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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1948
Page
1
The Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing bill clears the Senate amid real estate opposition but faces House inaction. Rep. Jesse Wolcott’s Banking and Currency Committee has not held hearings, while a discharge petition gains signatures but lacks the 218 vote margin for quick action.
During the APL strike at the New York Stock Exchange a portly stock broker arrived in a limousine and walked through the line of pickets on Wall Street. A protestor shouted Harvard scab, and the broker retorted You can call me a scab if you want.
In Cleveland and Hamilton County PAC backed Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Ray T. Miller, citing his labor record and pledges. A Friday 8 p.m. blockworkers rally at the Brotherhood Building will distribute literature and issue final instructions ahead of the primary.
U.S. Steel Corp announced its 1948 wage pattern with no increase. President Benjamin Fairless said price cuts of 25 million dollars would begin May 1 to curb living-cost rises. CIO head Philip Murray condemned the move as paltry and warned the union to honor its no strike pledge under the contract expiring May 1, 1949.
In Columbus on April 25 1946 Frank J. Collopy administrator of the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation reported the average weekly wage for Ohio workers covered by the state law was 48 38 dollars. The figure shows a slight drop from the wartime peak of 48 83 dollars in 1944 based on payrolls across major industrial groups.
The final PAC blockworker meeting before the Tuesday Primary will be at 8 p.m. Friday at 206 Brotherhood Building Court and Vine Streets. PAC field director Jack Methard urged workers to attend and collect literature.
In Kansas City hundreds of CIO packinghouse strikers repaired their union hall after a brutal April 23 police raid that injured 10, including two women, with 100 more hurt. Union leader Ralph Baker said morale held and a court injunction was misapplied. Governors and federal mediation were involved as Chicago action followed, while a separate memorial in Chicago mourned a slain picketer.
Labor Department report dated April 23 shows shoe production grew 9 percent over the war years with most efficiency gains in direct productive labor. Decreases in man hours stem from material and labor shortages during World War II.
Republic Steel Corp the nations third largest producer rejected the United Steelworkers demand for pay raises on April 26. The firm made no mention of any price cuts unlike U S Steel Corp which had pledged no immediate wage boost on April 22.
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