Af L Convention Moves to Settle Studio Union Fights
The A F of L convention in Chicago pushes for a plan to settle interunion disputes in Hollywood studios and other industries. Growing cross union backlash to strikes spurs calls for arbitration boards and a formal parent body role at upcoming conferences.
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A. F. of L
Hollywood Studios
Spear
Interaunion
Chicago
C. I. ©. Steelworkers Union
C. FO
C. T
Allante City
Colony
A.F. of L
A. PF. of L
Hollywood
A. F. of L. International
Setars
A. F. of
Lewide Arbitration Boards
Pickets Thwart Studio Entrances In Major Strike Clash
Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside a major studio while 50 strike cars blocked gates and 600 protesters rallied at Columbia. The Independent Association for the Duquesne Light Co. workers pressing for a 20 percent wage raise faced an NL RB hearing, amid an AFL UMW petition for bargaining agent election. Cement workers from Lone Star Cement strike continued in three plants as builders seek alternate supplies. Dallas and New Orleans checks target weekly cement needs.
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Columbia
Independent Association For Employes
Duquesne Light Company
Pittsburgh
National Labor Relations Board
Frank N. Kleller
NLRB
Afl-United Mine Workers’ District 50
Lone Star
Cement Company
Grover A. Godfrey
Dallas Home Builders Association
Dallas
New Orleans
Houston
Trains Ardera mediator in San Francisco to avert strike
A mediator for Trains Ardera traveled to San Francisco to launch discussions aimed at preventing a threatened strike by Southern Pacific conductors across seven western states. The Order of Railroad Conductors would affect about 1700 employees in California Nevada Utah Arizona New Mexico and Texas. The union lists more than 3700 grievances, most about working conditions not wages.
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Ardera Mediator
San Francisco
Southern Pacific
California
Oyepoan
Nevada
Utah
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Murray urges Rail Trainmen merger to press price and tax actions
Philip Murray formally invited the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen to join the CIO, urging a merged political push for price control and tax legislation to curb a new low mood. He backed their May rail strike and criticized Truman, calling for Commerce and CPA probes into hoarded goods totaling an estimated 337 billion dollars.
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Miame Beacil
Philip Murray
Brotherhood of
CLO
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Brotherhood
Tratnmen Ih
Murray
Truman
Congress
A. F. Whitney
B.A.T
Department of Commerce
Civilian Production Administration
Argentina Navy Unit to Visit Chile for Inauguration
Argentina will send a squadron of 20 warships led by the destroyer Moreno to Chile for the presidential inauguration on November 4. The gesture underlines regional ties as the ships depart from BUENOS AIRES in October.
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Argentina
Chile
Buenos Aires
Moreno
Board leaders resignations stun war wage board
Board Preferred resignations of the two industry members of the wage stabilization board throw the agency into uncertainty over its future status Thursday. Chairman W. Willard Wirly says there may be no meetings of regional boards as industry reps follow Bart N. Cannon and A. Colman Barrett on the Washington panel. Barrett and Cannon submitted their resignations to President Truman, effective Thursday if accepted. The departing members urged scrapping wage controls and argued the wartime tripartite board form is no longer appropriate.
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wWape Stabilization Board
W. Willard Wirly
Bart N. Cannon
Colman Barrett
Washington
Barret
Canon
Truman
Peace Treaty For Italy Nears Final Approval At Paris
At the Paris conference the plenary approved the Italian peace treaty after two days of debate. A Russian veto looms in the foreign ministers' council, while Yugoslavia resists frontier terms. Italy faces reparations of 325 million dollars and loss of empire as Trieste becomes an international free zone under control.
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Paris
INS
Haly
Italy
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Russia
Yugoslavia
Haa
Belgrade
Trieste
Greece
Ethiopia
Albania
Iheay
Phone Calls Thwart Fraud at D. L. Pincus Store
The D L Pincus store at 420 East Houston Street thwarted a fraud attempt after a long distance call to Miami revealed checks for 50 and 69 dollars used to pay for a suit and an overcoat. The purchaser used Pan American Bank checks and was identified as Howard A Brooks of Philadelphia. Detectives arrested him for vagrancy and held him for the FBI due to lack of a registration card.
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D. L. Pincus
East
Houston Street
Miami
Fla
Pan American Bank
Miam
iMps
McCarthy
Handicapped Vets Get Jobs in San Antonio Week
About 18 physically handicapped veterans found employment in the first two days of Emplorative Handicapped Week at the U S Employment Service office in San Antonio. District Supervisor E A Elliott reported 68 more veterans referred to employers for interviews and 162 awaiting referral. Of 1540 previously listed unemployed veterans, 42 are not in school, 102 obtained jobs, and 23 made their own plans. Those unable to work and others unavailable are included in the remainder.
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United States Employment Services Office
San Antonio
E. A. Elliott
Elliott
The
Employment Service
Disappointed Thief Targeted By Local Police
A damaged OCR note describes a theft at 400 Arsenal Street near Santa Rowe Avenue and Buena Vista Street. It mentions a San Antonio suspect and a collection of English wording errors, with unclear details about the offense and location.
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Hedy
Roy
Halles
Arsenal Street
Santa Rowe Avenue
Buena Vista Street
Relief At Last For Your Cough
An ad touts a cough remedy promising relief from coughs and colds without narcotics. It claims the medicine loosens phlegm, soothes intrapulmonary mucous, and aids sleep, with a money back guarantee if not effective. The copy urges telling the pharmacist and guarantees rapid relief.
Chamber Urges Lid Off of Reds
The United States chamber of commerce urged Congress to expose Communist membership and finances to end its power in labor and government. The report cites infiltration in Treasury and Labor, cites subversive activity tied to the FBI cases, and calls for a national loyalty test, education, and stricter reciprocity with the Soviet Union.
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Chamber
Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Communist Party
Itaelf
Comintern
Treasury
Labor
Schwellenbach
FBI
Labor Department
Soviet Union
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