Hall’s Grievance Leader Elected Local 319 President
Dave Hall elected president of Local 319 United Steelworkers at the biennial election held June 24. Tom Edwards was named vice president. Ed Zeuch, Paul Klosterman, and William Black were reelected to key posts. Other officers and committee members were chosen, with meetings and wage talks noted as in deadlock and a large ratification by Local 1728 members at Central Turners Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Hall
Aluminum Industries
United Steelworkers
Tom Edwards
Dept. 36
Ed Zeuch
Paul Klosterman
William Black
Ollie Gerwe
William Krebbs
Shirley Schroeder
Lou Myers
Ed Smith
Robert Ester
A. C. Dermer
Beekman Street
Central
Turners Hall
Company
Maurice Wigbels
Harvey Boland
Homer Sloan
William Ott
Raymond Bowman
John England
Ed Hatmaker
al Whitehouse
Steelworkers
James Gallagher
Philadelphia
Hobson R. Reynolds
Reynolds
Resolutions Committee
Negro Press
Run Earl
Gus Moser
Papa Gus
Stormy” Hirlinger
al Matre
Ralph Staub
Washington D. C
House of Representatives
Lunkenheimer Co Wage Pact Raises Local 1728 Rates
Local 1728 United Steelworkers won a wage agreement with Lunkenheimer Co. raising hourly pay. Effective July 5 an additional 5 cents and February 21 an extra 12 1/2 cents push top production worker rates to 1.56 dollars per hour, with the contract running through September 1949.
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United Steelworkers
Lunkenheimer Co
GOP Planks Weaker on Minorities in 1948 Platform
Philadelphia reports show Negro delegates angrily opposing the GOP platform. The document condemns lynching but offers no concrete federal action on poll tax and voting rights, marking a weaker stance than the 1944 platform.
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Philadelphia
GOP
Brighton Screw Picnic Hopes Amid Gripes And Trips
Local Brighton Screw members plan their annual picnic next month as the committee works through grievances before the event. Margie Witt returns from a farm sunburn, Walter Kuhn faces bachelor life, and Dorothy Shapiro preps for Canada vacation. A miscall on the House Committee report notes anti communist accusations and FEPC gaps in the platform.
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Brighton Screw
Margie Witt
Margie
Walter Kuhn
Somerset
Walter
Steel Union Targets Taft-Hartley Affidavit Clause
United Steelworkers CIO filed a brief in the 7th Circuit asking the NLRB to disregard Section 9h of Taft-Hartley in the Inland Steel case. The move is the first concerted challenge to the clause in this context.
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Washington
United Steelworkers
CIO
7Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Arthur Goldberg
Frank Donner
NLRB
Taft-Hartley
Inland Steel Co
Taft fMirney
CIO Pres
Philip Murray
Local 1861 Accepts 2-Year Contract With Can Co
At a June 25 special meeting Local 1861 voted unanimously to approve a new two-year contract with the American Can Co. The agreement provides a general 10 cent hourly raise retroactive to May 1 and includes a wage reopening clause in 1949. The reporter notes the settlement was unusually quick and amicable.
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USA
Bihre Riic
Tom Wrigley
Dorothy Shapiro
Canada
Dorothy
Nita Waits
Coney Island
House On American Activities Committee
FEPC
Steel Union
T-H
Albert
UNION
Covernment Square
Postoffice
Joseph Uehlein
William Kuntz
Dugan Lauck
Harry Paris
Charlie Graham
Len Terry
Albert Graham
Ed Kreimer
Earl Stamper
Panama
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