FEPC hearings urge intensified tolerance efforts in city
City Hall hearings on local discrimination reveal resistance to employing Negro workers amid wartime pressures. FEPC charged five companies Crosley Lawson Baldwin United Biscuit Streitman Victor Electric. witnesses included AFL and CIO leaders, wartime spouses, and workers denied employment. Rulings on the cases will follow.
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Crosley Corp
F. H. Lawson Co
Baldwin Co
United Biscuit Company
Streitman
Victor Electric Products, Inc
Malcolm Ross
FEPC
John Brophy
CIO
Boris Shishkin
Milton P. Webster
AFL
Sara Southall
Emanuel H. Bloch
Frank D. Reeves
Citizens Plan Slums Forum
A housing forum will be held in the Victory Room of the Gibson on Wednesday night April 4 hosted by the Progressive Citizens Committe. Moderator Ben Stoner will lead speakers including Arthur Thexton of Clopay Corp for industry Bleecker Marquette for public housing Andre Carson of AFL and Rollin Everett CIO for labor Stanley High and Harry Mohlman invited for real estate interests.
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Gibson
Progressive Citizens
Cincinnati
Ben Stoner
Arthur Thexton
Clopay Corp
Bleecker Marquette
Andre Carson
AFL
Rollin Everett
CIO
Stanley High
Harry Mohlman
CIO War Relief Men Visit Here
CIO leaders in social welfare visited Cincinnati last weekend to confer with War Chest executives and Cincinnati CIO officers. Nathan Klein and George Delaplane, both CIO National War Relief Committee directors, praised local unions and councils for cooperation with social agencies. They urged greater union member awareness of expanded wartime social services with War Chest Labor representative Andre Carson.
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CIO
Cincinnati
War Chest
NAACP Protests Taft Backing on Williams Appointment
Cincinnati branch of the NAACP protested this week the alliance of Sen Taft with Sen Bilbo and other southern senators against the confirmation of Aubrey Williams as rural electrification director. Ohio colored voters view the move as Republican opposition to FEPC and poll tax abolition. Nathan Wright local.
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Robert A. Taft
Bilbo
Aubrey Williams
Cincinnati
National Association For Advancement of Col
Ohio
FEPC
Nathan Wright
Secretary Wires Taft Foe Urging Burton Vote Against Stand
An executive secretary wired President Taft and Senator Harold Burton urging Burton to vote affirmatively in repudiation of Taft's stance on southern reaction.
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Taft
Sen
Harold Burton
New York Republican Attacks Taft as Welcher
New York businessman Roderick Stephens accused Senator Robert A. Taft of double dealing and welching in a Senate subcommittee hearing. Stephens, opposing the FEPC bill, said Taft hid behind a weak measure and warned that Republican leaders' tactics could hurt the party with voters concerned for human rights.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
Senate
New York
Roderick Stephens
Stephens Fuel Co
New York City
Taft
Stephens
FEPC
Welch
Education talk on veterans by Major Spencer Shank
The Cincinnati Vocational Guidance Association will host Major Spencer Shank director of veterans' program at the University of Cincinnati for a discussion titled Is the Soldier Interested in Education The public is invited to hear him at 8 p m on March 28 at Williams YMCA located at 1228 East McMillan Street.
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Cincinnati Vocational Guidance Asociation
Spencer Shank
Veterans’ Program
University of Cincinnati
Williams Ymca
E. McMillan Street
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Claude V. Courter
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Fred Ross
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Edward Douglas
Citizens Plan
NAACP
Barbara Ann Scott
Ottawa
Federated Pictures
New York Republican
Senator Taft
Welcher
Vets
The
RED Cross
Andrews Steecco
Newport & Wilder, Ky
Cincinnati Time Recorder CO
Gardner Richardson CO
War Advertising Council
Office of War Information
American Red Cross
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