Dock strike forces C and H sugar refinery closure
The California and Hawaiian Sugar Co plans to shut its Crockett refinery due to a West Coast dock strike delaying 65,000 tons of raw sugar. Hundreds to be laid off immediate, potentially more as the strike drags on. Refined sugar shipments from nearby Vallejo are also stalled by the rail strike, affecting beet sugar as well.
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San Francisco
California & Hawaiian Sugar Co
Crockett
Contra Costa County
C&h
Prince Charles Flies High in Channel Parachute Jump
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne aged 22, leapt from a Royal Air Force aircraft at 1200 feet into the English Channel with Queen Elizabeth's consent. The event, described with varied exclamations, followed a training plan not required but chosen by the prince.
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English Channel
Royal Air Force
Prince Charles
Elizabeth
Geronimo
Copper workers accept Anaconda wage hike
Striking copper workers in three Montana cities under United Steel Workers voted to accept a three year contract with Anaconda Co giving a $7.07 hourly raise. Four thousand workers will not return to work until 2,200 craft union members ratify amid objections to a productivity clause seen as risking job losses. Utah locals also approved a 92 cent per hour raise for Kennecott Copper Corp workers at the Bingham Pit mine, pending talks with two unions.
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Stanley Scott
Building Contractors Association
San Diego
ILWU
PMA
United Press International
United Steel Workers Union
Montana
Anaconda Co
Utah
Kennecott Copper Corp
Trans
Portation Workers Local 1815
Bingham Pit
Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Union of Operating Engineers
Phone workers off job in San Francisco strike
Absenteeism rose as Pacific Telephone crews from the Communications Workers of America refused to cross another union’s picket lines. Company figures showed only 2,520 of 4,800 plant workers and 675 of 1,831 operators reporting. The IBEW representing 700 yellow pages workers in San Francisco and 200 in Los Angeles led a strike since July 17 demanding higher commissions on ads, sales and larger raises for clerical positions largely held by women.
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San Francisco
UPI
Pacific Telephone
Communications Workers of America
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Los Angeles
IBEW
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Crockett Plant
Carquinez Strait
Vallejo
Los Angeles Harbor Commission
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s Union
Pacific Mari
Honolulu
Anaconda
Erie ET
Fremont Fashion Center
South Lake Tahoe
Uni Now Union
Pieta
Encanto
EL Cid
Castanea
ALL Union
San Jose
Santa Clara
Monterfy
Sak
Leandro
Modesto
Fanan
Usio Savvy Furniture
Union Flexible Credit
Bayfair Center
San Leandro
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