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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Surprise, Surprise---
Corporate Profits
Doing Very Veil
By Federated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 = The
Commerce Department Nov. % re-
ported "an unexpected and remark
able achievement" Not so unex-
pected to labor, the achievement
was this: profits as usual.
After all taxes are allowed for
net corporate profits for the first
nine months of 1912 will be some
$50 less than the relatively high
level of 1941."
Then, coming as close to bubbling
over as a Commerce Department
report could and at the same time
preserve its reputation for re-
straint, it adds;
the maintenance of profits
at so little below last years level
represents an unexpected and re-
markable achievement"
Profits before taxation rose 400.
Net profits were 4,903 million dol
lars as compared to $3.50 millions
for the like period of 1941. All in
all, the Commerce Department felt
it safe to say with complete OBJ
jectivity:
"There is no confirmation from
the facts now available that either
the war or high taxes are destroy
ing the profitability of American
business"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Lawyers Guild
Backs Anti
Trust Suit
By Federated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 10-Support
of the Justice Departments anti
trust suit against the Associated
Press, which grew out Of a COM
plant filed by the Federated Press
early this year, has ben pledged by
the national executive board Of the
National Lawyers Guild, at meet
ing on Nov. %.
The board adopted a resolution
stating that the contention of the
Associated Press that the govern
ment's antitrust against it is a
violation Of freedom of press is
without foundation"
Appointment of a special COM
mittee by Guild President Robert
W.Kenny to study and report on
the general question of freedom Of
the press and the dissemination of
news in wartime also was author
lied.
More vigorous prosecution by the
Justice Department of persons and
state officials responsible for lynch
ing and Of state officials response
bic for disfranchisement of Negro
citizens was demanded in a report
adopted by the board.
A committee will be sent to visit
Atty. Gen. Francis Biddle, the Sec
retaries of War and Navy and other
government agencies charged with
the administration Of the war ef-
fort to urge that firmer steps be
taken against discrimination and
that it be eliminated from govern
ment agencies.
The essence of the war mobiliza-
tion plan containd in the Tolan
committee report and the Tolan-
Pepper-Kilgore bills was approved
by the board but it proposed that
this plan be instituted by executive
order of President Roosevelt in
order to seed maximum production.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Labor Ian agement
Groups Up 9.l%
In Month
By Federated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10-Wal
production drives are being organ.
lied in 1888 war plants by labor.
management committees, the War
Production Board said recently
They represent more than 100000
workers.
Numbers of committees increased
9.1% in October. The 100 newest
plants boasting labor-management
committees, made public by the
WPB, include 18 mines in Pennsyl-
vania organized by United Mine
Workers Iunaffiliatedl.
Labor and MANAGEMENT commit
tee stimulus is extended to the
work of 100000 shipyard workers
in all.
Over half of the 100 committees
are in plants averaging 1000 work
ers to the plant.
Among the plants newly listed
are the U. S. Navy Yard, Naval
Aircraft factory, Philadelphia, the
U. S. Naval air station, Quonset
Point, R. L., the U. S. Navy Yard,
Charleston, S. c., U. S. Naval Am
munitions depot, Portsmouth, Va,
U. S. Naval mine depot, Yorktown,
Va, and the Postal Telegraph
Gable Co., San Francisco, under
contract to the American Comuni-
cations Association CIOl.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Hoorded Steel
Now Emerging
From Factories
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 The
United Steelworkers' (CIO) oft re-
iterated complaint that hu 6 e
amounts of steel were being hoard
ed in excessive inventories without
the War Production Boards doing
anything about it has an interest
ing sequel.
Without trace of red face, the
WPB Nov. 90 let it be known that
large amounts of steel are being
released by the hoarders and show
ing up in the production system as
a result of the announcement of
WPB Controlled Materials Plan. 1t
makes boarding of metals purpose
less.
AS it doesn't go into effect until
April and will not be fully function
ing even then, corporations which
have been holding out steel are
rushing to get it in use before that
time. For GIMP restricts the
amounts used in any period to the
amount allowed in a bill of mate
rials submitted in advance by the
plant.
At the same time Director Les
sing j. Rosenwald, WPB conserva-
tion division, said in reply to CIO
President Philip Murray's charge
that scrap dealers yards are over
stocked (while they wait in hopes
of prices rising), that this was be-
ing investigated. The government
is prepared to start stockpiles of
its own.
Despite the newfound steel ap-
pearing in production and the re-
suits of scrap drives, in which or
ganized labor is doing a tremen-
dous job, the much improved situa-
tion in steel should not make for
complacency, officials said
Senator Claude Pepper 3D., Ala.),
presiding over subcommittee of
the Senate Education and Labor
Committee hearing witnesses on the
Tolan-P -Pepper-Kilgore bills, implied
that steel executives hold secret
meetings in which they center on
caring for old customers and estab-
fishing postwar positions.
He asked Chairman Ferdi-
nand Eberstadt, WPB,if he knew of
such meetings. Eberstadt didn't,
and added he knew they weren't
held at the WPB. Pepper then said
they could be held at a remote
club"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Free War Work
Training PIanned
For 100000
By Federated Press

More than 100 million dollars
will be spent on training for war
production 100000 men and
women now working in non-essen-
tial industrials, the American Vo-
cational Association announced to
1000 educators at its annual con-
vention in Toledo, Dec. 2.
Two-thirds of the new trainees
will be women, said Association
President John j. Seidel, who also
revealed that a training program
was being developed for jobless
workers in New York and other
areas.
The training courses will be free
and open to any person II years or
older regardless of previous ex-
perience in any professional or
technical field.
Vocational education is expand
ing tremendously under stimulus of
the war effort, said DR.. John C.
Wright, assistant commissioner of
vocational education in the U. S.
Office of Education.
More than 100000 persons were
enrolled in U. S. financed vocation
al classes during the fiscal year
ending last June 80. In addition
there were 4,134,558 persons en-
rolled in pre-employment and sup
Elementary training courses.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Chris+mos Party
PIons Near
Completion

Plans announced last week by
the Christmas Party Committee for
the children of Local II are rapid.
ly being completed according to
Edward Courturiere, Chairman OF
the committee.
Purchases of goodies and toys to
gladden. the heart of the children
have been made by the committee
and more members than ever
turned out for the last Monday
night meeting to further the work
of the committee of making the
party the biggest and best ever at
tempted by the Local.
"No efforts have been spared to
make the party a great success" F."
said chairman Courturiere, "our
members are turning out in great
shape and working to put this
thing over in way that will linger
long in the memories of both the
kiddies and their parents"
Plans have been made by the
committee to pack the candy boxes
on Friday, Dec. IS. Brother Cour-
turiere in discussing the work to
be done for the party said, 81 hope
that many of the members of our
Local will volunteer to give us a
hand in getting boxes and gifts
ready for the party" He asks that
all volunteers who can do so report
on December Is, and help out with
the big task. Sixty volunteers
could get the job done in two hours
according to the chairman.
The Christmas party will be
held this year on Sunday afternoon,
December 20, at the Civic Audito-
rum beginning at 200 p. m. Local
12's band, under the direction of
Director Carman Broderick, will
furnish music, and fat, red-faced
Santa Claus will distribute tons of
goodies, candies, toys and fruits
to all the children.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Catholic Paper
Blasts Proposed
hewsprint Cut
BY Federated Press

SEATTLE, Dec. 10-Protesting
against the publisher dominated
WPB Newspaper Industry Advisory
Committee and its proposed 101z
horizontal cut in newsprint con-
sumption, Social Action, indepen-
dent Catholic monthly newspaper
printed in Seattle, pointed out:
"We in the Northwest know
there is no real pulp log shortage.
Social Action has in its files abso-
lutte proof that there is not even a
manpower shortage in the woods.
More than half the Northwest log
ging operators have failed to live
up to President Roosevelt's demand
for 48-hour weekly production be-
cause they would have to pay eight
hours per week overtime"
The Catholic newspaper also said
that if shortage is shown to exist
and curtailment is necessary, "be-
fore a single publication that is an
expression of opinion /. is cur
tailed in its allotment Of newsprint,
we favor the risque, dirty, moronic
magazines dealing in filth, murder
or so-called comics, being put on
the shelf for the duration"
Social Action pointed out that
capitalist dominated newspapers
could easily stand a cut in news
print by dropping few pages or
eliminating an extra edition. Cap
italist opinion would not be muz-
zled. But with labor papers and
other organs of minority opinion
+. curtailmentwould create a
definite threat to freedom of ex-
preston"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
City Council ignores CIO Candidate
Scale Employees
To Continue
Activities
Will Meet
Each Month

Despite loss of the election last
Friday, Dec. 4, to the Scale work
ers of Ohio, Inc, Scale Co. en-
ploye members of Local IL will
maintain their ranks and seek new
members.
Walter Murphy, president Of Lo-
cal IL, discussing the election said,
II believe we have a number OF
well founded grounds for protesting
last Fridays election. However
Scale Co. employees will soon real
ize the value of a national labor
organization over that of a purely
local nature"
Commenting further, President
Murphy said, "Our organization is
recognized by the federal govern
ment and our members are playing
prominent parts not only in the
production phase of the war, but
in important advisory posts in the
government"
President Murphy pointed out
that other Toledo industries such
as the Champion, DeVilbiss, Ma
tional Supply and others all went
through the same process as the
Toledo Scale Co. union and came
out victorious in the end.
"Due to the fact that many
Scale Co. employees have requested
additional information since the
election" said President Murphy,
1--WE are encouraged to believe they
will eventually remedy their first
error, once they realize where their
real interests lie."
Monthly meetings of Scale Co.
employees will be held at Local IL,
425 Winthrop ST., with date and
time to be mentioned in this paper.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
APP Finances False
Front Farmer Groups,
Saw Government
By Federated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 The
Department of Justice has name
for the seemingly earnest group OF
citizens used from time to time by
the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Co. to publicize their propaganda
The A&P financed these "false-
front farmer, consumer and house
wife organizations, civic clubs and
other groups" and prepared pub
licity and propaganda for them to
issue, it is charged in federal
Indictment returned in Dallas.
The New York company, IL sub
sidiaries and 16 officers and di-
rectors were named The indict-
ment provides study in monopoly.
The group is charged with every
thing from controlling policies and
practices of food production and
distribution over the whole coun-
try, to systematic short-changing
and weighing.
Refinements of their law-violat-
ing,a federal grand jury claims, in
clude publishing statements Great
ing false comparisons between their
prices and others and coercing
sellers into paying them brokerage
fees for produce bought.
A&P operates 6,412 retail stores
in 3,436 cities, which sell 1870
of total grocery sales in the U. S.
Not to mention all their processing
and manufacturing concerns.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Lickendorf
Strike Settled
Company Agrees To
Union Demands

Striking employees of the Licken.
dorf Hardware Co., 1927 Monroe
ST., returned to work Monday after
nine-day strike for recognition
and higher wages.
The strikers, members of Local
IA, CIO, called their strike after
several attempts had been made to
get a settlement and recognition,
including submission of their case
to Edwin Ruffin, head of the To-
ledo Industrial Peace Board.
Settlement was effected by in
creases in wages ranging from 8 to
10 per cent and recognition of the
union as the bargaining agent fol
the employees.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Names Bryce
For Carey's
Place

George c. Bryce who defeated by Prosecutor Thomas
OConnor the non-partisan Judicial ballot in the No
veber election named by partisan city council
to take the place of former Mayor John O. Carey who
elected on the non-partisan judicial ballot Nov. g.
Thomas Burke financial secretary of Local IL CO.
nominated by Councilman Ollie Czelusta and drew voe
Czelustas, the first ballot
Councilman Michael Disable who had placed the of
John Kelly in nomination. Burke his vote the 4th
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Hit McNutts
Bad Labor
Record
CIO. Not In Fauor Of Appointment
By Federated Press

DETROIT-The vicious anti-labor record of Paul " Nc
Mutt just appointed manpower and seectve service die
by President Roosevelt and also his stand the
issue Negro discrimination blasted by UAWCIO Of
fcias his latest promotion became known in De-
trot AFL comment was moderate.
Paul SteMarie president of Rouge Ford Local 6O0 arg
est in the UAWCIO called the FDR appointment of McNu
slap in the of labor which undeserved and he
feared that before labor will submit dicta
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Feed Ships Survivors

NEW YORK (FP)-Ships' cooks
and stewards prepared and deliver
ed Thanksgiving Day dinners to
450 survivors of torpedoed freight
ers in United Seamen's Service rest
homes in this area
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11

WASHINGTON-CIO President
Philip Murray protested white
washing of the lumber situation by
the organized industry and WPB
lumber officers before the senate
committee investigating the war
program.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11

PATERSON, N. J.-Assisted by
the recently formed Confederated
independently Unions of America,
100 delegates from New Jersey
company unions formed a fedora
tion for "self protection against
the raids of nationally affiliated
unions and to help independent
unions get the recognition of gov
ernment labor agencies"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11

WASHINGTON-The Presi-
dent will urge congress to more
fully implement a cardinal point
of his 7-point program in 1943,
extending the $4,000 net salary
limitation to investment incomes.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11

..PHILADELPHIA-A suit for
AN0,000 has been filed in U. S.
ct court here by the Brewster
Enautical Corp. against former
officers of the company who were
ousted by the U. S. Navy last
spring for failure to operate its
plants efficiently.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Continued on Page 2

INDIANAPOLIS (FP) - Union
printing shops will roll out 1870
900 items of supply for the 1943
Red Gross War Fund, according to
records of the American Red Cross.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Gas RatiOning

Roy Geller, employed in the
metalurgical department at
the w. o. Plant, will gladly
answer your questions rela-
tive to gasoline rationing. He
may be reached at GA. 4304
or at the rationing board in
the Indiana School, phone
GA. 1888.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Urges Congress
To Crack Down
On Labor
BY MIRIAM KOLKIN
BY Federated Press

NEW YORK. Dec 1Th National Association of Manufacturers
the second its annual convention here Dec unanimously
solved ask the newly elected Congress substitute heel
antlabor policy for the present government policy
confusing extraega decisions by the War Labor
handling problems"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Nelson Urges First
Holiday of Year at Wdr
BY Federated Press

BY Federated Press
Observation-Disclosures
Donald Nelson, War Produc-
ton Board, Nov. 27, said he
thought all war workers
should take a holiday on
Christmas Day. During this
year of war there have been
no full holidays in war pro-
duction," he said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11

across the continent"
President Frank Davis of Lin
coin Ford Local 900 declared: "Our
local is entirely out of sympathy
with any kind of labor program
that would be administered by Nc
Mutt"
Detailed charges against Nc
Nuts fitness to hold the job of
labor-drafting dictator were made
~Research Director Emil Mazoy
NJ Nhe UAW-CIO Dept. Mazoy
When McNutt was governor of
Indiana, he had martial law in
force almost throughout his term
in his endeavor to smash the
unions and he sent in his militia
wherever there was an important
strike. Don't think that labor, both
CIO and AFL, has forgotten this.
He was known all over the land
as the Hoosier Hitler.
"Since he became chairman of
the War Manpower Commission he
has done nothing in his own office
to enforce President Roosevelt's
order against discrimination in hir-
ing of Negroes. His office is one
of the worst offenders in Wahing-
ton. We don't see why a man with
such an un-American record should
have been placed in command over
labor and the draft machinery"
President Frank x. Martel of
the Detroit & Wayne County Fed
GRAFTON of Labor commented on
McNutt's advancement:
"While there were some things
in his administration as governor
of Indiana that aggrieved organ
lied labor, Mr.. McNutt was on his,
own there. In his new post he will
be responsible to President Roose-
velt and if any abuses creep into
his administration organized labor
will doubtless make representa-
tions to the President and ask that
the abuses be corrected or that Mr..
McNutt be removed"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11

credited by the NAM with breeding
strife.
The resolution also condemned
an imaginary situation created by
the phony statistics of the NAM re-
search Department. "Bottleneck
strikes still cripple the war effort,
The time has come when labor must
stop all strikes hindering war pro-
duction."
DISAPPROVE EVERYTHING
The cloed shop, picketing, the
maintenance of membership clause
and election of union officers by
secret ballot likewise met with
NAM disapproval. The resolution
concluded with the appeal to Con-
gress to take over eff the above
evils are not voluntarily corrected
by those responsible for them"
An hour before the resolution
was passed, NAM members polite
ly applauded Manpower Director
Paul V. McNutt's plea for their CO.
operation with government and la
Dor in furthering the war produc-
ton program.
The MANS anti-labor-as-usual
policy was elaborated on by Presi-
dent Wilfred Sykes of Inland
Steel Co., which is the most stub
bornly anti-union among the Little
Steel firms and which unsuccess-
fully challenged the legality of
orders asst summer.
"The last thing to be expected of
anyone talking to an audience such
as this would be an attack on la
bor," said Sykes, who then proceed
ed to attack the AFL, CIO, NWLB,
Wagner Act and labor management
committees.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
ACCUSE MURRAY

"The CIO, under the leadership
of Mr.. Murray, is actively attempt
ing to foster class hatred. One has
only to read his speeches and ex-
anime the publications issued by
the unions directly under his con-
troll to discover how the well-known
methods of Goebbels are being used
for this purpose" he said.
On labor-management commit
tees Sykes said: "This idea must
be rejected, not because it is the
idea of one labor group, but be-
cause management must remain
management To sovetize it
by making every decision the sub
ject of debate and discussion will
destroy the whole system of free
enterprise, because it will bring it
to point whre management can
not function.
''The constructive work being
done in the war effort is almost
entirely by men from manage
ment. The destructive forces have
other origins"
Sykes proposed a series of
amendments to the Wagner act
which would make it fit material
for the paper salvage campaign.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-11
Seeks Injunction on Vote

Continued on Page 2, Column 2
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19

FL Centro'S streets and alleys are
becoming SO Uttered with trash that
the city council Wednesday night
decided to initiate the second clean
up campaign within recent months
Charles A. Bratton, city health
commissioner, pleaded for help to
solve the tangled trash problem and
in return was given the suggestion
that for the second time the city
pull two trucks and crews off other
work and put them to work along
with the garbage and trash con-
tractor in the job of cleaning the
city.
Councilmen were agreed that n
large share Of fault in keeping the
alleys clean lies with the people,
who have been leaving many things
out for collection which, under his
contract, the collection agent need
not remove
They blamed the failure of the
last campaign on the varied time
in which things were put out to be
carted off by the city and private
trucks.
Many times, they said, refuse
would be placed in the alleys after
the clean-up trucks had passed
along AS result within few
days after the streets and alleys
had been cleaned they were i'll as
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Parents Find Need
For Woodshed

WHISKEYVILLE, Calf, Nov. 49,
-tU.PD-The parents of three boys,
ages 4, 5 and 8, had good use for
the Woodshed today when they
found out the cost of damage the
lads caused during one afternoon
in the home of Mrs. Margaret Rup-
precht.
Here's what happened
They took a meat cleaver and
chopped l,p the chairs.
Then they put her clothing in
the middle of the floor and opened
up cans cf fruit and poured the
contents on the clothing. They
removed pictures from the walls
and smeared them with fruit. They
opened a sack of flour and mixed
up batter, only to give up their at
tempt at baking and discard the
dough on the pile of clothing, fruit
and pictlTes.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
weygand Arrested,
Taken TO Germany

LONDON, Nov. 19-(UP)-Radio
Rome said today that Gen. Maxine
Weygand has been arrested and
taken to Germany.
The Italian report was attributed
to authoritative circles in Berlin"
The Rome report quoted the Ger
man sources as saying "one Giraud
Gen. Henri Giraud. French war
hero now leading the French Allied
forces in North Africa is quite
enough for us
According to fighting French
underground sources here. Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain called Wey +
gand to Vichr and asked him 10 as
sumo command Of the French army
&c days ago, just 48 hours after
the opening of the American Of
fensive. Weygand was said to have
refused the command.