Auto Workers Urge Fund to Support Union Drive
The CIO Auto Workers Union proposed a dollar per member to finance a united organizing drive for nonunion workers, to be funded by the soon to be formed AFL-CIO. Meany, addressing CIO delegates, backed a broader drive and a common strike fund idea from Walter Reuther, noting potential challenges under Taft-Hartley laws and labor power politics.
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Cleveland
CIO Auto Workers Union
UAW
Afl-Cio
Z Tmfeany
AFL
George Meagy
Reuther
America
Meany
Walter Reuthers
Mercer
Sime Belle
Jaws Reuther
Rare gold hardware piano seeks fifty five thousand
Michigan woman in Pontiac advertises a rare upright piano with gold hardware and porcelain paintings. She claims the Steinway design dates to 1858 through markings and a long custom history. The ask is fifty five thousand dollars, with advice to set not less than seventy five thousand.
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Michigan
Pontiac
Mich
Helenj
Saint
Bull
Tero
Witherspoon
Till
Glen Cove
Steinway & Sons
Steinway
Concert Scheduled At Junior College Auditorium
The Junior College presents an ornate Renais sance style piano in a 22 carat gold adorned case with foot pedals and a heavy cast iron base. The eight foot long instrument stands 5 feet 6 inches tall and moves in 15 pieces. Di Majian Akmajian, a noted tenor, is featured with the Jefferson City audience in recent years. Calame and White accompany the concert with a program led by A Lawrence Krough. About 45 Optimist district leaders and local church groups attend the event and discuss youth work. Two prisoners escape Buchanan County Jail as a separate town report noted.
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Lincoln University
Ieal
Anc
Viang
Fior College
Quinn
el A. M. E
Jeffersons
Rosewood City
Ran Akmajida
Arturo Toscanni
Tsom
Methodist Church
Lawrence Kim
Krough
Calame
Clarence C. White School of
Mus
Enioy
Chicago
Methodist Men
Jes
Reej
Meih‘omurvatory
Northwestern
Tonsian
Julliard School of Music
Santa Cecilia
iMs
Rome
Penn Lie Pay
Asgour
Sylvania College For Women
Injate
Lay Jeader
Pitusburgh
Northwestern University
Lisertation
Josin Cits
James Heeley
St. Louis
Nee Tn
Schubert
Herman Wallinghoff
Eleview
Wallinghoff
Secs Redirs -Leasier
Eighth Distriet
Missouri
Southern
von Tiavate
DePaul Univers General Hoard
Lay Activitits
Kimbrough
Lawmakers debate segregation bill and parole reform
A Missouri House committee advanced a bill opening public places to Black and White patrons amid sparse opposition. The same session approved a broad reform of probation and parole, shifting the board outside prison and boosting staff pay. Other measures tackled milk, private trade schools, and a blanket primary, with lingering questions on insurance and public notices.
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House
Goo
Phil M. Donnelly
National Probation and Parole Assn
St. Louis
Donnelly Roasted at St Louis Gridiron Dinner Skit
At the St. Louis gridiron dinner 526 guests heard skits mocking public figures led by a portrayal of Gov. Phil Donnelly in I’d Rather be Riot. An Ad Club member lampooned Globe-Democrat editor E. Lansing Ray over Missouri penitentiary articles with a punch line about Donnelly’s lily white reputation.
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Donnelly
St. Louis
Flatfair
Sen. Hennings
D-Mo
James T. Blair
Raymond R. Tucker
Phil Donnelly
Ad Club
Globe-Democrats
E. Lansing Ray
Bradley Promotes European Defense
Gen Omar Bradley told Kansas City during a visit with Harry S. Truman that Europe is the best region to resist World Communism, noting NATO would expand to 15 nations with free Germany and a strong defense line. He argued Europe’s 240 million people and industrial capacity make Russia’s expansion threaten global stability, contrasting Asia where no solid line exists.
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Kansas City
Europe
Omar Bradley
Harry S. Truman
Far Eust
NATO Organization
Asia
Russia
Pilot Dies In Freak Crash At San Antonio Base
A pilot 1st Lt. Donald W. Culver, 26, died when a fighter plane caught fire on takeoff at Selly Air Force Base near San Antonio. The aircraft smashed into a freight train. no one on the train was injured.
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Wennisilay Aileriou Wlarca Ju
Iord
San Antonio
Tex
Selly Air Force Base
Donald W. Culver
Burt
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Auto Workers
Buchanan County
ST. Joseph
Diamond
James L. Crabb
Walter Miller
C. A. Jenking
Crabb
Capital City
Guy Adiry
Rp Hoppe
E. Wirh
Bradley
Robert E. Holliway
Jackson St
Jefferson City, Mo
SEARS
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Gome
Freize
Wilton
Price
Egister
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Atetata
Nudby
Zea
Oldsmobile
Chemobile
Conpm
Oldamobile
Milly
Nebel Motor, Inc
SO Harrison
Wiehwee
West
NAC
Marth
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