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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-12
FACING G.
THE
FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

Disunity can lick America much
sooner than Hitler and it's making a
lot of progress. What we are pleased
to call the United States of America
are today becoming divided against
themselves and because of this inter-
nal dissension we may be heading for
a fall.
It's hard to believe that faced with
hateful and implacable enemies who
threaten us from without, Americans
should still be wasting their time and
their strength fighting each other.
Yet we see it in the high places and
the low, in the Nations capital and in
the villages of our country. Americans
are still indulging in the luxury of
pickering as usual Republicans
against Democrats, farmers against
city y-dwellers, Congress against the
President, anti-New Dealers against
bureaucrats and practically everyone
against labor.
Only Hitler can profit from such
discord and division!
Far be it from us to suggest that
intelligent opposition to impractical
policies be choked off or that construc-
tive criticism be censored. We want
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-12
AMERICAN LABOR
URGED TO HELP in
RECONSTRUCTION

New York City (ILNS).-Describ-
ing the American war effort as a
miracle of production and accomplish
ments (which hardly anyone overseas
less than a year ago believed possi-
ble," John Marchbank, president
and chairman of the management
committee of the international Trans
port Workers. Federation, called upon
organized labor in the United States
to assist actively in formulating la
boris peace aims and an international
program Of postwar reconstruction.
Marchbank, former general secre-
tary of the National Union of Rail
waymen of Breat Britain, came to the
U. S. as a member of a British trade
union delegation to confer with the
leaders of the American trade union
movement on matters of closer rela-
tions between the labor movements of
the United Nations. Other members
of the delegations are: Sir Walter
Citrine, general secretary, British
Trades Union Congress and president,
International Federation of Trade
Unions; Harry Harris on, British
Shipbuilding Trade Union Fedora
ton; F. Wolstencroft, Woodworkers'
Union; A. Conley, British Clothing
Workers Union; and E. Bell, interna-
tional secretary, British Trades Union
Congress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-12

one ever tried to foist on the public.
Absenteeism results from illness,
from preventable accidents, from bad
transportation, from unsettled labor
relations and from many other serious
causes. Is anything being done to cure
or eliminate these causes of absentee
ism? Not by those who sound off in
the headlines.
Finally, let's consider what's hap
pened to the cost of living. Ten
months ago President Roosevelt an
nounced a program to keep it in
check This program included controls
over prices and rents, controls over
wages, controls over farm prices and
controls over corporation profits and
individual incomes.
What's happened to this program :?
The ugly fact is that it is now in dam
ger of being completely wrecked. Con-
gress appears to be determined to
take the lid off farm prices. 1t is also
about to lift the controls from indi-
vidual incomes. OPA officials are let
ting "ceiling prices" hit the ceiling.
But the National War Labor Board is
continuing to refuse to relax it's
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-12
PHOTO-ENCRAVERS
UNION WINS VOTE I'm
NON-UNION PLANT

Chicago (ILNS).-The jain & Oh
lier Engraving Co., largest non-union
engraving plant in the midwest, has
gone union.
Employees of the firm, in a National
Labor Relations Board election, desig
mated the International Photo-En-
gravers' Union, Local 5 (AFL), as
their collective bargaining agent by
vote of SO to 18, almost 5 to l.
Conducting the organization cam
paign at the jain & Ollier plant were
William J. Schragle, international
representative; Arnold Coleman, or
ganizer, and Larry Gruber, president,
of the local.
Donnelley Victory Presaged
A labor board election at jain &
Oilers in 1888 was declared no-con-
test by the NLRB, which was subse-
quently upheld by the United States
Circuit Court, both the board and the
court ordering the company to cease
coercing it's employees.
The jain & Ollier plant is consider
ably larger than the engraving de-
partment of the r. r. Donnelley &
Sons Co., which is in the process of
unionization at the present time. The
union is affiliated with the Organiza-
tion Committee of the Chicago Print
ing Trades Unions, which is in charge
of the Donnelley organization cam
paign. Union representatives hailed
the result of the election as a fore
runer of smashing victory at Dom
nelley's.
Nom Union Since 1907
jain & Ollier locked out its en-
ployes in 1907, and has been non
union ever since. The Donnelley firm
locked out its engravers the year be-
fore. There was a close connection be-
tween the two firms during the "open-
shop" era. c. S. Boothby, now presi-
dent of jain & Ollier, was formerly
a Donnelley executive.
Local 5 and the jain & Ollier COM
pany are scheduled to open contract
negotiations soon.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-12

stranglehold on wages.
Thus, instead of everyone working
together to attain economic stabiliza-
tion, we find various groups pulling
and hauling at purposes and
sorry picture it is. There seems to be
complete lack of realization that
any selfish gain for any particular
group may upset the whole applicant.
Americans seem to have forgotten
that we are fighting war against
Hitler in the pure joy of fighting each
other.
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COMPULSORY REGISTRATION
Continued from Page y

Continued from Page II
numbers to meet the critical labor
shortage in many areas, but until a
comprehensive survey is made, we
have no way of knowing how MANY
women are available for work, what
their ages are, the skills they have to
offer, what domestic responsibilities
they must carry along with their
jobs, how. many are available for part
time work.
Compulsory registration is the
only means of getting this informa-
tion on comprehensive basis. Such
registration ought to have immediate
benefits in impressing upon women
the need for their services and caus-
ing many to volunteer for work even
before the results of the registration
are known"
Labor Members
Labor members of the Women's
Commission are Betty Hawley DON
nelly, vice-president, New York State
Federation of Labor and Dorothy J.
Bellanca, vice-president, Amalgama-
ted Clothing Workers of America.
Other members with labor associa-
tions are Mary E. Dreirer of the New
York Women's Trade Union League
and Gilmore M. Herrick, former re-
gional director, National Labor Rela-
tionS Board
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-12
CZECH LABOR CONSCRIPTED

New York City (ILNS).-Compul-
sorry labor registration in Nazi-domi-
mated Bohemia and Moravia for "men
between the ages of 16 and 65" and
women between the ages of IL and
As" was announced over the Nazi-op-
Grated Prague radio and picked up by
OWL monitors.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-12

labor -haters in Congress renewed de-
mands for anti-strike and work-or-
fight legislation. But these workers
did not go on strike. They have no
intention of striking. They are just
as intensely loyal as their misguided
critics. They are on the job and they
have stayed on the job faithfully since
the war started and they have tripled
the production of Flying Fortresses
since Pearl Harbor.
If any intelligent attempt had been
made to understand their problem
and remove the causes of their unrest,
instead of jumping on them with both
feet, America today would be fur
ther advanced on the road to victory
than it is.
Other Examples
Now, for another example in point,
let's take absenteeism 1t is a serious
problem. 1t results in needless waste
OF manpower. What's being doIe
about it? Propagandists are trying to
confuse the American people into be-
lieving that it results from the lazi-
ness or the drunkenness of American
workers. That's the damndest lie any
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-12
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-12

DISTRICT ORGANIZATIONS
Ave, Pqua, O.
Converse 216 High, Cleveland Ohio
HAMILTON BUSINESS AGENTS
Building Spauldng, 90l Minor Ave. PHI 252W
Hotel Service Workers Charles Elble
Vdourek las Peshng Ph 1924
Calvin, 605 W. Norman Ave, Dayton Ohio
Spauldlng, 9Ol Minor Ave-
H Howard 621 Main ST. Ph 4443
DULL, 2255 Noble Ave- Ph 1635M
S. Thirteenth ST. Phi 397O-R
Pattern Brandhof, 241 Cleveland Ave- Ph 541
No. 24 Ed Moze 22 Harrison Ave. Ph 1851
David Lyttle 507 So Fourth ST.
Plumbers P. Keck 231 Washington st.
Stage Johnson Monument Ph 2620J
Moving Smpfey Ovpeck Ohio PHI l93
MIDDLETOWN BUSINESS AGENTS
Wionna Drive Avalon Trades Council Hall
Building, Dutcher Box 226.
Painters Harry Huston, Avalon
Clarence Long, North Broad
Electrical Workers - rank vloouTeK, Hamltoh.
Truck Drivers. Sid butcher.
12 South Broad ST.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
International Organization Scul Castel Bldg
STATE ORGANIZATIONS
Fighters NJ Lukens SWD vPres 5O7 Lincoln Ave-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
Champion SparkIets

In his letter, AL says: 81 find
words inadequate to describe TO
you people my appreciation for
your gift"
AL continued, saying, '1n follow
ing the events at the Champion in
the TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL,
which / receive regularly, ! noticed
with great pride that the Champion
employees are always on top in do
nations to all causes. / am sure |
am speaking for all the boys in the
service when | say that your contri-
buttons to the USO, Red Cross, ETC.,
and such as you have made to the
boys at Champion, is a boost to our
morale, and that is vital if victory
is to be ours.
TO you many new employees of
the Champion whom have not had
the pleasure Of meeting, and to
those of you who were working
there at the time Of my entrance
into the armed forces, say, thanks
a million for the gift"
Al's address for those of you
who may wish to write him, is 305
Ser. Sod, 31st Ser. GRIP. Air Service
Command, A.A.B. Biggs Field, Tex.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
Rathbun


When Gus Zimmerman can't
keep up with the dirt in the
"Chick Sales" it's time we did
something. Why not take a little
pride in the old relic and help keep
it clean.
The annual picnic is coming up,
so start saving your gas. Those on
the committee are Mike Waclawski,
Russell Martin, Spike Harris, Leo
Karl, Walter Thomas (Suds), Paul
Guyras and Heinz Sieve. Where
it will be held we know not. 1t
will be at a place where "Suds"
Thomas can operate.
Henry Kaiser can't be so hot,
not when you consider the record
our own assembly boys are making.
They have really put their backs
to the task Of Launching" that tug
engine ahead of schedule. Sure
they grouse about the long hours
but they are at heart proud of the
job.
Does the company have any idea
who piloted that Flying Fortress
which made three runs over the
shop last Monday? Hiya, Aaron!
Local Boy Makes Good in a big
way.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
WHY'S Seeing Eye

one ear and out the other. But the
no working order is going to be
enforced. If you would only take
care of the men under you and see
that they have the right dies in the
right hammers, you would have
plenty to do. Joe Pargeter can take
care Of this one.
RESTAURANT
This is a message to the light
fingered gentry who eat here and
who have a habit of carrying home
all the cutlery. We think it very
unfair, unpatriotic, and in poor
taste to do thing like this. You
know you cannot buy these articles
any more, and if you continue to
carry them home, you soon will
have to go back to the primitive
way and eat all your food with
your fingers. This is warning
that if you get caught you will be
severely dealt with. Leave the ta-
bleware on the table and quit put
ting it in your pocket.
WHY'S Unit is leading the way
for recreation among Local IL
units. We have baseball, softban,
tennis and golf teams, and we are
reliably informed not to be sur
prised if fishing and swimming
clubs are organized. Last, but not
least, are our Victory Garden weed
pullers. Go to it, brothers and sis
ters. All we ask you to do is let Us
know what the score is once in
vpbiIa
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
Six Billion for Ledse-Lend
For Year Voted

WASHINGTON (FP)-The Sem
ate approved appropriations for
6,273, ,629 900 for lease-lend oper-
ations June II, coincident with the
anniversary of the signing of mu-
tual aid agreement by which this
country has supplied munitions,
food and other material to the
Soviet Union. The bill awaits only
the Presidential signature now. A
rider to the bill Unanswered by
the farm bloc prevents any funds
being paid for subsidies on agri-
cultural products grown here.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
Steel Products
TattIer

Steve kulczynski, vice chairman.
has left to serve Uncle Sam. We
wish Steve the best of luck and a
speedy return.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Zientek
achieved parenthood a week ago.
Another girl for the happy couple.
Congratulations.
Vic Bienick is alter bound June
%. Congratulations to Vic.
Helen Richason is leaving us, to
be with her husband, who is serv-
ing in the armed forces. Good
luck, Helen.
Joe Publ rides John Wyas on
his bicycle to and from the Union
hall. At the halfway mark it is
vice versa and John pumps a while.
They are saving their 18 stamp and
shoe leather.
Alta Taylor has enjoyed CD her
sisters cold for a few days.
Genevieve Winder is suffering
with a lame back from moving
furniture around. She was trying
to keep up with the stronger sex.
When Margaret Topper meets one
of her friends she lets the rest of
the neighborhood know about it.
There seems to be contest on
among the women to see which
one can wear the most amount of
lace. Oh, my deah!
A few more members attended
the last monthly meeting, June 10.
Their attendance and voice of opin-
ion was greatly appreciated. Let's
see everybody at the next meeting,
july IL.
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The
.AckIinite
By Lewis MattOx
VISITOR

by AC"iS 4hotlOA
VISITOR
Sophie Kaminski's son was home
on furlough and visited in the
shop, as did Gertrude Browning 5
brother. Both boys were looking
fine and like their jobs.
Stanley Schoviak, longtime
member of the Unit, left for the
Navy late last month.
PERSONALITIES
Grace Lee is leaving for her va
cation this week. She is accom-
panying her husband to Houston,
Texas. Have a good time, Grace.
Mississippi Slim, that great big
man from the South in the engi-
neering department, who confesses
he likes "cawn bread" is an ardent
admirer of Local ~. Slim is a good
Union member and is a good illus
tration of what will some day hap
pen when the South is thoroughly
unionized.
MEETING
Next meeting of the Acklin Unit
will be June 27, 2 p. M, at 425 Win
throp st. New officers recently
elected by the Unit will be installed
by Cyrus (Toots) Martin, Local II
representative. Run-off election of
the three candidates tied for COM
mitteeman-at-large will take place
prior to the installation.
SOFTBALL
Thanks to the generosity of the
company, our softball team will be
outfitted with uniforms. The team
won its first game last week, and
with the new uniforms to improve
their morale, should continue to
hold their own in the Local II soft
ball league.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
OPA TRIMMED BY CONGRESS

WASHINGTON (FP)-Congress
received the house appropriation
committees bill for Is government
agencies, with the Office of War
Information and the OPA most
seriously trimmed and few of the
agencies original estimates left
uncut. The total bill calls for ST.
921 AL ,504.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
WLB TO Suffer in
Economy Move

WASHINGTON (FP)-Congress
received the House appropriation
committees bill for Is government
war agencies June 16, with the
Office of War Information most
seriously trimmed and few of the
agencies escaping pruning Of the
Bureau of the Budgets estimates.
The total bill calls for S2,921,-
AL ,504.
Compared to the S37,324,000
asked for Owl, exclusive of spe-
cial S10,00O,O00 fund for possible
use in military operations, the
committee recommends Congress
allow Owl S5,000,000 for the spe-
cial fund, and s29,472,504 other
wise. This is S6,374,7s8 less than
the amount allowed for 1943. The
cut for the Domestic Operations
Branch is 37fo of the budget esti-
mate.
WLB Held Down
The National War Labor Board
is prevented from adding person
mel or obtaining increases for more
permanent positions on the staff,
although the report points out that
at the date of the hearings the
WLB had a backlog of 600 cases
in Washington and $4,000 in the
field. Requested was S13, ,481 300.
Recommended is $500, 900 less. New
cases coming to the board include
1900 a week for voluntary wage
adjustments, and 400 month in
which management and unions dis
agree.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
PAY-AS-YOU-GO
By Claude Hess

| Pa AS 1OU-G
We read an editorial in the
sheet they call paper that is de-
livered to your every night, say
ing we asked for 20qt withhold
ing tax, and that we got just what
we asked for, which is stretching
the truth a long ways.
Yes, we are for a pay roll with
holding tax, but we had nothing
to say about how much it would
be. But the reactionery Congress
is trying to make everyone believe
the workers are for the new tax
bill. They tried every way to sell
the Ruml Plan, which would have
exempted the people with salaries
of s1,000,000 per year over $780,
900, but how much would we be
exempted.
Ask yourself, who will make the
most profit out of this war, the
Industrialist or the Worker? You
can rest assured this is a workers
war and we will have to pay for it
and not the NAN.
Quit kidding yourself that Con-
gress is going to help the work
ers. What they are actually do
ing is trying to take everything
away from organized labor that
has been won by it aided by
Franklin Roosevelt, the finest
friend labor has had since Abras
ham Lincoln occupied the White
House.
We also think it is unfair of
the members of, organized labor,
who live within the limits of the
city and who are not registered
and unable TO vote, to call them
selves union members. We think
you have duty to do and a lot of
obligation to repay to our presi-
dent of this United States Of Amer
lea. to elect people who will sup
port him and not let the reaction
aries who are now in control of
congress take everything away
from you.
Brothers and Sisters, wake up
and become good citizens by reg
istering at PIT Superior st. and be
able to vote this fall. Stop those
who do not like US from having
control of everything. Say to your
self, / have a duty and so have my
friends, who took the same obli-
cation as | did, to register at
once. Don't be misled by those ed
itorials you read in the daily pa
pers. They are only put in there
to fool the workers, and the few
who really believe in them.
FOREMEN, ATTENTION!
We suggest that the foremen Of
WHY'S Overland get out their little
green bibles, better known as con-
tracts, and read paragraph q. 1T
seems that the foremen on the first
sb;f+ IN nar+ $50 have forCnttau
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
ANACONDA FINED

FORT WAYNE (FP)-A fine of
$4,000 was levied here against the
Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. after
it had refused to contest charges
of attempting to defraud the gov
ernment in the manufacture of de-
fective wire products at its Marion
plant.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
MOHAMET GOES
TO MOUNTAIN

WASHINGTON (FP) - Price
Administrator Prentiss M. Brown
announced that instead of waiting
for industry to approach OPA in
forming advisory committees as
required under the price control
act, OPA will act to get them set
up under OPA's industry council.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
Labor S News
In Brief
UNIONS ASK LAW VETO

WA SHIN TON (FP)-CIo
President Philip Murray, AFL
President William Green and Pres
ident d. B. Robertson of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Engineers (unaffiliated) in a joint
statement asked the President to
veto the Conally-Smith bill, de-
scribing it as "the worst anti-labor
bill passed by congress in the last
100 years"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
We're Strong For Toledo
BY OLLIE PECoRD.
ca OLD SONG

- Remember that old song "Were Strong for Toledo,
which popularzed by Joe Muphys Ice House Quartet
Remember how the Murphy bunch took trip to
Belgium to attend Rotary international convention and
how headlines in the Toledo papers told of Joe and his
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
PRICES NEED sUBsIDIEs-FDR

WASHINGTON (FP) = Presi-
dent Roosevelt asserted that price
control could not be achieved with
out subsidies and estimated that it
would take from a billion and a
half to two billion dollars to ac-
complish the anticipated rollback in
prices.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25
National
Supply
BY Shorty Sager.

Don't forget our annual picnic at
Shady Shores, along the river. It's
a beautiful spot, with a ball dia-
mond and lots of room to park
your cars. George O'Henry has
purchased plenty of beer, candy
bars, ice cream, cracker Jack, etc.
Plenty for everyone. Bring your
wives and children, as there will be
plenty to eat. The date, Sunday,
July II.
AROUND THE SHOP
If you want to see a man with
an honest face, take a good look
at Frosty Richards. Oh, yeah?
1t seems as though Jim McDon-
nough has a bad case of amnesia
After driving his car to work, he
rode home with someone else and
left the jaloppy at the shop. For
the life of him, he couldn't figure
where it was until a two-year-old
child came to his rescue and re-
turned him to his senses.
Tough boy Pinkie Zimmerman,
since being close to the army, has
developed lot of ailments all of a
sudden, such as heart trouble, asth-
ma and blindness. Poor Pinkie.
LAUGH OF THE WEEK
Meredith "Buzz" Price, the CAST
nova inspector, surely does cele-
brate when he is out on his own.
There is a new increase in the
Coci family, and no cigars. Tish,
tish, Al. Any relation to Staple
Coci?
Do you ever come to work with
out breakfast? Do you ever get
thirsty on a hot afternoon? If so,
contact Bill Godlewski or Mel Penn
and they will buy you something
to eat or drink. AS to their gene
rosity, ask Bob Porter.
We certainly are glad to see
Rufus Cults back on the job as
leader in Dept. 85, after a long
siege of illness. We are glad to
have you back, Rufus, and we wish
you the best of luck.
Don't forget to register at the
Board of Elections, next to the
Esquire Theater, so you can vote
for labor next election.