Newspaper Bias Criticizes Columbus Dispatch Coverage
The piece accuses the Columbus Dispatch of distorted reporting on Ohio FEPC hearings. It claims favorable FEPC testimony was buried while industry opponents led the front page and headline, urging public skepticism of newspapers.
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Daily Press
Columbus
Columbus Dispatch
Dispatch
Wolfe
Ohio
Ohio House Industry and Labor Committee
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Reuther Plan Aims Low Cost Homes in Plane Factories
Walter Reuther proposes mass production of low cost homes in aircraft factories to solve the housing crisis. He argues the private building industry has failed and calls the aircraft industry a public ward, challenging rent controls amid opposition from property owners. He says the plan could help 20 million moderate and low income families.
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Walter Reuther
CIO Auto Workers
Henry Ford
Robert Fulton
Reuther
UAW
CIO Housing Committee
Apostles of Business
Times Square
Washington
American Association of Property Owners
Phoney Questions Are Latest T H Propaganda
GE promotes a phony public push to retain Taft Hartley by distributing 18 point loaded questionnaires to employees schools churches and firms doing business with GE The firm publishes the same poll in 77 newspapers and asks readers to send it to their congressmen The Textile Workers Union notes the wording aims to secure favorable answers and labels it deceptive.
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Textile Workers Union
CIO
No. 14
Local 28 and Local 12 Unions Active in Cincinnati CIO Council
The article details Local 28 of the American Union of Telephone Workers joining the Greater Cincinnati CIO Industrial Union Council in June 1948 after its International aligned with CIO earlier that year. It notes a 21 month contract in June 1948 improving conditions and job security, and mentions members across Ohio cities. Local 12 of the International Union of United Brewery Workers has roots dating to 1887, with early members John Alexander and Julius Zorn, and joined CIO in July 1946 after enduring harsh conditions and 60 hour weeks with low pay, before breweries nationwide were signed up in September 1902.
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American Union of Telephone Workers
Greater Cincinnati Cio Industrial Union Council
Local
International
CIO
Telephone Company
Brewery
International Union of
United Brewery, Flour
Distillery Workers of America
Cincinnati
John Alexander
Julius Zorn
Zorn
The
Our Union and The Bed Sheet Boys
A labor column mocks Ku Klux Klan members as ridiculous, equating their sheet costumes to pillowcases and criticizing their actions. The piece uses sharp satire to condemn the group while labeling their behavior as dangerous and irrational.
Prejudice and unions share a common fault in rhetoric
A speaker warns that prejudice undermines workers by dividing unions and targets Protestants Jews Catholics Negroes and other groups. He compares Hitler and the Bed Sheet boys to prejudice driven insanity and urges a disciplined, non discriminatory stance among union members, advocating indirect “D D T” as a metaphor for eradicating prejudice.
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Hitler
D.D.T
Elections Set For March Officers In The Sun Area
Showzir, Robert Schlotman, Bob Kaplan and George Woods are named as officer nominees. Elections will be held on the second Saturday in March with more details in next week’s Sun. The Sun invites Cincinnati teams to join the bowling league and welcomes new members Shirley Cook and Charley Moore.
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Showzir
Robert Schlotman
Bob Kaplan
George Woods
the Sun
Bowling
Cincinnati
Shirley Cook
Charley Moore
Local 12 President Praises Cincinnati Brewery Improvements
Carnahan, president of Local 12, highlights decades of pay raises and better working conditions in Cincinnati breweries, noting the union's long history of advocacy and progress for workers.
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Carnahan
12 Points
Cincinnati Breweries
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