Six year old explains wage gap in GM strike tale
In a Norwood home the Sullivan family details how wage cuts hit daily life. Betty Sullivan asks why cocoanut cake costs rose from 11 to 23 cents as her father earns less even with 40 hours weekly. Mrs. Sullivan notes rising clothes costs and scarce low priced items for growing children while war myths persist.
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Mama
Betty
Aubrey Sullivan
General Motors Chevrolet
Norwood
Sullivan
America
ACW Wins Big Pay Raise and Steel Strike Date Set
Amalgamated Clothing Workers secured a 15 cent hourly raise plus 3 percent annuities and six holidays as clothing firms accept union bargaining. Meanwhile UAW and CIO move toward a national steel strike date after 90 days of talks and a dispute over a $2 daily increase.
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ACW
Clothing
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Auto and Steel Industries
Price Chief Names NAM As Seeker Of Inflation
Bowles told 5,000 NAM leaders that abandoning price controls would cost the nation billions. He labeled NAM and real estate and dry goods groups as chief advocates of price control and warned against inflationary chaos if controls are removed too soon. Sen Taft criticized OPA's post July 1 influence on prices and profits.
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Price Chief
Nam
New York
Nati Assn
OPA
Chester A. Bowles
Hotel Waldorf- Astoria
Bowles
Natl. Assn. of
Natl. Retail Dry Goods Assn
Price
Sen
Robert A. Taft
R.O
Taft
Congress
Citizens' Committee Finds GM Fails To Show It Can Meet 30% Pay Demand
The National Citizens' Committee on the GM UAW Dispute finds no convincing evidence that General Motors cannot meet UAW wage demands. The panel chaired by Dr. Henry Pitt Crane notes the union and GM presented serious, statesmanlike positions during negotiations. The inquiry supports the union's request for broader knowledge of wage price profit relations.
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Norwood General Motors
President Truman
General Motors
Citizens’ Committee
Detroit
General Motors Corp
National Citizens’ Committee
Henry Pitt Crane
Central
Ggginmgttes
UAW
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College of the City of New York
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National Ymca
Ernest W. Burgess
University of Chicago
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