Union Merger Creates AFL CIO Federation of 16 Million
The AFL and CIO merged to form a single federation with 16 million members. George Meany will lead the AFL-CIO, with Walter Reuther as a key figure and votes split within the CIO over leadership and constitutional safeguards. Quill opposed the merger citing potential union discrimination and loss of influence. The new organization will hold a congress at the 71st Regiment Armory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AFL
CIO
Free World
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
71St Regiment
Quill
Dominic Merella
Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Industrial Council
United Steelworkers
Frank England
Springfield, Ill
Gustav Faber
TWU
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Afl-Cio
Industrial Union Department
George Meany
Truman Aides Face Indictments Seen as Political Motive
A federal grand jury indicted Matthew J. Connelly Theron L Caudle and Harry J Schwimmer on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government tied to tax cases from the Truman era. Caudle and Connelly deny guilt blaming politics as Sachs firm faced tax evasion charges and fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Matthew J. Connelly
Theron Lamar Caudle
Truman
Connelly
Caudle
Harry J. Schwimmer
Kansas City
Schwimmer
Wadesboro
N. C
Justice Department
Wyllys Newcomb
Grand Jury
Ellis N. Slack
Irving Sachs
Atty
Gen
Brownell
Washington
Slack
Sachs
Weather Update for Southern Illinois and Local Lake Levels
Cloudy conditions with light rain or drizzle in Southern Illinois. Tonight will be 40s with showers Saturday, turning to snow flurries and colder by night. Temperatures include lows in the 20s and highs in the 40s to 50s. Precipitation totals 0.22 inches since yesterday morning. Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake report readings below spillways today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern
Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Quadruplets Die. Burial Planned for All Four
Georgia the last of the E. E. Nelson quadruplets died early today and arrangements were made to bury all four in nearby Broxton this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
E. E. Nelson
Broxton
Local Ads Offer Readers a Chance to Talk Through Paper
Merchants invite reading public to engage via newspaper ads as the paper becomes the medium of contact. Readers can complete a Community Survey to express preferences for ad formats including large, medium, and small placements from listed businesses across furniture, liquor, automotive, furniture and various local shops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martyn Furniture
Montgomery Ward
ABC Liquor Stores
Court Clears Way For Sale Of Toll Bonds
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled the Toll Roads Commission may sell bonds for more than one toll route in a single issue and ordered secretary Orville Taylor to sign the bonds. The decision enables signing in New York with delivery by December 20. The deal involves a 415 million bond sale with a 3 1 4 percent interest rate and a two percent handling fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois Supreme Court
High Court
Illinois Toll Roads Commission
Orville Taylor
Chicago
Charles H. Davis
Rockford
Taylor
New York
Glore Forgan & Co
Halsey Stuart & Co
Attorney General’s Office
Cook County
E. R. Hamrich
Humrich
Werner Schroeder
Confession Denied in Child Rape and Murder Case
A 29 year old Canton taxi driver Lloyd Miller Jr. repudiated his signed confession to rape and murder involving 8 year old Janice May after a preliminary hearing. Sheriff Virgil Ballard State's Attorney Blaine Ramsey said he was bound over to the grand jury. Miller signed the confession in Springfield and authorities say he abducted the girl near her home and killed her after molesting her. He was held without bond as investigators withhold his location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Janice May
Virgil Ballard
Atto
Blaine Ramsey
Lloyd Miller Jr
Miller
Springfield
Navy Diver Rescued After Nine Hour Chilly River Ordeal
Joe Tallarico, 35, a Navy diver, was trapped nearly nine hours when his lines fouled on an anchor near the Patuxent River test facility. Fifteen divers aided, Tallarico freed and brought to the surface, later emerging from a decompression chamber unharmed and ready to dive again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Tallarico
Patuxent
Tallarico
Navy
Naval Ordnance Laboratory
Washington
Carmela
Joe
William G. Fisher
Williamsport
Fisher
Sunners
Gray Renegar
Western Allies vow to stay in Berlin until reunification
U S Ambassador James B Conant said the Western powers will remain in Berlin until Germany is reunified in response to Soviet moves to end occupation status for East Berlin and absorb that area into East Germany The note followed the detention of four Americans in East Berlin and reinforced four power control of the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
James B. Conant
Berlin
Germany
East Berlin
East German Republic
Conant
Charles L.dasher Jr
United States
Britain
France
Dasher
Neues Deutschland
Communist Party
Big Three
Russia
East Germany
G. M. Pushkin
U. S. Smen
End of the two year strike at International and Brown Shoe Co
The four week strike by CIO and AFL shoe workers ends with a 5 percent raise this year and 3 percent next year. About 2,000 workers at four plants in Randolph County and Anna expected to return to work Monday. The Anna plant combines a 400 worker factory and a 100 worker wood heel unit. Pickets remain near plant entrances as negotiations continue on Pension plan study and union shop provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International and Brown Shoe Co
CIO
AFL
Area
Area International Shoe Company
Randolph County
Anna
Russell Taylor
CIO Union
Cape Girardeau
Shoe Workers Local 125-A
Murphysboro
Browns Tract
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Manhattan Center
W. 34Th St
Statler
Michael J. Quill
Transport Workers Union
New York City
Subway
Walter P. Reuther
David J. McDonald
Joseph A. Beirne
Communications Workers
Phillip Samburg
Big Springs
Tex
Phillip C. Il
Ithaca, N. Y
Big Spring
Sainburg
Alma
O. T. Banton
The
Southern Illinoisan
West
Patuxent River
Solomons
Joseph R. Tallarico
International
Brown
Federal Court
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