Union to Seek Million More for Its Ranks
The CIO drives to organize over a million electrical manufacturing and communications workers. United Electrical and Radio Workers prepare to open bargaining with General Electric, Westinghouse, and AT&T, while Mitchell vows nationwide organizing. Detroit marchers rally for Chrysler strike action as unions press for exclusive bargaining rights and new contracts. Governor Murphy calls a public meeting to ease labor disputes amid widespread strikes and wage talks nationwide.
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Committee For Industrial Organization
United Electrical and Radio Workers of ‘America
C. I
General Electric Co
New York
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
General Electric
Detroit
C. EF. O
United Automobile Workers 'Union
Wayne County Court House
Allan Campbell
Chrysler Motor Company
Chrysler
General Motors Corporation
Michigan
Hudson
Reo
Frank Murphy
Fortr
John L. Lewis
C. I C
United Mine Workers of Ameries
Charles O'Neill
United Eastern Coal Saes Corp
Pittsburgh
Lewis
Big Steel
B. F. Fairless
Carnegie- Ttinolx Steel Corp
Bian-Know Steel Co
United Electrical and Radio Workers Union
Westinghouse Company
East Pittsburgh
Chicago
Aged Man Killed When Hit by Truck Near Here
Steve Meek a 60 year old Mount Carmel resident was fatally injured when struck by a truck on U S highway 11W six miles southwest of Kingaport He had just stepped from another truck and entered the path of the vehicle He died at the scene or shortly after witnesses reached him Two others in the truck escaped injury and the driver was questioned by the highway patrol. The accident occurred about 5 p m and Meek was taken to Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home. The driver said he pulled off to avoid the man but could not prevent impact.
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Kingsport
Steve Meek
Mount Curnwl
Notte
Meek
Lee Hicks
Meeks
Mount Carmel
U. S. Highway No. 11W
Sam Binkley
Hicks
Johnson City
Rogersville
Southerners Protest Postage Stamps Of Sherman
In Atlanta and across the South collectors and residents react to stamps bearing William Tecumseh Sherman. Protests flare in South Carolina and Georgia with resolutions and boycotts while some groups urge defiance by marking letters.
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South’ners
Yankees
Atlanta
Marelti
William Torcumsch Sherman
Ativati
Lascimnalt
South Carolina
Sherway
Post Office Department
Sherman Ulysses S. Grant
Philip H. Sheridan
Georgia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Siverge
Farm program budget totals exceed one billion dollars
Washington March 13 Prospective outlays for farm legislation in Congress this session top one billion dollars with big items for soil conservation tenant aid and crop insurance. Officials estimate a minimum 100 million for the ever normal granary while 600 million is asked for soil payments and other sums are planned for emergency relief and rural programs. Mayor Herman J Rossi dies in Wallace Texas after a long public career.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Great Plains
Agriculture Department
Wallace
Victims Rise to Eleven at WinoBeth Mine Rescue
Rescue crews in West Virginia report eleven bodies recovered from the WinoBeth mine after a devastating blast. Two badly injured survivors, Earl Gearhart and James Wiley, were reached as risks rose from slate falls and heavy debris. Officials expect two to three more days to rescue the remaining victims while reconstruction and safety measures proceed.
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TACAN
WinoBeth
Earl Gearhart
James Wiley
H. P. Farley
Siow
Farley
Gearhart
Wiley
Truman E. Johnson
Hutchinson Coal Company
Mind
W. H. Myers
Nuzum
West Virginia
Johnson
Joe Fry
Troy McCay
Floyd Field
Mike Gimo
Leonard Forbes
R. B. Kimball
Typhon Podlaska
Loader
Fred McCorskey
Negro Joader
Gazel Yankovitch
August Tusek
Jack Tusek
Hubert Fleming
George McCormick
Sant French
Roland Karns
Tom Brojdacka
Woodrow Dillo
Salvation Army Youth Training Main Objective Emphasized
Major Simpson told advisory boards at a two state convention that the major aim of the Salvation Army is religious education for today’s youth and young women. Delegates from seven cities attended a Kingsport Inn session with Mayors and officials from Tennessee Kentucky and Arkansas present. The meeting, opened by S H Anderson, included a luncheon with Kingsport Kiwanis before Major W W Bouterse led the program with Major Simpson of the Chattanooga post.
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Salvation Army
John Simpson
Major Simpson
Kingsport Inn
Salvation Anny
Kentucky, Tennessee
Arkansas
James Elmore
Knoxville
Kingsport
Salvation Army Ark
Bouterse
Chattanooga
Socialists Repel Insurgent Attack Near Madrid Front
Reported from Madrid that government forces repulsed a new insurgent assault on the Jaqamna front southeast of Madrid. Fierce fighting in the valley below Madrid involved combined cavalry and artillery under heavy rains turning the field to a mire.
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Madrid
Pope promises thorough job in state probe
Nashville dispatch reports Pope named by Governor Browning to investigate Tennessee state government affairs including contracts, taxes, and Brushy Mountain prison rumors. A $60,000 appropriation funds the inquiry with Pope planning an initial visit to Brushy Mountain and coordination with prosecutors before broader hearings.
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Nashville
Lewis S. Pope
Browning
Jennessee
Hardhitting
Pope
Brushy Mountain
Petros
Pone
Brueby Mountain
New York
East
Weather Synopsis for Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky
Weather outlook reports rain and colder conditions across Tennessee east with possible sleet or snow and rain in the west. Virginia shows southeast rain with snow or rain in northern areas and interior cooling, with likely fair by Monday night. Kentucky expects snow mixed with sleet or rain Sunday, followed by a fair and cooler pattern Sunday night into Monday.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
Television in America Faces Development Era
Television is possible now but faces a development era as experts compare it to the early days of sound broadcasting. Observers note the field is crowded by radio and cinema giants, shaping how TV may fit into home entertainment and profits.
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Butterfield York
America
Sound
Menk
Dalle
Song
Ito
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Senate
Carmel
Ady
Senate Judiciary Committee
Ashurst
D.-Arig
Wheeler D.-Mont
James M. Landis
Securities Commission
Resettlement Administration
Agricusture Department
Furnis ‘Credit Administry
Commodity Redit Administration
Rucal Electrification Administration
Tbe
Tela
Herman J. Rossi
Ube
Marseille
France
Palms
Mallorca
Cherlies
Bristol, Tenn
Bristol
Harlan
Middlesboro
Green Allen Brooks
Lee County
R. F. Giles
Jonekville
Brooks
Arch Redman
Bob Guiley
Luther Poore
Cecil Boxtright
Alke
Edith Manxywell
Trigt Maxwell
Wise County
Virgil Wacks
Associated Press
Honolulu
Louisville
Silverlaven
Louisville Tools
Silverlarcn
W. S. Farber
San Pedro
Calif
Honoaci
F. H. Henderson
Farber
Silverlarch
Coast Guard
Roger P. i Taney
Jararha
Guadalajara
Jose Miaja
Spain
Trifuque
Mes
Francisco Franco
Commmuniques
Soria
Captisin Henderson
State Penitentiary
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