How Big Is Big Business Booklet Explains Monopolies
CIO education unit releases a worker oriented booklet How Big Is Big Business explaining monopoly impact on everyday goods like milk and cigarettes. It shows 0.1 percent of corporations owning 52 percent of assets and argues for government action to check growth in monopoly power.
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CIO
Dept. of Education and Research
U.S
Crime Does Not Pay Movie Encourages Voter Turnout
A Hamilton County PAC showing of MGM’s Crime Does Not Pay film You the People at a block workers meeting promotes voting to curb machine politics. The piece urges union members to vote to prevent NAM bosses from winning with nonvoters.
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PAC
Hamilton County Pac
Citi
CIO
Taft
Hartley
NAM
1947 profit rate per dollar of sales reported by Fed Board
The Federal Reserve Board reports the average profit after taxes and other costs was 7.8 cents per dollar of sales in 1947, versus 6.7 percent in 1946.
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Federal Reserve Board
Net income of 297 firms rises 26 percent in first quarter
A New York Times survey shows 297 manufacturing corporations earned 26 percent more in the first quarter of 1948 than in the same period of 1947.
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New York Times
Three Top Posts Open In Labor Dept
The Labor Department shows vacancies in three of its five top jobs as of July 15. Assistant Secretary John T. Kmetz retired and returned to his United Mine Workers post. The secretary position is vacant due to Lewis B. Schwellenbach’s death. Undersecretary David A. Morse plans to quit August 2 to lead the International Labor Office.
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Washington
Labor Dept
John T. Kmetz
Kmetz
District 1
United Mine Workers
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
John Gibson
Michigan Cio
David A. Morse
Int
Labor Office
Beach Belles Toni Gaines and Jean Nathey bask in Florida sun
Photographs capture Toni Gaines and Jean Nathey enjoying sunlit Florida beaches, posing for Federated pictures. Quiet shore moments highlight two smiling figures amid warm coastal scenery.
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Beach
Toni Gaines
Jean Nathey
Florida Sun
Strike-Hit Plants Could Sue Unions Under Taft-Hartley
NLRB member James J. Reynolds Jr. indicated unions might face lawsuits under Taft-Hartley for losses alleged to be caused by strikes. The hint came during a hearing on the legality of CIU hiring halls on the Great Lakes. Miner Sargent, attorney for four Great Lakes shipping firms, proposed penalties for illegal strikes.
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Ers
NLRB
James J. Reynolds Jr
Reynolds
Nati Maritime Union
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