Convicts Surrender After Brushy Mountain Mine Rebellion
Prison officials hunted for dynamite booby traps believed planted by 95 convicts who surrendered after two days holed up in Brushy Mountain State Prison mine. Hostages Ben Davis and Earl Hensley walked out unharmed as eight ringleaders were sent to Nashville. The uprising cited nine complaints over food quality and mine safety.
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Tenn
UPI
Brushy Mountain State Prison
Earl Hensley
Ers
Haggard
Swor
Ben Davis
Hensley
Jnhead
Tom Jones J
Sherby Bunch
State Penitentiary
Nashville
Patterson
Witnesses Testify in Hearing on Dropped Charges
Walter Geisler of Hamilton testified about prior court appearances and alleged bribe pressure involving Study. Sam Banks of Elyria said he obtained a Victory Construction project job after Brooks requested one but was denied. The hearing resumed with questions over Geisler's court history and potential amnesia.
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Szuhy
Riemer
Butler
Walter Geisler
Hamilton
Victory Construction
Geisler
Saiy
Prusa
Wheatley
Union Has No National Strike Fund
Pittsburgh UPI The nation s striking steelworkers will be ineligible for state unemployment benefits and will receive no financial aid from their national union during the strike. The United Steelworkers Union has no strike fund from which it could make strike payments. Each local will form a strike welfare committee to aid hardship cases. Top union officials including President David J McDonald will go without pay. their salaries are suspended at the strike s outset. Secretarial staff in headquarters will continue to work and draw salaries.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Steelworkers Union
David J. McDonald
Lorain County News Brief Dated 1959 Public Notice
A fragmented Lorain County Times snippet dated 1959 notes publication by The Lorain County Printing Publishing Co Elyria Ohio. It lists a price and indicates local race notices and distribution details with illegible lines about offices and rates.
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Lorain County Printing & _ Publishing Co
East Avé
Elyria
Mal Prinleces
Ohio
Chronology of events leading to the steel strike
A timeline from April to July covering USW and steel industry actions. Key moments include wage talks, proposed freezes, promises to curb costs, wildcat strikes in Cleveland Pittsburgh Vandergrift and Canton, federal mediation efforts, Eisenhower involvement, and the eventual strike onset on July 15. The record notes specific dates, actions, and participants such as USW President David J. McDonald, U.S. Steel chairman Roger M. Blough, and President Eisenhower.
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Industry
United Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
USW
New York
Industry Studies Union
U.S. Steel Corp
Roger M. Blough
Executive Board
McDonald
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Clover Mills
Wildcat
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Vandergrift
Clos Eight Mills
Canton
Ohio
Eisenhower
Nixon
R. Conrad Cooper
Plains
Aris
Manufacturer Dies
Erwin Loewy, a specialist in heavy machinery, died in New York on Monday. He was founder and president of the Loewy Hydropress Division of the Bailde Corp and a vice president of the parent firm.
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New York
Erwin Loewy
Loewy Hydropress
Baildeee Corp
Mary Coll Collins Elected Florida Girls State Governor
In Tallahassee on Tuesday 16 year old Mary Coll Collins was elected governor of Florida Girls State. She is the daughter of Governor Leroy Collins and follows a family political line with the state program showcasing young leadership.
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Tallahassee, Fla
Mary Coll Collins
Florida
Leroy Collins
Senate OKs 4 Tagles Hike Tops 2.50 House Proposal
Ohio Senate approves a $4 auto tag fee increase to 14, with other hikes for trailers, buses, motorcycles, and farm trucks. Compromise with the House set for today as measures also cover capital punishment study, highway funding, workers compensation, school aid cuts, blue laws review, and a non fault damages bill for charity hospitals.
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William E. Tangney
Columbus
UPI
Ohio Senate
Senate
House
Ohio
Michael V. DiSalle
Legislative Service Commission
Highway Department
Sentate
Frank W. King
Toledo
103Rd General Assembly
George Hook Jr
Brown
Industry
Department of Economic and Industrial Development
Steel Union Proposes Facts Board Strike Looms in Steel Talks
The steel industry faces a looming walkout as union leaders push for a settlement after new wage contracts failed. Mediator Joseph Finnegan and President Eisenhower sought a quick accord, with USW President David J. McDonald joining talks amid stalled negotiations between the union and 12 major steel firms.
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Federal Mediation Service
Joseph F. Finnegan
Eisenhower
Finnegan
Sub Expert Dies
Captain Frederick J. Laing U S N 52 a submarine operations and deep sea diving expert died here Tuesday.
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New York
Frederick J. Laing
U.S.N
Defense Bill Edges Upward Amid Budget Plot Skirmish
Senate approved a 40 billion dollar defense appropriation for the next year, topping the president’s request by 346 million and surpassing House totals by 746 million. Democrats strive for net budget cuts while a conference committee works to reconcile differences.
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Eisenhower
Senate
House
Steel Strike Is Sixth Since World War II
The United Steelworkers strike marks the sixth industry wide walkout since World War II. The piece recalls past walkouts from 1916 to 1956, detailing durations, wage gains, and costs to production, with notes on earlier major strikes and the 1892 Carnegie Homestead battle.
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Pittsburgh
UPS
United Steelworkers
Ifions Board
Philip Murray
Steel Union
Bethlehem
Republic, Inland
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
NLRB
Little Steel
Andrew Carnegie
Homestead
Pinkerton
Almond Plan Backers Win In Virginia Vote
Virginia Democrats backed Gov J Lindsay Almond's freedom of choice plan in a hard fought primary. Almond supporters gained a seat in the Senate and ousted several anti integration incumbents including Inez Baker, with Charlottesville granting a school integration milestone next September.
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Almond
Virginia
Richmond
UPI
J. Lindsay Almond
State Senate
Sen
Victor P. Wilson
Stuart E. Hal Jett
Hampton
Newport News
Inez Baker
Portsmouth
Donald Sandie
Willard J. Moody
House of Delegates
Baker
Charlottesville
Harold M. Burrows
William R. Hill
Senate
Ammonia Leak Workers Overcome at Canton Poultry Plant
An ammonia leak from a broken refrigeration pipe at a Canton Georgia poultry plant Friday incapacitated 18 workers most of them women. The fumes polluted a nearby waste stream and killed hundreds of fish. Three women required oxygen revival.
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Canton
Ga.upii
Faumrs
Rolls-Royce car criticized by Australian sheep farmer
England based Rolls-Royce received a complaint from an Australian sheep farmer who traded in his 3-year-old Rolls. The farmer wrote that the new car is useless and lacks an outside running board, asking where to place a dead sheep.
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Derby
England
UPI
Rolls-Royce Co
Half Million Strikes Begin at U.S. Steel Plants
Scattered gun jumping and premature picketing broke out at Homestead Pennsylvania and other sites as a nationwide steel strike started. Picket captains blamed the industry for shutdowns while workers gathered at TC&I and Birmingham joints. Gary Indiana saw about 100 men marching, then dispersing as the strike took hold.
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Homestead
U.S. Steel
Babe Digiosio
Steelworkers Union
Trenton
Mich
McClouth Steel Co
Tenessee Coal & Iron Division
Birmingham
Ala
Tc&i Tin Mill
Gary
Ind
U.S. Steel Works
Airlines Ban Radios In Flight Worldwide Agreement
The Civil Aeronautics Board approves an Inter national Air Transport Association accord prohibiting passengers from using portable radios during flight. The rule aims to prevent interference with radar and navigation equipment aboard planes.
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Washington
UPD
Civil Aeronautics Board
International Air Transport Assn
Picketing Intensifies in County Amid Maintenance Strike
Pickets restrict traffic to allow police fire ambulance and US Post Office vehicles. Volunteers may enter private grounds in case of fire. Rumor claims 1 4600 employees faced layoff if strike failed but company spokesman calls it ridiculous.
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U. S
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Steel Union Proposes Facts Board
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