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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1947
Page
5
United Transport Service Employee officials in Chicago work on recommendations to management for a 10-cent per bag fee in new passenger rates. The current Red Caps 10-cent bag collection has proven unsatisfactory and hindered efficiency. Carriers agreed to plan with changes to satisfy the public and the Red Caps.
Local 214 members met May 24 to discuss the new contract as the current agreement expires July 1. Negotiations will start in June with Phil Parr, the business manager, noting the workload across four shops and stressing wage gains to counter rising living costs.
In Greenville South Carolina an all white jury freed 28 white defendants including those who confessed to the Willie Earle lynching a 24 year old Black man The fast verdict followed Judge J Robert Martin Jr urging impartiality The courtroom erupted in celebration while a small group of Black observers watched in silence.
Arthur Murray dance studios in New York vote 205 to 149 for Local 16 CIO as bargaining agent. The election by dance instructors interviewers receptionists and office workers was conducted under state labor relations board rules.
Report notes 350000 teachers quit since 1940 due to substandard conditions, highlighting a mass exodus impacting education staffing and classroom stability.
A Gardner-Richardson plant picket line of about 150 workers, with 50 more on duty, undermines back-to-work movement claims. The union emphasizes that a union security clause is a logical outcome of accepting collective bargaining, while management opposes such a clause though it previously agreed at Middletown. No bargaining meeting has occurred since May 1 inaction.
Cincinnati CIO contributions to the cancer fund drive include $116.66 from Brewery Workers $70.82 from Steel Workers $59 from Plaything Jewelry and Novelty Workers and $370 from Amalgamated Clothing Workers. John Dehner of the Brewery Workers also received $22.60 from AFL Garment Workers local union at Fechheimer Uniform Co.
Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan will chair a new judiciary subcommittee to study whether federal legislation is needed to curb lynch mob violence. Hearings begin in June, examining anti lynching bills and the South Carolina case where 28 mob members were acquitted.
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