The Pittsburgh Press (October 27, 1944)
Labor ‘duped,’ UMW paper says
Washington (UP) –
The United Mine Workers’ Journal in a series of editorials in its last edition before the presidential election charged today that labor had been “duped and dumped by the Roosevelt administration” and “has been given no guarantee” of cabinet representation if Mr. Roosevelt is reelected.
The Journal, official organ of the UMW, also charged that Mr. Roosevelt if reelected may appoint Anna Rosenberg, New York, Secretary of Labor; that Senator Joseph H. Ball (R-MN), “deserted the Republican Party” to support Mr. Roosevelt in a “vote-getting deal at the White House” and that the War Labor Board “sought to perpetuate itself as a compulsory board of arbitration.”
The Journal identified Mrs. Rosenberg as a “personnel director for millionaire department store owners” who was appointed by the President to the CIO-AFL Labor Victory Committee and described her as “the President’s labor advisor.”