Wasted Manpower Editorial Calls for Better Use of Labor
The Sun argues against drafting civilians for wartime plants. It urges using existing manpower tools and a labor management government conference, citing CIO president Philip Murray and Senate War Investigating Committee chair Mead to show waste in arsenals and yards.
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America
Congress
Philip Murray
CIO
Mead
Senate War Investigating Committee
Cincinnati
Are Jobs Un-American Taft argues for industry kept economy
Senator Taft contends that seeking sixty million postwar jobs would be un American and require government interference. He favors private industry handling employment with little regulation, warning mass unemployment invites government control and demagogy, while full employment strengthens democracy and guards freedoms.
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Sen
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Sen. Taft
A Fitting Bettman Memorial
Alfred Bettman who died this week urged labor unions to back city planning and housing reform. He believed CIO should join the Citizens Planning Association to help wipe out Cincinnati slums and promote decent housing, quietly guiding CIO leaders to stay out of the limelight.
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Alfred Bettman
CIO
Cincinnati
Bettman
Citizens Planning Association
Bettman Memorial Urges Unity for Cincinnati Plans
The passage urges all supporters of a better city to unite in carrying on Alfred Bettman’s work. CIO involvement and competing forces are noted as distractions, but the best memorial would be coordinated effort to implement his plans for Cincinnati.
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CIO
Cincinnati
Alfred Bettman
Powell
Rankin deemed unfit for un Americanism panel
The Philadelphia Record argues Congressman Rankin embodies white supremacy and anti Negro bias. It urges investigation by the new un Americanism committee, cites his Dies Committee role, and questions GOP support while demanding Rankin be excluded from any panel and isolated.
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Philadelphia Record
John E. Rankin
Rankin
Adam Clayton Powell
New York
Dies
Dies Committee
Congress
Powell
William Dawson
Ill
Lusby is Elected Guild President
Russell Lusby was elected president of the Cincinnati Newspaper Guild Local 9, formerly vice-president and the first Times-Star man in that role. William Hahnemann of the Post won vice-president, Margaret Arnim secretary, Clifford Witzmann treasurer, and James Burnett of the Times Star assistant treasurer. Local 9 includes the Post Unit, Times Star Unit, and Enquirer Unit, with 1945 officers named for two units. the Enquirer Unit had not yet elected.
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Cincinnati Newspaper Guild
Russell Lusby
Lusby
Times-Star
William Hahnemann
The
Post
Margaret Arnim
Clifford Witzmann
James Burnett
Times Star
Cincinnati Guild
American Newspaper Guild
Bill Lampert
Clarence Heitzmann
Elmer Heitkamper
Cliff Smith
Virgil Brewsaugh
James Murphy
Jean Murrell
Enquirer
Reinstate Rainey Urged by Southern Educators
In Nashville Tennessee 95 college presidents and professors from 11 southern states urged immediate reinstatement of Dr Homer P Rainey as University of Texas president. The Southern Conference for Human Welfare issued a statement calling Rainey ouster a serious blow to the university and to southern education and freedom today.
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Nashville
Tenn
Homer P. Rainey
University of Texas
Texas
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
Rainey
Law unions must lead in democratic way in labor fight
A California Supreme Court ruling denounces denying Negro workers membership in a union and upholds equal terms for all. The piece urges unions to reform from within to uphold democracy and prevent external interference. It notes the court called a closed shop incompatible with public policy and warns unions must clean their own ranks or faced with outsiders.
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State Supreme Court of
California
America
Supreme Court
United States
No-Strike Pledge Urged by UAW West Coast Chief
Cyril O Halloran urged UAW members to vote Yes in the referendum on the no strike pledge saying uninterrupted production is essential in wartime. In a separate vote Chrysler Local 230 members approved the pledge by over 63 to 1 in a secret straw ballot.
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Los Angeles
United Auto Workers
CIO
Cyril O'Halloran
West Coast
UAW
O'Halloran
International Union
Chrysler Local 230
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