New England Textile Strike Seeks Mediation in Lewiston
Federal mediator Miss Anna Weinstock arrived in Lewiston to mediate a seven day strike by 23,000 New England textile workers and 6,000 Bates Mills employees. Talks stalled as workers demand restoration of a 6 1/2 percent pay cut while management pushes a 10 cent hourly reduction.
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Lewiston
Maine
New England
Miss Anna
Weinstock
U. S
CIO Textile Workers Union
Bates Mfg. Co
Bates
Miss Weinstock
President Eisenhower jokes about baptism at White House
President Eisenhower greeted 150 Baptist ministers and wives in the White House Rose Garden and humorously considered being baptized. He recalled a Fort Worth visit before his political career and laughed at a Baptist water joke told by Evangelist Billy Graham, noting water on the head suffices.
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Eisenhower
White House
Texas
Sen
Carlson
R-Nd
Baptist Convention
Fort Worth
Billy Graham
National Presbyterian Church
Graham
Parke-Davis Faces Strike Over 1953 Wage Demands
Major Parke Davis plant in Detroit confronts a potential strike as the CIO union and the firm clash over a guaranteed annual wage and an hourly raise. Mediators Keefe and Lomasney summoned both sides to talks after negotiations broke off. Current contract expires May 1, with the firm touting a liberal proposal including a pension plan.
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Detroit
Parke
Davis & Co
CIO Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers
David Keefer
Robert FE
Lomasney
Carl Labatzky
Parke Davis
Don’t Change U N Charter Says Mrs Roosevelt
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt told a Senate Foreign Relations panel that revising the United Nations charter now would likely do more harm than good. She proposed a special committee within the UN to study the charter and possible changes, and urged reconsideration of whether to call a revision conference at the next General Assembly session this fall. The Eisenhower administration supports a conference. the subcommittee has heard testimony from former Presidents Truman and Hoover.
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Washington
CPI
Eleanor Roosevelt
United Nations
George Lep Ga
U.N General Assembly
Eisenhower
Senate
Truman
Hoover
Wage talks resume on auto contracts with GM and Ford
The United Auto Workers begin separate talks with General Motors and Ford after a four hour session Monday. Reporters note tense mood at the closed discussions amid speculation the union has tabled its guaranteed annual wage proposal with Ford. A separate item reports Jean Carson of Columbus and film actor Len Smith of New York City involved in a hotel room incident in Colum bus.
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Jean Carson
Columbus
Len Smith
New York City
Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors ‘Corp
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Snowslide Delays Portland Streamliner in Oregon
Train service faced multi hour delay after a large snowslide along the line near Crescent Lake Oregon. Road officials reported 80 feet of slide impact and more than 10 feet of snow, disrupting the southbound streamliner from Portland and blocking the right of way.
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Oregon
Dunsmuir
Calif
U—Railtern Pacific
Cruzette
Crescent Lake
Ore
Portland
Woman Loses 4000 Dollars to Money Duplicating Scheme
Mrs Lena Romano of Pasadena reports to Arca dia police that a man named Mario robbed her of 4000 dollars after she placed 40 two hundred dollar bills in a black box he brought to her home. She left briefly to fetch wrapping paper and returned to find both the money and Mario gone.
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Arcadia Cpi
Lena ‘Rahmano
Aman
Romano
Pasadena
Mario
Mediator pushes attempt to settle Louisville & Nashville strike
In Washington a new effort seeks a negotiated settlement of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad strike as mediators report no progress in the Southern Bell Telephone Co walkout. Disruptions include dynamiting and rock throwing. 25,000 L&N workers idle since March 14.
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Atlanta
Washington
Louisville & Nashville
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Seaboard Railroad
Birmingham l
Francis
A.o'neill Jr
National Mediation Board
Maury County
Tenn
Nashville
Tenns
Lawrence Wetharby
Kentucky
J. M. Phillips
Southern Bell
Mississippi
Pascagoula
Gulf Coast
Alabama
Baton Rouge
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