United Steelworkers Picnic Set for August 11 at Tacoma Park
Local 22 invites Steelworkers and CIO members and friends to a full all day and night event at Tacoma Park Dayton Kentucky on August 11. The program features swimming, a kiddie pool, pony riding, horseback demos by Wranglers, a dance pavilion with Red Trent’s orchestra, both round and square dancing and jitterbugging. Bus No 12 provides easy access from Dixie Terminal Cincinnati, with nominal rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Trent
United Steelworkers
Tacoma Park
Dayton
Wrangler's
Newport Rolling Mill
Adjust Can Vacation Pay and Picnic Will Be Humdinger
William Medick reports an agreement with American Can Co to adjust vacation pay by averaging 1944 premium earnings over 1944 and 1945 periods. Example given shows 10c per hour yields $9.60 back pay for two weeks at 48 hours. The piece also notes job evaluation progress and a Local 186 picnic at Ash Grove on August 5 with activities and entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Can Co
Dillsboro
Good Ole Local 186
Ash Grove
Compton
Winton Roads
Community gathering with food games and music
A local event offers beer sandwiches coffee pop and ice cream with games and music for all. Attendees are asked to bring themselves family and dues card. The note mentions a 2:30 baseball game between Deacon Bland's team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don’ Purcell
Deacon Bland
Hospital Care Grows Rapidly Across Regions in 1945
Americans join voluntary non profit hospital prepayment plans at record pace. Southwest Ohio added 17 090 subscribers and dependents in early 1945, totaling 511 468 in 14 counties. Nationally 2 282 482 new members joined Blue Cross in the first half of 1945, exceeding 1944 by over 500 000. Blue Cross operates in 43 states and districts, plus seven Canadian provinces and Puerto Rico, totaling 18 800 000 members. A note on individuals includes Bogle departing American Oak Leather Co in 1940 and rejoining with combat honors after military service, and locals like Mrs Sonnycalb and Mabel Newburn with furloughs and family ties noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwestern
Ohio
James E. Stuart
Hospital Care Corporation
Blue Cross
Blue Cross FO
States
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico
Fur & Leather Local 214 Vacationers Back On Job
Local 214 members return to work at American Oak Leather Co after a leisure week spent at race tracks rivers and fishing. Soldiers from the 147th Ohio National Guard recount combat experiences and moral support for union wage and benefit gains over the past 42 years with Local 214.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen City
John Williams
Clinton Street
Abe Feinglass
Midwest
Fur and Leather Workers
American Oak Leather Co
Local 214
American Oak Rolling Leather
Sweat Shop Boss Blocks Severance Pay Plan
Washington reports Stabilization Director William H. Davis rejected a severance pay plan for more than 25,000 AFL CIO and independent union workers at the U S Cartridge Co in St Louis. The wartime plan had won Nazi War Labor Board approval but faced War Dept protest before Davis’s final ruling.
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Washington
Sam
William H. Davis
AFL, Cio
U. S. Cartridge Co
St. Louis
Nazi War Labor Board
War Dept
Davis
Mae Rist’s Navy tale from Formica and Homefront News
Mae Rist’s son Willis, 18, coxswain in the Navy, returns on furlough with tales from the South Pacific. He earned service stars for battles at Luzon Leyte Iwo Jima and Philippine liberations and trained at Great Lakes aboard S S Doyen. He recalls a brutal Iwo Jima landing before home port at Long Beach. Willis plans to return Aug 14, while Mae takes a vacation. Also notes Viola Hatton recovering, Lt. Tom Evans visiting, Charles Wadele ill, Ada Lowe’s engagement ring glow at the cafeteria, and Lottie Iverson’s son leaving for Great Lakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Rist
Formica
Coxswain
Willis Rist
South Pacific
Willis
Luzon
Leyte
Iwo Jima
Great Lakes
S. S. Doyen
Long Beach
California
Rist
Mae
Pacific
Japan
Viola Hatton
Shipping Room No. 1
Tom Evans
Charles Wadele
Jewish Hospital
Charlie
Ada Lowe
Ada
Lottie Iverson
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Also Mentioned on This Page
William Medick
Deacon
Public Recreation Commission
Gene Wagner
Mulvey
Bogle
Good Samaritan
Sonnycalb
United Electrical Workers
Emerson Sonnycalb
Alls-Chalmers
Norwood
Tim Wour Waining
Mabel Newburn
Machine Shop
Cpl
Don Newburn
Air Corps
Henry Veillette
Rhodes Mfg
Hartford
Conn
United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers
CIO
France
Walter Reed General Hospital
Washington, D. C
Federated Pictures
George Grisby
Manning Thompson
Ohio Wool-Pullers Co
Thompson
George Banister
George
Sgt
Carl Bogle
Cincinnati
147Th Regiment
Robert
National Guard
Guadalcanal
British Samoa
New Caledonia
Emirau
147Th
Uncle Sam
Mrs. Sonnycalb
UE News
Formica Notes
Claudia Price
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