Labor unrest sweeps across states with multiple strikes
Widespread labor troubles flare in Ohio, Pennsylvania and the south as unions push for wage, recognition and working time changes. San Francisco and Cleveland vote on strikes while Alabama coal miners demand wage deals and checkoff. Local disputes stretch from Augusta Georgia to Lansford Pennsylvania and Spindale North Carolina.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Cleveland
Fisher Body Company
International Longshoremen’s Association
Pacific Division
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South
Augusta
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Cincinnati
Toledo
Ashtabula
Portsmouth
Alabama
Spindale
N. C
Federal Labor Department
Lansford
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Alabama Miners Strike Continues With Wage Demands
Alabama coal miners press for wage agreements and the check off as 8000 workers in the Little Cahaba fields and 2000 more in Walker county remain out. Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co agrees to install the check off in its captive mines, while strikers vow to stay out until contracts are settled.
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Birmingham
Ala
United Mine Workers of America
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
United States Steel Corporation
Gham
Board of Division 3
Alabama
Little Cahaba
Walker County
Rufus Williams
Parrish
Wayne Ellis
Rivers Daily Stages Flood Present 24 Hour Stage
Flood warning update shows a 24 hour stage change with rivers on alert. Authorities issue stage status for multiple river basins as weather systems bring increased rainfall and rising water levels.
Crews Injured In Vehicle Collision At Washington And Tenth
Keith Crews of 3021 Dick Taylor street was seriously injured when his motorcycle collided with a light truck driven by W L Graves of 201 Stone avenue near the Washington Tenth street intersection. Crews was unconscious with a concussion and scalp lacerations and taken to the clinic for treatment. Doctors planned X rays to check for fractures while Graves reported he was attempting to pass another car when Crews entered the intersection.
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Keith Crews
Dick Taylor Street
W. L. Graves
Stone Avenue
Crews
Washington
Tenth Streets
Graves
Local visitors and quirks color Monroe tale of J C Penney
Friday in Monroe featured J C Penney arrival amid local interest from R E Heap and S C Wilson. Anecdotes include a Beloit Kan clerk recollection and Kemmerer Wyo origin, plus a humorous dog tale and a note on 34 blue dresses at a church service.
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Old World
Monroe
J. C. Penney
R. E. Heap
S. C. Wilson
Mr. Penney
Beloit
Kan
Kemmerer
Wyo
Eros
Ouachita-Jackson Parish
Eugene Daspit
New Orleans
Crescent City
Still Explosion Fatal to Two Men at Upshur Refinery
A still explosion at the Upshur refinery in Gladewater Texas killed Roy Owens and Percy W. Leeland both 45 of Gilmer. Two others A C Gratz of New York and E F Stanley were burned and hospitalized with critical injuries. Superintendent C F Lindsley received minor burns rescuing them. Damage was only a few hundred dollars and the cause remained undetermined.
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Gladwater
Tex
Upshur
Roy Owens
Percy W. Leeland
Gilmer
A. C. Gratz
New York
E. F. Stanley
C. F. Lindsley
Naziism Guilty Verdict Reached by Huge Throng
New York March 8 large Madison Square Garden rally declared Hitlerism guilty in a mock court of civilization. Twenty witnesses condemned Nazi tyranny. Senator Millard E Tydings read the verdict cheered by about 20 000 attendees. The event aimed to raise relief funds for expelled German Jews.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Millard E. Tydings
Maryland
Tydings
LaGuardia
Alfred E. Smith
Samuel Seabury
Germany
Nellie Tayloe Ross Quits National Committee Post
Nellie Tayloe Ross resigns as a Democratic National Committee member from Wyoming to avoid conflicts between public service and party identity. The move follows Arthur Mullen's retirement as Nebraska committeeman a day earlier.
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Nellie Tayloe
Ross
National Committee
Washington
Democratic National Committee
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Mint
Wyoming
Arthur Mullen
Omaha
Nebraska
Kentucky House Committee Moves to Punish Editor
Frankfort Kentucky March 8. The house lobby investigating committee will seek to punish Vance Armentrout acting editor of the Courier Journal for contempt after he refused to name a writer of a letter titled A Psalm in Politics. Judge Hamilton released Armentrout on habeas corpus. The committee plans to pursue a fine of 1000 dollars or six months jail for contempt and may seek enforcement from Speaker Rogers.
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Frankfort
Hugh K. Bullitt
House Lobby
Vance Armentrout
Louisville Courier-Journal
Armentrout
General Assembly
Rules Committee
Kentucky
W. E. Rogers, Sr
House
Winter Attacks Dixie Sections Amid Varying Weather
Memphis reports near freezing and snow blanketing the city with 31 degrees as Arkansas records its snowiest day of the year. Other Dixie areas see sleet and flurries while Atlanta and coastal cities enjoy 60s and 40s in contrasting conditions.
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Memphis
Tenn
South
Dixie
Arkansas
Nashville
Louisville
Evansville
Little Rock
Atlanta
Macon
Charleston
S. C
Wilmington
N. C
Vicksburg
Ouachita Woman Dies Believed Oldest in Parish at 97
Emily Allen Richardson 97 widow of Dr. T. P. Richardson former Ouachita Parish sheriff died at home of grand niece on Cherry street. She was born in Tennessee and lived in Louisiana since girlhood, residing in Monroe over 60 years and member of First Methodist church. Her husband died about 50 years ago.
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Emily Allen Richardson
T. P. Richardson
Ouachita Parish
Wilson Small
Cherry Street
Richardson
J. H. “Trousdale
B. A. Trousdale
Monroe
Impeachment Looms In New Deal Push In Louisiana
Louisiana lawmakers plan a biennial session in nine weeks to push a New Deal program aimed at ousting Governor Oscar K. Allen and others. Proposals include removing Lt Governor Fournet, Secretary Conway, and Attorney General Porterie, plus submitting a constitutional convention question to voters. The move is framed as restoring political freedom and honest government amid a stated need to end the present regime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Oscar K. Allen
John B. Fournet
E. A
Bob) Conway
Gaston L. Porterie
Voluntary Donations In Louisiana Politics Exposed
The piece alleges that Louisiana officials used the term voluntary donations to collect 20 percent of employees semi monthly pay before receiving checks to fund the Klover campaign in New Orleans. It cites Henry T Richardson of the Louisiana Highway Commission and A Ives as witnesses. It warns that such practices may continue in state politics.
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Long-Allen
Baton Rouge
Senator Long
Henry T. Richardson
Louisiana Highway Commission
Hammond
Overton
A. Ives
Richardson
Mr. Ives
Klover
New Orleans
Sixth
Louisiana
Connolly
Senate Investigation Committee
Robbers steal 50000 from South Carolina bank messenger
In Greenville on March 8 a messenger Clinton Foster and guard Hugo White were robbed of a $50,000 shipment en route from the post office to the South Carolina National Bank. A car barred their path as two bandits fled, witnesses say one wore dark glasses. Police aided by postal inspectors pursued suspects but did not capture them. Bank officials suspected the loot may have originated at the Columbia headquarters.
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Greenville
S. C
South Carolina National Bank
Clinton Foster
Hugo White
White
B. B. Smith
Ernest Smith
Financing gas field work proposal discussed by Monroe Chamber
A telegram from A V Miller of the Monroe West Monroe Chamber outlines plans for long term financing of real estate machinery and gas field extension. S H McClary notes three proposals with two seeming viable and seeks Reserve Bank guidance on credit limits and security.
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B. A. McKinney
Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas
Texas
A. V. Miller
Chamber of Commerce of
Monroe
West Monroe
S. H. McClary
Chamber of Commerce
Reserve Bank
McClary
Two Children Die As Embankment Falls Near Montgomery
In Montgomery Alabama on March 8 seven year old Thomas Bohannon and five year old Roberta Bohannon were buried when a 20 foot embankment collapsed during a game of digging caves. James Holt ten was pinned and later freed but survived with minor injuries.
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Montgomery
Ala
Thomas Bohannon
Roberta
Bohannon
James Holt
Holt
Kirk Holt
T. M. Bohannon
Swedish Prince Weds Commoner in London Registry
Prince Sigvard of Sweden married Erika Patzek a Berlin industrialist’s daughter at Caxton Hall registry in London. The ceremony lasted minutes with two witnesses, as crowds watched outside, and officials adjusted plans to avoid electoral disruptions.
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London
Sigvard
Sweden
Uppland
Erika Patzek
Berlin
Lennart
Registry Office
Erika
Caxton Hall
George Patzek
George Gordon
Prince Sigvard
Somerset House
Scott Cowan
Love Unrequited Ends Life of Blanche Sommerville
In Los Angeles on March 8 a 26 year old artist Blanche Sommerville killed herself with poison after a love remained unreturned. She left a note asking her mother in Shreveport not to be told she was dead and addressing it to a man named George expressing a final, unshared love and a plan to part.
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Los Angeles
Blanche Sommerville
Shreveport
Air firm official testifies about loans to post office official
Paul Henderson vice-president of United Aircraft testified to the senate airmail committee that he loaned $10,000 in 1930 to Chase C. Gove deputy second assistant postmaster general under W Irving Glower. Henderson says notes were destroyed and Gove was a long standing personal friend who admitted gambling in the stock market with all his money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Paul Henderson
United Aircraft and Transport Corporation
Senate Airmail Investigation Committee
Chase C. Gove
W. Irving Glover
Henderson
Roosevelt
Gore
Johnson orders new industrial panels to boost jobs
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, head of the NRA, asks heavy goods and consumer goods code authorities to select twelve members each to draft a concrete plan to expand employment. He tightens enforcement of Blue Eagle rules and warns of strikes and employer interposition while urging industry to cooperate with President Roosevelt.
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Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Code Authority Assembly
Johnson
Blue Eagle Chieftain
Supreme Court
New York
Roosevelt
Council of
Nicea
George Houston
Baldwin Locomotive
National Association of Manufacturers
Houston
Roosevelt speech stirs readers to recall NRA impact
Beverly Hills dispatch notes President Roosevelt emphasized reading statistics and argues that ninety percent of Americans earn salaries while ten percent profit, and those under two thousand dollars buy more than two thirds of goods. The hit at the NRA’s relevance is seen as timely and shaking to supporters.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Roosevelt
NRA
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