New York New Jersey Textile Workers Strike Enters Fourth Day
About 8,000 textile workers in the New York New Jersey area strike entering a fourth day with no talks scheduled. Union seeks 21 percent wage increases over three years and a partial cost of living clause. The walkout has closed around 150 plants, halting dyeing and finishing that precede garment making. Firms process up to 600 million yards of fabric yearly, mostly synthetics, with half of printed fabric. New England firms have settled contracts, potentially sending goods to the metro area.
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Kenneth Monaghan
Silk and Rayon Printers and Dyers Association
U.S
New England
New York
Landmark Hotel Closes After Just Over Three Months
The Landmark Hotel in Asheville closes today after about 3 months of operation. About 150 guests were registered, including scientists for the American Meteorological Society conference. Landmark sues Chemical Realty Corp. seeking to cancel mortgage and related documents with damages unspecified. The hotel opened July 1 on an $8.5 million construction loan and was to host a North Carolina Democratic fund dinner later moved to Grove Park Inn.
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Asheville, N.C
Asheville
The
American Meteorological Society
Landmark
Chemical Realty
North Carolina
Democratic Party
Vance-Aycock
Grove Park Inn
Inmate 20 Receives Life Sentence for Murder
Rufus Coley Watson, 20, at Polk Youth Center, convicted of second degree murder in the stabbing death of Roger Dale Samples at the prison. Judge Pou Bailey imposed a life sentence under a 1974 law allowing a range from two years to life with a 20 year minimum before parole.
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Raleigh
Polk Youth Center
Rufus Coley Watson
Superior Court
James H. Pou Bailey
Roger Dale Samples
Watson
Samples
Wake Dist. Atty
Bailey Mitchell Jr
General Assembly
Ford eyes 1974 Brezhnev meeting if progress shown
President Ford signaled willingness to meet Soviet leader Brezhnev in 1974 only after progress in key talks such as SALT II and troop reductions. He said negotiators must show substantive gains before a high level encounter, with Kissinger slated to discuss plans in Moscow.
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Kenneter
Associated Press
Washington
Ford
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Richard M. Nixon
Andrei Gromyko
Henry A. Kissinger
Moscow
U.S
Europe
Kissinger
Salt IL
Russia
Soviet Union
James R. Schlesinger
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New York and
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Richard T. Pienciak
Paterson, N.J
New York- New Jersey
Textile Workers of America
New Asheville
William E. Greene
Hotel Corporation
Buncombe County
Chemical Realty Corp
New York City
P.Q
High Point
N.C
Jcpenney Catalog Centers
Santa Claus
Dad
Granny
Aunt Katy
Unc
Bob
Jcpenney
Fairfield Plaza
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