Simmons Workers Accept 11 Cents Hour Increase
Three thousand members of Federal Labor Union 18456 voted to accept Simmons company’s two year contract raising wages by 11 cents per hour retroactive to May 1 plus shift bonuses and revised holiday pay. The settlement avoids a strike and preserves a union shop with caveats on watchmen appeal to the NLRB.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simmons Company
Lake Front Stadium
Federal Labor Union 18456
Gregory Wallig
Wallig
NLRB
Sunday Inspection Day Planned at Kenosha Game Farm
Kenosha County Conservation Club president Edward Quinn announces Sunday as inspection day at the game farm where Leo Peterson reports 1800 day old English ringneck pheasants are ready for release. Visitors will tour farm buildings to learn how birds reach self sustaining maturity as part of the annual restocking program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Peterson
Kenosha County Conservation Club
Edward Quinn
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Quinn
Conservation Club
Southern Demos Plot Secession and GOP Knives Hilted
Republicans sharpen legislative knives to blunt Truman turnip day recall and hint at investigations to harvest campaign ammunition. Truman calls a special session for nine issues and July 26 as a pivotal date amid Southern Democratic dissent and rival campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Demos
GOP
Washington
Truman
House Republican Steering Committee
Republice Party
Durocher Takes Command of Giants Opening Post
New York Giants name Leo Durocher as manager succeeding Mel Ott who will join the staff after a brief vacation. Durocher leaves Dodgers after steering them to contention while Burt Shotton returns to manage Brooklyn. Branch Rickey announced the moves in Cincinnati after Durocher’s resignation.
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New York
Mel Ott
New York Giants
Leo Durocher
Brooklyn Dodgers
Burt Shotton
Shotton
Brooklyn
Durocher
A. B. Chandler
Dodgers
Giants
Ott
Polo Ground
Branch Rickey
Cincinnati
Horace Stoneman
Nash to Close for August to Rethink 1949 Models
Nash Motors will close four weeks in August at Kenosha and Milwaukee plants to retool for drastically new 1949 models. Production shifts begin in September with 12 000 workers slated to work around vacations and inventory periods. New cars will use all new jigs dies and a full reorganization of manufacturing facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nash
Detroit
R. A. DeVlieg
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
DeVlieg
Nash Motors
Kenosha Works
Kenosha
Milwaukee
Women Back Rennebohm in Wisconsin GOP Primary
The Dane County Republican Women’s club endorses acting Gov. Oscar Rennebohm for the Republican nomination, opposing challenger Ralph Immell in Madison Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison, Wis
Oscar Rennebohm
Dane County
Republican Women's Club
Ralph Immell
Record price paid in Milwaukee stockyard cattle sale
Milwaukee buyers paid a record price for cattle as 30 head averaging 1430 pounds sold for 39.00 per hundredweight. This set a new high for Milwaukee stockyard sales with no previous single animal reaching that level.
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Milwaukee
Police Aid Release Two Then Discover Jail Break
In Boston harbor two 22 year olds William Stracken of Roxbury and William Grinnell of Portland were rescued from a log after their boat tipped. They were treated at City hospital and released with orders to dry clothing and rest. Police then learned Grinnell had escaped Deer Island jail 23 hours earlier, Grinnell having fled the facility for the second time.
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Boston
WUP
William Stracken
Roxbury
William Grinnell
Portland
Ore
Boston Harbor
City Hospital
Stracken
Grinnell
Police
Deer Island
U S Steel and CIO Agree Third Wage Increase
U S Steel Corp and the CIO United Steel Workers have agreed on a third round wage hike averaging 13 cents an hour for 170 000 hourly workers. Increases range from 9 to 24 cents for skilled and common labor. The settlement follows prior anti raise moves and may set a pattern for U S steel and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
U.P
U.S. Steel Corp
CIO
United Steel Workers
Blooming Mill
Bessemer
U.S. Steel
U.S
Thass Too Many Cops Noted in Drunken Driving Case
William Hendley of Stockton California pleaded guilty to drunken driving and paid a $250 fine after claiming he saw 46 highway patrolmen bearing down on him during a training convoy. The incident occurred as he drove into the midst of the rookie patrol unit.
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Jackson
Cal
U.P
William Hendley
Stockton
Gasperi pushes anti strike law after communist general walkout
Rome reports Premier Alcide de Gasperi announced plans for anti strike legislation to curb Communism after a Communist led general strike collapsed. Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti, shot during the crisis, was in serious condition with bronchial pneumonia. The chamber erupted in protests and a fist fight as the National Labor Federation called off the strike.
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Rome
U.P
Alcide de Gasperi
Palmiro Togliatti
Chamber of Deputies
Giuseppe de Vittorio
National Labor Federation
de Gasperi
UN Security Council Orders Palestine Cease Fire
The UN Security Council demands an immediate Palestine truce with Jerusalem fighting to end by 7 30 p m tonight and indefinitely until a peaceful settlement. Count Folke Bernadotte returns to Rhodes and 300 observers are sought from the United States France and Belgium to supervise. If violated the council may consider economic sanctions or further actions.
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Lake Success
N. Y
U.P
United Nations Security Council
Jerusalem
Israel
Folke Bernadotte
Palestine
Security Council
Isle of
Rhodes
Bernadotte
United States
France
Belgium
Russia
Plan to Name Own Ticket in New Convention
Southern Democrats push a states rights conference in Birmingham to nominate presidential and vice presidential tickets as an opposition to Truman and Barkley. Gov Fielding Wright lauds the move while W. W. Wright doubts any southern candidate can win. Tasks include possibly unpledged electors to influence the 1876 style House decision.
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Russell
D-Ga
Philadelphia
Birmingham
J. Howard McGrath
D-Ri
National Party
New York
Congress
Fielding Wright
Mississippi
Ala
Walter Sillers
Rosadale
Miss
House of Representatives
U. S
John Bell Williams
Raymond
James D. Arrington
Collins
Wright
Dixie
Truman-Barkley
Truman
Big City
Jackson, Miss
States’ Rights Committee
Ben Laney
Arkansas
States’ Right
Thomas E. Dewey
Hayes-Tilden
Hayes
Frank Dixon
Alabama States’ Rights Committee
South
Dewey
Dixon
Horace Wilkinson
Sidney Smyer
Richard Russell
Georgia
Gov
Laney
Truman's Call to Bring Congress-Tourist Tangle
Washington reporters note President Truman urges Congress to reconvene amid peak Capitol tourism. Tour guides report 2000 visitors daily, with Harry C. Nash guiding tours for 34 years at 25 cents a head. Visitors flock to hear the Adams whisper story and view the lawmakers' galleries, hoping for a special session to boost the bargain tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Congress
Washington
Capitol
Harry C. Nash
John Quincy Adams
Adams
Nash
B 29 Armada Heads to England for Short Training Visit
About 60 B 29s en route to England for a brief training visit. Two groups will fly via Labrador and Bermuda, guests of the Royal Air Force using three bases. Col Stanley Wray leads the European groups with Lt General Curtis Lemay supervising operations.
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Washington
Air Force
England
Labrador
Bermuda
USAF
Royal Air Force
RAF
Stanley Wray
Muncie
Ind
Europe
Curtis E. Lemay
United States Air Forces
Germany
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Nea-Radio Telephoto
Simmons
Game Farm
Peterson
Poynette
Highway 50
Woodworth Road
Robert Winnie
Ves i
Missouri
Capitol Hill
Mr. Truman
Alabama
Lippy Durocher
U. N. Council
Gasperi
Tel Aviv
U. S. Power
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