Blood Prodding Yet Equal: A Secretary's Cautionary Tale
A tongue in cheek memo from the CIO Council clerk laments blood type bias at the Red Cross while stressing universal equality. The piece ends urging daily brotherhood and the belief that all humans are God’s children.
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Johnnie Reb
Down Dixie Way
Johnnie
Red Cross
Eubanks Elected to California State CIO Council Board
Sam Eubanks former executive vice president of the American Newspaper Guild is elected to the executive board of the California State CIO Council. He serves as executive secretary of the San Francisco Oakland Guild local.
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San Francisco
Spa
Sam Eubanks
American Newspaper Guild
California State Cio Council
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Ike Labor Proposals Threaten Union Security
Educational Director Emma Ferrari outlines two presidential labor proposals that threaten union security. A government conducted strike vote and mandatory dues stoppage could undermine the right to strike and destabilize union finances and administration. The piece urges readers to contact Congress to oppose Taft Hartley amendments.
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Ike
Emma Ferrari
Acwa-Cio
H. Alexander Smith
N. J
Senate Labor Committee
Health Plan Filmstrip Available
Chicago LPA announces a color sound filmstrip In Pursuit of Health for union education on health and welfare plans. The two 15 minute strips come with a transcription and cost 5 dollars plus shipping from Roosevelt College Labor Education Division. Produced under a grant from the Inter University Labor Education Committee, the filmstrips require only a still projector and a record player for operation. Unions without a player can use the script for discussion leaders.
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Chicago
LPA
Labor Education Division
Roosevelt College
South Michigan Ave
Inter-University Labor Education Committee
AFL
CIO
Freedom Scroll Crusade Calls for Donations
A call to support the Crusade For Freedom urges readers to sign the Freedom Scroll and make financial contributions, framing Communism as dying when truth reveals its lies.
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Crusade For Freedom
Local 674 Members Plan Oldsters Dinner and Retiree Talk
At the Local 674 meeting Eddie Hellkamp proposed a special office gathering for retired members to reminisce and stay active with the union. A dinner for retirees was suggested, plus speeches by officers to show appreciation andPublicize the union. The note urged letters supporting HR 1401 to lower the Social Security retirement age, with action requested in March.
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Eddie Hellkamp
Local 674
Eddie
House of Representatives
Ways and Means Committee
Wage Chiseling Found Often Violations Reported
The Labor Department said 18 percent of employers studied in 1953 broke federal minimum wage rules, 51 percent violated overtime standards, and 95 percent failed to meet Davis Bacon act requirements on government construction projects.
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Washington
LPA
Labor Department
Department
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