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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1946
Page
6
David K. Ball John F. Bart and Fairold G. Hargis will attend the eighth annual convention of the Great Central Mutual Insurance in Peoria Illinois December 19 through 21.
James E. Graviss seeks 25000 damages from Airline Freight Lines after a complaint filed July 24 in Justice of the Peace Bar Corrigan's court charged him with theft of 53.70. The grand jury dropped the case for lack of evidence and Graviss says the action harmed his goodwill and required time and money for vindication. The ad notes light want ads offered by Not Quite Magic for San Antonio readers and a dial-in service for turning unused items into cash.
Walter Reuther president of the UAW warned that another wave of strikes could bring disaster unless basic problems are settled. He noted plans to seek a 23 0 0 cent an hour raise for 909 000 members and urged cooperation from industry to avoid strikes. Reuther spoke at a Labor and Nation sponsored event and cited offers to head meat cutters and other workers that were reportedly rejected.
A conference of CIO leaders will assemble the three largest unions United Steel Workers United Auto Workers and United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers to map future contract negotiation plans for about 2 350 000 workers. National Biscuit Company employees in Los Angeles sued for 350 000 in back wages claiming 15 minutes daily for uniform and tool prep and 20 minutes for washing and dressing after shifts.
UAW CIO locals in Detroit split with CIG PAC as Local 174 led by Harry Southwell pledges support to the Michigan Commonwealth Federation. In wartime activity, five A Fi machine movers officials are indicted for conspiring to extort 251000 in work-permit schemes. Seven more Local 575 officers face coverspirator charges.
Oklahoma City bus and street car operators returned to work Saturday, ending a 24-hour transit lien that had left residents of the 200000 population city hitching rides with thumbs on Friday.
About twelve hundred employees from 170 Safeway Grocery stores in the New York City area walked out over wages. Most stores in Manhattan and the Bronx closed, with only managers on duty at the few still open. Union leader Edward J. Curley cites demands for a 40 percent raise and five weeks back pay for idle periods during the trucking strike.
Four year old Gilbert Munguerz of 231 Fast Lambert Street was taken to Robert B. Greens Hospital after being struck by a car in the 2200 block of South Mores Street. Police report the driver as John W. Knox of San Angelo.
In Galveston on December 14 Brother Jasper principal of Kirwl High School chased a thief who lifted a woman's purse on the school residence porch. The priest and faculty pursued but the robber escaped across the lawn despite the chase.
About 1300 students at Fitch School in Austin Ohio faced a longer break as 42 teachers walked out demanding higher salaries from 145 to 1445 dollars.
San Antonio police may nominate a suspect for the Meanest Thief of 1946 after he cut a hole in a rear screen at Salvation Army headquarters on Fifth and Elm Saturday, forced open a locked filing cabinet and escaped with 125 dollars.
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