Klansman Offers Testimony to HUAC After Delays
Robert Stripling the HUAC chief investigator says the committee will accept testimony and evidence on the Klan as soon as subcommittee chair John McDowell returns. The writer says he offered to provide files after joining the Klan as a kleagle for exposure and received no response for two months.
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Federated Press
Washington
Robert Stripling
House On American Activities Committee
Subcommittee
John McDowell
J. Parnell Thomas
R. N.J
Klan
Klan ties and threats surface in Stripling talk
An exchange recounts a meeting with Stripling after a warning from Capitol guards about a potential confrontation. The dialogue covers references to the Ku Klux Klan and the Un-American Activities Committee, with claims of political manipulation and prior investigations. The account includes remarks on Martin Dies and Imperial Wizard Colescott.
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Stripling
unAmerican Committee
Martin Dies
Imperial
James A. Colescott
Clothing Workers Meet Hears Lavelle Urge Political Action
At the Amalgamated Clothing Workers quarterly meeting in which over 200 members and officers attended William Lavelle state CIO secretary treasurer urged greater political activity. He cited rising profits and living costs and praised candidates like Rollin Everett. PAC literature was distributed for drive starting this week in ACW locals. Attendees mourned the deaths of Karl Thiele Frank Starzynski Robert Tailoring and Lulu Wolpenheim.
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Rollin Everett
PAC
ACW
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Karl Thiele
Superior Tailors
Frank Starzynski
Robert Tailoring
Lulu Wolpenheim
Silvertone Clothes
PAC and Registration Focused at Local 909 Meeting
Nathaniel Jordan reports Local 909 UTSE held its September meeting at Cincinnati Union Terminal. Charles P. Simpson announced a PAC fundraising drive and set September 25 as registration day with transportation to the Board of Elections. He urged members to vote no on proportional representation and noted a October 6 registration deadline.
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Local 909
UTSE
Cincinnati Union Terminal
Charles P. Simpson
Local 809
PAC
Board of Elections
Tenants Fight Evictions as Wall Street Houses Sell
In New York a tenants’ group resists eviction amid rising rents after landlords sell houses. A real estate firm sues tenants for 150000 alleging conspiracy in restraint of trade. The image shows a window sign declaring high prices and age of the house.
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Wall Street
New York
Fed. Pictures
PAC notes urge union readers to support Taft Hartley fight
Al Tekulvey Moid Dept thanks colleagues for kindness during illness. Obituaries and births noted. The Political Action Committee urges contributions to back pay and wage increases while criticizing Taft Hartley rhetoric. Voter registration drive emphasized with October deadline and target 237 non registered members.
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al Tekulvey
Moid Dept
al Smith
Local 757
Helen Calvert
Exnil Wendling
Political Action Committee
Ate
Novelty Workers Charter New Ohio Local
A new local union of Play thing, Jewelry and Novelty Workers has been chartered in Springfield, Ohio. Paul E. Eaton of PMW is stationed in Ohio as international representative. Local 256 playing card workers push PAC campaign as Joe Kelsch leads.
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Ohio
Springfield
PMW
Paul E. Eaton
PAC
Joe Kelsch
Immedia
Evictions in Cincinnati Rise in Early 1947
Evictions in Cincinnati during the first five months of 1947 rose nearly 14 percent from the same period in 1946, reflecting continuing postwar housing pressures and rental market strain.
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Cincinnati
They Asked For It And They Got It In Des Moines
Des Moines furniture drivers protested a small negotiating group and won a larger 66 member negotiating committee. An employer warned payroll would cover idle workers' pay as the unionists threatened to strike. The dispute ended with the men back at work after a nickel offer, 20 minutes later.
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Des Moines. In
Des Moines
Ind. Bro. of Teamsters
AFL
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Lavellé
Utse News
Nathaniel Jordan
Brother Simpson
UE News
Elmer Kauffman
Formica
Stor
Formica Notes
Mae Risi
By Feerl Hessler
Charles Armstrong
Charles Alvin
Christ Hospital
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Taft
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Dick Lang
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