Labor Roundup Pittsburgh Power Strike Delayed for Week
A threatened Pittsburgh area power strike by the Independent Union of Duquesne Light was postponed for one week to 12:01 a.m. Tuesday March 15. President George L Maeler says 400 members will decide March 1 whether to submit wage disputes to arbitration or strike. The union seeks a wage increase of 15 cents for general labor and 25 cents for others.
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Wee
George L. Maeler
Independent Union of Duquesne Light
Sombia Faplores
Global labor unrest and strikes ripple across industries
Negotiators from United Auto Workers in conference near Devil advance talks as 175000 plant workers face disruption. In Cincinnati seven independent meat wholesalers shutter plans in protest against OPA rules. St Louis area small packers plan a coordinated shutdown to support a regional protest, while in Scranton public works workers return to duty after a weeklong walkout that halted garbage and ash removal. Simmons mattress workers in Oakland and San Francisco strike for 20 percent wages. ATandT and the Federation of Long Lines Workers resume talks in New York to avert a 19000 worker strike planned for March 7.
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Cincinnati
OPA
St. Louis
Missouriliis! Hols Small Slaughterers’ Association
Midwest States
Atorney
Max W. Kramon
Parkers
Scranton
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Federation of Long Vines Workers
New York City
Bus Strike Ties Up Chicago Suburban Service
A 52 member AFL strike at Leyden Motor Coach Co halts bus service for about 25 000 commuters in western Chicago suburbs. Strikers seek a 15 cent hourly wage hike, time and a half after 40 hours, and a guaranteed 48 hour week.
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AFL
Leyden Motor Coach Company
Chicago
Waterfront Sarges Checkers Deal Ends Labor Standoff
Waterfront workers and the Pontland employers reached a tentative agreement ending a month long stoppage. The dispute began over the use of checkers by the employer and moved to talks mediated to resume work.
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Clo
Local Mine Workers Vote On Strike Action
Uaahi CIObility workers vote to strike after failed talks on a new contract. Union negotiators say demands were cut from 30 percent to 24 percent, while the company offered a 15 percent raise and a six cent hourly bonus.
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Uaahi Ciobility
Li Los Atualos
Teamsters threaten work stoppage over cannery negotiations
The Teamsters movement of food to and from Worthen California canneries faces disruption as international representative Briy Mohn of the ALU warns the union will refuse practice unless contract talks with A. Rd Canny workers resume by the Friday deadline.
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Worthen
Machinists Renew Hope End of 120 Day Strike Near
Union painters joined a picket line at the W J Faller Company plants to resume work easing a prolonged 120 day strike. Machinists expressed renewed confidence that the labor dispute may reach settlement soon as workers return to duties.
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San Finelseot
W. 1. Faller Company
Fablers
Docks halt work at Seattle east waterway terminal
Longshoremen stopped loading at the Seattle east waterway dock and Stacy Landep terminal on Tuesday. The foreman was reportedly replaced by an APL supervisor during the standstill.
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Seattle East Waterway
Stacy-Landep Terminal
APL
Senate Labor Bill Faces House Skepticism Over Provisions
Legislation pushed by Rep Case IRS.D.I and Senate sponsor Jaber is approved by the Senate but faces House opposition. The committee reviewing the bill signals adverse to several provisions calling for further actions on worker protections. Acting Chairperson Rilendey notes likely House alignment on contested sections.
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Senate
Jaber Cormiline
Une Hrse
Rep. Case
Referee Sought After Fight Ends With Ear Injury
Raymond Lair, 1019 East Carson Street, requests his next bout be under prize ring rules. He was treated at Robert B. Green Hospital on Tuesday after a Monday night fight in the 100 block of North New Braunfels Avenue left his left ear nearly bitten off. Military police arrested Fyis, Marlin Maushack, and Elbert Echols, all from Bronke Hospital.
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Raymond Lair
East Car- Son Stret
Robert B. Green Hospital
New Braunels Avenue
Fyis
Marlin Maushack
Elbert Echols
Bronke Hospital
Funeral arrangements for Mrs Augusta Eckert
Mrs. Augusta Eckert 90 a long time Bexar County resident died Monday Funeral services set for 4 PM Wednesday at the Rice Funeral Home with Rev Reingold Maechtle officiating She lived at 2799 South Walters Street and was a Fort Mason native Interment at San Jose Cemetery
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Augusta Eckert
Bexar County
Ricbe
Reingold Maechtle
Eckert
South Walters Street
Fort Mason
San Jose
Picket Issue To Be Settled Today At GE Plant
Acting Sheriff William J. Morrow said the whale issue of court banned C I O workers picketing the General Electric plant will be settled at meetings today and police intervention is not needed. About 1400 pickets defied a common pleas injunction outlawing mass picketing as workers strike for a $20 daily wage boost.
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Philadelphia
William J. Morrow
General Electric Company
Haecker Rites Slated At Zuehl
Funeral services for Albert Haecker 71 of Zuehl will be held at 4 p m Wednesday at the Zuehl Evangelical Church with Rev Ernest Schwangel officiating Interment will be at Zuehl Cemetery
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Albert Haecker
Zuehl
Zuehi Evangelical Church
Ernest Schwangel
Texas Labor Board weighs Vultee strike in Fort Worth
The National Labor Relations Board will independently investigate the Fort Worth Consolidated Vultee plant strike involving about 4000 workers. The union left talks over demands for a union shop, while the firm says it remains ready to negotiate. The Reed Roller Bit case faces stalled talks over wage increases and price relief delays. Eva Campbell warns of further state labor tensions as Southwestern Bell workers vote on joining a national strike.
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NLRB
Eva Cam Hell
Northeast Division
Southwestern ‘Telephone Workers’ Union
Munday
Steel strike at Hughes Towl worsens wage fight impact
The strike at the Hughes Towl company continues as the Steelworkers push for an 181.2 cent hourly wage increase. Noah Dietrich, executive vice president of Hughes, announced the wage stabilization board authorized Hughes’ duties of 15.
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Hughes Towl Company
Houston
Noah Dietrich
Hughes
Bad Check Plea Draws Jail Term
Edward W. Boyd of Houston was sentenced to one year in jail by Judge Charles J. Matthews in County Court at Law No 2 after pleading guilty to swindling by check.
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Aller P Preading
Guing
Edward W. Boyd
Houston
Charles J. Matthews
Labor Renew Campaign in Rio Grande Valley Packing Plants
Caldwell of the Texas Citrus and Vegetable Workers union announced a renewed drive to organize citiis and vegetable packing shed workers in the Rio Grande Valley. The union will first negotiate a new contract with Trulyn shippers in Edinburg for a 63 cent minimum wage, setting the standard for area plants.
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Meabuci
Malcolm Caldwell
Texas Citrus and Vegetable Workers Union
Rio Grande Valley
Trulyn Shippers
Edinburg
War Bead to Be Honmeored War Bead to Be Honmeored
Bexar county men who died in action during World War II will be honored by the San Antonio chapter No 2 of American War Fathers Sunday March 3 at 4 7. A memorial tree planting ceremony will be held on the grounds of the Bexar county lagian home. Parents and relatives are invited to attend according to Mrs A J Friesen publicity chairman.
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Bexar County
San Antonio
Bexar ‘County
A. J. Friesen
Lois Johnson Heads YDC in Bexar County
Lois Johnson was elected president of the Young Democratic Club of Bexar County to fill the unexpired term of William Murray. The unanimous vote occurred at a La Villita meeting on Monday night. An executive session at the St. Anthony Hotel Sunday noon will discuss questionnaires adopted by the Democratic State Executive Committee in Fort Worth.
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Lois Johnson
Young Democratic Club
Bexar County
la Villite
Hilversum Radio Reports Rotterdam Dock Workers Refuse Spain Shipments
Rotterdam dock workers voted at a mass meeting last night not to load any micro ships bound for Spain. The Hilversum radio reported the decision as of today, February 26, from London dispatches.
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Spain
London
Hilversum
Rotterdam
Drilling Contractor Electrocuted Near Holliday
Johnny Franklin Goforth a Wichita Falls drilling contractor was electrocuted when a guy wire he was working on near Holliday touched a live power line sending an estimated 6400 volts through him authorities reported the incident occurred yesterday as Goforth tried to adjust equipment at the site with the line entangling the wire and the power line.
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Wichita Falls
Johnny Franklin Goforth
Holliday
Gilderrick Guy
Alsody
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