Ford Strike Ends as Ford, UAW Reach Settlement
Detroit April 11 Gov. Murray Van Wagoner announced the Ford Motor Company strike had been settled. The plant will reopen as much as it is able Monday. Federal Labor conciliator James F P Dewey expected full settlement before nightfall with 200000 workers to return to jobs across several states. The agreement followed talks at the conference table and involved a postponement of an NLRB hearing.
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Murray
van Wagoner
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Anal
Uawcvo
J. A. Capizzi
Ford Company
Associated Press
Hetron
James FP. Dewey
United Automobile Workers CO
Dewey
van Waeoner
Snd
Pittsburgh
Svest
Murray D. van Wagoner
Michigan
National Labor Relations Board
United Automobile Workers
van Woroner
River Rouge
Oith
Weather Synopsis For Georgia Florida And Alabama
Partly cloudy to west and Saturday increasing cloudiness with showers in extreme west portions by night. Georgia and Florida show scattered showers in extreme south and northwest areas. Temperatures little changed with winds variable along the coast becoming moderate east and southeast by Saturday.
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Alabama
Thomasville Beauty At Springtime Height Draws Visitors
The Thomasville Garden Club invites out of town residents to visit the city on Sunday to see its peak spring beauty. Dogwood azaleas wisteria roses line tree shaded streets with blooming vistas as Thomasville shows its Easter dress of flowers.
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Thomasville
Battle of the Balkans looks at stakes and outcomes
Mackenzie analyzes Hitler’s Balkan push and possible wider war effects. Evacuation in Istanbul signals Turkish involvement and raises risk of Dardanelles breach, Suez access, and Mediterranean control. The piece weighs whether a Balkan victory would yield decisive war outcomes or merely a partial edge for the Axis.
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Dets
Hitler
Yugoslavia
Greece
Dhad
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Acrean Sea
Nave
Itad
General Motors Faces CIO UAW Strike Threat
The CIO United Auto Workers served notice of intent to strike if a new wage pact isn t reached by April 20 affecting about 130 000 GM workers. Negotiations began March 11 with demands including a wage increase and expanded vacation pay. A federal conciliator was assigned to avert a work stoppage as talks continued amid Detroit area settlement efforts.
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Federal Labor Department
General Motors Corporation
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors
Labor Department
James F. Dewey
Detroit
Ford River Range
Roosevelt rules out more destroyer transfers to Britain
President Roosevelt said there will be no transfer of additional American destroyers to the British. He called for authority to seize idle foreign ships in U.S. ports to avert a shipping shortage, with just compensation. Danish, German, and Italian vessels faced varying treatment based on allegiance and legality.
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Britain
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American Baroers, Inc
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Henrik de Kauffmann
Denmark
Roosevelt signs hemispheric policy resolution on Greenland
President Roosevelt endorses a Havana conference policy confirming non recognition of any transfer of western hemisphere land between non American powers. He notes Greenland is part of the hemisphere and confirms consultations among American republics if sovereignty changes occur while stating no details on bases will be released.
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Martinique
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Trinidad
British Guiana
United States
War Department
Explosion Rocks Blast Furnace at Birmingham Plant
At least 15 injured in a massive blast at the Woodward Iron Company merchant iron plant in Birmingham. The explosion wrecked a boiler room, halted three blast furnaces, and drew hundreds as ambulances and police moved victims. recovery and repair timelines were given by company president Berg.
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Ala
Woodward Tron Company
Merchant Iron
HW OA
Berg
Woodward
J. A. Price
Bere
National Defense
Ron Burns
Iran
National Défense Program
Harmony Between FDR and Southern Governors Indicated
President Roosevelt indicated today that he and southern governors were in complete harmony on the location of defense plants. Six southern governors had urged decentralization of defense industries, arguing the south offered advantages in labor and material resources.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Two Die in Powder Plant Explosion at Belvidere
An explosion at Hercules Powder Company's cotton dehydration house in Belvidere New Jersey killed two workers and injured several others. Victims were Richard Stenlake 59 from Easton Pa and Charles Haycock 21 from Belvidere among the injured. hospital reports described serious injuries and multiple victims were treated at Warren Phillipsburg and Fast hospitals.
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Hercules Powder Company
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Powder Company
Richard Stenlake
Easton
New Jersey
Warren Hospital
Phillipsburg
Charles Haycock
Walter Gerstad
George Dalrymple
Oxford
Fast Hospital
Germans threaten Greece from northwest after Yugoslavia crossing
British and Greek forces oppose German advances in northern Greece as panzer columns reach Bitolj and push toward Salonika. Reports claim 10,000 new Yugoslav prisoners and a shattered Serb army while Croatia proclaims independence in Zagreb. UK forces mass in North Africa as Luftwaffe bombs Coventry and raids Java.
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