Chrysler Strike Ends With 13 Cent Raise For 75,000
After a 30 day UAW CIO strike, Chrysler settles for a 13 cent blanket raise for 75,000 employees and wage structure corrections plus vacation pay increases. The contract runs to Aug 1, 1950 and takes effect upon ratification in Michigan Indiana and California before Memorial Day weekend.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
CIO
Chrysler
Michiigan
Indiana
California
Judge weighs whammy eye claims in Natl. Airlines strike
Circuit Judge George E. Holt hears Natl. Airlines request to curb picketing while the Air Line Pilots Association protests an injunction against violence. Testimony accuses a pilot of using a whammy eye to frighten customers as the nationwide strike continues. The judge orders peaceful picketing.
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Miami
Natl. Airlines
George E. Holt
Air Line Pilots Assn
AFL
Louis Magil
Scale Ticket Office
David Tate
Holt
Federated Press
Natl
Airlines
Taft Campaign Spent Big in Ohio Delegates Drive
Secretary of State filings show the Ohio Republican Committee spent about 164,858 dollars to back Taft delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention. Taft and Martha Taft did not file personal expense accounts.
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Columbus
Robert A. Taft
State House
Taft
Ohio Republican Campaign Committee
GOP
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Ohio
Taft For President Club
Cleveland
Secretary of State
Sen. Taft
Mrs. Taft
John W. Bricker
Thomas Herbert
Bob
Martha
Stassen
Auto Workers Win Randall Co Bargaining Election
The CIO won a bargaining rights vote among Randall Co machinists, 44 choose Local 647 United Auto Workers, four chose IAM, three chose neither. Local 647 is the certified agent for all Randall production workers, with total unit now over 400.
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CIO
Randall Co
United Auto Workers
International Association of Machinists
IAM
Randall
Albert G. Busch
Earnings Drop As Cost Rises
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports rising living costs and a dip in weekly earnings for April. Hourly pay stayed nearly unchanged from March to April, and average weekly hours slipped to about 40. A steel shortage is cited as a primary cause, while the Federal Reserve reports a 5 point fall in its industrial production index from 192 to 187 between March and April.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Federal Reserve Board
Inside Story Industry Surprised by UAW-GM Peace Move
The CIO News staff reports GM reached an agreement with the CIO Auto Union on a wage increase and cost-of-living protections. Industry leaders and Wall Street react with surprise and disappointment, while debate grows over the deal’s broader implications for wages and national policy. Credits note continued coverage on page 7.
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CIO
American Union of Telephone Workers
The
Telephone Workers Organizing Committee
Cincinnati
CIO Council
PAC
Loeal
SUN
AUTW
Oleta C. Durham
Nell McKee
C. E. Bell
D. H. Ahlers
R. W. Schellenberg
F. L. Miller
R. W. Clark
Ernie Locknane
Uaw-Randall
CIO News
General Motors
CIO Auto Union
United Front
Wall Street Journal
Steel
Electrical
Auto Union
Uaw-Cio
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Auto Workers
State Department
Voice of America
Latin America
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New England
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Reno
National Broadcasting Company
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