The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-08-29
By Federated Press
SEPTEMBER

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cluding unemployment compensation
of $25 for 26 weeks, the full employ
ment bill, permanent FEPC and a
higher minimum wage standard.
Deriding prophets of GLOOM" AFL
President William Green in his an
nual Labor Day speech said the ma
tion would march forward to "better
days" and win the peace. Jobs for
all was the central demand of Labor
Day parades throughout the country.
After a six-year court battle, the
Merchants & Manufacturers Associa-
tion, dedicated since it's formation in
1896 to the open shop, was found
guilty of violating almost every sec
tion of the Wagner Act.
Twin drives for $2-a-day increases
for their almost two million members
were launched by United Steelwork-
ers and United Electrical Radio &
Machine Workers. The United Auto
Workers and United Farm Equip
ment & Metal Workers announced 80
per cent wage increase demands.
OCTOBER
Delegates from unions in 50 coun-
tries representing more than so mil
lion workers unanimously voted into
being the World Federation of Trade
Unions and made Paris it's perma-
nent headquarters.
President Truman ordered navy
seizure of 26 strike-bound oil pro-
ducing and refining companies after
they rejected an arbitration proposal
which had been accepted by Oil
Workers International Union.
New York Harbor was paralyzed
for II days by rank and-file strike
of 10000 longshoremen and other
dock workers despite efforts of Jo-
seph P. Ryan, lifetime president of
International Longshoremen's Asso-
citation, to get the men back to work.
Proof that U. S. industry could
grant 20 per cent wage increase and
still keep net profits at level twice
as high as in 1869 was offered by
an Office of War Mobilization & Re-
conversion Advisory Committee.
The AFL Executive Council au-
thorized major wage increase drive,
suspended the International Associa-
tion of Machinists and elected Presi-
dent David Dubinsky of International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union to
council vacancy.
Nearly 10000 people turned out for
picket line demonstration against a |
Gerald L. X. Smith rally in Los An
geles.
NOVEMBER
The National Maritime Union gave
the government until Dec. 1 to speed
up CT rehabilitation. Otherwise, it
warned, it's crews would work only on
troopships and refuse to man COM
mercial vessels.
Opening of the National Labor
Management Conference saw the CIO
fight to get discussion of the wage
issue on the agenda against opposi-
tion by the AFL, John l.. Lewis and
management.
Edward j. Jeffries was reelected to
his fourth two-year term as mayor of
Detroit by $1,000 majority over
Vice President Richard T. Franken-
steen of United Auto Workers.
United Auto Workers shut down
115 plants of General Motors Corp.
as Americas biggest union battled
the worlds largest corporation for a
80 per cent wage increase.
Turning out to NLRB polls in the
biggest mass strike vote in the ma
tion's history, more than a million
United Steelworkers members voted
nearly to 1 to strike for 81 daily
wage boost
The greatest employment decline in
its statistics gathering history was
by the National Industrial
Conference Board, which recorded
12.1 per cent slump in a September
survey of 25 manufacturing indus
tries.
DECEMBER
President Truman's proposal for
fact-inding committees and cooling
off periods to prevent strikes brought
quick and unanimous disapproval
from all of labor. :
Under its unanimous voting rule,
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defeated three resolutions on the
wage issue, announced complete dis
agreement between industry and
union delegates on it's three outstand-
ing committee reports and adjourned
after 26 days of discussion.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers Convention coined a new
phrase, equality under the law" to
mask it's plan for frontal assault
On organized labor in 1916 and elect
ed Robert r. Wason as it's new presi-
dent.
Wage boosts for the nations ship
builders to help meet the increased
cost of living were demanded by AFL
and CIO union leaders at a national
conference.
JANUARY
Walkouts and strike threats by
more than two million workers in