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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
Coercion, Interference
With Workers
Rights Proven
By Federated Press

ASHIN GTON, Jan. g.
Thompson Products, Inc, headed
by Frederick C. Crawford whom
the National Association of Manu-
facturers placed in command of its
Lets lick labor first" program at
its recent convention, was told Jan.
A by the NLRB to end its company
union at its Bell, Calf, plant.
In June, 1887, when the United
Automobile Workers (CIO) was or
ganizing the underpaid workers, so
said the NLRB, the company's per-
sonnel director, Raymond S. Liv-
ingstone, went from his Cleveland
headquarters to the plant to inves-
tigate the discharge of several CIO
members, and found most employees
in the CIO.
So Acting General Manager c.
V. Dachtler asked Assistant Works
Manager Victor Kangas to have
some employe join the UAW and
report back on membership. Thus
Lewis A. Porter became a stooge
member.
Livingstone returned and on
July % asked Kangas if he could
trust any employe to start an in
side organization. Thereupon they
arranged jolly little dinner for
heads of departments and foremen,
and Livingstone told them that
Crawford would not stand for an
outside" labor organization.
He would close the plant if
either CIO or AFL succeeded in
organizing it, he told his dinner
party. Porter was suggested for
organizing the employees because
he had done what was called police
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
Melvin Schultz
Named President
Of Local II
To Complete
Unexpired Term
Of Walter Murphy

Melvin Schultz, recording secre-
tary of Local II for the past sew
eral years, was unanimously named
president of the Local by the or
ganization at its meeting of Jan. 3,
Mr.. Schultz will complete the
unexpired term of Walter Murphy
until the next regular election
which takes place in February. Mr..
Murphy has entered the army and
is temporarily stationed at Camp
Perry, Ohio.
Regional Director Richard Cos
ser spoke to the meeting and after
expressing many pertinent re-
marks about the future of the
Union, presented the gavel to
President Schultz who presided
over the remainder of the meeting.
For the time being, Mr.. Schultz
will combine the duties of both
president and recording secretary.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
Unions Ingenuity
Solves Meat
Shortage Problem
By Federated Press

INGLESIDE, Tex.-Local 316
Oil Workers Intl. Union (CIO), has
developed a program to meet the
meat shortage with a stock of 1886
rabbits. Local Pres. Henry w. Weir
says the project started six months
ago when 30 members purchased DO
breeding does.
"In 80 days we had an inventory
of 304 rabbits of various breeds
and colors. A checkup 21a months
later revealed the population had
grown to 584. Today we have S35
and our estimate for January will
bring us to a total of 2,010.
"Up to the present time we have
eaten approximately 600 rabbits
Counted in the totals) and in May
we expect to have well over 10000
including the hundreds that will
have been eaten by our members"
Weir said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
Reuther Blames Manpo,Uer Commission
Labor Press
Exemption
May Not Stick
Separate Committee
Still Not Formed
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE
labor press, generally exempted
from the initial War Production
Board order curtailing the use of
newsprint, can't rest peacefully
yet.
For the WPB is planning on a
number of supplemental orders set
ting up machinery to take care of
those not already covered in the
original order, Federated Press
learned here. The WPB itself made
no comment.
Intl. Rep. Thomas F. Lynch of
the init. Bro. of Bookbinders and
Assistants (AFL) was named Jan.
7 as assistant to WPB Director w.
G. Chandler to advise him in labor
matters.
But so far nothing has come of
the proposed separate committee
for labor, Negro, foreign language,
farm, religious, fraternal, trade
and technical newspapers which
Deputy Director E. w. Palmer of
WPB's Printing and Publishing di-
vision promised.
Palmer's promise was made Dec.
21to the labor press unit of the
Newspaper Guild of New York
(CIO). The Guild has Joined other
unions in protesting against lack
of labor representation in the WPB
committee which worked out the
original order.
And there has been no further
word Of a plan for a labor press
group to work out a voluntary re-
striction, which was announced by
the American Federation of Labor
Weekly News Service here Dec. Il.
AS it stands the order exempts
all labor papers of eight pages or
less or all those using less than
$4,000 tons of newsprint a year.
This includes all but one or two of
the nations labor papers, and ap-
peals for these will be reviewed by
the board.
But unless labor insists on the
voluntary restriction plan, nothing
may come of all earlier efforts to
get labor representation and labor
press representation except Lynch's
appointment to the advisory post,
labor press representatives said
here.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15

first editorial reaction in labor
newspapers to the new rationing
announcement. Typical comments
follow:
LABOR HERALD, California
CIO: "The national food admins
tration and the 0PA have made a
gesture in the direction of the
overall democratic rationing of es-
sential and scarce commodities :. T..
but that gesture is disastrously
late, incomplete and timid."
New York TRADE UNION
RECORD, AFL: Ration all foods
and fix prices so that everyone is
able to get his share of the neces-
sary food products"
CIO NEWS: "The CI0 whole
heartedly supports all steps for the
extension of rationing :. It's
only complaint is that these steps
are still so small and wavering."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
'DeVi|biss Receives Army-Navy e"
Large Crowd
Cheers Award
Management and Union Heads
Accept Flag and Pins

Reminding than 1900 employees and friends of the
DeVibss Co.. that while Russia has pushed back the Ger
Russia the Nazs still deep in Russian territory
and the far from won, 1t. Col T. H. Eckhoff pre-
sented the ArmyNavy "E" award to the DeVbiss Co., in
coorfu ceremonies at the companys Lagrange ST. Plant
Monday Jan. II.
Col Eickhof chief of the Cleveland Ordinance District
expressed his satisfaction with the fine efforts being made
by the DeVbiss Co.. in changing from peace to
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
Murray Honored
By College
IN Federated Press

WINDSOR, Ont.-CIO president
Philip Murray, characterized as an
Outstanding lay exponent of Chris
tian ideals" has been chosen as the
1943 recipient of the Christian Gull
ture Award presented annually by
Assumption College.
Murray was praised for his
"statesmanlike qualities" and a
"rare degree of virtues of pru-
dence, justice, temperance and for
titude." He will receive the award
Jan. "a
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
Heads Central
Cooperative Wholesale
By Federated Press

CHICAGO-Laurie L. Lehtin,
until recently head of the Auditing
Service of the Central Cooperative
Wholesale, has been chosen man
ager of Central States Coopera-
tives with headquarters in Chi
cago. Central States serves about
100 consumer cooperates in Ohio,
Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
Plan nForLabor
Outlined BY
JAW Official
Victor Reuther Tells Local II
Of Problems Facing Labor
During and After War

eve must look beyond the confines of shop
problems"
These words keynoted the talk made by Victor Reuher
of Detroit assistant director of the UAWCIO War Policy
Division to the executive committeeman and shop stewards
of Local at their regular meeting Monday Jan II the
Local IL hall.
Mr.. Reuther outlined the problems arising out of the
and told how of them had been oreseen by the
UAW and program urged to meet them long before Pearl
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
Don't Forget

Official deadIine for the
initial tire inspection on all
"A" cards, required by OPA
regulations, will be March
81. If you have not already
done so, you had better go at
your earliest possible con.
venience to an official tire in
spection station and comply
with the regulations.
Inspectors may charge up
to 25 cents per vehicle if tires
can be checked without being
dismOunted; otherwise up to
so cents
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
Whittier Agriculture
n Federafed Pres!

DENVER = whittier American
Agriculture" a radio program
sponsored by the National Farm
ers Union, will be heard for the
first time Jan. 10 between $50
and 5:45 p. m. Central War
Time) over the Mutual Network.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
bulletin

CertificatiOn of the Swartz-
baugh case will be made imme-
diately to the War Labor Board
by the United States Cancellation
Service upon refusal of the
Swartzb augh Manufacturing
Company's president, Charles E.
Swartzbaugh, to consider retro
active phases of the contract as
previously agreed by Mr.. Swartz-
baugh's own signature.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15

>rbOr.
sve,s1 said in reference to the
SaniaJolems growing out of the
war, "The WPB, Manpower Com
mission, NLRB, WLB and many
other governmental agencies are
changing your lives every day.
They are telling you how much you
must produce, how much gas and
oil you may use, how much sugar
and coffee you may use, and later
on, what kind and how many
clothes you may buy"
Favors RatiOning
"But," continued Mr.. Reuther,
1--WE of the UAW are in favor of
rationing. Not the inefficient,
bungling rationing which has been
going on, but the kind which demo-
cratically distributes the COM
modities of the country, so the
worker gets his fair share of them,
and the fellow who lives in
swanky part of town doesn't pos
sess an unfair advantage"
Despite rationing," said Reuth-
er, "there are still millions of work.
ers-I repeat it, millions, who do
not receive sufficient income to Sc
cure an adequate living and proper
food for themselves and their fam
lilies. What good are rationing
stamps in books if the workers do
not have enough money to buy
the things which the rationing
books allow them to have Z"
Denounces Labor Hoarders
Mr.. Reuther was uncompromis-
ing in his condemnation of indus
tries which hoard labor or pirate
it and scathingly denounced the
false publicity which sought to
make it appear that the American
worker is allowed to work only 40
hours weekly.
He said the purpose of the agi-
tation for the 48-hour work week
was to influence Congress to pass
a restrictive law forcing men to
stay on their jobs and to work AZ
hours at straight pay.
"The willingness of UAW work
ers to sacrifice is as great as any,"
he said, "but if the workers are
forced to submit to DEGREES which
bungle the job, the result will not
be greater efficiency, but de-
moralization of the workers. 1t is
better to have the voluntary CO.
operation of the workers than to
earn their resentment by laws too
quickly passed or ill-considered."
Mr.. Reuther charged that at
tempts were being made to make
the workers appear as slackers and
then accused some of the Detroit
manufacturers of boarding labor.
dodge truck workers are aver
aging 381a hours week." said Mr..
Reuther, "when bombers are so
urgently needed and we have the
current needs filled for trucks, why
not transfer some of the truck
workers to bomber production
He advocated the correction of
the evil of holding men to their
jobs where they are not always
employed at their top skill and
working less than 40 hours per
week saying, "we should force in
dustry to give workers full-time
work at their highest skill or re-
lease them to war industries where
s--s could be so employed"
Government
p,;Tr. Reuther charged that the
government has made it difficult
to transfer workers because of the
lack of a wage stabilization de-
cree. He said, Nobody wants to
~. -
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
Lobor Papers Hail New Ra+ioning
Order, Wont II Extended
IN Federafed PrEs

Labor both AFL and CIo believe the ratonng OF
canned goods and due weeks in the right dre
n but extensive raonng required Loudest critics OF
aonng deat and fifth cumnists the labor asserts
This obtained by Federated Press in of the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15

time production and said, I'VE
cannot all be on the firing
lines, but we can and must do
our part to see to it that the
men on the lines receive the
materials Of war"
He said that while the United
Nations were pushing back the
Axis forces on all fronts that great
distances in the Pacific were ham
dicaps which would require time
and many lives to overcome and
said that the only way to defeat
Japan was to 90 right into that
country and defeat it on its own
ground.
Allen Gutchess Accepts
Allen Gutchess, president Of the
DeVilbiss Co., accepted the flag on
behalf Of the company and its en-
ployes. He spoke of the work of the
company to make the change-over
from peace to war production and
expressed his hope and belief that
the war would be won and that
the employees of the company would
continue their efforts in the future
as they had in the past to do their
part in winning it.
Following the acceptance Of the
flag, color guard from the naval
armory raised the emblem on the
flagpole amid the cheers Of the
assembly.
Navy. Presents Pins
Acting for the under-secretary Of
War, 1t. c. w. Nisula, U. S. Navy,
after words of praise or the COM
pany and its employees presented
the pins which will be worn by all
workers Of the DeVilbiss plant.
John w. Snider, vice-chairman
of the DeVilbiss Unit, UAW-CIO,
accepted the pins on behalf of the
union and pledged the organization
to a continuance of its all-out ef-
forts to aid production for the de-
feat of the enemy.
Also presented with pins for spe-
cial service and many years with
the company were Earl Curter.
Walter Conklin and Blanche Reid.
Miss Reid was presented with a
large bouquet of roses by her fell
low-workers.
The ceremonies were ended with
the singing of America by the en-
tire audience.
Grove Patterson, editor of the
Toledo Blade, presided over the
meeting as chairman and intro
duced the various speakers.
Appropriate music for the oc-
casion was furnished by the Devil
bliss High School orchestra under
direction of Matilda Burns, Direc-
tor.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
OPA Rent Control
Saves Nation $500. 600. 900
In & Months
Big Item in Stabilizing
National Economy
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON JAM THE control has escaped its
proper proportion item abzng economy Price
Henderson said conference JAM which
necessarily before retiring office.
In
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15
Murray To Broadcast

WASHINGTON, - (FP) -
CIO President Philip Murray
will speak over a nationwide
CHS hookup at 1915 p. m.
EWT January 19, the CIO an
nounced here. He will discuss
the CIO legislative program.
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-15

'Ds;1r. Reuther charged that the
government has made it difficult
to transfer workers because of the
lack of a wage stabilization de-
cree. He said, Nobody wants to
Evening star., 1943-07-12

Of their political or economic views, but
because Of their integrity and knowledge
and experience in the law They should
be appointed for life and paid good
salaries. and thus be removed from poll
tics.
In the settlement of disputes three
great elementary groups should be con-
sidered-the workingmen. the owners
and the public. Other working groups
also should be considered. 1t manifestly
would be unfair to grant wage increases
to a group Of men the level of whose
wages already is on par with or greater
than the wage levels Of other working
men OF like skills in other industries
That would place them in q preferred
position and would take undue advan-
tage of others whose skill is as great as
theirs.
1t also should be borne in mind that
every wage increase is paid for, not BY
the employer, but ultimately by the pub
lie. Therefore the interests of the public
should be considered in reviewing any
request for wage adjustment or any
other procedure that would increase the
cost to the public. Thus industrial and
economic peace would be insured, and
stability maintained In our economic
life. sRR
Evening star., 1943-07-12

methods In the treatment of
wounds, especially burns. Men who
few years ago would have been
doomed to die in agony were being
restored to health in an incredibly
short time. Not long ago the ONCE
of War Information made available
the complete statistics showing that
ninety-seven per cent Of the men
wounded had survived, with only
nine-tenths of one per cent invalided
out of the service.
As this war progresses compar-
able chapters in this thrilling story
Of the progress in medical knowledge
and skill are being written all over
the world. A few days ago Major
General Norman Thomas Kirk, Sur
geon General of the Army, disclosed
that while casualties from illness
exceeded casualties from wounds in
the ratio OF two to one, the United
States Army today has the lowest
death rate from disease Of any army
In history.
Dysentery, typhus and yellow fever,
plaques that have taken such grim
tolls in all former wars. are prac-
tically nonexiStent in the American
Army today by reason of the efficacy
Of vaccination and proper sanitation.
Malaria has been twice as potent a
foe as the japanese In the South
Pacific, striking two men for every
one wounded in combat. Yet, of the
thousands OF its victims, only sixteen
deaths were reported by the Surgeon
General. Atabrine is proving almost
as effective as quinine, but swamps
also are being drained, living quar-
ters screened and every precaution
taken, wherever possible. to eliminate
the source Of infection.
Accompanying this most destruc-
tive of all wars are discoveries of
new methods Of preserving human
life, tested In laboratories never
wanting in abundant material for
new experiment. One of the most
ironical of all anomalies is the prog
ress In the science of living that
seems to keep abreast of perfection
in the science of dealing death.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Beginning Of End

If one may Judge from the COM
ments of the men who are in the
best position to know the facts. the
war Is progressing favorably for the
United Nations.
Speaking in London last November,
following the rout of Rommel's AZ
rika Korps, Prime Minister Churchill
sounded note of optimism-guarded
but nonetheless optimistic. Nov,
this is not the end" he said. 1T
is not even the beginning of the
end. But 1t is, perhaps, the end Of
the beginning"
Last Friday night, at a dinner for
General Giraud, President Roosevelt
felt that the outlook had frightened
sufficiently to justify more hopeful
appraisal. He was speaking to his
guests just after receiving word OF
the Allied landings on Sicily, and
this was his comment: Il think you
can almost say that this action to-
night Is the beginning of the end"
1t is not unlikely that this estimate
OF the military situation was re-
ceived with concern in some quarters.
For it came on the heels of what has
been described as a serious slump
in this country's military produc-
ton, and just after Undersecretary
OF War Patterson and General Som
ervell had cautioned against the
dangers Of complacency and undue
optimism. It is to be presumed that
the President, in making his state
ment, gave consideration to this atti-
tude of our military leaders, but felt
that the outlook nevertheless was
bright enough to take a somewhat
more hopeful view of the future than
that expressed by Mr.. Churchill eight
months ago.
Certainly, we have come a long
way in those eight months. The Axis
grip on Africa has been broken and
the task of clearing the Mediter-
ranean is we'll under way. The men,
ace Of the Nazi submarines seems
to have been taken we'll in hand.
There is heavy fighting in Russia,
but fears that the Red Army might
be vanquished have all but disap-
peared. And in the Pacific the Jap
anese are being slowly pushed back
from their outermost bases, while
each week brings new evidence that
their power on the sea and in the
air is being gradually whitfield down.
Considering these factors in their
entirety. and balancing them against
the conditions which prevailed year
ago, it seems not unreasonable to
believe that this, in fact, Is the be-
ginning of the end. Yet it would be
a costly blunder not to make a proper
distinction between the beginning
and the end, to fail to understand
that there is a long, hard road to be
Travelled before we come to the day
of victory. A great deal Of bitter
fighting remains to be done, and
many lives will be lost, before the
last shot of this war Is fired.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
GeIu

So long as the United States sur
wives, the name of Celia will have a
special meaning for its people. Yet
less than a hundred hours ago not
one American in ten thousand ever
had heard of the town which now
seems to be the principal target of
the Allied movement against Sicily.
The ancients, however, knew Celia
we'll enough. It was founded, &C
cording to tradition, by Cretan and
Rhodian colonists in 691 BIC. The
settlement attained its most notable
prosperity under Hippocrates be-
tween 492 and 485. He was sue
ceeded by Gelon, who transferred
his government to Syracuse. taking
half the population with him and
leaving half to be ruled by his
brother Heron. The city subse-
quently was abandoned altogether
by order of Dionysius, rebuilt and
refortified by Timoleon and again
deserted by command of Phintias of
Agrigentum. Agathocles massacred
four thousand of the residents in
311 and the Mamertines wrecked the
place about 281.
When Augustus was emperor, the
site was reported mot inhabited;
but Gela's children loved their old
home sufficiently to wish to be called
Gelenses or Geloi in their exile. A
legend tells that it was in the neigh
borhood of the old pioneer city that
Aeschylus, the Attic poet and drama
tist, accidentally was killed in 1856.
Relics of his time still are extant
along the Caltanisetta shore. Yankee
soldiers will see the remains of a
Doric temple rising above the open
roadstead. The modern town stands
on a sandhill with fertile plain
behind it, stretching inland. Ac-
cording to the census of 1881, the
town had thirty thousand inhabit-
ants. A little stream flows to the
sea between the dunes. The same
small river probably was there when
the Carthaginians under Hamilcar
crossed from Africa in 405 following
the maritime route by which the
United Nations expedition crossed on
July 10, 1913.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Old Locust Tree
(Farragut SQuare.)

Ho,U many years haze your branches
spilled their fragrance? ',c
Ho,D many ,Dinters has beauty slept
at your heart?
Hou many springs hare springs
lght-hearted uagrants "a
Flocked to your breast as tount
from ,ohtch song ,oould start?
Under your hoper-flled arms, hoa1n
many hare rested, isGn
Drinking the ,oine OF the spirit, as
drink no,o,
Pledging allegiance dnew to the old
and tested, ,so,
Where brimming chalice Is
offered by erery bough7 "a.
Year after year, no matter tohdt
storms haze shaken, s,,y
What icy hands haze struck to
your pery core, ...43
You haze been ready, ,ohen spring
has hidden you ,oaken, 'H''
70 hold your cup to the thirsting'
lips, as before.
nc a.
NotD, ,ohen the phole ,porld rocks on
its old foundation, .f"f
Where shall. the people turn N
their desperate need? d"
May this one green isle be left In thu
desoldtton
Where such as you may offer them
bedutys need. 'e''
ANNA M. PR1EsTLEY,a, 4,