ACW Launches Nationwide Drive to Organize Retail Clerks
The Amalgamated Clothing Workers junto with CIO leaders launched a national drive to organize six million unorganized retail clerks. Jacob Potofsky and Frank Rosenblum lead the effort through the Cincinnati Joint Board with plans to expand staff and target department store and clothing store clerks.
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers
New York
National Cio
Jack Kroll
Cincinnati Joint Board
ACW
Cincinnati
Joint Board
Kroll
CIO
Jacob Potofsky
Frank
Rosenblum
Department Store Organizing Committee
Amalgamated
Murray
Univ
Real Estate Lobby Attacks Housing Bill Campaign
The Washington Realtors Committee launches a fund raising drive accusing a broad coalition including the President, labor unions, veterans groups, churches, social welfare groups and mayors of opposing a national housing program. The lobby brands opponents as those who “sit back and shout” the world owes me a living.
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Washington Realtors Committee
National Association of Real Estate Boards
United States
Veterans’ Organization
Catholic Church
New Sunday Newspaper Planned By Post and Times-Star
Cincinnati Post and Cincinnati Times-Star plan a joint Sunday paper likely to begin in 1949. Printing would occur at the Times-Star plant with a no editorials policy to avoid conflicts. The venture aims to challenge the Cincinnati Enquirer’s Sunday advertising dominance.
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Post
Times-Star
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Post
Cincinnati Times-Star
The
SUN
Cincinnati Enquirer
Enquirer
Scripps- Howard
Times- Star
Sunday Times-Post
Taft-Hartley Law Criticized by Business Week Editorial
New York based report notes Business Week says the Taft-Hartley act may have gone too far and could undermine unions if a new labor framework replaced it. The piece argues the four provisions allow employer control over elections and strike replacements, urging labor to avoid excessive demands while reconsidering Wagner era limits.
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New York
Business Week
McGraw-Hill Magazine
America
Washington
Labor
Here Is a Reason Unions Are Needed Why unions are necessary
A Boston Senate subcommittee hearing featured a New York manager for Textron Inc discussing a Puerto Rico mill project with tax holidays of 15 years. He cited a promised minimum wage of 25 cents an hour, totaling $10 for a 40 hour week, provoking calls for unions.
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Boston
New York
Textron Inc
New England
Puerto Rico
Textron
Textron Mills
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Ty Tomes
Cerly
Ohio
Realtor’s Group
Santa
Guild
Gary
Barry Cunningham
Paul Cunningham
Robert Stevens
Business Weekly
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