Hellkamp Elected chair in Cincinnati CIO council
Ed Hellkamp of United Auto Workers Local 674 was unanimously elected to lead the Cincinnati CIO Industrial Union Council replacing Jerry Maxey who left to take a full time UAW post in Detroit. Hellkamp, a longtime organizer and former first secretary of the council, has served as bargaining committee chair at the Chevrolet plant.
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Ed Hellkamp
United Auto Workers
Greaver
Cincinnati Cio Industrial Union Council
Jerry Maxey
UAW
Detroit
Hellkamp
Norwood
Chevrolet
William Easley
United Steelworkers
Charles Burnett
Raymond Hall
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Talmadge Zipperer
CIO Proposes Tax Policy Changes in Ten Minute Hearing
Washington report details the CIO brief to the House Ways and Means Committee outlining tax reforms. It calls for higher personal exemptions, adjusted corporate taxes, and elimination of excise taxes while criticizing rich loopholes.
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Washington
CIO
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ruttenberg
Federated Press
Kermit Eby
House Armed Services Committee
James B. Carey
Senate Subcommittee On
CIO PAC proposes army of volunteers to back Taft-Hartley repeal
CIO President Philip Murray outlined a national push by the CIO Political Action Committee to repeal Taft-Hartley. The plan calls for a million citizen volunteers to advocate voting in favorable blocks and a registration drive expected to mobilize about 15 million CIO members and families. The drive includes a major fund raising campaign and national conferences to focus on registration and contributions.
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Washington, D.C
Congress
CIO
Philip Murray
Political Action Committee
Murray
PAC
Jack Kroll
CIO International
United Steelworkers of America
Labor Day Action Framed Around PAC Day
A fragment notes a plan to dedicate Labor Day to political action and organize PAC Day. It references the Taft Hartley law and Congress, signaling a campaign or civic event tied to labor politics.
UAW Housing Study Spurs Major Financing Push
In Racine Wisconsin two years after Dist. Council 8 United Auto Workers launched a housing study the Cooperative Homes Assn reports near completion of a 2 to 3 million financing program with major national insurance companies. It has secured land with 372 lots for a housing project named Green Crest.
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Racine
Wisc
Dist. Council 8
United Auto Workers (Cio
Cooperative Homes Assn
Green Crest
Murray Defies Taft Law Ban on Political Press Comment
The CIO News July 12 printed a front page appeal urging Baltimore voters to defeat a labor-hostile candidate in the July 15 special election. President Murray defended labor freedom of speech and pressed for changes to the Taft-Hartley act, criticizing its ban on expenditures by unions in campaigns.
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Murray
Washington
CIO News
Baltimore
Congress
Philip Murray
Sen
Robert A. Taft
R. O
Carl A. Hatch
D. N.M
George Aiken
R. Vt
Hatch
Citizens unable to meet $3 dues amid high living costs
The passage notes that hundreds of thousands oppose current domestic and foreign policies and cannot pay a $3 due because of rising living costs and shrinking incomes.
Wage Cuts Spur Labor Bill Under Taft Hartley Act
In Chicago under the Taft Hartley act undercover wage cutting is growing as a tactic among labor and management groups. The piece notes escalating actions and the legal framework shaping this trend.
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Chicago
Harvester plant workers protest pay cuts and new operation rules
Stewards at Melrose Park Inter national Harvester plant report management replaced a machine to push a new operation method, lowering top rate from 25 to 18 dollars. A worker shift from 53 to 56 pieces erodes base pay and bonuses, cutting weekly wages by about ten dollars. In Ohio, the General Electric plant in Tiffin shut down the day shift for one day to oppose a broad cut in piecework rates ordered after the Taft Hartley law, under contract with the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers CIO.
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Melrose Park
International Harvester Co
Harvester
Tiffin
General Electric
United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers
CIO
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