Push Construction Action Now To Promote Recovery
Keenan urged the Bricklayers Union to back a postwar policy of Peace and Plenty. He said the construction industry holds the key to rapid recovery, stressing faster planning of public projects and government cooperation to cut unemployment and housing shortages. He warned current planning rates must accelerate to prep for full employment.
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Keenan
Dallas
Tex
WPB
Joseph D. Keenan
Canadian CIO Chemical Locals Join New AFL Union
Canadian CIO Chemical locals transfer as a group to the newly chartered AFL International Chemical Workers Union at its first international convention in Cleveland. H. A. Bradley named President and R. E. Tomlinson Secretary Treasurer. AFL charter presented by William Green.
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CIO Chemical
AFL
AFL International Chemical Workers Union
CIO Chemical Workers
Cleveland
Canada
CIO
American Federation of Labor
H. A. Bradley
ICWU
William Green
Mr. Bradley
R. E. Tomlinson
AFL Executive Council
Supreme tribunal redefines war job desertion to sabotage
The Supreme Military Tribunal in Washington shifts the Brazilian rule. It holds that workers who leave essential war industry jobs without authorization are not deserters but are guilty of sabotage.
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Washington, D. C
ILNS
Supreme Military Tribunal
Brazil
Postal unions press Congress for modest pay raise
Washington D C ex ceedingly modest requests for permanent increases in postal wages were presented before the Senate Post Office Committee. AFL leaders urged passage of the Mead bill proposing a $400 annual raise, noting the last permanent raise was 19 years ago.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Post Office Committee
William C. Hushing
AFL
William C. Doherty
National Association of Letter Carriers
Congress
Doherty
Wagner
Tunnell
Langer
Mead
William S. Horner
National Federation of Post Office Clerks
Postal Service
Railway Mail Association
Germans Fail to Break Dutch Strike, Brussels Radio Reports
London dispatch says only 16 strike breakers found in occupied Holland despite Nazi attempts to quell the general Dutch factory workers strike. The railway strike, begun Sept 17 by the Netherlands government in London, remains fully successful with the region under German control.
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London
ILNS
Holland
Brussels
Netherlands
Hilversum
New Zealand Labor Leaders Praise American War Effort
New Zealand Road Transport Workers' Industrial Association secretary Frank C. Allerby calls American war production "terrific" after visiting CIO unions in U S cities. He notes vast Pacific theater work, airports, harbors, hospitals, and material output, and predicts closer postwar international ties with G L influence through returning servicemen.
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America
Frank C. Allerby
New Zealand
Road Transport Workers’ Industrial Association
Mr. Allerby
CIO
National Cio War Relief Committee
National War Fund
Pacific
Allerby
G. L's
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Bricklayers Convention
David Webb & Sons
Ross
G. Is
Krebs
Kreba
Seywood
Wakefield
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