Packers Wage Deals and Freight Rates Stir 1940s Labor News
AFL and CIO unions reach wage deals with Swift and Cudahy packing companies boosting hourly pay and holidays while reducing regional differentials. ICC approves 17.6 percent freight rate rise for rail and water carriers to fund transport needs and maintain system. Royal romance rumors swirl as Prince Philip may seek British citizenship boosting ties with Greece amid Near East tensions.
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AFL
CIO Packinghouse
Swift
CIO United Packinghouse Workers of America
Cudahy
CIO Union
Tobin Packing Company
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Great Britain
Philip
Greece
Elizabeth
German and Allied Ministers Plan Moscow German Treaty Talks
The Big Four foreign ministers agreed to hold a German treaty meeting in Moscow next March after cleaning Balkan peace pacts. The U S and Britain aim to unify occupation zones to speed Western Germany recovery while Europe lags. Molotov promised press freedom and facilities, after Byrnes pressed for better access than at the last Soviet meeting.
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Moscow
U. S
Britain
Germany
Europe
Reich
Molotov
Byrnes
Walter Johnson Big Train Baseball Great Passes at 59
Walter Johnson known as the Big Train died at 59, famed for speed and 21 seasons with the Washington Senators. He won 413 games, lost 280, set the modern strikeout record at 3 497, pitched 2 no hitters and 114 shutouts, and blanked the Yankees three times in four days in 1910.
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Valhalla
Walter Johnson
Johnson
Washington Senators
New York Yankees
Rockets and Rumbles Across Regions in Cold War News
Test pilot Chalmers Goodlin piloted the XS-1 to 35 000 feet at 550 mph praising the craft as quiet and beautiful. The craft aims for 1700 mph, 80 percent of sound, with a 31 foot length and 28 foot wingspan. In other items, Russia Iran Greece Turkey tensions rose in the Near East as Azerbaijan saw troop movements and clashes with guerrillas in Greece and Bulgaria. Separately Miners leader John L Lewis pushed for shorter hours and higher pay with Inland Steel noting miners actually work 35 to 42 hours of a 54 hour week.
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Chalmers Goodlin
Goodlin
Army
Russia
Near East
Iran
Greece
Turkey
Azerbaijan
Corymbos
Bulgaria
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Wilfred Sykes
Inland Steel Company
Washington labor leaders fear autocratic union chiefs
Washington observers note growing discontent among union members over top leaderships, dues, and strikes as Congress opens. Analysts foresee restraint on anti labor moves, expect Wagner era gains to shrink, and urge consumer interests to guide future bargaining and policy.
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WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington
D. C
Friends of Labor
Congress
White House
Harry Truman
John Lewis
Senate
House
Taft
Ball
Whooping Cough Toll Surges in Child Deaths
Northwestern National Life Insurance warns whooping cough causes more child deaths annually than infantile paralysis and scarlet fever. U S Public Health Service figures show 1944: 1878 whooping cough deaths vs 1361 polio and 422 scarlet fever. 1945 preliminary: 1726, 1189, 349 respectively. Cases rise through winter to a March or April peak.
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Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
United States Public Health Service
U N Calls For Spain Ambassador Pullout At Lake Success
United Nations Security Committee at Lake Success adopts a resolution urging withdrawal of all ambassadors from Spain while urging no drastic steps against Franco. The U S absteins, and Madrid sees protests with banners denouncing foreign interference as Franco proclaims Spanish sovereignty and neutrality.
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Madrid
Franco
United Nations Political and Security Committee
Lake Success
N. Y
Spain
U. S
Barbs from Bankhage on presidents and turkeys
Political note comments on new prospective presidents and a high March 1918 war baby rate. It warns about education and quotes a Pierian spring metaphor. Mentions Spanish colonists shipping wild turkeys to Europe before 1550 and Chiang Kai-shek as not a dictator who can resign.
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Europe
Chiang Kai-shek
Color associations bind compass points in Oriental customs
An old custom ties colors to cardinal directions with white for North yellow for East red for South and black for West. In parts of China this color scheme persists in painting city gates facing those directions.
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China
Henry's Widow Targets Forced Labor Burial Plan
The widow of Henry plans to have his body cremated and ashes placed in an hour glass to mock his laziness after a life of idleness. The undertaker objects, but she remains determined to make him useful in death.
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Henry
Rascal
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Mount Clemens Potters Company
CIO United Steelworkers
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Ohio
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American Steel and Wire
Ohio Crankshaft Company
Dow Chemical Company of
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Mich
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U. S. Supreme Court
Lieve
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High Tribunal
UMW
Lewis
Mediterranean
Western Newspaper Union
Estersenepaper Union
LABOR
Couk
Iminers
Princess Elizabeth
Prince Philip
London
Bluff Reds
Washington Digest
Thurman Arnold
Walter Hamilton
New Republic
20Th Century Fund
U.N
Slap Franco
Bankhage
Walton
Walton Wheel Co
Milwaukee
Wis
Lea
Dr. Drake
MEU
Jerry
Glessco
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