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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
FEPC TO Fight MeNuff
Posfponemenf Order

with the battle fronts and said it
was time McNutt displayed a little
of the courage shown by our
troops, white and Negro, in battle.
Serious Blow to Morale
IN Nuts unfortunate an
nouncement," said the committee,
"is a serious blow to the war
morale of more than 100000
Negro citizens and to all white
persons who know that racial dis
elimination is a Hitlerite weapon
that should be stamped out by be-
levers in democracy"
Again the committee called on
congress to give added funds to
allow FEPC to work unhampered,
and called on McNutt to demon
strate his good faith and abandon
his folly in blocking the investiga-
tion by giving the FEPC the green
light to proceed with the hearing.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Repeal Demanded

NASHVILLE, Tenn. = Outright
repeal of the poll tax in Tennessee
was demanded as the 73rd state
assembly opened here with Sen. w.
French Grubb of Chattanooga in
Producing the measure as Senate
Bill No. /.
-Four other senate bills also
dealt with the poll tax question,
but it was apparent that the issue
would be crucified on the cross of
permanent registration of voters
demanded by Boss Ed Crump of
Memphis.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Anthracite Miners Ordered
Back TO Work By WLB 4

said, in alluding to a recent attack
on the Presidents aide featured
widely in the Mccormick Patterson
press.
The reports told of lavish din
ners and emeralds given her by
British visitors for lend-lease
favors, which she denied.
The union had been trying to get
operators to put in 6-day week in
anthracite, Lewis said, but only
Jan. 6 did the operators get OPA
to approve price raise making g.
day operations possible. Zone of the
delegates had said that they want
ed time-and-a half not for the sixth
consecutive ay, but for Saturdays.)
Lewis Issues Warning
While heartily in sympathy with
the miners in their demands for
more pay, said Lewis, he warned
that the anthracite operators could
not be forced to violate a contract,
adding:
"This board has no such power,
as l conceive it. 1t cannot regulate
the dues of union, unless the time
has come, and l think it has not,
when the government is taking
over voluntary organizations of la
Dor and other groups.
81 doubt if this board has the
power to set aside agreements" he
went on, glancing over the large,
packed room, where people were
pressed together in rows, standing
on tiptoe to get glimpse of the
miners president.
Asks Board To Save Bargaining
"If it has, then | say to the an
thracite mine workers and to all
labor, that collective bargaining
has disappeared /. ="
Shaking his finger at the silent
board members, his voice rising
compellingly he said, "And l ask
the board not to take any actioGga h
destroy years of building up 81
lied bargaining procedure in~
industry"
Van A. Bittner, assistant to the
president, United Steelworkers, for
long years a miner, smarting under
the Lewis lash, protested vehement
ly that the board had no intention
of changing any unions constitu-
ito or breaking down collective
bargaining.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Lost Of Big 4
Packers Won

CHICAGO (FP)-The last of the
Big Four packers has been union
ized. A majority of workers at the
Wilson & Co. plant here chose the
Packinghouse Workers Organizing
Committee (CIO) for their sole col
lective bargaining agent in an
NLRB election Dec. %.
The vote was 3,454 for the CI0
and LOLA for no union out of $500
employees.
The PW0C now represents all
Chicago workers in the Big Four
plants, while the vast majority Of
workers in the Big Four plants
throughout the country also are or
ganized in the CI0.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Lewis Declares
Strike Unauthorized
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON-After hearing
series of presidents of locals
tell of their efforts to get the men
to go back 10 the mines, and ex-
plain at the same time their real
grievances, the Natl. War Labor
Board Jan. Is directed the striking
anthracite miners to go back to
work.
The board also heard president
John L. Lewis of the United Mine
Workers (unaffiliated) declare the
strike unauthorized. At the same
time Lewis said the union had
contract to fill with the anthracite
operators which did not expire
until April, and defied the boards
power to interfere with the con-
tract or with what he termed or
derly collective bargaining.
Tell Board Hands OFF,
He issued a warning, in effect,
that the board should keep hands
off the two issues of the strike
resentment against so cent raise
in dues, and a demand for a So
day increase in pay. And he issued
warning to his men to go back to
work if they had the dignity and
prestige of their union at heart
or their own economic future.
In a unanimous decision an
nounced by Chairman William L.
Davis after a 15-minute recess, he
reminded the local leaders there
was war to win.
"We are all impressed by the
sincerity and patriotism and good
faith of the local officers" he said,
"but we feel mistake, and ira
gic mistake has been made by TAX
ing the men out"
Leaders Ask Men To Strike
The testimony of local leaders
was that they had pleaded with
their men not to strike, but that
the strikes spread. In some cases
they were "picketed out" the men
refusing to cross picket lines. AL
though their locals had not paid
the SOC in dues raises yet, others
were out on sympathy.
"You have the authority of the
U. S. government to help you get
them back to work." Davis told
the local leaders.
Lewis pointed out that the dues
increase was overwhelmingly voted
for at the UNIV convention last
October. He said that the dues is
sue had been exploited in this case,
but that the basic problem in the
anthracite industry was low wages.
"They cannot make enough in
week to buy Harry Hopkins din
ner at the Carleton in the style to
which he has been accustomed" he
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
CIO Wins Raise

observation-disclosures men
on the city-owned Detroit Street
Railways won time-and- "a half
for the sixth consecutive day of
work, premium pay for late
shifts, raises in the salary brack-
cts and pay adjustments in some
hourly.rated classificatiOns in an
arbitration award here. The
workers were represented by
Atty. Ernest Goodman for the
State, County & unicipal Work
ers (CIO).
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Hollywood
Lot
n TT NJ
BY Ted Taylor



HOLLYWOOD-Those screams
that reach you on the western
breeze are only Hollywood, alter
nately delirious with pleasure and
frantic with pain at what the war
is doing to it.
OUCH! A new pinch on film
stock! Only 400 million feet for
Hollywood's pictures in 1943, the
War Production Board says. (Film
used in 1941 as reported by pro-
ducers before the first cut; 1,100
million feet. Supposed quota for
1912: $50 million feet. Amount ap-
parently used in 1912: 1900 mil
lion feet.)
JOY! The picture industry
crossed $1,30O,OOO,O00 in 1912!
That's $200,O0O,0O0 over the year
before! That's 72 times what the
raw film cost at cent a foot, if
you want to know.
DAMN! The bureaucrats are
trying to tell us how to make
films! We've been in this business
long enough to know what the pub
lie wants in entertainment and
what the public ought to have for
war morale! (What this industry
needs is its own S1-a-year man.
BOY! There were 10000, 900
customers in the country's picture
theaters the first week of 1943!
Is that start! And more keep
coming! It'll be a $1,000, 900, 900
year-maybe two billion year!
HOORAY! The national income
will be $40,OOO,OOO in 1943 1!
And there's fewer things to buy
probably even fewer pictures-and
more money itching to be put out
for them. (The producers are hint
ing lugubriously of probable re-
trenchment And no ones men
toned it openly yet, but there's
no ceiling on amusements.)
TREASON! This salary ceiling
"means simply confiscation of
wages and property. 1t is time to
rid ourselves Of foreign things
We must keep America the same
land of opportunity" Charles D.
Prutzman, general counsel Uni
versal, Pictures, on the radio the
other night.) But when Hedy La
MARI filed test case on here
MGM contract rights under the
salary ceiling, her hands were
slapped down editorially by the
Hollywood Reporter--which has
been particularly bitter about the
law-and she was informed that
such an action was out of place
for a foreigner.
And so goes the screaming. But
remember, it's only bigshot Holly
wood that's doing it. The $4,000
who really make pictures keep on
making pictures and ignore the
ranting and gloating over their
heads.
Unions and guilds that organ
lied the Hollywood Canteen have
set up the first nursery in Holly
wood for children of war workers
and are launching a continuing
program for other nurseries.
The Screen Cartoonists (AFL)
is producing film for the govern
ment borrowed from one of the
cartoon studios. Actors and writer's
are giving time freely in morale
and propaganda activities.
The $4,000 are minding their
business, and making the war an
important part of their business.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
SEEK TO UP SALES TAX

JEFFERSON CITY, More
dictionary interests are seeking to
have the legislature increase the
present 2fo sales tax to go.
For the first time in a decade,
Republicans control the lower
house, while the senate is evenly
divided. Political maneuvering by
the two old line parties to control
the upper house may delay legis-
lation.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Farmers Top Coal

UPPER DARBY, Pa.-Small
farmers in IL eastern states, aided
by the Farm Security Administra-
ton, which self-styled farm bloc
congressman would eliminate as
wartime drag, not only met food
production goals for 1912 but
topped them "by tremendous fig
ures," J. H. Wood, FSA regional
director in the Maine-through-
Maryland area, announced here.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
British Labor
Leader Louds
Rofioninq
BY VIRGINIA GARDNER.
By Federated Press

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Jack
Jones, British trade union leader,
said Dec. 80 that the British peo-
pie were extremely proud of their
rationing system because it was ad-
ministered with almost absolute
equality. Jones represents the
Miners Federation of Great Britain.
Explaining that in England the
rare oranges and eggs are rationed
only to children, that rabbits still
are unrationed and that usually
only one sort of rationed meat was
available each week, he halted sud
denly.
Still on Rations
II just remembered" he said,
that ! saw a whole plate Of boiled,
peeled eggs today. And do you
know, l could have eaten 81 worth
of lunch-including pellies and sal
ads. But l confined myself to a
small amount, because l try to keep
myself loyal in stomach"
Rationing and other war meas
ures had given the British what he
described as a sense of comrade-
ship that he found only in embryo
in this country, said the Welsh
miner in an interview at the British
Information Center.
In England, he said, there was no
defeatist press, and no defeatist
sentiment was expressed in Parlia-
ment outside that Of the Indepen-
dent Labor Party, a splinter group
headed by James Maxton-and they
didn't get very far.
Rationed Clothing
Jones pointed to his shoes. "They
don't match my suit" he said. "But
we rationed clothing overnight-so
as not to have a run on it. And
since then my rations have gone to
clothe my grandchildren"
Asked about the move for Ameri-
can-British- Soviet trade union un-
ity, he said: 1--WE in England are
very keen indeed for international
labor unity. AS l respectfully sug-
gested when | was here last sum-
mer, however, | think it is out Of
the question to hope for interna-
tional unity unless we have unity in
labor nationally"
Women Being Educated
The women of England are get
ting a wonderful political education,
he said. They are beginning to
recognize their own worth and
never will be content after the war
to become "door receivers" and
wait for their husbands TO bring
home their unemployed checks.
Despite opposition the Beveridge
report will be implemented by laws
giving the workers social security
instead of social insecurity, he said.
He appealed to the workers of this
country to move forward with those
Of Great Britain and those of Rus
sia to attain any social goals after
the war.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Council Hits
Smeor Of
TugweIl by Press
BY Federated Press

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The COM
mercial press, sniping at Gov. Rex
ford G. Tugwell of Puerto Rico in
its reporting of the economic and
political crisis in the Gibraltar of
the Caribbean, was wacked hard by
the Council for Pan American
Democracy in it's current issue Of
The Americas.
every incorporate and unfounded
charge levelled at Tugwell has been
given big play" the publication
said, while the real issues and
constructive proposals advanced by
pro-Roosevelt islanders have been
distorted or suppressed"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Fascists Block Efforts


"These efforts" The Americas
said, "and the whole Roosevelt
Munoz Marin program of immedi-
ate measures to alleviate the plight
Of the islanders, have been blocked
by sinister combination Of fascist
Falange and fifth column agents,
vested interests and appeaser ele-
ments in the islands and the main
land press"
The labor press was praised for
its presentation of the workers
story and the truth about Puerto
Rico.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Hope for Settlement

Swartzbaugh employees claim the
bonus system in use at their plant
is no incentive, not only because
they do not understand its work.
ings; but because they only re-
ceive 80 per cent Of what they earn
when they produce more than their
production schedule calls for.
Melvin Schultz, Local IL presi-
dent commenting on the Swartz-
baugh case said, 81 am glad that
the case was certified to the War
Labor Board. When the Boards
decision comes back, | hope we can
really get down TO cases and settle
this contract in a hurry"
Decision Of the board may re-
quire from few days TO several
weeks, meanwhile, dissatisfaction
a m ong Swartzbaugh employees
shows no signs Of abating.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Swar+zbaugh
Case Goes
TO WLB
Continued from Page /

cluded. Mr.. Swartzbaugh refused
to consider Gosser's offer.
After reaching the deadlock be-
cause Of the refusal of the COM
pany to agree to adhere to its writ
ten agreement signed by its presi-
dent to make the contract retroac-
tive TO the time negotiations were
first undertaken, the company
agreed to have the case submitted
to the NWLB TO which Chester
Ralston, the conciliator, will certify
it with his report on the case.
Unit Dissatisfied
Members of the Swartzbaugh
Unit, affiliated with Local IL, have
expressed themselves as being dis
gusted with the company's slow
ness in completing negotiations as
we'll as the bonus system under
which they work and which few of
them understand. Ed Duck, Local
IL organizer who has conducted ne
gotiations with the company, dis
cussing the bonus system of the
company said, 81 don't believe C.
E. Swartzbaugh understands his
own bonus system himself, if | may
judge by his conversation about
it,"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Hearst Attacks

Hearst Attacks
Meanwhile the New York Herald.
Tribune was headlining on page ]
"Tugwell Called 'Mussolini' Bully
ing Critics in Puerto Rico," and
the Hearst press on Dec. % walled
against "the Tugwell dream of
splitting up the islands large plan
tations into collective farms Of no
more than 500 acres EACH"
That the dream was Hearst's and
not Tugwell's, the council made
clear. Actually the law was 4ncor-
porated by the U. s. Congress into
the organic act under which Puerto
Rico has ben governed since 1900,
but a 1888 government census
showed that while only 0.2eo Of
Peurto Rican farms are 500 acres
or over, these sugar baron holdings
account for 25.2fo of all improved
land on all farms. Enforcement of
the law, begun by Tugwell's prede-
cessor, "has met with only a very
limited success" the publication
said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Workers Support Tugwell

No publicity, except through the
labor and language press, has been
given the visit to the u. S. Of
Roosevelt and Tugwell supporters
President Francisco Colon Cor
diany of the General Confederation
Of Puerto Rican Workers and Luis
Munoz Marin, president Of the
Puerto Rican senate and leader of
the Popular party, strongest po-
litical group in the island, the coun-
Gil charged.
workers in the island support
the policy and administration Of
Tugwell," Gordiany said, because
he has shown more sympathy for
the working people in Puerto Rico
than any governor in 40 years since
civil government was established in
Puerto Rico" But that statement
appeared only in the Spanish press.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-06-12
ACCENT FOR VERONICA

Veronica Lake will speak with a
German accent throughout 1.-THE
Hour Before Dawn" in which she
plays a Nazi agent who married
Franchot Tone, so she can remain
in England.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-06-12
TOUGULOO COLLEGE
work.
Continued from Page ID

Continued from Page ID
The candidates for the high school
department were presented by Mrs.
Annie F. Davis, principal Of the
Tougaloo High school. All candi-
dates for degrees were presented
by Dean L. B. Faser. Presentation
of diplomas was made by Mr.. Will
liam H. Watkins, chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the college.
Several scholarship prizes were
awarded to students for outstanding
work during the year.
Tougaloo High school has in OPP
Grafton an accelerated plan, where
by students who are able to pass
certain qualifying tests and main
tain the required scholarship stand
ing may pass from the eleventh
grade to the freshman class. Under
this heading there were eight stu
dents who received their high
school diplomas after they had
completed their freshman work.
Despite abnormal conditions and
the absence of men the college will
carry on The spirit is high and all
are determined to keep the home
fires burning"
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-06-12

munity; news about girls (single)
he knows, doings of friends, who's
marrying whom, exploits of the
home team and other sport sevents
social doings, effects of the war on
the home town. Reminisce a little
about past events and places the
boys used to visit. Enclose clip
pings from the hometown paper.
DON'T TELL HIM:
l. Your troubles. He has troubles
of his own.
2. Your complaints. He can't do
anything about them.
8. About things you are deprived
Of. He can't supply them.
4. Doleful predictions about the
future. He's fighting for that flu
ture-now.
5. Unnecessary details about
financial troubles. If there are
things he should know about fam
lily finances, and he is in a position
to do something about the situa-
ton, tell him. But don't string it
out.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-06-12

Exotic Harmonies volunteered in a
body, but one failed to pass the
physical examination. Four were
accepted and they Immediately took
charge of the musical program in
the camp at New River.
Today, one of them, Cpl Ivan
Randolph Elmore, directs the large
choral group, and three others.
Privates Tom and Bill Branch.
brothers, and James w. Brown join
in on the harmonizing.
The choir doesn't hold the whole
spotlight at Montford Point, how
ever. Included among the many
other vocal and instrumental mu-
sicians on the post is Cpl Walker
Manley of Raleigh, n c. Corporal
Manley is not only the organist for
the Montford Point chapel, he is
also the OrganlSt Tor the large
chapel at the headquarters branch
of Camp Lejeune. In his spare time
he gives organ lessons to several
recruits at the marine base.
Before entering the service, Corp.
Manley was organist of the Chris
tan church of Raleigh and a dem
onstrator of the Hammond Organ
for the Stevens Music Company of
that city.
All of the boys can get together
on THE Halls of Montezuma," but
few of the old standbys of the
Exotic Harmonies make pretty good
singing, too.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-06-12

ton departments. 1t is to be grown
by horticulturist. Planting will
begin in July. The garden will be
located to the south of the main
entrance of the Free State Fair.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-06-12
Religion Is
Important
To Marines

Religion plays an important part
in the lives of the 1000 Negro
marine recruits now undergoing
training in the 51st Composite De-
tense Battalion base at Camp Le-
jeune, the mammoth marine train
ing reservation at New River, N. c.
Church services are held every
Sunday in the chapel of the all
Negro camp, affording the recruits
the same opportunities for religious
service which they enjoyed in civil
ian life.
Singing to the accompaniment of
the post organ, played by Cpl.
Walker Manley of Raleigh, N. c.,
and enjoying religious selections of
their own choir and glee club, the
recruits assist in the services and
often add spirituals and religious
songs of their own communities to
the worship.
Protestant and Catholic marines
worship in the same chapel. This
was accomplished through the in
stallation of a rotating pulpit.
AT present, the Montford Point
chapel is serving double purpose.
Until the ne wrecreation building
is completed, the chapel is serving
as the headquarters for the recrea-
tional program. Camp Lejeune has
its own baseball league and the
Negro camp has entered its team in
the league. League games are play
ed daily with doubleheaders on
Sunday afternoons. In addition, the
51st Composite Defense Battalion
has boxing team, a basketball
team and various other athletic
units.
When the new recreation build
ing is completed, the Montford
Point chapel will be devoted sole
ly to religious services.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-06-12
Mississippi Has
Large Increase in
|Gonorrhea Cases

Thirtytwo thousand fifty three
cases of gonorrhea were reported in
Mississippi in 1912, revealed DIR.
Paul T. Erickson of the State Board
Of Health today. Estimating an ac-
tual 100000 new cases last year, DR..
Erickson said hardly one-third of
the cases seek competent medical
attention and consequently many
cases are never reported to the
health department
Calling the disease the Great
Crippler," the physician blamed it
for large number of the surgical
operations for female trouble
Another vicious effect of the germ,
he said, is arthritis or rheumatism
produced in the joints. According
to DR.. Erickson half of the sterile
marriages as we'll as many one
child families are due to gonorrhea,
"sterility being produced by the de-
struction of the reproductive sys-
tenn in both sexes"
Still another frequent tragedy at
tributed by the venereal disease Of
ficer to gonorrhea is blindness, 40
per cent of which was due to this
cause alone until it became the
practice to instill silver nitrate in
the eyes of all new born babies"
''Of all conditions affecting man.
DR.. Erickson declared, "only mea-
sizes and the common cold are more
prevalent than gonorrhea. Because
of ignorance on the part of the pa
tient and the convenient avail
ability of quacks and so-called
remedies, many who suffer from
gonorrhea receive worthless treat
ment or none at ALL"
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-06-12

will have considerable less feed
this winter and next year for each
feed-consuming animal unit that
was available in the state last year.
THE national feed supply situa-
ton In relation to livestock num-
bers is obviously such as to pre-
clude the possibility of local farm
ers being able to buy the feed they
will need. The only safe way to
meet the feed supply problem is to
produce more feed on the farm.