Murray Charges AFL Council Blocks Labor Unity
Murray accuses the AFL executive council of blocking efforts by labor to unite with the CIO for joint action against common enemies. He criticizes delays over organizational unity as dangerous to labor and calls for immediate working unity to counter economic and political threats.
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Murray
AFL Council
Labor Unity
AFL
William Green
CIO Committee On Unity
AFL Executive Council
CIO
Green
Whale Of A Fish Story And Nation’s Spending Rise
Whale Of A Fish Story notes Americans spend on newspapers magazines and sheet music rising from 490 million in 1936 to 1 016 million in 1946. It also cites post and rail metrics and social notes from Beekman Street and local union event plans. Rose Cerullo vacationing at Celina reports catching large fish described as whales. Local 310 members plan a picnic and tickets support a new recreation space.
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Beekman St
Rosemary Cerullo
Celina
Rose
Antioch College
Robert Ester
Beekman Street
Dave Hall
Work Road Plant
William Black
Ku Klux Klan Labor Union Rival Emerges
The KKK promotes a lily-white labor union to rival AFL and CIO. It aims to ban Catholics Jews the foreign-born and anyone not aligned with Klan politics. A South Carolina sign of its reach appeared as an Anglo-Saxon Union while Klan rhetoric targets infiltrating existing unions to pervert them.
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KKK
AFL
CIO
America
South Carolina
Klan Attacks on Unions Highlight Southern Labor War
The piece recounts Grand Dragon Green's claim that the CIO serves nonwhite and Jewish groups and declares war on the CIO. It notes AFL members punished by Klansmen and a Georgia Klansman attack on AFL and CIO, with a prediction of exposing industrial sponsors backing the Klan as a union-busting operation.
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Grand Dragon Green
CIO
KKK
Dixie
AFL
Georgia
Harrison
Atlanta
Klan
Writer Joins Klan Exposes New KKK Union Plot
Stetson Kennedy, author of Southern Exposure, joined the Ku Klux Klan to expose its inner workings for Federated Press and The Sun. He will reveal new material on the law and organized hate groups as Klan leaders push to infiltrate unions like the CIO and AFL, aiming to elect Kluxers and sow worker discord.
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Eperated Press
Stetson Kennedy
Southern Exposure
Kennedy
Federated Press
the Sun
Samuel Green
Stone Mountain
Atlanta
Hooded Order
19th Ward PAC Recruits for Rollin Everett Campaign
The 19th Ward Political Action Committee recruited many new volunteer workers at the first meeting in the 19th Ward. Jack Methard, the PAC director, cited their enthusiasm and plans to bring more supporters to the next meeting on Sept. 8. They will door to door campaign for Rollin Everett, candidate for City Council.
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PAC
19Th Ward
Jack Methard
Rollin Everett
Bakers Rally for Abolition of Sunday Work in 1821
In 1821 New York bakers organized mass meetings pressing for the end of Sunday labor. The gatherings highlighted protests against Sunday shifts and sought shorter workweeks for bakery workers.
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New York
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USA
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Wilbert Stark
Dept
John Dalich
Eleanor Bormann
Ray Mueller
Viola Wilke
Local 310
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SUN
Kathman
Goodyear
West Fifth St
Dr. Scholis
Cooper’s
Mili
Martha Mitchell
Cypress Gardens
Federated Pictures
KKK “Union
By Stetson Kennedy
James A. Colescott
19Th Ward Pac
John Schwarz
E. McMillan
Thompson Food Market
Schulds
Catering Service
McMicken Ave
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