Steel Mills Reopen as Strikes Lose Steam Across Regions
Pennsylvania and Ohio plant operations resume as state troopers keep order and violence subsides. About 250 pickets remain near Bethlehem Steel Cambria plant with 15,000 workers partially back on the job. Independent mills still refuse to sign CIO contracts, while battles shift to reopening Chicago plants and broader political tension tops the agenda in Washington.
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Johntown
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Daniel Shields
Johnstown
Republic Steel Corporation
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Mahoning Valley
Chicago
Mediation board fails to settle steel strike
The three member mediation board named by Secretary Perkins failed to persuade steel executives and union leaders to meet. They warned management and labor must learn to live together and abide by agreements. Governor Davey rejected Perkins push to subpoena steel chiefs, while troops kept mills closed.
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Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
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National Labor Relations Board
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Mme. Perkins
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Eugene Grace
Steel
Taft
Lewis
Davey
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Columbus
Roosevelt Son May Enter House From Texas District
Washington report outlines maneuvers to seat Elliott Roosevelt in the House from Texas’s twelfth district. Lanham holds the seat. White House wary of clear path via promotion, favoring a broader plan to land Elliott despite insurrection concerns. Also covered are dirigible politics, Eckener’s arguments, and New Deal challenges for mountaineers and small-store workers facing payroll and sales taxes.
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Smoky Mountain National Park
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Europe
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Shirley Temple and Carole Lombard Stir Hollywood Hopes
Shirley Temple gains radio allowance. Carole Lombard signs five year plan with Selznick. Greta Garbo stories and ongoing studio suspense surround Irene Dunne, Joan Crawford, Josephine Hutchinson, and Joan Blondell as studios juggle roles, contracts, and potential film projects.
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Selznick
Du Pont and Roosevelt Tie Knot In Delmar Wedding
Miss Ethel du Pont daughter of Eugene du Pont and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr son of the U S President wed at Christ Church near Wilmington Delaware in a simple ceremony attended by about 400 guests. Political hatreds of elders were buried as the youngsters claimed the day.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr
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Eugene du. Pont
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Gedeon Slayer Surrenders in Chicago Flight to New York
Robert Irwin once treated for insanity in New York surrendered to police in Chicago after killing Veronica Gedeon, a New York model, her mother Mrs Mary Gedeon, and boarder Frank Byrnes. He was flown back to New York City where indictments were prepared.
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Robert. Irwin
New York
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Mary Gedeon
Frank Byrnes
Chicago
New York City
France appoints Bonnet finance minister as budget balances
Camille Chautemps' government appoints Georges Bonnet as minister of finance and orders to balance the budget. Bonnet closes the stock exchange and suspends foreign exchange and payments to decide on economic control. France faces about 200 million dollars ordinary deficit and 1.6 billion dollars extraordinary deficit, with defense driving most extraordinary spending. Rene Brunet says a three year balance target may be possible.
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Front
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Chautemps
Georges Bonnet
United States
Bonnet
Stock Exchange
France
Vincent Auriol
Rene Brunet
Budget Trouble Budget Gap Widens in Fiscal Year Forecast
Treasury figures show the end of the fiscal year would miss the President's economy program by about 200 million. Expenditures revised to cut 295 million from January forecast, but actual July 1 1936 to June 24 1937 rose to 7.883 billion, 102 million above the estimate, foreshadowing a 200 million gap for the year.
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U.S
Treasury
Federal warrants issued for six CIO leaders in Ohio strike
Federal warrants issued in Cleveland for six leaders of the CIO in the Youngstown and Warren steel plant strike. They face charges of preventing delivery of U S mails to loyal workers. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings ordered the warrants after reviewing Senate Post Office Committee testimony.
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Youngstown
Warren
United States
Homer S. Cummings
Senate Post Office Committee
Co. I. O
Ohio
Post Office Department
Cummings
Rebels Aim Madrid After Bilbao Victory
Rebels under Francisco Franco redirect fire toward Madrid and areas north of Guadalajara after Bilbao fall. New troops move to western and southeastern city sectors as Loyalist forces bolster defenses. Basque and Asturian units are largely cut off from Madrid Valencia government since Bilbao's capture.
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Bilbao
Francisco Franco
Guadalajara
Hopkins trims WPA rolls to cut 1.66 million by mid July
Harry Hopkins moves to reduce WPA rolls by about 314,759 workers as part of progress administration cuts to reach a total of 1,655,477 by mid July. The plan hinges on not replacing workers already removed.
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Hopkins
Harry L. Hopkins
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