Taft urged price controls and Little Steel revision
The SUN editorial argues Taft should push rigid price controls and revise the Little Steel Formula to reflect actual living costs. It warns relaxing controls risks a wage price race hurting workers, and stresses holding prices until postwar production stabilizes. The piece also notes Taft’s past opposition to strict controls and his strategy to woo Southern Democrats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Under the Cloak Lincoln’s Side in Today’s Political Battle
The author argues Abraham Lincoln would side with the common man against wealth and privilege, contrasting with Taft and Sen McKellar. He asserts Lincoln would align with Henry Wallace for workers’ rights, condemns reactionaries in office, and urges Progressive Republicans to reject impostors hiding behind Lincoln’s legacy.
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Abraham Lincoln
Taft
Sen. McKellar
Tennessee
America
Lincoln
Henry Wallace
Taft Criticized Over Fair Employment Proposals
America weekly faulted Senator Robert A Taft for his FEPC stance. The Rev John La Farge S J editor of the Catholic paper is to speak Feb 27 at an interracial fellowship dinner hosted by the Racial Amity Committee of the Division of Negro Welfare Council of Social Agencies at the Gibson Roof Garden. The editorial says Taft backed a Republican pledge for a permanent FEPC but now favors a version that strips enforcement powers and makes the commission informational only.
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Robert A. Taft
America
National Catholic Weekly
John la Farge
S. J
Racial Amity Committee
Division of Negro Welfare
Council of Social Agencies
Gibson Roof Garden
Taft
FEPC
Commission
PAC Girds For Local Elections
Philip Murray CIO president urges active participation by political action committees in local elections. Sidney Hillman PAC chairman returns from London World Labor Conference to intensify prep. Ben Herman leads PAC in Cincinnati with neighborhood clubs and signed members as Hartmann strengthens organizing drive. Objectives include wartime victory, enduring peace, full production and employment, democracy, and equal opportunity for all.
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Philip Murray
CIO
Sidney Hillman
PAC
London World Labor Conference
Murray
Greater Cincinnati
America P
Townsend attacks May work-or-fight bill on discrimination
In Chicago President Willard S. Townsend of United Transport Service Employer denounces the May work-or-fight bill as a myth, arguing that systemic discrimination by employers blocks minority job opportunities and sustains the so called manpower shortage.
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Chicago
Willard S. Townsend
United Transport Service Employer
CSO
Taft’s FEPC stance draws fire from Negroes and workers
The piece accuses Senator Taft of political calculus over the fair Employment Practice Act, arguing he opposes a robust FEPC measure with penalties, seeks southern Republican Democrat coalitions, and risks alienating Ohio Black workers amid regional opposition. It contends his substitute lacks penalties.
Foundry operation at Ford Rouge runs at half capacity
Dearborn Michigan. The regional war production board presses for more output while Ford Rouge foundry operates at about 50 percent of normal capacity under United Auto Workers CIO contract led by President R J Thomas.
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Dearborn
Mich
War Production Board
Detroit
Ford
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