Oil and Water in Sixth District Primary Debate
A critique questions Farle Rives candidates alignment with Cone interests and CIO PAC. It notes Rives faces a June second primary, with connections to Guilford County figures and opposition from Durham supporters, while praising Cone family influence and warning about conflicting political loyalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farle
Rives
Carl Durham
Mr. Rives
Cone
CIO Political Action Committee
Committee For North
Southern Conference
State
D. E. Scarborough
Cio-Pac
N. C
Guilford County
Cones
Te Cio-Pac
Ood
Rivess
Liston Pope Named Involved in New Haven Political Row
Dr Liston Pope Yale professor attracted Time magazine notice when asked to chair a Citizens Political Action committee meeting in New Haven Conn He asked Communist members to leave prompting objections from leftists The meeting then continued without him Lib Holman withdrew her nomination from the committee Pope also edits Listen and heads religious education at Wesley Memorial Church He is the son of Mr and Mrs R L Pope of Thomasville and is noted for his broad education and forthright views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liston Pope
Yale University
Time Magazine
Citizens Political Action Committee
New Haven
Conn
Lib Holman
Smith Reynolds
Dr. Pope
Pope
CIO
Writers Guild
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Listen
Wesley Memorial Church
R. L. Pope
Thomasville
W.A.B
Behind the News on Truman Draft Plan and Labor Strikes
Washington report explains how Senate and House Republicans and radical Democrats united against the draft provision for strikers in the Truman plan. Internal party politics and union dynamics influenced a 70 13 vote defeat, while Case bill gained momentum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Lewis
Senate
House
Truman
Lewis
Rail Brotherhoods
AFL
Smith Connally
CIO
Hillman Thome
Congress
Labor rights and revolution in union debate critique
Paul Mallon critiques a revolutionary view of union power arguing unions could gain rights via negotiation or government routes, not a countrywide strike. He cites coal and rail disputes, wage gains, and social security funding as examples while warning that any strike threatens national life and requires safeguards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blicans
Mr. Truman
Truman
Lewis
Congress
Building Permits Drop In Nine Tar Heel Cities
State labor department notes a fall from 11.3 million in March to 4.4 million in April in permit values as builders rushed to start before a possible government construction order. Nonresidential work sank to 1.2 million, while average home cost is about 4,400 dollars. The article also calls for more apprentices in building trades and highlights pulp and paper workers as highest earners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Almon Barbour
State Labor Department
Today
Tar Heel
Clarence Pritchard
State Labor Department Statistician
Clarence Beddingfield
Labor Department
Beddingfield
North Carolina Firms Fail to Pay Minimum Wage In Overtime
Lynn Nisbet notes growing pressure over a proposed 65 cent minimum as 34 of 82 NC firms inspected underpay workers at the current 40 cent hourly rate and deny time and a half overtime. The piece argues federal law covers interstate workers but leaves many in-state workers unprotected and hints at a statewide minimum wage effort beginning to take root.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
North Carolina
Union War Behind Rail Strike Blame Cast On Whitney and Johnston
Washington analysis pins the 1946 railway strike on leadership battles between Whitney's Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Johnston's Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The piece outlines alleged raids to dominate operating crews and heighten influence within railway labor. It notes the broader conflict with other operating and non operating brotherhoods and potential harm to the Railway Labor Act mediation system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alvanley Johnston
Alexander Fell Whitney
Truman
Whitney
Brotherhood of
Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Johnston and Whitney
Association of
Railway Labor Executives
Whi
Canada
Business
Brotherhood
Great Northern
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
Iowa
Illinois Central
Brotherhood of Railway
U. S
Johnston's Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Whitney and Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
David B. Robertson
Order of Railway Conductors
H. W. Fraser
Switchmen’s
T. C. Cashen
Coal Decline Forces Rethink Across Industry
The piece argues coal’s decline in the US and Britain as railways electrify and oil, natural gas, and electricity replace coal. It notes production costs rising sharply since the war and questions if John L. Lewis won his battle while warning coal miners face high pay demands to attract workers in a diminishing industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Britain
TVA
John L. Lewis
John Lewis’ Welfare Fund
John L. Lewis’ Union
Europe
Coal in a non coal era threats and changes foreseen
By George Sokolsky argues coal miners face rising wages and labor shortages as demand declines with mechanization and new energy sources. He notes immigration shifts, union power, and the looming impact of atomic energy on coal use, comparing Britain and Russia while predicting a slow transition to non coal fuels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Lewis
Great Britain
Russia
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INRRA
Fiorello LaGuardia
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
World Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Mr. LaGuardia
Mr. Hoover
UNRRA
Hoover
Jimmy Hallo
Jerkley
CXT
Erie, PA
Pepper
Murray
Paul Mallon
Capitol Square
By Lynn Nisbet
Peter Edson
Whitney and
Rail Aristocracy
George Sokolsky
E. Simms Campbell
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