Mediation In Meat Strike Set
A federal mediator schedules a Monday meeting to settle the Swift & Co. strike involving 17 000 workers. Swift offers an 8 cent hourly raise retroactive to Sept 1 plus 14 cent cost of living adjustment and weekend night premiums. Unions reject the offer and wage differentials exist between southern and other plants.
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Chicago
Swift & Co
United Packinghouse Workers
Amalgamated Meat Cutters
William G. Murray
U.S. Conciliation Service
Swift
Armour & Co
Wilson & Co
Southern
Garfield Shot at Washington Station in 1881
President James A. Garfield, 20th U.S. leader, was shot by a disgruntled government worker in a Washington D C railroad station. He died of his wounds in Elberon New Jersey.
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James A. Garfield
Washington, D. C
Elberon
N. J
Romney Warns Steel Strike Pushes US Toward Collectivism
Detroit AP Romney, president of American Motors, says the steel strike deadlock moves the nation toward collectivism and requires public pressure and Congress to act. He urges using the Taft Hartley Act, fact finding, industrywide bargaining limits, emergency legislation, and broader antitrust probes.
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Detroit
George Romny
American Motors Corp
America
Romney
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
Eisenhower
Congress
Rambler Automobile
Kelvinator
Prices Rise Across Tobacco Belts in Carolinas
The Federal State Market News Service reports weekly gains in flue-cured tobacco prices in Eastern, Middle, and Border belts. Eastern Belt shows higher averages with total sales near 39.09 million pounds. Middle Belt averages rise to 57.72 per hundred. Border Belt ends with 5.86 million pounds at 61.31.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Vilia
Federal State Market News Service
North Carolina
Old Belt
Middle Belt
Border Belt
Fairmont
Lamberton
Penny-scarred finds join coin haul in Oklahoma City
In Okmulgee Oklahoma AP reports coins recovered from parking meters show oddities including a penny bludgeoned to nickel size, three pennies shaved to dime size, one wrapped in tape, five painted with nail polish, and two affixed with paper on one side.
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Okmulgee, Okla
Authors Wanted by N Y Publisher
Advertisement seeks new writers for fiction non fiction religious works and more. New authors welcome. Send for free NR 51 booklet Ad for Evem Press 120 W 31st St New York NY.
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Leading Out Pone
Aevem Press
W. 31 &St
New York
Ady
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Dauphine
U. S
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Jantien
Harllee
Effenbee
VOGUE
Donmoor
Mary Jane
Dri
Wets
Meri Send
Harllee’s Youth Center
Harllee’s
United Fund
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