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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16

anything to what has already been said about it.
Congress has opposed labor, not only by passing
anti-labor legislation, but by playing into the
hands of the Farm Bloc, by destroying the
equality of sacrifice of the Presidents executive
order limiting salaries to $4,000 annually; by
refusing to subsidize price rollbacks and in gen.
eral, doing everything that we Of labor did not
want it to do
A BREAK
The two-month Congressional recess impresses
me being good break for the country in
general and for labor in particular for it will
give us an opportunity to perfect our plans and
organization, which will have for their purpose
the securing of the things which labor desires.
1t is my belief that one Of the most important
things that can be done to stabilize our war
economy is the rolling back of the price level
which we have advocated for the past several
months. / believe that in order to do this, we
must convince our representatives who are, or
soon will be home, that we have the votes and
that we going to be kidded along indef"
nitely on this position.
1t impresses me as being good idea that our
members take this opportunity Of contracting our
Congressman in person if convenient, or by letter,
and discuss our problems with them. Such cop
tact would be extremely valuable, not only to 10y
but to the Congressman and Senators.
believe that Congressman Ramey has, on ths'
whole, been quite fair to labor, and also believe
that Mr. Ramey has every desire to continue
along the same line which he has followed, SO far
as labor is concerned, since he began his term.
AN INVITATION
/ think it would be good idea to even invite
Senator Harold Burton to speak at a meeting OF
the UAW-CIO and other unions when he comes
here in the near future to speak at peace con-
ference.
do not believe that we ever secure the
things which we desire by sitting back expecting
our leadership to do the whole job. Your leaders
need and must have the backing Of the entire or
ganization. They must be able to convince our
public officials that they speak with authority,
and that behind them they have thousands of
workers who are backing them to the limit
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Let's Keep Going

With the military fortunes of the
Allies looking up, there Is tendency on
the part of many people to take It for
granted that the war is practically won.
Such SNUG frame of mind is harmful
to the war effort, for it tends to give those
who are so confident that victory Is as
sured, the feeling that they can rest on
their oars because it's all over but the
shouting.
AS a matter of fact, the war Is very
likely going to continue on, for this
country at least, for many months. II
Germany and Italy were to quit tomorrow,
which they certainly will not, it will take
us many months to defeat the Japanese.
Naval authorities tell us that IL the
Americans and Australians were TO take
an island day from the Japs, IL would re.
quire the better part of four years before
we could get to Japan proper. This should
be SOLDERING thought, for while the Japs
probably will not be defeated by taking
one island after another, II will take many
months before Japan itself can be beaten
to her knees.
This war has been summed up briefly
in the words, 'It's kill or be killed. It's
all or nothing" With that thought In
mind, let's keep going. Let's continue to
produce the ships, guns, ammunition,
planes and other necessary materials of
war, and let's keep 1t up until the last gun
is fired and victory Is definitely ours.
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Servicemen's s
Letters
lis D. Hot

Dear Committee

Dear Committee:
In your last bulletin you say
that it rained 81 days during
May. i can't quite match that,
but can tell you that we have
been drilling and training with
12S degrees temperatures. |
don't mean that we have fevers,
but the sun really pours down
on us here in Mississippi.
Most of us would rather be on
our way over to bury the ak in
the Axis, but it seems the Army
wants us to have a certain
amount of training before we go.
Sure appreciate the check, as
we do run out of cash and Gig
arettes. I am enclosing a snap
shot if you can find any use for
it. You can tell the gang to just
keep up the production and we'll
do the rest.
Cpl. Maurice Ayers,
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LITTLE LUTHER

Maybe things will straighten
out down in Washington now,"
said Mr.. Dilworth, laying down
his paper and picking up his
napkin.
HAS congress suddenly decided
to go after the crooks who are
mulcting the government on war
orders, Pop?" asked Luther,
reaching for his glass of milk.
"Those men you call crooks,
Luther, are fine patriotic citi-
zens, sacrificing for their coun-
try. They left jobs paying them
100000 and 100000 a year."
"And now they are nicking
Uncle Sam for 100000. At that
rate, they will sacrifice them
selves right into a billion dollars
if the war lasts long enough"
Luther, sometimes l think
you've been listening to those
union people. Or you just don't
try to understand. Anyway,
was thinking of Jesse Jones and
the way he put Vice President
Wallace in his place."
what stirred him up now?
Did somebody ask him to fight
Hitler instead of the American
people?"
mo, of course not. Mr.. Wallace
attacked his patriotism and his
honesty. Imagine! Questioning
the honesty of a man who is sac
rificing-that is, er, ah, who is
neglecting his business interests
to perform a public servicel"
"You almost slipped that time,
Pop. Is he one of those fellows
who made thousands at home and
millions in Washington-neglect-
ing his business contacts? I'd
like to be neglected that way"
Haven't you finished your sup
per yet, Luther? What's that
smirk on your ace?"
"Oh, Father, / was just think
ing: If only our enemies had a
Jesse Jones, tool"
WOW!
The best headline we saw on
the story of Congress adjourn
ment was in PM, New York tab
loidsIt read:
CONGRESS ADJOURNS-
ABSENTEEISM NOW
OFFICIAL.
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They Envy Him
Dear Mr.. Gosser:

Dear Mr. Gosser:
/ was very glad to receive the gift box which
the Unit sent me- The boys down here would n
believe union would send such nice box. t. -
them about Local IL and they said they wishsea ~
they could belong to such swell union.
How are the brothers and sisters at the Over
land getting along? Is production still going along
fast like it was before left? I hope it is because
the more production the sooner the war will end.
I want to thank you for the gift box and the TO-
LEDO UNION JOURNAL. / really enjoy reading
it.
Pvt. Thaddeus Janiszewski,
Camp Shelby, Miss
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treating plants. I'd even settle
for the pleasure of sentencing a
few of these well-educated gen
tlemen to an eight-hour stretch
in the WHY'S Overland sandblast
operation. Or perhaps we could
find more Objectionable task
for them to perform, like foundry
work, or what the boys in one of
the plants all joke about-a dirty
chore known as Decreasing"
If we wanted to be really
downright mean we could dig up
my old job at the Auto-Lite be-
fore the war, and let them reduce
a bit. 1t was known as the pulley
job, and was so undesirable that
bids were posted for six months
at a time without any bidders
bothering to qualify.
What | mean is this: / person
ally don't like to hear someone
tell US that our rates are OK un-
less that person would be willing
to accept the rate himself if he
were in the workers place. Oh,
it's all right to judge others, and
it's all right to decide when
someone else doesn't need more
money, but just remember that
a lot of people who are engaged
in arbitration, conciliation, and
all that sort of thing have their
eyes focused on postwar jobs
paying pretty nice salaries.
MUST PLEASE
In order to be acceptable to
both management and labor it is
necessary that these brainy gen.
tlemen hand both parties a pretty
generous portion of blarney and
try to please both factions in
dispute. They give the union Sc
curity and try to sell the COM
pany on the idea; they try to
write in arbitration clauses, pos
sibly because arbitration is their
business. and they may be pro-
fessional arbitrators when the
two parties or other parties start
feuding again after the war; and
finally, they weave a bond of
everlasting friendship with the
management by giving the work
ers about one-third of what they
should have gotten in the way of
wage increases and adjustments.
This is being brutally frank
about the matter, but it's true.
Let's stop kidding ourselves
about the War Labor Board and
some of the public" members of
the panels. What it really is is
a two-to-one set-up with the
workers on the short end of the
count.
What if the CIO withdrew
from the National War Labor
Board? / wonder if the long,
haired boys ever thought of this.
We're getting our fill of all this
business, and we're not exactly
stupid. Neither will we be fooled
after the war, because anyone
who does not give US a square
deal will be strictly out in the
cold. One trimming from each
individual will cook his postwar
goose, and we don't mean maybe!
LET EN- WORK
So / say, put them into the
shops and let them get a little
practical experience. Maybe they
won't think that 75 cents per
hour is such an extravagant
wage for laborers if they have
to do the laborer's work and feed
a family after being taxed to
death.
I'll devote a little more space
to the public" members in a
later issue, but for the time be-
ing, let's think over the PROPOSE
ton Of offering the technical
experts an opportunity to gain
some very practical experience.
Let them put the shoe on the
other foot and see how it feels.
Somehow, / don't think they'd
care to wear If.
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FORCE

growing larger armies Such plans always based
force gansng of nations the offending
peace.
What kind of peace going enduring
the will be- going depend how this
tie problems going depend upon England
Russia China and the other nations fighting for the four
are going to solve their problems.
And the problems peace physical force
Of navies tanks panes but in
the realm of economics.
We cannot hope for lasting attempt impose the
evils of planned scarcity upon country and
freedoms
We cannot expect lasting ignore poverty and
miserable conditions Of other peoples
NOT DREAM
Peace based economic justice dream of
visionary but the practical application contrb
t0ns which science and invention have given possible
economy of plenty
In the beginning industrial revolution when steam power
was the motvatng force which the machines
was limited and for good Coal which supplied
the which the machines widely distributed Eng
hnd Germany and the United States the only
had sufficient deposits care the requirements Of its
growing industry
With the coming of hydro power the situation is chang
ing Most of the countries water and in an era
when electricity produced from increase have
thereby secured the running machines without coal
NEW DISCOVERIES
The problem of securing materials industries is to
considerable being by new discoveries which in
time will the products agriculture the basis for industrial
development
Nitrogen, which formerly found principally in Chile now is
extracted from the air. Magnesium is being sea
water Synthecs and pastcs products possi
bte while the light metals Magnesium have prac
tically produced new industrial revolution
In the face of the discoveries reason in the
world why countries which have industry should not have
plants once the There the world why
the Argentine should become well an agru
tura nation.
CLASH
venons the countries less avoraby going want to
develop economically The Of these backward
going to the old mental habits going
seeking better life They going trucks
nyon hose and plascs and all the other things which
vaned nations have and the for these things
clash with the other nations which,
maintain things they
Thus the efforts of the great powers prevent
backward nations from securing the life may
the basis for Unless sanity prevails people
powerful nations force
or backward nations, will surely again.
OUR SOLUTION
In the end return to the that the solution prob
lem OF peace depends the solve problem
return free enterprise international
city and the elements which lead this
more wars each devastating civilization the
which preceded it
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in January Of this year, labor
has been on the defensive. We
who saw the handwriting on
the wall, when labor neglected
to vote last fall, realized soon
after Congress began its de-
liberations that we were up
against a tough proposition.
Worst of all the anti-labor
Legislation to come out of Con-
gress was the Smith Connally
anti-strike bill, a bill which has
been so thoroughly denounced
that T do1ht If 7 could add
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made IN signing the price roll
back petitions which have been
circulating in the shops. More
than this, l think our people
who have secured many sigma
lures outside our membership
deserve special commendation.
While it is true that Con-
gress has adjourned until Sep
tember, we welcome the oppor-
tunity to redouble our efforts
to secure additional thousands
of signatures which will be
sent in to Washington Mt the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
It's A Great
System
-. By John Paine
WE COULD PAY THEM
TO STAY HOME

~ - "A uONlE
Rep. Albert J. Engel (R.,
Mich.) is sore because on his re-
cent tour of midwestern war
plants he found a girl making
500 a week.
We know a lot of people who
get sore because congressman
get paid at all.
If you measure their pay in
terms Of their contribution to
the war effort, certain repre-
sentatives and senators would
owe the government money.
Of course, it would probably
take logarithms to figure it out
astronomical figures are al
ways a little unwieldly for the
layman.
Just try to figure out, for ex-
ample, what Martin Dies would
owe the American people if they
charged him for damages to the
war effort.
Hitler never would get through
paying the bill.
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volved. Durinl
perio o d Of
peace, mans
better nature
comes TO the
front, and the
b u $ j n ess Of
educating peo-
pie to under
s / an d each
other proceeds
at q 8 I e a d y
rate Of prog
ress. B u I in
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from working
p e o pl e, and
rightly so!
Personally I
w o u d like
nothing better
than to watch
t h e | o n g.
haired b o vs.
with all the
book larnin" I"
sweat and toll
in one of the
I.nnal 10 hant
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It'sNews To Me syo; P.:sts !.
WORLD PEACE

With the invasion of Sicily hopes and plans for increase
by leaps and bounds
AS the United Nations closer final overthrow Of the
Axis the number and variety the plans will for the
of and will with the growing of
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
Regional Views
By Richard Gosser, Director,
Region 2B. UAW.CIO

POLITICAL ACTION

With Congress on the absentee list, labor will
have an opportunity to work for two months or
until Congress returns to Washington reforming
its lines and making plans to carry out its pro-
gram.
Ever since the present Congress took office
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
A Message
Melvin Schultz,
President, Local IL, UAW-CIO.
PRICE ROILBACKS

There are several things which wish to dis
cuss with our members this week which are, in
my opinion, highly important.
First of all, I want to compliment the MEM
bers of Local 12 for the fine showing they have
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zzAssas rate OF prog
Clayton W. ress. But in
Fountain wartime the
educational process by which men
learn TO live in harmony comes
10 an abrupt halt and marks time
for the duration.
When the tools Of peace are
laid aside for the weapons Of
war, the milk Of human kindness,
eurdles in the breast Of man
kind, and huge masses Of men
become subjected to the degrad-
ing influence Of brutality, beast
illness, blind hatred and cruelty.
No matter how noble the ideals
for which . war is being waged,
the principles Of human decency
tend to get lost in the melee.
LOSE SENSE OF FAIRNESS
Most people lose their natural
sense of fairness in the course
of a war. An example Of this is
found in much of the propaganda
being circulated in America to.
day. Consider, for instance, the
newsreels dealing with the pres
ent conflict.
A current film shows the con-
ditions on the island of Malta,
. British outpost in the Mediter-
ranean Sea, which has practical
ly been reduced TO a shambles
by Axis air raids. The verbal
commentary accompanying the
film places strong emphasis
on the sad plight Of the mothers
and children who inhabit the en-
battled isle.
The ordinary audience is, of
course, deeply moved by the tone
of such film. A deep and burn
ing hatred Is aroused against the
Axis enemy who so brutally
bombs q spot occupied by devoted
mothers and helpless little babies.
oNE.sIDED REACTION
The reaction to such propagan-
da is almost totally one-sided. It
seldom enters the mind Of the
indignant audience that some
where In the enemy lands there
are German, Italian and japanese
mothers, with babes in their an
xioux arms, on whom American
bombs are falling with equal
fury.
Are the mothers and children
Of the enemy nations any less
helpless, innocent, fearful or full
of love and devotion simply be-
cause they happen to be on the
other side7 What does a Ger
man, italian or Japanese baby
know of the glories that attach
to militarism, imperialism, de-
mocracy or the Four Freedoms!
Ii this war 10 really being
fought for democracy and human
decency, these are questions that
we need to think about and an
swer in our hearts.
A PROBLEM FOR
UNION PEOPLE
Union people, especially, need
to concern themselves with the
task Of keeping human decency
alive during this war. Blind
hatred is totally at odds with the
foundations of human fellowship
upon which the labor movement
has been built. In this period of
bestiality, bitterness and aban-
donment to the emotions, the fu-
ture Of civilization demands that
some strong force act constantly
to remind mon to keep their
shirts on and their heads in gear
with their hearts.
The labor movement Is that
strong force. II Is second to no
other social institution in its faith
in the fundamental decency of
man. Union labor understands
that this war will be won by van
the false ideas, as we'll
Is the armies, Of the Axis enc
my-and not by giving ourselves
up TO blind, unreasonable hatred
Of innocent victims behind the
enemy lines.
The temptation TO fight fire
with fire is strong, but IL we
give in to 1t, we will have joined
the enemy--instead Of defeating
him.
T ;;::;:: :;:: y
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What's $
New
By Edward Duck,
Educational Director,
Local II, UAW.CIO
IT'S PROVOKING

The various statements of the
War Labor Board in regard to
substandard wages and the cost
of living have brought forth a
fair share of caustic remarks
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armies.
In casting about for plan which we hope will
bring about lasting peace, we are inclined to
view the symptoms of the disease of rather
than the causes. I'VE see the armaments, dema-
gogues, brutality, hatred bloodshed, waste and
destruction, and seek to eliminate the symptoms
rather than the real factor which brings them
about
FORCE
Many of the peace plans now under discussion
call for international police forces meeting arma-
nnent huildinu with hnpar arnnannants nullifuinn
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
On The
Beam
BY Clayton w. Fountain.

By Clayton W. Fountain.
WAR IS EVIL
The worst thing about this
war, or any war, for that mat
ter, is the evil effect it has on
the character Of the people in
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
LANDLORDS LOSE
THROUGH NEGLECT
Failure to Notify Rental
Control Offices of Change
Proving Costly

Failure Of landlords to notify the
Rent Control office on Form DID
125 when changes in tenancy occur
has resulted in considerable loss to
several landlords, George McDuff,
Waterbury area rent director, said
today.
I'm more than one CASE" Mr.. Nc
Duff declared, the landlord has
charged the new tenant higher
rent based on the fact that he has
increased the services offered. But
in order to charge this higher rent
legally, he must petition the rent
control office and have the increase
approved before he can collect it.
Consequently the landlord must now
refund all the excess rent he has
collected. If he had notified the
rent office at the time the change
was made, and had had the petition
for rent increase approved, he
would have saved himself money.
by notifying the rent office
when there is change in tenancy"
Mr.. McDuff added, "the landlord
gives us the opportunity to keep
him up to date on the regulations
governing his registration, thus saw
ing him the danger of financial loss
and possible civil action by the ten
ant. OF course, Form ID 125 must
be used even when no change in rent
is contemplated"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
7 STATES ENJOY
COAST BLACKOUT

New York, June "a - (U.PD - A
four and a half hour progressive
blackout test was held along the
east coast last night and early to-
day while "a flying fortresses scared
overhead with six of them sinilat-
ing enemy attacks.
The test began at 8 p. m. when
sirens sounded in Norfolk, Va, and
progressed up the coast through
seven states and the District of Co.
lumbia in advance TO the approach
ing enemy" planes.
1t ended at 1929 1-2 a. m. when
the all-clear was given in New
Hampshire. The areas affected by
the test were eastern Virginia, east
ern Maryland, Washington, D. c.,
Eastern Pennsylvania, Connecticut
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
southern New Hampshire.
Although the bombers flew over
New Jersey and New York these
sections were not BACKED out as
they had taken part in previous
test on June 8.