Labor unions unite in bold AFL CIO merger push
Washington May 2 Organized labor plans a potent march after the AFL CIO merger. Meany and Reuther chart drives to mobilize the labor vote and recruit millions, especially white collar workers in the South, while seeking a stronger bargaining position on wages hours and benefits.
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APL
Pot Seet
America
Meany
Reuther
Lewis
Thei
Willj
Don Whitehead
Washington
AFL and Cio
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Colllar
Siates
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Labor
AFI
O10
George Meany
AFL
Walter Reuther
CIO
Jion
Lnhor
John L. Lewis
Residents protest Whiskey Bottom Road naming in Laurel
In Laurel Maryland locals clash over signs at Whisky Bottom Road near U S 1. Albert Dalton owner of two motels reports vandalism to a large historical sign reading Whiskey Bottom Road Circa 1952. Residents defend the name as historical, while newcomers call it a relic of prohibition era and push to rename it Payuxent Drive.
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Payuxent Drive
Dalton
Hotel Sticks To Rule On Free Children In Rochester Tale
In Saginaw Michigan Bancroft Hotel keeps policy of admitting children free while a Rochester couple visits for a wedding. They ask about road signs, the clerk confirms free admission for nine children, and Manager James Tuttman confirms the policy as the family occupies four rooms for the price of one.
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Saginaw
Mich
Bancroft
Cal
Iren
James Younk
Rochester
Asi
Yount
James Ruttman
Tuttman
Unclear fragments report US airbase incident and deaths
A garbled dispatch outlines an accident or incident involving US servicemen with references to Berlin Warsaw timing and a driving lesson. It mentions a woman Norma, 22, and Chuck Taylor, a local air year old, plus a mismerged note about meningitis, a car wreck, and Japan’s economy.
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Berlin
Soviet Union
Pettshurgh UR
Herbert Kalamazoo
Mich
Warsaw
Smead
Chuck Taylor
Paris
West Germany
Ais
Norma
Ghuck
James
Palmore
U.S
Japan
Chuck
Juror Explains Quick Marriage Delays Opening Murder Trial
Defense attorney Isaac Mellman questions Edward Sachs as a murder trial opens. Sachs says he is newly married, creating a potential fairness concern.
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Denver
Isaac Mellman
Edward Sachs
Aji
Sachs
Postman Receives Heroism Certificate for Rescuing Dog
Postman Raymond Collins earned a heroism certificate from the Anti-Cruelty Society for entering a burning house and rescuing a dog. Collins, who has been bitten three times by dogs, urged that all dogs do not hate postmen.
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cHicaGo
Raymond Collins
Anto-Crueley Society
Dharning
Collins
Jury Seeks Trial For Ironworkers In Memphis Case
A 30 man jury panel was summoned in Memphis to try 28 ironworkers charged with common affray after a labor dispute sparked a gunfight at a construction site. Five AFL Yon workers were wounded last August as non union labor clashed with union men at Jones Bros. Equipment Co. trial.
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Memphis
AFL Yonworkers Union
Tabgrounds
Jones Bros. Equipment Co
Dyersburg
Tena
Bull. B. Ballard
W. L. Fitzgerald
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