Evict Strikers at Detroit Print Plant Without Fight
Detroit March 22. Police entered the Thomas P. Henry Print Co plant and evicted about 80 sit-down strikers who had occupied since March 11. Fifty officers surrounded the plant at 9:35 am and the strikers surrendered peacefully. A court order had been issued to bar occupancy, but service had been delayed. The eviction coincides with a threatened city-wide auto workers strike involving up to 175,000 members.
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Detroit
Thomas P. Henry Print Co
Homer Ferguson
Associated Prean
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers
Frances Perkins
New York
Walter P. Chrysler
John L.' Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organizaon
UWA
Chrysler
Philip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
F. W. Woolworth
Akron
Ohio
Anderson
Jed
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L
Seven Die in Bloody Riot in Ponce Puerto Rico
Bloody street clashes between police and nationalist demonstrators for independence from the United States left seven dead and 59 wounded. Police fired on a crowd assembling at Marina and Jobos streets after a parade permit was cancelled amid talks with nationalist leaders. Twenty two nationalist women and 46 men were arrested after order was restored.
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Ponce
Puerto Rico
United States
Marina
Jobos
Felipe Blanco
Seriouly
Kentucky Weather Outlook With Light Rain Likely
Cloudy with a chance of light rain tonight. Tuesday will be warmer with occasional showers. Temperatures steady with little change. Kentucky forecast highlights include unsettled skies and rising temps through the period.
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Shovers
Verature
Kentucky
Break Between Reich and Church Forecast Shocks Berlin
In Berlin on March 22 a papal letter accusing the Nazi regime of violating the Vatican concordat sparked a clash with the church. The Voelkischer Beobachter warned that the concordat could be canceled as the state questioned church provisions while criticizing letters that demean Nazi policy. The dispute centers on Catholic education rights and the fate of church-state relations under Hitler.
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Berlin
Germany
Vatican
Holy See
Holy Father
Sundsy
Reich
Nazi Germany
Attorneys Seek Admission of Nesro to College
A Tennessee case before Chancellor Bejach involves William Redmond suing to compel the pharmacy dean to admit Nesro, arguing color violates the state constitution and fourteenth amendment. Redmond says separate instruction should be provided under state law, while Edwin Hunt argues for separate schools as required by constitution and statutes.
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University of Tennessees
Keneery
Canley
Vermesser
Wiliam 3. Redmond
Houston
Iedmond
Edwin PF. Hunt
Tennessee
Records show Harlan Coal Operators kept no expense logs
Washington March 22 George Ward secretary of the Harlan County Ky Coal Operators Association testified before the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee that the group kept no expenditure records for three or four years and destroyed bank statements and vouchers month to month He described making multiple copies of financial statements then tearing them up Ward also said the association had no weapons or peace officers beyond a field deputy sheriff named B F Unthank The committee sought arms purchase records and communications with the operators association from 15 coal companies and produced some records while avoiding public release of correspondence
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Washington
George Ward
Harlan County
Coal Operators Association
Ward
la Follette Civil Liberties Committee
Harlan Coal Fields
B. F. Unthank
Harlan
la Follette
Wis
Unthank
Weer
Operators Association
Strance
Newell G. Alford
Clover Splint Coat Company
Pittsburgh
Theodore R. Middleton
Green Silvers Coal Company
Magistrates Map School Proposal At Sulivan County Court
Three draft proposals for county school relief will be presented at the Sullivan County Court meeting in Blountville on April 4. Proposals include rescinding the $800,000 bond plan, a $250,000 county bond for school use with city shares, and a county plus city shares plan, with final bond total around $400,900 depending on the feasible option.
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Stempers
Sulivan County Court
Blountville
Kingsport
Bristol
Brisatol
School Leader Admits Gas Line Install at London Disaster
W C Shaw superintendent testified he was partly responsible for an informal gas line connection used to heat London school before the explosion that killed 455 pupils and teachers. He said he had not known any specific objection and spoke after losing a son in the blast.
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New London
Tex
W. C. Shaw
London School
Shaw
John Dial
Earl Clover
Parade
Memphis dress plant workers strike over union contract
In Memphis on March 22 a girl employee at Kuhn Manufacturing dress plant quit after management refused to sign an International Ladies Garment Workers Union contract. About 35 to 7 girls affected by business. No disorder reported. Police limited pickets to three on plant side while others watched from across. Wages cited at $10 to $12 weekly, union argues average is $3.73. Company says it would grant reasonable demands but not a union contract.
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Memphis
Kuhn Manufacturing Company
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
John L. Lewis’ Committee For Industrial ‘Organization
Will D. Lee
Merle Zappone
Anion
W. B. Rosenfield
J. P. Kuhn
Hughes Letter on Court Text of Hughes Letter on Court
Washington March 22 The following is the text of Chief Justice Hughes letter to the senate judiciary committee detailing the Supreme Court work For the October term 1936 argument has been heard in 150 merits with 28 cases awaiting argument The Court reports no calendar congestion and expects to dispose of all ready cases before adjournment Original jurisdiction includes thirteen cases involving states Appellate jurisdiction covers right to appeal and writs of certiorari A comparative docket statement is provided for six prior terms with totals of cases and dispositions
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Washington
Hughes
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wheeler
Supreme Court
Cériorari
van Devanter
Brandeis
Cumplings
Cummings
Als
Roosevelt
Committee Seeks Johnson Views on War Profiteering Bill
Washington March 22 The House Military Affairs Committee asked General Hugh B. Johnson to testify on the Sheppard Hill bill to curb wartime profiteering by taxing corporate earnings above prewar averages. Johnson, ex NRA administrator, would draw on War Industries Board experience. The hearing accompanied routine appropriations bills in both chambers as Sen Wheeler urged limits on the Supreme Court and labor dispute studies continued.
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Washington
House
Congress
Judiciary Committee
Wheeler D
Monk
Supreme Court
Senate
Navy
State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments
la Follettee
iCivil
Harlan
County
The
Nations Association of Manufacturers
Isues
Hull Uses Undercover Work to Drive European Peace
Secretary Hull has pursued European peace beyond his House committee testimony. He advised a foreign statesman to adopt the Buenos Aires Pan American peace program and has worked with Washington reps of foreign governments. He pushes eight pillars of peace as a practical guiding doctrine and aims to inspire Europe to face its crises without delay.
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Dravitt MacKenzie
Ashington
Hull
House
Europe
Buenos Aires
Oxford Group
Washington
Hughes says more justices would not aid the court
Chief Justice Hughes tells Senate Judiciary Committee that increasing Supreme Court justices would not boost efficiency or prompt prompt, adequate work. He notes the court functions as a unit, warns of division decyzions and says current number is sufficient. He says the court will hear 28 cases awaiting argument this term and denies congestion claims.
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Washington
Hughes
Senate Judiciary Committees
Wheeler
Mont
Supreme Court
van Devanter
Brandeis
Montana
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Tenn
Clay
James
Anderson Barger
Barger
Texas
Tyler
London Consolidated School
New London Texas
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Pineville
United Mine Workers of America
Pioneer Coal Company
Kettle Island
D. M. Bingham
Arthur Jackson
M. Hutson
Bill Smith
Allen Brock
Tubbock
F. A. Liegd
Ivas
Pope
Nesro
Garment Workers
Johnson
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