U.S. Textile Workers Threaten Walk-Out
A large wave of labor action looms as 6,000 textile workers in the Paterson area walk out, closing 26 plants and signaling potential nationwide effects. Officials say 68,000 more could lose jobs in 214 plants across nine states, with up to 500,000 garment workers affected. The broader labor unrest includes CIO oil workers and other strikes, while talks in Washington seek to resolve wage demands after a 13-day Paterson dispute.
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Associated Press
United States labor front
Paterson
C.I.C. anion
ONO
New York City
C.I.O
Chicago
Washington
C.10. Federation of Dyers
America
Prices Board to Compel Renting of Vacant Homes
Vancouver September 28 Donald Gordon national chairman of the prices board said the board will compel landlords to rent vacant housing before winter. He stated the board is prepared to provide emergency shelter and to apply compulsion where properties are unreasonably withheld from rental. there will be no compulsory billeting.
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VANCOUVER
C.P
Donald Gordon
the
prices board
Gordon
Left Hand Corner on Law and French Court Procedure
Ottawa Journal London correspondent notes shocking differences between English and French trials including admissibility of third party testimony and broader cross examination rules. Refers to Lord Russell and the Dreyfus case as contrasts. Holland's housing report says 181,000 of 269,000 damaged homes repaired despite lumber shortages.
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London
Ottawa Journal
Lord Russell of
Hallowen
Dreyfus
Rennes
HOLLAND
Netherlands News
Vancouver to Lethbridge air service mooted by Brisbane Aviation
ELOWNA BC Sept 28 The Brisbane Aviation Company Ltd of Vancouver plans a daily air service to interior British Columbia once a franchise is obtained. Flights would run Vancouver to Lethbridge with stops at Kamloops Penticton and Cranbrook. Kelowna and Vernon fields would become stops. Calgary firms also eye the Okanagan Valley.
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ELOWNA
B.C
C.P
Brisbane Aviation Company Ltd
Vancouver
interior of
British Columbia
department of tranport
Lethbridge
Alla
Kamloops
Penticton
Cranbrook
Kelowna
Vernon
Calgary
Okanagan Valley
Government Wins By 25 27 Majorities On Divisions
OTTAWA Sent 28 The Liberal government after last June’s election survived its first major test in parliament. It secured majorities of 25 and 27 on divisions over the throne speech and farm parity prices. Opposition groups united on two amendments, defeated 116-91 and 117-90, as Bracken and Gardiner led the debate. Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced plans to visit Britain and European battlefields next week to discuss postwar decisions.
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OTTAWA
Progressive Conservative
C.C.F
Social Credit
Independent— united
Liberals
Independent Liberals
BRACKEN
GARDINER
John Bracken
Mad Farmer Is Captured Near Farm Shooting Case
LANGLEY PRAIRIE, BC Sept 28 C P J Mona han 53 a former inmate of a mental institution was held in custody awaiting preliminary hearing on murder charge in the death of 10 year old Doreen Ryan. He was captured yesterday near the shooting scene after hiding with his dog in a hayloft as armed posses searched the area 25 miles southeast of Vancouver. Monahan appeared before Magistrate C W Porpy and was remanded to Oct. The boy’s mother and police describe a fatal shooting with a rifle in a rent-house on the Monahan farm. This is the third child slaying in an epidemic on the lower mainland with two other cases reported in Vancouver. Continued on Page Three.
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LANGLEY PRAIRIE
C.P.J—Nobel Monahan
Doreen Ryan
Monahan
Vancouver
C. W. Porpy
Thomas Ryan
Doreen
Ryans
Ryan
nho
lower mainland
George Higgenson
Dianne Punt
new
Calgary Mayor Plans To Retire
Calgary Mayor Andrew Davison announced he will retire as mayor at year end after 22 years in city service including 16 as mayor and six as alderman. He cites health as a reason and will not seek re election. He plans to travel to Vancouver and later attend the Alberta legislature session before deciding next steps.
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CALGARY
C.P
Andrew Davison
M.I.A
Vancouver
Davison
Alberta
Budget Before LoanDrive In Ottawa September 28
Finance Minister Hiley is set to unveil the budget days before the Victory Loan campaign kicks off October 22. He plans a Western Canada tour tied to the loan. debate will likely wait until his return. An appropriation bill covering war and rehabilitation costs of 1.385 billion is introduced today to cover Sept 1 to March 31 next. Income taxes will align to calendar year, leaving under three months of the year for adjustments. The general view is no major changes to this year’s income taxes, with cuts slated to begin next year for salaries wages and other earnings.
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OTTAWA
Hiley
Canada
commons
Tisley
C.P
Mstey
pariament
Asley
Total number of Canadians liberated exceeds one thousand
Ottawa reports Defense headquarters released its 16th list naming 98 Canadian army personnel captured in Hong Kong and now officially reported liberated from the Japanese. The list brings the total of Canadians officially named as safe in Allied hands to 1,142.
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OTTAWA
Defrence
Hong Kong
Ration Ban Lifted on Farm Machines for Farmers
The prices board announced the lifting of all ration restrictions on farm machinery and equipment including tractors. Dealers must honor outstanding ration certificates before new accounts. Production is expected to rise twenty percent this year with preference to returning servicemen, aiding Canadian farmers.
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UAWA
C.P
prices board
Heavy sentences for Canadian soldiers in treason trials
London Sept 28 A Britain Cable report says three Canadian army soldiers were convicted of aiding the enemy while POWs and received prison terms from life to ten years. Pte John Gordon Galaher Windsor Ontario 34 was sentenced. Pte Edwin Barnaed rlin Riverside Ontario 26 got 25 years. Pte George Ale 24 Windsor Ontario Mich born Vassar Michigan formerly Windsor Ont got 10 years. All were discharged with ignominy.
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LONDON
lfe
martul
John Gordon Galaher
Windsor
Ont
Edwin Barnaed rlin
Riverside
George ale
Vassar
Mich
Ottawa War Term Expenditures Hit Over 5 Billion
Ottawa reports final war year outlays exceed 5 billion dollars with estimates for 1946-47 at about 3.9 to 4.0 billion and a Ninth Victory Loan aimed at 1.5 billion. Finance Minister Ashley outlined allocations for army navy and air force plus loans to Allied nations and UN ARRA contributions as Parliament debates the war bill through March 1946.
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Tisley
navy
air force
U.N. A.R.A
London
Tigley
Montreal Stores Reopen After Meat Strike Ends
Meat stores in Montreal began reopening after a four day strike over meat rationing ended in an agreement with the Food Distributors Association. Dock workers returned to the waterfront as negotiations suggested Ottawa action and a three month suspension of rationing with a voluntary system to be tested.
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HAROLD FREEMAN
ONTREAL
Montreal
Ernest Chartrand
J. O. Herouwx
province of Quebec Food Distributors Inc
Ottawa
distributors association
Chartrand
Food Distributors association
OTTAWA VISTE
New Meat Ration Talks Set Amid Montreal Strike
UTAWA Sept 28 A meeting between meat trade representatives and prices board officials is planned for next Wednesday to discuss Canada’s rationing. Violence flared in Montreal butcher strike as 4 560 western Canada coal miners quit work in protest. A board official said the Canadian Retail Merchants Association formed a committee and requested the talks, which the board agreed to, with the meeting to cover the general rationing system.
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UTAWA
C.P
meat trade and prices board
Canada
Montreal
western Canada
prices board
Canadian Retail Merchants Association
Miners Stand Solid On Protest Against Rationing
EDMONTON Sept 28 The heavy heads of about 4500 families in Western Canada's coal districts take a second holiday as they protest meat rationing of 214 pounds weekly. The standstill halts 24 mines in Southern Alberta. Union officials in Ottawa seek higher meat allotments while Finance Minister Isley says no solution yet. In Deumheller valley 1800 workers idle and 500 more in Lethbridge field off work. Provincial mines officials warn a long strike could hurt winter production. Drumheller valley two thousand miners and hutchers stay solid in meat rationing demand as the tie-up continues.
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EDMONTON
C.P
Canada
Alberta
Unite Mine Workers of America
Ottawa
Prices Board
Isley
Deumheller
Crow's Nest Pass
Lethbridge
department of mines
DRUMHELLER
Atta
IC.P
Drumheller valley
Massacre Probe Leads to 34 Japanese Officers Seized
General MacArthur orders seizure of 34 Japanese officers and men tied to the mass murder of Allied POWs at Palawan Philippines. Details describe soldiers herding prisoners into a shelter, dousing with gasoline, and killing them with torches, machine guns, grenades, or bayonets.
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TOKYO
MacArthur
Paliwan
Philippines
Ole Satoshi
Supreme Almed
Japan
empire
Gen. MacArthur
Japanise stock exchange
socialist party
liberal
imperial
Mainichi
Emmernr Hirohito
Miners Idle Across Natal and Fernie BC in Rationing Protest
About 1,000 miners in Natal and Fernie BC are idle following protests over rationing policy. They stopped work at 1 a.m. Thursday. mass meetings were planned locally to decide whether to continue the strike. Butcher shops may close if the strike persists. In Blairmore, Crow's Nest Pass mines also idle with butchers closed. no word yet on Ottawa's response to demands for higher meat rations.
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NATAL
B.C
al Michel-Natal
Fernie
Mauss
Herald
BLAIRMORE
Crow's Nest
Crow's Nest Pass
UMW. of A
Otta
Central Alberta butchers close union vote protest action
CAMBOSE Sept 28 Uren said at a meeting last night plans to rerun closed in protest against meat shortages. Meat retailers of the union in nearly 30 central Alberta cities have been closed.
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CAMBOSE
C — Centre
Alberta Butchers Uren
Alberca
Mellraith named parliamentary assistant to Reconstruction Minister Howe
Ottawa announcement in the commons states George Mellraith Ottawa West has been appointed parliamentary assistant to the Reconstruction Minister. In Athens, Canadian ambassador Major General L R LaFleche presented credentials to Archbishop Damaskinos, the regent, and was received in audience.
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OTTAWA
C.P
lisley
commons
George Mellraith
Ottawa West
one
ATHENS
L. R. LaFleche
Greece
Damaskinos
Labor department to be represented at Paris inter national conference
G Turgeon former Liberal MP for Cariboo and J Phelan director of information for the labor department will represent Canada at the international labor conference opening in Paris on September 15 according to Labor Minister Mitchell.
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LABOR
PARIS
OTTAWA
G. Turgeon
Cariboo
King to Visit White House After Roosevelt Death
Washington reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King is due Sunday for his first White House call since President Roosevelt’s death. Isley will act prime minister during King’s UK and Europe trip, with St Laurent as acting external affairs minister.
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FREMIER KING
WASHINGTON
C.P
Mackensie King
White House
Roosevelt
Mr. King
ILSLEY
MINISTE
OTTAWA
Isley
Mackenzie King
United Kingdom
Europe
Mackenzie
St. Laurent
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HON. HOWE
Amedee Monet
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Barnwell
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