Picket Lines Fail To Halt Ship Workers
Thousands of AFL shipyard and defense plant workers marched through picket lines of striking welders in San Francisco bay area with no work interruptions. Army withdrew ready troops as government and union officials clash over jurisdiction and union recognition amid ongoing defense production.
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San Francisco
AFL
San Francisco Bay Area
Fourth Army
United Brotherhood of Welders
Washington Dispatches
Lloyd Payne
The
Brotherhood
Ralph Sheare
Payne
Anthony Ballarini
AFL State Metal Trades Council
Sidney Hillman
OPM
Buenos Aires
Navy
Pacific
First Lady Roosevelt keeps busy pre Christmas schedule
Washington December 23 Ruth Cowan reports First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt maintains a packed pre Christmas timetable. She serves as assistant civilian defense director and reads frequent letters, while four of her sons serve in the military. She attends charity events, meets with slum residents, and hosts Christmas plans with Churchill expected.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Defense
Enelopes
Betty Queen Anne
Fredericksburg
Mrs. Roosevelt
Theaters Form Own Fire Brigades In L A
Independent Theater Owners Association of Southern California and Arizona plans to form employee fire brigades training with local fire departments. Robert Poole says few theater deaths in performances, but outside injuries from shrapnel occur. Battalion Chief James L Danker calls morale crucial as shows continue.
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Los
Angeles
Theater -Owners Association
California
Arizona
London
Robert Poole
Association
James L. Danker
Reads About President's Pal and Grey-Black Scottie
Fragmentary OCR notes mention a gray black Scottie and a reference to a president's close adviser or ally. The text is incomplete and lacks clear actions or outcomes.
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Falla
Scottie
Far Reaching Strategy Plan Is Considered
The article outlines a high level plan favored by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. It lists six major strategic problems including Russian cooperation in the Pacific, defending against Axis attempts to seize the French fleet, choking off the Mediterranean via Turkey and Spain, maintaining an anti Axis front in Africa, pressuring the Russian front, and aiding Russia against a renewed German drive toward Moscow and the Caucasus.
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Roosevelt
White House
Britain
Churchill
Europe
Pacific
Mediterranean
Turkey
Spain
Africa
Russia
Moscow
Caucasus
Hitler
Two Heads of Government Consider Open Atlantic Supply Route
The two heads of government faced a review of keeping the Atlantic supply route open and countering German submarine wolf-pack threats. They weighed neutrality declarations from Dublin and long range plans relying on the United States Britain Russia and China.
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United
Kingdom
South ‘America
Tov
Dublin
United States
British Empire
Russia
China
Government raises steel scrap prices to ease shortages
In Pittsburgh on December 23 the government announced a revised scrap price schedule to boost supply and ease a slowdown in operations. The plan sets ceilings by grade with Pittsburgh receiving a $20 ceiling for seven open hearth grades, while lower grades may command higher rates to clear backlogs. Broker reports a 750 ton order a short time after the move.
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Pittsburgh
Leon Henderson
Washington
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