Unemployment Rise Prompts CIO Critique and Housing Debate
May unemployment climbs by 300,000 to 3,289,000 with fringe cases left out. CIO warns of a downward spiral unless industry cuts prices wages and profits to boost worker purchasing power. The CIO seeks wage gains and benefits in talks with U S Steel starting June 15. Senate Taft-Hartley debate and housing bill opposition by Dixiecrats and Republicans milestone debates and public reaction noted. Representatives Madden and others challenge housing skeptics while Gary workers demand homes.
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CIO News
Stanley Ruttenberg
CIO
Washington T
United Steelworkers
U.S. Steel
Robert Taft
Ohio
Stim
Senate
United States
Taft
Congress
House Banking Committee
House Rules Committee
Washington
Representatives Church
R. Nl
Nicholson
R. Mass
Rules Committee
Ray Madden
D. Ind
Madden
Gary
Council Cancels Summer Meetings and Addresses Labor Issues
The Cincinnati Industrial Union Council voted June 15 to skip meetings in July and August, resuming in September. Frank Grosser urged local credit unions as low interest loan sources run by neighbors. John Dehner asked council support for Brewery Workers taxes and 3.2 beer proposals while Council said relief checks would be issued and a Labor Veterans meeting in Chicago would get a representative, Ray Sowder.
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Cincinnati Industrial Union Council
Frank Grosser
The
Times- Star
Grosser
Cincinnati
John Dehner
Dehner
U.S
National Cio
William Black
Labor Veterans
Chicago
Ray Sowder
USA
CIO Forms One Big Phone Union
In Chicago on June 13 the Communication Workers of America merged 230000 telephone workers with CIO affiliation, absorbing about 90000 more from the Telephone Workers Organizing Committee. A potential 600000 telephone workers are now linked to CIO. Philip Murray denounced AT&T as a monopoly and pledged to defeat its withdrawal from recognition. He charged a cold war by American business and urged a constitutional amendment to bar communist dominated unions from CIO boards.
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Chicago
CIO
Communication Workers of America
Telephone Workers Organizing Committee
CWA
Joseph Beirne
CIO Pres
Philip Murray
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
U.S
At&t
Murray
U.S. Steel
United Steelworkers
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Guadalcanal
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Fulton Lewis, Jr
Mutual Network
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Public Opinion Quarterly
Princeton University
Lewis
OPA
Fulton Lewis
Tom Dewey
John Crosby
N. Y. Herald Tribune
GOP
Crosby
Republican National Committee
P. S. Fulton Lewis
Hoover
Sword of Management
CIO International
Union Water
United Paperworkers of America - Cio
Commercial Square
Main
Kathman’s
Goodyear Shoe Repair
West Fifth St
Dr. Scholls
John Schwarz
E. McMillan
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