Seek Flood Of Letters On FEPC
A local committee urges prompt letters to senators and congressmen in support of a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee. They back a bill with enforcement powers over voluntary measures and cite a Taft bill as unworkable. Alfred M. Cohen and Jesse D. Locker co chairmen with Mrs. Sally Weiss secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibson
Robert A. Taft
Theodore Berry
Taft
Jerome Jelin
Progressive Citizens Committee
Washington
Sen
Alfred M. Cohen
Jesse D. Locker
Sally Weiss
Sens
Harold Burton
Charles Elston
William Hess
George Bender
Biggest Uniform Maker Invites Unions To Complete ACW Organizing
Sigmund Eisner Co the nation’s largest uniform maker invites the Amalgamated Clothing Workers CIO to finish unionizing its Red Bank and Newark New Jersey plants. About two thousand employees are already ACW represented, with Eisner noting broad support among remaining workers. He cites harmonious labor relations and cooperation as key to meeting postwar needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigmund Eisner Co
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
CIO
Red Bank
Newark
N. J
ACW
Sec.Treas
Monroe Eisner
Sports Local Will Combat Absenteeism
Local 200 Amalgamated Clothing Workers members at Hutchinson and Sports Products, makers of sporting equipment, pledged to minimize absenteeism to aid the war effort. The union voted a $3 assessment per member to fund the Amalgamated Service Organization for gifts and cigarettes to service members and families. Marcella Oliver and Ada Glass were named as reporters for The SUN.
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Joseph Lepate
Amalgamated Clothing
Hutchinson
Amalgamated Service Organization
Marcella Oliver
Sports Products
Ada Glass
the Sun
FEPC Aids Delta Shipyard Hiring Policy Change
FEPC says Delta Shipbuilding Co in New Orleans hired thirty Negro welders easing manpower shortage and prompting a revision of the firm’s discriminatory hiring policy.
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Washington
Delta Shipbuilding Co
New Orleans
FEPC
Father Opposes Compulsory Training In Wake Of War
Charles Ruff Jr of 1728 Iliff Ave writes to The SUN opposing compulsory military training. He argues for voluntary defense units, youth education, and in-school training, noting France failed under conscription and urging disarmament and better health and education spending.
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Charles Ruff Jr
Iliff Ave
the Sun
Ruff
The
SUN
France
Germany
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