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Newspaper
Labor World
Location
Alton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1946
Page
6
Recessing education and on the job training under Public Law 346 and 2067 70 veterans are recorded as receiving disability compensation and pensions, reflecting program allocations and eligibility adjustments.
A World War I era report shows the veteran total surpassing 17 million with about 1.6 million filing for unemployment and allowances as disabled veterans. The figure reflects veterans across wars assisted by support agencies and coast-to-coast trains resuming service for wartime logistics.
A War Department study reported by Infantry Journal credits American labor with producing about 60 percent of total munitions in the final year of the war. It details aircraft totals, tanks, weapons, artillery, ammunition, and related war materiel, highlighting the pivotal role of U S labor and industry in wartime output despite a slow start.
A wartime era notice promotes Jones Heating Company of 4496 East Broadway as a 100 percent union shop offering sale and installation of furnaces. Eugene F. Burie, ex Sears Roebuck executive, leads the sales department and the Alton branch highlights Sheet Metal Workers No. 268 mechanics. The piece links union strength to job gains for veterans and mentions broader postwar wage politics.
Wood River moves toward securing a local hospital with three new directors W R Jolley Harry V Kirby and Jesse 2 Jones Kirby represents labor on the board Terms span 1 5 and 3 years with yearly chair and vice chair rotations County judge appoints one member each May A new secretary and treasurer are elected The hospital to be named Wood River Township Hospital will have 125 beds and a site yet to be chosen with contracts let for an estimated 75000 or more
Officials of the A P Tea Company chain faced a $175,000 fine for alleged antitrust violations as Judge Walter C. Lindsay declared the sentence, exonerating three subsidiaries and one officer while upholding that the firms did not cartelize food distribution. No prison terms were imposed.
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