Word: cio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt will participate in the meeting as will Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. He is expected to reiterate the appeal he made a week ago to CIO President John L. Lewis and Federation President William Green--that the warring labor factions sign a peace pact and unify under one banner for the common good of the people and the country...
Serious obstacles -- including those of dual unionism and an AFL -- CIO fight over whether any changes should be made in the Wagner Labor Relations Act--loomed on the are of the conference...
Each year on "famous women night," women students of small, coeducational Geneva College (Beaver Falls, Pa.) select a celebrity to honor. The college, which is in the heart of Pennsylvania's steel and CIO area, has thus warmly welcomed such ladies as the late Amelia Earhart, Mrs. Martin Johnson. But it proved too hot last week for the famous woman whom students chose to honor this year-Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...
...company has a CIO contract, and when a union official died, President Heil closed down the plant, half-masted the flag, went to the funeral. Julius Heil thinks he has as much social conscience as any man. When he set out to become Governor of Wisconsin, he said he wanted to become the State's general manager, to run it better. When Phil La Follette cried out against his "money bags," Candidate Heil replied typically: "Sure I'm a rich man. And I bet you wish you had more vultures like me who employ men and provide jobs...
...C.I.O. organizers (and other dissenters from the established Hague order) speak, solicit members, carry placards and otherwise exercise their Constitutional rights in Jersey City. Politico Lewis declared it high time to throw all Hagues out of the Democratic Party, to arrange a genuinely liberal political alignment of CIO...