Know Your Fees- Firms Fought Jobless Pay in Ohio
The Ohio Information Committee reports the Ohio Interest Committee spent $400,903.24 opposing the CIO backed bill to raise unemployment compensation. Local contributions near $129,000 in Cuyahoga County, with major outlays for advertising and organized activity. Large donors include General Motors, Ford, Westinghouse, and multiple Ohio-based manufacturers and retailers in a campaign potentially totaling around $1,000,000.
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Unemployed in Pittsburgh face inadequate jobless pay study reveals
A Duquesne University study of 400 unemployed Pittsburgh workers shows weekly benefits of 30 dollars left families short for food and housing. Most cut spending 21 to 32 percent, exhausted savings, cashed bonds, or tapped life insurance. many relied on gifts and surplus food. Officials argue for broader Ohio unemployment laws.
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Tumken Roller Bearing
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Wheeling Steel
Armco Steel
Libby- Owens-Ford Glass
Jones & Laughlin Steel
F. & R. Lazarus Co
Baldwin Piano Co
Owens-Illinois
Cincinnati Milling Machine Co
Fifth-Third Union Trust Co
Thos. Emery’s Sons, Inc
Jeffrey Mfg. Co
Federal Glass Co
Columbus Coated Fabrics Corp
Hazel- Allas Glass Co
National Distillers Products Corp
Borden CO
Buckeye Steel Casting Co
Owens-Corning Fiber Glass Corp
Surface Combustion
Shillito’s
Kroger
Champion Spark Plug Co
Ohio Boxboard Co
National Biscuit Co
Mosaic Tile Co
Columbus Bolt & Forging Co
Ohio National Bank
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Formica Co
Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co
Mullins Mfg. Co
Sharon Steel Corp
General Fire Proofing Co
the Union
Columbus Dept
Ohio Brass Co
Copperweld Steel Co
Albers Markets
Banco, Inc
Dana Corp
G. C. Murphy
Marble Cliff Quarries
Bendix Westinghouse
Rockwell Mfg. Co
J. C. Penny Co
E. ¥. du Pont de Memours
General Tire & Rubber Co
B. F. Goodrich Co
Deshler-Hilton Hotel
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
U.S. Gypsum Co
American Aggregates Corp
Thew Shovel Co
H. & S. Pogue Co
Aeronca Mfg. Co
Gardner Board & Carton Co
Eastern Greyhound Lines
Champion Paper & Fiber Co
City Loan & Savings Co
Industrial Rayon Corp
F. E. Myers & Bro. Co
Diamond Alkali Co
Ohio State Medical Association
Ohio State Council of Retail Merchants
Champion Spark Club
W. T. Grant Co
Williams Mfg. Co
Pure Oil Co
Neil House
Higbee Co
Chase Brass & Copper Co
National Steel Corp
Whirlwind Seeger Corp
Empire Steel Corp
Crosley & Bendix
Cleveland Chevrolet
Western Electric Co
Kroger Co
Union Carbide & Carbon Corp
United Engineering & Foundry Co
Ohio Edison
Cincinnati Galvanizing Co
Scio Pottery Co
Halle Bros. Co
Master Electric Co
Doyle, Lewis & Werner
Gulf Refining Co
Ohio Power Co
Sylvania Electric Products Co
Warner & Swazye Co
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