Executive Board backs CIO affiliate move for CWA
The Executive Board of the Communications Workers of America recommends CIO affiliation to its 230000 members in a March referendum. James Sigafoose of Division 46 notes membership secrecy will decide through ballots amid years of talks with AFL and CIO leaders.
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Kentucky
Tale of two cities housing report from Better Housing League
The Better Housing League finds Cincinnati’s basin holds 27 percent of the population in one sixteenth of the area with ten people in two rooms costing 74 dollars monthly. Half of families live in one or two rooms. 75 year old tenements lack baths, central heat and proper toilets. over half need repairs amid high costs and neglect.
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State CIO Council Backs FEPC Bills in Ohio Hearing
Columbus hearing before the House Industry Labor Committee featured Ohio CIO Council advocates for two FEPC bills HB 106 and HB 32. Speakers argued the bills would establish a Fair Employment Practices Commission and end workplace discrimination, citing Bureau of Unemployment Compensation data and King Record Co. as proof. Religious groups supported the measure, while opponents were slated for a later session.
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Outlook seen as good but danger warned by Keyserling
Leon Keyserling, vice chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, states the overall outlook for stabilizing the economy is favorable yet cites six danger points. He notes high living costs, low farm incomes, rising industrial prices, shrinking buying power, and uneven capacity growth as risks to sustaining growth into 1949.
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