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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Mar 20, 1958

Page

8

Unionist Assailed in Probe of Kohler Strike

Washington The Kohler Co accused the United Auto Workers of turning its four year strike into an Iron Curtain reign of terror. Lyman Conger charged UAW negotiator Robert Burkhart with Communist attitudes as violence and mass picketing swept Sheboygan County Wisconsin. He said nonstriking employees faced dynamiting vandalism and threats while local law enforcement was almost wholly influenced by the union.

Washington Kohler Co United Auto Workers Wisconsin Lyman C. Conger Kohler Senate Conger UAW Shebovzan Wis Theodore Mosch Theodore Ploetz

Ten Names Probed in Poker Vote Gardena

Ten persons suspected of illegal registration to vote in Gardena's April municipal election are under investigation by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Chief Deputy Manley Bowler said the names came from about 80 records, with 30 supplied by Gardena Civic Improvement League. The league, alleging 400 illegal registrants, asked Gov. Knight and Atty. Gen. Brown for help and National Guard patrols at polls. The ballot includes Propositions to shut Gardena's six draw poker clubs.

Gardena Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office Manley Bowler Gardena Civic Improvement League Goodwin J. Knight Edmund G. Brown

Engine Smoke Forces TWA Plane Landing at St Louis

A Trans World Airlines flight from Newark to St Louis landed with one engine smoking heavily. Seventeen people evacuated via a canvas emergency chute with no injuries reported. Fire crews sprayed a chemical extinguishing agent on the engine after an oil-line break spilled oil onto the hot unit.

ST. Louisia Trans World Airlines Municipal Newark

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