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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1944
Page
5
CIO President Philip Murray testified before a senate committee criticizing the Brewster Baily bill S 1864 proposing broad labor draft and forced labor companies. He urged democratic participation and demanded full manpower data before any national service action.
Captain Arthur Isaac of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Alliance drops a load of stale bagels over Germany during a bombing mission. Isaac, a veteran with three Distinguished Flying Crosses and the Air Medal, says he may be the only airman to drop bagels on the Reich. The bagels, sent by his mother, were hard enough to stun Nazis rather than feed them.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce backs a War Manpower Commission endorsed competition to crown the best war plant dad. The winner must have a son or daughter in service and an excellent year of attendance through May 15. Other war effort participation will boost scoring, in a morale boosting effort praised by Jonbn Baker, area director.
Sewell Avery, head of Montgomery Ward, files a $1,000,000 suit against Marshall Field owner of PM and the Chicago Sun over articles titled Sewell Avery vs The People. He also sues other publications including Spotlight mimeographed paper by United Retail Wholesale and Department Stores Employees Union CIO.
The Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. faces a federal civil suit over alleged schemes in wire production at its Indiana plant between 1940 and 1942. The government seeks several million dollars in damages for false vouchers certificates affidavits and depositions tied to defective wire sold to the government.
In Texas the O Daniel and CAA plan to back anti Roosevelt electors surfaced as his forces took control of the state Democratic nominating convention. Pro Roosevelt delegates protested and split the party while warning that Republican and fascist planning could tilt the electoral college toward Dewey.
Detroit announcer Rev. Claude Williams says the People's Congress of Applied Religion will meet July 22-24 in Detroit with strong labor endorsement. The CIO United Auto Workers voted support, Wayne County CIO Council endorsed, and delegates from eight Southern states participate. Williams leads a program to counter fascist activity among workers with progressive social doctrine.
The Enquirer editorial titled Class Struggle questions Gov Bricker's report that CIO would spend 5,000,000 on political action. Editor Wiley, a former Chamber of Commerce president, leads anti Roosevelt coverage amid heavy advertising-supported press.
Wallace J. Campbell recalls co operatives reaching 70 million members worldwide as they pass 100 years since Rochdale pioneers opened the first co op store. The piece notes growth amid attacks by trusts oil interests and press lords and highlights AFL CIO United Auto Workers support and future union-led expansion.
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