Auto Workers Win Strike Authority At Incandescent Light
Local 17 United Auto Workers members vote unanimously to authorize a strike if Incan descent Light and Steve Co. stall on bargaining. They rejected a 1 cent day shift raise and a 10 cent night shift bump, demanding 18.5 cents and back pay, with broader contract items at issue. Ann Finn and Edward Hill selected for convention delegation as members return from service.
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United Auto Workers
Incandescent Light
Steve Co
Francis Garnett
Schmidt Elected 392 President of Trailmobile Local
Trailmobile Local 392 of the United Auto Workers elects officers for 1946 with Willard Schmidt as president and Chester Nichols re elected financial secretary. Clifton Thomas Richard Hamm and John Surkamp named trustees. other posts left vacant for a future meeting. Installation set for March 10 at Central Turners Hall. Local reports $2400 collected for March contributions to General Motors strikers. weekly food drive continues.
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Trailmobile
United Auto Workers
Willard Schmidt
Chester Nichols
Clifford Thomas
Richard Hamm
John Surkamp
Harry Burke
Fred Saylor
Albert Chance
Brownie McCoy
Central
Turners Hall
Walnut Street
Cincinnati
General Motors
Will Repeat 7605s Saturday Dance at Union Hall
Last Saturday night Local 765 held a dance at the union hall 2408 Harris Ave Norwood and plans another social af fair this Saturday night. Music dancing entertainment and refreshments will be provided for members as recreation at low cost.
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Union Hall
Harris Ave
Norwood
NAM ads draw praise from Kansas Christian Front
The Kansas Christian Front endorsed a National Association of Manufacturers anti-labor advertising campaign as effective. Rev. Wiley, Front secretary, called the NAM effort excellent and urged 100 percent support and urging members to write to congressmen against organized labor and price controls.
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Wichita
Kans
Natl. Assn
Kansas Christian Front
Wiley
Federated Press
Christian Front
NAM
Progressive Mine Workers Quit AFL Over Readmission
In Springfield Illinois the Progressive Mine Workers hold a special convention voting unanimously to quit the AFL in protest against the United Mine Workers readmission. Over 100 delegates representing about 35 000 Illinois miners attended the first special convention in the union’s 14 year history.
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Springfield
Progressive Mine Workers
AFL
United Mine Workers
Illinois
Esther Tice Returns to Cincinnati UE Mass Meeting
Esther Tice, international representative of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, greeted at a March 4 mass meeting in the Emery Auditorium. A former business agent for Locals 757 and 766, she has spent two years in field work and vows to lead strikes and organizational efforts in Cincinnati.
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Emery Auditorium
Esther
The
Formica Co
Formica Notes Return To Work After Appendectomy
Formica reports Dorothy Conley convalesced from an appendectomy and returned to work on March 4 in time for a large mass meeting. Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Johnny Vargaroth on the birth of a 6 pound baby girl Saturday March 2 at Jewish Hospital. Grace Vargaroth, the mother, remains at the hospital receiving calls and cards from union members. The stork is in training for a race between the homes of Brothers Carl Flack and Elmer Kauffman in April. Readers urged to keep in touch for final results.
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Dorothy Conley
Johnny Vargaroth
Jewish Hospital
Grace Vargaroth
Carl Flack
Elmer Kauffman
Give Small Firms More Steel CEO Warnings on Allocations
United Steelworkers leader Philip Murray urged Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles to reinstate steel allocations to small companies to prevent their exclusion by large producers. The request followed a Steelworkers Executive Board resolution highlighting small independents' need for adequate semi finished tonnage and proposing a temporary operating committee under the Civilian Production Administration to manage steel allocation.
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Washington
Pres Philip Murray
United Steelworkers
CSO
Chester Bowles
Steelworkers’ Executive Board
Civilian Production Administration
Paper Workers Win Maxwell Paper Co Union Election
Logan Goft and Herbert G. Schwenker of United Paper Workers Union report a successful election at Maxwell Paper Co Franklin D isolating a 170 worker plant. Company forced a WLB hearing. ballots were mailed to soldiers. Union plans intense activity at Howard Paper Co Urbana C as certification nears in 10 days. District 50 UMWA recently tied to AFL had lost at the same plant.
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Paper Workers
Logan Goft
Herbert G. Schwenker
United Paper Workers Union
Maxwell Paper Co
Franklin, D
Goff
WLB
Goff and Schwenker
Howard Paper Co
Urbana
District 50
United Mine Workers
AFL
Charges Filed Against Gilbert Machine Tool Co in Labor Probe
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union filed unfair labor practice charges this week against the Gilbert Machine Tool Co and Waldo Stager UK international representative. The union alleges the company used intimidation coercion and discrimination against employees for union activity.
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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union
Gilbert Machine
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International Union
Ann Finn
Edward Hill
Walter Knapp
William Voss
Frank McCabe
William Haynes
Gamel
Schmidt
Mammoth Outlet
Freeman Ave
Eee
United Electrical Radio 6
Machine Workers Local 7
Mark Kroll
Liberal Youth Organization
al Jordan
Greater Cincinnati Industrial Union Council
7605
Mary Pierce
Esther Tice
United Electrical
Radio and Machine Workers
Midwest
Hamilton Ave
Northside
E. Eighth St
Cherry
Premier Press Company
Cincinnati, Okio
Formica Notes
Alms & Doepke
Franklin
Gilbert Co
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