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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
No+ional Body
Meets at Local IL
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Local TIA, Detroit, recording secre-
tary; William Bowling, Local IA,
Toledo, sergeant-at-arms; ely d e
Watkins, Local 468, Buchanan,
Mich, trustee.
Following were elected as boar-
members large: Lester Reed, Lo-
cal ia, Detroit; Dan Jerne, Local
46S, Buchanan, Mich; Carl Schick,
Local IL, Toledo; Verlin Malott,
Local 2S7, Muncie, Ind; Francis
Nelson, Local II, Toledo.
All Toledo officers are members
of Spicer Unit.
o. J. Pecord, managing editor OF
the Toledo Union Journal, spoke to
the meeting and urged all officers
to have their members write their
congressman protesting H. S. 653,
the first anti-labor bill to reach the
floor of Congress in its present
session.
Following cities were represented
at the meeting: Muncie, Ind; De-
troit, Lansing, Pontiac, Mich, and
Toledo.
Delegates decided to hold their
next quarterly meeting at Local
174, Detroit, Mich, in June.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Women Want
ToSaiI again
By Federated Press

NEW YORK - Women sailors
are begging for the right to re-
turn to their posts as stewardesses
on ships journeying through dan
ger zones.
That's what Port Agent D. E.
Williams of San Francisco told the
annual meeting of the CIO Ma
tional Maritime Unions national
council here Jan. f9. If the govern
ment would revoke its order, is
sued after Pearl Harbor, banning
women from dangerous sea vo-
yages, he said, it would help solve
the problem of manning the new
Liberty ships being turned out on
the west coast.
Between 800 and 400 women
with sea experience are available,
Williams said. Liberty ships carry
nine in the stewards department
and he suggested that eight of
these be women with a male chief
steward to supervise them.
Williams pointed to the example
of Russian women, who have be-
come engine workers, gunners and
even shippers, as well as steward
esses.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Demand For
SuoduicunuI
Probe Pressed
Union Wants
Story Run Down
Bx Federated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 2-Voicing
extreme qualification" at Admiral
William F. Halsey's reputation OF
newspaper stories slandering the
Natl, Maritime Union (CIO), NMU
president Joseph Curran repeated
his demand Jan. % that Atty. Gen.
Francis Biddle investigate the
source of the story.
Halsey, commander of U. S.
forces in the South Pacific, told
the Navy Dept. there was no basis
for stories that an NMU crew re-
fused to unload ship in Guadal-
canal on Sunday because it was
against union rules.
"We maintain that this story
was Hitler-inspired and was pro-
NOTED by the 9th column press in
an effort to shatter civilian morale
and slander merchant seamen who
have already lost more men pro-
portionately, through enemy ac-
ton, than any other armed serv-
ice" Curran said.
"We now reiterate our demand
for an investigation into the source
of this story by Atty. Gen. Biddle
and we expect every newspaper
that printed the original falsehood
to give Admiral Halsey's state
ment, in the spirit of fair play
equal prominence and to run it ir
full.n
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Tories Begin Drive To Knock
Out Presidents $4,000 Limit

originated with the Communist
party in 1928.
"Revival-Early in 1912 leaders
Of the CIO labor union breathed
new life into the Communist-born
proposal and sprang it with COM
plete Endorsement.
Mrs, Roosevelt Thereupon
Mrs. Roosevelt approved the plan
IN newspaper statements although
she indicated that she did not
think the President himself should
be required to carry on under the
limitation" >"
This type Of misrepresentation
and distortion continues for 80
pages. But lest its readers get the
idea that the pamphlets hackers
are against the workers, it says:
Who are the top salaried business
executives Of the country? Cen
orally speaking, they are the re-
sponsible heads, the active work
ers, who keep the Wheels" etc.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
AL cIO Unite
TO Combof
.Absen+eeism
BY Federated Press

CLEVELAND-United action on
the issue of absenteeism was as
sured here when the Cleveland Fed
Grafton of Labor appointed a COM
mittee Of 10 AFL leaders to work
out a joint program with a CIO
committee.
The main causes of absenteeism
can be traced to bad working con-
ditions and inadequate health fla.
cilities, District President Matthew
De More of the international Asso-
citation of Machinists pointed out.
Much Of it could be eliminated
if the companies provided medical
care and disqualification for the
workers." he said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Charge Timber
Operators Make
Own Shortage
BY Federated Press

GREEN BAY, Wis.,-Charges
that upper Michigan and Wis
consin timber operators are de-
nuding the timber industry of
skilled workers because of business
as-usual practices were placed be-
fore a Natl. War Labor Board
panel here.
The hearings, to determine
wages for the entire Michigan and
Wisconsin timber operations, were
asked by the Init. Woodworkers
(CIO).
Faced by serious lumber short
age, the operators continue low
wage policies and refuse to join
with the union in establishing la
bor-management committees, thus
depriving the industry of skilled
workers-who are leaving by the
hundreds for better paying jobs,
the union charged.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Meet The New (
Monpower :
Critics
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON - Six out Of
seven named Jan. 26 to a Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee to in
vestigate manpower can be classed
either as anti-labor, anti-New Deal,
anti-war or, at the least, conserva-
tive. The exception is Senator The
odore F, Green, Democrat, Rhode
Island.
Others are John H, Bankhead ii,
Democrat, Alabama; Carl Hayden,
Democrat, Arizona; Elmer Thomas,
Democrat, Oklahoma; Millard E.
Tydings, Democrat, Maryland; Ger
aid Nye, Republican, North Dakota;
C. Wayland Brooks, Republican,
Illinois; and Harold H. Burton, Re-
publican, Ohio.
Nye and Brooks are what is eu-
phemistically termed pre- Pearl
Harbor isolationists. Bankhead and
Thomas are leaders of the vested
farm bloc. Tydings is assiduously
quoted in the defeated press.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON-With all the
window-dressing about how the
President stole a plank from the
Communist party platform when
he limited salaries to $4,000
(S25,000 after all taxation), the
tory drive TO repeal the limitation
began Jan. %.
Rep. Bertrand w. Gearhart
(R.-Cal.), a member Of the power
full house ways and means commit
tee, which was TO begin hearings
on the soak-the-poor Ruml plan
shortly, introduced the measure as
an amendment to the treasury
sponsored bill to increase the pub
lie debt limit from 1926 billions to
S2l0 billions. The reactionaries
thus hold pistol at the treasury's
head.
Virtually sobbing over the plight
of the motion picture stars who
would undergo great sacrifices il
the $4,000 limitation isn't re-
pealed, Gearhart in general fol
lowed the theme of pamphlet
"The Case Against the S25,00C
Salary Limitation" widely dis
tributed here recently in plain en-
yelopes that bore no return ad
dress.
Blame Communists
Opening with a summary, tn,
pamphlet states:
"Origin-The plan to confiscatr
all income (including salaries) il
the United States above $25,00
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Union Show
Breoks Records
A+Army Comp
Cadets ClamOr
For More
By Federated Press

LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 25-
It's entertainment with union la
be- now at Bowman Field, air
training base near here. And the
air cadets are clamoring for more.
Edward H. Weyler of the Ken
tucky Federation of Labor had the
idea, and the workers education
committee of the Louisville Central
Labor Union put it to work. Wey-
ler noticed that soldiers at the
field were mighty bored with the
sort of entertainment at the camps
recreation hall. With the committee
from the cenral body, WeyIer went
to work. Within a few weeks, they
had a breezy song and dance revue
with cast of workers, and with
songs and script by unionists.
After one performance at the
camp, the union show couldn't
leave. It's now a regular two-a-
week affair and nearby Camp
Knox and USO centers here are
clamoring for a peek at it.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Teeth In Rent
Regulations

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (Spe-
eiaD-There's real teeth in the
regulations affecting rent control
if tenants really decide to go to
court.
Inquiries at the Rent Section of
the Office of Price Administration
in Washington reveal that each
month tenant is overcharged, is
considered a seperate violation.
In Grand Rapids, Michigan re-
Gently a local court granted a
tenant $425 although the monthly
overcharge was $5. The landlord
also had to pay court and attorney
fees. In another case in the same
city, a landlord had to pay tenant
1925.
Regulations provide for treble
damages-damages is estimated at
actual rental charged less the legal
maximum rental as of the Fair
Rent Date--or $50, whichever is
higher.
In the event of intimidation by
landlord, tenants can also press
criminal charges. Thus, if a threat
is made that no heat or other Gus
tomary services will be provided
because rent increases are now out,
penalties as high as two years inn
prisonment and $4,000 fine may
legally be applied if the proper
court so rules.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Maximum War Production
Requires Sound
Labor Relations
NLRB Answers Those
Who Would Stop
Collective Bargaining
BY Federated Press


WASHINGTON - The NLRB's
answer to those who would deprive
labor of its hard-won rights of col
lective bargaining for the wars
duration is contained in the boards
seventh annual report issued
Jan. "a.
at has sometimes been sug-
gested that the normal procedures
of the board should be relaxed, "
said Chairman H. A. Mills, COM
menting on the report, "in the
emergency. 1t has been argued
that the holding of a representa-
tion hearing and an election .
would be prejudicial to war produc-
tion."
Boards Duty
The board, however, "in the in
terest of the sound labor relation
ships which are conducive to indus
trial peace and maximum war pro-
duction," he said, proceeded with
cases according to the law, expedit-
ing machinery and speeding war
plant cases.
"In wartime as in peace it is the
duty of the board to prevent unfair
labor practices" Mills said. In
general the courts have agreed
with the boards view that full en-
forcement of the act is essential
for production, particularly in view
of labor's REIMBURSEMENT of the
right to strike, he said.
Election Cases Lead
The board handled more cases
than ever before. For the first time
election cases were in the majority
l-6,0l0 as against 4,967 unfair
labor practice cases. Representa-
ton cases increased 309o as against
| 80 in increase of the latter. In the
fiscal year ending June 30 last
10,977 new cases were filed.
The board issued 95l decisions II
representation during the year
1870 more than in 194l. A majority
1920, were settled informally, usu
ally by a union card check against
payrolls. "It is significan. that IL
approximately 75fe of the elections
there was no contest between un
ions," said Mills.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Hospital Wages
Due For Lift
by Federated Press

WASHINGTON-The tradition
ally substandard wages of hospitals
are slated for lift, Because of the
many requests, from hospitals for
wage increase orders to retain their
staffs go from California alone)i
the National War Labor Board Jan.
% exempted all non-profit hospitals
from stabilization regulations ito
meet an emergency employment
situation" They can give raises
without board approval if they re-
port monthly.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
HOlU about
Toledo !?

RICHMOND, Va. (FP)
Westbrook Pegler has been
tossed out of the respectable
pages of the Richmond Times
Dispatch, one of the largest
and most influential newspa-
pers in the south, because he
lied once too often.
A copyrighted item in
George Seldes' newsletter, In
Fact, quotes Editor Virginius
Dabney as saying in the Rich
mond paper Jan. 8:
"Mr. Pegler may hate the
(Vice- President Wallace) pro-
gram But he cannot mis-
represent another man in this
newspaper by placing in his
mouth words he did not utter,
or by charging him with be-
liefs he does not hold, and
then fall back on freedom of
speech It,is not on account
of Westbrook Pegler's argu-
ment, but because of his mis-
representation that we have
ceased TO carry his articles.
When he charged Wallace
with being by intent a poi
soner of American minds, ne
not only lost our confidence,
he also lost a customer"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Superintendent
Bets Cigars
Continued from Page !

NuulihuSo iIUHA q SE
system, called the bogus" sys-
tenn by employees, This is an or
der: You can tell Ed Duck what
ever you please; but tell these
people (the union committee) the
truth"
Superintendent Joe Missler who
has always been looked on by COM
pany employees as being fair, is
now being labeled by a lot of the
employees as the "bull of the
woods" because when backed into
corner and faced with facts
"glowers and barks like sea lion
and walks away" However, Miss
ler's bark is worse than his bite. y
NUNNWEILER AND EINSTEIN
DEVISE BONUS SYSTEM
Don Kuhnle, members of the
union committee grew eloquent
discussing the bonus system at a
recent union m ii ing. Said
Kunhle, Nobody understands our
alleged bonus system, but Num-
weller, who devised it years ago
after taking course in time
study. l think he sudied under
Einstein, because nobody under
stands the system. Mr.. Swartz-
bough, Joe Missler, the foreman
and everybody else makes a stat
at it, but they only add a lot OF
mud to the already muddy water.
Kuhnle added, "they would be in
one He'll of a mess if anything
ever happened to Nunnweiler."
UNION MEMBERS PATIENT
While the NWLB is striving fol
a decision on the status of the
case now pending before it
Swartzbaugh employees are pa
tiently waiting and will not per.
NIT themselves to be imposed
upon by the company according tt
committee members who are not
being taken in by obvious com
pany tricks. "All the company il
doing" said Chairman Glazer," il
making better union people out o1
people who are already strong foi
the union"
Local II officials say that they
do not know when the NWLB will
return its decision; but they are
definitely certain it will not take
six months. Meanwhile Chairman
Glazer who does not smoke 25 cent
cigars is promising to learn how
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NLRB Holds
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ern their own officers and control
their own union.
UAW-CIO authorities expressed
confidence that the plant would
join the growing list of AT. Of L.
shops that have turned to the CI0
for effective bargaining and re-
presentation.
Hours of voting will be $50 to
7:30 a, m. for night workers and
2:30 to $50 p. m. for first and
second shift workers. Approx
imately 400 are eligible to vote.
Kent-Owens is engaged in \
machine work.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
True Union
Spirit
BY CLAUDE HESS
WRITING FOR THE PAPER

1t has seemed strange to many
members Of Local II that there
are so few news items from big
Unit like Auto-Lite in the Toledo
Union Journal.
With such a large membership,
there must be many of the union
brothers and sisters who would
write news of the Unit if they
would get little encouragement.
Why don't you appoint reporters
in your departments to turn in the
news to your paper?
There must be plenty of news
that could be written from the
Auto-Lite, especially the kind that
would help unite us all in the one
common union bond.
| CONGRATULATIONS TO
DEPT. 6
Congratulations to everyone in
Dept. 6 for the good deed they did
for their sister, Anna Woods, 8
short time ago. The members Of
the department discovered Anna
was in Toledo Hospital and TOOK
up a collection with which they
purchased a few of the kind oi
garments a woman likes to have
to wear when confined to a hos,
pital. In addition, they saw to i
that Anna got a nice check, anc
flowers to brighten up her room
That is the kind of spirit which
helps build Local IL or any othel
Union.
We know the spirit is there a
the Auto-Lite, so why not go aloni
with your paper and send in YOU
news SO your shop is represented
And why not attend Local l.
meetings in larger number on th'
second Friday Of each month a
425 Winthrop st.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Conciliofion Service
Asked To Intervene

NEW YORK-Local 19, United
Office & Professional Workers
(CIO), asked the U. S. Concilia-
ton Service to intervene in a dis
pute here with the Brooklyn Cen
trail YMCA, which the union
charged with persistent anti-union
agitation, dismissal threats against
union leaders and refusal either to
recognize the union or settle griev-
ances of maintenance workers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Fewer Business Failures
by Federated Press

WASHINGTON-Howls of mer-
chant organizations TO the contrary,
retail business did all right in 1912,
The Department of Commerce re-
ported that although there were
fewer new enterprises started dur
ing the year than in 194l, there
were also fewer failures.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Living Costs Rise 1870
ny Federated Press

NEW YORK-The cost of living
in December rose in SO out Of 10
cities surveyed each month by the
National Industrial Conference
Board The largest advance, 1879
was in San Francisco and Sacra-
mento. Twelve other cities rose 1Po
or more
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Mo+her Leads
Collection

First to return their collection
boxes for the infantile paralysis
fund drive was the Mather Spring
Unit with better than 100 per cent
collection. In less than three days
from the time the Unit had received
the collection boxes, members had
over-subscribed their quota and re-
turned the boxes to Local IL.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Maritime Sfatement

NEW YORk-The semi-annual
financial statement of the National
Maritime Union (CIo) reports a
total income for the six-month Pc
riod from July to Dec. 81, 1912, VI
$429,170, an increase of $50,016
over the previous half year. Net
income was $70,5S3, and the unions
strike fund was certified as $751;
SAT.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05
Navy Officially Refutes
Newspaper Smear Story
Admiral HaIsey Praises
Crews Courage In
Report To Navy
By Federated Press

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29-Com-
plete refutation of the recent news
paper smear against National
Maritime Union (CIO) crews in
Guadalcanal, and praise for their
courage and cooperation, is con-
tained in an official navy report
made public Jan. %.
On that day Admiral William F.
Halsey, Jr., commander of the
United States forces in the South
Pacific, informed the United States
Navy department that "in no in
stance did merchant marine sea-
men refuse to discharge cargo" at
Guadalcanal or anywhere in that
area.
His report, moreover, said that
there was no instance in which the
merchant seamen failed to CO.
operate with United States forces
ashore in that area, where mer-
chant seamen had brought more
than dozen ships, under super
vision of naval officers, since
Aug. z.
Crews Never Refused
He reported that none of the
crews refused to discharge its
ships cargo" according to the
navy announcement, "and the mer-
chant seamen's cooperation, ef-
ficiency and courage on some oc-
casions in the face of enemy attack
have won high praise"
Meanwhile, Rep. Warren G. Mag
nuson 3D., Wash.), one of Wash
ington's win-the-war congressman,
will head the naval affairs sub
committee to investigate the news
paper smear, which Rep. Clare
Hoffman (R., Mich.) and other
antilabor and defeatist congress
men spread on the record.
Carl Vinson 3D., Ga.), committee
chairman, demanded a complete
investigation of a story that NMU
members refused to unload food
for famished and wounded marines
on Guadalcanal. The story origin
ated in the Akron, O., Beacon
Journal.
Chicago Tribune Features Smear
Other members of the subcom-
mittee include Margaret Smith,
Willkie Republican of Maine; Cam
eron Morrison 3D., N. CD; F. E.
Hebert 3D., La.), and John 2.
Anderson (R., CALI. Anderson was
quoted in the Chicago Tribune as
saying it was terrible that union
members should do such things.
Others quoted in the same story
under a Jan. 22 Washington date
line (the Tribune has had page one
stories daily were the notoriously
anti-labor Howard w. Smith 3D.,
Va.), Senator Millard Z. Tydings
d., Md, the senate's counter
part of Gene Cox of Georgia in
the House, and Hoffman, as we'll
as Vinson.
In an early edition of the same
paper that day on page appeared
an AP story on an interview with
Col. Lewis B. Fuller of the Ma
rines. Halfway down in the story
was mention of the Akron story
and his comment: They've had no
difficulties of this nature in the
Solomons.
The Tribune recently was pick
eted by NMU torpedoed seamen
after another anonymous slur
against NMU crews in an editorial.
This followed by a few days a
speech by Col. R. r. Mccormick
made to his employees in which he
1
bitterly assailed merchant seamen
because the Tribune-owned Ca
madam paper company had lost one
of its ships in a torpedoing.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-05

closed shop contracts. AFL and
CIO have formed committee to
fight these and any similar bills.
NEW YORK - Despite pious
promises to safeguard labor's
rights, COP Gov. Thomas Dewey
has proposed budget which would
reduce funds for administration of
labor welfare and other progress
i've laws.
+
OREGON 49, Existing anti-labor
laws could hardly be made worse.
Labor carrying on campaign for
improved unemployment indus
trial accident, safety laws.
Observation-Disclosures
les hope to strip state public as
sistance department of its powers
and return relief, old age assist
ance, child care and general well
fare to county control, which would
mean less relief and more politics.
TENNESSEE-Bills introduced
that would outlaw strikes, make
picketing illegal aud collect a 69o
tax on all union dues.
T.
TEXAS-This state has one OF
worst anti-union laws in u. S., but
legislature in planning to put more
teeth into it by registration OF
unions, state audit of union funds,
listing Of union officers, their
salaries and personal histories
Sales tax on way, too.