Women urged to vote for better living and child care
Mrs Louise Leonard McLaren PAC field representative told the U S Council that women must register and vote to push demands for price control health measures and child care. The meeting was held at Local 765 Norwood as CIO PAC plans women divisions to mobilize black canvassers.
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Louise Leonard McLaren
PAC
U. S. Council
Cio-Pac
McLaren
Union Members Stage Talent Night at Knowlton’s Corner
The United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America King Machine Tool Unit Local 766 held a Saturday night show and dance at UE headquarters Knowlton's Corner. An expanding social program program hopes to entertain while highlighting union interests with skits and songs. Master of ceremonies Howard Jones led performances featuring Walter Gerhardstein on piano Dude Taylor on guitar Robert Rafferty on violin John Leon solo vocal Jimmy Bolger electric guitar Mary Klosterman piano Mrs Walter Dupuy piano Matt Foy song and William Huff.
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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
King Machine Tool Unit
Howard Jones
Montgomery-Ward
Walter Gerhardstein
Dude Taylor
Robert Rafferty
John Leon
Jimmy Bolger
Mary Klosterman
Walter Dupuy
Matt Foy
William Huff
UAW at Wrights Waives Vacations for War Effort
United Automobile Workers at Wrights will work through the summer without vacations to boost production of plane engines. Union officials say the move follows a War Production Board appeal for greater output this year.
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United Automobile Workers of America
Wrights
War Production Board
Youth Enjoy Safe Social Evening With Dancing and Games
Several hundred youths danced and played pool at a supervised event with soft drinks. The relaxed gathering showed youths could have a good time in proper surroundings when given a chance.
Oakley Teens Open New Youth Center Run by Students
Foxhole Inc opened the teenage canteen in the old East Oakley School Madison Road drawing hundreds of youths. The two story building offers two dance floors a lounge card tables magazines a ping pong room and pool tables. Pat Clark and Blanche Frisch started the project last February turning it into a $5000 student managed enterprise with a $1.50 membership through June 1945.
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East Oakley School
Madison Road
Army Ordnance Group
Play Foxhole, Inc
Nickelodeon
Pat Clark
Withrow High School
Blanche Frisch
Pat
Board of Education
Old East Oakley School
Oakley
Pat and
Blanche
Withrow
Eleanor Slimp
Dick Bockstiegel
George Unverzagt
Jerry Storey
Oil Co Earnings Rise Sharply in Early 1944
Socony Vacuum Oil Co. reported four month earnings of 13 million dollars versus 9.5 million a year earlier at their annual meeting in New York.
WLB Rules Union Security Over Paternalism At Endicott Johnson
The National War Labor Board ruled that paternalistic policies do not bar union security. In Endicott Johnson Corp. Endicott New York the CIO union was entitled to security and checkoff despite a long related benefits program. The decision affirmed workers right to union security and a no strike pledge in wartime.
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Washington
National War Labor Board
Endicott Johnson Corp
Endicott
N. Y
Ind. Fur & Leather Workers
CIO
WLB
February manufacturing hours drop from January
Secretary of Labor Perkins reports that February saw about 1.25 million fewer man hours weekly in manufacturing plants than January. The average hours worked per man per week was 54.4, slightly above January.
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Washington
Perkins
Congress Urged to Push FEPC Funding and Labor Protections
Labor groups urge Congress to maintain a $500,000 FEPC continuation in the National War Agencies appropriations bill, warning the measure faces a Senate fight after House passage. Protests target the Senate Military Affairs committee against a forced labor bill linked to job changes and a Kilgore bill for protections during postwar reconversion.
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National War Agencies
FEPC
House
Senate
Senate Military Affairs Committee
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