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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22

up the goal which we had set for ourselves
the goal which worker has his security
Men who had stood in bread lines worked WPA
sold doughnus doorodoo became politically Men
politics except what they pages the daily
tmosy Republican newspapers) realized that while still
lot be desired IN the Democratic party still doing something
for them They voted election day. they
in office for three straight terms.
Then the
Workers who had wondered not once hut many times in the
years where coming and
how they their light gas, bills
themselves suddenly making money
Whoopie! Happy days here again.
First lot of workers bought better food they
either bought had the old appc fixed up like
Then they began little fat around their midrifs
finally November 1912 the obesity spread space
their They neglected to
WHAT DOES IT TAKE
The seIfsame worker who nearly
1892 1897 and whose life had become series Of ayoff and
staggered work home last election day,
picked the paper and sa Ho days day
Call when suppers ready Mary, I'm gonna nap"
What did this guy about Republicans
politics? Didn't he have couple of bonds the bank
tires and food enough for days electric
gerator? Well what else there life? YEAH Union
had asked him to vote but what the he'll they getting
worry about the politicians let them their
Hot dog! The gravy train the again.
respectful the steward was protect
him. The union the 10
it in the bag
Let's now, that 10 per increase
months would buy that dining Mary
have and leave few dollars for making whoope It's swell
have union fight for money sir!
for the union.
so IT STANDS
And stands The 18th Congress guy
walks with kings but keeps the touch Frederick c.
ford president of that humanitarian organization
figuring and of asking Congress
thing workers. Chambers of Commerce through that
ether great friend the United Chamber Com
meree raekng its collective brain boost workers. you
know where.
while back the job job over your play
mates will still be in the saddle and where will you be-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22

$4,000 minimum.
Total the five Spce $35495O
which you look it, half bad for year.
CONTRASTS
of these five Spcer with those
the highest paid workers in the Spcr plant and will
agree there just isn't any comparison.
Naturally, the big favor of having their
pared patry $4,000 And by
what is left after all have been deducted
Take your and how much is left
have paid taxes electricity COAL food clothing
bill pew purchase bottles of beer
You probably haven't enough left to buy saving
A PROMISE
the evidence which denied there
Why time that big share the burden
with workers and equaze the sacrifices which
necessitates.
If the $4,000 limitation incomes should be repealed
nud by legislation prepared not only to demand that the
War Labor Board skip the ceiling but will before
UAWCO Executive request
steps take the lid off everything
brdIed initiation it did during the last and
where it lands the country.
If workers sacrifice income by of frozen
scales certainly the WBs per
hold for the high saared whose
pteous winnings enough the stomach of dentmnded
people
Winning the important indeed, far to the
the high saared people of the country They
fighting maintain unreasnaby high incomes while g:
ing the necessities life reasonable
security.
Each every member of labor unions
Davis of the War Labor protesting little
grounds that unless commodity prices
roed go up.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
GUEST EDITORIAL
From The Progressive
PegIer's Poison

There is probably in the whole world unless it be
Hitler who hates organized labor with psychOpathc
feor than Westbook Peger The posons drained off
his fostering BRAIN when brewed with enough printers ink
precipate solution of American fascism far potent
than anything that could be found any of the literature of
the crackpot bundist groups
If he much hears that representative of labor has
vituperation in wild orgy mpung to the entire labor
the sins Of an individual member To him all organ
lied labor because handful of its millions of members have
had criminal records is made up of thieves gangster
sonsts and rackeeers
We wonder if Pegler is willing to apply this yard
stick to of the representatives of industry whose boot
straps he serey cks Recently the stockholders of the
Brewster Aeronautica Corporation brought action against
the corporations executive officers $4,000 OOO
alleged to be the amount of commissions paid three agents
1or assisting in the of Navy for the
company.
The practice of dealing with parasitica contract bro
ers is in itself contemplate But in this case as the facts
brought out in the federal Philadelphia disclosed the
agents to whom the commissions were paid were to put it
mildly, very shady characters
:. One of them, f. William Zecer was operating speak
in New York City at the time the commissions were
handed The other two Alfred j. and gnaco Miranda
received their portions of the take while they serving
federal prison
According to Pegers warped thinking applied to or
ganized labor this would not only make common criminals
out of the corporation officers but out of all ndustrast
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Editors Mail

After listening to Dick Gosser
at our meeting Friday night it is
easy to understand why he has adj
vanced in the Labor field and to
see further advancement in the
future.
l have heard many labor speech
es but never more sincere,
forcibly spoken, straight from the
heart talk than he gave. No one
can doubt his earnest desire that
each and every one of us should
do our utmost to "Pass the am
munition."
His pride in announcing the
amount of gifts sent to our MEM
bers in service and his plea for
greater contributions in the future
showed a trait of a good leader.
Organized labor has increased
and gained only by leaders who use
their position and their ability for
the benefit of others. 1t is too bad
we still have leaders who use their
position for personal benefits and
privileges. They still follow the
rule of the jungle and use their
efforts for themselves first and
others afterwards. When we de-
velope enough of the Dick Gosser
kind of leaders we will have
answered that sacred ancient plea
for a more abundant life.
The real leaders and the heroes
of humanity have always been its
great hearts. 1t is a fact in human
experience that life of narrow
selfishness is not happy life. To
really live, to have real happiness
you must use your efforts to make
others happy. That and that only
brings life to its greater fullness.
Dick Gosser has chartered a
course as the start of New Year
which we should all follow for the
entire year for mutual benefit.
r. B. PUGH-W. o. No 404269
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Union Labels
BY BILL HEALY
Union Labels Director

Auto-Lite was one of the first
shops in Local II. Although the
products they manufactured do not
carry the Union Label, they are
manufactured by Union Labor
The products they manufacture
in peace time are as follows:
motors, generators, distributors,
regulators, coils, and complete ig-
milton equipment for automobiles,
trucks and motoboats, etc.
Products they are now manufac-
turing are as follows: Ignition
equipment for jeeps, trucks, peeps,
tanks, patrol and PIT boats, avia-
tion ignition and control equip
ment.
Their plants are located on
Champlam ST., Ketcham St., and
Stickney Ave. The Auto-Lite Tank
Depot is now being organized.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
HOW ABOUT A DEPRESSION!

Yes, that's what | said!
1t seems that it is the will of the
people, and the people must have
their way.
Msgr. John A. Ryan, Catholic
sociologist, who has forgotten more
about social justice and the prob
lens of both Capital and Labor
than the stuffed shirt Industrial
lists ever knew, recently stated that
"Unless the middle classes (farm-
ers, professional people, small busi-
ness men and white collar workers)
cease to get their opinions from the
daily papers and strive to acquire
a greater amount of realistic eco
nomic intelligence :. they may ex-
ercise sufficient voting power to
place the champions of free en-
terprise" in control after the
war. From such a calamity may the
good Lord deliver u.s."
He warned the American people
of disastrous decline for organ
lied labor and therefore for the
whole body of wage earners," in
the January 8th issue of The Wage
Garner, SHOULD President Roose-
velt's enemies replace him in Of
flee"
Replacing Roosevelt will mean
unrestrained freedom for the in
dustrialist, and naturally this will
result in vast unemployment, as
we have seen in the past. Even in
the prosperous twenties only 500
of the industrial plant capacity was
in operation, stated Msgr. Ryan.
PLAN FOR FUTURE
The people had better wake up
and begin planning for the future.
We owe that much to the boys in
service.
Let's change our minds and stop
acting like we want another de-
preston. Unless we do little con-
structive thinking, we will find the
NAM coming up with beauty"
of a postwar plan.
Who does the National Manufac-
turers' Association represent? i.
1t may have done yoar thinking
for you by controlling what you
read and hear, but it really repre-
sents the industrialists.
Depressions don't mean so much
to the manufacturer, because they
provide an excellent opportunity to
exploit one worker against an
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Washington
Scene
By VIRGINIA GARDNER
BY Federated Press
DIVIDE AND RULE

ny federateu frees
DIVIDE AND RULE
Unity under the banner of eco
nomy is being achieved by Sen.
Harry F. Byrd's (D.-Va.) congress
sional economy bloc the self-styled
farm bloc and some outright ap-
peasers who see a sure way to di-
vide the country in attacking ra-
tioning and price control through
holding up badly needed appropra-
tions to OPA.
The former America Firster,
Sen. Gerald P. Nye (R.-N. d., is
doing his bit by urging all appro-
priations be submitted to a search
ing and minute consideration and
demanding an investigation of lend
lease food shipments and "food
shortages" He's ranking Republi-
can on the Appropriations commit
tee and newly on Agricultural
committee.
Many congressman who fear to
attack lend-lease have a curious
idea that the peoples wrath won't
be aroused if they attack price-con-
troll and rationing-as if the two
weren't closely identified with win
ming the war and the Presidents
7-point program in the eyes of the
public.
LABOR POLITICAL FRONT
Labor is organizing to work OH
the political front as never before
and all the signs are that Prentiss
Brown as price administrator if he
likes may rely on labor as shock
troops in some guerrilla warfare
behind the enemies lines while he
rallies support for counter-offen-
sive against appeasers and plain
reactionaries.
But OPA can't stand aloof and
graciously allow labor to do the
fighting, any more than OPA can
operate alone, or there just Va ~
be any rationing left.
If Brown is to become anoM !
Lord Woolton, food administrator
and most popular public official in
England, there will have to be some
overhauling of attitudes and people
within OPA, particularly in the
field but also here, the experts say.
1t is no secret that OPA war
price and rationing staffs in the
field, and many area rent directors,
are not only Republicans in many
cases, but mighty cool to the whole
OPA program. Price and rat;oning
boards aren't any better in 900 If
the communities. Reason is the first
tire boards were borrowed Office
of Civilian Defense boards, and
they were run by the dominant po-
litical party, the Junior League
(society gals) and the Chamber Of
Commerce.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22

AS result Of OPA's Willingness to permit
slight elevations in the price of many commodities,
the cost of living has greatly increased, while
wages under the National War Labor board have
not been accorded the same favorable treatment.
Now great efforts being made by those
in the high saared brackets to break down the
$4,000 net income limitation set-up if not to
actually repeal it.
Looking at the incomes published on Page One
of todays Toledo Union Journal shows that the
five top executives of the Spicer Mfg. Co. last
year drew incomes ranging from S96,5OO to a
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
It's A Great
System!
BY JOHN PAINE
BY Federated Press

BY Federated Press
Frederick the Great, pleading
for religious tolerance, once said:
Every man must get to heaven his
own way"
Frederick's present day successor
insists that every man go to hell
Hitlers way.
CAPITOL GOODS
Fertilizer output in 1912, the
Wall Street Journal reports, was
well above previous peaks, amount
ing to 6,196,25S tons, a 4.6fo gain
over 1941.
The 18th congress is expected to
increase production considerably in
1943.
Companies are going to have to
make their own labor" says Edwin
G. Booz, president of the Associ-
alton of Consulting Management
Engineers Inc.
Suggested slogan for Mr., Booz'
association: "Robots will win the
war"
A visiting English official, Mrs.
Mary Agnes Hamilton, when asked
by a Denver reporter why there
had to be high and low classes in
England, replied; "The royalty and
the nobility are stabilizing in
fluence."
And to think the poor old L. 5.
has muddled through for 10 years
without stabilization.
LITTLE LUTHER
"That man McNutt is man
after my own heart" remarked
Mr.. Dilworth, looking up from the
evening Bugle.
"Has he started job freezing ?"
Little Luther asked.
"Not yet. But expect him to do
it soon. | like his latest defense of
private enterprise from the nosy
interference of New Deal bureau
Gratis"
'Do you mean his order to stop
hearings on railroad discrimin-
alton ?"
That's exactly what | mean. |
never have liked this Presidents
Fair Employment Practices Com
mittee any way. Employment prac-
tices are the employers business
and the government is trying to
run their business"
'But Daddy, with a manpower
shortage, wuoldn't it be better to
hire unemployed Negroes than to
freeze jobs ?"
"Such nonsense. Give Negroes
jobs and they'll just go spending
money and Wen have more infla-
tion. Oh, for the good old days on
my granddaddy's rutabaga planta-
tion when the slaves knew their
place"
"If Hitler wins this war, you'll
get more slavery than you want"
"You sound like those New Deal
ocrats. Every time their machina-
tions against private enterprise are
exposed, they yell about Hitler.
What's Hitler got to do with dis
elimination ~
PLENTY. He uses it against Jews,
Negroes, everybody but the Nazis."
Il want to lick Hitler, of course,
but we must preserve white sup
remacy. No black hand must touch
the spotless purity Of"
"a locomotive fireman's shovel"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
What's NeU?
By EDWARD J. DUCK,
Educational Director, Local II, UAW-CIO

other, and provide an effective
means for lowering wages.
Evidently the working man and
woman is not supposed to think
about postwar problems until the
war is over and won But what
would be the use of winning the
war unless we also win the peace?
WINNING PEACE
No one has ever accused the in
dustrialists of being as interested
in winning either the war or the
peace as the men and women in
the armed services, which are COM
posed of SO per cent working
people.
A period of disunity following
the war, or a period of unemploy-
ment would set the stage for fas-
cism, and it has been said that the
manufacturers would thrive under
fascism, so you figure it out!
Let's get busy and all take a
part in the planning. Let's give the
boys in service something BETTER
than they had before the war be-
gan, so they'll know they were
fighting for REAL slogans. They
are representing US -. Are WE
doing our part for them?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22

wages or a salary expressed itself overwhelmingly
in favor of the New Deal.
And the strange thing about the workers ex-
preston for Mr.. Roosevelt was that they were for
the most part still disunited, dsorganzed and
misdrected mass.
Then came the years of attempting to organize
the workers. the years of fighting for social security
laws; the years of winning better working condi-
tions, higher wages and greater share in the
products which we ourselves were producing.
OBESITY
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
SerUicenlen'S S
Letters

| received the packages the
Union sent and look forward tc
them. They are really life savers
1t really is a nice thing when
all the members chip in and buy
the boys such nice things which
we really need. Just saying thanks
never seems to be enough. I'm sure
that we who receive the packages
can agree on that.
The newspaper, (Willys Unit
Eagle and Toledo Union Journal)
which are in the package are well
come and | read them completely
Gives the real lowdown on things
at home.
That new paper, the Toledo
Union Journal, is really alright
and | hope it makes out as the
best there is-as | know it rep
resents the best there is.
Thanks to all who contribute to
the Servicemen's Fund, | remain
your brother Union member.
Pvt. John Pallan. USMC
Jacksonville, Fla
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Regional Vie,Us
BY RICHARD GOSSER,
Regional Director, UAW-CIO
pEGGING WAGES AND PRICES

PEGGING WAGES AND PRICES
Efforts destroy
the work doneb by the OPA beginning fruit
Commodity prices held by Henderson,
dismissal appeae the bloc gradually
permitted to under OPA authority.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
It's NelUs TO Me
LABOR'S POLITICAL UNITY
BY o. J. PECoRD

LABOR'S POLITICAL UNITY
When the Republican under hapess Herbert had
Enthusiastically demonstrated its inability realistically the
emergencies economic breakdown
Democratic party under Franklin d. Roosevelt
meaning every the country
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
No Column

Melvin Schultz, Local IL
president whose column ap-
pears regularly on this page,
has been extremely busy fill.
ing two posts since he was
named to replace Walter Muir.
ply, now serving in the armed
forces. In addition to his du.
ties as president, MIR. Schultz
is continuing to handle the
recording secretary's job
which makes him just about
the busiest officer in the
Local.
We hope that time will per.
NIT resumption of the column
in another week or two.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22

Dear Fellow Members of Local
12:-
In this day of strife and world
turmoil and of sorrow; it is re-
markable and most commendable
that the men and women back home
are waging such desperate fight
to keep earnings and living stan
dards abreast of higher prices and
at Union levels, could find time to
remember the boys in service with
part of their earnings. Earnings
which they no doubt need for their
homes and families. | am deeply
touched and most grateful for your
generous Christmas check. Being
out in the field, it was impossible
to send a Christmas greeting.
Please accept this Happy New
Year instead.
Gene.
Pvt. Eugene C. Florian. 3533273O
Company l. 377th. Infantry,
A. P. o. No. 95.
Fort Sam Houstin, Texas.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22

CAPITOL GOODS
Fertilizer output in 1912, the
Wall Street Journal reports, was
well above previous peaks, amount,
ing to 6,196,25S tons, a 4.6fc gain
over 1941.
The 18th congress is expected to
increase production considerably in
1943.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22

BY Federated Press
Frederick the Great, pleading
for religious tolerance, once said:
Every man must get to heaven mis-
own way"
Frederick's present day successor
insists that every man go to hell
Hitlers way.
Nogales international., 1943-03-05
Between The
Book Ends
(OWEN FARRELL CLARK)

I'm particularly pleased with
the new novel, THE WHOLE
HEART, by Helen Howe. This
happens to be the story of a man S
life as seen through the eyes of
four women who loved him. The
four women write letters to Jim
Hurd and it is through their
thoughts that we piece together
Jim's character.
Each woman, it seems, answers a
certain need at certain time in
Jirn's life, but none of the four
succeed in penetrating his loneli-
ness.
This Jim Hurd becomes quite a
complex character before the novel
ends. His life, indeed, becomes a
series Of paradoxes and conflicts.
A New Englander by birth, he goes
through the usual spiritual wrestling
match with his strict conscience.
AS a soldier, author, and COM
mentator Jim is always interesting
The idea behind this novel is not
new. Several hundred years ago
Samuel Richardson's Clarissa Har-
Nogales international., 1943-03-05
'Lenten Season
At St. Andrews

The Lenten season will begin at
st. Andrews Church with Cele-
bration of the Holy Communion
Ash Wednesday, March 10th at 10
am.
The Penitential Office will be said
at 1915 o'clock for the benefit Of
those unable to attend the morning
service, and in the afternoon at
AIS o'clock, Evening Prayer, Litany
and sermon. This last service is
something of an innovation and is
in response to a suggestion made
that an afternoon service be- pro-
vided this Lent for school children,
public school teachers and house
wives.
If this afternoon service Ash
Wednesday is sufficiently we'll at
tended to- warrant it's continuance,
an afternoon service at this hour
will be held every Wednesday in
Lent. Beginning Friday evening,
March 18th, Evening Prayer and
sermon, every Friday in Lent at 8
o'clock In addition the church
will have the regular weekly Eu-
charist, Thursday morning at 10
o'clock, with Intercessions.
Nogales international., 1943-03-05
Former Nogales
Girl Joins Waves

One of the first Arizonans to en-
list in the WAVES under a stimu-
lated program to recruit more
Waves for the U. S. Naval duty was
Miss Margaret Lowell, %, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Lowell, Fort
Lowell road, formerly of Nogales,
according to word received yesterday
from the eleventh naval district
headquarters in Phoenix.
Miss Lowell was enlisted as an
apprentice seaman and later will
attend officers school, She is a
former student at the University of
Arizona.
Ensign Rebecca Stribling, of Los
Angeles, who interviewed Miss Low
ell in Phoenix prion to her enlist
ment, said approximately 80 other
applicants we're interviewed during
her three-day stay in Phoenix, and
she believes large number of them
will be enlisted.