt Denies Influence Sale Charges Aslies Lie
James V. Hunt denies charges that he offered to sell influence to procure government contracts. The case, reported in New York and broadening a three way probe by Senate Defense and War Assets Administration, prompts a Senate inquiry into procurement activity. Hunt vows to clear his name and calls the charges a lie.
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Washington
INS
James VW. Hunt
New York
Senate
Defense Department and
War Assets Administration
Hunt
Civilians Take Charge Of Civil Defense Planning
Washington reports civilians now control planning for civil defense and industrial mobilization under a National Security Resources Board directive. Nine federal agencies receive duties, part of a broader shift begun in White House moves during 1949.
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Washington
Thal
John R. Steelman
National Security Resources Board
NLRB
Tsa
sHst
White House
Milnar
Ren
Pentagon
Shake-Up in Berlin: McCloy Named High Commissioner
Berlin reports state John J. McCloy will arrive to assume the role of high commissioner for Germany and oversee the military government. He replaces acting governors Kuhr and Geer as the U S occupation reshapes leadership with Huebner continuing as European commander and Hays assuming a new military government role.
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Berlin
Wright
U. S
Tohn J. McCloy
Germany
Arate Tian
U.S
Huebner
Europe
Hays
Mili
Duis
Huenner
Haye
Fragmented Sky Weather Note for Charleston
A broken OCR of a Charleston weather page notes sunrise sunset moonset and moon phase with references to planets and hourly temperatures. It mentions Jupiter Mars Venus Mercury and a warm humid day with possible thunder and regional forecasts, but the text is garbled and difficult to parse.
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Spica
Mars
West Virginia
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Mage
Charlestonazette
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Back World Federation
Equipment Union
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Tula
Hed
Congression Loyalty ‘Waichan
Rep Wood
N- Ass
Red Army
Diller
Louis Ademic
Bayler
Engel Tld
Sand Havers
Mirs
Genevieve
Parra
Bip
Murdszenty
Reds
Uss
Harvester
Hopley
Sussell Z. Hanley
Office of
Civilian Defensé Planning
Defanse
Truman
Gilitary Caperem
Ian
Purnia
Traivescee
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