Labor Press and Unions Libel Suits Spark Debate
The Labor Press faces jubilation over a New York court ruling that unions may sue for libel, while a California decision allows defamed individuals to sue unions and their publications. The author accuses the AFL of harboring rogues and underworld figures, naming Umbrella Mike, Bioff and Scalise, Brother Jones, and Capone as cited examples.
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Labor
Hus
New York
California
American Federation Labor
Fea
Umbrella Mike ‘Thle
Chicago Electriciana
Owne
Bioff
Scalise
Brother Jones
Akron
Memirs
Will Feen
Browne
Jun
Capone
Murray and Lewis Set for Inevitable Labor Showdown
Conte Twelfth Page reports growing belief in a clash between John L. Lewis and Philip Murray as the United Mine Workers face internal pressure. Three top CIO officials warn of October convention housecleaning while miners resist per capita tax payments to Murray's 410,000 and seek repayment of about 1.66 million lent during early days of the union. CIO officers caution the debt is not a cash obligation and stress worker loyalty, signaling possible expulsion threats amid the dispute.
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Washington
Labor Movement
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
Murray
United Mine Workers
The
United Workers
410
C. SO
Fredy
Lewis
Ees. C. I. O
United Mine Workers Oferica
British air raids damage Rostock as war pressure grows
British air raiders blasted Rostock, a key German shipbuilding hub, causing widespread fires and heavy damage. A London spokesman called the assault heavy and successful while four RAF planes were reported missing. Back home, beaming on Beaverbrook’s New York speech spurred calls for a Western front. Over Germany, raids and attacks continued with casualties on the southeast coast and renewed bomber activity on England. Russian front details remain tentative from Berlin and Stockholm dispatches.
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Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Germany
Rostock
London Air Ministry
England
Heinkel Aircraft Works
London
Stockholm
Berlin
Norwegian Teachers Sent to Arctic Work Camp
Stockholm April 24. The Demoraten correspondent reports that Norwegian school teachers, assembled below decks on a small steamer, were shipped to a distant Arctic work camp under harsh conditions. Police acted as the ship moved from Trondheim as protests from clergy and party members surfaced.
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Stockholm
Peti! Demokraten
Arctic
Ifiacarie
Major Widkung
Trondheim
Isling
Barn and contents destroyed by fire near Arrant road
A fire early Friday destroyed a barn and most contents 12 miles from here on Arrant road. Mrs Hecks Landrum was burned rescuing mules. Fire Chief Frank Roddy said ladders and hoses could not stop the blaze. Loss included hay wagon lumber saddles corn peas fertilizer hogs and more. no insurance. Nearby a porch fire at 2818 Jackson street was extinguished by Monroe firefighters. the dwelling belongs to Mrs Frank Ticheli.
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Hecks Landrum
Arrant
Frank Roddy
Roddy
Monroe
Henry Powell
Jackson Street
Frank Ticheli
Civilians Now Employed More Than WWI Peak
Washington reports the executive branch payroll at 1,805,186 as of February. Civilian U S employment exceeds the World War I peak of 917,200 by a large margin, with February adding 102,087 new civilian workers. The figures exclude armed forces and judiciary and legislature employees. The prior monthly gain included 125,791 in December, partly due to post office temporary staff.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
France
Post Office Department
Russia Holds Bomber That Raided Japan
Kuibyshev April 24 Russia announced that a United States bomber that raided Japan last Saturday and then lost its way has been interned with its crew in the Maritime province on the Sea of Japan. Tass circulated an official account titled Forced Landing of American Plane in Maritime Province.
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Maritime Province
Confidence men use court as prop in Tulsa scam
Four confidence men used a municipal courtroom as a prop to bilk victims of 65 dollars. posing as police, they detained drivers and presented themselves as Municipal Judge Walter L. Kimmel and City Prosecutor Lawrence Elder. The fake officials fined one man 55 dollars and another 10, then dismissed them. Davidson later reported the fleecing after seeing real judges pictured.
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Tulsa
Okla
Thomas J. Davidson
Walter L. Kimmel
Lawrence Elder
Davidson
Real City
New Limits Tighten Civilian Life in War Drive
Washington reports five new government restrictions aimed at conserving resources as the nation moves toward full wartime footing. Orders curb local truck deliveries and forbid repeated delivery attempts, cut elastic in garments, outlaw fishing tackle manufacture, and fix prices on china and many cotton textiles. Local carriers face a 25 percent mileage reduction year over year, while inter city trucks must run at full capacity outbound and 75 percent on return, with pooling as needed. Continued on Twelfth Page.
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Washington
Armed Services
Push Demands for Showdown on Work Week
Washington reports intensified labor battles as Congress weighs a 40 hour week and wartime cost of living measures. Proposals split on wage controls, with some urging direct wage boosts and others opposing blanket increases. Roosevelt expected to outline a general war labor policy while resisting broad statutory changes.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
War Labor Board
Leon Henderson
Father To Hunt Son He Thinks Dead In Plane
In Spokane on April 24 G B Burns plans a renewed search for his son Lieutenant Homer C Burns missing with General Herbert A Dargue and six other officers since December 12 after an army transport plane disappeared near Big Pine and Bishop California. Burns intends a family expedition with an Indian guide, seeking the missing crew amid Sierra Nevada snows melted for access.
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Spokane
Wash
Sierra Nevada
California
G. B. Burns
Homer C. Burns
Herbert A. Dargue
Big Pine
Bishop
Burns
Sierras
Homer Burns
Politisis
Beaverbrook Urges Western Front to Aid Russia in 1942
Lord Beaverbrook told the American Newspaper Publishers association that Britain should open a second front in Western Europe while Russia fights the Nazis in the east, arguing Russia may settle the war in 1942 if Germans are held or defeated there. He warned that failure to help Russia could end any chance to end the war.
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New York
Great Britain
Germany
Europe
Russia
East
Lord Beaverbrook
Washington
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Bureau of Advertising
Beaverbrook
London Daily Express
Evening Standard
Britain
Mystery Base Of American Planes Baffles Tokyo
Japan reports a new Burma offensive near Taunggyi and Mandalay as forces drive toward Loikaw. Tokyo says U S bombers raided Tokyo six days ago and claims Washington has not issued a communique. Russia says an American bomber landed in the Maritime Province and was interned under neutrality pact terms.
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Associated Press
Japan
Burma
Mandalay
Loikaw
Taunggyi
Shwenyaung
Loikew
Upper Burma
United States
Tokyo
Washington
Tomokazu Hori
Russia
Sea of Japan
Moscow
Kuibyshev
William H. Standley
Roosevelt Says War Production Is Going Very Well
President Roosevelt told reporters that the war production program is working extremely well and may be expanded beyond the already ambitious targets for 1942 and 1943. He noted steel shortages complicate shipbuilding and suggested another program could emerge before current expansions are finished. He also warned against civilian steel use and stressed efforts to revitalize shipbuilding while acknowledging lag in ship output relative to plans.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Nations
War Production Board
Emory 8S. Land
Defense Shipping
Capitol Hill
Car rationing rules rapped by House banking panel
Washington April 24 The House banking committee pressed the office of price administration for a full explanation of the car rationing regulations amid dealer concerns that rules are very complex and causing boards to turn down worthy new car applications. Some dealers estimate current new car supply could last for years, though exact disposal time remained uncertain.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Charles W. Bishop
National Automobile Dealers Association
Loreal Rationing Boards
Bishop
Two Hamlet Trainmen Die In Boiler Explosion Near Hamlet
In Hamlet North Carolina a Sea board Air Line freight engine exploded four miles east of town. Fireman Travis McKaskil was killed instantly and head brakeman J D Lowell died on the way to hospital. Engineer W L Blalock was hospitalized in critical condition. Five freight cars derailed as the blast started nearby woods on fire and boiler pieces were found two blocks away.
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Hamlet
N. C
Seaboard Air Line
Here
Travis McKaskil
J. D. Lowell
W. L. Blalock
Charleston
S. C
East fearful gasoline cut to be imposed May 1
Government sources said gasoline consumption in the East and likely the Pacific Northwest would be reduced to 50 percent of normal starting May 1 as filling stations face restricted supplies. The plan, lasting two weeks until May 13 when rigid card rationing begins, could mean about 60 percent less gasoline for non essential vehicles and around 25 gallons per vehicle monthly. The East Coast fears a gasoline age with wide social and economic impact, while officials note potential revenue losses for federal and state gasoline taxes and disruption to resorts and filling stations.
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Washington
East
Pacific Northwest
Leon Henderson
East Coast
Ickes
Puerto Rico nurse saves worker by amputating leg under train
Marina Diez-Rivas a night nurse from Puerto Rico crawled beneath a locomotive at Richmond Virginia railroad yards to amputate a yardman's leg with a borrowed pocket knife after a wheel pinned his limb. She used a flashlight and scalpel, finishing with the larger knife. the patient is recovering.
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Richmond
Marina Diez-Rivas
Puerto Rico
Medical College of Virginia Hospital
May Cut Wheat May Cut Wheat
Washington April 24 War curtailment of foreign trade and a record wheat surplus may force Secretary Wickard to urge American farmers to cut production further or accept lower prices as the nation faces global hunger and domestic gluts.
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Washington
Wickard
Urges Merging of Telegraph Under New Roosevelt Plan
Secretary of Commerce Jones told a Senate subcommittee that President Roosevelt backs a bill to consolidate all domestic telegraph firms into a single agency and allow international systems to merge. He urged leasing post office space for telegraph offices in posts nationwide as a public convenience. The president supports this directive.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Jones
Senate Interstate Commerce
Roosevelt
United States
American soldiers called most rugged
Tulsa reports Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, said the United States is sending the world's healthiest and most rugged soldiers to war. He told the Oklahoma State Medical Association that American troops are in the best physical condition the nation has known and that the people are ready for a prolonged war.
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Tulsa
Okla
United States
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Metical Association
Oklahoma State Medical Association
Fishbein
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Long Island City
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Baby
John D. Bukeley, Jr
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Francis B. Sayre
Philippines
Ernest J. King
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