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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1948
Page
2
Tomato harvest brightens family meals and offers many uses. They can be eaten plain with salt or sugar, fried in bacon fat or butter, stuffed for salads, filled with corn or meat, baked as a main dish, or canned for winter. Proper prep keeps red color and flavor in storage.
Guidance on using steel pots to avoid browning tomatoes and keeping color by cooking quickly in wide shallow pots. Notes on spices affecting color, cold pack method preference, and water bath canning times for pints and quarts.
Maurice Tobin, newly named secretary of labor, denounced the Taft-Hartley act as a blow to unionism. He defended hiring halls and noted the past prevalence of closed shop agreements that supported labor-management cooperation and reduced strikes.
The paper notes birthday wishes for Dorothy Rieman and Ray Diesal of the Cutting Dept. Mary Shelton Kirk is pleased with a wedding gift from several departments. The piece comments on whiskey labels and printing news, inviting more plant updates from staff.
New York dispatch reports Mexico has capped meat prices to curb profiteering. Filet mignon drops to 40c a pound with boneless cuts at 27c, lower grade bone cuts at 18c and bone-in cuts at 13c. Price changes took effect August 23.
Washington reports the cost of living rose 1.2 percent from June 15 to July 15 with Cincinnati showing 1.4 percent. The July 15 index hit 174, a new peak and over twice the 1935-39 level. GM wages rise 3 cents per hour starting Sept. 1 under the UAW CIO contract linked to the BLS index.
The article notes a 9.7 percent rise from a year ago and a 76.2 percent higher level since August 1939 with food prices climbing most. It cites 86 percent profits growth for manufacturing firms from 1944 to 1947 while wages fell 5 percent, and shows oil firms increasing worker pay from 19.9 to 21.6 cents per barrel as price per barrel rose from 1.39 to 2.59. It reports Taft Hartley era union security results at North American Aviation where 6,314 voted for union security, 2,457 against, among 15,532 eligible.
In Inglewood California the United Auto Workers claim victory in a Taft Hartley election but face mixed results amid union and employer competition.
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