Must Children Eat From Garbage Cans Help CIO To Answer
A back street Naples scene shows children foraging in garbage cans as an educated American tourist objects. The American Overseas Aid United Nations Appeal for Children seeks 60 million dollars to fund 22 relief agencies feeding war victims in Europe and Asia. CIO’s Overseas Relief and Rehabilitation Fund joins to aid hungry war orphans of trade unionists.
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Naples
United Nations Appeal For Children
Europe
Asia
Overseas Relief and Rehabilitation Fund of
National
CIO Community Services Committee
Aoa-Mac
CIO
Inside Story on Labor Struggles and Economic Policy
Comment on rising onslaught of labor disputes across the country and the stance of Congress on domestic issues. CIO backs wage and anti-discrimination measures while employers use T H act to stall unions. FCC bans censoring political speakers. reports from Cleveland and Europe on labor talks and wage concerns.
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Denham
Tennessee
Arizona
Washington
Attendance at meetings vital for Local 256 members
Members are urged to attend general meetings as contract expiry on April 31 approaches. Suggestions to the Negotiating Committee will help their recommendations. Sympathy expressed to Schuerman, Wellman, and Williams families. Tom Nolan returns to work after a foot injury. Sun news items should be turned in to the shop steward by Monday. Steward election results to follow.
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Charles Schuerman
Enameling Dept
Wellman
Sarah Williams
Tom Nolan
Shipyard workers convene amid shipbuilding slump in 13th IUMSWA meeting
In Cleveland 300 delegates of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers opened their 13th annual convention on February 9. They highlighted a sharp decline in ship production with government figures showing 103,500 employed now versus a wartime peak of 1,225,000. The program urged higher wages, anti third party stance, Marshall Plan endorsement, a strong merchant marine, and inclusion of 60,000 railroad workers from the CIO union.
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Cleveland
Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers
CSO
Advance Union
Iumswa
John Green
United ubber-Woers
CIO
Pricing shift and hiring decline cited by city and rail officials
Markets Commissioner Eugene C. Schultz notes ten staple items cost $2.36 in 1939 but $5.18 now for New York City housewives. Separately, discriminatory practices reduced Negro firemen on southern railroads from about 6,000 in 1914 to roughly 3,000 today.
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New York City
Eugene C. Schultz
Southern
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Murray-Wagner
Banking and Currency Committee
Thomas Wagner
House
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Senate Labor Committee
Taft
Knutson
Emil Rieve
Chamber of Commerce
Emerson Schmidt
Charles Tobey
R. N.H
New England
Daniel Webster
Tobey
Schmidt
FCC
Jim Carey
Mike Ross
World Federation of Trade Unions
CIO Packinghouse
Morrocco
Cooper’s
Mill Street
Lockland, O
Madigan Rd
Oakley
Ave. of the Americas
New York 19
N. Y
House Banking Committee
National Apartment Owners Association
By Archie Tewart
Schramm
Rugh, Inc
Dixon
WCPO
East Sixth Street
Mullane’s
Cincinnati
Mullane
John Mullane Candy CO
W. Fourth ST
Edwards RD
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