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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08
A LOT DESIRED


the country there still remains plenty
in the things which have already been established.
Take the matter of industrial accidents. What
he still does receive money provide
his family with living during the time he
And outside of hopahzaton insurance
era have absolutely protection against Sickness greatest
enemy of
In the Of unemployment there
deal be desired will argue on a
pance with his family
the time he is unemployed
old pensions disgrace that
the people who taxpayers working
citizens of their lives plead pauperm and then
them bare subsistence cheap burial they have
taken themselves off the hands the state.
MORE SECURITY
The the economic problems they relate
poymen Sickness accident problems less benefits
but Even recognized this when it created
the social security laws for the object of unemployment insurance
merely unemployed the periods unempoy
equal Importance their purchasing pows
is utterly destroyed
purchasing power by unemployment by
adequate unemployment other compensation Ions
isn't high enough foster unemployment the quicker the
rehabilitation of the economic society becomes.
realize that all these things take time; but also realize
any protection which fails adequately
needs improving and the workers of America
shall continue to seek these improvements
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08

the beverage RAM out from very casual gong
it, it seems to that it merely is an at
tempt to do something which we in this country
have been trying to do namely, give the worker
adequate protection, not only in shielding
him from occupational accidents and diseases; but
in providing for him in time of employment sick
and old age, and doing it on more generous
scale
LOT DESIRED
Even while we admit that some progress has
been made to recognize the workers the greatest
contributors to the upbudinp and maintenance of
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08
America Under Arms
By HOMER BRETT

Young America is in a heroic mood boys,
hghschoo boys yesterday terrible in battle No
Plains Troy Thermopyae of
heroism than American frs displayed Midway
needs make apology
past sailors Farrgu
died before Maryes Heights Federck
burg who held the bloody Angle at Antetam who charged with
Pickett died with whit brave
devoted American youth today
shell and of deadly dartng
fighters bomb torpedo the aircraft carriers
We a great people We have left furrow
put hands the Our soldiers
sailors worthy the noblest traditions
history worthy them. Let
duty hands and do it with all might
They will win victory in the
victory the easier battle against
the sneang nsdious deadly enemy They
full DEVOTION Let
offer without stint limit money.
U. S. TREASURY DEPT.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08
Congressional Tasks

By the time this geets your eye the 18th congress of
the United States will have assembled in Washington pre-
paratory to embarting upon its legislative
Many words have spilled themselves upon the pages of
the newspapers Of the country relative to the possibilities
of the congress- but thing appears certain judging
from the majority of the anayses-ths congress will be
bitterly partisan upon many issues.
Politics usual like the old slogan, business usual
must not be permitted to interfere in any way with the
cessful prosecution of the
Regardless Of the political hues of the various congress
and senator's the country will rise to demand that
ges do all in its power to bring the successful
rlusion it is humanly possible.
Many of those in congress have and relatives
in the army and do not believe they would do anything
against the welfare of their flesh and blood On the other
hand efforts of reactonares to penaze labor with the
AZ hour week. saddle unjust share of the burden
upon the already heavily burdened workers of the country
will be definite to retard the effort and should
be watched for and fought before it occurs.
Labor unions all the country frankly skeptica
about the new and will watch its every move with
greater vigilance than before
Labor will fight against any and all efforts of short
sighted politically in congress to penaze labor
the to reard take away labor
the things which it has gained and to which it is in all
justice entitled.
We shall hope for the best from the new congress and
ourselves for whatever legislative acts may tend
reard the great task to which the country and all patriotic
citizens have dedicated themselves the winning of the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08
Victory In Forty Three

In infamy will live the hour
When Adolf Hitler rose to power;
His yellow brothers. like the hun,
Profaned the name of God and Son.
Then war came sweeping a cloud.
Spread DER the earth CHASTITY shroud,
And lashed its hate with tightening speed
Against all truth and right and creed.
How the spoils what they have gained
Where they have plundered and profaned?
The fair of earth sleep meath the sod
Where evil feet of monsters trodj
The infants cry, the aged weep,
The pangs OF hunger growing deep;
The crimson path where seek fame
Find women, slaves of ruthless shame.
This is the order they would build.
All dreams and music mutely stilled,
Soul-quenched slaves with empty face,
Servants of the Aryan
But they who died and who live
More than death and devotion give.
No suffering ages shall look
world void of freedoms dawn.
Through CULTS of hell free shall trod
To give handwork to God
OF peace on earth, good will to men,
That love shall rule again.
For strength, o God, pray to Thee
For Victory in Forty Three.
DON PARSoN
"The Bard OF Flatrock"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08
What Kind Of Guy?

Frederick Crawford president of the Thompson Prod
ucts Co. of Cleveland which the Toledo Steel Products Co.
is subsidiary was recently named head of the National
Association of Manufacturers.
AS every union man knows, the NAM of which Mr.
Crawford is the head has been and according to its
nouncements recent convention which named Mr. Craw
ford, still remains militantly anti-labor
Despite Mr. Crawfords associates, the Friendly Forum
paper of the Thompson Products Co. Dec 1S
carried some owery praise for Crawford which should
be looked into
According to the Friendly Forum, men and women in
the Thompson organization think him (Crawford)
common guy the kind of boss who enjoys nothing much
as mixing with them-theres nothing stuffed shirt about
Fred Crawford"
Dipping still deeper into its horn of literary extrava
ganza the Friendly Forum quoted the Cleveland Press
saying of Mr. Crawford e walks with kings but keeps the
common touch"
In the face of all this journalistic praise what the
real facts?
Isn't it true that Frederick Crawford has been for
one of abor's most militant enemies?
Isn't true that he has cost the federal government
thousands of dollars enforcing DEGREES which decided
against him?
Isn't it true that he has spent thousands of dollars of his
corporations money breaking up unions in his plants which
he could not control?
Doesn't it fair to believe that in the face of the
hating aborbatng employer that he rewarded by the
NAM with highest office in its gift in order that he could
continue show the way other and less militant associates
in the NAM?
And in the face of such outstanding antiabor record
Frederick c. Crawfords Jealous but slightly misinformed
journalists who write the Friendly Forum ask to believe
that Mr.. Crawford still retains the common touch.
Very WELL Mr. Crawford if you still have the common
touch, why don't you prove it?
Why don't you fairly and squarey sit down with your
employees who rejected the APWA at the Toledo Steel Prod
ucts days ago and negotiate others
employe to negotiate fair contract?
Why don't you call off your stooges like John Drake
who noted for his past the football field
than his finesse in handling people?
Why don't you honestly, fairly and squarey sit down.
without prejudice, without any ulteror purpose and talk
with employees who democratcaly choose the UAWCIO
its bargaining agent?
You ought to know by that the employees of the
Toledo Steel Products Co. did not fall for the sticky journal
stc endeavors Of your highly paid pubcsts and that they
evidently don't trust the APWA In the face of these crcum
stances it looks like it's you to determine by flu
ture conduct toward your employees what kind of guy
they really think you
Think it over, Mr. Crawford It's too late to
FORM and besides you due for terrific bbng" from
your NAM associates the first time you attend board
meeting
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08

Upon entering the year I94z, It VIII be recalled
that Local No. IL located at Gil Huron Street
and in such a crowded condition that there was
a saying that person had to back into the hall.
On the first of February, we moved to 425
Winthrop Street Upon making the change, thought
was Immediately given to providing the membership
with more adequate parking space This taken
up thru the trustees of the Automotive Workers
Bldg. Corp. and early in the Fall the adjoining
property to our home was purchased. This
property is now being cleared and will be turned
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08

condltons Which VIII 1oIoW thls WAT, Tot Che WOrk-
ers of the country more interested in their
fate than ever before, and with good cause.
In the automatic economic system which existed
prior to the Hoover era, maladjustments in the
system eventually worked themselves out by new
inventions which gave fresh employment, or by
a gradual return of more normal times by
of using up the surplus goods of the country.
Our system governed by economic laws
which theoretically operated by unseen, but never
thess effective forces which known Sup
ply and demand"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08

tion-one cause of Browns defeat.
Brown while in congress proved
himself more sensitive to labor's
demands than Henderson was. At
the same time he will follow Hen
derson's general win-the-war poll
cies on price control and rationing
policies he never put into effect
all the way, but which as policies
labor has supported. Now, if la
boris demands are made known and
backed up with community de-
mands, much can be expected of
Brown.
This means not only getting
places on local rationing boards,
but where national OPA orders to
put labor on the boards are ignored
by the Chamber of Commerce Jun
ior League setup of many boards,
labor and small farmers and house
wives must act anyway. They can
police stores to see that prices are
legal, they can broadcast workers
rights under OPA rent regulations,
they can picket boarding house
wives.
NEED LABOR'S SUPPORT
And they can insist, locally and
nationally, on simpler and tighter
price control, simpler and broader
rationing, and the extension of rent
control to New York and other
areas. They can demand the over
hauling of local boards, insisting
that where there are persons who
do not believe in the program
1000, they be removed.
Without the support of labor,
OPA will collapse. This requires
the sober recognition by the unions
of the need for speedy action-and
more determination on the part of
the OPA administrators to go
ahead and prosecute the flagrant
violators and advertise their eX-
cellent rent regulations rather than
adopting an almost hush-hush atti-
tude lest the public haul too many
landlords into court.
Once they do this they will find
more popular support for their pro-
gram.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08
Washington
Scene
By VIRGINIA GARDNER
NOW 1T COMES

NOW 1T COMES
The reactionaries in congress are
organizing, their spokesmen sound
ing off in daily interviews with the
press, preparing the way for (D
an attack on labor and ~ an at
tack on price control and rationing.
The strength with which organ
lied labor rallies community sup
port to the rationing and price con-
troll program and the defense Of the
Office of Price Administration, may
measure the effectiveness of it's
defense of labor's rights.
Unless all win-the-war forces in
little towns and big cities organize
efforts both to bring pressure on
congress and to demand that the
0PA correct certain mistakes it
means that the reactionary-poll
taxer alignment will do a job on
the Presidents 7-point program. 1t
means, moreover, initiation.
OPA VULNERABLE
OPA is the most vulnerable spot
in the administration of the 7-point
program, because of its immense
ness and complexity and the speed
with which the field organization
was set up, and its inevitable role
as bearing the brunt Of peoples
small irritations at the restrictions
necessary in total war.
At the same time, because OPA
reaches into every family, into
every citizens daily life, it offers
an excellent opportunity for grass
roots organization of labor, con-
sumers, small farmers and others
who know what the war is all
about.
At the moment some nice ideal.
istic administrators at OPA who
learned all they know about labor
at Harvard are figuratively chew
ing their fingernails and wondering
what can be done to get labor to
give congressional hackers of ap-
preparations hell.
They have conception of labor
leaders as proud set of prima
donnas who are just personally
hurt at Leon Henderson's prior OBJ
session with keeping wages down.
According to this theory they
would nurse their wounds in ST.
lence and take grim pleasure in
seeing Congress bow to Sen Elmer
Thomas 3D. Okla.) and his farm
bloc.
But if Thomas, who says the
farm bloc controls both houses in
the 18th, has his way and revises
parity upward, making it not par
ity at all, the workers will be eat
ing less. They can't pay Victory
tax, which may be increased if a
good fight isn't put up, buy bonds,
maybe pay sales tax too if the
anti Treasury congressman win
there, and in addition, pay more
and more for food.
Even if this worry of the OPAers
was founded on fact, which we are
assured is not the case, it doesn't
take into account the union locals
in the field and their increasing
awareness of the political role they
must play in this war, which is
political in the broad sense. One
thing is essential, though, and that
is speed.
HENDERSON'S SUCCESSOR
Henderson is going, to be re-
placed by much more astute poll
tician, Sen. Prentiss Brown 3D.
Mich.) Many unions such as the
Init. Bro. of Electrical Workers
(AFL) have admitted that organ
lied labor did not do the job it
should have done in the last cleo
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08
A Year of OfAccOn,p!ishment
By MelUin N. Schultz, Rec. Sec'y.
Local No. 12 UAW-CIO

beginning of it is customary that look back
past year and review its happenings.
the always face peasantries, in fact
usually things which
dsappontment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-08
It's NeaUs TO Me
PLANNING POSTWAR WORLD
By o. ]. PECORD

PLANNING POSTWAR WORLD
occasions VcePresdnt Wallace has discussed the
postwar world particularly concerned with employment and
security
only who interested in the economic
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Love Is Never LOST

A candles light holds no essent;o,
claim,
Only the symbol of deeper olou.
Ho,o much OF night 1t cleapes ,re
cannot kno,r,
So quickly spent-the evanesce,t
fame.
We kno,o not nhere 1t GOES M,
Whence 1t came,
But In the shadoUed qutetude =,
dusk
TIE soft light penetrates a br,tt,.
husk
OF memory, tllunaintng lope'. no,r.
There may be hours of no aonnr..,,
light,
When dreams are snuFed out HI
the easement 1Dind
Like that small blaze the eord,.
briefly tossed.
But lore cannot be curtatned ,o,, ~,
night, ~
1t IS fame that Hpes. ,e,.o.s6
and thtnned,
In shadoto for a time. but !, .,.,
lost. e'
BLANCHE srzwa.r.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Home Folks Apology

From the Coos County IN. HI Democrat
Aren't there any sore heads among the
North Country boys in their country's
service? We have been receiving their
letters, publishing many just as they hap
pen to come, but we have failed to de-
tect sour note in any Of them. We
wish these boys to know that those on
the home front are proud of them and
the spirit they have shown, as we'll as
the understanding of why they are called
to fight and for what they are fighting.
They are of that group that have caused
a lot of worrying at the sewing bees
It's about time to replace the brickbats
with orchids. We are proud of you boys
and girls from the North Country for
the spirit with which you take up the
fight to preserve our freedoms. We are
just bit ashamed that we have not
given you better chance here at home
to prove the worth that you demonstrate
you possess to such degree.
Evening star., 1943-04-06

'The salvation of France" he as
serts, will not come from without" i"
Meanwhile, his Axis associates con-
tinue to turn the screws upon his un-
fortunate country. On the very day
that Petain made his disillusioning
plea, the Berlin radio announced the
transference of imprisoned leaders
OF the Third Republic from Vichy
jails to the Reich. This was done
despite protests from Pierre Laval,
thus dealing another blow to his
microscopic prestige The reason for
Germany's action was given by the
Berlin radio as apprehension that "a
planned Anglo-American coup de
main" might free them. That is
certainly frank avowal of Nazi
fears OF a French popular revolt.
Marshal Petain may be oblivious to
the signs of the times. But the
Gestapo and the German high COM
mand are only too we'll aware of
them. For they are realists.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Municipal Court Report

The report OF Chief Judge George
P. Barse covering the first six
months operation of the new Mu-
nicipal Court is an impressive docu-
ment. The court, consolidation of
old municipal and police courts,
began functioning in mid-July. Or
ganization took some time. But
despite this, and although required
to deal with heavy docket, Judge
Barse reports that the tribunal came
to the end of 1912 with its work, "for
all practical purposes, continuously
current" both civil and criminal
cases, being handled, for the most
part, on daily disposition" basis.
In the accomplishment of this rec
ord, the court disposed of nearly
71.OOO cases. There were 3O,528
criminal actions instituted in the
half-year, and 40,381 civil. The court
had a backlog of 889 criminal jury
trials pending at the outset of it's
labors, and in the six months, Jury
trials were demanded in l,244 cases,
OF this total, 1889 we're disposed of,
leaving but 1874 docketed at the end
OF the year, of which 1876 were
assigned for trial. The small residue
consisted of cases in which military
service, illness, or some other cause
prevented the appearance of the
principals.
Civil jury cases, Judge Barse ex-
plains, are few in number, and are
quickly disposed of unless there is
good cause for continuance.
Another interesting statistical fact
brought out by the report is that
collections of fees, fines, penalties
and forfeitures amounted to nearly
$525,00O, approximately 100000 more
than was appropriated for the opera
ton OF the court for the entire year.
The court, with nine judges sitting,
is operating in eight branches-four
each in the civil and criminal divi-
sions The judges are shifted around
where best use can be made of their
services, a practice that also has the
added advantage of familiarizing
every member with all the work of
the tribunal. Night sessions have
been held whenever necessary.
Judge Barse pays what obviously
is deserved tribute to his associates
and to United States Attorney
Edward M. Curran, and it is equally
evident that the direction he has
given the court has been of a high
order.
The consolidated court, an innova-
ton here, was established in an
effort to speed litigation, and, at the
same time, take some of the load
of District Court by enlarging the
civil jurisdiction of the new tribunal.
Judge Barse says the court has justi-
fled its creation, and the record fully
bears out that statement.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
The Only Goiners
From the Baltimore Sun.

When it is recalled that during 1915
and 1915, when the boom attendant upon
the First World War was at its height,
there were no eXcess-prof1ts taxes and
that corporations were able to retain for
themselves and their stockholders the
unexampled profits resulting from British
and French war orders, the contrast
between that earlier period and the
present one is the more striking. The
fact is that while this war has brought
corporate activity on an almost un-
believable scale, it has not brought
anything like the corporate prosperity
which marked both the war of Is years
ago and the peace boom that eliminated
in 1929. Prosperity in this war accrues
to the workers and the farmers, whose
earnings are on an unprecedented scale
and whose living costs, thanks to price
controls, are slightly lower than In 1929
and TAR lower than during ths last war.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Petuin Persists

The radio address broadcast last
Sunday by Marshal Petain reveals
mentality ascribed to those Bourbon
moharchs Of old France whom he
so greatly admires. OF them it was
said that they learned nothing and
forgot nothing. To any one awake
to the true situation, this message"
to the French people, couched in a
tone at once paternal and authori-
tartan, is tissue of amazing un-
realities. The aged chief" of state"
long since snuffed out by brutal con-
querors, talks as though nothing had
changed since the tragic -mistice,
nearly three years ago, VIII IN gave
him and his Vichy regime ,enuous
lease of mortgaged authority Petain
continues to repeat formul and
phrases which no longer ha y any
validity and which the overwhelming
majority of his fellow countrymen
have rejected.
Like the biblical Ephraim. Marshal
Petain remains coined to his idols"
His ideal is the Fascist corporate
state" based upon hierarchical in
equalities and run by a new "elite"
that imposes unquestioned discipline
from above. Such is his recipe for
the rebirth Of France, in close COL
laboration with the Axis powers
which now dominate the continent
Of Europe. He eXults in the downfall
Of the Third Republic, which is
blamed for all Frances misfortunes.
I'VE have broken with the old re-
gime," says Petain, "a regime that
has been condemned by facts and
that died from its own mistakes "
Rebel commanders have chosen emf
grafton and return to the past.
have chosen France and her future"
This is a blanket indictment of all
patriotic Frenchmen, from De Gaulle
and Giraud to the last ex-Vichyite
who has seen the light and rallied
to the cause of the United Nations.
1t reminds one of the egocentric SOL
dier who explains: "Everybody's out
of step but mel"
Petain's latest speech effectively
disproves recent rumors that he was
an unwilling prisoner of Laval and
the Germans, ready to resign in pro-
test against Axis exactions and even
flee the country. It is the same old
Petair who spoke over the radio last
Sunday The march of events has
not changed him mentally one iota.
He protests vigorously against Sun
days bombing of Paris suburbs,
where industrial plants were working
for Germany, as an "Anglo-Saxon
attack that nothing can justify"
thus joining America to Britain in
his denunciation. Petain wants no
rescue Of France by such liberators.