Taft Support Sought to Push FEPC Bill in Congress
Community leaders urge Sen Robert A Taft to back a permanent Fair Employment Practice Committee to advance the FEPC bill. Wire campaigns are planned as Cincinnati firms reportedly refuse Negro hiring beyond maintenance despite wartime labor needs. FEPC director McKnight calls Cincinnati conditions worse than many Southern cities and warns war production suffers. In Washington a GOP Southern coalition challenges the Dies Committee successor.
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Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
Congress
A. Phillip Randolph
Progressive Citizens Committee
Randolph
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Taft
Sen
Fair Employment Practices Committee
FEPC
William T. McKnight
Washington
Dies Committee
Nan Sherman Marries Edwin Emory Michaelis in Cincinnati
Nan Sherman former PAC field organizer announces her marriage to Edwin Emory Michaelis an industrial engineer from New York City. They plan to live in Cincinnati, with best wishes from friends.
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Nan Sherman
PAC
Bill Hopper
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Edwin Emory Michaelis
New York City
Cincinnati
Nan
Rule of the Week Cross Streets at Intersections
A public advisory reminds pedestrians to cross only at intersections or marked crosswalks. The guidance emphasizes staying in crosswalks, obeying signals, and avoiding mid block crossings for safety.
Industrialist urges Cincinnati to attract wage earners and plan growth
Morris Edwards, former Chamber of Commerce executive vice president and now Street Railway Co. VP, warned Kiwanis Club that Cincinnati risks economic decline unless it adds large industrial sites, improves transportation and housing, and secures Mill Creek valley water supply. He noted long slow industrial growth since 1919 and called for zoning, site planning, and targeted development to revive the economy.
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Cincinnati
Morris Edwards
Chamber of Commerce
Edwards
The
Street Railway Co
Kiwanis Club
Mill Creek
Indiana CIO warns of looming sales tax drive
Indiana CIO Council warns lawmakers and public reactionaries push for a general sales tax as state revenues may drop after wartime peak. Bulletin cites cigarette tax as first step and argues any gross tax burden falls on workers. notes twenty legislators belong to organized labor.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Cio Council
Indiana
CIO
Bulletin
Organized Labor
Mrs Gladys Forkner Dies After Long Illness
Mrs Gladys Forkner wife of a local resident died Sunday at a city hospital after a long illness. She is survived by three children Ronald Forkner a trooper, and Betty and Robert who are in school.
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Ronald Forkner
Betty
Robert
Must Clear Slums Says NHA Head
Washington—National Housing Administrator John B Blandford Jr urged Congress to create a single overall housing authority to clear slums and provide low cost decent housing. Testifying to a Senate postwar housing subcommittee he warned current house production fails to meet varied income needs.
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NHA
Washington
John B. Blandford, Jr
Cincinnati
Congress
Senate
Robert A. Taft R
Blandford
Belgians Armed Forces Debate Resistance Gun Policy
A discussion arises over whether Belgian resistance groups should have been allowed to keep firearms after World War II. The remark notes potential harm if such arms persisted, suggesting they could have targeted Nazis.
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