Taft Repudiation Debate Splits Republican Working Men
A political letter urges Republican working men to oppose Senator Robert A Taft and his allied party wing. It argues Taft allies with Southern cheap-labor interests, threatens labor wages, and questions the middle class's political aims versus workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Union
National Citizens Political Action Committee
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Congress
Republican Party
Sen. Taft
Lincoln
Taft's
Fords
DuPonts
Pews
NAM Head Defies Gov t at Thompson Products
Frederick Coolidge Crawford, vocal NAM spokesman, defies an NLRB order dissolving company unions at Thompson Products Aircraft Plants in Cleveland. An NLRB ordered new election, with about 14 000 employees involved, after a 1942 company union victory amid alleged intimidation. Crawford posted that NLRB orders have no power to enforce, needing court decree for enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Frederick Coolidge Crawford
Nati Assn
NLRB
Thompson Products Aircraft Products
Thompson
United Auto Workers (Cio
Thompson Products
Union
UAW
Crawford
Clarkwood
WHKC Drops Censoring Policy in UAW Test Case
WHKC Columbus station manager Carl M. Everson reversed earlier policy under cross examination by UAW attorneys. He said union scripts would be aired as written, signaling a shift that supports the CIO charges of labor story censorship in broadcasts. References to isolationist senators may be removed, but CIO input would be permitted.
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Washington
WHKC
Columbus
Ohio
United Auto Workers (Cio
Federal Communications Assn
UAW
Mgr
Carl M. Everson
Nye
Wheeler
CIO
Typographical Union Delegates Seek AFL CIO Unity
In Grand Rapids Michigan delegates at the 87th annual Ind Typographical Union AFL convention urged peace committees of the AFL and CIO to begin immediate conferences to unite the two labor groups. The resolution stresses unity as essential to meet postwar challenges and bolster labor strength.
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Granwonapids
Mich
AFL
CIO
Ind. Typographical Union
Navy Veteran Gene Seibert Training for LST Duty
Navy veteran Gene J. Seibert 3/c is at Amphibious Training Base Camp Bradford Virginia in training for duty aboard an LST. He is one of three sons of Mr and Mrs Henry Seibert of Newport Kentucky with brothers Henry in Italy and Jack in France and their father a member of Local 113-164 Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.
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Gene J. Seibert
Camp Bradford
Henry Seibert
Wilth Street
Newport, Ky
Seibert
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Henry
Italy
Jack
France
Venereal Disease Toll Is Needless Waste Of Lives
Walter Clarke MD argues VD is a national health crisis and that syphilis and gonorrhea cripple troops and workers. He urges unions to push reforms, report cases, and support prevention, warning of deaths, stillbirths, and infant deaths unless exposure is avoided and treatment used.
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the Sun
Walter Clarke
American Social Hygiene Association
Broadway
New York
Association
Army
Navy
National War Fund
War Housing Rent Relief Aids Tenants In Los Angeles
OPA Area Rent Director David Barry announced that advance payments exceeding one month's rent must be reimbursed to tenants by war housing landlords who received building priority aid. The ruling provides relief for workers facing rent gouging during wartime in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
OPA
David Barry
Steel Wins Three More Elections in District 25
United Steelworkers of America reports three additional wins in District 25 with overwhelming support. Duriton Foundry Dayton workers 75 percent voted USA-CIO, first Dayton local formed two months ago. Cincinnati Engineering Co workers 95 percent backed USA-CIO as bargaining representative. Middletown Barkeley Electric Co workers also chose USA-CIO. Further elections scheduled in Hamilton Amerian Rolling Mills plant and Lima Tank Depot, with more drives under Ray Sowder in Cincinnati. Contract talks underway at Brighton Screw and Eugene Berninghaus Co. in Cincinnati following votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Steelworkers of America
al Whitehouse
Duriton
Dayton
Ohio
Usa-Cio
Cincinnati Engineering Co
Barkeley Electric Co
Middletown
Hamilton
American Rolling Mills Co
Lima Tank Depot
Ray Sowder
Cincinnati
N.L.R.E
Brighton Screw and Manufacturing Co
Eugene Berninghaus Co
Steelworkers Union
Small Business Urges Liberal Reconversion Plan
Stanley J. Cummings of the American Business Congress says 2,000 small businessmen favor defeating the states rights George bill and backing the Kilgore-Celler plan. He argues planned reconversion is essential for postwar prosperity and cheaper for taxpayers than a passive policy.
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New York
Stanley J. Cummings
American Business Congress
Congress
House
Senate
Cummings
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Nam Head
Gov't
Itu
Walter Clarke, M.D
United States
Steel
SUN
CID
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