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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Rickenbocker
Firm Reports
Record Profit

CHICAGO, March 22.-Eastern
Air Lines, Inc, of which Capt. Ed
die Rickenbacker is president and
general manager, enjoyed its
greatest revenues and earnings in
its history in 1912, according to
the annual report of the company.
Rickenbacker e c e n Y an
nounced his opposition to paying
workers time and one-half for
overtime and also opposed any
limitation on the individual in
comes of rich men. Overtime pay
for workers is bribery but limita-
ton of salaries of rich men would
restrict incentive, Rickenbacker
said.
Net profits of Rickenbacker's
company amounted to $1,S85,5O3 or
1928 a share compared with ST.
600, ,7O6 or $2.S1 a share in 194l.
Revenues aggregated $685.
25O against $13,977,1 ,124 in the pre-
ceding year.
The company set aside S627, ,9O5
for federal income taxes and pro-
vided $3,15O,OOO for federal ex-
cess profits taxes, but "in the
event that no excess profits tax
liability accrues in 1912, the total
provision for federal taxes on in
come will be reduced approximate
ly $2,000,00O," Rickenbacker said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Alarm Clocks
To Go on Sole

New Victory Model alarm clocks
are in production and the War
Production Board expects them to
be on sale early in April. Manu-
facture of alarm clocks was re-
sumed after stripping the sleep
robber of much of its scarce metals
because the Government found
workers forced to depend on other
means to get them up in the morn
ing were late for work by the
thousands.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Move To PerPe+uafe
Hot Cargo Law Defeated

SACRAMENTO, Calf. (FP) -
An attempt to perpetuate the no.
torious hot cargo law, vetoed by
Ex-Governor Culbert L. Olson and
then passed by a close vote in ref
erendum last November, failed
when, after hearing of arguments
from CIO and AFL spokesman, the
senate labor committee voted to
table the Hatfield-Sichards bill.
1t would have made the anti-hot
cargo and secondary boycott reg
ulations, now in force for the dura-
ton, permanent part of California
statutes.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Unionisf Drove In
CosobIoneo Procession

BUTTE, Mont. (FP)-Behind the
steering wheel of the second car
in the procession at the historic
meeting of President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill at Casa
blanca, North Africa, was a good
union man-"Lefty" Orlich, a men,
Der of Local 1, international Union
of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers
(CIO).
Said Lefty" in letter to rela-
tives back home: ct was a great
thrill and it gave all of US grand
feeling to see the big men of the
Allied war effort meeting to plan
for a decisive victory"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Red Cross
Fund Drive
Continues
Goal Must Be Reached
By End OF March

With slightly more than two
thirds of the funds collected for
its quota, the Toledo branch Of the
American Red Cross is redoubling
its efforts to secure the required
amount of money before the ma
tional fund drive ends March 81.
Local Red Cross officials have
expressed confidence that Toledo
would not only realize the amount
set for it; but that it would sur
pass it. Toledo always has managed
to do its part for the Red Cross and
according to Red Cross officials
will reach the goal set for it now.
Richard Lazette, CIO War Chest
Director who was recently named
a director of the Red Cross, has
sent out call to all plant work
ers in the Toledo area who have
not contributed to the War Chest
to do so now. Mr.. Lazette said,
Workers who have not been soli-
cited and wish to give to this fine
humanitarian work so necessary at
all times, but particularly during
time of war, should either contact
my office, AID. 1912, or should
call the Red Cross, AID. 5146, and
receive instructions on how to
make their contribution"
Workers in Toledo plants who
have given to the War Chest have
a deduction made from this con-
tribution which is given to the
Red Gross in accordance with an
made between the CIO
and War Chest authorities. If,
however, there are workers who
would like to give additional mon
ey, and according to Mr.. Lazette,
many of them do, they may either
contact Mr.. Lazette or the Red
Cross.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Steel Products
Case Goes
Into HEARINGS
Union Refuses
To COncede

Settlement of the contract nego-
tiations between Local II and the
Toledo Steel Products Co. manage
ment is awaiting the coming of a
hearing officer. who is soon to be
sent into Toledo by the Var La
Dor Board.
Contract negotiations up to the
present time have been deadlocked,
despite the efforts of federal
conciliator sent into Toledo early
in March to effect contract sat
isfactory to both the union and
management.
Union Refuses Concessions
Present status of the case de-
rived from representations made to
the union by the company manage
ment in which concessions impos-
sible for the union to grant were
requested. When the impasse de-
veloped, both sides agreed to call
in the hearings officer from the
War Labor Board.
The WLB officer who will con-
duct the hearing on the contract
will adjust all matters and when
the final points have been agreed
upon or ruled upon by the hearing
officer, will be transmitted to the
War Labor Board together with
the recommendation of the hear
ing officer, which will be final.
The rulings and recommendations
made by the hearing officer will
be acted on by the War L b or
Board, which will hand down a
ruling with which both the union
and company have agreed to abide.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
AuxiIiary Officers
Installed

Melvin Schultz, president Of Lo-
cal II, installed officers of the
Women's Auxiliary March 23 at
the regular monthly meeting.
The following officers were in
stalled: Ethel Swinehart, president;
Margaret Burgart, vice-president;
Mary C. Valiant, secretary; Mable
Helmke, treasurer; Amelia Bern
ing, guide, and Leone Harris, trus-
tee.
Following the installation Of Of
ficers, luncheon was served.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Senate Would
Defer Farmers
By Federated Press

WASHINGTON - The senate
voted March II, 81 to "a, to order
local draft boards to defer all men
employed substantially full time in
raising essential war crops or
foods. The bill was authored by
Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D.-Colo.) }
and supported by Sen. John Bank
head DALAI and the rest of the
farm bloc.
Present regulations requiring de-
ferred farmers to fill certain
specified units of production would
be eliminated. Yet many of the
bills reactionary supporters want
skilled workers put in the army if
they are absent from work so
much as one day.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
WiIIys Unit Sponsors
Navy Breakfast
First Union of Local II
To Give Navymen Sendoff

First of the Local II Units to sponsor Navy sendotf
for boys leaving to join the service WysOverand Unit
morning played host to 50 boys from the Toledo
before they departed take up their training at the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
Conceived by Charles Ballard chairman of the WHY'S
Overland Unit the breakfast proved popular with both the
departing Navy recruits and the Union officials who were
present at the affair
In addition to Chairman Ballard Anthony Pachoski,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Clubs and Blind Join
Lubor in Reviewing
An+i-Lobor Legislation
Letters and Wires Sent
State and National Representatives

Representatives of the Toledo League of Women Voters
Ohio Federation of the Blind, Toledo Consumers League,
Douglas Community Center and other organizations joined
with the CIO protest against antabor bills pending in
Columbus and Washington at legislative conference held
March 10, at the Toledo Industrial Union Council.
Thomas Burke executive secretary of the Political Ac-
tivtes Committee Local IL, UAWCIO presided at the
meetings which held during the day to accommodate
war workers on different shifts Meetings held 10
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Burf's Contract
Makes PROGRESS

Contract negotiations with the
Burt Foundry Co. have proceeded
to the point where there are but
few points yet to be settled.
A hearing officer from the War
Labor Board has been in charge of
the contract negotiations. Recon-
mendations made by the hearing
officer at the completion of the
negotiations will be final.
Points awaiting settlement in the
negotiations are wages, gloves for
the workers and pay for scrap.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Loco Election Ordered BY ~NLRB
Legislative Conference Protests AM
Anfi-Lubor
Legislation
Gains
Kansas MI Colorado
Regulate Unions

Nationwide anti-labor legisla-
ton introduced into "A state legis-
latures gained victories last week
in Kansas and Colorado when the
legislatures of these two states
passed laws to regulate" unions.
Kansas labor bill represents one
of the worst anti-labor bills intro
duced in any state. Under the
terms of the law union repre-
sentatives and business agents
must be licensed; compulsory fl
nancial reports must be made by
unions revealing all fees, dues and
assessments paid by union mem
bers and reports of salaries paid
union officials. The bill also for
bids sit-down strikes and jurisdic-
tional disputes.
Ohio Bill 1913
A similar bill is at the present
time before the Ohio State Legis-
lature, House Bill 1913 which is al
most identical with the bill passed
last week in Kansas.
The CIO, AFL and unaffiliated
unions of Kansas will Immediately
take the Kansas bill to court in an
endeavor to have it declared un-
constitutional.
Previous to the passage of the
law, Kansas unions had pledged
elimination of strikes for the dura-
tion, voluntary publication of fl
nances and housecleaning of any
undesirables.
To Fight Bill
No compromise was acceptable
to the reactionary Kansas legis-
lature, however, and the anti-labor
bill was passed in the face of the
opposition of 175,000 union mem.
bers.
Similar laws are pending in az
other states where an organized
drive is under way to repress
unions and if possible utterly de-
stroy them.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26

a. m. 200 p. m. and 500 pm.
Kenneth Cole, executive secre-
tary of the Toledo Industrial
Union Council now employed by
the UAW-CIO in Washington as
a liason man, spoke of the Wash
r-ington scene and discussed the va
Nus anti-labor bills now before
congress.
Pie Discusses Absenteeism
Cole also discussed absenteeism
in detail and told of his spot sur
veys conducted in Detroit in con-
nection with the UAW program.
The surveys showed that many
factors other than willful desire to
remain away from work entered
into the problem, including failure
to provide adequate living quar-
ters, transportation difficulties, ne
glect of health and recreational ia
cilities and inadequate child care
centers.
Saying that the picture in Wash
ington looked very black for la
Dor, Cole called for political action
in wards, precincts, factories and
homes to combat the forces ar
rayed against labor.
Calls for Equal Sacrifice
Cole quoted from recent
speech Of the Director of Economic
Sterilization, James Byrnes who
said, Congress will lose the war,
not the American people"
Melvin Schultz, president of Lo-
cal II, UAW-CIO, spoke of the
idea which the United Auto Work
ers advanced at the outset of the
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Equipment Union
Newspaper Started

CHICAGO (FP) - The United
Farm Equipment G. Metal Workers
(CIO), keeping pace with its rap
idly expanding membership, has a
new eight-page official organ, The
FE. The publication, to be issued
twice monthly, is a member of
Federated Press.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Defeats Slave
Labor Bill

JEFFERSON CITY, MO.-(FB)
"A bill which would have given
the state control of labor unions
was defeated by the state senate.
The vote was 18 to ID.
An outburst of oratory by labor
batting legislators lasted an entire
day as they fought desperately to
pass the measure under a slogan
of driving racketeers out of unions.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
Council Still Talks Paw
Increase For Employees

Councilman Howard Etchen, who
has consistently opposed increases
in taxation on Toledo real estate
(Mr. Etchen is in the real estate
business), last M on day night
brought up the question of pay in
creases to the city employees, which
up to the present is stuck on an
impasse which appears insurmount-
able.
Mr.. Etchen would like to have
city reports, records and all
Ter pertinent facts brought out
= order to determine what could
be done, if anything, to give city
workers a much-needed boost in
their incomes.
Increases Would Cost S4OO, 900
Asked by Councilman Michael
Disable what It would cost the city
to grant wage increases commen-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26
House Bill 1913

Hearings on House Bill 1913
will be held in Columbus,
Tuesday, Mach 81 before the
House Committee. A room
capable of housing only 100
persons will be the scene of
the hearing despite the fact
that several hundred labor
representatives will journey
to Columbus to testify against
this vicious anti-labor bill.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26

since the Feb. a election have
led local JAW members to
the confident belief that they
will win the March so election by
a substantial majority, despite the
efforts of the Lima News in an
editorial to cast a none too SUBJ
tie reflection on the UAW-CI0.
Compare Different Unions
Many plant members who were
indifferent to the last election are
going TO prove to be the deciding
factor in the next battle of the
ballots. Many of these people have,
since the Feb. 4 election invest
igated the claims of both the AFL
and JAW with a view of arriving
at an intelligent decision upon
which was the best union for them
to belong to.
One of the older plant employees
who confessed failure to vote in
the last election told JAW repre-
sentatives, "I'm going to vote for
the UAW this time because If it
can fix the seniority so it means
something, and l believe it can, it
will be well worth while making
the change,
No Grievance Procedure
Other employees complain that
there is no grievance procedure
worthy of the name under the AT
of L contract and that whenever a
worker with a grievance looks up
an AT of L representative, he is
sent back to his foremen.
Resentment on the part of many
employees at the Loco plant because
of the handling of grievances, or
as one employe put it, ats mis-
handling, has led many workers
to conclude that they couldn't do
worse than they have even if there
was no union. Several of these said
outright that they had voted for
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PLEASE

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Union Journal of change of
address, please print your
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well as your new address and
state which shop you are
from.
Please notify US of your
change of address as soon as
you move.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-26

The Voice of the
UAW-CIO in
Northwestern Ohio
Evening star., 1943-11-18
Purutrooper With Fou|ed Chute
Survives 7OO-Foot PIunqe
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A CANADIAN HOSPITAL IN
BRITAIN, Nov. 18.-William Rob-
son, Burlington (Ontario) para
trooper, plunged TOO feet to earth
beneath a parachute opened to only
a fraction of its spread and his
thoughts in those few mad seconds
dwelt solely on his mother and his
girl friend.
Robson was sure his number was
up, he said from his hospital bed
Yesterday as he gave his own answer
to the question of the ages-what
does a man about to die think?
Il tugged and yanked, but that
chute refused to open beyond a
two-foot spread" Robson said. II
looked down and the ground was ab-
solutely rushing at me.
Then, like a flash, it came over
me, I'm going to die I was sure OF
it. And I remember thinking right
after, What will my mother and my
girl think when get killed?'"
That was all. The fact that Rob-
son didn't die, that he didn't even
faint when he crashed to the earth
1t felt as though they had stuck
me up to my hips in fire." he re-
called-was considered almost mir.
acle by medical men.
Today he's very much alive, jok-
ing, gcod-natured boy of 20, plaster
cast around his body and another
around his. left leg. Physicians say
he will recover completely from 6
fracture of the left foot, fractured
Evening star., 1943-11-18
Civilians to Get IS Per Cent
OF 1914 Food, VIA Soys

ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. 18 (P.-
civilians will receive rs per cent
OF the estimated total United States
food supply in the 12-month period
ending September &c. 1914, a War
Food Administration official said to-
day.
In an address to Dairymen's
League Cooperative Association
1000 forum Roy F. Hendrickson, di-
rector of food distribution, said the
American diet in 1914 will be about
the same in quantity and in nutri-
tive value as that of 1943 and above
the average prewar diet if crops are
favorable
He predicted civilians will receive
more meat, eggs. sweet potatoes,
citrus fruits and dried peas and
beans than in the 1858 period
and about the same amounts of
white potatoes, rice and canned
vegetables.
There will be less butter and other
fats. cheese, fish and canned fruits,
he said.
Mr.. Hendrickson announced that
about IA per cent of our estimated
food supply will go to meet Amer
lean military and war service re-
quirements and II per cent to the
United Nations and liberated areas
in the period ending September 30,
1914.
He said combined overseas ard
domestic requirements total 5.lO3,-
100000 pounds of food on hand
every day for the Army alone.
Evening star., 1943-11-18
District Milk SHORTAGE
Likely This Winter,
Farm Report Says

A warning that an acute milk
shortage will be felt in Washington
in late winter unless the feed situ-
alton is remedied was sounded to-
day in a report on representative
Maryland and Virginia farms by the
Agricultural News Agency.
According to the survey, farmers
supplying dairy, poultry and live
stock products to the Washington
Baltimore markets are SO short of
feed they are producing from 20 to
Is per cent less milk than their
dealer sales quotas permit. In addi-
ton, the feed shortages are sharply
curtailing poultry and egg produc-
ton and are causing farmers to sell
off dairy and beef cattle in an ef-
fort to adjust their operations to
the vanishing feed supplies.
Drought Is Blamed.
The area in the two States ad-
joining Washington, the survey says.
has been particularly hard hit be-
cause Of the summer drought which
burned pastures and cut the corn
crop to as low as Is per cent OF
normal.
Corn, normally the main feed
grain, is virtually unobtainable
Evening star., 1943-11-18
Commissioners Order
3 Rezoning Hearings
Held Next Month

Public hearings on eight petit
tions for rezoning have been or
dered held next month in Bethesda
and Silver Spring by the Montgom-
cry County Commissioners.
Six of the eight hearings will be
held in the Bethesda County Build
ing. They are:
December 81, 2 pm-Petition of
James w. Gill, attorney for Ralph S.
Morrison and Abraham Morrison,
owners, for reclassification from
residential A to residential G., of
lots 7 and 8, block 13, subdivision
of Edgemoor.
December 81, 2:30 pm-Petition
of James w. Gill, attorney for
Ralph S. Morrison and Abraham
Morrison, owners, from residential
A to commercial D. Of east half of
lot 7. of block IL, Edgemoor.
December 81. 3pm.-Petition of
Charles F. Miller, owner, from resi-
Dental A to commercial D, of parcel
extending along south side of Elm
street, east Of Arlington road, for q
distance of 23451 feet by depth OF
140 feet.
December 21, $3.50 pm. - Petition
Of Charles F. Miller, owner, from
residential A to commercial D, of
parcel extending along south bound
ary of the Miller tract, bounded by
Arlington road. south property line
of Miller tract to west line, ex-
tended.
December %, 2:30 p.m.-Petition
OF Louis j. Bergson, jr., and Robert
B. Greer, substitute trustees, owners,
residential A to residential C, 1872
acres beginning at intersection of
the west line of the Rockville road.
December "a, 2 p.m.-Petition of
Charles S. Moore and wife, Mary
r. Moore, owners, from residential
A to commercial D, of lot 20, block
A, Chevy Chase, section 8, north of
Walsh street, east O. Wisconsin ave-
nue.
The two hearings to be held at
the Silver Spring County Building
are:
December 20, 2 p.m.-Petition of
Blair Management Corp, from resi-
Dental c to industrial E of that
part OF the Blair property fronting
Evening star., 1943-11-18
D. {. Band Leaders Wish
For Fighting Unit Fulfilled

Maj. Leon Brusiloff's long stand
ing ambition to exchange his baton
for machine gun has been graft
fed, temporarily at least, according
to word received from the Southwest
Pacific, where the former Washing
ton orchestra leader is serving with
the Marines.
Maj. Brusiloff's insistent requests
for line duty won him the nom de
guerre of Il Wanna Machine Gun
Company Brusiloff," but good music
ranks high on the list of Marine
requirements and the plea was con-
sistently unheeded
Recently, however, the band was
detailed to guard its command post
and Maj. Brusilof seized the oppor-
tunlty to exercise his trigger finger
He took his men through a stiff
training course of hikes, night prob
lens, scouting and patrolling, mold
ing them into full-1edged fighting
outfit. The commanding officer still
considers music making the outfits
No. chore, but the bandsmen have
their guns and are ready to deliver
hot lead instead of hot licks when
the opportunity presents itself.
Maj. Brusiloff joined the Marine
Reserves here several years ago as
a lieutenant, organizing and direct
ing the 5th Marine Reserve Brigade
Band in the battalion organized ano
commanded by Col. Harvey L. Mil
Ter, former secretary of the District
Boxing Commission.
Before that he welded the bator
over the Columbia and Fox (noW
Capitol Theater Orchestras, played
at the Madrillon Restaurant with his
own orchestra and directed thu
George Washington University
Band.
Evening star., 1943-11-18
10Th Street Citizens Group
Elects Two New Officers

The Sixteenth Street Highlands
Citizens Association, in a brief
meeting last night, discussed plans
for the coming year.
A membership drive was urged
and two new officers elected: Mrs
l.. w. Kasehagen, corresponding
secretary, and Mrs David F. Barry
social committee chairman.
In report on the recent meet
ing of the Federation of Citizens
Associations, Miss Mollie Lewis,
delegate to the Federation, cited a
suggestion providing for an investi-
cation of Gallinger Hospital, to be
made each month by a three man
volunteer commission.
Mrs. Hartman of the War Man.
power Commission, and guest speak
er, spoke of the United States EN-
ployment Services need to fill 10000
vacancies in essential war Jobs, re-
quiring trained or professional ap-
plicants.
The meeting, held at the Bright
wood School, Thirteenth and Nichol-
son streets NV. was presided over
by George NJ Gooch, new president
of the association.
Evening star., 1943-11-18

right foot and fractured spine,
with the exception of some per-
manent disability" in the left leg
Robson was undergoing training
with Canadian parachute bat
talon in Northwestern England on
the day Of his adventure. AS he
went out Of the plane the slipstream
hit him and he did a somersault in
the air, his left foot catching in
the lines of his chute. AS it came
around, he kicked it clear, but the
chute refused to open beyond 2 feet
He landed with much of his weight
on his left foot, and this, physicians
said prevented the shock from trav-
cling up to the spine to his skull
which probably would have meant
instant death.