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Newspaper
Cincinnati The Sun
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1944
Page
12
The union stewards will play a key role in the Sixth War Loan Drive at the plant. Foremen will convene department meetings to issue badges and materials, explain pamphlets, and outline bond pledge duties. Stewards with full department coverage should report to the Educational Department for large pledges.
The War Labor Board finds that three quarters of wage earners outside agriculture and public sectors earn under $1 an hour, with a third under 60 cents. That rate equals about $1200 yearly at a 40 hour week for 50 weeks. Meanwhile CIO research shows top executives at 100 large firms rose from $61,000 in 1939 to $84,000 in 1942, a 38 percent gain.
Local authorities urge participation in the War Loan Drive as residents pledge to work tirelessly donate blood and money and lead the field in purchasing war bonds for the effort.
Post election notes report changes at Dept 30 with Mrs Rogers awaiting a stork and a new leadman “Big Frank” in Foundry No 2. Dept 306 mourns the brother of Miss Graham. A playful puzzle asks which sub foreman buys lunch and helps with core wires.
AFL Secretary Treasurer George Meany urged immediate abolition of the Little Steel Formula to raise wages and maintain a strong postwar economy. He warned waiting until V-E day risks wholesale contract cancellations and unemployment, noting most 1939 production was domestic and urging higher wages to sustain full employment. He urged readers to obtain the Union Booklet for the War Loan Drive.
Reports from the Retroactive Pay Panel show numerous settlements for workers. Recipients include L. Phillip, J. Carter, William Brueckner, M. Taylor, O. K. Hazelrng, Leslie Myles, M. M. Slaughter, B. S. Skinner, W. H. Dubach, L. Luckey, F. Wright, C. S. Payton, P. Burns, A. A. Burger, G. R. Mason, G. Bacon, R. T. Weaver, J. W. Farmer, L. Jefferies, H. Staley, P. Cramer, M. L. Beebe, E. Williams, E. H. Judd, J. B. Kegel, W. Tolle, R. Moorhead, H. C. Duncan, C. Shotzman, R. Weist, E. P. Benson, M. Kelley, A. Filer, J. Connoly, M. Bryant, M. Roush, A. Abbott, and R. Damron. Amounts range from a few dollars to several hundred.
AFL and CIO will testify before a Senate labor subcommittee as hearings open on a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to 65 cents an hour. Legislative Director Lewis G. Hines will represent the AFL while Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers heads the CIO delegation.
Spokesmen for the Railway Labor Executives Assn OPA and Bureau of Labor Statistics will appear this week. Senator Claude Pepper introduces a concurrent resolution to raise the minimum wage, citing 20 million Americans lacking income gains aligned with cost of living estimates.
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