Truman Faces Pressure as Congress Skews to Business
President Truman shifts back toward New Deal goals amid labor pressure. FEPC backing grows as he ends federal employment discrimination and argues for managerial ability to pay in wage studies. Congress stalls on unemployment relief, minimum wage and health insurance as housing and slum aid face opposition.
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Travis K. Hedrick
Washington
Harry S. Truman
Truman
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
FDR
FEPC
House Rules Committee
American Medical Assn
Senate
House
Meat Industry Strike Looms Nationwide
United Packinghouse Workers CIO plans a possible strike of 125000 members pending wage talks. The union demands 25 percent rise, targeting Swift Armour Cudahy and Wilson as major packers with workers in Chicago Kansas City stockyards and independent plants. Best offer 52 cents per hour rejected. 2 to 4 cents from others.
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Chicago
National Strategy Committee of
United Packinghouse Workers
CIO
Lewis J. Clark
Clark
Swift
Armour
Cudahy
Wilson
Kansas City
NLRB
UPWA
Indictment Reveals National Textile Black Market Scheme
Federal grand jury indictment unsealed in Boston charges a nationwide textile black market ring that cheated New Yorkers out of about 3 million dollars and inflated dress prices from 10 to 20 dollars.
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Boston
Union Bestsellers in Detroit Non fiction and fiction leaders
In Detroit the Union Bookstore reports top selling titles across non fiction and fiction. Non fiction leaders include Up Front by Bill Mauldin Atomic Energy by Henry De Wolfe Smyth Gen Marshall's Report on the War 60 Million Jobs by Henry A Wallace and Brave Men by Ernie Pyle. Fiction titles listed as Cass Timberlane Black Rose So Well Remembered White Tower and The Word The Flesh and Father Smith.
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Detroit
Union
Woodward
Detroit 2
Bill Mauldin
Henry de Wolfe Smyth
Gen. Marshall
Henry A. Wallace
Ernie Pyle
Cass Timberlane
Black Rose
White Tower
the Flesh
Father Smith
GM mudslinging pamphlet linked to GM figure Henry Weaver
Editors nationwide received a Detroit Free Press editorial pamphlet titled Government by Violence Instead of by Law. It accuses labor groups, while the pamphlet credits Henry Grady Weaver, listed as GM consumer research director, as the private fundraiser and signer with Detroit address.
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Washington
General Motors Corp
Detroit Free Press
Henry Grady Weaver
W. Grand Blvd
Detroit
Weaver
America
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