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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-02-15
PRICES MOVING UP:
Opposition to Dies
Doubles I'm House

WASHINGTON, Feb 13-The
Congress obvious head off full mobilization
through week. with a vote of to
The
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-02-15
tied Tor him this week.

presented for him this week.
They know that the still I'M
checked spiral of rising living costs
has made it literally impossible for
taxation TO cut into certain income
levels without cutting into neces-
sary food and clothing budgets"
Murray said in the statement pre-
scented for him by CLIO Legislative
Representative Nathan Cowan.
They know that rising living
costs on the one hand and neces-
sary production speedups and other
health strains on the other, have
produced a situation where in
creased taxation at certain income
levels means not merely less food,
not merely inadequate nutrition,
but as a consequence, lowered pro-
ductive efficiency in war work"
PRICES, RATIONING
A strong home front for victory
demands economic planning and
sterilization on an overall scale.
Murray said, on the basis Of sound
taxation, strict price control and
universal rationing.
THE workers know that mobili-
cation for war will be sadly affected
by any tax program which would
interfere with an effective ration
ing program by making II impos-
sible for some groups to purchase
their share of the national food and
other necessities to enable them
to continue functioning effectively
for the war effort"
Current tax bill hearings are
chiefly concerned with "pay-as-you-
go" systems, and large part Of
Murray's testimony was devoted to
this question-including a sharp
criticism of the phony Ruml plan
for forgiving taxes on the rich.
Workers favor pay-as-you-go by
spreading tax payments on pay
check basis. Murray said. This must
be based on the size of the pay
check at the time payment is made,
TO avoid the difficulty Of paying
larger taxes carried over from a
year when wages were higher to
a period Of decreased earnings.
The Ruml plan Is not a real pay
as-you-go affair, he pointed out,
since 1t Is still based on the pre-
vious years earnings no matter
how many installment payments are
provided"
In addition, the Ruml plan pro-
vides for huge cash windfalls for
the wealthy who are best able to
pay a real win-the-war tax bill.
This Is seen in the fact that 100000
a year incomes would clean up as
much as $4,000 under the Ruml
plan, while the low income groups
who can least afford to pay would
not benefit.
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At the same 1t called upon Atty.
Gen. Biddle ITO investigate the
charges of improper activities" of
Rep. Eugene Cox CD of Georgia.
sponsor of the smear probe. FEC
hearings have brought evidence
that Cox received $500 from a
Georgia radio company after he
had used his Congressional office
to seek speedy action from the
Commission on the stations petit
ton for a broadcasting license.
Federal law makes 1t felony for
q Congressman to accept payments
for service before governme n
agencies.
THREE CHARGES
In discussing the probe OF the
FEC which Cox wangled from the
House Of Representatives, the CLIO
Board charged that:
/. Sponsors Of the investigation
have launched an attack on Pres.
Roosevelt and administrative agen-
cies of government under the
guise of investigating bureaucracy"
2. Conduct of the probe by its
sponsors will have the effect Of
"hindering the development of a
war program for the communica-
lions industry"
s. Cox, having Improperly rend-
cred services for certain broadcast
ing stations Is not qualified
to conduct such an investigation"
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Workers Know
Score on 7 axes.
Congress Told

WASHINGTON Feb 13-American workers are experts
the very real knowing he
ship between a program and production" Philip
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Clio Board Blasts Cox
Smear Probe of FEC

WASHINGTON Feb. 1S-The CLIO Executive Board at its
meeting last week. condemned in uncertain the coming
Congressional investigation of the Federal Communications
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-02-15
Puncfure
RuEl1I Plan
BaIIyhoo

Washington, Feb. 13-Here are a
few cold figures on what the Ruml
plan, widely ballyhooed as q way
out for tax harassed Americans,
would really do. They were pre-
scented TO the House Ways and
Means Committee this week by
Russ Nixon for the United Elec-
trical, Radio and Machine Work
ers.
The Ruml plan would cancel
some $40 billion in income tax
debts. About Is per cent of income
tax payers would get so per cent
of the benefits under the plan. Or,
put this way: 100000 income tax
payers would get the same amount
of benefit as the 38 million other
taxpayers would get.
S854,OOO GRAVY
A man with a million dollar In
come in 1912 would get gravy to
the tune of S854,000 under the plan.
The 100000 man would clean up
close to S65,000.
The UE testimony also took a
crack at the huge publicity build
up for the Ruml plan, Nixon de-
claring: "A campaign such as has
surrounded the Ruml plan to put
over on the American people by
Misrepresentation and confusion a
coldly calculated scheme to enrich
the few and burden the many, serl-
ously harms the war effort"
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} the vote of last year, which
reached 46 on renewal of the
committee and "a on the re-
quest for funds. This weeks
renewal vote is expected to be
followed very soon by a new
Dies demand for more of the
taxpayers money.
Debate for the resolution was
marked by the usual tactics Of
Dies and his friends-Ham Fish,
Gene Cox of Georgia and their crew
of smearing labor, the govern
ment war agencies. and totally
ignoring fascists and Nazi agents.
81 HAILED BY CLIO
The 81 Congressman who voted to
stop Dies sabotage were congratu-
lated by the CLIO in a letter urging
them to follow up with personal ap-
pearance before the Accounts Com
mittee that hands out the money
and to work and vote against an
appropriation on the floor of the
House.
Success of the Dies renewal
prompted the defeatists to intro
duce the Smith resolution for a uni
versal smear probe of government
agencies. The resolution passed in
a frenzy of talk on bureaucracy"
by a vote of 294 to so.
Debate against It pointed
sharply to the committees four
year record Of sheltering Hitler
helpers while concentrating on
labor and progressives generally,
with special attention to win-the-
war agencies and individuals I'm
the government.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29
Still Lost At Sec

When Captain Eddie Rckenbackers plane lost at
sea- all of us greatly concerned and hoped for the safety
and life of who has repeatedly himself highly
courageous.
And when Captain Rckenbacker found afloat with
several companions the broad waters of the Pacific many
us sent unexpesse but nevertheless sincere of
thanksgiving that this hero life had again been spared
But when Captain Rckenbacker to speak harsh
and unusabe words of criticism against organized labor
few nights ago banquet of the Society of Automotve
Engineers could only shake heads sadly for OBJ
viously, the brave captain is still lost at sea.
No man who has proven himself as courageous and
heroic Captain Rckenbacker could possibly be neectu-
ally dishonest and in all charity do not believe the in
desructble captain dishonest; but do believe most
sincerely that Captain Rckenbacker msnformed and that
he has used his misnfomaon to work injustice upon
ganized labor
On the other side of the picture there few facts
which cannot escape notice. mainly because Captain Rick
enbacker himself has been employer who nduged some
of the worst tactics of other antunion employers Captain
Rckenbacker has been anunon and has blacksted men
who joined unions has used labor spies and resored to other
unfair practices and that he has back from his
latest escape DEATH hobnobs with his old crones in the
NAM.
OF course we honor Rickenbacker hero; but when
any hero takes upon themselves to labor unusty
we cannot and dare overlook simply because the
has virtues which we admire.
Rickenbacker apparently did not learn to love labor on
his latest escape of his companions who read the
Bible with him and shared the boat from which they eventu
ally saved union man, member OF the Textile
Workers of Amerca-CIO Obviously, when is close
to death he can with others but in his normal habitat
his selfish instincts take the upper hand
We are CORY for Captain Rickenbacker, poor fellow,
he is still at
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what his fellow him
his position the public
the thrats of the who him
escape death the Pacific.
ROOSEVELT SURPRISES AGAIN
Unlike Rckenbaker, President labor
necessarily love
enough to know that unless labor strong healthy country
cannot be in good condition
Roosevelt probably better than any country
share of security, the country will be the doldrums
and purbnd the NAM they
sitting on the top of volcano7
How often must the country nearly down total
collapse before the industrial Bourbons that
depends upon the well being of the workers?
ROOSEVELT IN AFRICA
The greatest of the week President
in Africa TO negotiations with Winston Churchill
Would that Mr. Roosevelt equally
Rickenbacker? OF you would.
What will of the Roosevelt Churchill
time will tell but thing certain it bodies good for
In connection with the meeting English
speaking governments that Josef
attend the meeting
Many literary and radio casting suspicion
the Soviet because of Stains failure show meeting
This should not provoke too much eden particularly
of labor for of these the
are seeking to convince boys the armed services
over-run with strikes, and production slowed
Whatever be the putting in an
appearance Africa be that Churchill
know It, So far most people they
vet and believe he knows what he is doing.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29
Frozen Wages and lnfIafion

Initiation is still going while wages practically
frozen
Under the formula of the National War Labor Board
increases of Is percent in scales will be granted only
those employees who have not received 5 per cent
increase since January 194l
We submit to all far-minded people that this formula,
in the light of investigation of what is happening to COM
modify prices doesn't make for everyone
of those who still call themselves rugged ndviduaists is
complaining about increased living costs
Investigation right here in Toledo has brought out the
charge that Toledo like other cities has black market
and that in order the articles
willing to pay must pay higher price than that set by
the OPA
But without considering the black market, costs
have rsen anyone who believes that they have not in
creased than Is per cent since the date the War
Labor Boards formula either is uniformed does not do
enough buying to realize what has been going
In the face of very definite increase in the cost of
living which far in of Is per cent the War Labor
Board continues to hand down decisions denying wage in
to workers the ground that they have already
ceved 15 per cent increase since the date up in the
Boards formula
Meanwhile the farm bloc has not been sitting idly by
but has been asking and receiving permission to elevate
prices Of certain commodities which, in the aggregate tend
to elevate the cost Of living to the point where the National
War Labor Boards formula simply doesn't hold true.
Under the condition which exist at the present time it
would appear highly desirable and necessary that the War
Labor Board reexamne the entire price structure see
it is still the the Board claims when denying wage
increases If the cost Of living has increased more than Is
percent since the date set up the formula then the board
would do well grant in those
which have been denied.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29

the trend ended there it would be bad enough; but that
the end for know that from the evils which have ept in
other evils fully bad the which fahered them
UNITED WE STAND
Our slogan United Stand" group of put
together merely they fine sound
for the country for without unity of
and action only shall fail to anywhee but than this
we shall go nowhere.
There place union for the who seek to
their fewoe for those who sfy the character of
regardless position
those brothers be.
There be place organization for who places
for which he supposed be loyal
There should be in the union for who his
position build the but destroy unless he satisfies
his ambition and craving for personal power gains
this Union of going to endure and endure must
together particularly in these days of crisis when
have the which made strong and purpose
full organization
appreciate that there certain desirable amount of human
craving ambitious members organization regardless of its
achieve leadership but leadership not reward for
ambion but for faithful service well done in the
of ambition succeed regardless of the intelligence
behind it, grounded right thinking Hitler has been
ambitious and until recently highly successfu yet the things
which he did achieve his and realize his ambition the
things which the end will his undong and bring about his
downfall.
THE TEST
my mind through passing
nation and which will determine what future
is going to be.
carry program
of the without unreasonable internal friction
individuals just worrying about raise for themselves shall
after the realize the things which
centered attention and for which have great hopes
To realize must first of all strive for and attain
unity within union regardless what its be-
No great pay for unity if it in great
Our No doubt that And who feels
this of do) will it that only
endues unity of and action but that this unity will
and flourish.
by unity determine
real unity if have hopes for future security
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29
PUBLIC OPINION

Two words, thirteen letters, but
they represent something of deep
significance to people of all ma
tions and sections of nations.
In its infancy, industrial union
ism was looked upon unfavorably
by most people. Even after the
United States Government recog-
nized the need for free American
men and women to be able to raise
their voice in protest against So
cial injustice, many of these same
men and women for whose protec-
ton and betterment the law in
tended, looked with scorn upon
those who had the vision and cour-
age to pioneer in the cause of JUS
tice.
Those who carried the torch for
the common man did so in the face
of unquestionable unpopularity.
Some of these crusaders knew ex-
actly what they were striving to
attain, and these men were the
real leaders. Others, conscious
that their families were in dire
need, knew very definitely that
something was wrong in the eco
nomic scheme, and they prepared
themselves for a fight to the fin
ish.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29
THOUGHTS Of A Combut Filler

often the dauntless combat
of these gallant who offer all in the
If freedom
But what of the silent thoughts and deepest emotions that fill their
hearts they wing their way through the solitude?
Th suggestion this poem offered by Lorence Wagner
formerly Dept 382 WysOerand serving in armed
orces)
With speed of light, through the midnight blue,
stranger in the void of velvet skies
Where like the hues of star-dust play.
The solemn splendor of the ancient deep
him in a flood o. peaceful calm,
AS though he of the seraphim,
AS though he heard sang holy psalm
wakened from the dream within a dream,
To think and feel alone must do
Upon his being, and his mission sent
To do such deeds and death that God
Is this the plan of Him who fashioned man,
That hate bring him to this holy high
naught before dared or dreamed 60 80.
The armament intrude that die?
Below is earth and hate and and hell \ T
Below the where holy feet trod; ~
give strength to do what must do,
Forgive and all sinful men, o God.
DON PARsoN,
"The Bard Of Flatrock"
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SerUicen1en's
Letters
Jan. 10, 1943
Mr.. Richard Gosser:

Jan. 1U, l340
Mr.. Richard Gosser:
/ am not much of hand at let
ter writing so l will make this let
ter short and to the point. BY that
l mean that | would like to take
this opportunity of thanking you
and all of the Brothers and Sisters
of WHY'S Overland Unit, Local No.
IL, for the packages l have been
receiving, and it comes from the
bottom of the heart.
I have received your packages
in the U. S. A., in the British Isles
and in Africa, and meant to write
this note many time, but l have
always been on the move.
Thanking you again, I remain,
Fraternally yours,
P. F. C. Ed Kuron.
Africa.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29

We lived together fought together, hungered TO-
gether; but we were really together.
Today, when we living under artificial
industrial peace in order to promote produc-
tion and win great war, we tend to become COM
placent to hunger for more and more, to regard
money as our greatest interest to envy the fellow
another machine who makes five cents more an
hour than we do; to criticize and undermine our
shop leaders because they refuse to permit 20
stage demonstrations against the company-in
few words, many of have become lulled into
sense of false security.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29

write a column.
However, l do
want to write q
short item to
let the members
Of Loca al IL
know some Of
the things that
are taking place,
p arti C u ! arly
with respect to
org anizational
work.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29
GLOOMY PICTURE

GLOOM1 PICTURE
The picture on the surface is
gloomy:
In both the house and the senate
poll takers, defeatists and old-fash-
ioned reactionaries have been given
key committee posts. In the house
the Democratic party steering COM
mittee, dead since 1894, has been
revived to take leadership away
from Speaker Sam Rayburn and
Majority Leader John Mccormack,
who are the nominal spokesman
for the White House.
The Republicans are playing a
cagey game. They are letting the
Coxes, the Howard Smiths, the
Bankheads, the Byrds and the rest
of the poll tax delegation do the
dirtiest wrok. There is no coalition
or coalescence yet, because there
doesn't have to be.
Beyond that, the many northern
Republicans have to be much con-
cerned about what the people back
home think than the poll takers dc
because their constituents can vote
and the people in the districts OF
Cox ct al can not.
Labor and progressive forces
have no chance of influencing a
Cox (they can, of course, demand
that Biddle indict him) but they
can do something with some Re-
publicans and northern Democrats
and they can insist upon a more
forceful stand by administration
leaders.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29

Any time you think Rickenbacker doesn't know
what he is doing at least insofar his ideas about
organized labor concerned, you have another
guess coming.
Rickenbacker has been for quite few years
one of the countrys worst labor haters, and re-
gardless of his personal courage, escapes from
death and other news-making exploits, he is still
in the same old bed he has always been in--with
the NAM.
So far as l am concerned, Rickenbacker need
not be FORGIVEN the grounds that he doesn't
know what he is doing. He does. And he is doing
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29
A GREAT VICTORY

Perhaps the greatest victory the
world has witnessed in nearly two
thousand years took place in the
early nineteen thirties when a
comparatively small number of
men and women who had for five
years been on the brink of starva-
tion in the richest country in the
world, began a drive which seems
destined to eliminate, in complete
social, economic, and political free
dom for the millions of families
who comprise the population of our
land.
These leaders were not political
opportunists in any sense of the
word, and their little band of fol-
lowers was not composed of popu-
larity seekers, for the majority Of
these soldiers of the common cause
were not looked upon as heroes
even in their own homes. Rather,
their neighbors, yes, even the wives
of these men oftentimes, to quote
Msgr. Fulton Sheen, "worshipped
at the Cross of Public Opinion"
The battle was waged = blood
was shed Yes, thousands OF
unarmed men and women engaged
in peaceful picketing were shot,
beaten, and killed by paid thugs.
One large motor car manufacturer
went so far as to hire thirteen
hundred ex-convicts from a nearby
state penitentiary, former profes-
sional boxers and wrestlers,
number of whom nearly mangled a
man who today is vice-president of
the UAW in brazen and perpe-
trated daylight attack made in
open defiance of government law
Hundreds of similar incidents are
recounted in documentary tram
scripts of the United States SEN
ate reports.
LABORS SINS
Public opinion told US that the
cause of the trouble was lawless-
ness, violence, and disregard for
the rights of the "free American
worker" This much was true, but
everywhere the impression was
given that these sins were Labor's
sins. Communists agitator" was
the term most generally applied
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29
Regional Vie,Us
By RICHARD GOSSER,
Regional Director, UAW-CIO
TOWARD REAL UNITY

TOWARD REAL UNITY
appear evident those who not long in the
that wartime conditions tendency weaken
the underlying principles upon which Union founded
In the beginning when striving to organize and secure
against the foe
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29
What's NelU?
BY EDWARD ]. DUCK,
Educational Director, Local IL, UAW-ClO

to anyone who preached equality
and social justice principles. This
was the easiest method of blacken-
ing character and it worked Won
ders, even with those whom the
"agitator" was befriending.
There were no holds barred in
the allout effort to nip industrial
organization in the bud. Those
who read the countless misleading
newspaper stories and editorials
never knew that these "reds," as
they were labeled, went to church
much more regularly than did they
who libeled them, and what was
more important, lived more within
the law of God and of Man than
did their detractors.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29
It's NeiUs TO Ne
By O. j. PECORD
RICKENBACKER's TRUE COLoRs
BY o. ]. PECORD

the Rckenbackers
vicious TRADE against labor speech at Detroit few nights
life me- understand President Philip Muray
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29
Melvin Shultz
Reports
ORGANIZATIoNAL WORK

Since taking over Walter
phys duties, it has become ifs-. /.
difficult for me to take time out to
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-29
TRAPS STILL LAID

The days is partly past but not
entirely forgotten, when the work
er's best friend was unwelcome
and unappreciated. Adherance to
principles of morality, accompa-
MED by sagacity and foresight in
the avoidance of adverse publicity
has earned for the Union the re-
spect and esteem of those who
have had occasion to learn what
Organized Labor really mneas.
Yet even today traps are be-
ing laid by those who would deny
the workers the same rights and
privileges enjoyed by organized
management. 1t has been said
that eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty. Let us exercise that
vigilance. Our enemies never
sleep. They only lie in wait for
the day when the common man
will be subservient to the more
powerful and the weaker will bend
to the will of those who control
him. We are on the right track.
There can be turning back. We
like it this way and we shall con-
tinue to control ourselves AND our
opinions, newspaper editors to the
contrary.