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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1944
Page
7
Federated Press notes that in 1944 women will outnumber men by over 500,000 voters, including armed forces members, shaping campaign strategy. It highlights female influence as buyers and homemakers, urging unions and Democratic groups to present Roosevelt Truman positions while warning against Dewey’s double track program.
About 150 employees of Beau Brummel, Inc. and members of Necktie Workers Local 241 ACWA received a wage increase and 18 000 dollars in back wages from the War Labor Board. The retroactive award covers August 23 1943 after ACWA sought relief following a prior denial.
The first strike in Crown Overall Co in Cincinnati ended Wednesday after over 800 workers stopped work August 1. They cited a 10 percent wage demand denied by the WLB which noted current raises under the Little Steel formula. The stoppage was suspended August 5 during a company picnic and called off at the UGW president’s urging to let the union appeal.
Detroit management at Montgomery Ward locked out 75 United Retail Wholesale and Dept Store Employer members for Sunday work refusal without pay. The union reports 132 more were fired in sympathy and a government back pay order was ignored, prompting Ward to reinstate the fired workers after union protest.
The Kilgore Murray Bill S 1893 backed by CIO AFL and RR brotherhoods would centralize reconversion planning and provide unemployment benefits up to 35 dollars weekly during the reconversion period. Critics in Congress push back, opposing the bill with the George Bill. Citizens are urged to write Senators Taft Burton Barkley Chandler care of the Senate Office Building Washington D C to support bread and butter relief after the war.
War Manpower Commission chief Paul V. McNutt reported 1,400,000 part time or 700,000 full time workers needed nationwide to can fruits and vegetables for the armed services this summer. Housewives and youths will be recruited via the U S Employment Service. Ohio requires 17,000 workers with similar state totals listed for other states.
The United Steelworkers of America will seek election as exclusive bargaining agent for employees at Cincinnati Engineering Tool Co Knowlton Street. The National Labor Relations Board disclosed this week the NLRB ordered a plant poll within 30 days.
Consumers Union test results flag glass quality not price driven with cheap yet decent options such as Columbia Goggles and Sun Veil. Leg paints labeled water resistant survive rain. makeup application tips and brand ratings follow with CU guinea pigs testing wear and results.
Electees named Roman Seibert Owen Albert Esther Tice Helen Ferguson and Alice Dinkins to represent Local 757 UER and MWA at the convention in New York from September 24 to 29.
Philadelphia reports 6000 transit strikers returned to work and troops enforced orders to upgrade eight Negro porters despite clashes in car barns. Atty Gen Biddle sought FBI action under the Smith Connally act as War Manpower Commissioner McNutt pledged no relaxation of the upgrade. White House praise cited in a National War Labor Board letter.
In Middletown Barklow Electric Manufacturing, the United Steelworkers beat US CIO 44 to 25 after a year earlier the Barklow Employer Independent Association won 65 to 19. Armco planners cite Barklow results as they press a new drive to organize Armco Middletown plant workers.
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