Coal union delays end of coal mining standstill
Washington April 29 The United Mine Workers union said soft cost production would resume Thursday in bituminous fields shut down since April 1 over a wage contract dispute After talks in Appalachia district presidents learned Southern producers agreed to reopen under President Roosevelt. Southern operators pushed a new retroactive $1 a day wage boost from $5.60 to $6.50, a move unexpected by union leaders. The halt ends promise quicker fuel replenishment aiding war production.
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United Mine Workers Union
John L. Lewis
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Roosevelt
L. Ebersole Gaines
Southern Producers’ Group
Daion
Stephen Early
Ford Plans Six Day Work Week For May Output
Ford Motor Company plans to run its production divisions on a six day work week for most of May to build more than 130 000 passenger cars and trucks. May production will be on 6 days per week except Memorial Day with time and a half for the additional day.
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Ford Motor Company
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Mediation Board Advances GM Strike Hearing
Washington April 29 William H Davis vice chairman of the defense mediation board said a hearing on a threatened strike involving 160000 workers in General Motors plants had been advanced from Friday to Thursday No reason was given GM holds 700000 in defense contracts.
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Washington
William H. Davis
Defense Mediation Board
General Motors
Gasoline Output Texas Tops US Natural Gasoline
Texas produces one third of all natural gasoline in the United States, a dominant share highlighted in production statistics. The state leads nationwide outputs, reflecting its extensive oil and gas industry footprint and processing capacity.
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Texas
United States
Wage Increase Won by Union in San Diego Project
The San Diego A P L Building Trades council won a 2 10 percent wage increase for about 800 workers on the 9 090 000 Kearny Mesa Defense Housing project. The government partially granted demands to avert a walkout scheduled for 9 a m today. Four crafts gain from the settlement, following a prior strike that raised wages by 10 percent on two 4 000 000 naval housing developments in the area.
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San Diego
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Rodeo Aviatrix Held on Murder Charge in Houston
Dark-eyed Lucyle Richards, rodeo cowgirl and aviatrix, is jailed in Harris County on a murder charge after the fatal shooting of ranchman and rodeo official Frank Y. Dew in his River Oaks apartment. Richards says she went to wed and claimed a scuffle followed a warning not to visit. A woman in the apartment, Grace Catlins, was present. Richards planned to depart for England to become an RAF instructor.
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Houston
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Lucyle Richards
Harris County
England
Miss Richards
Frank Y. Dew
River Oaks Gardetts
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Truk-Riding
Dew
Grace Catlins
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Formation of a citizens committee for Harry Bridges
Orson Welles John Hammond and Professor Matthiesen announced a citizens committee to support Harry Bridges now on trial in a second deportation hearing. The group includes educators writers stage and screen personalities clergymen artists and others with over 65 sponsors joining the effort.
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New York
Citizens Committee
Harry Bridges
Organ Welles
John
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F. C. Matthiascan
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Hammond
Matthiessen
Harvard
Orson Welles
Bridges
United States
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British Reported Arrest in Spain by Valencia raid
Reuters reported a German radio claim that 341 Britons were arrested in Valencia, Spain, on charges of hostile acts against Spain. The British news agency said the information was picked up from a German source and noted the incident was reported from London.
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Spain
London
Reuters
Valencia
Abandoned Texas Oil Wells Reach Forty Thousand Mark
Four thousand abandoned wells reflect a larger trend as nearly 40,000 Texas oil sites have been shut down due to unfavorable production levels and unfavorable economic conditions impacting ongoing operations.
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Texas
Retailer Profits From Texas Petrol Trade Circulation
Texas retailers reap about 324 million dollars annually from the money put into circulation by the state petrol industry.
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Texas
Texas Petrol Tem
Year record shows Texas oil output surge last decade
Approximately two thirds of all oil produced in Texas to date came in the past eleven years, marking a dramatic shift in production toward recent decades and highlighting a rapid expansion in energy output during that period.
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Texas
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