Washington Report on Buck Rogers Era and War Science
The piece argues for a strong research and development program led by General HH. Arnold and a top-notch scientific corps to shape future war and peace. It discusses full employment bills, social science needs, and the slow path to economic distribution, predicting a rough conversion with rationing adjustments and recovery timelines.
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Washington
Congress
HH. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Church Labor Meet Tuesday at YMCA
The Church Labor group will hold its next meeting on Tuesday at noon September 4 at the YMCA at Elm and Central Parkway. Steering Committee chair Andre Carson AFL leads the session with Rev Theodore Hesselbrock O F M George Bidinger Newspaper Guild and Dr Abraham Cronbach of Hebrew Union College.
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Y.M.C.A
Elm & Central Parkway
Andre Carson
AFL
Theodore Hesselbrock
O.F.M
George Bidinger
Abraham Cronbach
Hebrew Union College
John Ramsay
USA
What About Strikes
A wartime study cites U S Department of Labor data showing 1944 strikes caused only 0.09 percent of available working time. Average strike length was 5.6 days, with unusually high worker participation but shorter durations than earlier years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Peter McGuire Fathered Labor Day and AFL Founder
Peter J. McGuire, born 1865 in New York, helped found the American Federation of Labor and led carpenters union activities. He proposed a national Labor Day in 1882, and Congress made it a national holiday on June 28, 1894. he died in 1914.
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Peter J. McGuire
American Federation of Labor
Strong. McGuire
New York
Bro. of Carpenters & Joiners
AFL
McGuire
Congress
Labor Day Message Outlines 9 Point Workers Program
The Federal Council of Churches in America sets a nine point plan to improve workers’ lot. Proposals include guaranteed annual wage, full employment, secure living standards, good housing, social insurance, anti discrimination, expanded workers education, and peacetime relocation of war workers. It champions democratic conference over coercive laws to resolve disputes and prevent renewed industrial warfare.
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New York
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Normalcy, prosperity myths from a wartime era
A dialogue between Mr. Dilworth and Little Luther mocks dream of postwar prosperity. They mock claims from NAM and Chamber of Commerce and question unemployment, wages, and the role of workers in reconversion after the war.
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Mr. Dilworth
Pop
Little Luther
Washington
NAM
Chamber of Commerce
Luther
Westbrook Pegler
CIO Wins Textile Election In New Bedford Mills
The Textile Workers Union CIO defeated the United Textile Workers AFL by more than 2 to 1 in an NLRB election in New Bedford Massachusetts involving about 10 000 workers across nine mills of the New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers Association.
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New Bedford
Mass
Textile Workers Union
CIO
United Textile Workers
AFL
NLRB
New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers Ass
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Washington Report
Buck Rogers
Energy
Murray-Patman
Europe
United Farm Equipment & Metal Workers
Into Harvester Co
War Labor Board
Chicago
Federated Pic
Peter McGuire
Federated
Sible
Peter P. McQuire
By John Paine
Federated Press
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