Conference To Complete Retail Organizing Plans
The National Amalgamated Clothing Workers ACW to hold a three day Washington conference January 27 to 29 to finish plans for a broad retail organizing drive. Leaders include Arthur Hartmann and Jack Kroll with Jo seph Lepate and Walter Grainger guiding efforts in Cincinnati and New York Saks Fifth Avenue and Bonwit Teller moves toward union representation.
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Washington
Arthur Hartmann
Cincinnati Joint Board
ACW
Cincinnati
Jack Kroll
Walter Grainger
Ben Herman
Joseph Lepate
Jacob Potofsky
White Plains
New
Saks
Porter Speaks At Memorial Dinner Honoring FDR
Paul Porter former OPA administrator delivered the keynote at a Cincinnati ADA chapter dinner honoring Franklin D Roosevelt. Morse Johnson served as master of ceremonies for about 20 CIO leaders as 400 guests heard Porter on Inflation Deflation and the 81st Congress. Mayor Cash spoke after the banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porter
Fdr
Paul Porter
OPA
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Cincinnati
The
Americans For Democratic Action
Morse Johnson
Cincinnati Cio
Albert D. Cash
Washington
ADA National Board
Organization
ADA
Hubert Humphrey
U.S
Minnesota
Carl I. Stix
Seven Delegates Honor Kaminsky at Chicago Testimonial
A testimonial dinner in Chicago honors Joseph Kaminsky retiring as head of ACW western division. Cincinnati delegates include Marco Meccia Henry Seibert Walter Grainger Joseph Lepate and Henry Schroeder Anna Roller and Barbara Frank. Meccia gave Kaminsky a hand-painted scroll from Cincinnati Clothing Workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiven Jean
Chicago
Jos@ph. Kaminsky
Long-Tim
ACW
Cincinnati
Marco Meccia
Henry Seibert
Walter Grainger
Joseph Lepate
Joint Board
Henry Schroeder
Anna Roller
Barbara Frank
Meccia
Kaminsky
Cincinnati Clothing Workers Receive 55140 in Insurance Benefits
Cincinnati Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers reported 1948 benefits totaling 55140 for sick hospital death coverages plus 225 hospital cases among 476 processed policies. Retirement payments ranged from 22 to 37.50 monthly with 55 retirements. 14 cases await processing for next month.
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Cincinnati Clothing
Cincinnati Joint Board
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Arthur Hartmann
Joint Board
Amalgamated Insurance Association
Ben Herman
Cincinnati Clothing Workers
Amalgamated Insurance Plan
As- Su Prgt
Emmoyers .F.bers
Cincinnati CIO Council Sees Dimes Drive Support Grow
The Cincinnati CIO Council and affiliated unions manned a Fountain Square booth and downtown street corners on January 25, 1949, aiding the March of Dimes drive. Under Joseph Lepate, several Steelworkers and Brewery Workers members volunteered, with Telephone Workers counting donations and preparing envelopes.
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Hamilton County
Cincinnati Cio Council
Fountain Square
Joseph Lepate
Clothing Workers
William Black
The
Cincinnati
Dustrial Union Council
Frank Jenson
Chester Morgan
Joseph Davis
Sam Stokes
Ray Sowder
Brewery
John Dehner
Jean Schlotman
Betty Aders
Betty Rose
Sue Moran
Irene Wainz
Hazel Morris
Wanda Clifford
Jean Smith
Ruth Honkamp
Anna Mae Davis
Eleanor Shehane
Dorothy McLeod
Cathryn Tomlinson
Ernestine Lochnane
Rita Brown
Virginia Born
Dell Skirvin
Emily Budd
Rosemary Dorsch
Nell McKee
CIO
AUTW
R. W. Schellenberg
Textile Workers Win Major Victory in Celanese Rome Strike
Stetson Kennedy reports a four month strike victory by the Textile Workers Union CIO against Celanese Corp in Rome Georgia. The 2500 employees secured a 15 cent hourly wage increase and a union contract breaking a long standing regional wage differential. The win signals potential wider effects on southern labor organization and national wage equity debates.
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South
Rome
Celanese Corp. of America
Textile Workers Union, Cio
AFL
CIO
Southern
Celanese Corp
Justice Dept
New England
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Rah
Ttuan
National Labor Relations Board
CIO Council
Retail Clerks Organizing Committee
Hartmann
Cooper’s
Mill Street
Lockland
Infa ‘Ile Paralysis Fund
Stetson Kennedy
Federated Press
Leace
Anri- Unio
Mergard Appliance Co
Colerain
West Fork Kirby
Lamp Department
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