The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-31

The International Labor Organization
adopted the Philadelphia Charter, pro-
posing principles of improved labor
standards, economic advancement and
social security.
Polltax repeal was defeated for an
other session of congress when the
senate voted against cloture.
Representatives of all organized
workers joined in resisting an NLRB
proposal that it amend it's rules TO
permit filing of election petitions by
employers, as requested by the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers.
President John l.. Lewis of United
Mine Workers (unafliliated) withdrew
his request for readmission to the AFL
after the AF'L executive council voted
against UNIV reentry on Lewis terms.
The world labor congress scheduled
to meet in London June ; was post
poned.
JUNE
Thousands of workers at the Brew
ster Aeronatical Corps Long Island
City plant were laid off when the navy
suddenly cancelled it's contract with
the company
Montgomery Ward & Co. told the
WLB it would not accept maintenance
of membership, compulsory arbitration
or the checkoff for the United Retail
Wholesale 4 Department Store En-
ployees (CIO), chosen by its Chicago
employees as collective bargaining
agent.
D-day welded the American labor
movement into rededicated home
front army behind the great Allied
army invading Europe.
A very fine cooperation exists in
the field between units of the AFL and
the CIO Political Action Committee,
Chairman Sidney Hillman said.
Final returns on the national refer
endum held by the international Typo
graphical Union showed a 29,295 to
23,260 vote in favor of return to the
AFlL.
Formation of the National Citizens
Political Action Committee, composed
of labor leaders and prominent pro-
gressive Americans outside the labor
movement, was indorsed by the CIO-
PAC.
The Republican national convention
nominated Thomas r. Dewey and John
w. BriclIer on a platform that ignored
labors demands for postwar coopera
tion of the United Nations and planned
production.
Former President Ray Edmundson
of Illinois District u, United Mine
| Workers (unaffiliated), announced he
would run against John l.. Lewis for
the UNIV presidency at the Septem-
Der convention.
President Roosevelt signed the com
promise price control bill, opposed by
labor, but warned he would ask for IN
amendment if enforcement was weak
ened by provisions written into the bill
by congressional infationists.
JULY
President Daniel j. Tobin of Inter
national brotherhood of Teamsters
| (AFL) called on the AFL and CIO to
resume unity negotiations.
Labor and progressives scored vic
tories in the primaries in Massachu
sets, Michigan, Minnesota, Oklahoma.
Utah and Washington.
Southern California AFL unions
were called on by the Joint Council of
Transfers to raise Il million dollar
postwar peace and prosperity fund to
assure jobs for all and high ma
tional income
| With the voice of labor sounding
loud in its deliberations, the Demo
cratic national convention nominated
President Roosevelt and Senator Harry
$. Truman
| Governor Thomas f. Dewey refused
to see delegation of hundreds of
workers, servicemen's wives, wounded
vets and prominent citizens who made
Il final plea for federal ballot for
New York soldiers.
Ellison ID. Cotton Ed Smith was
defeated in the South Carolina Demo-
cratic primary for the senate seat
which he has held since 1907.
AUGUST
Primary returns from New York.
MlSSotlTl anu NdIlSdS DTouSHt Victory
to five staunch supporters and one OPP
ponent of President Roosevelt, defeat
to latiOnist Senator Bennett Champ
Clark of Missouri and won COP re-
nomination for Representative Hamil
ton Fish of New York by the slimmest
margin i'm his career.
L. S. troops seized the Philadelphia
transportation system after 6-day
strike instigated by former company
union officials.
Six special AFL and CIO repre-
sentatives were chosen to tour Eng
land and the fighting fronts in France
to see the weapons produced by labor
i'm battle use.
The labor-backed Murray-Kilgore-
Truman reconversion bill was killed
by the senate, which passed in its
place the Taft-George states rights
bill.