Taft Opposes Soldier Voting in National Elections
Senator Robert A. Taft of Cincinnati told a conference in the East that he opposes letting soldiers vote in national elections. The Satur day Review of Literature reported that Taft believed three fourths of soldiers would back Roosevelt but that they were not sufficiently informed on issues to vote. Civilian onlookers protested. Governor Thomas Dewey recently refused to meet a delegation seeking a soldiers ballot in Albany.
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Roosevelt
Thomas Dewey
Albany
Transport Employes Push Registration
Local 809 of the United Transport Service Employes sent William Jones Ernest Cromwell and Edwin Duckworth to the CIO Political Action Committee meeting in Columbus Ohio. We are doing all we can to get our members to register for voting which is part of the PAC program, said Earl Davis secretary of Local 809 today.
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United Transport Service
William Jones
Ernest Cromwell
Edwin Duckworth
CIO
Columbus
Ohio
Earl Davis
CIO Pushes Fight For Kilgore Murray Bill
CIO locals and the Greater Cincinnati CIO Council urged Ohio and Kentucky Senators to back the Kilgore Murray Bill S 1893. The measure would create a centralized reconversion agency and unemployment benefits up to 35 a week. GOP and poll tax southern Democrats favored the George Bill S 2057. William Green and Philip Murray led the push with 13 million union members backing Kilgore Murray. Ben Herman urged letters to Taft Burton Chandler and Barkley to sway votes.
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Greater Cincinnati
CIO Council
Ohio
Kentucky
William Green
AFL
Philip Murray
GOP
U. S. Senate
Robert A. Taft
Harold H. Burton
Albert G. Chandler
Alben Barkley
Ben Herman
Cincinnati Cio Council
Vets Prove Taft Wrong In Early Ballot Count
The Board of Elections opened to servicemen and women voting for president. First three voters reported choose Franklin D Roosevelt and Harry S Truman, all supporting FDR. Staff Sgt Joseph P Hines Ralph Dilbert and Edward Burtschy, ages 22 to 23, from Reading and Bethlehem areas, cast ballots for Roosevelt.
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Board of Elections
Servicemen
Joseph P. Hines
Boone Street
Fdr
Truman
Ralph Dilbert
Reading
Aviation Ordnance Man
Edward Burtschy
Leonard Street
Illinois labor law sets $200 penalty for child death
Mrs. Jewell Coleman of the Illinois labor department states the maximum penalty for violating the labor law leading to a child's death is $200, with hopes to raise it to $1,000 in the next legislative session. The remark underscores penalties for employing youths against state rules.
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Chicago
Illinois
Jewell. Coleman
Illinois Labor Department
Delegates Hear Kroll Outline CIOs Postwar Aim in Ohio
About 600 CIO delegates gathered in Columbus at the U A W Hall to back a Roosevelt Truman victory in November and approve a long range Ohio program. Jack Kroll, regional CIO PAC director, urged full employment and higher purchasing power while outlining a plan including a postwar planning commission FEPC extended unemployment benefits tax reform and wage and hours acts. The conference also set a 50 25 25 donation split for the PAC funds and attacked critics as opposing the common people.
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UAW
Columbus
Jack Kroll
Cincinnati
Cio-Pac
CIO
PAC
America
Ohio Pac
Political Action Committee Fund
National Pac
Kroll
What Kind of Reconversion Aims Gov Dewey Backing
The editorial argues that Governor Dewey favors electing him to avoid Roosevelt’s reconversion plan and hints at a Hoover style economy or a postwar period of unemployment to break unions. It notes West Coast aircraft industry hopes and predicts industrialists backing Dewey and anti Roosevelt candidates.
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Roosevelt
the Sun
Gov. Dewey
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