Russians Will Have Postwar Employment
Vasil iy Kuznetzov, returning after 13 years to Ford Rouge, praises UAW CIO gains as Soviet officials tour the plant. He notes manpower shortages in the USSR versus unemployment in the United States, and says Soviet unions secured wartime take home pay with reduced hours and lower war bond deductions after the war.
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Detroit
Vasiliy Kuznetzov
Rouge
Ford Motor Car Co
Central Council
Dearborn
Harry Bennett
Ford Motor Co
Kuznetzov
Soviet Union
Land Senator's Labor Proposal
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan proposes a united industrial peace conference to end strike activity. Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach and AFL President Green respond favorably, comparing it to the United Nations conference and signaling support for a national industry labor conference.
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Washington
Arthur H. Vandenberg
R. Mich
Sec. of Labor
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
AFL
William Green
Schwellenbach
Vandenberg
San Francisco
Industry and Labor
Name CIO Man To Labor Dept
Washington The secretary of labor Lewis B Schwellenbach appoints John W Gibson president of the Michigan CIO Council as a special assistant, the first CIO appointee in the department. Gibson will aid a planned drastic reorganization and work with assistant secretary Daniel W Tracy of the AFL. Schwellenbach promises nonpartisan action for all interests.
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Schwellenbach
Gibson
Asst
Daniel W. Tracy
AFL
Senator Wagner the man behind historic New Deal laws
Fred Thomas portrays Robert F. Wagner as a persistent reformer whose legislative legacy includes the NRA Social Security Railway Pension Law U S Housing Act and National Labor Relations Act. The piece traces Wagner from his New York slum roots to the Senate and notes his quiet, steady leadership and his focus on aiding the common man.
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United States Senate
Robert F. Wagner
Senator Wagner
New York
NRA
Wagner
Robert Wagner
Hoover
Roosevelt
Farm Laborers Campaign Aims For Higher Living Standard
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union launches a drive in Memphis to raise farm laborers’ living standard to one fourth of the average family requirement.
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Memphis
The
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Citizens PAC Urges Congress To Pass FEPC
The Citizens for a Better World calls on Congress to enact permanent FEPC legislation to prevent racial and religious discrimination in jobs. It denounces anti Catholic and anti Jewish rhetoric in Senate debate and urges leaders to back job equality and democracy.
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Citizens Pac
Congress
Germany
Japan
FEPC
Roosevelt
Senate of the
United States
Hitler
Bilbo
South
America
House
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la Follette
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