Wartime Living Stocks Reflect Reconversion Dangers
The stock market ends a volatile month with a new low after brief highs as Allied victories in France and the Soviet front lift uncertainty. Congress blocks reconversion measures while business nerves grow and calls for liberal reconversion bills rise. Ensuing notes cover wartime needs, including enamel ware, bathtubs, beef rationing, and distribution of small potatoes to stabilize prices.
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New York Times
Wall Street
France
Germany
Kilgore Bill Seeks Equal Aid For War Workers
The Kilgore proposal aims to restore funds for reconversion and speed up plant clearances while offering equal federal aid to workers, with debate over priorities and postwar wages. Opponents push states rights and argue about the $35 weekly figure, while the George bill provides $14 weekly and Taft questions wartime earnings.
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Dewey
Senate
George
Sen
Taft
YWCA Vacations for Working Girls at Camp Lenmary
The YWCA offers a August 19 through Labor Day vacation program for working girls at Camp Lenmary on the White Water River. Activities include swimming, tennis, archery, badminton, croquet, hiking, and evening performances by campers with staff. Rustic cabins sleep 6 to 8. meals are served in the lodge. applications via Miss Edith Rees at the YWCA.
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Lenmary
Whitewater
Camp Lenmary
New Trenton
Ohio
Edith Rees
YWCA
9Th and
Walnut Streets
Tobin Endorses Roosevelt, AFL Unity Highlighted
Indianapolis report notes Daniel J. Tobin of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters AFL seconded Roosevelt at the Democratic convention and urged unity with CIO. He surveyed the union’s executive board. all approved, signaling official endorsement of 625,000 members.
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Indianapolis
Roosevelt
Daniel J. Tobin
Ind. Bro
Teamsters
AFL
CIO
Ind. Teamster
Tobin
Journal
IBT
Teichmoeller Secretary Leaves Smethurst Office
Mrs. Wilma L Teichmoeller resigns as secretary to Walter Smethurst CIO regional director to join her husband Leonard Teichmoeller in Kansas City Missouri. She has been with the regional office since June 1943 and resides at 108 Electric Ct Southgate Kentucky. Miss Edna May Shoup will replace her at the regional office.
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Wilma L. Teichmoeller
Walter Smethurst
CIO
Leonard Teichmoeller
Kansas City
Teichmoeller
Electric
Gas Company Election Set for 1300 Cincinnati Area Workers
The NLRB will hold an election within three weeks among Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. and Union Light, Heat and Power Co. employees to choose a bargaining agent for about 1300 workers. Contesting are Utility Workers of America CIO IBEW AFL and Independent Utilities Union. CIO representative Jess Straub calls rulings satisfactory and notes the unit includes electrical production operations and distribution workers. The unaffiliated union is involved in three other elections at the companies.
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NLRB
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Union Light, Heat and Power Co
Covington
Utility Workers of America
CIO
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Afl
Independent Utilities Union
Jess Straub
Labor Union Backing Roosevelt Unanimous Support Voted
The Philadelphia Central Labor Union representing 170 locals and over 200000 members voted unanimously to back FDR and urged AFL members to support his reelection with action.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Central Labor Union
AFL
Roosevelt
War Effort Under FDR Praised By Democratic Candidate
Frank J. Richter, candidate for Congress, praised Roosevelt's leadership and U.S. war production at a Duckworth Club event. He claimed Normandy and the South Pacific victories prove the war effort is an accomplished fact and criticized Republican criticisms as political posturing.
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Home Front
Roosevelt
Frank J. Richter
Congress
Duckworth Club
Richter
Coney Island
Normandy
South Pacific
Cincinnati
Bonds Bought By Pullman Laundry Workers Union
Pullman Laundry Workers Local 94 members invested 875 of retroactive 1943 contract pay in war bonds as part of union driven benefits. Perry Metcalf reports ongoing contract gains and a drive to fund an office building for the international in Chicago. Metcalf and family returned from a Bath County Kentucky vacation.
UAW Chief Blames Planning Gaps for Job Decline
President R J Thomas of United Auto Workers CIO says sudden layoffs and poor planning cause a 16 percent drop in wartime employment nationwide. He cited insufficient advance planning by industry and government as the culprit.
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Detroit
R. J. Thomas
United Auto Workers (Cio
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Pullman
Metcalf
Bath County
Helen Denny
Tennessee
Ernest Vaughan
Georgia
Bla Eaie
Pepsi-Cola Co
Long Island City
N.Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
Cinginngti
Coney On
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