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Tbf S »fatrstOfficersoeal 32. UOPW11-VW •r- - ■ ✓w AV, ,v - ***»/«...... v/ rjr. * AWftL' • » » »i . • lt;lt;• • • * *,•„» * 1 * trr** I? . • . . . *t* • » . # ■ ••u j. « . 4”r nr* !# * « * ■r * * rf*- .(P- - ■lt;Sfe'diS?:r*x*: %#/*grV.,ii.*4,Officers of Local 32 (insurance agents). United Office and Professional Workers of America, nr# (left io right) Charles Schroeder#recording secretary; Herman Kabakoff, vice-president; Elmer Mar-president. and A. J. Fogarty, financial secretaryrMonumental Victory StoodOutForOffice WorkersBiggest news of the year totIin* ..I tsar-kAfR^gB****** * «* lt;*■*► -contract in 1945 includedof the Monumental Life Insur-umon security.VUOPW A thisear won bar-»n p* iFIR. ru Liieting Monumental agents thef *f'i Mammoth Life Insurance Co.working conditions acompen-Two new Localofficers] sat ion in the business today.elected Aug. 15 at the last mem-The contract signed after thebership meeting are Herman Kabakoff. 1 vice president. andfour and a half week strike re- Charles Schroeder, recording sec-suited in a 20% increase in mem-; retary.bership in t*insurance agents*Chairmen of the Metropolitan■Cincinnati union. Local 32, Unit*s district office committees of Local f$ed OfficeProfessional Workers. In addition to the economic32 are James J. Wigbell, chairman of the Clifton Metropolitanbenefits to Monumental agents(over 300 Ohio. Michigan andChicago men), the contract prodistrict and local delegate to theGreater Cincinnati CIO Indus -vided for a union shop.Metropolitan and John Hancock agents in Cincinnati contributed weekly to the strike.This Labor Day marks the first33time that Local 32 has been financially able to maintain itsown office, which wil open Septtrial Union Council; WilliamMark, Fountain Square: MartinGeisen, Elmwood Place: CharlesHaap. Price Hill; Irvin Wohlfrom,Cincinnati; Joseph Lehan andClarence Goyert, Walnut Hills.Michael Cunningham is chairman0the John Hancock district office.1EastHerbert, UOPW A regional repre-i.ioyi j Factor v Oii*# J *rrfseiftative now stationed in Cm- I //|*fff'P(/OI■#Nmmcinnati. will, establish his. headquarters there.During their fight for a 10-hourray the high-spirited factory girlsAfter a struggle of almost thrIlast century were forcedyears and considerable financiastart their own publicationsexpenditures, UOPW A finallyiget their story across to thesucceeded this vear in gettinNew York state insurance commission lawa.under which Metropolitan Lite operates, changetS from 4 W % to 6L% on month I ybusiness. This increase benefit150 Cincinnati agents.The union is now negotiatinubl ic. These definitions, whichppeared in The Factory Girl ofan. 15, 1843. showed what thetrig had to put up with‘•■Overseer—a servole tool in thea rids of an agent; one who wit to the lowest, meanest.for a new contract with the JohnHancock Life Insurance Co.whose agents, are almost100 - •/UOPW A. The first John H.rn-lost groveling measures to pleaseis master and to fill the cofferi a soulless corporation.“Operative—a person who ism ployed in a factory and whoatnerally earns three times asluch as she receives.* mlran overseer iI
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The Sun
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Aug 29, 1947
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