Five Manitoba Arctic Silence Is Broken Plants Strike
Five hundred workers at five Manitoba independent meat packing plants walk out joining a nation wide wage strike by the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Pickets began at 6 a.m and most plants halted production leaving Winnipeg meatless for the weekend as conciliation talks were considered.
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Manitoba
Fve
United Packinghouse Workers of America
St. Boniface
Winnipeg
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Meatless Days Certainty For Coast Householders
Vancouver households face meat shortages as three packing plants close or prepare to close. Gainers Limited and Fletchers Limited shut by noon, Pacific Meat Company to close Friday, affecting about 125 workers. Meatless menus rise and supplies shrink as strikes spread across British Columbia and coastal shipping and railway services brace for disruption.
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VANCOUVER
C.P
Gainers Limited
Fletchers Limited
Pacific Meat Company
Swift Canadian
Canada Packets
Burns and Co
Meat Strike May Force British Bacon Ration Cut
Canadian food experts predict a Dominion packinghouse strike will nearly certainly reduce Britain's two ounce weekly bacon ration. Officials note shipments slid to 5.5 million pounds last month from 20 million, jeopardizing the 1947 bacon export plan and a 265 million pound minimum British contract.
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U.K
OTTAWA
United Kingdom
Britain
Atlantic seaboard
Canada
Cucumber profits spur new Island farm industry
W L Clark notes growers on Ward Island earn up to 500 per acre from cucumbers as a pickle company opens a plant and contracts farmers. Prices rise with larger crops while transport limits hinder cake shipments to Ottawa. The Gulf of St Lawrence venture promises steady income through hard work in harvesting cakes.
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Prince Ed
Attempted theft of Princess Elizabeth wedding gown secrets
London reports two men tried to bribe a guard to reveal secrets of Princess Elizabeth's wedding gown. A watch kept on the pair by security guards followed them. Scotland Yard could not confirm details.
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LONDON
Deily Express
Scotland Yard
goard
west end
CCL Debates Communism Split at National Convention
Delegates at the Canadian Congress of Labour split over Communism with a new anti Communism and anti capitalism resolution on the agenda. Yesterday's debate produced a fierce, two hour clash and a 546 to 165 roll call supporting the anti Communist stand.
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TORONTO
Congress of Labor
United Electrical Workers
International Woodworkers of America
Russia
Radio Plans To Evacuate Missionary In Arctic
CORAL HARBOR N W T Oct. A seriously injured missionary John H M Turner was to be evacuated by boat by the RCAF Dakota after a rifle bullet pierced his upper lip and lodged in his brain. A small set kept contact with the plane and base at Moffat Inlet while a rescue team coordinated with Hudson’s Bay Company aid to send a boat from Arctic Inlet.
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Moffat Inlet
Baffin Island
Canon John A. Turner
Canon Turner
RCAF
Dakota
Coral Harbor
N.W.T
John HM. Turner
Arctic
Bob Race
Ross Willoughey
Race
H.E. CO
Hudsett’s Bay Company
Arctic Inlet
Willoughby
Northwestern Air
Gooymand
Edmonton
Churchill
Rivers, Man
Corn Harbor
Southampton Island
Arctic Circe
Ross Willoughby
vterar
Guy D'Artois
U S Tanker In Distress Off Labrador in Storm
A United States army tanker bound from Goose Bay to St John's reported distress off the east of Labrador in heavy seas. One engine failed and steering difficulty hindered progress as rescue services, RGAE, mobilized to assist.
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HALIFAX
Oct
United States army
Labrador
Goose Bay
St John’s
Rocket Plane Reaches 900 MPH Tests Over Atlantic
A pilotless RAF supplied rocket plane reached about 900 miles per hour in an Atlantic launch seven miles up, testing air resistance and stability for ultra speed flight as part of supersonic research. It will inform later models while human risk is avoided.
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PADSTOW
Cornwall
England
Atlantic
supply ministry
Cripps warns of deeper cuts as Britain taps reserves
Sir Stafford Cripps warned at a London press conference that without new dollar aid Europe and Britain will cut further on imports. He said Britain is dipping into gold and dollar reserves and that the problem stems from the Paris report. He noted the need to balance by boosting exports while reserves may not cover ongoing deficits. He questioned whether Britain can draw on the remaining US loan and predicted limited impact on export balance with the United States.
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LONDON
Reuters
Stafford Cripps
Europe
Britain
sterling
Stafford
Darrow
Paris
Sir Stafford
United States
Major General Kepner Leads New US Air Force Atomic Unit
Major General William E Kepner, shown above, was named chief of air force atomic research, linking to his role as deputy air commander at the Bikini Atoll atomic tests Operation Crossroads.
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ials
Francs Taylor
England
Stephenville
Brize Norton
London
Wilmington
Benjamin S Kelsey
Keesey
US army air force
William E Kepner
air force atomic research
Kepner
Bikini
G B Cabinet Reshuffle in Attlee Government
London reports a large cabinet reshuffle the biggest since Labour took power. Shinwell moves from war secretary to outside-cabinet role as new junior ministers are promoted. Sir Stafford Cripps joins economic affairs and Harold Wilson becomes president of the board of trade.
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LONDON
C.P.J
Laboramet
Shinwell
East End
Attlee
Stafford Cripp
Arthur Greenwood
Sir Stafford
The Times
day
Manchester Guardian
Labor
George Isaacs
Alfred Barnes
Daily Mall
Communist Daily Worker
Britain
America
Conervatie Daily
Emanuel Stunnell
Socialst
Union Suspend Triggered by Dues Increase
The American Federation of Hosiery Workers, a national union representing about 30 000 workers in hosiery mills, was suspended from affiliation with the CTO by its parent Textile Workers Union of America for refusing to pay a 50 percent dues increase.
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PHILADELPHIA
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
CTO
Textile Workers Union of America
A.F HW
United States
Glasgow foster-mother seeks Canadian couple to adopt three month old boy
Barbara Bacher of Willowbrae Glasgow appeals in a Vancouver newspaper for a Canada adoption, offering two lovely wee boys with dark brown eyes and noting a Vancouver couple wished to adopt a baby boy. The letter mentions the boy is three months old and must go out for adoption.
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VANCOUVER
Glasgow
Canada
Barbara Bacher
Abercorn Grove
Willowbrae Glasgow
UN Balkans debate narrows to U.S. and Soviet proposals
In a heated United Nations political committee session in Lake Success on October 8, delegates moved toward a compromise between American and Russian plans on the Greece Balkans quarrel. The two main proposals call for either a border vigil and new Balkans commission or withdrawal of foreign troops from Greece with a UN body to supervise aid. The two thirds vote by the assembly remains.
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Balkan
Albania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Balkans ‘nvestigating
Rusain
Greece
Balkans
assembly
tate
Balkan commissions
Ales Bebler
Strike averted as marine engineers reach late night pact
British Columbia coast shipping threatened by a strike was averted after an 11th hour conference between the Marine Engineers Union AFL and G H Batille of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A pause in the walkout followed the agreement.
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MARINE ENGINEERS
STRIKF AVE
VANCOUVER
British Columbia
Marine Engineers Union
AFL
G. H. Batille
Pacific region
Canadian Pacific Railway
MONTREAL
Canada Packers Limited
Wilsit Limited
BURWASH
ICFP
Ralphers
ecape
Cardston
Macleod
Pineber Creek
Lethbridge-Cardston
MARTIN
GRANT
PORT ARTHUR
Charles
Chuck} Martin
Joseph Grant
Schreiber
OTTAWA
RAICPJ
Board of Transport
sioners
Canadian railways
Canada
United States
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George H Waillie
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yropee
CCL
C.C L
George Harris
Harvey Ladd
Sudbury
Hudson's Bay Co
U.S
Prestle ts oohob
Ben Lockspelser
ministry
DAYTON. O
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all weather flying centre
offic
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G.B
CLO
Spots Forger
Lillian Allies Whillans
Winniyes
Royal Bank
William Chopic
Miss Whillans
Nipwera
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