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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-08-27

their work and accomplishments over the past
year than by taking their places in the annual
Labor Day Parade which this year promises to
be the largest in the history of the Local CIO.
am very hopeful that every member of Local
II who can possibly do so will attend the Labor
Day Parade and take part in it.
In the afternoon, following the parade, the
annual ClO picnic will be held at Ottawa Park,
Baseball, softball and other sports and contests
VIII be held with refreshments, games and other
entertainment for the children.
NATIONAL SPEAKER
Efforts are being made by our Washington
office to secure speaker of national reputation
to address the large gathering at Ottawa Park
during the afternoon We still do not know who
the speaker will be; but have every confidence
it will be someone who will be able to give us
a talk on national problems which should prove
instructive and interesting
We hope that this will be the last Labor Dav
which will find at war; but if it should so
happen that the is still going on one year
from now, we shall continue to devote our best
efforts to work on the production lines and
seek to end it as as possible
One thing is certain, Labor Day next year
will differ greatly from this year, for if the war
is over we shall be thinking in terms of things
of peace, of houses, and cars, and other thin
that make peace more desirable than war ShoJ JpN
the war still be going on we shall be little-
more determined than ever to end it quickly.
This year, Labor fights for Victory. Show
your support and your solidarity with your own
movement by spending the day with your fellow
workers in display of the might and power
of labor.
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Pop Concert

Toledo will enjoy the second pop concert
of the summer next Sunday night, an
event which many workers of Toledo in
dustrial plants are looking forward to with
pleasant anticipation.
Pop concerts, long popular in the more
populous eastern cities, are relatively new
to Toledo, provide an opportunity for the
average person to hear the kind of music
which he enjoys.
Toledo is fortunate to have an orchestra
which is able to bring to it the type of
concerts which would do credit to any city,
and the reception of this type of concert
should be credit to the musical apprecia-
ton of the people of Toledo.
That the people Of Toledo do aDpreciate
the popular type Of concert is attested to
by the large and enthusiastic outpourinr
which took place when the first concert of
TINS type was presented several weeks ago.
The word-of-mouth advertising which the
first concert received should insure an
overflow audience at next Sunday nights
performance.
Indications are that the Sunday night
concert viii play to larger audience than
the first program evidence that the
workers Of Toledo are interested in good
music which they can understand.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-08-27
TIME TO PLAN

LIME ~ fLAN
Now is the time for Labor to make its plans
for the postwar world. These are the days when
should be preparing program, thinking
out our problems, formulating our demands and
policies, and determining where we going
once this war has been ended.
Nothing is worse than lack of planning.
This statement should not need much explanation
to the workers who have probabl ysuffered more
from lack of planning than any other group in
our economic setup.
Because we have been the victims of lack
of planning and poor planning, we should not
victmize ourselves by failing to plan for
future in postwar world which apparently is
going to have prosperity as the keynote, at least
for some years until the rehabilitation of Europe
has taken place, and our own growing needs and
wants are satisfied.
PLAN NOW
do not agree with those who claim we
not plan for the postwar world because we do
not know what conditions are going to prevail
in that world. l think we workers can safely
assume that the workers will still need to work,
still marry and raise families, still require food
housing, clothing, automobiles, and hundreds -
other necessities and comforts of life. We ~
still work for wages, and we will still have the
same forces working against which have al
ways worked against us.
In the face of these facts, it must follow that
Labor knows what it bascally faces in the world
after the war, and in the light of that knowledge
it should make it's plans to the end that the
brave new world" about which we have read
and heard so much, will become a fact and not
another one of those things that might have
been.
No doubt the coming International UAW
vention will bring out many discussions of labor
in the postwar world and it is my hope that
some plan will be set up which will give all the
workers in our Union the opportunity to
tribute their thought in the formulation of the
postwar plan.
Our plan must take shape. 1t must be some
thing definite 1t must detail the things Labor
wants and the things to which it shall be opposed.
1t must fulfill the needs and desires of Labor
and contain all the ingredients which will give
those who work fuller life and security.
Now is the time to plan. Peace must not find
Labor unprepared, and this peace which we make
must be made to last
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Labor DGy. I943

Labor this year will celebrate it's second
holiday since the beginning of the war.
The theme of this years Labor Day
observance for American Labor is, Labor
Producing for Attack" No longer do we
think in terms of mere defense, but have
taken the initiative and are now producing
the arms, ammunition and other necessary
equipment which we believe will result in
the unconditional surrender of the Axis.
This year, as never before in history,
Labor marches forward with new strength
and vigOr, conscious of the important place
it plays in the national and international
field.
As American Labor proudly marches on
September 6, 1943, with bands playing and
banners swaying in the wind, it goes for
ward in confidence and with the firm be-
lief that its future progress rests in its
own hands,
Labor is proud of its part in the war. 1t
is proud of its production record. 1t is de-
termined to carry on to the end i'm order
that victory and lasting peace may come
from the sacrifices of its people, who serve
both on the production lines and in the
armed forces.
Labor produces and fights for victory.
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price, so that after a certain
weight the farmer gets less per
pound for the hog, was aban-
doned. Result: farmers are en-.
couraged to keep hogs feeding
on corn until they're half meat
and half fat.
PORK FAT
This goldmine of corn is going
down the sink in the form of
pork fatal except that the
housewife can render out and
turn in for glycerines for the
armed forces. Where the packer
used to make any excess fat in
to lard, under pressure of de-
mand he's been able to sell fat
hams to retailers for the same
price as lean, and the house
wife, unable to buy beef except
occasionally, has ruefully paid
out high prices for fat ham.
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a . " y . Oll
corn versus hogs, and > who am
/ to be squeamish about the sub
ject?
"To market, to market, to buy
a fat pig
Home again, home again, jig
gety-jib."
Nice, simple, isn't it? Little
children lisp it at mothers knee.
But if they only knew, that fat
pig is foul threat at the mo-
ment. Only Chester Davis likes
a fat pig. And maybe Marvin
Jones.
EQUAL PROFITABILITY
They are taking a new line
these days, the farmer bloc-a
line of equal probability" 1t
sounds so nice. The words just
roll off the tongue. What it
means is this: they got a whop-
ping high ceiling on hogs. Now
they measure everything ac-
cordingly. What's wrong here,
they say, is that it is isn't as
profitable as hog-raising-dairy
products, say, or poultry rails
ing. And it isn't. Nothing is as
profitable as raising hogs now,
but the farm bloc aims to make
plenty of things as profitable.
Hog-raising is so profitable
now that it is everyone's head
ache. Dairy farmers are not
planning needed expansion be-
cause they can't be sure they
will get plenty of feed next
year. Corn is staying right in
the corn belt, going to hogs. As
everything is geared to the price
of corn, other feed is too high,
and shortages threaten. Poultry
producers want to expand in re-
sponse to ardent urging by the
government, but face the same
feed situation.
DAVIS AND JONES
How did it all happen? Re-
member a "banker in overalls"
named Chester Davis? Before
the President got his number
and did a job on him, he was
War Food Administrator. The
first week he was in office he
raised the support price of hogs
from 1915 to 1878 per hundred
weight, for hogs weighing from
24O to go pounds, At the same
time he upped the price of Chi
cago corn from S102 to $1.07 a
bushel. In lovely press re-
lease announcing both actions he
said he was doing it to discour-
age hog production and make
corn available. OF course, one
action Cancelled out the other.
If he'd reduce the price of hogs,
he would have achieved what he
said he aimed to do.
Davis departed and Jones
came in. 0PA's regulation put
ting a ceiling price on live hogs
necessary to control prices of
pork at retail--ceilings aren't yet
on cattle and we can't get much
beef because the black market
is getting it) lay on Jones desk
a few weeks. 1t wasn't until
OPA agreed to a ceiling way
above the support price, $14.50,
that Jones signed the order. Not
only that. More serious, it was
a uniform ceiling. The tradi-
tional practice of a graduated
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AS a result Oh MuSSUllII
downfall and the lack of plans
and preparation of the Allies
to cash in politically on the
event, an opportunity was lost
which is going to cost addi-
tional blood, lives and treas
ure.
In the inability of the Allies
to cash in politically on the
Italian situation, Labor has
an object lesson in what might
possibly occur when the war is
over if Labor is unprepared for
the peace.
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I'd solve their
D + o b | e m
easy!"
Then, as if
t his p h il o.
S sophi ic gem
w e + e n , t
enought, t h e
cabbie elabor-
ated with a
bitter denun-
citation of all
who run for
nublic office.
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Of the American soldier and
the productivity of the Amer
ican worker, our arms are suc-
ceeding on all the far-flung
battle fronts of the world.
Because of Labor's accom-
plishments in the past year,
we should all take pride and
show that pride in a public
demonstration of solidarity on
the day which has been set
aside to honor labor.
There is no better way for
workers to show their uride in
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mind, Particularly IN view OF the Tact that election
is just few short weeks away, and besides, the
elegant Etchen himself said that his motive was
not political.
And when the Honorable Addison O. took off
on all the newspapers, including this one, how
can good resolve to be sweet and kindly stand
up? Mine can't
STRICTLY POLITICAL
Doesn't it strange that of all the people
in the city administration that Councilman Etchen
would pick on man who is doing very salts
factory job under trying circumstances
II n1ust have seemed IN Mr. Etcbap that here
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as just what
p DIN t they
should cease
C o + n a n j
p ea c e ully
submit to go
ing to mar
ket But the
best labor ex-
perts t h e S e
days are do
ing it, learn
ing to juggle
L lPu res ON
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S lu m p in
p r o duction.
1t is their
belief th a t
recent gains
on the mill
tary fro n t
h a V e be e n
followed by a
let - QONn on
t he h o m e
front.
SO t h e Y
w a rn u S
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MINORITY ELECTION

Both Mr. Thacher and year
they will again be chosen by solid minority although the former
rather disappointed that the cood running three
candidates of its will scarcely be for Mr. Thacher
through with the phony bluff of loving
that they have decided to back their candidates.
And the issues have been enlarged by Mr. Echen include the
health department for Mr. Etchn has injected that
campaign and will stay the satisfactorily the
best advantage of the citizens of Toledo
That reminds that Mr. Thacher made the
Board of Health wanted make the Board
made doctors This silly
make for it that there would better qualified people
handle public health than group physicians
sends for his favorite blacksmith when he is ill.,
Will Mr. Etchen leaf from Mr. Thachers
an antClO platform aso As matter of fact he showed his dis
like for Labor Unions Dr.
running to the Labor Unions pulling strings put his program
over"
This indicates that Dr. Keinschmdt is good health commits
oner and doing because after ALL Labor Unions
resent the majority the people who benefit from the Health De-
partmen and shows that Mr. Etchen just respenden
own mind as ne is IN his sartorialy correct exterior
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Washington
Scene
BY Pettigrew
By Virginia Gardner.

WASHINGTON. (FP). 1
never thought that the time
would come when as a labor
reporter l had to learn about
the intimate life of hogs, and
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-08-27
It's News To Me fyo;5' P.ss,5
GOOD RESOLVES VANISH

intention to write something sweet and kindly to
brighten dreary world in this section this week. That
before Dick Smith to to attend week of
school, and before Councilman Howard W. Ehen, aided and
abetted by Councilman Ad Thacher attempted City
Health Commissioner, DR.. Earl E. Kenschmidt.
Of course, Ehen wouldn't have any political motives
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-08-27
Regional Views
By Richard Gosser, Director,
Region 2B. UAW-CI0
OBJECT LESSON

After winning spectacular victories in Tunsla
and Sicily, the Allied governments were caught
short by the sudden collapse of Mussolini.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-08-27
On The
Beam
By Clayton W. Fountain

Slump in Production
A number of high officials in
charge of the war effort have
solemnlv announced a serious
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good to work when he decided that he would
stir lot of about the health department
Echen thought that typhoid
town this would be the logical time to take off victim
But Mr. Echen pulled lovely political faux pas, that
backfed him and left his face redder than guys
out half the night sbbeng hghba Mr. could
lot from his pal the o. whose
red, when he grabs hold of something that is hot
AS result of Mr. Etchens lack of political
plenty of which he certainly needs if he
returning to Council AS of fact the betting odds
Ehen continued in Council increased
will devote himself exclusively selling after first
of the year.
AID HATES PAPERS
becomes increasingly plain that Councilman Ad Thacher does
not like He included the TOLEDO UNION JOUR-
NAL along with the daily when he sad They he paps)
stick their minds where the monkey the peanut" last
Wednesdays meeting
We have been told of the political grapevine
Thacher seriously considering running CO platform.
If the Honorable Ad makes the CIO the object his hatred
(offca) he will be running form. When the City
League formed Ad given
Did he refuse that endorsements Don't grabbed
it with both hands and elected
When the City Manager League failed pass endorse
mnt to the Honorable Addison in another election did he suk the
and in political petness Indeed visited his
favorite painter and had him nscribe flaming
bunting Voe for Ad ThacheNot Endorsed by the City Manager
League. Then he League platform the
election hands down--the old fox
And this year, Mr. Thacher very possibly might
mtCIo platform because he knows that all he needs do the
support of all who hate the CIO, and he's again this
years campaign slogan will be- "Vote for Ad
Mad"
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Labor Day Parade
By Melvin Schultz, President, Local IL

Labor Day, 1943 should be particularly signif-
icant for labor this year. for thanks to the valor
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-08-27
What's $
New?
BY Edward Duck,

By Edward Duck,
Educational Director, Local II
WHY BOTHER?
"I'll tell you how / feel about
it," stated the cab driver. "If
everyone did what | do there
wouldn't be any elections, and
nobody would worry about them.
Evening star., 1943-02-13

put up with it, I want to go to a
MOTEL where it's quiet" He regis
tc!ed at the hotel as Bill Perton."
Sergt. Reed added.
Police broadcast a Statewide pick
up order last night at the request
of Army officials. The local law en-
forcement men said they under
stood young Webb merely opened a
window and walked out Of the hos
pital, where he had been taken for
observation. shortly after the Army
disclosed he would face court-mar-
tial on charges of impersonating an
Army officer.
Well Known in Cafe Society.
The 24-year-old graduate of New
YorE's night life-he was a we'll
known figure in Manhattan's cafe
society before entering the Army
disappeared only few hours after
his mother, socially prominent Mrs.
Seward Webb of New York and
Palm Beach, had tried to confer
with the air base commandant.
Pvt. Webb went AWOL from Fort
Mcdowell, near San Francisco Jan
uary 81, Army sources said. He
entered the Army in Vermont and
served at Fort Monmouth, N. j.,
before his transfer west.
After his divorce from his first
wife, Mary Elizabeth Brann, young
Webb in 194l married Lenore Lem
mon, New York socialite.
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Be|voir Training Units
To Knock Out Forts
Teams of Artillery
And Infantry Planned
Cy the Associated Press.

Cy the Associated Press.
Training of special infantry -artil-
lery engineer teams in the technique
of knocking out permanent land
Notifications has been started at
Fort Belvoir. Va, 1t Gen. Leslie
J. McNair, commander of the Army
Ground Forces, reported today.
The teams, he said. are learning
to operate as a task force in the
attack of fortified localities and will
be trained to operate with other
branches of the Army,
The assault of permanent land
Notifications by integrated and re-
hearsed teams of combined arms is
an outstanding development of the
present war" Gen. McNair said.
Successful operations of this nature
require advanced training and prep
aration; the employment of trained
assault task forces composed of in
fantry, artillery and combat engi-
Evening star., 1943-02-13

motor transport in the European
theatcr Of operations In good con-
dition but to repair equipment which
has seen battle service and may be
quite badly damaged 1t has all
been figured out, ordnance officers
explain, on an almost mathematical
basis
A board Of experts has determined
the average lifetime of each part of
each type of vehicle used by the
Army, Their calculations determine
the numbers of each spare part
always to be kept on hand at the
ordnance depots here. These are
shipped from the United States. It
probably would be impossible to OBJ
tain many of them in short order
on this side of the Atlantic.
Theoretically whatever happens
to car, truck or tank short of alb
solute demolition, there is also part
available which will fit precisely.
Nearby Men Become Experts.
The soldiers employed in this
work have been recruited largely
from Detroit and Cleveland auto
mobile workers. New expert tech
nlclans are being trained all the
time, however, and good example
is Technical Corp. John w. Buck
ley of Falls Church, Va, who has
become almost an expert in tank
engines in the few months since he
left his job as a clerk in a grocery
store.
He discussed facilely what goes
wrong with them as he leaned over
his bench at an ordnance depot
here the other day, With him on
the same kind of work are Sergts.
Writ Mitchell, Dewitt McNutt and
Carlyle Brenneman of Washing
ton.
Carlyle Brenneman, who is men,
toned in Mr.. Henry's story, was
married to an English girl before
Christmas, his mother, Mrs. Carl
A Offutt, 4538 Harrison street
NV, revealed here today. It was
one of the first marriages between
an American soldier and an Eng
lish girl in the community in which
| he was stationed
Evening star., 1943-02-13
u. S. Army in Britain SiIences
Truck Convoy 'Broodcosting'
Front-Line Machines
Are Given Secret
Electrical Suppressors
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,


SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND (By
Main ALI American cars and
trucks which are expected to be used
in action. or in transport close to the
enemy lines, are being equipped with
radio suppressors.
This is one of the most essential
jobs Of United States ordnance of
flcers on duty here.
1t has been known for some time
that the Germans could detect a
truck convoy by it's own radio i'm
pulses, could determine almost its
exact location, and under favorable
circumstances could tell how large it
was and how fast it was moving
Americans and British also knew the
trick. 1t made the possibility of
secret movements under cover of
darkness rather remote.
The fact is ordnance officers ex-
plain, every spark plug, and perhaps
every wheel that turns, is serving
literally as a broadcasting station
1t is generating wild currents which
escape into the air and cause static
III nearby receivers.
When the enemy radio begins to
groan and squeal. it is evidence that
there is some interference in the
neighbOrhCod, something which is
generating electricity. Then it is
merely matter of adjusting the
delicate sets used for this purpose to
tell the source of the interference
and approximately what kind of an
object is causing it.
Impulses Tanned.
But with the work being done here
no American cars intended for ser
vice in zone of action will serve
as multiple broadcasting stations.
Means of eliminating the electrical
impulses have been worked out in
detail.
The details naturally are military
secrets. Broadly, the means consists
of putting condenSers in strategic
places so that the parts involved do
not transmit, or transmit so feeblv
that the impulses cannot be detected
few feet away. Also all the parts
are so bonded electrically so that the
wild currents" have no chance to
escape
Each car and truck is rigidly
tested for this before it leaves the
ordnance depot. Otherwise it might
literally shout its own description to
the world and enemy technicians
probably could determine whether
it was a truck mile away or a jeep
half mile away.
In the early days of the war on
the continent, it is believed, some
conveys may have been lost because
of failure to recognize this Ger
mans were reported carrying on
| eXerimentS in this line shortly after
the last war The extent to which
their technique may have developed
is unknown, but no chances are
| taken.
Repair Needs Gauged.
The American Army has set ur
| facilities mere not only to keep al