McNutt Urges Final Push to Win War
On Labor Day 1944 the War Manpower Commission leader urges continued production to defeat fascism. He highlights bridges of landing craft, aircraft, and munitions built by American labor, notes reconversion challenges, and calls for lasting peacetime employment for soldiers, laborers, women, the handicapped, and minorities as World War II ends.
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McNutt
Paul V. M'Nutt
War Manpower Commission
Europe
Normandy
England
LCI
LST
Washington
Army of War Poduction
Labor Day
1945
AFL Launches Drive to Get Out Labor Vote Nationwide
Washington D C ILNS The American Federation of Labor launches a nation wide drive to mobilize its 7 million members for the November election. President William Green stresses non partisan policy and directs almost a thousand state and local committees to register members and urge a full vote while avoiding party ties. Committees to be set up coast to coast, including Alaska and Puerto Rico, to ensure labor friendly candidates and oppose those against labor.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Federation
Green
AFL
Federations of Labor
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Labor
Friends of Labor
Veterans of Foreign Wars Embrace Labor Cooperation Postwar
Washington reports growing friendliness from the Veterans of Foreign Wars toward organized labor after a pact on postwar employment. VFW Commander in Chief Carl J. Schoeninger invited APL President William Green to address the 45th National Encampment in Chicago on August 22. The Wisconsin Veteran criticized anti union propaganda, praising labor's wartime and postwar support, including efforts to provide jobs for veterans, fight inflation, and back ballot access for service members.
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Washington, D. C
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Carl J. Schoeninger
VFW
APL
Willian Green
Chicago
Wisconsin
Badger
United States
Japan
Red Cross
Green Appeals For Boost In Key Munitions Output
A. F. of L. president William Green urged unions to accelerate war material production. He cited Army Navy needs for heavy artillery, ammunition, guns, bombs, radar gear, tanks, construction gear, tires, fabric and penicillin. He called for mobilizing workers and using reserves to deliver decisive victory as fronts show progress against Nazis and Japs. Per capita debt stands at 1510 dollars, up from 472 in 1641.
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Washington, D. C
A. F. of L
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Army
Navy
Workers of
America
ODT Outlines Tire Test in Washington D C
The Office of Defense Transportation issues a pamphlet on a comparative air loss system to detect slow tire leaks. The method checks air pressure in each tire before filling. a markedly lower reading signals a suspected leak and potential flat along highways.
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Washington, D. C
ODT
Many Aged Needful Find Work in Pennsylvania
In three months the number of old age assistance cases closed due to earnings by the aged doubled. During May, June and July more than 600 Pennsylvanians aged 65 and over who had been dependent on state aid found jobs and became self supporting, compared with about half as many in the prior three months.
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Harrisburg
I.N
McNair Praises War Material Workers At Normandy
Lieut Gen McNair, in a final remark before his death on the Normandy beachhead, lauded the American workers and soldiers. He said the guts toughness and will to victory of the soldier, aided by the equipment and labor of American workers, are staggering and unbeatable.
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Washington, D. C
Ilns
McNair
Normandy
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