UAW Presses Wage Hike Campaign for Auto Workers
The CIO United Auto Workers opened a drive for a 23.5 cent per hour wage increase for about 1,000,000 auto workers. The pay rise would raise minimums toward 80 cents and total costs near 624 million dollars. UAW leadership cited living-cost increases and pushed for wage standardization plus health and old age retirement programs.
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New York
W.A
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
UAW
United Steel
United Electrical Workers
Pittsburgh
Chryser, Packard
Hudson
Kaiser
Water
Enevat Motors
International Board of Directors
NAW
Walter P. Reuther
Reuther
Khem
General Motors
Penca
United States
Kahn's Seeks Picket Limit In Alameda Strike
Kahn's and Hastings' department stores sought a court injunction in Alameda County Superior Court to cap pickets at two per store and curb obscene language. The move comes amid ongoing negotiations with the AFL Retail Clerks' union after last week's general strike. Damages sought will be set once determined.
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Oakland
Kahn's
Hastings
Alameda County
AFL
Alameda County Superior Court
Harry Bridges Warns Labor Unions in California
Harry Bridges, CIO leader and head of the longshoremen’s union, warned the California CIO convention that Congress in its new session will try to destroy labor unions. Speaking to about 500 delegates in the Civic Auditorium, he accused employers of causing inflation and called wage increases unions’ top issue.
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Santa Cruy
Cal
ULRI
Harry Bridges
Northern California
CIO
Longshortmen’s Union
Congress
United States
Civic Auditorium
Bridges
New Bridge Lights for San Francisco Tunnels
Mercury lights will replace sodium vapor lamps in the Funston tunnel near the Golden Gate Bridge to improve driver visibility. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce announced the project today.
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San. Francisco
U.R
Funston Tunnel
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco
Suit Names George Raft in $300000 Assault Case
Edward Raider 50 filed in superior court alleging actor George Raft beat him on December 21, 1945 while raiden protected the star's former teenage girlfriend Betty Doss 19 of New Orleans. Raider seeks damages for personal injuries assault and battery and conspiracy naming Mack Gray Joe Gray and Ben Platt as defendants.
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Hollywood
U.R
Edward Raider
George Raft
Raft
Raiden
Ralt
Weactor
Betty Doss
New Orleans
Hart
Kate
Mack
Chinese press claims massed Communist troops near Paoting
Chinese nationalist dispatches report about 30,000 Communist troops harassed on the outskirts of Paoting, capital of Hopei province. They allege that all able-bodied Communist males from six to forty five have been drafted for combat duty.
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China
Nanking
Paoting
Hopei Province
State Board condemns liquor prices as atrocious but restrained
Sacramento The state board of equalization denounced current liquor prices as atrocious and out of reason but said for the time being little could be done to change the condition.
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Sacramento
UUP
State Board of Equalization
Tule Fog Shuts Coast to Inland California Travel
A thick tule fog blanketed the California coast from San Diego to Eureka and stretched inland to Bakersfield and Reading, grounding planes and delaying trains. The Weather Bureau said the fog would linger in the Bay Area with no major transportation problems expected, while multiple accidents occurred on peninsula highways and several ships faced zero visibility in harbor.
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California
San Diego
Eureka
Bakersfield
Redding
Los Angeles
Long Beach Harbor
U.S. Werther Bureau
San Francisco Bay
Malsonia
Peninsula
San Francisco
San Francisco Municipal
San Fran
Oakland
Hamilton Plard
Red Bluff
Williams
Sacramento
Fresno
San Joaquin
Weather Bureau
Columbians Indicted Over Plan to Bomb City Buildings
Atlanta indictments name Homer Loomis Jr and Emory Burke of Columbians Inc for illegal possession of dynamite and riot. Ira Tell, a 45 year old contractor, also indicted on the dynamite charge. Grand jury heard earlier confessions claiming aim to seize government and rule in Hillier fashion. Each charge carries up to 12 months on conviction.
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Atlanta, Ga
U.R
Columbians, Inc
Atlanta
Homer L. Loomis, Jr
The
Columbians
Emory Burke
Guatemala City strike decree ends temp settlements
Guatemalan government outlawed strikes and slowdowns. Two threatened nationwide walkouts were settled temporarily just before the decree. The move signals a government's effort to curb labor disruption amid unrest. Local authorities coordinated with employers and unions to avoid escalation.
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Guatemala City
Student Sues to End Separate School Law in California
An eight year-old Japanese grammar school pupil filed suit in superior court to invalidate a California law that provides separate schools for Japanese Indian Chinese and Mongolian students.
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Los Angeles
U.P
California
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