Ford Cuts Prices On Ford Lincoln And Mercury Cars
Detroit April 3 Ford Motor Company lowered prices on Ford Lincoln and Mercury cars by 12 to 120 dollars effective tomorrow due to more available materials. Ford cuts include 12 to 30 dollars on Fords 80 to 120 on Mercurys and 100 on all Lincoln Cosmopolitan models. Some trucks lowered 10 to 40 dollars. Chrysler and Kaiser Frazer also moved prices while GM announced reductions. Ford plans UAW talks May 15 with potential industry pattern. The union seeks pensions and medical care. wage talks extend to May 1950.
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Lincoln
Mercury
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
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UAW
Kaiser-Frazer
Willys-Overland
General Motors
Battle over repealing Taft Hartley nears showdown
Washington April 3 Republicans and Southern Democrats claim enough House votes to block repeal of the Taft Hartley Law. Administration Democrats dispute the claim but expect a close, bitter battle. A substitute bill by Rep Wood Ga aims to keep Taft Hartley with changes. The House Rules Committee cleared the bill and a vote margin of up to 20 was forecast, with a Democratic leader saying administration support could defeat it.
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House Rules Committee
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Wood
D-Ga
House Labor Committee
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Elbert Thomas
Utah
Lesinski
D-Mich
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House Labor
Thomas-Lesinski
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Labor Committee
McConnell R-Pad
Barden
DNC
Rules Committee
Union Shop Rules Sparking Labor Battle In New Bill
Under the union shop system an employer may hire anyone but new workers must join the union within a set period, usually a month. The bill would also require employers to swear they are not Communists to access National Labor Board procedures, a oath now limited to union leaders. Damascus broadcasts show Syria's military governor Husni Zayim pledging to curb destructive Communist propaganda and push reforms in unemployment, work standards, wealth distribution, and land laws while armistice talks with Israel begin.
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Damascus
Syria
Husni Zayim
Zaylin
Zayim
Israel
Many Answer Emergency Appeal To Give Blood
About 50 volunteers rushed to Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore after a radio WCBM emergency appeal for blood to save a six year old girl. Police later found no such patient and police, hospital, radio station and volunteers investigated the misfire.
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Baltimore
Franklin Square
WCBM
Hoax Claim Fails to Please Crowd
A hoax claim sparked no laughter or approval as the audience remained unmoved and unimpressed by the stunt or joke. The incident drew guarded reactions and left organizers facing questions about credibility.
Man Jailed On Charge of Assault in Frederick
A feud between William Blank and Fred Yeschenko in Frederick ended with Blank jailed Sunday afternoon under 2500 bond for alleged assault with a deadly weapon. Police say a shotgun jam saved Yeschenko from death at a local restaurant Saturday around 3 pm after Blank allegedly aimed and fired at Yeschenko’s husband. The duo have a history of fist fights and prior accusations involving blows with a truck crank.
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William Blank
Fred Yeschenko
Frederick
Blank
Yeschenko
West End
Mehil G. Dixon
East Sixth Street
Haugh
Trump
Street brawlers arrested on peace disturbance charges downtown
Saturday night at Sixth and Bentz street two pairs of street brawlers posted $10 collateral for peace-disturbance by fighting. Ernest Abrecht and Oscar Baugher were arrested near Market and Church streets. Two colored pugilists Pryor and Timpson were picked up on Bentz street. Other arrests included Claude Gardner, Howard Speaks, Frederick Hopwood, Frank Nothagle, Cedrick McGaha, and Roy Shaffer for drunkenness or related disturbances.
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Merlier
Ernest Abrecht
Franklin Street
Oscar Baugher
South Maret Street
Haugh
Market
Church Streets
Sergt
Swom Jey
Kanode
Osaka Labor Rally Turns Violent Amid Police Action
The Eyod New Agency reports 1,009 police used fire hoses to disperse labor demonstrators in a two hour clash at Osaka. About 23,000 attended the anti gover nment rally sponsored by the Communist dominated Congress of Industrial Unions. Twenty three thousand attended a similar rally and clash the previous Sunday.
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Osaka
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