Continental Can Union Settle Strike
The 36 day CIO Steelworkers strike involving 14 500 workers at 236 Continental Can Co plants ended Tuesday with an agreement viewed as a possible pattern for a similar strike at American Can Co. The Dec 1 action targeted wage and contract gains at terminals including Continental Terminal Island and American Wilmington plants each with about 150 employees.
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CIO
Continental Can Co
American Can Co
Continenttal
Terminal Island
American
Wilmington
Continental
Mail Charge Hike by Railroads and Post Office
Washington reports a 10 percent increase in mail carriage charges by railroads, aimed to boost railroad revenue by about 30 million dollars annually. A formal ICC proposal was submitted jointly by the Post Office and carriers, replacing a prior push for 45 percent mail pay growth. ICC hearings require evidence to justify any rate change.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Interstate Commerce Commission
Post Office
ICC
Richard I’. Mitchell
Fingerprints Identify Suspect in Year Old Burglary
John Edward Hammaker, 29, of 1976 W Willard St, was booked at city jail on Tuesday after fingerprints linked him to a commercial burglary committed here a year ago. Police say a dismantled double barreled shotgun and shells were found in his car.
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John Edward Hammaker
W. Willard St
Hammaker
Orange Ave
Delay Ruling on Park Site
The County Planning Commission postponed indefinitely a decision on Lakewood Park Corp. request to rezone a tract east of the San Gabriel River for a Long Beach park, delaying action to allow drainage plans. The site would host about 1503 homes on roughly half of a 560 acre park area approved for tidelands funding, though purchase is delayed by litigation.
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the County Regional Planning Commission
Lakewood Park Corp
San Gabriel River
City of
Long Beach
Lakewood Park
Spring St. the River
Shotgun, Strip
Pioneer Blvd
Tidelands
DAVer Heads Vet Council In Long Beach 1954 Officers Named
Elmer B Allmeroth of Disabled American Veterans Chapter 17 is the new commander of the United Veterans Council of Long Beach. Other officers for 1954 include Harry Buckles, George Wallace White Post 1746 VFW senior vice commander Earl D Freemyer Gar rison 139 Army and Navy Union junior vice commander Robert P Clancey Post 279 VFW adjutant William F Heldwald. The report mentions wage talks and a 3 cent hour rise for Camp 94 US Amer cV Nimred and a 8 percent general wage rise with a severance clause under a two year contract. James Robb James Featherson and Paul Hanson Jr are named in the context of the strike at 20 000 workers across 40 DAV American Can plants.
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Elmer B. Allmeroth
Disabled ‘American Veterans Chapter 17
United Veterans Council of
Long Beach
Harry Buckles
George Wallace
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Earl D. Freemyer
Army and Navy
Unelon
Robert P. Clancey
VFW
William F. Heldwald
United Spanish War
Irvin Fiebrantz
Bers
Tieup Looms on San Diego Radio and TV
San Diego union members of AFTRA authorize the local board to call a strike against KFSD AM and TV KFMB AM and TV KCQB and KGB. They seek a weekly pay scale of 100 dollars up from 80 and have asked FMCS to mediate negotiations before the Feb. 1 contract expiry.
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San Diego
UWP
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
AFL
Wayne Oliver
Los Angeles
Kfsd-Am
Kfmb-Am
KCQB
KGB
Oliver
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Storm Tides Flood Five Italy Towns
Winter gales drove Adriatic floods inland near Rovigo trapping villagers on rooftops and inundating five villages. Icebound Western Europe slowed work in London Berlin Frankfurt Brussels and Paris as temperatures plunged to year’s low.
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London
Adriatic
Italy
Europe
Rovigo
Berlin
Frankfort
Brussels
Paris
Underground blasts rock London's East End
In the Whitechapel district of London's East End German bombing targets area with underground explosions. Paving blocks flew, flames rose twenty feet, and a shopfront was blown in. Firemen were knocked over but unharmed. several suffered minor injuries. An electricity official suggested a faulty cable under ground may have sparked the fires and caused further weak spots to smolder.
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London
Whitechapel
East End
Electricity Board
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Julie Sheldon
Hollywood
Jen Loven
Daver
Vet Council
Doormann's
Pine Avenue
L. A
Tepair
Underground Blast Rocks
Chatham
Pepperell
Eeees
Callaway
Luxury
Elmwood
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