UE Convention Opens in New York With 1000 Delegates
News from U E Job Problem Highlights UE Convention Program Opening Monday in N Y Opening September 25 at the Hotel New Yorker and Manhattan Center for a week long session. F H LaGuardia Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman set talks and the convention will honor veteran leaders. Union covers 700000 members and key war production plants with contracts from General Electric Westinghouse Sperry and other major firms.
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U. E
N. Y
New York
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
CIO
New Yorker
Manhattan Center
34Th Street
Eighth Avenue
F. H. LaGuardia
City of
Philip Murray
National Cio
Sidney Hillman
Albert J. Fitzgerald
Julius Emspak
James McLeish
New York City
Cio-Afl
UAW
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
Women Wear The Official Pants In Local Unions
New York report to the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers shows 18 women local union presidents, 33 vice presidents, 165 recording secretaries and 79 financial secretaries as part of the tenth convention program opening in New York on September 25.
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New York
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
UE Praised For Keeping Strike Free
Delegates of the CIO United Electrical Workers meet in New York on Sept 25 and hear a War Department message praising the union for its no-strike pledge and a continuous record of uninterrupted war material production, noting one fifth of national metal material output.
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Electrical Workers
The
CIO
New York
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Patterson
United Electrical Workers
Unity in Music Show Brings Unionized Orchestra to New York
The United Workers of America convention in New York will feature an orchestra recruited from the CIO Sperry Gyroscope plant in Brooklyn. All players belong to UK-CIO Local 450 and are also members of AFM Local 801, AFL.
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New York
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
CIO
Sperry
Brooklyn
American Federation of Musicians
AFL
UK offers insurance advice from CIO members
The United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers CIO publishes a 127 page book urging its members to adopt group life and health insurance arrangements in the workplace.
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X UK
NEW York
United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers
CIO
Republicans Oppose City Neighborhood Registration Drive
Seattle Republicans led by King County GOP Chairman Arnold J. Beezer challenged a nonpartisan civic group plan to use 66 grammar school buildings for a three day neighborhood voter registration campaign. Beezer spoke before the city council to oppose the proposal.
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Seattle
GOP
Arnold J. Beezer
King County
Auto Workers Renew Pledge Not To Strike
The United Auto Workers at Grand Rapids reaffirmed a no strike pledge while approving a membership referendum on the issue. Roosevelt-Truman ticket endorsed. Officers Thomas Addes Frankensteen Reuther Leonard win posts. veteran seniority, job protections debated.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
United Auto Workers
CIO
UAW
Detroit
CIO Pres
Philip Murrey
Germany
R. J. Thomas
George F. Addes
Richard T. Frankensteen
Walter P. Reuther
Reuther
Ford
Richard T. Leonard
International Executive Board
Wage panel warns wage rollbacks threaten postwar prosperity
Labor members say restoring the 40 hour week cuts take home pay by 25 percent for 48 hour workers and warn that a wage increase under the Little Steel formula would push industry profits above prewar levels. They argue maintaining high wages is essential to purchasing power and broad prosperity after the war.
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Workers of America
History of Little Steel Formula
Washington reports Labor’s Little Steel Formula born July 16, 1942, under Dr. George W. Taylor. The plan set wage boosts up to 15 percent from Jan 1 1941 peacetime living standard, tied to a 15 percent cost of living rise until May 1942, but prices rose while wages stayed frozen, sparking calls to adjust the figure to current living costs.
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Washington
Little Steel
George W. Taylor
National War Labor Board
WLB
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Railway Brotherhoods Endorse Roosevelt Truman State
Five railway brotherhoods representing 75 000 workers in Washington state voted to endorse the Roosevelt Truman slate, already supported by the AFL and CIO in the region.
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Seattle
Washington State
AFL
CIO
Illinois AFL Committee Forms for Roosevelt and Truman
Chicago reports the Illinois AFL Committee organizes to register unionists and mobilize votes for Roosevelt and Truman as part of a wider progressive campaign.
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Chicago
AFL
Roosevelt
Truman
Economic policy for a hopeful future program
The speaker argues that higher money incomes rather than wage cuts spur better homes clothing food health protection and education. They frame increased pay as essential to a future of hope and call it the program for progress.
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America
Freda S. Miller
Women’s Bureau
U. S. Department of Labor
Miss Miller
General Electric Co
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co
Sperry Gyroscope Co
U. S. Cartridge Co
Colt Patent Firearms Mfg. Co
Philco Corp
RCA Mig. Co
Unity In Music
Ward Wilson
Irene Stevens
American Communications Ass'n
Act On
OPA
Labor
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