Daladier crushes nation wide strike with military mobilization
France faced widespread labor clashes as Premier Edouard Daladier deployed military orders to enforce public work and curb a planned one day national strike. In Toulouse Lille Lyon Nantes Dieppe Marseille and Grenoble police and guards faced strikers, with windows broken, arrests made, and several hundred protesters dispersed. Daladier announced a three year state of economic mobilization and sought parliamentary support for decrees taxing and suspending the 40 hour week.
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Arnroe
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Moti
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Lyon
Nantes
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Laile
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France
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Government rejects plan for propaganda department
In the House of Commons Arthur Henderson pressed if Britain would establish a special press and propaganda department amid anti-British propaganda abroad. Prime Minister Chamberlain replied the government has no intention of creating such a department or controlling news.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Arthur Henderson
Labor
Ottawa sets date for next Parliament opening
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced January 12 for the opening of the new session as Parliament faces a four month work window before King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II visit Canada in May. With 1939 seen as a general election year, prorogation or adjournment may occur to accommodate the royal tour and a heavy legislative program including the Canada United States trade agreement awaiting ratification. Queen Elizabeth and King George are due to arrive as government marks the four yearIn office by October next.
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Canada
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Mackenzie King
Canadian Welfare Council to study non-residents care
The board of governors decided to form a national committee to study how to care for non residents and migrants across Canada. Reports show serious practical impacts nationwide and in several centres the non resident family is reaching critical levels. A possible Ottawa conference in 1939 was outlined, contingent on the royal commission on Dominion provincial relations report.
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Canada
Canadian Welfare Council
Council
Ottawa
Royal Commission On
Dominion
British demand release of Greek ships seized by insurgents
The British government demanded the release of two Greek ships seized by Spanish insurgent forces on November 23 and 26. Under-secretary Richard Butler told the House of Commons the ships carried wheat bought by Britain in Romania and were taken to Palma Bay Mallorca. He said instructions were sent to the British agent at Burgos demanding immediate release.
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Britain
London
Richard Butler
House of Commons
Romania
Palma Bay
Mallorca
Jutler
Burgos
Award Was Refused by German Press Editor
ex maven editor of The Cincinnati Freie Presse, a German language paper, said he refused the second Hass eagle award citation from the German government shortly after being named to receive the honor.
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Maven
Cincinnati Freie Presse
Remarkable responses aid German refugees in two weeks
American Christians and Jews collected over $2000 in a brief period to aid German refugees, marking notable responses to pleas for relief.
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New President Prague names third Czechoslovak leader
New president ur Nant Racsa, ex head of the supreme court administration, elected third president by the nation assembly as the sole candidate, with the title president of the Ceecho Slovak republic. Rudolf Beran, agrarian party leader and former opponent of Eduard Benes, named prime minister and expected to steer a pro-German course.
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Prague
Ur Nant Racsa
Supreme Court Administration
Czechoslovakia
Nation Assembly
Rudolf Beren
Eduard Benes
Turkish president Ataturk estate valued at millions
An Ankara investigation reveals President Kemal Ataturk left a sizable estate valued at about 4 million dollars with allocations for his sister five adopted daughters and education funds for General Ismet Inonu's children. Ottawa reports Canada’s October farm implement exports at 340 196. UK and US buyers follow. G Brodeur appointed captain in charge of Royal Canadian Naval establishments at Esquimalt and coast defense.
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Turkey
London
Ankara
Kem Ataturk
Ismet Inonu
Ottawa
Vy. G. Brodeur
Royal Canadian
Esquimalt
B.C
Briish Columbia
Department of Nasonal Defence
Taxation In Canada Heavily Burdens Exposed By T A Crerar
Hon T A Crerar minister of natural resources told a Montreal audience that taxation in Canada is unbearably heavy as governments fail to curb waste. He praised mining's progress and urged smarter spending to boost productive wealth, noting Canada relies on mineral deposits to withstand US competition and support national economy.
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T. A. Crerar
Montreal
Canada
Chamber of Mines
A i
Board of Trade Herald
Ames
United States
Security craving and ideologies warned by Lord Tweedsmuir
Lord Tweedsmuir told St Andrew's Society at its annual banquet in Ottawa that people fear standing alone and seek false security, surrendering freedom to dictators or machines. He warned against modern ideologies, calling them old heresies repackaged as new revelations.
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Ottawa
Lord Tweedsmuir
St. Andrew's Society
Scotland
Yangtse River Closed By Japan Threatens Chinese Trade Artery
Japan warns the Yangtse would stay closed to all non Japanese shipping until China is conquered and rebuilt under Japanese control The joint army and navy indicate foreign protests by Britain the United States and France would be unavailing The fight and this situation would continue until Chiang Kai shek’s government is destroyed and peace and order restored in line with Japanese Far East plans
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China
Shanghai
Japan
Yangtse
Great Britain
United States
France
Chiang Kai- Shek
Orde Fn
Far East
Wheat prices and tariffs eyed to save prairie economy
Dr. Jacob Viner of the University of Chicago warned the Dominion provincial relations commission that Western Canada must regain access to world markets for prairie wheat. He argued protective tariffs harm prairie living costs and that only a serious push in world negotiations for Canadian wheat can avert grinding poverty and depopulation. subsidies are not a real solution. Commissioner MacKay called the outlook gloomy while Viner urged a plan to make wheat once more a respectable commodity globally.
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Jacoo Viner
University of Chicago
Dominion Provincial Relations Commission
Canada
Viner
McGill University
Prairies
MacKay
West
Japan Orders 170000 Tons Scrap Steel For December January
Dow Jones news service reports Japan placed a new order in the United States for 170000 tons of No 1 scrap steel to be shipped in December and January at about 15.50 a ton. This follows a 150000 ton purchase in November, reflecting higher prices than the general market.
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Dow, Jones Ana cv Financial News Agency
Japan
United States
Pilot Bridges Ice Cream Run to Northern Mining Camp
Pilot Harry Winnig of Canadian Airways carried vegetables and a fondness for ice cream aboard his plane as he departed from Montor North Around for the mining settlement on the eastern shore of Lake Athabaska.
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Harry Winnig
Canadian Airways
Lake Athabaska
Courtenay shrub provides work in Vancouver Island town
Courtenay in the coast district of British Columbia grows a thorny shrub that offers employment to mixed men in the town. A New York clinic has ordered half a ton of the shrub roots for use as a treatment for diners.
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Courtenay
Coast
British Columbia
Vancouver Island
New York
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