United Nations Hear FDR Talk On Jobs
President Roosevelt told 150 delegates at the United Nations conference in Bretton Woods that the talks aim to create jobs with decent pay after the war. The plan envisions an eight billion dollar world stabilization fund and a ten billion dollar world bank to boost trade, stabilize currencies, and keep employment high, opposing high tariffs and isolationist policies.
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United Nations
Bretton Woods
N.H
United Nations Financial Conference
Roosevelt
U.S
World Stabilization Fund
World Bank
Fund
Japan
U. S
Textile Seeks Wage Approval From War Labor Board
Local 210 Textile Workers of America has filed a form 10 with the War Labor Board to seek a wage increase on the third shift night differential from 5 to 10 cents if approved. Russell Quackenbush, local president, says the union also aims to expand the incentive bonus plan to include 20 more workers at Cincinnati Industries.
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Textile Workers of America
War Labor Board
Cincinnati Industries
Russell Quackenbush
WLB
Quackenbush
Cut Your Calories Girls Your Girdle Will Have To Last
Washington reports Mary Anderson director of the Women’s Bureau urges women to conserve girdles and corsets as rubber supplies stay tight. She notes women in war industries need extra support and urges careful use of their prewar “two way stretch” foundations.
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Washington
Susie
Mary Anderson
Women’s Bureau
Department of Labor
Wright Workers Get Overtime Restitution
Curtiss Wright airplane manufacturers in Lockland paid $4 974.26 in overtime restitution to twelve workers after misclassifying some as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act. H Paul Engle of the Wage Hour Division noted full compliance and voluntary payment.
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Lockland
Curtiss- Wright
H. Paul Engle
U. S. Department of Labor
Absenteeism Cures Cited By Herman
Ben Herman president of CIO's Industrial Union Council told a War Manpower Commission dinner that cures exist for legitimate and illegitimate absenteeism. He cited in plant feeding and housing for war workers as key remedies and urged labor management committees to push the message.
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Ben Herman
CIO
Industrial Union Council
War Manpower Commission
Netherland Plaza
Herman
Jobs Security and Precinct Effort Endorsed
Elston and William E Hess, described as isolationist before the war and reactionary during it, are cited amid calls for hard work. Ashcraft says the fight can be won but requires tough labor. Bill Hopper, political action director, urges full precinct and block organization with door knocking to register and mobilize voters.
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Elston
William E. Hess
Ashcraft
Bill Hopper
Hopper
Labor leaders critique Taft GOP platform in frank comments
AFL CIO voices from Jack Kroll to Madeline Schmidt condemn the platform as vague and pro big business. They oppose the platform’s isolationism, evasion of the Smith Connolly Bill, and lack of concrete labor proposals while calling for clear postwar reconversion and labor protections.
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Taft
Madeline Schmidt
Cincinnati Federation of Teachers
AFL
Smith-Connolly
Political Action Committee
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the Old Guard
John J. Hurst
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Jack Kroll
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Fred Rasser
Cincinnati _Restaurant Association
International Restaurant Association
Robert Spitzmiller
Uaw-Cio
Republican Party
Larry French
Typographical Union
AL Whitehouse
United Steelworkers of America
Bob Taft
Waldo Stager
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Joe
Hugo Ernst
Hotel & Restaurant Employees International
RFL
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