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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1949
Page
1
A 1950 partisan appeal urges CIO members to register to vote and donate to political action committees. It denounces Taft Hartley, attacks opponents in Congress, and calls for a mobilization to ensure a broad labor progam in November elections.
Mayor Cash will appoint a commission of prominent citizens to study Cincinnati utility rates after a council vote. The move seeks fair rates to attract industry, with five Charter members supporting and four organization Republicans opposing, who urged accepting 1948 50 and 1944 46 increases.
A 16 year old Cincinnati girl barred from a Washington trip because she was Black prompted two Democratic reps to urge the House to condemn the action by the Ohio American Legion Auxiliary. They urged a record disapproval of the discrimination while noting Ohio had said No to FEPC. The column cites irony in pushing tolerance while ignoring discrimination at home.
CIO President Philip Murray urged Senator Kenneth McKellar to approve the full ECA budget for next year, arguing that higher aid strengthens European recovery, democracy, and free labor movements, and that cuts risk increased Communist influence and a dependent Europe. Murray notes postwar gains in non Communist unions and credits the Marshall Plan with stabilizing labor movements in France, Italy, and elsewhere. He warns a cut could hinder recovery and widen political instability across Western Europe.
The Ohio State Senate passed H B 179 and H B 273 by 26 to 2, overriding prior rulings and setting aside Supreme Court decisions against public housing. Governor Lausche supportive, real estate lobbyists sidelined, Ferguson and Mechem led Republican opposition.
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