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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1944
Page
3
In a New York Times letter, OPA chief Bowles warned profiteers not to expect price controls to vanish with peace. He urged continued tight pricing into reconversion, noting postwar inflation risk and the need for flexible policy to sustain full employment and high wages.
Washington The War Labor Board rules that an order directing Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp of Tucson to inform the plant bargaining agent the International Association of Machinists AFL of individual employee promotions and merit increases is consistent with collective bargaining practices.
Washington reports two Congressional Medal of Honor winners Lieut Ernest Childers and Technical Sergeant Charles E Kelly praised labor for victory on AFL sponsored program. They urged sustained production, cited Massive materials use and warned of waste, noting personal acts defending stores in Italy and the million dollar hill while emphasizing unity with war factories.
Detroit labor figures are urged to accept periodic cutbacks as the war program rises. Donald M. Nelson, WPB chairman, says labor must be counted among America’s great wartime forces and warns against assuming production urgency is over when shifts occur.
Local 235 United Rubber Workers CIO gained one million dollars in back pay and one million in wage increases after a National War Labor Board directive affecting the Des Moines Ordnance plant of the U S Rubber Co.
The National Political Action Committee will operate with CIO PAC in tandem but fund contributions personally, allowing non union leadership. CIO leaders will continue union voter registration, political education and GOTV while the new PAC seeks pro progressive candidates. The platform urges wage adequacy, price controls, higher taxes on top incomes, tax relief for dependents, rapid war contract termination, reconversion planning, and worker reemployment supports.
In the U S Senate Southern Democrats led a fierce attack on the Fair Employment Practice Committee funding. Senators Bilbo Austland and McClellan denounced FEPC and endorsed segregation while the amendment to strike FEPC from the war agency bill failed 38 to 21, with Republicans split.
CIO is registering voters in the South at a great rate and delegates to a Chicago conference held by the Douglas Washington Institute last weekend are noted by Jerry Maxey of the Greater Cincinnati Industrial Union Council. The event focused on educating Negro leaders in political action with Wesley Thompson of the UAW as institute president and R J Thomas and Congressman Dawson addressing mass meetings.
Washington reports demand for women workers in war production and other jobs is expected to rise under a new system of priority referral of male workers, according to WMC’s briefing to OWL.
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