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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1947
Page
6
On Friday June 27 a retroactive to May 28 contract between Local 757 UE and Formica Insulation Co. was signed. It preserves union shop aims amid Taft Hartley era opposition and outlines six holidays a 10 cent wage raise retroactive to May 28 plus six month reopening for any up to 3 cent raise.
The article notes steps to prepare for a coming recession by educating members to think beyond personal interests, share work, and protect wages and hours. A job upgrading policy was added after a five year effort, with the 1946 contract largely unchanged. It calls for July 10 membership meetings and four delegates to the International Convention, listing candidates, and urges attendance to stay informed amidst media bias toward big business.
Local 765 United Electrical and Radio and Machine Workers invites members to sign up new members since June 23 with a July 20 deadline. Winners receive a paid week at UE District 7 summer school in Indian Lake. Nomination meetings set July 2 and 8 in Boston before the July 28 election. Arthur Graves named educational director for Local 765.
Fragmentary note urges registration to vote in November and mentions supporting PACs. Vague references to dollars and political action imply civic participation while lacking concrete details or dates.
Formica says his wife gave birth to a baby girl named Patricia. Cliff McGugin and Stanley Millard return after illness. Luther Richman and his car recover from a Kentucky accident. Russell Ferrell recuperates from an arm boil. Local 757 members extend sympathy to Wenzel Traurig on his mother’s recent death. Edward Lehman has a baby boy born last week.
Mae Rist reports on first shift events as Ray Bockelman hands out cigars, McKinley Davis travels to Jellico Tennessee to aid an ill mother, and Stanley Richter returns from illness. Hilary Lambert recovers from pneumonia, with Carl Flach Lou Block and Harry Kunkemoeller discussing a Columbus trip to protest the Van Aken bill and celebrate Governor Herbert veto.
Six members of Local 766 United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers were chosen as delegates to the UE District 7 Summer School set for July 20 to August 3 at Indian Lake. The group includes Donald Clift, Lucian Harmon, Vivian Reitmann, Jacob Koehler Jr., Ralph Henry and Herbert Duncan.
Wing of LuOCar, a local political group, has elected its members to proceed with candidate selection and proceed to the upcoming party committee meeting. The article notes internal strategy and upcoming scheduling for ballots and endorsements.
Russ Nixon reports labor archives a blacklist of 106 Democrats and 225 Republicans in the House and 20 Democrats and 48 Republicans in the Senate who voted to override President Truman. He says there were no excuses for the votes and calls for political destruction of all anti labor lawmakers.
District 7 union leaders and stewards gathered at a city meeting to stress individual one dollar donations to the political action committee. Willard Bliss spoke as international representative and Elmer Kauffman chaired Local 757. A film titled Deadline for Action was featured.
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