Market Quotations and Livestock Prices From Baltimore and Chicago
Produce and poultry steady to firm with light eggs receipts. In Baltimore cattle, calves, hogs, sheep and lambs show active trade, with steers strong and cows higher. Chicago reports hogs fully steady and cattle mixed, top cattle around 18.00 and hogs near 14.85, with broad demand for stock cattle and sheep trades varying by grade.
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Baltimore
Chicago
USDA
New Mexico
Stocks Rally Amid Mixed Market on October 25
In New York on October 25 stocks rose selectively with steels motors rails and specialties drawing interest after a cautious start. Overall activity remained slack as traders weighed the prior session’s decline and the wage price dispute while dividends earnings and upbeat company forecasts offered support.
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New York
Chicago Grain Quotations Open Higher On Mixed Futures
Chicago grain futures opened higher with oats up to 8 and rye up to 3 4 of a cent. Trade was not brisk but more active than yesterday. Opening prices show wheat at 1.75 near Dec, corn near 1.17 May, oats around 0.64 to 0.65, rye about 1.59 May, barley near 1.15 to 1.11 for May and July.
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Chicago
Strikes Prompt Mass Walkouts Across Industries
Workers register collective action as 7,000 iron workers and 1,200 CIO rubber workers join strikes. Airlines face cancellations with 155 Chicago and 658 New York employees walking out. Disputes over wages trigger a three member AFL panel if unresolved. several plants including Westinghouse and Thermoid also see stoppages.
Walkouts Hit Multiple Industries Across United States
Switch and Signal Company shuts after 6000 production workers walk out over alleged disciplinary action against a union steward. About 600 AFL gas maintenance workers quit at Republic Service Electric and Gas Company of New Jersey. A Houston port strike idles 5000 workers amid wage disputes. 1600 customers lose gas after a main shutoff. An embargo on freight entering Houston impacts export and coastwise movement.
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Switch and Signal Company
AFL
Republic Service Electric and Gag Company
New Jersey
Houston
Tex
J. R. Wait
Association of American Railroads
New Fords On Display Tomorrow
Ford Motor Company dealers will showcase the 1946 Ford models on V-8 Day. J. R. Davis, Director of Sales and Advertising, said public display was planned as a first in the industry. Prices likely would not be released by the public showing and dealer deliveries may be delayed awaiting OPA pricing.
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Ford
Ford Motor Company
J. R. Davis
OPA
Many Places Seek Memorial Links at JET Meeting
Junior Chamber of Commerce leaders report about 40 cities seeking sites for a war memorial and $10,000 raised with up to $30,000 more expected. Virginia education chair resigns. Winchester town meeting chair passes. a Douglas school safety patrol forms. Dunlop Store adds Claude Gore. former Winchester mayor W W Glass speaks on local history. The Washington wage price policy debate opens as Truman prepares to outline a seven point labor agenda for the forthcoming labor management conference and possible wage raises.
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Tom Baldridge
Junior Chamber of Commerce War Memorial Fund
United States
Baldridge
Art Humphrey
Virginia State Education Committee
Winchester
JBT
Stewart Bell
Humphrey
Drexel Institute
Philadelphia
The
Commonwealth
Dick Petrie
T Douglas
Claude Gore
Dunlop
W W. Glass
Virginia
War Labor Board
Truman
Labor Management Conference
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Labor tensions rise over bargaining and wage patterns
The text notes resistance to following imposed rules and reliance on collective bargaining to set wage increases paid from profits, signaling industry pushback and negotiation dynamics within wage policy discussions.
Hunting Licenses Checked Last Month in Virginia
F W Pingley made four arrests during September per the monthly game wardens report. One conviction was secured, two cases pending. Pingley inspected 137 hunting and fishing licenses and 15 dog tags. Clarke County remains without a game warden.
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F. W. Pingley
Virginia
Pingley
Clarke County
Rileyville Lad Enlists in Navy Boot Camp
Jacob Eugene Alger of Rileyville Virginia enlisted in the Navy at Winchester and reported for boot training October 16. He was born November 3 1927 in Rileyville and attended Luray school. He worked at the Green L Martin Aircraft Factory in Baltimore since leaving school. His father served as a sergeant in World War I.
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Jacob Eugene Alger
Jacob L. Alger
Rileyville, Virginia
Navy
Winchester
Rileyville
Jacob
Luray
Baltimore
Green L. Martin Aircraft Factory
Norfolk and Western Railway
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Westinghouse Air Brake Company
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Lydia F Pinkham
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