President May Invoke Law to Avert Wire Strike
President Truman may use the Taft Hartley Act to avert a threatened national emergency due to a likely Western Union strike. Negotiations with the Commercial Telegraphers Union and allied unions broke down over a 15 cent per hour pay boost. A strike ballot is under way among 40 000 C T U members 5300 T E U and 4000 T W O with results due within 10 days.
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Ashington
Truman
Harley Labor Dew Ctor
Western Union
Telegraph Company
Commercial Telegraphers' Union
The
Telegraph Employes Union
Telegraph Workers Union
Federal
Corclnlation Service
Ike Wise
Frank Bloom
Dewey urges immediate U S aid to China against Communists
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey called for emergency aid to China totaling 75 to 100 million dollars as a bulwark against Communist forces. He criticized President Truman for excluding China from interim aid, warned that China's fall would doom Asia and Western Europe, and urged long term relief of about 250 million dollars annually for several years.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
China
Dewey
Truman
Congress
Columbia Law School
Asia
Europe
Americas
United States
Ridley High Band Withdraws From Parade Over Union Edict
The Ridley Township High School band pulled out of the Montgomery County Thanksgiving Day parade after a Petrillo controlled Musicians Union order. Local 484 and its national headquarters in New York directed union musicians be kept out of the parade, threatening action if the band performed.
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Norristown
Ridley Township
Montgomery County
Joseph B. Allen
Bryn Mawr
Allen
Protective Union
Chester
E .Allen
J. Wharton Gootee
Chester Union Vocal
Clarence Triesbeck
New York
Can Openers Highlight Friendship Train Shortage
In Los Angeles a European shortage of can openers is noted as the Friendship Train moves to New York. John Panushka and Robert H. Clark Co. employees recall can openers as scarce as gold medals in Europe. The company donated three shipments.
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Los Angeles
New York
John Panushka
Robert H. Clark Co
Europe
Panushka
Temperatures Move Upward Across Regions
Weather map shows more snow and rain in the north with above freezing readings in the midwest frost belt. Light precipitation extends from the upper Mississippi valley through the Great Lakes and New England with sleet in Northern New England. The south remains fair while the Dakotas set the coldest mark at Fargo at 1 above. cool air reaches into Arizona and New Mexico. Federal forecasters in Chicago expect no subzero weather soon.
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Midwest
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
New England
Dakotas
Minnesota
Fargo
N. D
Arizona
New Mexico
Utah
Colorado
Flagstaff
Ariz
Chicago
Anticholera Rules Lifted in Egypt
Cairo reports most of Egypt back to normal as anticholera restrictions end nationwide except two upper provinces still deemed danger points. Health ministry announces eight cholera deaths and ten new cases in the 24 hours to a.m.
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Cairo
Egypt
Ministry of Public Health
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