Consumer Reports finds car and appliance buying tips
Consumers Union rates the Chevrolet Ford 6 Plymouth and Ford V-8 by overall scores but notes open road use favors the V-8 and city driving suits the Chevrolet. Cookers show a new variable pressure gauge and four Not Acceptable brands due to burn hazards. Vacuum cleaners: uprights best for rugs, tanks for upholstery and curtains. Hoover 27 tops uprights, Electrolux XXX tops tanks. prefab housing criticized for high final cost, with Fuller circular aluminum prefab noted as promising but not available yet.
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Consumers Union
Chevrolet
Plymouth
Consumer Reports
Sears-Roebuck
Montgomery Ward
Simon Breines
Breines
May Reports
Electrolux
Union Square
New York City
Veterans Rights and GI Bill Guide for WWII Veterans
Sun Reporter invites veterans committees to send questions to the Veterans Reporter at The Sun 306 Bell Block Building 606 Vine Street. The GI Bill offers job training education loan guaranties and readjustment aid and the paper urges local committees to use this service to inform veterans and save time.
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The
SUN
Veterans Reporter
the Sun
Bell Block Building
Vine Street
Veterans Committee
Day Dress Men Serve on Veterans Committee
Members named Day Dress and other men join the Veterans Committee for ongoing duties at The Sun. The report notes these appointees will oversee veterans affairs and related events in the community.
Veterans Right to Vote Emphasized for Soldiers
A wartime editorial urges all veterans aged 21 to register and vote, arguing the GI Bill omits the right to vote and condemning Congress reactionaries who tried to cripple soldiers’ electoral power. It highlights civilian privilege to vote and calls for veterans to exercise their franchise.
Amputee Leaders Enroll in Political Action School
Two Purple Heart winners, Sgt. Frank Monico and Sgt. Gerald Gillerman, leaders of the War Amputees Car Committee, enroll in the National Citizens PAC School for Political Action Techniques to gain training for their campaign. Their bill to provide special equipment for amputees stalls before the House Veterans Affairs Committee. Both lost a leg in World War II while serving in the European theatre.
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National Citizens Pac
Frank Monico
Gerald Gillerman
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Uaw-Cio
Reuther Warns Price Gauge Saps UAW Victory
Walter Reuther, UAW international president, told Local 674 that wage gains depend on price controls and distribution reform. He urged full union mobilization, education in union principles, and a drive to 100 percent membership, warning of economic erosion without voting power. He cited Taft and warned against another depression threatening democracy.
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Walter Ih Reuther
United Auto Workers
UAW
Congress
Robert Taft
Reuther
Win Hamilton Foundry Pact
The United Steelworkers won a new contract with Hamilton Foundry and Machine Co. Local 3587 announced the deal. Wages rise about 18 per hour average with retroactive raises to March 18 1945 and a 10 cent per hour inequality adjustment, plus a night shift premium for the first time and back pay extending to March 4 1946.
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United Steelworkers
Hamilton Foundry and Machine Co
al Whitehouse
Whitehouse
al Jordan
William Anderson
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Veterans’ Rights
By James W. O’brien
Veterans Committees
Veterans Committee To the Sun
Federated Press Pattern Service
Ave. of the Americas
New York
Kathman’s
Goodyear Shoe Repair
West Fifth St
Dr. Scholls
Win Hamilton Foundry Pact
Stern Vedyssilern
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