Strike dangers seen in GM walkout spread across nation
In a New York dispatch dated November 29, the UAW General Motors strike is described as a potential nationwide shutdown. The piece cites inflation, unrest, and Communist influence, warning that union executives push a 30 percent pay rise while blocking price increases, threatening broader industry stoppages and economic paralysis.
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Franklin Roosevelt
Ald
Phillip Murray
Auto Workers’ Union
General Motors
United States
State receives big land revenue in 1944 45
Baton Rouge reports the state land office collected 8 537 096 in royalties bonuses rentals and fees for 1944 and 1945. Grace estimates 100 000 more to be collected in November December. Royalty income led with 4 476 770. second came from causes and rentals 2 669 ? for Jan 1 1944 to Oct 1945.
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Baton Rouge
State Land Office
Lucille Mayurace
Miss Grace
Register
State Law Office
Bssre
Conservation Department
LaFourche
Levee Board
Royales
Marshall To Give Harbor Testimony
Congressional investigators learned that American naval attackers in Japan and parts of China were told on December 4 1941 to destroy their codes three days before Pearl Harbor. The directive came via a dispatch read by Gerhard Gesell to the Senate House committee, naming Admiral Stark and Admiral Kimmel with instructions to destroy the system and report actions using Saber Wock and Boomerang.
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Washington
Japan
China
Pearl Harbor
Gerhard Gesell
Senate House Committee
Harold R. Stark
Husband E. Kimmel
Pacific Fleet
Barkley
George C. Marshall
Army
Truman
Marshall
Gesell
Joseph
Senate Delays Vote On UNC UNO Treaty Debate
Washington reports say the Senate stalled action on legislation to align U S government machinery with the United Nations Organization. Senators Connally and Morse urged caution amid talks and disputes. Russia figures heavily as debates center on sanctions and court decisions under the UNO charter.
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Washington
Senate
United Nations Organization
Johnson
United States
Morse
Oregon
UNO
Jin
Russia
Wheeler
Montana
England
Labor storms as unions press for pay rise in steel and auto
The CIO unions in steel and automobiles push for wage hikes with a GM United Auto Workers strike in its tenth day and steel workers prepared to walk out for a $2 daily increase. NFLS polls show near five to one support for a strike among 650000 eligible steel workers.
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C. 1. O. United Automobile Workers
General Motors Corp
United Steel Workers
Nazi Leaders Face Grim Film of Concentration Camps
At Nuremberg the international tribunal screened grisly camp footage as prosecutors described Hitler era crimes. Goering and others shifted and averted eyes while Hess showed interest. Doenitz glanced rarely and Papen/gatekeepers avoided the screen. The session adjourned after the film as evidence.
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Wes Gallagher Muernberg
International Military Tribunal
Reichsmarshal
Herman Goering
Hitler
Austria
Hjalmar Schacht
Franz von Papen
Germany
Rudolf Hess
Goering
Karl Doenitz
Kurt Schuschnigg
U. S
Sidney S
Louisiana teachers hear good fellows five addresses
At the Louisiana teachers convention in Alexandria the first general session featured five civic and educational leaders addressing improved school systems and warning about shortages of qualified instructors in physics chemistry industrial arts and guidance.
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Alexandria
oPi
Bolton High School
L. T. A. and
Classroom Teachers Association
Louisiana Teachers Association
Charles Shirar
Calvary Baptist Church
J. A. Blackman
R. W. Magee
Washington Parish
Blackman
Daniel A. Allain
New Orleans
Parrish Fuller
Oakdale
State Board of Education
Fuller
Louisiana
Regimentation of Medicine Opposed by Journal Editorial
The Journal of the American Medical Association warns that Truman health reforms would place medicine under federal political control. The editorial opposes a Wagner Murray Dingell bill and argues compulsory sickness insurance would enslave medicine and threaten private practice.
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Chicago
Truman
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Congress
Wagner
New York
Murray
Montana
Dingell
Michigan
Stalin prolongs vacation delaying return to Moscow
Moscow reports say General Secretary Stalin will take a long rest at a Black Sea vacation spot and may not return before the new year. A reliable source confirms his health remains good and counters rumors of illness or a power struggle.
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Moscow
Stalin
Sochi
Black Sea
U. S
W Averell Harriman
UNRRA Accuses 600 of Misdeeds in Germany
UNRRA reports over 600 workers dismissed suspended or arrested for diverting relief supplies into the black market in Germany. Most accused were Americans and Britons in the French American and British occupation zones. Investigations continue with replacements by demobilized soldiers.
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Herford
Germany
U.P
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Leo J. Margolin
New York
UNRRA
Europe
Margolin
Frederick A. Morgan
Eisenhower
Morgan
Raphael Cilento Brisbane
Francis Schiff
Bonn
Republicans, Southern Democrats block two must bills in House
A bipartisan bloc in the House delayed two administration must bills. One would authorize 1.35 billion dollars for UNRRA, the other a substitute full employment bill. House leaders planned fast action before a holiday recess, but critics urged postponement for more information.
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Washington
House
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Cox
Truman Says No Need for More Big Three Conferences
President Truman stated there is no need for further Big Three meetings if the United Nations operates effectively. He said revisions to Allied control in Germany should not trigger a special conference with Stalin and Attlee, recalling the League of Nations was ruined by such gatherings.
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Richard T. Leonard
U. A. W.C. I. OG. Ford
Leonard
Maine
Gates
Indiana
Montgomery Ward and Company
Ward
Sewell Avery
Anderson, Ind
Washington
Truman
United Nations Organization
Germany
Russia
Gothle
United States
France
Britain
Allied Control Council
Berlin
Byron Price
George C. Marshall
China
Chungking
Marshall
Patrick J. Hurley
China Post
Hurley
Senate
Tafte Wagner
Palestine
Great Britain
Truman Praises Reconversion Progress and Policy Moves
President Truman said the administration is ahead on reconversion, with unemployment lower than expected and war plants largely converted. He noted inflation risks, strikes postwar, and urged continued resolve while outlining progress on demobilization, plant retooling, and peace production. He discussed UN, Potsdam, China policy, Marshall’s mission, Hurley resignation, Palestine, and wary of further Big Three summits.
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Truman
Japan
Marshall to visit China to survey aid prospects
Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer said General Marshall would be sent to China to assess the situation and advise the president on U S military aid. He praised Marshall’s experience and sought to have him replace Hurley as special envoy. Chinese dispatches report Nationalists halting advances toward Mukden as Russians allegedly favor peaceful entry.
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Spencer Moosa
Shanhaikwan
Great Wall
Manchuria
Kowpangtze
Mukden
Tahushan
Peiping-Mukden
Szechwan
Szechwan Province
Bette Davis to Wed William Grant Sherry in Laguna Beach
Bette Davis will marry William Grant Sherry tomorrow at St Marys Episcopal Church in Laguna Beach. The ceremony will be followed by a Mexico City premiere honor for The Corn Is Green.
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Hollywood
Art Colony
Laguna Beach
Bette Davis
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
William Grant Sherry
Davis
Miss Davis
Ruth Favor Davis
Robert Woodbury Palmer
Boston
Paul Gordon Favor
Palmer
Sherry
Mexico City
Harmon O. Nelson
Arthur Farnsworth
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National Labor Relations Board
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