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Wage fight over meat packers and bread waste scandal
The fact finding board backed a 16 cent wage rise for meat packing workers, with only 5 cents absorbable by firms and 11 cents likely passed to consumers unless a subsidy arrives. Smaller plants had already agreed to higher raises. Also, bread sales frauds by bakeries on consignment were probed, with wasteful bread ending up as feed. Atomic tests in the Pacific risk becoming a water-spout study without new energy insights.
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Washington
Edwin E. Witte
Wisconsin Univéralty
Raymond W.starr
Michigan Supreme ‘Court
Clark Kerr
Torr
War Labor Board
AFL
Hygrade Food Products
New York
George A. Hormel
Austin, Minn
Chicago
Swift and Company
Swift
Department of Agriculture
Houston
Texas
Ichmond
San Francisco
Heveland
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St. Louis