Gun wielding Posse faces UFW organizers near Stockton
In a tense Labor Day confrontation near Stockton, a gun carrying Posse Comitatus group confronted United Farm Workers organizers as sheriff's deputies watched. The UFW sought to discuss labor petitions under a new access rule while growers argued workers could be talked to only off private farmland.
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Stockton
UPS
Posse Comitatus
United Farm Markets Union
Sheriff's Deputies
UFW
Teamsters
California
San Joaquin County
Agriculture Labor Relations Board
Mark Grossman
Delano
Prison riot erupts at Alabama center injuring 35 inmates
In brief violent clash between black and white prisoners in two darkened cellblocks of the Medical and Diagnostic Center near Montgomery ends with guards firing warning shots. About 35 injured including stab wounds. lighting sabotaged, segregation enforced, troopers deployed as a precaution.
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Montgomery. Ala
UPI
Medical and Diagnostic Center
L. B. Sullivan
Uison
Sullivan
Here
John Hale
McGovern and Meany clash over dockers grain load refusal
Sen George McGovern accuses AFL CIO chief George Meany of bankrupt leadership for backing longshoremen who refused to load grain onto Soviet bound ships. He says the action harms farm income and the US balance of payments and shakes international confidence. Meany replies labor aims to correct a shift in world power toward the Soviet Union.
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Washington
UPI
George McGovern
D-S.d
Afl-Cio
George Meany
U.S
McGovern
Meany
Labor Movement
America
NBC Radio
United States
Soviet Union
Ing Carrillo Arrillo
James ‘Pa’ Ferguson
Texas
Carrillo
Oscar
Paris
George
Breathing-failure deaths roil Veterans Hospital in Ann Arbor
FBI probes ongoing as nine patients die from mysterious respiratory failure at the Veterans Administration Hospital. Officials fear a staff member may be involved and have tightened security while admissions are cut and nonemergency surgery halted.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
UPI
Veterans Administration Hospital
FBI
Duane T. Frier
Governor Brown urges federal action and wage reform on Labor Day
California Governor Edmund Brown Jr urged labor and business to accept painful but necessary reforms. He warned unemployment may persist without drastic federal action and called for price and wage concerns to be addressed to revive the economy.
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Los Angeles
UPI
California
Edmund Brown Jr
Brown
Catholic Labor Institute
Ford Administration
Firefighters Fight Sequoia Blaze Across 15000 Acres
Firefighters battled a Sequoia National Forest brush and timber fire that had scorched about 15 200 acres with 2 000 men along a 30 mile line. The fire spread despite containment efforts and was aided by air tankers dropping fire retardant. Eight firefighters were injured slightly.
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Porterville
UPI
Sequoia National Forest
US Forest Service
Brian Miller
Forest Service
Miller
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Here
Jaworski heads for Texas to study power politics
UPI reports Leon Jaworski will serve as special legal counsel to the Texas Senate in the Carrillo impeachment trial. The ex Watergate prosecutor joins Arthur Mitchell and Racehorse Haynes in defending District Judge O P Carrillo, amid Duval County power struggles tied to the Parr era and Old West politics.
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Jaworski
Texas
Austin, Tex
UPI
Leon Jaworski
Texas Senate
South
State Senate
Senate
O.P. Carrillo
George B. Parr
Duke
Duval
Parr
Duval County
South Texas
Jim Wells
Lyndon Johnson
Carrillo
Paris
Texas House
Arthur Mitchell
Austin
Richard
Haynes
Houston
Berkeley Fire Dept Struggles as Strike Continues
Berkeley Fire Department trims crew to two trucks and nine men after a deputy chief is hurt fighting a brush fire. Dispatchers log 10 calls including two vacant buildings and three grass fires as volunteers help combat five acres. Union leader says negotiations breakdown and a long strike looms.
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Berkeley
UPI
Milt Steele
Jack Rinne
Fire Fighters Association Local 1227
Two arrested in kidnap attempt of ex showgirl
BEL AIR police rescued Connie Heffron a former Las Vegas showgirl and ex wife of Jack Entratter unharmed less than an hour after she was kidnapped from her home for a 300000 ransom. Her husband Robert 30 and a third man Hershey Entin 30 were present when the gunmen abducted them and a guard. Police arrested Eric Noone 24 after the plan unraveled, while another suspect remains at large.
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Bel Air
UPI
Connie Heffron
Las Vegas
Jack Entratter
Eric Noone
Hawaii
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Alabama
Nev
Jerry Lewis
Lewis
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Quandary
Schlesinger
James Schlesinger
South Korea
North Korea
Japan
Andrews Air Force Base
Korea
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Lompoc
Crisis Center
Sequoia
Ebaton
Denise Donlon
Nancy Feldott
Bonnie Norris
NADDA
DEA
USTA
ITT
Berkeley Fire Department
Jim Brunetti
John
Taylor
William Hehir
Entin
Heffrons
Heffron
Sands Hotel
Corinne Cole
Electrolux
David Gaitan
Rame Cowdrey
Jim’s
ONE Hour Cleaners
William’s Bros. Shopping Center
Mastro
Redwood House Plant CO
Lompoc Plaza
Mission Federal Savings
Transmatic
Mission Federal Retirement Savings Counselor
North H Street
Mission Federal Savings & Loan Association
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