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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11
Your Standard
Of Living
By Clayton Rusch,
Chairman, Local IL Food Price Committee


WHO BENEFITS?
The wages of the workers are frozen, but
prices continue to rise
How to correct price increases is the thought
uppermost in the minds of most workers Before
a solution can be effected, the first step is to
determine the cause of the problem Unless the
real cause is understood, logical solution will
not be forthcoming.
In order to understand why we demand price
rollback to May Is, 1912, it must be recognized
who benefits from swollen food prices
To correct popular misconcepton deliberately
given out by big business interests let US make
it clear that the working farmers are not the
beneficiares of high food prices.
Illustrating this-farmers in the state of Wash
ington receive three-fourths of one per cent per
pound for onions which cost consumers in the
East five cents per pound. To scotch any idea that
distance has anything to do with the increase in
the cost, let cite the fact that Wisconsin
cheese sells for less in England than it does in
Milwaukee recently pointed out by Walter
Reuther, UAW-CIO vice-presdent. The fact is
that so cents out of every dollar which is spent
on food reaches the working farmer.
There are two types of working farmers. a h
Those who operate small farms and have to VI
prices on farm euipment. (2) Those who work
for wages (smalD on the large farm factories
Both the city workers and the farm workers
exploited by the same big business group.
In future articles l shall deal with the exploita-
tion of farm and city workers and attempt tc
show how we must resist this exploitation.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11
AN INCENTIv

AN INCENTIVE
In the plan which has to my attention,
the company would agree to create fund for
each and every employe, consisting Of certain
specified sum of money per hour per employe
This should not be less than three (3) cents per
hour and in some plants more.
Each week, a certified statement of deposit of
the special bonus fund should be given to the
Union chairman of the shop showing the amount
placed on deposit by the company in some reliable
bank.
No funds would be placed on deposit for any
empoye unless he actually worked for the hours
for which the three cent bonus was paid.
No employe would receive any of the fund so
created excepting in case of ayoffs, quitting dis
missal similar causes.
No money would be paid until eight (S) months
after the war; except in of discharge or lay
offs.
EMPLOYER PROTECTED "a
Not all the obligations will rest on the empV y
ers under this plan for it should contain clause
that any employe losing time in excess of one-half
hour in any one day of any work week shall for
felt his three cents an hour bonus for the day on
which he lost time.
Nor would the plan merely protect the employer
from the late-comers but from the absentee work
er WELL for the clause should be inserted into
the agreement that any employe losing 11a hours
Of work during the work week, shall forfeit his
bonus for that week.
1t is my belief that if this plan were adopted,
it would do much to create better spirit among
the workers. 1t would give them a feeling of
greater security against the future which they
realize is going to bring unemployment 1t would
provide them with incentive to be steady and
Industrious, and would tend to eliminate absen-
teeism in many plants.
WOULD IMPROVE RELATIONS
This is a brief and rather sketchy outline of a
plan which, were it put into operation would i'm
prove labor-management relations, eliminate a
considerable amount of absenteeism, reward
steady faithful workers, penalize the unreliable
workers and give progressive indus an op-
portunity to see for themselves that the workers
respond to humane and decent treatment
No doubt details of the plan would need to be
worked out and might vary slightly from plant to
plant; but the principal outline is here, and it is
my belief, contains sufficient merit to warrant
the careful consideration of competent and alert
industrial management.
1t is my sincere hope to see this plan or some
thing similar to it put into operation in many Of
the Industrial plants of Toledo, not merely on the
basis of experiment. but on the justifiable
grounds that the faithful and competent workers
should be rewarded in a special manner for their
steady performance and this the grounds that
it is this class of workers who do the most for
their employers as we'll as the country during
these days of war crisis.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11

soon. ms pa
triotic gesture
will come in
the form of an
e i & h t e e n
month fl Ii
buster in the
United States
Senate during
a time when
our country
f ac t h e
greatest crisis
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11
What's Neu
EDW ARD J. DUCK
Educational Director
Local IL UAW-ClO
MISSISSIPPI MUST BE PROUD
OF ITS SENATOR BILBOA

He has promised to make his
contribution to democracy and
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11
Its News To Me 'yo;5' '.;s,5
As. COLLIER ~
DOGS

Mans friend the dog certainly plenty
papers Judging the editorial space
the fouegged appears that Albert Terhune bet
ter nagandist than Eddie Rckenbacker
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11
A WORKING PLAN

In cropping around for plan that would stimu-
late the workers to avoid absenteesm and bring
about initiative and give the workers a greater
sense of security in the postwar days which lie
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11
Employees
Postwar Fund
By MELVIN SCHULTZ,
President, Local IL, UAW-CIO

Editors Note: Since the WLB ruling Of June 2,
this plan acould require adjustments to make ii
conform HOcecer, 1t is not contrary to the ruling
IN its general outline
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11
DAMNED EITHER WAY

Or if he's a good mathemati-
clan as well as shrewd politi-
clan, he sums it up this way: If
he votes against the measure in
question it won't hurt its chances
Of passage because all those
from the other districts will
combine sufficient votes to in
sure it's passage.
Do you get the idea? This is
not TO insinuate that all our rep
resentatives are like this, but
don't kid yourself that there
aren't plenty whose feet fit the
shoe described above.
Incidentally, the Smith-Con-
nally bill will be decided soon.
and imagine the above-men-
toned Arthur" will be very
much in demand
Evening star., 1943-01-09
WlB Rejects Pay Hike
Agreement as Violation

Wage increase agreements which
violate the national wage stabiliza-
ton program cannot be approved by
the War Labor Board, even where
the increase has been agreed on by
management and union, the War
Labor Board declared today in an
opinion written by Dean Wayne l..
Morse, in connection with the
boards unanimous decision in a case
involving 10 Los Angeles building
employees.
The boards established wage pol
icies. Dean Morse said, will break
down completely unless wage in
creases set forth in prior agree
ments and collective bargaining con-
tracts are to be subordinated to the
national wage stabilization pro-
gram"
The board refused to approve an
agreement between William G.
Kerckhoff Co. of Los Angeles and
the Building Service Employees In
ternational Union, Local 80, AFL,
for general increase of $40 month
from october Is, 1912, to December
81, 1912, and s250-per- month in
crease during 1943.
The board, however, approved a
$3.50 increase for 1943, under it's
IS per cent cost-of- living adjust
ment formula.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Defense Chief
For District
Considered
New Official
Would Take
Young's Duties

Selection of a defense commander
for Washington to take over some of
the responsibilities of Commissioner
John Russell Young is being given
serious consideration at the District
Building today.
In addition to being president OF
the Board of Commissioners and
United States Co-ordinator for the
Metropolitan Area, Commissioner
Young has been handling most of
the duties assigned in other cities
to a defense commander as provided
for in the staff manual of the ma
tional Office of Civilian Defense.
1t was understood that a man
thought highly qualified for the job
has been asked to consider accept
ance of the role of defense COM
mander. He would be responsible
for organization, training and equip
ment of civilian defense forces in
Washington and would have full
power to direct emergency opera
tions on the civilian side during an
air raid.
His responsibilities would be strict
ly limited to Washington itself,
whereas Commissioner Young is re-
sponsible for civilian defense in the
entire Metropolitan Area which has
recently been enlarged to take in
all of Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties and part of
Charles County in Maryland The
area also takes in Alexandria, Ar
lington County and Fairfax County
in Virginia.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Buck and bushfie|d
Sympathetic on D. {.
Suffrage Question
New COP Members
Of District Committee
Will Consider Measure

The two new Republican members
of the Senate District Committee
Senators Buck of Delaware and
Bushfield Of South Dakota-indi-
Gated a willingness last night to give
careful consideration to the question
of suffrage for Washingtonians.
Senator Buck said he could see
no reason why all citizens of the
country should not have the right
of suffrage, but thought that in the
National Capital some means should
be devised of confining the vote to
permanent residents, as distin-
guished from those who come and
60 with changing administrations.
"Why Not?" He Asks.
Asked if he thought Washing
tonians should have representation
in Congress and a vote for Presi-
dent. he replied why not?"
Senator Bushfield was not ready
to commit himself on the issue until
he has had more time to study it.,
but promised to give it sympathetic
consideration"
Commenting on the current prob
lem of increasing hospital accom-
modations for the city's crowded
war population. Senator Buck sug-
gested as one possibility that there
might be some school property that
could be refitted temporarily for
that purpose.
Senators Bushfield and Buck ex-
pressed themselves in full accord
with the efforts of the Byrd economy
group to curtail non-essential Gov
ernment spending.
First Session Next Week.
The new Senators will have their
first contact with local affairs some
time next week. Chairman McCar-
ran announced he would call the
District Committee within a few
daVs to consider the pay increase
bills for policemen, fremen and
school teachers, who were not in
cluded in the general Government
salary increase last month.
The District Committee lost one
Of its veteran members in yester-
days reorganization when Senator
Austin, Republican. of Vermont was
excused from further services with
the local group. Senator Austin has
taken a conscientious part in the
drafting of all important local legis-
latlon during the last decade.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Two Officials Praise Work
Of Women in Ordnance

Tribute to the skill women are
achieving in ordnance and aircraft
plants was paid by Comdr. T. w.
Jenkens. assistant production man
ager of the Navy Yard ordnance
plant, and Miss Opal Gooden of the
Women's Bureau, Department of
Labor, before a group last night in
the YWCA, Seventeenth and I
streets NV.
If women can operate the usual
mechanical equipment, they can
learn to do ordnance work" Comdr.
Jenkens added. He added that
three -fourths of the persons en-
ployed in the naval gun factory are
women. In the optical shop alone
women engage in IS different opera
tlons, he pointed out. Ability to do
assigned work and dependability on
the job are two prize requisites for
advancement, he said.
Miss Gooden said a survey showed
women doing from one-fourth to
one-third of all the jobs in 26 air
craft plants.
Subject at next Friday nights
meeting will be "Skills and Opera
tlons in Shipbuilding. 1t will be
under auspices of the industrial de-
partment of the YWCA.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
River Terrace Group,
Losing Gas Heat Fight,
Plans 10 Convert
Poll Indicates No Appeal.
Subdivision Developers
To Install Coal Furnaces

Residents of River Terrace who
lost their court fight to keep gas
heat in their homes, will not appeal
their case, but will replace their new
gas furnaces with coal burners, it
was indicated today in a survey
among the so protesting residents
who took their plea to District Court
in vain.
The developers of the subdivision
River Terrace Co, has coal furnaces
on hand and will proceed to install
them in place of the gas heaters,
residents said. This will be done at
no extra cost to the residents, who
already have paid for the gas
heaters.
A spokesman for the company said
no official ruling of the court had
been received, but they would be
ready to put in the furnaces as soon
as the residents were willing.
Some of the residents, it was
learned, are considering buying the
coal furnaces and keeping the gas
heaters, so that when the emergency
is over they may be able to return
to gas heat
The group of so protesting families
on Thirty-third street, near Benning
road NE, is planning to organize a
citizens association. they already
have elected Ellwood E. Stump of
ITO Thirty-third street NE. as presi-
dent of the new group, and plan
further organization meetings soon.
The group lost its fight against a
WPB order which prohibited the
Washington Gas Light Co. from
making deliveries. WPB, however.
is allowing citizens use of gas until
they can convert to coal.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
U. 5. Employees 10 Work
For Overtime Paw Laws

Permanent overtime compensation
legislation and a cost-of living SAL
ary adjustment will be one of the
objectives of the National Federation
of Federal Employees at this session
Of Congress, it was announced today,
as preparations were made for a
meeting here Monday of the Execu-
tive Council.
The council will consider the en-
tire legislative program for the next
year. The members are Luther C..
Steward, national president; Miss
Gertrude McNally, secretary-treas-
urer, and nine vice presidents.
The Federal pay legislation en-
acted by the last Congress expires
April 80 and it is intended to work
out permanent plan in the mean
time.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Soldier Wins Decoration
For Disdrminq Two Men

Corpl. Lloyd w. Ricketts,. %. was
awarded the Soldiers Medal in cere-
monies yesterday at Fort Myer, Va,
by Grlg. Gen. John T. Lewis, COM
mander of the Washington military
district, for his act of overpowering
and disarming two civilians near the
Pentagon Building October "a.
A member of the District Military
Police Battalion. Corpl. Ricketts, was
cited for "a display of clear thinking
under stress, which adds another
mark of distinction to his organiza-
ton and will stand as an inspiration
to his comrades in arms"
The award was made before a
number of his fellow soldiers. Fol-
lowing the presentation, Corpl
Ricketts, stood with Gen. Lewis and
his aides while infantry battalions
passed in review.
A man who said two armed men
were trying to kill him appealed to
Corpl. Ricketts,, the citation said
The soldier was on traffic duty near
the War Department building in Ar
lington. Corpl Ricketts, overpowered
and arrested the men.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
IWPB Restricts Styles
OF Victory Garden Tools
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The War Production Board has
prescribed simpler patterns and re-
stricted the material to be used in
the manufacture of tools for VIC
tory gardens after April s.
The order, which will eliminate
TOO sizes styles, grades and finishes
of edged and tined hand tools and
produced an estimated savings of
300 to 1000 tons of steel annually
applies also to industrial tools.
The implements, which must be
fabricated solely from carbon steel
include garden rakes and hoes, hay
forks, coke and coal forks, road
rakes and cotton choppers.
Farmers and victory gardeners
will be given choice of two or, in
some cases, three grades of tools.
Grade A will represent those OF
best quality, grade B medium OF
good and grade c average or fair.
The WPB said curtailment of the
lines will substantially reduce the
amounts Of inventories and the
number of types of raw materials
which manufacturers now carry.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Brightwood Citizens
Hear Appeal for
Transit Workers
Men and Women Needed
To Maintain Facilities,
Official Says

An appeal for men and women to
help maintain adequate transporta-
ton facilities during the war was
made last night by Ernest E. Boyd
superintendent of transportation for
the Capital Transit Co., at meet
ing of the BrightWood Citizens AS
sociation.
Mr.. Boyd pointed out that there
are jobs open for women to operate
the turnstiles in the Pentagon build
ing in Arlington and also that
women are being trained as bus
drivers and conductors on streetcars
There are jobs open for men from
81 to IS years of age as conductors
on tWo-man streetcars," he said
Last year we trained over 1000 men
but the net increase January l was
only eight men since January /
1912. Traffic has increased SO per
cent and the demand for workers is
still great if we are to keep the buses
and streetcars in operation. Unable
to secure necessary spare parts, the
mechanics in the shops are now
compelled to make these parts in
order to keep the rolling stock in
condition"
The question of three tokens fol-
Is cents was discussed and on mo-
tion of John Clagett Proctor, the
association went on record oppos-
ing any change in the present rate
OF six tokens for so cents. Mr.
Proctor pointed out that it would
increase the work of the bus oper-
ators and conductors, cause delays
and congest traffic. Mr.. Boyd in
formed the meeting that the COM
pany also was opposed to any
change under existing conditions.
The association indorsed the
action OF Charles w. Ray, president
relative to holding meetings during
the war by recommending to the
school authorities that other organ
lzations using the Paul Junior High
School, where the meeting was hello
last night, confer with Thomas F
Ferry, principal, and arrange fol
| all meetings to be held the same
night in separate rooms.
A resolution urged increasing
salaries of public school teachers
comparable with the raises accorded
Federal employees and also urging
that the increases be kept after the
war. 1t was stressed that salaries
paid here are about so per cent
less than those paid in New York
and are under those in many other
cities.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Famed Soviet Aviatrix
Reported Dead at Posi-

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW (From Soviet Broad
casts, Jan. 9-Marina Roskova,
hero of the Soviet Union and famous
in Russia as woman long distance
flyer and military pilot, has "died at
her post" 1t was announced today.
1t was said she died while on duty
with the Red Air Force. Her body
was brought to Moscow for burial.
(The broadcast was heard in
London by the Associated Press)
Miss Roskova was awarded the
title Hero of the Soviet Union for a
nonstop fight of 4,031 miles with
two other Russian woman flyers in
1898. The trio flew from Moscow to
point near Komsomolsk, adjacent
to the Siberia Manchukuo border,
where a forced landing was made in
swamp.
She also was active in organizing
women's flying activities.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Church Federation Active
For Lonely War Workers

Home hospitality committees of
the Civilian Mobilization Division
and the Defense Commission of
the Federation of Churches are at
tempting to solve the problem of
the ''homesick' Federal worker,
Coleman Jennings, chairman of both
committees, said today.
Among the services the Federation
offers to Government war workers
are parties, open house programs,
the opening of Washington homes
to war workers and a weekly bulletin
presenting activities for war workers
IN Washington churches.
During December % churches gave
parties for servicemen and war work.
ers with groups of 35 to 600
young people attending. Invitations
cleared through the Federation Office
resulted in home dinners for $50
war workers and 220 servicemen on
Christmas day. Some IS British
sailors also were entertained at
homes.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Bride, 20, Held on Charge
Fourth Marriage Is Biqumous

Twenty-year-old Grace Vivian
Reinert, who also is known as Sirrena
Elaine Corn, was held for action of
the grand jury on a charge of
bigamy in Municipal Court yester-
day. She entered plea of not guilty
before Judge George D. Nelson and
was held on a 81 900 bond.
The girl is accused of marrying
her forth husband, Harry James
McKenney. United States Navy, Of
the Norfolk Receiving Station, Va,
while still legally welded to Kenneth
Francis Reinert, United States Navy,
239 Eighth street NV.
Mrs. Reinert first became . bride
Evening star., 1943-01-09

at the age of IA according to Martin
J. Meenehan of the Investigation
Division of the United States at
torney's Office. The marriage was
terminated by divorce year later.
In 1910 she married again, this
time to a man on the West Coast
who was killed in the attack on
Pearl Harbor In 1941, Mr.. Meenehan
said.
On June 20 Of last year under the
name Of Grace Vivian Petit she be-
came the wife of Mr.. Reinert. Ac-
cording to police, she married Mr..
McKenney on November ii of last
year while still the legal wife Of Mr..
Reinert.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Two Cadets Awarded
Wings PosthumousIy
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN ANGELO, Tex, Jan. 9.-Two
aviation cadets who lost their lives
on a training fight December
have been awarded posthumously
the bombardier wings they would
have won at the graduation Of their
class at the San Angelo Army air
field.
They were Joseph Lee Perkins,
jr, 20, West Warick, Rhode Island,
and Bennett r. Penn, Is, Smeth-
port, Pa.
Maj. William A. Mosely, jr., COM
mandant, will send the wings to
parents Of the two men.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
.V-MaiI Order Doesn't Ban
Other Air Letters
Py tho Arcoriatod pres,

BY the Associated Press.
A War Department spokesman
said Yesterday that the Army's new
postal regulations did not neces-
sarily mean that no letters other
than V-mail would be transported
by air to soldiers overseas.
Other letters might be moved by
air when space is available, he said
although in practical effect the reg
ulations are apt to mean that only
V-mail may go by air.
The department announced yes
terday that lin loading planes
bound for those overseas areas
where facilities exist for the repro
duction of V-mail, air mail stamps
on ordinary letters will be disre-
garded."
This means, it was explained, that
only V-mail will be assured of
handling by air. Other mail may or
may not 60 by air irrespective of
whether it has an air mail or ordi-
nary stamp It will depend en-
tirely on the availability of space.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
OCD Protective Services Here
ToGet Gas Masks NextWeek

to the membership Of the various
services. While some of the masks
will be used for training, most of
them will become equipment for
protective service personnel.
It was not explained what would
be done with the small size masks.
Emphasis, however. was placed on
the fact that the masks would go
only to members of services who
had been certified or were in process
Of certif1cation because they had
completed required training.
The masks are part Of the equip
ment loaned to the District by the
national OCD.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
0'Conor Requests Speed
On Election Supervisors

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 9-The State
Central Committees were asked by
Gov. O'Connor yesteday to submit
recommendations for supervisors of
elections as soon as possible.
Indicating that he wanted this
matter out of the way as early as
conditions permit, Gov. O'Conor
pointed out the law provides period
of not more than so days during
which the Governor may receive
recommendations and make ap-
pointments.
I'm order to have things move as
quickly and as smoothly as possible, -
Gov O'Conor said, Il have asked the
State Central Committees today tc
send me their recommendations
within two weeks if possible"