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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05

Again Mr.. Howard, &C.. Strikes
by workers now are. -"
Only God and mother know how
tough the depression was. Remem-
ber the time | had the only first
fight of my life-when the guy
at relief headquarters insisted that
! got our allotment of groceries
the day before when | hadn't, and
called me a chiseler. | couldn't
control myself and hit him. Almost
got the family in trouble then.
And how the tears streamed down
Mothers face when the W.P.A.
notice came telling me to report
for work. Yeah, ! remember.
A hurried whisper from Mr..
Howard, "Perk up their morale,
son. I'll introduce you now"
l heard the cheers and my
Adams apple choked me up, These
we're my kind of people, my
friends, the mothers and fathers
and brothers and sisters of my
buddies. What in the hell do they
mean hurting soldier morale-Mrs.
Manko? Pop Williams ~.
CROSSED UP
"Fellow workers, you and l are
fighting one fight. Ny job some
times isn't as pleasant as yours,
but still we are part of the same
scrap. | fight the enemy abroad
that he will not come here and
make us slaves. While | am away,
you must continue the good battle
at home, the battle to keep Amer
lea free, liberal and in the hands
of the common people. We want
you to see to it that when this is
over, us boys come back to jobs,
to fair wages, to free and honest
government Mr.. Howard told me
to perk up your morale. Well, this
is it.
"Once / heard one of my teach
ers say that freedom wasn't some
thing that once you got your hands
on you always had. Oh no, free
dom is never yours, unless you are
constantly and always reaching
for it, yearning for it, and fight
ing for it. And when | go back to
Guadalcanal, l hope that you at
home are doing just that for me-"
The Vice-President wore a
straned smile as he mechanically
applauded, but the shouting rock
eted through the shop.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
NLRB POWER CUT

WASHINGTON (FP)-Power of
the NLRB was drastically cut by
passage Of rider limiting its
action in company union cases to
those in which charges were filed
within the first three months of the
agreement.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
May Suve
Lives

II is to be hoped that every pre-
caution will be exercised to prevent
accidents during the hunting season
but if one does occur, the game pro-
tector in that territory will be a
handy man to have around.
All field men of the Ohio Divi-
sion of Conservation and Natural
Resources have had advanced Red
Cross first aid courses and many
times they are called upon in an
emergency to help save a life.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
LABOR FOR
PERMANENT PEPC

NEW YORK (FP)-Represent-
atives Of 100 labor unions set up a
committee here to work for federal
legislation outlawing discrimination
on account of race or creed and
making permanent the Presidents
Fair Employment Practices Com
mittee.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05

What kind folks
to have contact.
ed him even be.
fore all Of his
friends re al ly
k n e W he was
back home! How
friendly to have
strongly insist.
ed that he at
tend the b a n .
quet t as an
honored guest!
Lie u t e n a n [
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
PEPC THREATENED

WASHINGTON (FP)-Survlval
of the Presidents Fair Employ
ment Practices Committee was
threatened by a ruling from Comp
troller General Lindsay c. Warren
that nondiscrimination clauses in
US. contracts were directive" and
not mandatory,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05

haired man with the strong
face and deep voice SO soliti'
Gus of his needs.
1t was good Of them to have ili-
vited him to this formal dinner
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
CALIFORNIA CIO
FOR iTH TERN

FRESNO (FP)-The California
Industrial Union Council conven-
ton unanimously indorsed a fourth
term for President Roosevelt.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05

month I"
A quick smile of triumph swept
over the face of the man at the
left-the president of the Doe
town Manufacturing Association
even now could read tomorrow's
headlines.
ANOTHER STORY
The shrill clamor Of the whistle
subsided was noon hour at the
factory. From where top-Sergeant
AL sat on the plank platform, he
could see the hundreds of men and
women workers scurrying in his
direction.
This is where he worked before
enlisting 21 months ago. There
was the mill superintendent adj
dressing the upturned faces. Be-
side him sat Mr.. Howard, the COM
pany Vice-President, cheerful and
fatherly.
He couldn't say that he wasn't
flattered when Mr.. Howard called
him the day the newspaper carried
the report that he was home. After
all, an invitation from the Vice
President of a big steel company
to a former hot mill doubler to talk
to all the workers wasn't an every
day occurance. Sure he was secret
I ly pleased with the newspaper
story that told how he tracked
down Japs for four months at
Guadalcanal and got more than
his share of them; then got hit
with a case Of malaria and was
sent back to the states to re-
cuperate.
"Well son." he heard Mr., How
ards quiet and insinuating voice"
its been quite an experience for
you, hasn't it? Bet you would like
to be back at the plant. Those men
out there are making big money
now; more than you ever did, And
| can't understand it, they still
complain sometimes-but maybe
that's human. They tell me that
these strikes are having a bad
effect on soldier morale. . What
do you think? :"
THEY LOOKED RIGHT
Funny how intense those faces
out there looked when the super
intendent said something about
blotting out Hitler and Hirohito-
just the way the boys look on
parade ground at night when the
flag is hauled down and the bugle
is playing.
Odd to see women there with
dirty overalls and griny faces.
Why, there is Mrs. Manko, she sees
me, and l think her eyes are misty
with tears. l don't feel so hot
either. 1t was her Joe who died in
my arms beside a smelly Guadal-
canal swamp with machinegun
bullets whining overhead. Yeah,
and there is Pop Williams. They
say he has four boys in the serv-
ice across the pond.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
Kent t-Owens Springs
Surprise In AII-Star

KentOwens team came through to surprise everybody
in the Wednesday night meeting of the AStar League of
Local r. The lads the beam and took two out of
three games from the good National Supply Al Con-
the for the whole thing totang 584 for
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05
Pacific Echoes
There ore Fox Holes on the Home
Front Too"
THE HONORED GUEST
BY Jacob Clayman
United Steelworkers Of America and attorney
for CLIO. Council

Lieutenant Smith thrilled to the bone he sat at
the head of the long table, What luxurious place Lush
rich panels encased the cleaning white cloth spared
on the table, forest of onamened silver surrounded his
plate And then his left the formally dressed big grey
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05

Commonly used nicknames of at
least eight states come from spe-
cies of wild life. Michigan is called
the Wolverine" state, Wisconsin
Badger" state, Minnesota Go
pher", Nebraska "Antelope" and
Oregon Beaver.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05


the three-game series and
sparkling his team to victory.
Surface Combustion didn t
do bad in the evenings competi-
tion, taking three straight from
the luckless DeVilbiss crew. The
DeVilbiss team, by the way, never
says die. They have lost games
this year which were so close that
they could have won with any kind
of breaks. Sometime, their luck
will break and they will be in.
While on the subject Of breaks,
it was only the bad breaks that
the Champion Spark team sus-
tanned that made it possible for
the ys-Overland to win three
straight. The W-O crew had be-
low average mite, shooting a 2796,
but still had luck enough to take
the Champion five.
Acklin would not be denied and
took one game from the Spicer
team to break the latter's IL
game winning streak. A lot of the
rooters are looking forward to
watching the next Spicer-Willys
series and the bets are not being
over-crowded on W-illys.
Standard League
Toledo Pressed Steel, which has
been having hard luck all season,
finally broke their jinx and came
through to take three games from
the Mather Spring outfit. If the
Pressed Steel can keep going the
way they went Wednesday night,
they will make it plenty tough for
the rest of the league.
National Supply and Toledo
Standard Commutator are now
tied for first place after the Ma
tionals dropped a game to the
Gordon Bumper keglers. Herb
Vogel did the william role for the
Gordon team with 223. The win
ming margin was only 10 pins.
Standard Commutator shot con-
sistently and came through with
three games in the 800 bracket to
swamp the A. c. Hopping boys for
three in row. The A. C. crew
said it was just an off night and
laughed the whole thing off They
promised they would be back with
real set of scores next week.
Bingham had to go all out to
take three games from the Devil
bliss outfit. The DeVilbiss lads are
showing a lot of improvement de-
spite their three-game loss. The
DeVilbiss crew had lot of fun
and after all, that's what bowling
is supposed to be.
HONOR ROLL
All-Star League
Leo Strauss 203, Cap Piojda 2O3-
1S7-237-627, Steve Lawinczak 200,
John Kotula 215, Van Meyers 214,
Mike Carlucci 201, Sherm Peters
221, Larry LeFefvre 240, All Con-
verse 224, Norm Merritt 219, Stan
Boyers 228, Ed Merritt 207.
Standard League
Nick Bybka 200, Tom Johnson
217, Floyd Hamlin POS, Herb Vogel
223, Bob Walton -222-608,
Walt Augustynisk 20G, Cap WEEK
vert 215.
LOCAL IL ALL-STAR
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month, ."
A quick smile of triumph swept
over the face of the man at the
left-the president of the Doe
town Manufacturing Association
even now could read tomorrow's
headlines.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05

Organized labor is letting 4
gress know how it is watching {
vote on the FLOWING bills:
Evening star., 1943-04-16
. GABARDINES COVER
CAVALRY TWILLS

The trend smart contrasting sacks to with
Sport Jackets is reflected in grand selection of solid
brown and teal Every pair of splendid quality picked
for long and appearance And of
pair is properly labeled fibre content. Waist sizes
Is to 32also some stout sizes included.
Kanns-Youth Center-second Floor.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
18 in Enlisted Reserve
AT 6. W. u. Called by Army

Eighteen students in the Army
Enlisted Reserve at George Wash
ington University will report to-
morrow at Camp Lee, Va, 1t was
announced today.
The university also announced
that two members of the faculty
have left recently to join the Army
and a third member will report to
the Navy this week.
The l8 enlisted men include two
members of the varsity football
team, Pete Labukas and Bernie
Kolker. Others are William C. Ash
by, Benjamin Barger, Jerome Ber-
liner, Craig Brown, Albert Buck
berg, Martin Cohen, Robert Cooper,
Richard Gibbs, Wilbur Higbee, Rob-
ert Holmes, Clifford Hope, Oscar
Moss, Lester Schwartz, Ralph Stein,
Eugene Swartz and Stanley Werbow
DR.. Louis Clark Heating, associate
professor of romance language, Is a
first lieutenant in the Army Signal
Corps; DR.. Gray. associate professor
OF American history and executive
officer of the History Department
Is first lieutenant in the Army Air
| Corps, and DR.. Charles Norval, in
structor in educational Psychology
Will become an ensign in the Navy.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
The Great Game of Politics
Latest Shoke-up Of WPB Shows Stability of
System Still Locking After Years of Experiments

promise which will not be wholly
satisfactory to any one.
1t may be that MI. Nelson will
be eased out and Mr.. Wilson become
the official, as he seems now to be
the actual, director of WPB. Or,
1t may be that Mr.. Roosevelt will
devise some super committee under
which Mr.. Nelson and Mr.. Wilson
will work. Or some other plan will
be evolved to gloss over the facts
and make things look all right on
the surface while they seethe under
meath
Already one strong, experienced
man, Ferdinand Eberstadt, in
somewhat badmannered way, has
been forced out and the designations
of Undersecretary Of War Patter-
son and Undersecretary of the
Navy Forestall are rumored. It
would be a loss if either should
retire, but they are not likely to
stay If the services are to be sub
jected to demoralizing control over
the procurement divisions.
War Cabinet Rumored.
Again, Mr.. Roosevelt is reported
to be on the verge of creating a
war cabinet such as Woodrow Will
son had in the last war, and which
so effectively functioned to keep
down friction and obviate trouble.
But, though he has been on the
verge of doing this half a dozen
tlmes-somehoW he never does it.
1t is clear that until some such
action as this is taken and drastic
changes made in the personnel as
we'll as the shape of WPB, the war
production machinery will not func-
ton effectively. All this was told
the President two years ago. If
then, profiting by the lessons of
experience, he had adopted the
Wilson machinery and put B. M.
Baruch, concededly the best quail
fed man in the country, in control
few will doubt that we would have
made very much greater progress
Though from time to time he has
moved toward the old War Industry
Boards form and has used Mr..
Baruch in many ways, for obscure.
temperamental reasons of his own.
the President refrains from taking
the full logical steps so clearly
indicated. So, after two years, when
there really should be no more
kinks, another management mess,
we'll calculated to interfere with
production, has developed. And this
Is the sort Of thing administration
spokesmen tell us the people need
not bother about and the Presi-
dent thinks only "pettifoggers" will
mention.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

1t is perturbing that in our first
clash with the Rommel army in
Tunisia, we have suffered a clear
defeat.
It's immediate military signifi-
canoe is, we hope. not too great,
and we will all follow Secretary
Stimson's advice not to exag-
gerate it. But We have failed in
our purpose to cut off Rommels
army from the new German army
in Northern Tunlsia, and instead
of this. have been pushed back to
the frontiers of Algeria, and lost
three newly airfields. This
as result of Rommels first de-
termined thrust
1t is the defeat of strategy
and will seriously affect that of
Gen. Alexander. The plan was to
take Rommel in a British and
American pincers. Now the Brit
iSh 9th Army is no longer one
arm of an offensive. But has
become a relief army for us.
Defeats have been the bitter
herbs eaten by every new army
that has entered this war against
the Axis. The British suffered
many. The Russians suffered a
whole series of defeats at the
beginning Of their campaign.
Unfortunately, it is impossible for
any army to obtain. by observa-
ton, experience from its prede-
cessors.
Lessons to Learn.
What is decisive is how we di-
gest defeats, what we learn from
them. 1t is not enough to admit
frankly that in this encounter we
have been thrashed. Candor is a
first step. But In robust coun-
try, every defeat has an immedi-
ate reaction, in an increase Of
energy, will and determination,
not to make excuses, but to sift
things through and find out how
matters can be improved.
That the British in Africa
finally got an army under a great
military leader was because they
insisted on drawing conclusions
from their defeats. Otherwise,
Gen. Alexander would never have
been appointed.
Now what do we see in this
country, in Congress? What is
its reaction?
In the moment when we suffer
a defeat, Congress is debating
whether we should establish air
hegemony over the whole world.
There doesn't seem to be any
connection. 1t is also debating
whether all fathers should not be
exempted from military service.
This is happening while the
fathers Of 10 children, plus the
10 children, are fighting the war
in Russia, and Germany is max
ing levee en- masse and putting
guns into the hands even Of
peasants.
Pertinent Questions.
Certain things could be dis
cussed. 1t could reasonably be
asked what is more important In
a modern army, quantity or
Evening star., 1943-02-22
AZ Wage Cases Decided
By WlB in One Day

The War Labor Board decided A
wage cases last Thursday, more than
the board disposed OF during No.
vember.
The speedup, according to board
officials, was largely due to the crea-
ton of special committee to ex-
anime the large backlog of cases
awaiting action and make recon-
mendations to the board.
Members of the committee are
Walter White, assistant to the chair
man of the Business Advisory Coun-
Gil of the Commerce Department;
Edgar L. Warren, assistant director
of the wage stabilization division:
Joseph L. Miller. labor relations di-
rector of the National Association
of Broadcasters, and Benjamin c.
Sigal and George Brown, represents
ing, respectively, the CIO and the
AFL.
On January 81, the last date for
which figures are available. the War
Labor Board had q backlog of LIST
cases.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
Setback in Tunsio Con Be Turned to Profit
If We Correct Weaknesses 1t Points Out

quality. 1t could be asked
whether it is possible at this
stage of the war adequately to
train 100000 men with the
existing number and quality of
officers. 1t could be asked
whether crack army or 5000 900
might not be superior to a mass
army of 100000. 1t could be
asked whether our method of
training young officers directly
out of universities could not be
improved by more rapid promo
tion OF trained privates from the
ranks.
We are told that the defeat
was partly due to the fact that
the Germans turned up with the
52-ton tank Mark VI, which is
superior to any we have. It
might be asked why the Germans
have produced better tank
than we. We have been told by
every known advertising means
that American industry is far
superior to any in the world. 1t
Is disturbing to realize that the
tanks of the Soviet Union are
equal If not superior to the Ger
man. In this matter of weapons,
we can profit by the experience
of our predecessors.
There is discussion going on
not to say battle-over iuris-
dlctlon between the WPB of
Donald Nelson and the Army and
Navy. A pertinent question in
this discussion is: Who Is re-
sponsible for our not having a
tank as good as that of the Ger
mans? A straightforward an
sWer would give us a hint on
how to learn from defeats.
The question might be asked,
why are we planning an 1l,0O0,-
900 Army, at the cost of war in
dustries and farms, when an
already trained French Army in
North Africa is lacking modern
equipment?
A Peace-Table Show?
From unofficial rumormongers
we hear that we want an l1,00o,-
600 Army with which to bring
weight at the peace conference.
II any such thought is entering
the minds OF anybody, the ques-
ton may be allowed whether a
small Army with a series of great
victories to its credit would not
tip the scales against a huge
Army that has had little to do
with winning the war. Every
foreign statesman can calculate
our potential manpower. What
still has to be proven Is our fight
ing power.
This country is not yet psy-
chologically prepared nor does it
cohesively accept the fact that
war Is a dangerous business and
that men die in it. From the
beginning We have tended to
think that by some act of Divine
Providence we would win this
war. What counts is the amount
OF sweat, blood and tears ex-
pended. How many more defeats
must be suffered before we real
ize the kind of age we live in7
(Released by the Bell syndicste)
Evening star., 1943-02-22
Police Boys Clubs
Mark Anniversary Today

The Metropolitan Police Bows
Club is nine years old today, and
special programs stressing the war
time training OF Washington youth
were planned at various clubs.
In special message to more than
10000 boys enrolled in the five clubs
H. Clifford Bangs, president of the
Board OF Directors, said the anniver-
sary comes at a time when the
necessity Of the work which the club
was designed to do cannot be over
emphasized.
Probably never before has it been
so essential that the youth of our
city be given every opportunity te
develop their minds and bodies SO
that they will be fit to take over
their full responsibilities as citizens. -
he said.
Evening star., 1943-02-22
BY FRANK X. KENT.

The spectacle of the President in
dulging in press conference wise
cracks and sending jocose letters
to Congress, offering to make a
trade" to save one of his pet pro-
pOSalS, while the War Production
Board. on which so much of oul
success depends, cracks up in full
view of the country, is distinctly
not an edifying one.
The truth is that from the start
this business has been botched and
the remarkable job of turning out
war material has been done in spite
Of, and not because Of, the Wash
ington management.
The administration answer to this
indictment is to quote the figures
as to planes, guns, ships, etc. But
that is not an answer-it is an eva
sion of the plain fact that but for
White House vacillation as to policy
and the inadequate nature of the
machinery we would have been
much farther advanced in this war
and at much less cost-than we
are.
At no time has Mr.. Roosevelt had
either the right setup or the right
man to operate it. Nor has he either
one now. Starting two years age
with the ridiculous 'co-equal pow
err William S. KnudSen and Sidney
Hillman arrangement, which was SO
illogical that no one, inside or out
side, thought it could work, one re-
organization after the other has fol-
lowed until all trace of stability has
been lost and the organization Is
full of beWilderment and friction
Latest Shake-Up Serious.
The most recent shake-up is. per-
haps, more serious than any of the
others because it threatens to lessen
Army and Navy control over arma-
ment production and put it wholly
in the civilian hands of Charles E
Wilson of WPB, the new executive
vice president to whom Donald
Nelson, apparently abdicating in his
favor, has delegated complete power
Nearly everybody agrees that Mr.
Wilson is an able man who was
really drafted for the job. But that
does not make wise the contem-
plated interference with the pro-
curement divisions of the armed
services.
The only sound excuse for dis
rupting the present arrangement
would be if the services had failed to
function satisfactorily and that ex-
cuse does not exist. Nor is the
charge made On the contrary
there is every evidence that they
have done fine job and that the
figures of which the President boasts
are largely due to the extremely eff
ficient cooperation on war con-
tracts between the armed services
and American industry.
President May Act.
1t is natural that any step calcu-
lated to disturb these relations
should be resisted and in the end
the President will have to decide
What he will do no man can tell
But if we are to judge by the past,
the outcome will be another COM