Looms Across Canada Packing for Higher Wages and Shorter Hours
The United Packinghouse Workers of America district 10 seeks a 30 percent wage rise and a 40 hour week as part of a master agreement with Canada Packers Swift Canadian Burns and Company. About 12,900 workers from Moncton to Vancouver could trigger a national strike if talks fail. Current pay ranges from 59 to 96 cents per hour with a 48 hour week. expiration is Nov 1.
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United Packinghouse Workers of America
C.SO
Canada Packers
Swift Canadian Company
Burns and Company
Moncton
N.B
Vancouver
Canada
Dowling
Dominion
Winnipeg
Regina
Prince Albert
Edmonton
Rachards commission
Toronto
1600 Miners Walkout Spreads Across Western Canada
In a developing labor action 1600 workers from Canadian Collieries Limited at Cumberland B C joined a growing walkout affecting about 8500 miners in Alberta and British Columbia. Following earlier strikes, tens of hundreds of miners across Drumheller Crow's Nest Pass Coal Branch and Mountain Park Mercoal districts quit work amid meat rationing protests. Fire bosses also declared a holiday over meat shortages. Edmonton mines remain in operation.
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United Mine Workers of America
C.C.S
Alberta
British Columbia
Canadian
Cumberland
B.C
Drumheller
Crow’s Nest Pass
Lascar
Saunders Creek
Coal Branch
Mountain Park
Mercoal
Chewing Gum for Civilians Ends War Dept Offer
The United States war department has canceled contracts for 20,000,000 packages of chewing gum valued at 600,000 dollars, ending an army ration that supplied gum to American troops overseas. Civilians now may demand the gum, reversing the wartime policy that used gum as a nerve soother for troops. The Free Press notes the shift as reconversion headaches rise and civilian need for a mild sedative grows.
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United States war department
Winnipeg Free Press
Washington
America
Winnipeg Grenadier claims height shrinkage while prisoner
Private C. J. Birch of the Winnipeg Grenadiers says he shrank half an inch in captivity among Japanese prisoners. He arrived home with six feet one inch before the war, now reports six feet five inches tall reflecting the recent travel and service.
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WINNIPEG
Pte
Cc. J. Birch
Hong Kong
Heavy Tasks For GB
Parliament reopens Oct 9 with a Labor dominated Commons. Attlee leads 400+ Labor MPs into session while Churchill returns to lead a 200-strong opposition. A threefold program aims to speed demobilization and manpower readjustment, improve housing for displaced citizens, and reverse coal production decline.
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S. FRASER WIGHTON
LONDON
Reuters
house of commons
Attlee
commons
Winston Churchill
hns
Great Britain
Britain
Acting Allied Commander In Mediterranean Named
Gen. Joseph Y. T. McNarney of the United States army was named acting Allied supreme commander in the Mediterranean effective Oct 1. He will take over from Field Marshal Gen. Sir Harold Alexander who left for England. Lt Gen W D Morgan of the British army was chosen acting deputy supreme commander.
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RCME
Joseph YT. McNarney
United States army
Mediterranean
McNarney
Harold Alexander
Canada
England
W. D. Morgan
Japanese professor Miki dies in prison in Tokyo
The Mainichi reports philosopher Kiyoshi Miki died in prison and that an undetermined number of Japanese political prisoners remain jailed.
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TOKYO
Mainichi
Kiyoshi Miki
Train wreck kills 39 near London in 1940s disaster
Rescue workers fear more bodies may be buried as the Scottish Express plunged 20 feet from a Hertfordshire embankment while en route from Perth to London. Forty injured and eight servicemen among the dead, including a Canadian, as drivers and signalmen reported a scene rivaling London air raids. The wreck happened after switching lines for repairs in Boxmoor tunnel.
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BOURNE END
Hertfordshire
England
C.P
London
London, Midland and Scottish railway
Perth
Scotland
Boxmoor
No Papers In Four Montana Cities
Four Montana cities faced Sunday without newspapers as an AFL A ITW strike continued into its second day. Printers walked out in Butte Helena Missoula and Anaconda affecting six dailies the Montana Standard Butte the Anaconda Standard Sunday edition daily Missoulian Helena Independent Record Butte Daily Post and Missoula Sentinel. Commercial job shows also hit. Post Publishing Company manager cited retaliation over contract. union rep demanded a 16 percent wage increase and said no contract exists.
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BUTTE
Mont
Montana
Missoula
Helena Independent Record
Butte Daily Post
Tension Eases in Argentina After Siege Crackdown
Buenos Aires reports indicate tension is easing as hundreds detained last week under the state of siege declared by the military government are released. The movement follows ongoing stabilization efforts and a calmer political backdrop in the capital and key provinces.
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BUENOS AIRES
Argentina
Parliamentary News Briefs From Ottawa October 1
Recon struction Minister Howe indicated a house war expenditures committee will be announced this week to decide if it sits in camera. A sub committee may probe War Assets Corporation internal management. Howe said questions on sales would be answered in committee where officers could be interrogated. He warned against risky investments before agreements are signed. Fair urges clear titles for veterans under Soldiers Settlement Act. He cites hardships, inflationary prices, high interest, and costly cancellations totaling 88 million, with only 25 percent of settlers remaining on land. Justice Minister St Laurent states crown will not press charges against Adrien Arcand. He also introduces a bill to create a prize court and prize law to replace the War Measures Act order.
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OTTAWA
Howe
commons
house
War Assets Corporation
Stanley Knowles
C.C
Winnipeg North Centre
Robert Fair
Social Credit
Alberta
Battle River
Soldiers Settlement Board
St. Laurent
Adrien Arcand
Montreal
PRIZE COURT
Canada
Exchequer Court of Canaad
King sails for Britain on Queen Mary
Prime Minister King boarded the liner Queen Mary in New York for a trip to England and Europe. He met President Truman in Washington and will see Prime Minister Attlee on arrival overseas.
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KING
New York
England
Europe
President Truman
Washington
Attlee
Britain
Russians Refuse Pact in Balkans Talks
London October 1 The Soviet Union reportedly refused to sign conference documents unless its Balkan treaty demands were met. Molotov urged that only Britain the USSR and the United States design peace pacts with Romania Bulgaria and Hungary. China urged a new meeting as talks stretched past 1 a.m. A Pacific peace commission was announced to shape Japan surrender terms with Britain Russia China and later others invited to join including Canada France Philippines Australia New Zealand and the Netherlands with India potentially aboard.
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LONDON
council of foreign ministers
Enrone
Soviet Union
Molotov
Britain
U.S.S.R
United States
Balkans
PACIFIC COMMISSION
Byrnes
Pacific
Great Britain
Russia
Victoria Butchers Rally for Tuesday Store Openings
About 50 Victoria butchers on a weeklong strike over meat rationing bought stock from wholesalers in preparation for reopening their shops tomorrow. Jack Stuart, a Retail Butchers' Association executive member, said the group will monitor eastern Canada rationing developments and could resume closures if another large protest there occurs.
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VICTORIA
Jack Stuart
Retail Butchers' Association
Victoria group
Canada
Victoria butchers
Troops on the Move Homeward Bound Parade of Veterans
Arrived at Halifax Nieuw Amsterdam Saturday with 7,744 servicemen including over 6,000 from the 1st Canadian Division, 871 RCAF personnel, 11 Wrens and other groups. Due at Halifax Ile De France Monday with 6,061 veterans aboard.
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Halifax
Nieuw-Amsterdam
R.C.A.F
Ile De France
U.S. Strikers Back On Job After Nationwide Pause
The United States labor strike total slid to about 352000 as of today, the first major drop in over a week. White collar workers at Westinghouse ended a Sept 9 walkout affecting 14 plants. 15000 New York City building service workers returned. Colorado Fuel and Iron Minnesqua Steel workers also ended their actions. Ongoing and threatened actions involve oil workers in California and Allegheny Valley, Caterpillar Peoria plant workers, Frigidaire Dayton plants, and 200000 telephone workers. Other large stops persist across oil, wood, automotive, mining, and textile sectors with sizable regional concentrations.
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NEW YORK
A.c
United States
Westinghouse Electric company
New York City
Colorado Fuel and Iron Minnesqua Steel
Union Oil company
Oleum
Wilmington
Calif
C.I.O. Oil Workers union
Allegheny Valley
Pennsylvania
United Farm Equipment Workers
Peoria, Ill
Caterpillar Tractor company
Dayton, O
General Motors
Frigidaire Division
Detroit
West Virgin
Newark, N.J
No Information On Collaboration In POW Camp Accounts
Ottawa reports Defence Minister Abbott said no evidence exists of Canadian prisoners of war collaborating with the Japanese. He cited no information from Far East missions or Chungking, though inquiries were ordered after reading a Vancouver Daily Province dispatch. Maj. Gen. Ernest Walford will probe among returning prisoners in San Francisco.
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OTTAWA
Defence
Abbott
Far East
Gordon Root
Vancouver
Canada
Root
North America
Guam
Chungking
Ernest Walford
San Francisco
Workers Skip Sunday Shift at Steel Company of Canada
About 60 employees in the hot mill department of the Steel Company of Canada in Hamilton did not report for Sunday work, claiming a 17th weekly turn contrary to a union agreement. The workers are Local 1005 members of United Steelworkers of America C.I.O.
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HAMILTON
Ont
Steel Company of Canada hot mill department
United Steelworkers of America
Winnipeg Grain Exchange Keeps Daylight Saving Time
Winnipeg traders remain aligned with Daylight Saving for another month after Canada and the United States switch to Standard Time on September 30. The exchange will continue DST until November 1, causing some schedule confusion for members.
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WINNIPEG
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Canada
United States
grain exchange
Plan World Meet To Lower Tariffs
Ottawa reports progress toward calling an international trade conference next year under United Nations auspices. Aimed at a multilateral agreement to reduce barriers including quotas embargoes and tariffs and to establish an international supervision clearinghouse within a UN agency. Britain and the United States may align views through discussions led by Lord Keynes touching on policy and finance.
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OTTAWA
United Nations
United Nations organization
international civil aviation organization
food and agriculture organization
general United Nations organization
economic and social council
Lord Keynes
Washington
Britain
United States
No Ration Talk At Wednesday Meet
Ottawa reports K W Taylor foods coordinator for the Prices Board says a Wednesday meeting with the Retail Merchants Association of Canada advisory committee will focus purely on the mechanics of meat rationing and will discuss no change to rationing. The government position is that meat rationing will continue with no modification expected.
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OTTAWA
K. W Taylor
Prices Board
Retail Merchants Association of Canada
Taylor
Prime Minister Mackenzie King Sails for Great Britain
Prime Minister Mackenzie King prepares to sail for the United Kingdom on the Queen Mary for an extended Atlantic crossing to gain first hand insight into postwar Europe. Norman Robertson accompanies him as external affairs under-secretary. King met President Truman in Washington for two hours, declining to reveal details of their talks.
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NEW YORK
Canada
Mackenzie King
United Kingdom
Europe
Ottawa
Norman Robertson
King
Washington
President Truman
White House
London
Alberta Miners Hold Fast in Holiday Strike Standoff
In Southern Alberta about 6,000 miners remain idle as work stoppages spread to Mountain Park and Mercoal in the Coal Branch district over meat rationing. Workers demand a larger meat ration and removal of cooked meats from rations. Despite the dispute, miners at home near Crow's Nest Pass keep busy with repairs and winter prep while some plan hunting.
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Alberta
Mountain Park
Mercoal
Coal Branch
Mountain Pork
dou
Crow's Nest Pass
Michel Mines Provide Coal For By-Product Plant
In Natal B C the Michel mines resume work to supply coal for the by product plant under union approval. Ovens must stay heated to avoid costly damage, and output goes to support the by product ovens while miners use holidays to hunt. Meat ration protests have idleled Alberta miners, Natal Michel shops close until Wednesday.
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NATAL
B.C
Michel
Michel local union
Alberta
Natal-Michel
senson
Four Canadians killed in London train wreck in Hertfordshire
Four Canadians, including one from western Canada Gov William C Burleigh Herbert Sask, died when the Perth London express derailed near Bourne End Hertfordshire October 1. At least 41 lives lost and over 100 injured in the crash.
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LONDON
BOURNE END
Hertfordshire
Eng
C.P. Cable
western Canada
William C. Burleigh
Herbert, Sask
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Dick) Malone
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