Meat Packers Prepare Nationwide Strike On March Sixteen
More than 100000 workers in major meat plants will walk out at midnight March 16 led by CIO United Packinghouse Workers president Ralph Helstein. The strike targets Armour Swift Cudahy Wilson John Morrell Hygrade and other large packers over a 29 cent hourly demand based on family budgets. Government actions under Taft Hartley could delay the walkout, while profits last year surpassed 144 million before taxes amid broader labor activism.
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Ralph Helstein
United Packinghouse Workers
CIO
Helstein
Armour
Swift, Cudahy and
Wilson
John Morrell & Co
Hygrade Food Products Corp
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Swift and
Amalgamated
Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen
AFL
Pres. Truman
National Safety and Welfare
Former UTSE-809 Leader Becomes CIO Traveling Salesman in Virginia
Earl W. Davis, former UTSE Local 809 president and UTSE international vice president, serves as CIO Southern Organizing Committee traveling salesman. He campaigns in eastern Virginia to enroll Jobbers Pants Co clothing workers into the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, speaking on radio about CIO gains and urging union joining to cure regional and national economic ills.
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UTSE-809
CIO
Virginia
Earl W. Davis
Local 809
Utse International
CIO Southern Organizing Committee
UTSE
Clothing Workers
Jobbers Pants Co
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Protect Aliens Rights urged by CIO Chief Murray
CIO President Phillip Murray urged Atty Gen Tom Cark to uphold constitutional protections for labor leaders held on Ellis Island. He cited Ferdinand Smith Irving Potash and Charles Doyle as long-time residents and called for speedy hearings and bail in their cases.
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Washington
Ellis Island
CIO
Phillip Murray
Tom Cark
Murray
Ferdinand Smith
National Maritime Union
Irving Potash
International Fur and Leather Workers
Charles Doyle
United Gas Coke and Chemical Workers
Auxiliary News Honors Rosalie Manns at Annual Sermon
Rosalie Manns, chair of the Women's Auxiliary Program Committee, UTSE Local 809, sees success at the annual sermon on Sunday March 7 at Southern Baptist Church. Lolitha Jordan gave the welcome. music by Angenette Haynes Mary C Taylor Juanita Carter and the Johnson Brothers Sextet. Reverend M Coleman of Zion Baptist Church delivered the sermon on Woman as a Helpmate.
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Rosalie Manns
Women’s Auxiliary
Utse Local 809
Southern Baptist Church
Lolitha Jordan
Angenette Haynes
Mary C. Taylor
Juanita Carter
Johnson Brothers
Martha H. Jordan
UTSE
Tessie Doe
Nathaniel Jordan
M. Coleman
Zion Baptist Church
Missouri CIO Donates 400 Shoes to Boonville Boys School
The Missouri CIO Council donated 400 gym shoes to the State Boys' Training School at Boonville amid a political storm over conditions. CIO reps found the school had fewer than a dozen usable gym shoes and said the boys were playing in stocking feet due to the lack of equipment.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Cio Council
Boonville
CIO
Rejoicing Over Bail for Potash and Fellow Unionists
A letter lauds the bail release of Irving Potash manager of the New York Joint Council Fur & Leather Workers Union, jailed on deportation charges and held on Ellis Island with Ferdinand Smith, Charles Doyle, John Williamson, and Gerhart Eisler. The writer condemns the bail refusal by the Attorney General.
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Clark
Fur Workers of
New York
Potash
White House
Irving Potash
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CIO Packers
Chicago
Brother Davis
Charles Weber
Virginia State Cio
WMVA
Davis
Murray Ias
Lolitha Jordan Women's Auxiliary
Missouri Cio Shoes Boys School
Dick Lang
Benson
Reading, Ohio
Judge Coy Diues
Federated Pictures
SUN
George Grigsby
Rolman’s Appliances
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