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WASHINGTON, June 9--Standing firmly on its demand for a shorter work-week for seamen, the National Maritime Union in a statement said today it would "have no alternative" but to strike on June 15, unless ship operators agreed to reduce the present fiftysix-hour shipboard work-week.
Illness prevents participation in Labor party annual conf
Dubuque: Canfield Hotel; 15 dead, 22 missing; 18 hurt
Govt spokesman charges Communists violated armistice; Communists reptd to have attacked 4 points from which Govt troops were preparing for drive on Harbin; map; Govt charges Communists fired on 2 US planes headed for Changchun and lost in storm over Harbin; planes believed carrying Chinese and US truce team members; 2 US airmen wounded; Govt press charges Jap secret agents murdered USSR citizens in Changchun at time of USSR evacuation; Tass dispatch from Shanghai charges Adm Cooke authorized Maj Gen Rockey to aid Govt forces; US Navy Dept silent
Plans Council resolutions on Hudson & Manhattan RR Co strike
1946Jack Johnson, American boxer (born 1878)[†]
John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". Johnson defeated Jeffries, who was white, triggering dozens of race riots across the U.S. According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth". He is widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers in history.