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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1944
Page
4
The Greater Cincinnati Industrial Union Council announces editor Rollin H. Everett. Subscription rates shown include $1 for six months and $2 for a year. Addresses listed are 306 Bell Block and 606 Vine Sr., Cincinnati, Ohio.
The SUN debuts as the voice of the CIO in Greater Cincinnati. The editor says initial issues are strong but imperfect and promises future improvements. A cartoon explains the paper’s founding purpose and the team invites reader judgment by content over sales talk.
A political column attacks Congressman Hess for calling for seizing Pacific islands to bolster security. The piece claims such moves betray isolationist roots and risk repeating past wars, arguing collective security is essential for world peace and that Hess remains backward after Pearl Harbor.
The Enquirer criticizes the UAW at Wright plant Lockland accusing it of taking charge and hurting war production. It notes the union is large in Ohio and workers are learning union rights. The piece mentions the Truman Committee and court martial context and praises the plant's 35,000th airplane motor milestone.
The joke notes Martin Dies would suit a tombstone inscription and suggests newspapers may use it as a headline for his Dies report. It frames Dies as fitting both in life and after death with sharp newspaper tone.
The piece discusses poll taxes as a bulwark of white supremacy and notes how white primary laws continue to restrict Negro voting beyond the tax. It cites Birmingham union members supporting a Negro Right to Vote League and explains how union power shapes white voter fear, with broader implications for Southern politics. The excerpt also references wartime labor efforts and democratic reform ideas from The Chicago Union Teacher and The Brewery Worker, urging worker influence over production and governance.
CIO President Philip Murray submitted a nine point agenda to Sir Walter Citrine for the world labor conference in London, aiming to aid Allied war effort and postwar reconstruction. The plan outlines priorities for international labor cooperation and postwar economic planning.
Local 1334 Cemetery Workers announce a May 14 nominating committee meeting led by chairman Carl Rains. The election is scheduled for June with members voting on officer positions.
The Supreme Court upholds the National Labor Relations Board in two rulings affirming unions as the sole bargaining agents for employees. In Medo Photo Supply Co. workers can seek wage gains only through the designated union, and the company cannot disestablish the union via direct offers. In Franks Brothers Co. the court allows the Board to direct bargaining with the union despite a later loss of majority, after the company’s aggressive anti union campaign. An editorial in a Cincinnati paper criticizes the rulings as curbing employees rights to change representatives.
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