Government May Take Hand In Controversy
The CIO United Automobile Workers and General Motors face possible government intervention to end a strike that idled 225000 GM workers. GM demanded wage concessions while the union threatened legal action for unfair labor practices. Separate disputes involved Montgomery Ward and Company and 11000 AFL machinists at Southern Railway shops across multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
United Automobile Workers
General Motors
Walter P. Reuther
UAW
National Labor Relations Board
Reuther
Montgomery Ward and Company
One
Urday
Ward
Southern Railway
AFL
Birmingham
Ala
Spencer
N. C
Atlanta
England Faces Long Season of Sweat and Scarcity
The World Today notes postwar Britain endures fatigue and austerity as trade recovery and home needs compete. Government shifts focus to export manufacture to sustain markets while preparing industry for hard times ahead, amid weary public and uncertain relief.
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London
England
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Callon
Sir Stafford
Federal panel eyed to ease oil strike dispute
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach urged a three man board to probe the oil refinery dispute that sparked the postwar strike for higher pay. Fifty three refineries were seized as CIO oil workers offer no objections while ten oil companies reported mixed reactions to the fact finding plan under federal management.
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Washington
Schwellenbach
Mentesman
CIO Oil Worker
Manufacturing In State To Be Increased Soon
Gov nother predicted at the 31st annual convention of the International Association of Industrial Accident Commissions that North Carolina will convert raw materials into finished products in the future. A resolution urged the Veterans Administration to give industrial accident boards and commissions access to veterans medical records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Goverty
International Association of Industrial Accident and Commissions
Veterans’ Administration
Gravediggers Strike Delays Burials In Chicago
In Chicago on November 27, 20 graves lay open at a South Side cemetery as a one day strike by gravediggers halted funerals until coffins could be stored in receiving vaults. The walkout at St. Casimir's Lithuanian Catholic cemetery ended with 16 workers gaining AFL Union recognition.
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Chicago
South Side
St. Casimir’s
AFL
Reject Plan To Take Up Jobs Bill
The House sales committee voted 17 to 3 to study a substitute for the administration's full employment bill and expects to meet again tomorrow. President Truman calls the delay damaging and urges passage. Atomic energy hearings begin in the Senate side by side with the Pearl Harbor probe as the McMahon committee aims to gather basic facts before any bills. The House military committee then held two days of public sessions.
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Washington
Manasco
D-Ala
Truman
Congress
Senate Atomic Committee
Pear Harbor
Brian McMahon
Dconn
McMahon
House Military Committee
Hirohito Pushes Election Reform in Diet Reading
Emperor Hirohito read an imperial rescript at the throne noting election reform as the main diet issue. Both houses listened as the emperor and officials outlined the policy, with reform targeted to the House of Representatives and likely no change to the House of Peers appointive status.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
House of Peers
Kijuro Shidehara
House of Representatives
High School Students Won’t Be Draft Inducted Before Twenty
Washington directs that high school pupils will not face induction or preinduction exams until age twenty unless they graduate at eighteen or nineteen, fall behind in class, or quit school. Lt. Col. Jonas notes the policy delays draft actions for students still in school.
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Charlottee
Washington
Charles R. Jonas
State Office
Raleigh
Jonas
Nazi Plan to Violate Versailles Treaty Revealed in Trials
Prosecutors unveiled documents showing Nazi leaders from 1919 onward falsifying battleship tonnage, rebuilding the air force, and training U-boat crews in Spain Finland and Holland. Evidence included instructions to diplomats on reframing rearmament questions as a four power tribunal weighs war crimes charges against Goering Raeder and others.
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Hitler
Spain
Finland
Holland
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Erich Raeder
Sidney S. Alderman
Alderman
Detroit teen held with two coeds and cash in Columbus
In Columbus Georgia a Detroit teen-ager was arrested with Betty Ann Mackey and Kathleen Corricade after leaving a Florida-bound train. Police recovered 11202 dollars from his wallet and plan to escort him and the two women back to Detroit. The suspect, Malcolm McLeod, 18, is the son of former Michigan representative Clarence J. McLeod. In Rome Italy leaders of six parties meet to seek a resolution to the government crisis after a left-wing withdrawal of support for Vittorio Emanuel Orlando.
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Columbus
Detroit
Chattahooche
Jesse Wilson
Malcolm McLeod
Clarence J. McLeod
Michigan
Betty Ann Mackey
Wayne University
Kathleen Corricade
McLeod
George Lawson
Miami
Betty Ann
Rome
Italy
Vittorio Emanuel Orlando
Sale of 1946 Automobile Tags Inaugurated Saturday
Raleigh dispatch reports the start of sales for the 1946 automobile license plates at county disbursing agencies. State Motor Vehicles Commissioner T Boddie Ward warns owners to purchase early to avoid a year end rush.
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Raleigh
T. Boddie Ward
Indonesians Launch Counterattack in Soerabaja Amid Java Shifts
Indonesian forces in Soerabaja mount a counterattack against British troops as new assaults are reported on Amrawa and Bandoeng. Semarang remains a trouble spot while Batavia leaders urge evacuation of 200000 vulnerable residents pending normal times.
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Batavia
Java
Soerabaja
Amrawa
Bandoeng
Semarang
Aneta
Red Cross
Netherlands East Indies
Yamashita Sent To Manchuria By Hideki Tojo
Manila reports a defense witness says Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita was exiled to Manchuria by Tojo after displeasing the dictator by opposing a war with the United States. Yoshida, a Tokyo attorney, testified at Yamashita’s war crimes trial that Yamashita’s public image drew Japanese sympathy and that he was part of a pacifist group opposing Tojo’s policies.
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Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Hideki Tojo
Manchuria
Singapore
Keichoku Yoshida
Tokyo
Yamashitas
Tojos
United States
Japan
Yamashita
George Guy
Ugaki
Tojo
Nine Jews Die in Palestine Disturbances
Unofficial reports say nine Jews were killed and at least 75 wounded in yesterday’s clashes in the Jewish area of Palestine. The Jewish national council called a half hour work stoppage as mourning, while the federation of Jewish labor protested to British and US labor groups as tensions eased after British troops withdrew.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Jewish National Council
General Federation of Jewish Labor
British Labor Party
United States
Army Personnel Switches Camps
War department transfers 1000 soldiers from Ft Jackson South Carolina and Camp Turlock California to three other centers or back to duty. About 250 restored to duty, 300 to 400 sent to Camp Bowie Texas, remainder to Camp Gordon Georgia.
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Washington
Army
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Camp Turlock
Calif
War Department
Camp Bowie
Brownwood
Texas
Camp Gordon
Augusta
Georgia
Nationalists Hear American Planes On Way
Chinese nationalists report about 700 American planes being flown into China to support central government forces nearing Mukden, a key Manchuria rail hub. AP correspondent Richard Cushing notes most operable planes from India and Burma are being rushed in, with several American deaths and 11 crashes last Thursday as P-51 fighters traverse weather.
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Chungking
China
Mukden
Manchur-Ia
Associated Press
Richard Cushing
Shanghai
India
Burma
Kunming
Cushing
War Department
10Th Air Force
Mth Air Force
Separatists Reported to Seize Zenjan in Iran
A traveler from northern Iran claimed Azeri separatists seized Zenjan, capital of Khamseh Province, cut telegraph lines, and held government buildings. If true, only two main rail stations, near Kazvin and Karachj, separate Azeri forces from Tehran as Iranian troops are halted by Soviet authorities at Kazvin.
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Teheran
Iran
Azeraijan
Zenjan
Khamseh
Kazvin
Karachj
Tehran
Azerbaijan
Southern Spencer Shops Hit By Walkout Of 500
About five hundred AFL machinists and apprentices at the Spencer shop of the Southern Railway joined a walkout in sympathy with Birmingham Alabama repairs workers. The nationwide action involves about 1,000 machinists, began November 19 over a jurisdiction dispute with electricians, and has caused shifts to be covered by remaining workers at several locations.
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Southern
Spencer
AFL
Southern Railway
Birmingham
Ala
Electrici
Atlanta
Macon
Greenville and
Hayne
8. C
Princetton
Indiana
H. G. Trexler
Greensboro
Hull Denounces Army Board In Pearl Harbor Inquiry
Former Secretary Cordell Hull testifies before a joint committee and denounces the army inquiry board’s interpretation of Grew’s Pearl Harbor notes. He recalls a December 7 1941 meeting with Japanese envoys amid a broader probe into the Japanese attack.
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Washington
A . Cordell Hull
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Hull
United States
Senate-House
White House
Senate
Lucas
Army
Joseph C. Grew
Grew
Ferguson
R-Mich
Hawaiian
Japan
Roosevelt
Hawaii
Rep
Gearhart
Calif
Sumner Welles
Bus plunges into Lake Chelan killing 16 passengers
A school bus veered off a snow swept road into Lake Chelan near Chelan Washington. Fifteen students and the driver drowned while six others including a woman passenger survived. The bus carried children from the 25 Mile Creek community and the town prepared for morgue duty.
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Chelan
Wash
Ted Brown
Jack Randle
Margaret
Peggy) Rice
Bob Watson
Donnie Mack
Ethel Keck
Mary Stark
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Alfred Rosenberg
Karl Doenitz
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