PAC rally plans and July meeting in Cincinnati
The Ohio CIO and PAC announce a July 21 meeting in Cincinnati 8 PM Room 206 Brotherhood Building to train workers for the 1948 campaign. A statewide rally is set for August 8 at Netherland Plaza Hotel with delegations from across Ohio.
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PAC
CIO
State Cio
Ohio Cio
Jack Methard
Hamilton County
Netherland Plaza Hotel
Cincinnati
Ohio- Pac
Jack Kroll
Lavelle
Ohio General Assembly
Paperworkers ratify contract at Gardner-Richardson plant
Members of Local 1009 United Paperworkers unanimously ratified a new agreement with Gardner-Richardson Paper Co. under Tilman Price, local president. The pact covers all production and maintenance staff, includes union security, stronger seniority, arbitration, job rights and progression, better vacations, and a wage reopener after 30 days.
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United Paperworkers
Gardner-Richardson Paper Co
Tilman Price
Policy makers of two parties in sharp contrast
In Philadelphia the GOP platform committee in a basement room showed little interest in CIO leader Van Bittner of the steel union, giving him only five minutes without questions. The Democratic reception differed, reflecting a stark contrast in treatment of the CIO during each convention.
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Philadelphia
CIO
GOP
van Bittner
Steel Union
Wagner for Congress Drive On Gains Labor Backing
Earl T. Wagner launched his congressional campaign with broad labor group support in Cincinnati. A second district labor committee will mobilize volunteers as Wagner, a former Cincinnati school board member and attorney general staffer, challenges incumbent Hess amid party debates on the Taft Hartley law and New Deal era policies.
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Earl T. Wagner
Aitie Gibson
Wagner
of Eagles and the Loyal Order of Moose
Hughes High School
Chase Law College
Westwood
Hess
Congress
Rent Control Director To Show Landlords How to Raise Rents
Lorain Ohio rent control director Glen P Bracy announced in a news release that landlords may visit the rent control office to learn how much they can legally raise rents. The release ties the policy to the 80th Congress and describes it as highly criticized.
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Lorain, O
Glen P. Bracy
Lorain-Elyria
Ford Workers Vote 88 943 to 1 214 in Union Shop Election
Ford Motor Co workers across 25 states backed the union shop by 88 943 to 1 214. Ford challenged 924 of 98 989 eligible voters, claiming plant voting was blocked and Taft-Hartley counts nonvoters as no votes. UAW-CIO holds the contract with Ford plants, and Walter Reuther appeared in person amid negotiations following July 9.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
NLRB
Ford
United Auto Workers (Cio
UAW
Lee
Walter P. Reuther
Labor's Choice John Y Brown to Head Kentucky Rally
John Young Brown, labor's choice for U S Senate, opens his campaign with a mass rally at 8 pm tonight in the Kenton County courthouse Covington. CIO leader Al Whitehouse urges Kentucky labor to register and vote August 7, praising Brown as a pro labor progressive and calling for repeal of Taft Hartley law.
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CIO
Robert A. Taft
Kroll
John Young Brown
United States
Kentucky
Kenton County
Third
Court Streets
Covington
al Whitehouse
Kentucky State Cio
Whitehouse
Brown
AFL
Miners
Railroad Brotherhoods
Louisville
Philadelphia
State Central Committee
Brent Spence
Fort Thomas
Spence
Charles Elwood Gordon
Benton
John A. Whitaker
Russellville
Republican Party
Congress
Republican Congress
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Jim Grey
New Deal
Carey
CIO Political Action Committee
Truman
Democratic Party
Ford Workers
Reuther
Labor
John Y. Brown
Cratic
Ralph H. Logan
Anchorage
Safety Bill Worth
Lebanon
Thomas J. Underwood
Lexington
Doug Hays
McDowell
J. C. Coldiron
Hazard
Joe B. Bates
Greenup
James S. Golden
Pineville
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