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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1945
Page
4
The Sun lists the editor office contact in Cincinnati Ohio with telephone and address details including Bell Block and Vine Street. Subscription rate noted as two dollars per year.
The article weighs hope and fear about atomic bombs and postwar use. It asks whether atomic energy will advance mankind or bring unemployment and renewed conflict, urging national action to provide jobs, abundant life, and international cooperation.
The Social Security Board reports 80,504,000 U. S. workers had old-age and survivor insurance accounts by 1944, with 48,579,000 wage credits in 1943 totaling over 61.5 million dollars. State averages show Michigan leading at 1512 and Mississippi lowest at 533, while unemployment benefits rose from 10.56 to 15.90 weekly from 1940 to 1944, still short of the 25 per week for 26 weeks sought by President Truman.
Edward Levinson, editor of the United Automobile Worker official newspaper, died in Detroit on August 8 after a two week illness. Born November 15, 1901 in Brooklyn, he worked in San Francisco Oakland and Denver before serving as night city editor of the New York Call in 1923. He directed Norman Thomas 1924 campaign for New York governor and was labor editor of the New York Post from 1932 to 1938. He joined the UAW paper in 1939 and authored several labor books.
A 1940s commentary notes a rising southward liberal shift driven by organized labor. CIO gains expand in Texas Georgia Louisiana Alabama Oklahoma Tennessee North and South Carolina Florida, with figures like Pepper Arnall and critics in Mississippi. The piece argues reformist southern Democrats will grow as labor transforms the region.
The AFL Executive Council denounces the Ball Burton Hatch bill as obnoxious and vows to defeat it as a whole without amendments. President Green says the proposal would destroy workers freedoms, empower employers, and push compulsory arbitration with a union shop endangering labor progress.
Judge Corlett of the Common Pleas Court in Cuyahoga County Ohio rules that a city with a transit board cannot enter into collective bargaining or recognize a union as exclusive bargaining agent for its municipally owned street railway and related employees. The decision, if upheld, eliminates union contracts with publicly owned utilities unless Ohio Constitution is changed. The ruling highlights potential losses for workers who rely on collective bargaining for wages and working conditions.
An executive council denounces a bill suspending the Norris La Guardia act and reviving government by injunction. It would create a code of unfair labor practices that could severely hamper workers organizing efforts, highlighting several other harsh provisions.
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