Reconversion Plans Urged At UE Meeting
About 200 delegates gathered at the Gibson Hotel for District Council No 7 of UE. Neil Brandt urged local unions to push reconversion to peacetime production as war slackens, while Julius Emspak warned of anti labor efforts to split CIO and AFL. The council approved executive recommendations including fulltime workers stationed in cities on election day and higher district representative salaries per the international constitution.
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Neil Brandt
Washington
Julius Emspak
Dewey
CIO
AFL
Council
International
UE Decries Jim Crow Practice in Cincinnati
District Council No. 7 of the United Electrical Workers denounces racial discrimination after Wiggins Tavern refused service to Oscar Rucker, a Negro delegate, and Cleveland official Joseph Kres was denied service. Delegates left seats idle until Kres and Rucker were served. The incident prompted a pledge to avoid Cincinnati hotels and restaurants until non discrimination rules are observed.
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United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America
Cincinnati
Wiggins Tavern
Oscar Rucker
Joseph Kres
Cleveland Industrial Council
Kres
Rucker
Urge Women Keep On At War Work
Washington dispatch reports the Women’s Bureau of the Labor Department launched a three way campaign urging unions management and the community to help women workers stay on the job. The bureau warns that turnover remains high and wasteful and says women are not yet over the hump in wartime work.
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Washington
Women’s Bureau
Department of Labor
Womens Bureau
Women urged to stay in critical war plant roles
The bureau calls for keeping women in essential war work and shifting them to suitable positions within plants. It also pushes for full seniority protections and promotion guarantees for women workers in these facilities.
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Bureau
Roy Tucker Elected Head of Local 761
Roy Tucker was elected president of Local 761 at Cincinnati Time Recorder during the regular meeting on November 3. Other officers chosen include William Jones as first vice president George Alf as second vice president Robert Ashback financial secretary Marie Winklebach recording secretary Charles Jenneman corresponding secretary and Albert Blau sergeant at arms. The new Executive Board comprises Clark Bellis William McDonald Melvin Charles Lee Schmidt and John Arms with trustees William McDonald Wilbur Renner and Rodney Bredwell.
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William Jones
George Alf
Robert Ashback
Marie Winklebach
Charles Jenneman
Albert Blau
Clark Bellis
William McDonald
Melvin Charles
Lee Schmidt
John Arms
Wilbur Renner
Rodney Bredwell
UE Wins Escape Clause Fight
The United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers CIO won a dispute affirmed by the National War Labor Board. The case involves the Paul and Beekman Co. and about 225 workers in Philadelphia. The company had signed a contract missing a 15 day escape period in its maintenance of membership clause.
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Washington
Nati War Labor Board
WLB
Philadelphia
Paul and Beekman Co
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers
CIO
CIO Canteen Expands In Chicago After Overflow Crowds
Overflow crowds at the CIO Union Canteen in Chicago have forced a move to larger quarters. The venue, funded by 38 locals, offers dancing fortune telling portrait sketching ping pong food games and music every Saturday night from 7 pm to midnight.
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Chicago
CIO Union
UK Hero Survives Three Ship Attacks Urges Production
Coast Guardsman Gene Oxley from Indianapolis recalled swimming ashore under fire during D day and Salerno invasions after lifeline duties with LCI 85. He saved comrades, helped evacuate casualties, and earned the nickname Lucky Ox while addressing the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers district conference.
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Oxley
Normandy Beach
D” Day
Salerno
France
England
Lucky Ox
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers
Be Fair Its U S Advice To Foremen
A U S Department of Labor bulletin titled The Foremans Guide to Labor Relations urges foremen to work with unions and shop stewards to foster good labor relations. It warns that mistreatment of workers and ignored grievances hinder collective bargaining and emphasizes adherence to the Wagner Act and cooperative relations with the shop steward.
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U. S
Washington
U. S. Dept. of Labor
Supt. of Documents
U. S. Printing Office
Hates Union More Than The Enemy Hates Union
In Baltimore the Glenn L. Martin Co rejects Local 738 United Auto Workers bid to support the Baltimore Community and War Fund Drive. Union officials offered to help but management left them waiting ten days before a flat refusal.
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Baltimore
Glenn L. Martin Co
United Auto Workers (Cio
Baltimore Community & War Fund
Martin
Fiat
General Says Workers Sweat Saves Lives of Army Men
Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell praised American workers for supplying war equipment that saved fighting lives. He contrasted using material and sweat over casualties, noting the industrial power shown in Normandy Italy and southern France. He cited steel and high explosives and the skilled workforce behind Allied victories.
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New York
Brehon Somervell
Army Service Forces
Europe
Somervell
Normandy
Italy
France
America
Latin American labor reps tour U.S. plants report
Two Latin American labor representatives, guests of the Department of Labor, finished the first lap of a tour of U.S. war plants and mills. They reported to the women's division on Nov. 1 that they learned much about working conditions and want more about the American labor movement.
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Washington
Dept. of Labor
U. S
Urges Limitation On Child Workers
Katharine F. Lenroot chief of the children's bureau calls 1945 state legislatures to set a 16 year minimum age for child employment. She says raising standards will help transition to peacetime economy by withdrawing children from the labor force to stay in school.
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Washington
Katharine F. Lenroot
Children’s Bureau
The
Labor Department
U. S
Ike urges maximum Atlantic supply flow for modern forces
General Dwight D. Eisenhower urged Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell to keep flowing across the Atlantic at maximum rate all essential supplies and spare parts that a modern army and air force require in battle.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brehon Somervell
Army Service Forces
Atlantic
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