Wage-Price Curbs Extend as House Hears Steel Strike Talk
Long Beach reports on a House committee debate as President Truman seeks broader powers to seize the steel strike, with Senate and House moves on wage and price controls. The panel votes to ease red tape for some sellers, exempt farm workers, bowling alleys, and small employers, while continuing efforts to curb ceilings on potatoes and rent. The steel crisis receives no action yet, though a Taft-Hartley invocation is anticipated on the floor.
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Vote to Strike at Aluminum Plants in Davenport
The Davenport convention of the Independent Aluminum Workers of America voted unanimously to strike at nine Aluminum Co of America plants if the Wage Stabilization Board does not act by July. The union seeks a 25 cent hourly wage increase and other benefits, risking 12,000 workers idled.
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Koje POWs Bow in Full Surrender at Koje Island
On Koje Island Korea June 13 over 4000 North Korean prisoners who formed the last hard core of defiance marched out of Compound 65 and 80,000 Communists on the island surrenders. The camp commander received a North Korean flag as a symbol of surrender and 2700 officers and 650 orderlies were moved to the east valley. The transfer removed 22,000 prisoners from five barbed-wire enclosures in four days. Compound 82 leaders capitulated in a note to the general shortly after.
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