Senate-House Group OKs Anti-Strike Law
A government driven anti strike measure clears a Senate House conference panel with penalties up to civil suits or one year in jail and a 5000 dollar fine. The bill allows seizure of war plants and coal mines and imposes a 30 day cooling off period before private walkouts. The War Labor Board gains subpoena power to settle disputes in war industries.
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War Labor Board
House
John L Lewis
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
Connally
D-Tex
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National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
WLE
WLB
May
O-Ky
Capitol Hill
Labor and war policy notes mix with WWII air losses
The report combines House conferees praising a labor bill compromise while detailing Roosevelt era labor-law aims and a separate wartime air war update. It notes Russian airmen downing 150 to 160 German planes and 21 lost by Soviets with 24 German planes shot down, plus history of Franklin College chartered in Georgia in 1785.
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NAXI
London
Moscow
Volkhov
Leningrad
Independent Oil Operators Forced Out of Business
Walter S. Hallanan, president of the Plymouth Oil Company and a member of the Petroleum Industry War Council, told the Bradford District Pennsylvania Producers Association that Office of Price Administration actions are driving small independents out of business. He warned major firms now control about 75 percent of oil reserves, up from under 50 percent two years ago, and blamed OPA policies for restricting production and profits.
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Bradford District
Pennsylvania
Qu) Producers Association
Hallanan
Cort
Negro Given Year For Taking Guernsey Heifer
The report notes a Negro receiving a year in the House of Corrections for taking a Guernsey heifer. Judge Latrick AP Schnauile, Circuit Court Wearresdar, pressed for a second charge of larceny but sentence was suspended. State’s Edwin F Nikirk moved to seek a third charge for larceny of a hog.
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Guernsey
House of Corporat Dn RS Gente
Latrick AP Schnauile
Circuit Court
Plewdhag
House of Correction
Edwin F . Nikirk
Ster
Martins Have Four Sons in Army Service
In Westminster a local family, the Martins, reports that all four sons are in military service. Three brothers remain at home with their parents while one son serves abroad in the South Pacific area.
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Westminster
Martins
South Pacific
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