War profits huge on gas and electric city seeks cuts
Cincinnati Gas & Electric reports wartime excess profits taxes near a half million dollars for 1944. City officials push rate reductions while debating using excise taxes. Detroit uses similar taxes for postwar rehabilitation funds. Old debate resurfaces on municipal ownership as a path to tax savings and rate relief.
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Electric City
Cincinnati Gas & Electric
Council Utilities Committee
Herbert S. Bigelow
Bigelow
Gas Electric Co Election Inquiry Set for May First
NLRB regional director Martin Wagner fixed May 1 for hearings to decide if an election will be held for employees of the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. Three unions contest the right to bargain: CIO Utility Workers Organizing Committee, AFL International Brotherhood of Utility Workers, and Independent Utilities union.
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Martin Wagner
NLRB
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Wagner
Utility Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
International Brotherhood of Utility Workers
AFL
Independent Utilities Union
NLRB Weighs UK Claim On Allis Chalmers Bargaining
A Tuesday NLRB hearing at the Federal Building examined whether a new election is needed among Allis Chalmers employees to choose a bargaining agent. Two unions contest representation Local 765 of the IBEW and the Allis Chalmers Employees association.
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NLRB
Allis- Chalmers Corp
Federal Building
Washington
A Boy Killed at Play Prompts Safer City Plan
A seven year old boy, Charles Pilkerton, died after being struck by a truck at Pearl and Pike streets in Cincinnati. Witnesses described rush hour traffic and crowded streets near his home at 218 Pike Street. The tragedy underscores calls for postwar planning to separate residential areas from busy arterials and reduce traffic hazards.
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Cincinnati
Charles Pilkerton
Charles
Pike Street
Pearl and
Pike Streets
General Hospital
Steady Jobs Key to Good Race Relations in City Report
Adequate and continuing employment is the best insurance for improved race relations the Cimernati administration declares. The Friendly Relations Committee cites stable work and housing needs, calls for impartial police, and outlines subcommittees on industry education and religion with leaders including Rob ert J. Davidson John J. Hurst John Baker and Dr Claude V Courter.
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Cimernati
Rob
Subcommittee On
John Baker
Claude V. Courter
William Lovelace
William A. A. Castellini
Edith Campbell
Omar Casell
Eugene Schmidt
Carl J. Ryan
Courter
Enos Windsor
Marcellus Wagner
Victor E. Reichert
Death List Shows Six Child Auto Fatalities in Cincinnati
Six of thirteen auto deaths this year in Cincinnati involve children. Betty Barnes six died at Columbia Parkway and Stites Street. Donald Stein seven died at 2524 Colerain Avenue. Alphonse Evans three at 331 Harriet Street Milton Hamilton three at Reading Road and S Crescent. William Estridge thirteen months an auto passenger at Richmond and Freeman. Charles Pilkerton seven at Pearl and Pike.
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Cincinnati
Traffic Safety Council
Betty Louise Barnes
Columbia Parkway
Stites Street
Alphonse Evans
Harriet Street
Milton Hamilton
Reading Road
S. Crescent
William Estridge
Richmond
Freeman
Charles Pilkerton
Pearl and Pike
Streets, plans collide as child’s death sparks housing debate
A fatal accident on Columbia Parkway ends Betty Barnes’s life after she crossed near a parked car while a playmate called. The piece notes the era’s motor age and planning needs, cites CIO efforts in Detroit, and Cincinnati’s housing foes amid postwar plans.
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Betty Louise Barnes
Columbia Parkway
Betty
CIO
Detroit
Cincinnati
Planning Commission
Commission
Laurel Homes
English Woods
Winton Terrace
Charles
Island Queen boat ride announced by Local 57 leaders
Ea Clarke and Virginia Schnyder announced a May 4 boat ride on the Island Queen. The event is organized by the entertainment committee of Local 57 of the American Communications Association.
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Ea Clarke
Virginia Schnyder
American Communications Association
ACWA Secures Week Paid Vacation For Cincinnati Members
Amalgamated Clothing Workers in Cincinnati celebrate a week of paid vacation negotiated with the Clothing Manufacturers' Association. Shirt workers seek two weeks this summer if the case before the WLB is approved. Since 1941, a one week vacation exists locally for most, with raises at Mack Shirt Corp and Beau Brummel Ties Inc. Over 75 sick and accident claims have been paid since February under the local insurance plan demanding two percent of weekly wages. Veterans returning to work are to be reinstated without initiation or reinstatement fees as per a national plan.
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Cincinnati
National Organization
The
Clothing Manufacturers’ Association
WLB
Mack Shirt Corp
Beau Brummel Ties Inc
Sporting Goods
Striking Workers Lose NLRB Appeal
Washington report says workers who strike for higher wages lose rights under the National Labor Relations Act. The NLRB ruled April 17 in the American News Co. case Paterson New Jersey, discharging and denying reinstatement to strikers who sought a wage increase with War Labor Board approval. Chairman Mills dissented, urging reinstatement with no back pay.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Act
NLRB
American News Co
Paterson
N. J
War Labor Board
Magazine
Mailers & Deliverers Union
Russian Relief Appeal Urges Continued Aid
The Russian War Relief Office calls for ongoing assistance to bombed Russian families deprived of basic soap. Practical kits with essentials will be assembled at 8th and Main and shipped to stricken Russians, said Beatrice Shillito, labor groups chair and Russian War Relief board member.
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Russian War Relief Office
Beatrice Shillito
Russian War Relief Executive Board
CIO seeks volunteer to join Emergency Child Care Committee
An appeal seeks a CIO member to serve as daytime representative once a month on the Emergency Child Care Committee to aid working mothers. Volunteers should send names to CIO Council at the Railway Clerks Building.
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CIO
CIO Council
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