Union and industry dispute analyzed from a legal perspective
The piece argues for objective view of the C I O and auto industry clash with Ford and the UAW. It notes contracts and penalties for strikes, the potential for unions to be sued for breach of contract and libel, and calls for new laws to clarify liability. It references Felix Frankfurter and a General Motors dispute with Local 3 of the IBEW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
United Auto Workers
Union Gree
Ecord
Businss
Emer
Eatla
Nre
Ese
Felix Frankfurter
Bee
Carpenters
Vicms
A. F. of
Lectricians Union
New York
General Motors
Many
Classified Rental and Purchase Wanted Ad Call to Action
Readers are urged to place want ads for rentals and purchases to reach a large audience. The notice promotes economy plan and telephonic submission with next day collection by a News World carrier.
General Patton Improves as Wife Reaches Bedside
General George S. Patton Jr. shows slight improvement after a neck fracture. His wife arrived from the United States to be at his bedside as doctors report his condition remains critical but stabilizing. An Army bulletin notes a blood transfusion was given and Patton’s fighting spirit is cited as hopeful for recovery.
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Heidelberg
Germany
George S. Patton, Jr
United States
Army Hospital
Taisho Sunk On First Combat Mission In Pacific War
Tokyo reports Japan’s 40,000 ton aircraft carrier Taisho was torpedoed and sunk six hours after being hit on June 18 during the first battle in the Philippine Sea. The 30,000 ton Chokaku also fell to an American submarine on the battle’s first day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
U. S
Philippine Sea
Ccartier
Fie
Ford Security Plan Opens Wage Talks With Ford, UAW
A union proposal to curb wildcat strikes seeks to back wage talks with Ford Motor Company, the last of the big three still under UAW contract. The plan imposes fines for unauthorized stoppages, with penalties paid to infantile paralysis, and allows an umpire review. GM ends its contract talks while Ford inches toward an agreement on security and wage issues.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ford Company
General Motors
United Automobile Workers
Ford
John S. Bugas
Ford Industrial Relations
Bugas
Richard T. Leonard
Ford-U. A. W
C. E. Wilson
U. A. W. Chrysler Corporation
Nazis Seize Child Slaves in Extermination through Work
At Nuremberg, evidence at the war crimes trial reveals ten year old Russian children were kidnapped for slave labor in German war factories. SS Assistant Prosecutor Dodd said the policy was approved by Alfred Rosenberg, with Gestapo pushing for abducting children of good blood to replenish Germany’s war-depleted population.
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Nuernberg
Hitler
Thomas J. Dodd
Alfred Rosenberg
Party
Gestapo
Germany
International Military Tribunal
Dodd
Fritz Sauckel
S. S
Heinrich Himmler
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Wilhelm Keitel
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Wrong word used new trial granted in Louisiana cases
The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that a jury verdict for negligent homicide was invalid as the charge did not exist. It set aside a three year sentence for Dave Gueringer and remanded for a new trial. It also voided a seven year sentence for Carey Lee Calvin over a battery charge and ordered new trials.
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New Orleans
Avoyelles Parish
Dave Gueringer Gulty
Louisiana Supreme Court
Milton DeSoto
Wynne G. Rogers
Lester L. Bordelan
Carey Lee Calvin
St. John the Baptist Parish
Calvin
Andrew de Carlo
Marshall Testifies On Withheld Code-Cracking Secrets
General George C. Marshall told the Pearl Harbor committee that his deputy ordered Japanese code breaking secrets withheld from the army board. He said the action affected the inquiry into Pearl Harbor and involved notes called “magic.”
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Jack Bell
Washington
George C. Marshall
Army Board
Pearl Harbor
Marshall
Joint
Congressional
Joseph McNarney
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senator Perguson
Michigan
Knox
Admiral Kimmel
Army
Tokyo
Roosevelt
War Department
Navy Board of Inquiry
Good Fellows Mission Helps Monroe Families This Christmas
The article extols Good Fellows volunteers as Santa Claus helpers bringing joy to needy Monroe homes. It urges continued contributions to supply food, coats, underwear, and warm clothing for children, stressing the unseen hardship behind the holiday cheer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Fellows
Monroe
Santa Claus
Sailor Confesses Slaying Publishing Executive in Georgia
Walter Hillman Yearwood, 22, a former sailor from Bishop, Georgia, admitted to killing Harry W. Williamson, Southern manager of Charles Scribner's Sons, after Williamson upbraided him for drinking. Yearwood disposed of the body in the Apalachee River after a drive from Athens toward Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. I. Means
Walter Hillman Yearwood
Bishop
Harry W. Williamson
Southern
Charles Scribner
Means
Yearwood
Athens
Williamson
Atlanta
Trials of 300 Japanese Soon in Allied Court Yokohama
Tokyo December 11. The first of 300 small time Japanese accused of wartime atrocities against Allied prisoners will go on trial December 18 under a sped up schedule. Trials may run concurrently with Tojo pending on Allied list of suspected war criminals as George Hall notes. Military commissions of five to eight members will hear cases with 12 counsels led by James Dickinson and Harold Emmons.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
C. P. Hall
U. S. Eighth Army
Yokohama
Army
Navy
James Dickinson
Jacksonville
Fla
Harold H. Emmons, Jr
Detroit
Baron Vijuro Sridehara
House of Representatives
MacArthur
House
Diet
Communist Party
Brutal Chicago Slaying Tied to Maniac Amid Wave Murders
Chicago detectives investigated the murder of Frances Brown a 33 year old former WAVE stenographer found in her Pine Crest hotel apartment. The killer described as a maniac left lipstick message crying for capture as nine people were slain in the past week with three cases unsolved.
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Chicago
Frances Brown
Frank Reynolds
Miss Brown
Pine Crest Hotel
North Side
Lakeview District
Reynolds
Hospital bill faces snag amid Truman priority clash
Washington dispatch reports the $700 million national hospital program blocks progress as Sen Taft and Sen Hill back a bipartisan plan. Sen Murray proposes doubling federal funds to 150 million yearly and adding health centers, while Sen Donnell fails to push an opposing amendment. Senate debate continues with limited attendance.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Hill
Alabama
Ellender
Louisiana
Capitol Hill
Murray
Montana
Labor Committee
Donnell
Missouri
Treasury
Congress
Deadliest German poison gas exposed in wartime tests
Senate hearing hears Colonel Bernstein say I G Farben officials tested a new deadly gas on prisoners in concentration camps including Auschwitz. He claims the gas could defeat any gas mask and was used to exterminate groups, with destruction of gas stocks before Soviet occupation.
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Washington
Germany
Concentraton Camp
Bernard Bernstein
United States
Senate
Kilgore
West Virginia
Bernstein
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Standard
I. G. Farbenindustrie
I. G. Farben
Wuppertal-Elberfeld
I. G
Farben
Auschwitz
Agreement Reached on Manchuria Entry by Chinese Troops
Russia agreed to let Chinese government troops fly into Manchuria to seize control of Changchun Mukden and Harbin. Central government forces would be airlifted from North China to Changchun and Chinhsien with Russian protection and smooth administration handover.
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Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Russia
Manchuria
Central News Agency
China
Changchun
Mukden
Harbin
Yenan
Dairen
Shanhaikwan
Changchung
Chaunghun
Daigen
North China
Changchhun
Chinhsien
Motive Uncovered in Baby Kidnapping Case in Chelsea
Police in Chelsea reveal a motive for the kidnapping of six month old Ronald Carlan, son of a Navy man, as Lt. Inspector Kirby reports a first break in the 13 day case. The mother, Mrs James Carlan, suffers nervous exhaustion and is urged to avoid contact for 48 hours amid ransom threats.
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Chelsea
Mass
Ronald Carlan
John J. Kirby
Kirby
James J. Carlan
Maurice Gilbert
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Gay
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S. M. Brown
B. Beasley
Mig George Breece
Betty Jane Masur
Lester M. Kranz
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