Hamilton Elects CIO Leader as Mayor in City Election
Hamilton selects CIO Man Hamilton as mayor after he starts a new term on the City Council. Beckett, financial secretary of Local 955 United Auto Workers and CIO Council vice president, mentioned as a local CIO figure.
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Ed Beckett
Hamilton
O. Cio
Cincinnati
Beckett
United Auto Workers
Ohio Cio Council
Ray Tucker
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
the Sun
Major CIO Unions Map Plans For Wage Fight
The CIO actions target wage increases to counter inflation with two of the Big Three unions, UE and UAW, announcing plans to seek pay rises for about 300,000 workers while USW readiness grows. The Packinghouse Workers also signals wage demands as Congress stalls price controls and steel profits surge.
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CIO
United Steelworkers
United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers
New York
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers
Detroit
UAW
Reuther
America
Industry
Congress
USW
Philip Murray
Steel Labor
United Packinghouse Workers
Food prices soar past prewar levels in 1947
Washington report shows latest BLS samples indicate eatables on November 15, 1947 cost 102.7 percent more than in prewar years. The food price index has risen 8 percent in the past year and 39.2 percent since price controls ended in June 1946.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Civic Group Seeks Weatherly Retirement and Labor Peace Board
The Queen City Association of Cincinnati urged Chief Weatherly's retirement and endorsed a labor management board to promote industrial peace. Al Whitehouse led the push for the board, modeled after Toledo and Louisville, while citing inadequate crime work and training under Weatherly. The group favors younger, progressive police leadership and broader civic representation.
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Cincinnati
Toledo
Louisville
Queen City Association
City Council
al Whitehouse
District 25
United Steelworkers of America
Association
Weatherly
Whitehouse
Robert A. Taft
CIO Wins Southern Gains By A Margin Of Two To One
In Operation Dixie labor drive since 1946 amid Taft Hartley struggles, CIO led 123,552 to 67,661 in 2,312 NLRB elections through Aug 22 1947. AFL won 758 elections to CIO 692. mixed ballots favored unions or no union in several four corner races.
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CIO
AFI
IWLRB
AFL
UE-CLO Leader Mistakes Detective For Criminal and Is Shot Fatally
William Jones 49 former UE-761 leader and CIO Council delegate died after mistaking plainclothes Detective Jerome Helton for a criminal. Jones struck Helton with a bottle. Helton fired, Jones died later at a hospital. Local 761 describes Jones as helpful and well liked, with funeral arrangements through Local 761 and the Eagles.
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Ue-Clo
CIO Council
Jerome Helton
Walnut Street
Helton
Jones
The
Eagles
Reidlinger
Green Street
Local 761
Inside Story on Prices Profits Wages and Politics
The CIO News staff previews headlines on rising prices profits and wage talks. Prices rise per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics with no near halt. profits hit a postwar peak though slightly down from 1947. wage talks loom as steel auto electrical unions push for raises and bargaining power grows across industries.
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CIO News
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Cio Man
Labor Peace Board
Opera
Oklahoma
Kentucky
South Carolina
William
Samaritan
Tucker
Allegheny City, Pa
Union
Usacio
Auto Union
Walter Reuther
Electrical Union
Jim Matles
General Electric
CIO For Union
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