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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1948
Page
4
The Sun published by Editor Office Cincinnati announces executive board members including William Black, Ray Tucker, Elmer Kauff ean, Ed Helkamp, John Dehner, and others. Subscriptions listed at $2.00 per year with standard post office filing details and date.
A 1918 resolution urges workers and small businesses to voter action to defeat Taftism in the 1948 elections. It criticizes the National Association of Manufacturers and big business for attacking unions and price controls, warning Congress has returned to NAM lines. The call emphasizes mobilizing through politics to avoid a disastrous economic mood.
Members of the Cincinnati Newspaper Guild voted Monday night to accept offers from the publishers ending a lengthy bargaining phase. The agreement covers sixteen months and outlines pay, benefits, and working conditions for members.
The Post and Times-Star manage ments ratify 16 month contracts effective November 1, 1947 to March 1, 1949 with no reopeners on wages. The Guild expects both contracts signed within two weeks. Wage increases range from four to nine dollars per week.
Right wing slate led by George R. Holmes defeats incumbent John T. McManus for guild president 3041 to 2748. Executive vice president John F. Ryan loses to Thomas J. Murphy 3135 to 2635. Holmes Murphy slate sweeps remaining offices.
Dorothy Thompson argues in Ladies Home Journal August 1947 that the American Way of Life centers on home not hotels or trailers and critiques homelessness as a basic source of social discontent during wartime and postwar life.
The piece outlines CIO pressure for higher wages amid record 1947 profits and a campaign to neutralize wage hour laws. It forecasts a push to exempt workers from protections, a harsher anti union action stance, and a broader drive for European recovery aid tied to Marshall Plan goals. It cites profit rates from Armour, GE, GM, US Steel, General Foods, and notes U.S. savings bonds yield about 3 percent.
The Rural Electrification Administration now serves over two million customers, marking twelve years since the program began. The agency expanded power line coverage nationwide, enhancing rural electricity access and modernization across regions.
A letter argues that labor unions are miscast as a threat to democracy. It defends American political liberties in the United States Canada and England and attacks the House Un-American Committee labeling it an enemy of the Bill of Rights and of union members.
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