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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30

reversed. Really, it's simple as that.
WHAT ABOUT McNUTT7
All Paul V. McNutt, War Msnpower Commits
enzd Washington sometimes affectonatey known as
the Hitler Indiana Dictator other titles which
cannot be printed in a respectable labor newspaper.
has taken nnumeable occasions by
soap labor leaders, rabbe liberals radicals and
plain workers all of which has bearing the present article
people might be accused of being bgoted
So we go Mr. McNus kind of people who writes
yndaed articles for the daily for unbiased opinion of the
War Manpower Director.
RULES BY DICTATION
Ray Tucker who writes for string newspapers
April "a wrote MNutts freezing 27OOOOOO jobs
prefers by dctaon rather than by leg
saton opinion of the capitals leading lawyers
According who ascribes the opinion to
Washington attorneys but probably giving his
by here vestge of statutory authority for such an
They doubt would hold test before the Supreme Court
McNUTT DEFENDS POSITION
points that Commissioner McNu defended
position by saying that his right derived from the general
emergency powers conferred by Congress- but and this important
he could cite the specific provision Tucker adds nobody else
could either.
McNu with CIo President Philip
Murray AFL President Wm Green although neither of them
had agreed to the ukase beforehand 1t made to by
McNutt that they had given the decree their blessing
THE REACTION
So dsmissing Tucker thanks for having put the
honest label of dcaO the McNut freezing ORDER let
view the rest of the situation it stands at the moment
AS usual the United Auto Workers who brought the
McNut dictatorial decree head.
Cleveland meeting week. the UAWCo executive
board the bull by the called the MNutt ukase by its
right refused be impressed by its content and then went
the whole hog by calling all UAWCIO members serving
and regional War Manpower Committees to resign,
Following the UAWCO executive boards lead all UAW-CIO
members throughout the have resigned from War Mnpowe
Commission and regional advisory committee cud
where Richard Melvin Schultz
Russell all UAW-CIo members, resigned.
VIEWING WITH ALARM
And to return to the original text of this preachment it
that the Outs have made unpleasant for the ns by telling
the truth about the ns McNutt
fact the UAWCO doesn't Ray Tucker tell them what the
They know that he
did tell simply confirms the the CO taken
claim that be that simply preudiced
behalf
In the end will be discovered that labor organizations
made of intelligent united protecting
interests from the interests think Paul "
swell guy because he makes it tough for Labor
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30
Spicer Vote

If the management of the Spicer Co.
takes the no strike vote of the workers in
its plant TO mean the case is closed, il had
better take another thought on the matter.
Inequalities and injustices done EN-
ployes under the stress of war while hid
ing behind the War Labor Board and War
ManpOwer Commission is definitely not a
way to win war or prevent men from ex-
pressing their resentment in the only way
they know how to express it; by revolving
against those who torment them.
Very likely the only reason why the
Spicer employees voted against the strike
was their Difference to the UAW-CIO
pledge of no strikes for the duration, which
was democratically arrived at during the
last UAW convention.
If the Spicer Go. takes the vote to
mean anything but loyalty of the Union
to its own International il will be making
a grave mistake, for this case will never
be closed until justice is done, and the
wrongs done the workers righted. Eventu.
ally, justice shall be done, and when that
day comes, ii will not be the workers who
win rue the day.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30

Today's press paints picture
of a typical worker as follows;
a petty capitalist, receiving ex-
orbitant wages for doing the
job; Staying away from work
and striking whenever he pleases.
Profits of management are
hidden by comparing profits of
1912 with 1s41. It's like compar-
ing Gargantu awith an elephant
and concluding Gargantua is
Small pumpkins.
To give the devil his due, we
must admit that 1941-42 profits
were lower than those OF 1928
go, and the later years were good
ones for the profit takens. How
ever, the net income for corpora
tions after payment of taxes is
estimated at 1900 million dollars
for 1912 which, when looked at
in the light of the "sacrificial at
titude' of management isn't hard
to take.
Profits of all United States
corporations were 1850 higher
in 1912 than in 1888, the year
before the war started, and of
course, before management be-
gan to make such "noble" sacri-
fices for the war effort. Net
profits were 74To higher in 1912
than in 1888, and 749o higher
than in 1887 when the so-called
recession" had set in,
These figures are a story in
themselves, a story from which
the press SHES away. Yet, we
might add a few reasons why
profits are so high. The demand
for goods is greater than the
supply, hence profits are great
because prices are high. Cor
poration taxes are still not suf-
ficient to siphon off the surplus
Of profits, and instead of making
the profiteers pay their share,
income tax exemptions are low
cred so the poor will pay the
bill.
When we see a group of
profit-takers lamenting because
Of the hardship of war and weep
ing over their sacrifices, let's
remind them that the only sacri-
flee they have made was that of
sacrificing their business losses.
Fred Gareau,
Willys-Overland.
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SerUiCenlen'S
Letters
He Remembers

Dear Dick:
| received my second box to-
day and was very happy that my
fellow workers are still thinking
of us boys in the service. can't
thank you enough.
When / was still working, l
didn't think what it meant when
/ put my money in the collection
for the boys; but now | know
what it means to one when he
is away from home.
| was glad when / read in the
TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL
that the Willys plant had been
awarded an Army-Navy "E".
am in the Maintenance Bat
talon and we have the famous
Jeep. Everything they say about
it is true, l know. The various
parts | worked on see on the
equipment we have. | am always
telling the rest of the boys /
helped make it. Again extending
my heartiest thanks for the box,
and wishing some of the boys
from my old department would
write, am
Sincerely yours,
Joe Oualka-322212
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30

Won were serving in Uncle SANS Army at a salary
of fifty dollars per month, less expenses, and
there was a eech located within the camp boun-
daries who charged you the exhorbtant sum Of
twenty-eght cents for quart of milk!
Dishng out few more spades, let me say that
while you and | hold no animosity toward those
who migrate northward to escape slave wages by
working in our plants, there millions of gnor-
ant people who have never buried General Lees
hatchet.
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
Southern hospitality is somewhere over the
rainbow, keeping company with chivalry and the
other lost arts, talents and precious qualities of
bygone era. Let us hope that our erstwhle South
ern friends, when making visit to the old home
stead, inform their ilustrious forebears that the
North isn't mad at them even if they are mad at
the North
soldier informed me this morning that in the
city of Memphis one of the local shopkeepers
charged him one dollar for Army Air Corps in
sigma which retailed at two-for-f -ffty-fve cents at
Maxwell Field, Alabama. Perhaps we shouldn't
mention this, but there is another discrepancy in
the Memphis businessman's ceiling" price. Gar
rison caps which sell for $2.75 at the Post Ex-
change in camp, bring the handsome return of
$500 to this ingenious bandit.
In Camp Grant, Illinois, the Post Exchange is
closed during much of the time when the soldiers
are in need for it. That's the Army's business,
but there is storekeeper who finds it profitable
to remain open from 500 A. M. to midnight, and
his place of business is located practically the
doorstep of the Induction Center and the Military
Reserve Training Center Those who are quaran-
tined are automatically forced to deal with him.
1t is he who charges twenty-eight cents for a
quart of milk. Regular penny postcards are three
for ten cents.
Rockford Illinois, is the boomtown where Camp
Grant men are to be found on week ends. Ham,
burger sandwiches in this fair city sell for eigh-
teen and twenty cents-excepting Saturdays
when the soldiers are in town. n ]
It's the same story in hundreds of other Can Z
Towns" This is what Army men are writing in
letters. Wake up, Mr.. America and tell your
Government what you think about this. They CAN
do something about it, Let's put stop to this
sort of thing before the Wars over. The men
aren't fighting for the preservation of profiteer-
ing!
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30

This viewing of the ms by the OUTS, al
ways with alarm, is often highly productive, for
the OUTS are constantly striving to uncover the
faults and COMMISSIONS and commissions of the
ms, and then, having discovered them, proceed
to tell the cockeyed world about them in the news
papers, over the radio on street corners. in cock
tail bars or wherever they can get somebody to
listen to them.
When the OUTS get enough voters to join
them in "vIewing the ms with alarm" the ms,
who have in the meantime been pointing with
pride get booted out of office and the process is
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tional convention which sets the
policy for the International as
we'll as Local bodies, down to
the Units of the Locals, our
deliberations are democratic.
WE RULE OURSELVES
In our choice of officers
of our Units, Locals and Inter
national Union, as we'll as the
control which the workers exer-
else over their officers, we are
democratic. No officer sets the
policies of any one of thesa
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iect merits further discussion.
Let's let spade be spade.
Greed, as we have said, is uni
versal. Ethics and morals are
things we read and hear about,
but seldom see. But the big
ioker-you guessed it-n,orale.
MORALE
When a soldier has morale" !"
it means that he is in good
spirits. This isn't Webster's
definition, but you get the idea
uo,,, ,rn,,ld unllr morale he if
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claim of the unconstitutional nature
of the McNutt decree lies in the
fact that workers may refuse to
work for an employer and is def
initely declared in the Constitu-
tion. This is the one outstanding
right that makes a difference be-
tween free American labor and the
slave labor of Germany and other
European countries.
WAR POWERS GREAT
Despite the great war power of
the government, there can be no
legal justification in time of war
for setting aside our fundamental
rights under the Constitution, or
which commits acts forbidden by it.
This provision of the Constitu-
tion forbidding setting aside the
rights of the workers cannot be
justified by the war manpower
commissioner under any emergency
either approved by Congress or
otherwise, and in his action, Com
missioner McNutt is definitely out
of order.
1t is my hope that the case will
either be modified by Commissioner
McNutt recalling his order, or that
the case be brought before the Su-
preme court for a decision.
Certainly no excuse can be found
to Justify the freeze order not
even a war, which in the final an
alysis cannot be won by enslaving
American workers to produce ma
terials of war with which to free
the enslaved peoples in Europe.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30

erations of April 5. Since Bolivia
was almost the exclusive source
of tin and tungsten for the U. s.,
it felt that "the best contribution
which the country could make to
the Allied cause would be dec
laration of a state of war, and the
consequent mobilization of man
power, including the workers in
the mines, which would insure an
increased and uninterrupted pro-
duction of such strategic materi-
ais"
NO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
In cold language, the commits
sion tells of the absence of "free
association and collective bargain
ing" everywhere, and you think
of the workers killed when a strike
took place in the mines last fall
after the u. S. raised prices for
tin and tungsten and the owners
just pocketed he raise.
1--WE reject the argument ad-
vanced in some quarters" the COM
mission wrote, and we thought of
u. S. Ambassador Pierre de Boal,
rumored to have intervened with
the Bolivian government on behalf
of the mine owners, "that the low
productivity of Bolivian workers
accounts fully for the low wages
they generally receive and the
bare subsistence level on which
so many Of them have to exist.
USING CHILD LABOR
Factories in La Paz revealed
"promiscuous use of child labor"
a frequent lack of safety provi-
sions, and no medical facilities ex-
cept first aid treatment. Haciendas
visited showed "a farm tenancy
little short of feudal serfdom."
Farm tenants live in little nom
descript houses they build them
selves, can't get medical care even
if they can pay for it, get little
or no cash wages and have no
schools for their children.
In the smaller mines conditions
were "deplorable," child labor laws
violated freely If the government
established a minimum wage, and
enforced it, even were it only
enough to cover "the barest re-
quirements of a decent standard of
living" it would benefit a large
part Of the low-paid miners, the
commission found.
Many of the larger companies
have started building clean and
comfortable dwellings, furnishing
free medical care, free services for
the women during pregnancy and
at childbirth and general medical
treatment, disqualification and pri-
mary schools.
But much of the housing for
workers even in larger mines "con-
sists of miserable, dark, unhealth-
ful, one-room novels, unfit for hui
man habitation." Even the most
rudimentary sanitary facilities
were non-existent.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30
RED SCARE

The Texas legislature, from
which emanates the worst of anti
labor laws, is up in arms because
the University of Texas has spent
$4,000 on rare books.
And horror of horrors! Half of
the money was spent on manu-
scripts of two dangerous English
radicals Percy Shelley (born
1892, died 1927 and Lord Byron
(born 1888, died 1924.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30
What Price Justice

Equality of sacrifice asked for by the
workers at the outset of the war becomes
mockery in the light of the unjust treat
ment accorded labor by the War Labor
Board, the War Manpower Commission, the
office of Price Administration, Congress
and the recent presidential hold the line"
executive order.
Where is the equality of sacrifice when
the salaries paid management have, in
many instances doubled since 1910, while
the workers wages are held within the
rigid confines of the Little Steel 15 per
cent formula.
Where is the equality of sacrifice when
congress passed legislation multiplying the
presidential executive order limiting in
comes to $4,000 annually, while the 'hOld
the line" executive order freezes wages,
including unjust differentials?
Where is the equality of sacrifice when
freezing is applied to wages but not to
prices which continue to rise?
Where is the equality of sacrifice when
WMC Director McNutt interprets the
"hOld the line" executive order to mean
that industry shall have greater repre-
sentatiOn on the National Management
Labor Policy Committee than Labor?
All of these acts are supposed to be
arrived at in the name of patriotism, in
devotion to the war effort and victory, to
stabilize labor and economic conditions and
prevent initiation.
None of these acts have justice behind
them. All of them work hardship and
injustice on the workers, who see in them
the embodiment of the very things against
which we fight.
Regardless of the desirability Of the
end which the inequalities and injustices
seek, the means does not Justify the end.
No price is too great to pay for justice,
and the workers want justice above all
things.
Resentment is growing, because men
cannot be content with injustice. Work
ers cannot be content to make sacrifices,
when selfishness and hatred of their kind
are so obvious and evident on every hand.
Labor needs a new deal if it is to con-
tinue to unselfishly go on making sacri-
fices which will increase, rather than de-
crease as the war continues. Labor will
make these sacrifices as long as those who
control industry show the same patriotic
devotion to the cause.
Labor wants to have share in the war,
in the peace and the victory, and unless
justice is soon forthcoming, the future is
in doubt, and victory turks in the shadows
to be grasped only when true equality of
sacrifice becomes reality, and not an
ideal of the workers to be shattered upon
hard rocks of reality.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30
Washington
Scene
By VIRGINIA GARDNER
SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE

WASHINGTON (FP)-Since the
novel declaration Of war on the
Axis by Bolivia, admittedly made
in order to inaugurate unprecedent-
ed discipline over labor, the report
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jobs.
C o m p e t e mt
w q s h i n & =
t on attorneys
have called the
job freeze order
unconstitutional,
and labor lead
ers throughout
the country con-
C ur in t h eir
opinion.
PaSiS fop the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30

of the American
section of a joint
C o m mission on
working condi-
tions in Bolivia
assumes special
significance.
The Bolivian
Embassy h e e
commented on
the Bolivian Ma
tion&l Defense e
- ~
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30
LITTLE LUTHER

"Well never win the war so long
as that man in the White House
insists upon putting social reform
ahead of everything else" Mr.. Dill
worth fumed from behind the eve-
ming Gazette editorial page.
what reformer are you talking
about, Father?" Little Luther
asked.
This business of ordering a
roll-back of prices. He leaves
wages alone and strikes a blow at
the very foundation of private en-
terprise. In fact, he is defying the
laws of man and nature by trying
to bring prices down."
Isn't it a law of nature that
what goes up must come DOWN."
Profits and prices are different,
my boy, and this fellow Roosevelt
is inviting disaster when he tinkers
with them."
"Your mother, my boy, is like
Roosevelt. She won't leave these
things to good, sound businessmen,
the kind of men that Prentiss
Brown brought into oPA to do
away with the crackpot theor-
lists"
"You mean sound men like Lou
Maxon who sold sandwiches filled
with maggots to war workers and
that fellow Gerber who sells wormy
baby food?"
"The worm will turn one of these
days, my boy, and when it does
those crackpots in Washington VIII
find out that business is still run
ming this country"
"Even if they have to put Hitler
in the White House?"
The Office of Price Administra-
ton evidently believes you catch
moro flies with vinegar than honey
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30
It's
Unconstitutional
BY Charles Ballard,
Chairman, W..O. Unit.
M'NUTT ACTS

M'NUTT ACTS
No sooner had the last presiden-
tial executive 'fhold the line" order
been issued than War Manpower
Commissioner McNutt acted to
freeze 27,0O0,000 workers to their
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30
Editors Mail

Note: Please hold gour letters
to 500 words preferably less
1Uhen writing letters to the
editor.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30
What's NetU?
By EDWARD J. DUCK,
Educational Director, Local II. UAW-Clo
HELLO, SUCKER!

HELLO, SUCKER!
Two weeks ago we mentioned something about
profiteering in boomtowns located the army
camps We have received quite number of COM
oents on this particular item and believe this SUBJ
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30
It's News To Me y 2.ss,5 @; J.
VIEWING AND POINTING

said "politc is good thing because po-
liica rivals always tell the truth about each other
Have when politicians get booted
out Of office They the ms with alarm
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30
PLAYING HOCKEY

Now that the hullaballoo over
sbsenteeism has quieted down, it
is evident that the only thing alb
sent from the front pages during
that hysterical campaign was
The TRUTH
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30
Our Democratic Union
BY Melvin Schultz, President Local IL, UAW'ClO
IS DEMOCRACY?
Democracy is defined

Within the meaning Of this definition, u
history of the UAWC CIO proves that ours is in
deed a democratic union.
In all our interunion policies, from the ma
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-30

The Office of Price Administra-
ton evidently believes you catch
more flies with vinegar than honey.
1t cries for labor cooperation and
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then appoints an anti-union lawyer
as chief counsel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-30
CURTIN IN FAVOR
 OF USING COURSE
War Workers May Be Given Opportunity of
 Playing Until Fall

Despite the fact that the munich pal golf course is being operated at financial loss, Park Supt. James J. Curtin will, recommend that op- erations be continued for the bene- fit of war workers who are great ly in need of such recreation. MT. Curtin will mAke his plea at this afternoons meeting of the park board.
 The golf course has operated throughout the summer at a loss due to the ban on pleasure driving and the lack of other transportation to the course - the expenditures being greater than the receipts in many cases, he added.
 T believe the park board will have the same plan, since it too re- alizes that the course furnishes recreation needed by wark workers feel that it should not be closed until the end of the normal sea- son, even if it does lose money as a boost to the morale of the war workers in this area"
 At the present time many of the expenses are being met with the surplus funds that the park board has been able to accumulate during the more thriving seasons of the past, said MT. Curtin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-30
REPUBLICANS IN PRIMARY FIGHT
Opposition to Hand=Picked Candidates Looms !; Kear- ney Must Fight

There will be 40 hand out" as far as the 1943 Republican nomina- tions are concerned and if anyone desires thg honor of being the partyis standard bearer in the ap- preaching city elections, he will have to fight for 1t.
 In brief this was the ultimatum issued today by number of active workers in the ranks of the local Republicans. It Is also the hand writing on the wall that if anyone is goin gto challenge Mortimer Gall wins announced intentions of seek ing the mayoralty nomination a primary battle will be on.
 MT. Calvin has formally announc- ed his candidacy. It has been strongly hinted that a number of leaders are inclir ~1 to favor Con- missioner John kearney of the board of education and have been making silent moves to eliminate any competition.
 There will be a meeting tonight of Galvins workers and also of a large number of admirers of former Mayor Patrick Perriello. To make certain that certain leaders will not have any opportunity of stealing the nomination from them there will be a "gentleman's agreement" reached tonight whereby the Calvin forces and the Perriello contingent will be prepared for a battle. It will be the field then against the leaders spon- soring MT Kearney.
 It is now generally conceded that there will be sizzling primary among Republicans as well as Dem- ocrats and that the 1943 election will be one of the hottest" in many years.