Inside Story Record Of 80th Congress
The piece describes how the Inside Story Record portrays the 80th Congress as harmful to wage hour rules social security and Labor Department powers while praising limited housing civil rights and health aid. It notes postwar strikes by English longshoremen and U S maritime unions facing injunctions under the Taft Hartley act and mentions a presidential fact finding board.
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Labor Department
Aid
U.S.A
Britain
Taft-Ellender-Wagner
Labor win limits scope of Taft-Hartley ruling
Supreme Court upholds Sections 9f 9g of the Taft-Hartley act while ruling Section 304 does not apply to CIO News endorsement case. CIO President Philip Murray vows continued legal challenge. ruling highlights balance between union press and political action. Bobby Moran, a wheelchair user, earns respect for frontline picketing with Local 17 as morale soars and 95 percent turnout is noted. The union extends picketing to seven days a week and congratulates new spouses Al Bono and Don Biery on their June 19 marriages.
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Stanley Reed
CIO
Local 17
al Bono
Don Biery
Ann Finn
Bono
Federal Reserve Sees Profits Rising Through 1948
The Federal Reserve Board predicted higher U S corporation profits in 1948 than 1947 and continued prosperity for coupon clippers as dividends rise. It expects undistributed profits and business borrowing to stay high, while high prices burden ordinary families with one in four overspending income last year.
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Washington
U. S
Federal Reserve Board
Living Costs Rise Further in May Report
The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows living costs up .9 percent in the month ending mid May. Costs stand 72.3 percent above the 1935-39 average, reflecting a continued inflationary trend.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Housing Fight Fails as Douglas Meets CIO Delegation
Congresswoman Helen Gahagen Douglas discusses housing with CIO veterans during a Washington visit. On the Capitol steps she is pictured with Ray Sowder of Cincinnati Steelworkers and Ohio CIO secretary treasurer William Lavelle. The housing bill effort is reported as unsuccessful.
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Helen Gahagen Douglas
California
Congress
CIO
Washington
Capitol
Ray Sowder
Cincinnati Steelworker
William Lavelle
Ohio Cio
Douglas
Major Wage Settlements Hit Rubber Industry Workers
Akron reports the United Rubber Workers CIO won an ll an hour raise for 23 000 Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. workers. Cleveland notes the CIO secured an ll hourly increase for 28 000 Goodyear employees in a two year contract to Feb 10 1950 with one year reopen. New York coverage says Consolidated Edison workers received an average th an hour raise retroactive to Jan 1 in arbitration.
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United Rubber Workers
CIO
Lle
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
New York
Consolidated Edison Co
GOP Labor Vote Pitch Dismissed by Republicans
CIO proposals to repeal Taft Hartley and expand social and labor benefits faced a cool reception at the GOP convention in Philadelphia. Van Bittner charged the 80th Congress with breaking labor pledges, insisting the party bears responsibility for inflation.
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GOP
Congress
Philadelphia
CIO
van Bittner
Resolutions Committee
Bittner
Republican Party
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