Labor Roundup Looms as 28,000 Idle in U S Factories
Strikes threaten tire cord plants amid wage and contract disputes. Workers, led by AFL local 69 and CIO unions, resist transfers from textile mills to Chrysler and Dodge plants. UAW withdraws support as back-to-work orders fail, with Detroit idle workers rising to about 17,000 and Dodge and Chrysler plants halting production.
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Associated Press
New Bedford
Mess
Way Manpower Commission
WMC
Hheer
Detsons
A. P. Jason
International Brotherhood of Chauffeurs, Teamsters
AFL
National War Labor Board
U8. Department of Labor
Chrysler Corporation
Strikng Dodge
International United Automobile Workers, Cio
Dodge Inca
Chrysler
Dodge
Detroit
Electricians Strike at Ingalls Yard Over Quotas and Union Grievances
A five day old strike by 16 000 workers at Ingalls shipbuilding yards Pascagoula Mississippi continues despite selective processing. Electricians refuse to cross a line while Monte Banier says G X Barker of the IBEW is en route to secure back to work orders. The metal trades council cites grievances including demand for a union show and job discipline in the B 24 parts department.
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Ingalls
Pascagoula
Miss
metal_ trades council of
ATL
Becaine
Monte Banier
G. X. Barker
International Bratherhioow of Electrical Workers
IBEW
Joca
Metal “Trades Council
One Brock Triplet Home Wounded In France
TEMPLE February 26 One of the Clarendon Brock triplets Henry Boyd Brock wounded in action on the western front recuperates at McGlinskey General Hospital He had asked to be separated for safety after arrival in France Floyd and Toyd Brock his brothers were last heard from in France November 1 1944 The trio are sons of Mr and Mrs Roy Brock on a farm near Clarendon
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Temple
Clarendon
Brock
France
Texas
Boyd Brock
McGlinskey General Hospital
Boyd
Floyd
Toyd
Roy Brock
Brothers Meet Among Islands in Philippines Search
Seaman Gaines McLendon Jr and Capt Colon J Lott, both San Antonio brothers, met after 20 months apart during the Philippine campaign. McLendon hunted 25 miles through villages and jungles for Lott, commander of an air service command squadron. Each served in the South Pacific and New Guinea theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaines W. McLendon Jr
Navy
Philippines
Colon J. ‘Lott
Air Service ‘Command
San Antonio
McLendon
Lott
Fifth Ade
Seaman McLendon
Sacramento Street
Edison High School
South Pacific
Captain Lofts
West Ashby Place
New Guinea
Dutch East Indies
Headqherters Company
36Th Infantry Division
Victoria Flier Bags Two Planes in Europe Action
Victoria Flier McMullen of Victoria Texas credited with destroying two enemy planes on the ground while escorting during yesterday's attack on Leipzie and Mado in France as United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
United States Strategic Air
Europa Shadquarters
France
McMullen
Texas
Leipzie
Mado
Malden base troop carrier program ends commander reassigned
Col Charles A Cowing commander of the First Troop Carrier command base at Malden Maine announced the combat crew training for troop carrier units will end and the field will be relinquished to the Air Technical Service command in April. Cowing, a veteran pilot with fifteen months overseas service, participated in the invasions of Africa, Sicily and Italy. He is the son of William A Cowling of West Springfield Massachusetts and was commissioned in the air corps at Kelly Field in 1932.
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Charles A. Cowing
Troop Carrier Command
Malden, Me
Air Technical Service Command
Cowitg
Misa Jessie M. Church
San Antonio
Africa
Sicily
Italy
William, A. Cowling
West
Springfield
Mass
Air Corps
Kelly Held
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U.S
RED Cross
Grant Co
W. Commerce ST
Foudcue
Super- ‘Mart
G. W. McLendon JR
G. J. Lott
Junele
Texas Independence
San Antonio Clearing House Association
Commerce
National Bank OF Commerce
Atsc Gels
Bere
Grussiala
Ned Darks
Diloor
Lima
Betty Harvard
Dickey
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