Workers cross picket line for coffee at tobacco plant
Women strikers at the American Tobacco Company in Philadelphia come inside to warm up with coffee but do not smoke Lucky Strikes, the brand made by the struck company.
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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1946
Page
5
Women strikers at the American Tobacco Company in Philadelphia come inside to warm up with coffee but do not smoke Lucky Strikes, the brand made by the struck company.
Townsend of the United Transportation Service Employees Association spoke at a NAACP meeting at Calvary Church. He urged a general wage increase to restore buying power, linking wage gaps to 1929 panic and racial prejudice, and stressed equal opportunity campaigns and housing support.
President Joseph Curran of the National Maritime Union CIO denounced the Truman administration for an anti labor legislative trend and an imperialist foreign policy, voiced on behalf of the union's national council in New York.
The Belva No. 1 mine explosion near Pineville Kentucky trapped over 30 United Mine Workers. A Federal Bureau of Mines report faulted the mine for dangerous timbering electrical and dust hazards and urged better air flow protection and escapeways. The state lacks authority to enforce these safety recommendations despite a six month accident rate five times the national average. The United Mine Workers vows aid for victims’ families amid accusations of weak Kentucky inspections.
New York based National Citizens Political Action Committee urges citizens groups to concentrate pressure on state and city Democratic and Republican party officials to push action on reconversion. The guide notes officials may be surprised, but politicians will seek action.
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