Taft Senator Criticized by New York Herald Tribune
The New York Herald Tribune, a leading Republican paper, scores Senator Robert A. Taft for his anti reading ban on soldiers. It labels his War Department interpretation a scapegoat and accuses him of legislative ineptitude amounting to obstruction.
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N. Y. Herald Tribune
The
New York Herald Tribune
Cincinnati
Robert A. Taft
the Tribune
Sen. Taft
Tribune
War Department
Taft
PAC Split Is Rejected By AFL Councils
AFL councils representing hundreds of thousands of workers rejected the United AFL’s plan to sever ties with the CIO and endorse Democratic Congress candidate Ned Healy and Republican Gordon McDonough over Hal Styles. Eleven councils opposing the UAFL move nullified Los Angeles County central body action, and Hollywood unions also opposed. Critics warn the split would hurt Roosevelt’s campaign and AFL influence locally.
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Los Angeles
AFL
United Afl Committee
CIO
Congress
Ned Healy
Gordon L. McDonough
Hal Styles
John M. Costello
United Afl Overall Committee
UAFL
Los Angeles County
Hollywood
Motion Picture Labor Committee For Political Action
Roosevelt
Kenosha Women Donate Fourth Region 4 Ambulance
Kenosha Wisconsin women unionists presented the army with the fourth ambulance funded by Region 4 United Auto Workers CIO. The donation marks a notable effort by local labor women to support wartime medical needs.
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Kenosha
Wis
United Auto Workers
CIO
CIO Wins Large Gas Company Contract After 7-Year Campaign
The Utility Workers Organizing Committee and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. reached a contract covering 2,500 workers across 150 job classifications from Bakersfield to the Oregon line. The self-extending agreement preserves membership, a steward system, and bulletin boards, with eight holidays, overtime and travel pay, and no wage or condition discrimination.
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San Francisco
Utility Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
Pacific Gas & Electric Co
West
Bakersfield
Cal
Oregon Line
Insurance Increases Permitted For War Board Ruling
Chicago agencies explain to unions that wage rises up to five percent may be funded through life insurance for workers. The War Labor Board ruling permits this approach as a benefit to union members.
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Chicago
War Labor Board
Taft Pushes Postwar Security Fight and Soldier Voting Law
Robert Taft emerges as Senate voice of Dewey opposing the soldiers voting ban and attacking the Murray Kilgore postwar security bill. He criticizes wartime employment limits and advocates for a negotiated peace with unemployment as a central issue. He questions if all job seekers can be employed on current wages and conditions.
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Robert Taft
Senate
Tom Dewey
Congress
Wilson
Taft
Hitler
Founder of Union Dies In Service Over Seas
Eleanor Liss, New York social worker and founder of the State County and Municipal Workers Union, CIO, died on active duty with the American Red Cross in the Far East. She served in Chungking, North Africa, India, and China before contracting an illness. The union will donate race relations books to the New York Public Library in her memory.
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NEW York
State, County & Municipal Workers
CIO
Eleanor Liss
American Red Cross
Far East
Union For
SCMWA
North Africa
India
China
The
Red Cross
Chungking
Himalayas
Joseph E. Stillwell
New York Public Library
Union Business Okay At Lunch
The WLB ruled that union business on company property may be carried on during lunch and before or after work in a Dwight Mfg Co case. The Textile Workers Union CIO represented about 3,000 employees in Alabama City Alabama. The Atlanta Regional Board had banned union activity during working hours without company written consent. The union appealed the decision.
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Washington
WLB
Dwight Mfg. Co
Alabama City
Ala
Textile Workers Union, Cio
Atlanta
ACW Plans Tri State Politics Conference
Amalgamated Clothing Workers schedule a Tri State Conference on Political Action for Sept 8 and 10 at the Hotel Linton. Sessions feature Frank Rosenblum and Jack Kroll with a dinner and reports from local locals. Attendance expected from 300 to 400 across three states. The event aims to mobilize support for Roosevelt and a friendly Congress.
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Linton
Frank Rosenblum
Jack Kroll
CIO
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Arthur Hartman
Labor Veterans Unite In Postwar Pledge At Chicago Encampment
At the Chicago VFW encampment labor leaders and veterans pledged to pursue full employment prosperity and lasting peace. CIO President Murray and labor chief Green highlighted a pact granting veterans seniority and backing the Kilgore Murray Truman bill and Wagner Murray Dingell social security. The VFW has enrolled 300000 World War II veterans.
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Chicago
VFW
Carl J. Schoeninger
Schoeninger
Green
CIO Pres
Philip Murray
Murray
CIO
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