Hope To Break Unions Seen By Industry Writer Says
Federated Press reports a pattern in reconversion politics with Ford Chrysler and General Motors resisting civilian production planning. The piece suggests Detroit automakers fear high labor costs and union power, while aircraft makers could influence auto reconversion by entering car production to ease production pressures and align with labor and government.
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Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
Detroit
New England
Lockheed
Kaiser
Roosevelt
Civil Rights Progress Noted in 1944 War Year
The American Civil Liberties Union hailed 1944 as a year of advance in civil rights amid the war. It highlighted repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Supreme Court actions overturning white primaries, anti antisemitism campaigns, and efforts by the Fair Employment Practice Committee and unions to fight race discrimination in employment.
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NEW York
American Civil Liberties Union
U. S. Supreme Court
South
President's Fair Employment Practice Committee
CIO
ACLU
Policex
Supreme Court
Congress
Washington AFL backs Roosevelt for fourth term
The Washington State Federation of Labor approved a resolution urging a fourth term for President Roosevelt at its convention in Wenatchee. It instructed its executive board to press the AFL national office for endorsement of FDR.
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Wenatcthee
Wash
Washington State
CIO board backs Roosevelt for fourth term in 1944
The National Executive Board of the State County and Municipal Workers CIO meeting in Atlantic City endorsed a fourth term for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and adopted the CIO Political Action Committee program for 1944.
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Atlantic City
State County and Municipal Workers
CIO
Roosevelt
The House I Live In Testimony on the unborn
A speaker describes the embryo fetus and infant as stages of life within the mother’s body. The piece extols the safety and comfort of the first home, notes premature birth risks, and posits a lifelong nostalgia for the womb. The author hints at a continuing series titled The House I Live In.
Red Cross The Greatest GI Friend
Pvt Charles McIntire writes from England that the Red Cross was present at embarkation and at sea providing coffee cookies and candy. He credits them with lifts on arrival furloughs hospital visits and morale through clubs and carols highlighting the Red Cross as a trusted support for soldiers overseas.
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Charles McIntire
England
Red Cross
The
Unionist Whitman Blind Riveter Is One of Best on Job
Seattle reports on David Whitman a totally blind riveter on the Kenworth Motors swing shift. After two weeks training he excels on the production line and explains it is a matter of adjustment. Juanita Anderson praises his speed and accuracy in shared training efforts.
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Whitman
Seattle
Kenworth Motors
International Association of Machinists
AFL
David Whitman
Dave
Dewey pledge to finish term and era of political talk
A collage of wartime and political quips notes Governor Dewey’s pledge to complete his New York term amid satire on Bricker K Smith and party lines. A soldier asks frost thresholds in Alaska as humor shifts between politics and press chatter.
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Dewey
New York
Gov. Dewey
Luther
Little Luther
Bricker
Gerald L. K. Smith
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Federated Press
Washington
Ehind
Wash. Afl
the Sun
Public Health Federated, Health Branch
Community Chest
Cumberland, Md
Claude McIntire
United Rubber Workers of America, Cio
Juanita Anderson
By John Paine
Alaska
20Th Century- Fox
Wilson
Mr. Dilworth
Gov. Bricker
G.L.K. Smith
Smith
Red Army
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Eddy Orcutt
San Diego
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