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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1949
Page
4
The SUN A Liberal Weekly lists editorial details for The Greater Cincinnati Industrial Union Council CIO. It notes second class matter June 30 1944 at Cincinnati Ohio and provides editor office address and contact information. It indicates a yearly price of $2.00.
The Ohio CIO Council wraps up its tenth annual convention outlining ongoing goals for coordinated information management. Delegates emphasize organizing efforts and strengthening state CIO collaboration and standards across agencies.
The CIO convention vows to aid shattered Europe and establish a community services program for hospital care family counseling and legal aid. It backs federal housing aid calls for employment regardless of race color or creed and for an anti lynching bill. Leaders from agriculture praise cooperation with workers and a push for fair farm prices and cooperative movements. Local support includes Ohio Boys Village aid pledged by a Masillon unit. The piece frames CIO as charitable idealistic and labor driven with a pledge to act against injustice.
The District 7 Council United Electrical Workers awarded 46 diplomas at a banquet Sunday night for students who attended the UE school held Jan. 15 and 16. Hy Lumer directed classes on unemployment compensation and CIO and UK legislative program. George H. Thompson and L. R. Cousineau presented two sides of Workmen's Compensation laws. Movies on the strike situation through 1946 and 1947 were shown after the banquet.
Texas court rules peaceful picketing is lawful in Alamo Express Co. v. Intl. Bhd. of Teamsters AFL. The decision hinges on First and Fourteenth Amendment protections, holding the state statute against misrepresentation and broader nonmajority strikes as unconstitutional.
Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show 1948 strikes total about 3,300 stoppages with just under two million workers and 34 million man-days lost. 1947 saw 3,700 strikes affecting 2,170,000 workers and 34.6 million man-days lost.
Greater Cincinnati hospitals received 2 887 370 dollars last year from Hospital Care Corporation for services to Blue Cross Hospital Care members. Total payments to all hospitals for hospitalized members reached 6 130 218 dollars, about 92 percent of income used for current hospitalization expenses, with service costs up 25 percent and further costs anticipated.
The 1948 record payment for members hospital bills exceeded the 1947 outlay of 5 014 384 dollars. Stuart cited high costs such as penicillin treatment costing 1 094 15 dollars. He noted full payment for all hospital services for admitted members plus a five dollar daily room credit.
CIO political chief Jack Kroll says the Supreme Court rulings upholding state anti closed shop laws prove labor faces a new test. He warns anti union security statutes empower anti labor legislatures to ban closed shops and similar provisions and calls for intensified political action to oust legislators in 15 states.
More than three million workers were covered by health welfare or retirement fund plans under collective bargaining contracts in mid 1948, more than twice the early 1947 total.
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