Humphrey's legislative legacy spans housing education and arts
As a U S senator and vice president candidate in 1957 he pushed key reforms including the first federal aid to schools and the Durham Humphrey Drug Act he led thalidomide investigations and helped create the arts councils and foundations while shaping housing policy through multiple major bills over 1949 to 1964.
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Hud
Humphrey
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Senate
Minneapolis
National Council On the Arts
National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities
Collective Bargaining Seen as Democracy in Action
Roy Siemiller, vice chair of the Collective Bargaining and Group Relations Institute, argues on Labor News Conference that collective bargaining is essential in America and must be better understood. He notes 16 000 Machinists agreements with fewer than 0.2 percent involved in strikes and says unions and employers resolve disputes through bargaining.
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The
United States
Collective Bargaining and
Roy Siemiller
Machinists
America
Labor
Afl-Cio
Mutual
Siemiller
Sie
Labor joins coalition to push through health safety act
A dozen national groups led by organized labor plan to press Congress for the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1968. Monsignor George Higgins announced a joint meeting to form a committee guiding the drive with participants including AFL-CIO, Teamsters, Nurses Association, NEA, YWCA, and more. The act would set federal standards affecting about 50 million workers and fund research and training. Higgins cites preventable deaths and injuries and urges passage as a basic worker right. The text notes House hearings are done and Senate hearings pending. A separate item emphasizes traffic laws apply to pedestrians too.
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Organized Labor
George Higgins
Special Action Department
U.S. Catholic Conference
Afl-Cio
American Arbitration Association
American Public Health Association
Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Group Health Association of America
Citizens Crusade Against Poverty
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
National Association of Social Workers
National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
National Education Association
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
National Council of Catholic Nurses
YWCA
Cooperative League of the USA
American Nurses Association
Johnson
Congress
House of Representatives
James O’hara
D.-Mich
Senate
Ralph Yarborough
D.tex
House
Msgr
Higgins
Buck Shrink Yet Prices Rise As CPI Surges
In March the Consumer Price Index climbed four tenths of a percent to 119.5, the fourteenth straight monthly rise, reducing real take home pay despite a $92.93 average March paycheck for workers with three dependents. Food, services, apparel, and furniture costs pushed the CPI higher, while wholesale prices rose two tenths. The year over year CPI was 3.9 percent higher, with 80,000 workers gaining cost of living boosts including 65,000 in aerospace and public transportation earning 3 cent hourly increases.
Ohio Power Overcharges Hit 1966 at 60 Million
Federal figures shown in Senate testimony by Senator Metcalf reveal Ohio electric firms overcharged customers nearly 60 million dollars in 1966. Overcharges equal excess profits above a fair 6 percent return, with seven named companies and specific amounts.
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Federal Power Commission
Ohio Electric
Senate
People’s
Robin Hood
Lee Metcalf
Montana
Metcalf
Ohio
The Chronicle Labor Paper of Cincinnati AFL CIO
The Chronicle is a weekly Cincinnati newspaper dated September 8 1962. It is the official voice of the local CIO Labor Council and lists executives and staff including Oscar G Lee Ed Zeuch and William P Shee. It carries advertising policy about strikes and unfair lists from a central labor body.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Cincinnati Afl-Cio Labor A
Oscar G. Lee
Ed Zeuch
Wm. P. Shee
Howe Carson
Kentucky
CIO Labor Council
International Labor Press
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Department of Highway Safety
Ohio Edison Co
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co
Ohio Power Co
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Dayton Power & Emco
Eco
Toledo Edison Co
Columbus & Southern Ohio Oeeck
Ohio Citizens
Public Utilities Commission of
the Chronicle
Greater Cincinnati
Brotherhood Building
Vine St
Cincinnati Apl
Oi G
Uch
George Schmianiat
William Ken
Wiesek Soreasoar
Arnold Tucker
Pugreve Boardae
Orville
Henderson
Joe
Fred Loze
SP. P. Hyatt Questa
Joe Sepate
Robert Simcoe
Jim Travis
Albay Hagen
Rupsell White
Camel Campbet
Frank Kruse
Richard Nagle
Gene
Ohio Labor Press Assn
Batts
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