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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1948
Page
4
The piece challenges tax cuts that favor the wealthy while urging industry to grant higher wages. It argues lower wage demands push workers to rely on savings and loans, risking hardship, and cites Ford’s plan as a prosperity path. It contrasts labor’s demand for higher purchasing power with business profits under free enterprise.
The American Newspaper Publishers Association held sessions in New York behind closed doors for reporters while the American Newspaper Guild CIO union planned a San Francisco convention open to the press. The piece questions who has been clamoring for press freedom and suggests publishers seek secret weapons against unions.
Longshoremen and ship clerks in the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union CIO vote on a strike in San Francisco. The action centers on labor demands and union solidarity affecting port operations and shipping schedules.
Coast wide walkout planned for June 15 if a satisfactory contract fails to materialize. Membership also approves striking with other maritime unions whose contracts expire June 15. Local 10 in San Francisco backs the third party Henry Wallace against the Marshall plan, by a 2 149 to 1 964 margin, and rejects the Marshall plan 2 126 to 1 772.
The United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers strike at General Electric’s damp plant in Lexington ends as GE and UE move negotiations to a national level. Governor Clements aided by sending a conciliator. UE voters approve returning to work and seek recognition at the GE glass plant in Lexington where AFL workers recently lost a bargaining rights election.
Columbus CIO Council prepared for a city payroll tax fight and claimed police were ordered to distribute supporting pamphlets. The Columbus Citizen reported page one that police would back the measure, with pamphlets said to be prepared by a Civic Progress Committee led by a wealthy realtor.
The Textile Workers Union of America opened a drive to raise 50000 to aid 365 members in McKinney Texas whose homes and jobs were ripped away by a May 3 tornado. Funds will come from voluntary contributions from 900 local unions and joint boards. Emil Rieve, TWUA general president, cited a prior $31000 aid effort for Biddeford Maine wildfire victims.
Retiring Federal Communications Commissioner Clifford J. Curr blasts the loyalty check program as targeting ideas rather than actions. He warns the order expands clandestine courts and punishes citizens for union activity and militant labor involvement, undermining civil liberties.
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