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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1946
Page
1
The 20 page Labor Day Edition highlights messages from CIO leaders and local presidents. It includes tributes from or about CIO locals presidents and goodwill messages from numerous industrial and business firms.
CIO President Phillip Murray denounces the U S Price Decontrol Board for failing to reestablish price ceilings on milk dairy products flour and bread. He notes boosts in beef and lanch prices and cites a wide drop in take home pay from April 1945 to June 1946.
Miss Martha Larsen of 3412 Willis street Hyde Park was named a hoodlum for carrying political banners at the zoo. The label came from a press account of a statement by Chief Weatherly.
A Mass for Labor Day will be held at 9 30 a m Monday at St Louis Church located at Eighth and Walnut Streets.
Dun and Bradstreet reports a 31.3 percent weekly rise in wholesale food prices and a 404 percent increase since V J Day, with about half of daily food purchases currently outside OPA ceilings. The index covers 31 basic commodities through Aug 20 and excludes later Price Control Board actions.
The Cincinnati Times-Star seeks to discharge Florence Wessel Weinman known as the one woman USO for wartime service. The Cincinnati News Paper Guild, of which she is a member, contests the move claiming no just cause exists after 22 years.
CIO-PAC victory in a clash over political banners in front of the Zoo. Weatherly reportedly called the pickets hoodlums. he then repudiated the remark as council members demanded proof or retraction. The reversal followed pressure to stop harassment of banner carriers.
The speech lauds 1946 wage gains but warns gains could be erased without political unity. It cites Cincinnati picket line experiences, anti union hostility, and police tactics as proof of solidarity's value. The Greater Cincinnati Industrial Union Council calls for continued unity among workers and supporters.
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