Editorial: Is Labor Reform Measure to Be Compromised Force
Eisenhower called for a labor reform law with teeth as Congress faces a showdown over labor referee legislation. The piece argues the House bill weakens the Senate version, ignores criminal sanctions, and leaves key issues like state federal jurisdiction and blackmail tactics unaddressed. It warns Hoffa and AFL CIO oppose real reform and predicts a fight in the House over weak compromises with no meaningful action in 1959.
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Congress
Organized Labor
Washington
House Labor Committee
Senate
Sen. McClellan
Sen. Kennedy
House
Bih
No Man’s Land
National Labor Relations Board
Bar
Hoffa
Afl-Cio
Big Labor
House of Representatives
Meany
Labor Committee
Signs on Freeways to Reduce Driver Anxiety
A year long study by the California Division of Highways the Automotive Safety Foundation and the UCLA Institute of Traffic Engineering finds drivers feel tense on freeways due to lack of information. Drivers lack direction exit distances and names of upcoming exits. The agencies conclude continuous signage would help motorists know where they are and where they are going improving safety.
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California Division of Highways
The
Automotive Safety Foundation
Ucla Institute of Traffic Engineering
Hell
Division of Highways
Ray Tucker on an economy reliant on older workers
Washington reports the first comprehensive government study showing older Americans 45 and up are capable and willing to work across tasks seen as strenuous. The Goodwin study, drawn from 1960s data, warns of looming labor gaps as birth rates fall and longevity rises, urging full use of older workers to avert a lopsided, costly economy.
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Washington
Acaeric Sanmey
Robert D. Goodwin
Labor Departments
Bureau of Employment Security
State Tucker
United States
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Rilion
Independent publishers and staff listing in a historical notice
Fragmented OCR shows publisher and staff names with multiple garbled lines and addresses. It references offices in Chicago and Washington, with scattered job titles and a 2008 date, indicating a publication or agency directory entry rather than a news event, summarizing readable names and locations. The text is largely unreadable but preserves entities such as Ken Yue, 611 Gtr Avenas, and 23 Seatay Tower.
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Berman WH. Ridder
Carvel H
Haret
ML Hines, Sartte Publigner
Samuel & Cameon
Gent
Larry de Boa
Harry Fertoe
Reader Jones
Incola Ashies
Ken Yue
Gtr
Avenas Chicaze
Wigley Bog
Beacescet
Seatay
Sorcerer St. Warhington
Rockefeller’s 1960 bid planned at hush hush dinner
Dated Washington report details a Georgetown gathering hosted by Rep. Perkins Bass where Nelson Rockefeller’s top ally Judson Morhouse asserted Rockefeller would run in 1960. Attendees included several New Hampshire and New York lawmakers while ex Speaker Joe Martin, though absent, was noted as influential. Discussion covered Nixon’s weaknesses, Rockefeller’s fundraising prospects, and potential primaries in Oregon Wisconsin New Hampshire and California.
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Washington
Nelson Rockefeller
White House
Georgetown
Perkins Bass
New Hampshire
Rockefeller
New York State
Judson Morhouse
Pri
Joe
Nixon
Charlie Halleck
Martin
Republican Party
House
Chester Merton
John Saylor
Pennsylvania
John Lindsay
Stuyvesant Weaiwright
New York
Morhouse
Merrow
Oregon
Wisconsin
California
Town Meeting Cho Shall Judge
Editor letters debate editorial criticising the Motor Vehicle Dept. Mr McCarthy argues for praise of the department’s work and warns against overturning road safety gains. Includes notes on pedestrian precedence in Toledo and Long Beach traffic experiments. Viola Boas signs the closing letter.
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California
Eask
Department of Motor Vehicles
McCarthy
Toledo
Independent
Long Beach
Strictly Personal Life in Country Is Not All Green
Sydney Harris argues urban myths of rural paradise crumble when families move to the country. He notes pests and hardship, the reality of farm life, and the cynicism toward urban holidays in a blunt, satirical tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney J. Harrisby
Harris
Michael
Barbara
Eden
Demember When North Long Beach Exchange Club loaned lungs
North Long Beach Exchange Club funded a subscription to four plastic lungs, via members and their wives, to be available to hospitals or individuals in need for polio casts. Long Beach connected 34 miles to the Colorado River by steel and concrete pipe, enabling an unlimited water supply for future development, with water due next fall. Charles F. Rocheville and Jack Reed piloted the EMsco single motor cabin monoplane from Downey’s EM Smith Co, aiming to break the world route-flying record for sustained flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Long Beach Exchange Club
Long Beach
Colorado
Charles F. Rocheville
Jack Reed
Emsco
EM. Smith Co
Downey
Eisenhower urges labor reform in nationwide address
President Eisenhower asks Congress for labor reform in a national radio and TV speech. He stresses nonpartisanship and public protection for American workers and the nation, insisting he seeks no office or special interest support.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
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Eiserhowers
Drew Pearson
Venezuela
Robert Taft
Taft
Nizon
Tice
Town Meeting
Paul L. McCarthy
Gard Ave
Artesia
Department
Viola Boas
Broadway
Christian AL Herter
Foreign Ministers
Geneva
Soviet Union
West Berlin
Defense
Neil H. McElroy
Khrushchev
Faneng
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