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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1941
Page
2
The Joliet C I O Construction Workers group announces a recruitment drive to meet demand for skilled labor. It notes many members placed and contractors with contracts for homes and buildings. The Joliet local invites skilled workers to register and work at good wages.
The first C I O barber organization in Joliet was perfected this week with the Rob ert Downing shop at 60 W Jefferson St organizing and affiliating with the Committee Industrial Organization. Downing had long opposed entry into the American Federation of Labor and his shop windows were damaged by stones and bricks in past incidents.
The excerpt outlines union structures with no initiation fee and small monthly dues for members while workers receive wages aligned with the American Federation of Labor. It notes CI O construction workers' pay scales lower than AFL scales and cites at least six thousand Joliet Will county men as CI O members. It mentions Lockport oil refineries and steel workers taking paid vacations, all CI O aligned.
Red Cross volunteers will have folded a vast stock of surgical gauze and cotton for the United States Army. They have shipped more than 24,000,000 of 40,000,000 requested dressings to the army warehouse. The survey shows commercial producers meet only part of wartime needs, with civilian use driving most manufacture.
Odell Thom aged 29 of Loekpo and Florence Binan aged 28 of One Chicago, along with Harry Bernard Hinds 29 and Maxine B. Wright 27 both of Joliet, were issued licenses. Robert F. Johnson 22 of Chicago Heights and Lois J. Hartman 17 of Steger also listed. Joseph T. Gregorash 31 and Mary Ursula Schilty 25, both of unspecified locations, appear in the record.
Funeral services for Mrs Mary A McSherry 77 who died of a heart attack Tuesday night at her home will be held tomorrow morning at 9 from O Neil mortuary to St Mary s Catholic church for 9 30 mass Burial will be in Mt Olivet cemetery She was the widow of John McSherry and is survived by two sons John A Jr of Chicago and Vincent A Joliet one sister Mrs Charles Rogers and one brother John Giblin She resided at 312 N Chicago street and was a member of the Altar and Rosary society.
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