GM Holds Fresh Offer Push Amid Sunday Strike Deadline
GM aims to present a new offer to the United Auto Workers as talks resume with a Sunday midnight strike deadline looming. UAW officials expect wage and benefit terms similar to Ford, including guaranteed income while idle, and a contract of up to three years. Wildcat walkouts hit Ford's Rouge plant and other facilities nationwide, while GM plants reported sporadic stoppages.
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Norman Walker
Detroit
General Motors Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
UAW
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Tool and Die
Rouge
Monroe
Mich
St. Louis
Kansas City
Buffalo
Cleveland
Linden
N.J
Tarrytown
Rochester
N.Y
John W. Livingston
GM Department
General Motors
High Stakes Poker-Pressed Talks In GM Labor Rounds
The piece details multimillion-dollar style labor talks between General Motors and the UAW CIO in a 35 foot conference room setup. Both sides bring their own decks as they negotiate daily amid reporters, doodles, and lighted windows, with light humor about rooms and attire.
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Saul Pett
Detroit
General Motors
Uawcio
Ford
State Department
UAW
CIO
Walter Reuther
Barkeeps Union
Diem vows to liberate west Vietnam in radio address
In a nationwide radio speech Premier Ngo Dinh Diem pledged to free western Vietnam from Hoa Hao rebels led by Generals Tran Van Soai and Bacut. He said army operations were proceeding well and the disintegration of the rebel force had begun as about 20,000 troops pressed an offensive against Soai’s men, who faced encirclement in a 275 square mile area southwest of Saigon. About a third of Soai’s 5,000 forces were reported to have surrendered yesterday.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
West
Viet Nam
Hoa Hao
Diem
National
Tran van Soai
Bacut
Soai
Amoy Quemoy Area Hit By Communist Shells
Formosa area shelling reported by the Nationalist Defense Ministry says 16 rounds were fired at Ehrtan islet two and a half miles south of Amoy, with no casualties. The attack, first since Friday, occurred about 120 miles west of Formosa.
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Taipei
Formosa
Amoy- Quemoy
Defense Ministry
Ehrtan
Amoy
Britain press urges Eden to accept rail peace plan
The Trade Union Congress and leading newspapers urged Prime Minister Eden to back a plan to end the 11 day rail strike with immediate talks and a staged wage settlement. ASLEF approved the plan, aiming for negotiations first and a future wage review, while NUR would be consulted later.
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London
Britain
Trade Union Congress
Eden
Associated Society of Engineers
TUC
Liverpool
Southampton
British Transport Commission
Daily Mail
The
Daily Telegraph
Commission
National Union of Railwaymen
NUR
ASLEF
British Railways
Chocolate Trip Sends 3-Year-Old to Hospital
A three year old, Rodney Urquhart, was rushed to a hospital after swallowing fifteen chocolate covered cathartic pills he mistook for candy. Doctors used a stomach pump to treat him.
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South Coffeyville
Okla
Rodney Urquhart
Misunderstanding sparks publicity as Dean Martin comments
Dean Martin dismisses reports of a split with Jerry Lewis calling them a misunderstanding. He travels to Hawaii with his wife while Lewis attends a New York premiere solo. Martin insists the duo remain a team despite recent publicity and backstage tensions.
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Hollywood
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Martin
Hawaii
Lewis
New York
Catskill Mountain
Steel unions press for wage hikes at Bethlehem and U S Steel
The CIO United Steelworkers demand a substantial wage increase at Bethlehem Steel, the nation’s second largest producer, as U S Steel enters its second day of talks. David J. McDonald leads the union team with aims to raise pay by about 25 cents an hour, with negotiations also set to involve Republic Steel, Jones and Laughlin, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Inland Steel.
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Ford
Rouge
Dearborn
David J. McDonald
Cio-United Steelworkers Union
Pittsburgh
Clifford F. Hood
United States Steel Corporation
International Soundphoto
Bethlehem Steel Corp
United Steelworkers
Bethlehem
Cio-Usw
United States Steel Corp
Joseph M. Larkin
Larkin
Republic Steel Corp
McDonald
U. S. Steel Corp
Nsw
Wege
U. S. Steel
Clifford H. Hood
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Corp
Inland Steel Corp
Tariff Cuts Said On Tap
Congressional sources say a new round of tariff cuts will be authorized under a compromise foreign trade bill. The measure, acceptable to President Eisenhower, lets the president cut tariffs up to five percent yearly for three years and reduce duties above fifty percent. It also extends the reciprocal trade agreements law to June 30, 1958.
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Washington
United States
Eisenhower
Senate House
House
Senate
Honesty Notch For Lev In Senate Bribery Probe
Harry Lev of Chicago, accused in government contract dealings for uniforms, signs a 5 089.38 restitution check to show good faith. He faces further questioning about alleged bribes and ties to Mrs Mella Hart amid rumors of blackmail by Leon Levy and claims involving Air Force Captain Raymond Wool.
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G. Milton Kelly
Washington
Chicago
Harry Lev
Senate
Subcommittee
Lev
Mella Hart
Armed Services
Leon M. Levy
New York
Hart
Hort
McClellan
D-Ark
New York Armed Services
Curement
Air Force
Raymond Wool
Wool
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Ohio
Levy
Weather turns windy and warm with showers likely
The forecast calls for cloudy skies with showers today and tonight. Highs around the 70s and a low near 50 degrees. Thursday expected mostly cloudy with a high near 72. Yesterday’s high reached 75 and the low 58 this morning after .75 inches of rain Tuesday.
Adenauer Asked To Kremlin For Consultations
West Germany weighs Moscow invitation after Soviet note seeking talks on normalization. Cabinet debates, with political leaders split on Adenauer’s personal trip and timing before his US visit. Key factions urge dialogue, while others stress cautious, allied-consent governed by NATO partners.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Russia
Konrad Adenauer
Moscow
Kremlin
Paris
Adenauer
Eisenhower Confident Adenauer Will Stand With Allies
President Eisenhower voiced utmost confidence in German Chancellor Adenauer to back the Western world in dealings with the Soviet Union. He called Adenauer among the world’s great statesmen and said the decision to visit Moscow rests solely with West Germany. The president also flagged opposition to antisegregation amendments and urged a defined, limited four power summit timeline.
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Omuna
Adenauer
Moscow
West Germany
Free World
Franz Joseph Strauss
Strauss
United States
Bonn
Eugen Gerstenmaier
Christian Democratic Party
Socialist Party
Erich Ollenhauver
Franz Bluecher
Free Democratic Party
Washington
Eisenhower
West Geremany
Soviet Russia
Wes
Germany
Kremlin
Russia
Europe
Anauer
Westmany
P Dent
House
Senate
Republican Legislative l
Senhower
Wildcat walkout at Fisher Body leads to dismissal threat
In Cincinnati the CIO-UAW ordered strikers back to work or face dismissal after a night crew walkout at Fisher Body Division and the adjacent Chevrolet plant was shut down.
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Cincinnati
Wildcat
Fisher Body
General Motors
Cio-United Auto Workers
Chevrolet
International Falls, Minn
CIO
Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co
AFL
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