Anti-Lewis Bill Debated in Senate Welfare Funds Move
Washington debate centers on a Byrd proposal to bar employer contributions to worker welfare funds unless management has a voice with employees. Pepper offers a substitute to require government scrutiny of spending by business and labor groups if funded by the public. Byrd argues for no employer contributions without equal management influence, noting Lewis seeks 7 percent payroll payments totaling about 70 million annually.
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France Denies Petiot Retrial Appeal In Slaying Case
Paris officials announced that an appeal for retrial by Dr. Marcel Petiot, condemned for killing 27 people, was denied by a French examining commission. Presidential clemency remains possible to save the 56-year-old physician.
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Texas Rails Await Decision
Texas railroads faced a potential nationwide strike as unions debated a presidential proposal to mobilize equipment. Major lines in Dallas and Fort Worth prepared to reroute freight and maintain essential service while feeder lines offered mail handling.
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Moon
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Southern Pacific Lines
Miners Idle as 135000 Refuse to Work Amid Seizure
Paragraphs describe more than a third of the nation’s 400000 salt coal miners staying idle amid President Truman’s seizure of the mines and a 12 day truce. Leaders in Pennsylvania Alabama and other states report widespread stoppages with no official explanation for the refusal.
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Rail unions seek 45 wage and rule changes across railroads
Chicago May 2. The two unions have filed 45 demands for increased pay and revisions or additions to working rules. Proposals include night differential, Sunday pay, train length limits, paid sick leave, watches at cost, pay for inspection time, equipment standards, seating for conductors, yardmaster appointments, and other provisions aimed at modernizing operation and staffing.
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PTA urges rationing and requisitioning to aid world needs
The National Congress of Parents and Teachers backed two measures: requisitioning food by the government to free more for UNRRA and other governments, and rationing for fair home distribution. It also urged a national health program spanning pre birth to end of life. Mrs. L. W. Hughes of Arlington, Tennessee, elected president, succeeds Mrs. William A. Hastings.
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Border Polio Discussed at Texas Mexico Conferences
Austin May 23. Health officials from Mexico and Texas met in a series of conferences led by Dr. Geor ge Cox state health officer to plan a cooperative border program. They discussed the polio outbreak’s possible travel effects and methods to prevent polio.
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Georfey Cox
Nazi Admits Massacre Shot At Malmedy War Crimes Trial
George Fleps, an SS private linked to the Malmedy massacre, testified he fired the first shot after orders to kill American prisoners. He described rounds from surrounding machine guns as the column moved to the Malmedy crossroads in the Battle of the Bulge. Fleps identified by Virgil Lary, a former lieutenant who escaped, and another accused, Sgt. Hans Liptrott, corroborated the shooting orders.
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