UE Council to Run Weekly SUN Coverage for CIO Action
The Greater Cincinnati UE Council votes to cease regular meetings and focus delegates on CIO Council work until the election. They will publish weekly UE and UK political action news in The SUN, replacing monthly ADVANCE issues, while continuing ADVANCE features and national UE coverage. They will fund The SUN and push subscriptions for members in service.
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Greater Cincinnati Industrial Union Council
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Advance
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CIO Council
Truman Secures Rail Unions Backing for Democratic Ticket
Washington FP reports Truman earned railroad workers' support while on the Interstate Commerce Committee. He managed railroad materials and pushed an eight cent hourly raise for non operating unions, boosting his appeal to average railroad employees and aiding the Democratic ticket.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Harry S. Truman
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Truman
Union Charts Reconversion
Local unions of United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers fill in postwar questionnaires from the national office. The survey aims to map postwar prospects, job creation for war workers and veterans, and reconversion plans covering production, employment, government financing, seniority, veterans, and women.
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New York
United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers
CIO
International Union
Stewards Party Slated for July 29 at Mt Airy Civic Club
Stewards of Local 757 United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America at Formica Insulation Co hold their annual festivities Saturday July 29 at Mt Airy Civic Club. Owen Albert chairs the entertainment committee with Carl Flach Joseph Vanderbrink and Cecelia Engelke. Executive board members will be guests.
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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Formica Insulation Co
Mt. Airy Civic Club
Owen Albert
Carl Flach
Joseph Vanderbrink
Cecelia Engelke
Veterans Welfare Advisors Named by United Electrical
President Albert J. Fitzgerald of United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers (CIO) named a three member Servicemen and Veterans Welfare Committee to aid 700000 UK workers. Vice presidents Michael Fitzpatrick James McLeish and Paul Seymour were named to the national committee. The panel, authorized at a recent UE executive board meeting, aims to ensure returning servicemen face the best possible civilian life transition.
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New York
Albert J. Fitzgerald
United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers
CIO
Seymour
General Executive Board
Fitzgerald
Dewey Seen as President and Prosecutor by Emspak
Julius Emspak told UE stewards and officers that Governor Thomas E. Dewey would be a good prosecutor if he became president. He argued Dewey never rose above the cops and robbers level he achieved in New York as a special prosecutor a few years ago.
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Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Julius Emspak
Sailor Back Roosevelt Aid in European War
Abraham Biderman a Merchant Marine member from Cincinnati says fighting men in Europe favor President Roosevelt. He notes troops helped land in Normandy and urges reelection to finish the war and secure peace. Emspak and Decavitch of the VE union denounce the GOP platform and push for mobilized vote to defeat fascism and support reconversion to peace.
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Abraham Biderman
Ardmore Avenue
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Merchant Marine
England
Scotland
Cincinnati
Biderman
Maritime Union
Normandy
United States
Rosevelyt
Labor Endorses Barkley and Spence in Kentucky
The Ken ton and Campbell County Labor Political Action Committee endorsed Senator Alben W. Barkley and Congressman Brent Spence this week. The backing came from CIO AFL Railway Brotherhoods and other unions praising their records supporting progressive legislation for workers nationwide and in Kentucky. Henry Seibert and L. D. Webster cited the approval.
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Alben W. Barkley
Brent Spence
Kenton
Campbell County
WLB Hearing Highlighted Rising Living Costs for UE Members
Wives and children of General Electric and Westinghouse workers testified before the National War Labor Board in Washington on July 24 to press for higher wartime wages. The UE framed the demand with family budgets, noting increased costs for clothing food and medical care as evidence of inflation and urging a guaranteed weekly wage and wage stabilization to ensure full employment and production.
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National War Labor Board
United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers
CIO
General Electric
Westinghouse
Walter Zack
Irvington
N. J
Zack
West Bloomfield
Robert
Barbara
Albert J. Fitzgerald
Julius Emspak
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