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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1948
Page
5
Paul Horton of Local 113 was reelected president at the Cincinnati Amalgamated Clothing Workers Joint Board first post election meeting. Joseph Eisen of Local 113 was named recording secretary along with several locals electing directors, trustees, and auditing committee members.
The notice lists members across locals including Ana Harry Eilers Local 189 Tillie Nunnelly Joseph Stiel Local 200 Bertha Haggard Cora Broilec Keanel Jacobed Minnie Meyers Local 304 Cecil Hedges Robert Shirley Local 504.
The sole evening event besides the officers election was the board meeting with reports from business agents, a refreshments hour, and a social to celebrate the new Board's first session.
Amalgamated Clothing Workers officers advanced the new educational program during the city wide ACW Leadership Conference in Cincinnati. The gathering produced recommendations to educate new members about the union and increase board activity, with plans to use films and speakers and to involve executive boards more in meetings. Emma Ferrara leads the program with future radio and field interviews planned to promote the initiative.
More than 50 000 lumber workers in Oregon Washington and California won a 12 cent hourly wage increase effective April 1 from negotiations between the International Woodworkers CIO and employer associations in the Douglas fir and pine industries.
The text notes Dick Bray entering his eleventh consecutive year as broadcaster for Rubel Baking Co on the program Fans in the Stands. It marks a season start and highlights Bray's long association with the sponsor.
A bank review defends reported high profits amid soaring commodity prices and deferred demand. It notes margins may look large but could falter with sales declines, price cuts, or rising costs, and cites a Commerce Dept survey showing profits remain above what is viewed as a fair return. Manufacturing up 54% and mining 72% lead gains while trade utilities and amusements fall.
Willard Townsend international president of UTSE spoke to locals during a joint meeting in Cincinnati on the opening night of the Conference on Human Relations. His World Federation work and broad labor views were highlighted during the visit.
A fragment notes that members of TSE trained or observed American labor abroad, with strong impressions formed during the overseas exposure. The line outlines foreign assignments and the impact on the group's views of labor practice.
Townsend praises Japanese workers as diligent and interested in unions while blaming about 15 financier families for Japan's war woes. He has written a handbook for the Japanese trade union movement and, amid Russian occupied Korea, deplores foreign workers' plights. He argues America remains the best nation despite domestic troubles.
The national organization UTSE marks its 10th anniversary as Brother Townsend urges support for the Marshall Plan. He frames the plan as a definite contribution towards future aid for the people and the nation.
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