Lockland Paper Strike Faces Old Tricks and Solidarity
Gardner-Richardson Co foremen spread rumors they will not reopen plans after the strike. Local 1009 United Paper Workers report mass picket lines with 100 percent participation. Clergy and storekeepers in Lockland and Reading pledge support as union officials press for arbitration and maintenance of membership despite the company stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardner-Richardson Co
Lockland
United Paper Workers
Union Tao Aewe
Reading
Independent Union
Middletown
Grrrree
U. S. Department of Conciliation
Floyd Williams
Australia’s Gift Star Rising in Hollywood Light
Australia’s top ranking star Ann Richards is moving toward Hollywood prominence with a strong performance opposite Franchot Tone in Lost Honeymoon. The report notes limited American home affordability with 8 percent of families able to finance a $10,000 home at a $5,000 annual income.
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Australia
America
Ann Richards
Hollywood
Franchot Tone
Federated Pictures
Elliott V. Bell
New York State
Superintendent of Banks
CIO Wins Pay Raises for 14 Million Workers
Nationwide wage increases spread through GE Westinghouse Chrysler GM Nissan Nash Ford and other major employers. The United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers and United Auto Workers lead settlements totaling hundreds of thousands of workers with raises of 11 to 15 cents an hour plus holidays vacation pay and overtime improvements. The two year deals extend into 1949 with ratification pending and widespread industry adoption anticipated.
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New York
CIO
General Electric Co
United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers
General Motors Electrical Division
Ford Motor Co
Nash
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
U.S. Steel Corp
Sheet & Tube Co
Inland Steel
Taft grilled by press group at ANPA dinner in New York
At the American Newspaper Publishers Association 25th annual dinner in the Waldorf Astoria, Sen. Robert A. Taft faced a one hour, no rehearsal press conference led by N. R. Howard of the Cleveland News. Taft forecast an omnibus anti labor bill would pass and supported tax cuts to raise purchasing power. He backed Greece and Turkey aid to hold U.S. prestige with Russia and favored a Western European federation in theory. Herbert Hoover received a standing ovation as a friend and former president.
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Miriam Kosk
New York
Assn
ANPA
Waldorf-Astoria
Sen
Robert A. Taft
N. R. Howard
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Howard
Cleveland News
Taft
Richard W. Slocum
Bureau of Advertising
Cleveland
American Newspaper Guild
Pres. Truman
Greece
Turkey
U. S
Russia
Herbert Hoover
National labor policy call opposes industrywide bargaining
The publishers echo the National Association of Manufacturers urging a revised national labor policy to restore equality in collective bargaining while opposing industrywide bargaining.
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Natl Assn
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Phil's Men’s Shop
Madison Rd
Oakley
Chrysler
UAW
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Publishers’ Association
Dick Lang
Prop
Benson
Reading, Ohio
Rubel’s
Heidelberg
Vanity
W. Sth
Main
Ooper
Ennie
Mill Street Lockland
Sale! Boys
Vine and Opera Place
Slman’s Wells World
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