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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19

that just the oher evening he once more TOOK OIL on o
of the country ought to be willing to work
4S hours before asking for premium pay This is war
And maybe you those like myself who wish you
could Captain Eddie Rcknbacker down in corner and tell MN
what you thinking about him.
isn't all there is to this durable and banged up hero
Indeed He the principal character in another plane crash
only year this time land With broken bones and
body life and death for days. but re-
what his called upon him
WHO is EDDIE?
Captain character He automo-
bile racer of note aviation service in the last
And coupled with his exploits in the banked
racing that Captain Eddie his first bid for fame and
fortune
Did we say fortune rght-Forune For whether
not Captain Rckenbacker has managed to make
money lots of the filthy old mazuma it, drv
falling of planes but the manufacturing
executive for large corporations whose
messages to the American workers he now parrots
you didn't know Captain Eddie big shot and that this
the National Association of Man
his role hero and enemy of labor? Take
look the following list of corporations which Captain Eddie has
served either officer or director
Rickenbacker Motor Co.
Cadillac Mot Division assistant Sales Manage).
Fokker Aircraft Corporation Cvice PRESIDENT
Aviation Corporation (vice president).
North American Aviation (ve president Director of Pub
lie ReaiOns).
Eastern Anes (Vice president and general manager his
present posion).
indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp. Presdent).
ARE WE sURPRIsED7
Now that know who Captain Eddie Rlckenbacker really
understand why he is willing to attack
labor the ball for his good friends and business associates
in Manufacturers. Catch on?
Rckenbacker isn't speaking for the soldiers for whom ne claims
speak, nothing than Charlie Mccarthy for the
who the of NAM and pull the strings which
make the puppets mouths move
Captain Eddie has and brave but lots of
taken their and
usiabe strikes by shooting bullets into union mems
bodies they asked for ten cent sought the
rights for which we, a nation now fighting.
Jd;e hero he essa hero 10 the
whose fights for whom he would take
up arms Hitler "coordnaed" it.
the NAM but deflated hero to the
would grind under his heroic heel if
he and his associates had their
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19


ed by the bankers, the industrialists, the big
business interests and the press.
If we knew nothing else about the Rum plan,
we would shy away from it because of the COM
pany find it n There must be something
wrong with the plan to have it earn the support
of all the big interests.
No plan which is favored by the big in
terests can be favorable to the workers of the
country. The very fact that big business favors
the plan is an indication that the plan favors
them, and since what favors big business usually
harms the workers, we oppose it on this ground
to begin with.
CAUGHT IN THE WEB
1t is claim that the Ruml plan is one of
inequality and undemocratic, in this, that it
grants a blanket forgiveness" of 1912 income
taxes which the wealthy are well able to pay;
but which the workers, due to the great increase
in the cost of living, will find difficult to meet
a quarterly basis.
Our government is we'll aware that there are
many workers who are going to have difficulty
in making even the first quarter payment, and
this, added to increased taxation which is COM
ing, may have tendency to defeat the purpose of
the entire income tax set-up, unless some salts
factory way is devised to collect the tax from the
workers out of every pay check
There is no objection on the part of the
workers to the government "forgiving" them their
1912 income taxes if it desires to collect the tax
from the workers weekly pay envelope; but there
is a most serious objection to grouping all in
comes into the classification and tryin to
forgive" the wealthy and those who may have
big incomes when they have ample means to pay.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN
What is going to happen if the government
tries to make the workers pay last years income
tax and still collect this years taxes on pay-as-
you-go basis?
In the first place, thousands of workers are
going to have difficult time trying to scrape
enough money together to pay the first quarterly
installment on last years income tax when it
comes due March Is.
Add to this difficulty the necessity which the
workers will see in trying to scrimp along to save
enough for the next quarters tax payment fall
ing due in the middle of June, while the govern
ment comes along and proceeds to extract 10 per
cent more taxes from the workers pay check, in
addition to the per cent Victory tax which is
already being taken out of his check, to say moth
ing about the sales taxes, property taxes and
other concealed taxes which all workers must pap
ACCORDING TO OUR MEANS
If democratic government means anything :
us, it must see to it that all taxation must be
levied in accordance with the ability of the tax
payers to pay
This being true, the pay-as-you-go taxes should
be levied in such way that it will not work too
great hardship upon the workers, but will en-
able them to pay and still maintain standard of
living commensurate with the war effort.
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future, makeshift methods in pub
lie relations will not do. One would
think that labor would take a leaf
from the book of its enemies in this
regard.
l offer these suggestions for
what they may be worth.
Robert ID. Bachar,
Electric Auto-Lite, Dept. 6.
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political action must be created
soon. 1t is already late, and con-
sequently, time is short.
Better public relations are neces-
sary. Labor should have experts
who know their business. A real
public relations department could
do much to get the Unions side of
the argument to the public. In the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19

"A Democracy is easy to defeat because
it's people are not interested enough in II
to vote" Mein Kampf.
FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
1t is an interesting study to fol-
low the slow painful progress of
labor from slavery to the status of
a worker free to hire his energy
and his skill for suitable wage
and conditions of employment.
The struggle for self is domi-
which has been modified in the past
century by practical considerations
mating law of the human family
of mutual self-protection. This
joining together for mutual self
protection has finally produced our
large and powerful organizations
Of today.
Whether the original action of
mutual protection was the result of
more enlightened civilization, or
was developed from the jungle law
of the wolves who travelled in
packs to devour is immaterial. The
fact remains that today every
thing is and must be organized.
Wealth was first to organize and
labor was forced to organize or re-
turn to slavery.
Labor had fought it's way from
slavery to serfdom, from serfdom
to servant, from servant to labor,
from labor to free man or en-
ploye. Finally, we find the free
man or employe a partner in many
activities.
CHANGES COVER CENTURIES
These changes covered a period
of thousands of years but it has
only been since the past century
that there have been any worth
while organizations. Capital, or
wealth, had organized about 10
centuries earlier.
Most of these organizations and
guilds were failures or fell apart
from various causes after short
duration. 1t was only after the
United States was created by men
who believed and declared, "that
all men are created equal" that or
ganizations really began to build
and become powerful.
Labor was the last to organize.
Labor had to organize for self
preservation and mutual benefits.
Mutual benefit and brotherly
love was the impelling power back
of the old time labor leader and
organizer. He had taken an oath
on bended knees with his hand on
the Bible not just to abide by all
rules and regulations but also, "to
aid and assist all other brothers" +"
That is, and must continue to be,
the motive back of all labor or
ganizations.
TO AID AND ASSIST
With mass production we also
have mass induction into our labor
unions. 1t is difficult to fully i'm
press upon the new member the
real obligation of labor unionist
is to "Aid and Assist" If every
member of organized labor kept
the obligation in every respect il
would not take another century for
labor to have the most powerful
organizations all over the world
No capitalistic organization built
on greed with motto of "Rule OF
Ruin" could exist against an or.
ganization built on brotherly love
and determined effort to aid and
assist.
1t was almost two thousand
years ago the world first hearC
the teachings of "Brotherly Love-
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and "aid and comfort for the un-
fortunate. Today the entire world
is at each others throat in death
struggle. 1t would be a wonderful
achievement for labor, labor which
rose from slavery, to so strongly
organize as to spread that spirit
of "Brotherly Love" with its "aid
and assist" all over the world.
POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
COMMITTEE OF LOCAL NO. IL
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19

come taxes to aid our govern
ment finance this great war
against the aggressor nations
of the Axis; but no working
man wants to pay more than
his fair share of the taxes. He
believes in democracy and de-
mands that there truly be
equality of sacrifice.
One of the plans now being
considered for the "pay as you
go tax program" is the Ruml
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19

try, there had been much talk,
but no action increase produc-
ton of war goods upon which
our success in the war effort
depends.
While the executive order is
all to the good, it is but one
of several steps which should
be taken to insure the increas-
ed productivity which we must
have in order to win the war
quickly, and thus save many of
o,r .oId;arS, lives uybich otbar-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19

and his companions, of them an Army corp
oral and member of the Textile Workers-ClO,
read the Bible and prepared to meet their Maker.
OF course everybody knows that Captain
Eddie Rckenbacker was miraculously saved from
the briny deep and returned amid the plaudits
of the entire nation to his native land, there to
hear the praises of the people, the press and the
radio for his courage and fortitude.
HIS SPEECH
And maybe you are one of those who heard
or read the intrepid Captains vicious anti-abor
snoacb counle of waeks 100 in Detroit, No doubt
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19
The Run1I Plant
PAYING AS WE GO
by Melvin Schulta
President, Local IL, UAW-CIO.

PAYING AS WE GO
We all seem agreed on one point, that we
would all prefer to pay our income taxes as we
go rather than have them accumulate the
period of year and then require payment
either all at once, quarterly.
Nobody is particularly opposed to paying in
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19
Washington
Scene
Nv VIRGINIA GARDNER
CALL HOUSEWIVES GEsTAPo

CALL HOUSEWIVES GESIAPo
WASHINGTON-Here's hoping
that what the Chicago Tribune
calls OPA's gestapo will be just
as formidable as the Tribune s
Arthur Sears Henning feared.
Writing of the volunteer army OF
housewives and others who Will
check prices, he said:
"a vast system of price esplon-
age beggaring Hitler's Gestapo In
extent and secret methods is be-
ing organized by the Office OF
Price Administration to enforce
the new price ceilings that are to
20 into effect April l."
A sampling course of instruction
has been going on in Washington
for several weeks. Home economics
experts and auxiliary members
were among those being taught
point rationing and how to check
prices. Then on Feb. 9 members OF
CIO, AFL and railway brother
hoods auxiliaries and some Negro
organizations met at OPA and
were ask to get literature to their
members.
At long last OPA is going to
the people for enforcement, sup
port and what is hoped will be a
general stiffening all along the
line. OPA offices have been in
structed to get labor representa-
ton on the price panels being
formed. Each panel will have
from to 10 volunteer price war
dens to check prices in stores.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19
It's NelUs TO Me
WHO is RICKENBACKER?
By o. ]. PECORD

Certainly you know Captain Eddie Rickenbacker is
Captain Rckenbaker is the fellow whose plane fell INTO
large Pacific and days. while he
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19
Regional VieUs
By RICHARD GOSSER,
Regional Director, UAW-CIO

INCREASING PRODUCTION
Prior to President Roosevelt's executive order
making 4s hours the minimum work week for
many designated industrial sections Of the coun-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19
HOW NOT TO BUILD MORALE

HOW NOT TO BUILD MORALE
Our candidate for the brightest
lose-the-war suggestion of the
week is the Sikorsky aircraft
company in Connecticut for order
ing it's women workers not to wear
sweaters on pain of dismissal.
The next time some creep COM
plains to you about rationing, re-
mind him that our soldiers out in
North Africa even have to ration
the water they drink.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19
FROM BOAST TO BOAST

FROM BOAST TO BOAST
Newspaper reports say the Citl-
zens Committee for a Natl. War
Service Act (anti-labor conscrip-
ton bill to you) is nationwide in
scope.
Yes, sir, it stretches all the way
from the rock-bound coast of Wall
Street to the sunny steps of the
Union League Club.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19
TOP PRICES PUBLISHED

That is all on the good side. On
the other side these facts emerge:
In the regions, where the final
dollars and cents prices are to be
worked out by adding margins to
costs (meats will be done on a
national basis), only the top price
will be published. That is, the price
for the big independent stores.
Prices for small Independents,
chain stores and supermarkets
won't be published.
Supposedly they will be posted
by the stores themselves. The price
checkers going out will be told
which stores are in which cate
CORY, and can check their lists.
But it's all pretty complicated,
not in the checking, but in the fix
ing of these four categories. Who
adds the margins to what? Mar
gin percentages are to be decided
in Washington except in certain
unusual local cases, ws are told.
They do the addition work in the
regions. But what do they add
them to? The costs.
There's the hitch" said one
sad-voiced OPA price information
man. at seems there are various
costs to the retailer. And they vary
quite widely. Anyway, they will
be controlled by OPA. The pro-
gram isn't frozen yet. We're try
ing to simplify it."
BROWN is COMPETENT
And while it isn't worked out
yet, most of the price division was
in New York explaining it, to re-
gional people there. Maybe they
can help simplify it. BY the time
had gotten into the maze of
shippers cost prices and so on, I
was too weighed down to ask what
was going to happen to prices
themselves.
Are any more of the now ia
miliar squeezes going to be re-
lieved by a considerate (to the
seller) oPA? Signs are that
tor, will get things done. He got
Prentiss Brown, new administra-
the shoe rationing business off in
a clean cut fashion. He's said
prices ~,'I keep on gong up at
regular intervals, one half Of 1@o
a month probably.
When is he going to let business
small and large rest on that al
ready comfortable cushion Of fat
profits Leon Henderson found to
be so evident, on his retiring ?
When is that fat going to take q
little workout?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-02-19
EUOIutiOn
Of Labor

"A Democracy is easy to defeat because
it's people are not interested enough in It
to vote" Mein Kampf.
The sub., 1943-06-03

Feminine Fluff: For those of you who are lucky enough to have aluminium pans there is new aid called AlupoI which will restore their brightness with no effort, H the steel wool shortage has both~ cred you. It's 59c jar, ObtainablA at hardware stores, or by sending for two jars for dollar at Hearn'S. New York :. Grants big modern store has Wee Walker baby shoes. advertised and recommended by Parents Magazine for as little aS $1.29 = $1.79. Since they out~ grow them 80 soon, the low price is an added inducement . j.. Mont gomery Ward has anklets for fif. teen cents in pretty colors and they actually wear = at least mine did. =. l.. Lewis and Co. has some beautiful stuff that comes pretty high. but they also have just as much that's decidedly within your price range. Look at their lovely teaspoons for $40 dozen for in- stance, now that it's June, the month for taking the plunge.
 Just because you've been such good kids here's poem for you and it has for an added recommend dation the fact that didn't write 1t.
 At Mothers knee
 We learn to be
 Sincere and true
 In all we do
 But oh, alackaday, the points
 That we pick up at other
 joints!
The sub., 1943-06-03

8 little relaxation in the grim ex- pression everyone's been wearing lately. We noticed 1t especially the other day when riding the bus toward Westerly. A bunch of high school kids got on at Fitch and everyone from the bus driver, a sunny character known to the kids. SO one of them said, as Charlie Crouch, right on down to the back seat all favored the kids with stern and disappearing looks just because the youngsters were all laughing and chattering in the immemorial fashion of kids. It suddenly dawned on me that the baleful looks were not reserved for the adolescents on the bus, they were just the everyday expressions we're all wearing lately. Of course war is a grim business, but it won't help the war effort any if every one forgets how to smile and when it's all over the unused muscles in your face may refuse to function properly and you will have to go around for the rest of your life looking lik ethe Great Stone Face. Odds and Ends: We're going to be different and not give you any moron" jokes. But did you hear the one about the fellow who was reproved by an Englishman for being out with the Briton's wife? Really, old man," said the Eng lishman, That isn't cricket" "No," allowed the fellow, but it's lots more fun" Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but presents bring better results . Someone on the radio was bemoan- ing the loss of his girl. T told her my uncle was a millionaire, y he explained. But, how did that account for losing herr" asked the obliging stooge. Well, now she's my aunt" .. And the same fellow had a good comeback when treasured that there were plenty more fish in the sea. Yeah" he allowed, "but who wants to mar ry a fish?"
The sub., 1943-06-03
Henry MOrgenthau COngratulates FEB

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., secretary of the treasury. has forwarded to employees of the Electric Boat Co. a congratulatory message on their subscribing more than ten per cent of their pay weekly for the pur- chase of war bonds. The message reads;
 T am glad to hear that the men and women of Electric Boat Co. are now participating In the pay roll savings plan with allotments for war bonds averaging over II per cent of their pay. This is 8 splendid accomplishment. I con- graduate the company, all it's work CTS and such organizations or as- sociations as have helped to reach this highly patriotic goal. Please express my thanks to all who have helped"
 A letter of appreciation was for warded to l.. Y. Spear. president of the company by Thomas Hewes, state administrator of the war saw ings staff at Hartford, and his deputy, Thomas J. Burkinshaw. The letter said in part:
 q know this manifestation of patriotism on the part of your employees is a source of gratifica- tion to you personally and to the members of your staff who worked SO diligently for this objective"
 A treasury certificate of award was presented in recognition of the employees contribution in this phase of the war effort"
 The Electric Boat Co. was re- gently awarded the Treasury TT" flag for it's workers subscription of ten per cent of payroll to the pur- chase of war bonds.
 Parked goggles cant. protect you. Wear them at all times.
The sub., 1943-06-03
Ist Shift Fab Shop

R1ta ProVOSt was gwen snow CT by our beloved Mrs. Sullivan on May 10th. She received a lovely satin nightie and slip and che- nille bed spread. Her many friends got together and surprised her. Mrs. Sullivan did a swell job of selecting it all.
 Lots of luck, Rita. and may your troubles be only little ones. We hope you will be back with us soon.
 Lennie, welder on the small blocks and Sandy, welder on No. 6, went home to Long Island g few weeks ago. and I heard the trip was swell.
 Edith, weIder on blocks, went to New York last weekend to see her family. On the way out no one knew her in her civies. Clothes do make a difference.
 What welder on block 1 Is wait ing to hear from his Uncle Sam2 Dubiously. Cheer up. George. We hope you make the grade.
 A certain crane operator, who has several female riders. is hav- ing quite time trying to get g word in edge-ways about which union he belongs to.
 The K & s restaurant has three generations working in their can teens. Grandma and mama are working in the fabricating shop booths and daughter is working in the north yard in the booth in Si- beria. Edithe Hoey and Mildred Guthrie are very well liked at the Fab. shop and we hear Mildred junior, is doing alright in the north yard. Mildred junior is al so attending w. M. I. days. We need more youngsters like her. Keep ur the good work, Sis.
 You all have heard about the woman who tried on all the hats in the store and then did not buy any. We'll, couple of painters are the same way about the two unions.
 Mary Phillips has left the boat company and has great plans al home. Good luck, Mary. We miss you.
 Some of the girls were envious of Macs little yellow cap the oth- CT day. It was silk, too. It's O. K Mac; we were only jealous.
 hear that block 2 has a glam. our girl-a blond one, or so. say Bob and Mac.
 Rus Arnold has rigged himself up a cute apron. At least it's wa terproof.
 We are all sorry that George Watson has had sickness in hii home.
 No, night shift, I haven't brok- en arm, but won't mention my neck after this issue.
 I hear that MacHattie has car now. What, no more honking when you pass me in the morning? Stuck up?
 We'll, I guess that is all. Next is- sue you will get news of my neck.
The sub., 1943-06-03
Mary Moore In Position At Todd Shipyards, Inc.

Mrs. Mary E. Moore of 405 Mo- began Avenue, New London, for- mer personnel manager for wonl- en at E.B., recently accepted sim. liar position with the Todd Ship- yards Corporation as women's field representative at the Todd-Erie Basin yards in Brooklyn.
The sub., 1943-06-03

The keep 'em waiting" chuck. he is never busy but he thinks he Is building up his importance by making the callers cool their heels in the outer office before they are permitted to gaze upon his pres 6nce.
 The gal who borrows 8 sweater from a fellow worker and runs around the office with 1t thrown carelesSly over her shoulders.
 The fellow who tears stamps from envelopes and lets them pile up in a drawer which Is never emptied.
 The lad who goes around the office all day telling the latest moron jokes, though everyone has read them in the Sub.
 The guy who initiates the boss voice and mannerisms when he's out to lunch. and everybody hopes the boss will sneak in some day and catch him.
 The fellow who Sneaks out for a quick one and then gives himself away by coming back with cough drop in his mouth.
 The international expert. He repeats the commentators opinions (Without giving them screen" crediD and talks as convincingly as if he had correspondent in every corner of the globe.
 The girl who fits with the people who own the place; her lunch hour lasts from 12 to 3.
 Got a personality in your office? (Send it in)