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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

Several recipients laid by the Etchn hens
on the Howard Etchens chickens would
poor politicians lay like some OF those MI
Etchen says from the Etchen hens
Now am not one politician far but do have
deem and abiding the particular fruit laid by honest
hens There guile heart of hen No good decent self
respecting would lay like some Of those whlch MI
Etchen is blaming his chickens for
HENS AND POLITICIANS
When lays she has only thought in mmd ana
that is to lay good She doesn't say herself Joe
Zch is going egg don't like Joe Nch so I'll spoil the
job" indeed When hen lays an gs she puts her hea IN
her Job She doesn't know doesn't whether the egg
is fertile nfertie She just lays it, and that's that
On hand when politician and think Howard W.
Eben is politician says himself I out tomorrow TO
my deserving hope they'll appreciate what I'm doing
for them he may know whether the eggs are
fertile or inferile.
Now Pm not saying that Councilman would want to
slim slightly spoiled (fele) but do say and
hope Howard my tip the spirit in which it is made that
if guy going free the least he could do would be
to have them canded
KILL THE CHICKENS
Word seems to have trked Etchen that of
the alleged fresh eggs giving to his friends Just
before election as gift from which reside the
Etcen farm strictly AS result some OF the
sacrificed by Mr. Etchen in the interest OF esher
eggs from Echen hens on the Etchen farm
proves that Mr., Echen has sense of Justice Any time
one of the lays eggs like of those which have been
donated to deserving friends and the complaints come
rolling in Mr. Echen isn't hesitate Any time Howard W
refuses sacrifice hen the interest of esher eggs
because Mr. Echen longer member OF Council put
just ordinary business and real estate salesman which, we
Mr.. Etchen will be.
CHICKENS AND EGGS
No doubt has been the recipient of advice
Perhaps believe that Mr. Ehen has
been stealing Honorable Addson book but such
not the case Etchen has simply been trading
Honorable Addison who formerly fed lot of people
nothing and questions asked
In return Thachers gastronomc advice Mr. Etchen
trying his into the hearts of his fellow Toedoans by way
their tracts Mr. Echen does Mr. Thachers writing
by the write English lot better than
he consider chickens
We hate to aer Mr. Etchen Indeed dislike flatter Mr.
a political blessing.
chickens not cheap Moreover good eggs
hard but Mr.. Etchen because he raises
which lay the Etchen farm in particularly fortunate
perhaps the whole truth because not
would bad but the general idea is
good followed with caution might win Howard few
additional votes
suggestion could offer Howard and that is
gathering from hens other than the Echen hens which
would be good idea to least have
eggs canded few of the kind which of Mr.
deserving friends have been receiving and Howard W.
himself will egg November and the sovereign
makes his choice for City Council
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08
A Long War

Statements of both Under Secretary
of War Robert Patterson and UAW-IIo
President r. ]. Thomas that this war is
far from over, should have a salutOry et-
feet on the workers of the country. lt
should convince them that their job still
is to maintain or enlarge on their produc-
ton to bring about the ultimate overthrow
of the Nazis and Japs.
There would be no point in either MIR.
Patterson or Mr.. Thomas telling the work
ers that the wave of optimism which is
still sweeping the country is unwarranted,
Indeed, they would very likely be the first
to tell the workers that the end was In
sight and that it was all over but the
shouting.
Time and again in recent months, ever
since Allied military successes began, the
country has been warned not to let its
wishbOne effect it's backbone, but to get
in there and keep going until the bitter
end.
The facts are that Germany has really
not yet put up stand. Her armies, while
they have been forced back by the Rus
slams and British-American armies in Italy
have not yet put up really determined
stand Perhaps they will not make stand
for some time; but eventually, they will
reach a point set for test of arms. When
that time comes, you may be sure that
the losses for the Allies will be large.
As the warfare changes it is quite pos
sible that changes will be made in the
equipment used to prosecute the war, this
will mean, in many instances, changes in
models in American plants producing the
equipment for our own and our allies
armies. These changes must be speeded up
and production obtained in order that the
war may be more efficiently fought.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

confusing tittle-talle," said that
paper.
This was not the first time the
President has used the device of
reading something aloud at press
conferences to convey his own
ideas At times hes has quoted
from Lincoln, for instance. Re.
porters are then left to draw
their own weighty conclusions.
In this case he left no doubt as
to what he thought of the de-
featist press. At times he has
been even less subtle-such as
when he ga, an iron cross to a
newspaper man to give to John
O'Donnell of the New York
News.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

for Roosevelt and Wallace for a
fourth term, and the establish
ment of a national wage scale
compromise the issues which will
be hotly debated in this after
Moons session.
The most controversial subject
of them all, and the one which
will be a determining factor in
the future of the automobile
workers of our country, is the
question of whether our interna-
tional should go on record as be-
ing opposed to the establishment
of wage incentive systems in
plants where they do not now
exist and in plants where the
workers are ordered to them.
The Toledo delegation viii
unanimously go on record as be-
ing unalterably opposed to wage
incentives, on the grounds that
they hinder rather than help the
war effort, and the claim will be
made that incentive systems
place the workers at the mercy
of management and make him a
slave to his machine or conveyor.
In order that this subject may
be debated without interruption,
it has been slated for the opening
issue of the afternoon session,
since CIO President Philip Muir
ray was scheduled to speak in
the middle of the morning ses-
sion.
Regional Director Richard Cos
ser will throw his support to
Walter P. Reuther, vice president
of the UAW-CIO, and to his run
ming mate, Richard Leonard, di-
rector of the Ford division of the
JAW, who are meeting most We
hement opposition from the Sec
retary-treasurer, George Adde's,
and Richard Frankenstein, air
craft director and also vice presi-
dent, the two leading proponents
of incentive pay.
Actually, when the workers
know that the company wants
system Of incentive pay, they can
reasonably assume that such a
system is profitable for that
company-usually to the extent
that the workers are in competi-
ton with each other and conse-
quently are driven to i'll health.
Further than this, unless the in
centive plan were one which the
workers could control, and they
seldom can, it would inevitably
result in excessive speedups, and
usually does.
Instead of the incentive pay
plan, the Reuther-Leonard group
intends to ask for an annual liv-
ing wage and a system of pay
ing similar rates for similar
work. which would mean the
abolishment of wage differentials
and competition between workers
in different shops throughout the
area and throughout the coun-
try.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

the press to a command over
second front in Europe, has in
spired reams of poisonous
words. The vituperative society
columnist for the Washington
Times-Herald, Helen Essary,
whose reported engagement to
Col. A. A. Mccormick of the
Chicago Tribune is now said to
have been a mere flash in the
pan, was on hand.
FDR NOT IMPRESSED
But the President was not i'm
pressed apparently. He talked
ABOUT the war news, and then,
when he was asked to comment
on the status of Marshall, said
blithely that he had thought
someone might ask that. He got
a laugh there, but it was soon
apparent he was in a fairly grim
mood. He had decided, he said,
he would read one new story
and his voice took on a edge of
irony at the word news-and two
editorials. Reporters faces fell.
What papers would print that?
AS if to anticipate their troubles,
he said with note of sarcasm
that ne was reading them so they
would be in the record of press
conference, which would be pub
lished some time
The news" story was an Intl.
News Service (Hearst) story
published in the Times Herald Of
Sept. 25, saying it was planned
by White House advisers to re-
move Marshall as chief of staff
and "kick him upstairs" to a
glorified but powerless world
command over Anglo American
forces" 1t then said:
Uniformed sources say the mo-
tive is to use the Army's vast
production program, excepting
aircraft, as a political weapon in
the 1914 presidential campaign
Some observers believe the
cable also intend to build up
Somervell (Lieut. Gen. Brahon
SomervelD as an Army running
mate for Mr. Roosevelt as a
fourth term ticket to offset the
possible Republican nomination
of Gen. Douglas Macarthur"
TITTLE-TALLE
The President then read two
editorials from the New York
Herald-Tribune of Sept. % and
% which attacked the whisper
ing-gallery journalism" which
exploited the Marshall reports
and named the Patterson-Mc-
Cormick press as h "most ir-
responsible" part o the press in
dulging in it. "To us il seems
outrageous that the absolutely
vital question of the high COM
mand of the armies of the United
States should be subjected to
this process of disruptive and
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

and Howard w, particularly Whth JHeII OpeH-
handed generosity seems to become a trifle ac-
centuated Just Immediately preceding election.
But skip that and let's consider the egg which
Mr. Etchen is passing out through the good offices
of one of Toledo's leading restaurant operators,
EGGS AND EGGS
Anyone who has ever purchased eggs, and who
hasn't, knows there is great deal of difference
in eggs. There are eggs and eggs.
Strange as it may seem, Mr.. Etchen's eggs are
alleged Chats the proper word) to be from How
ard Etchen's chickens, which reside on the Howard
w Ftchan farm Or is that strange?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

concensus of opinion that the organization should
take steps to begin such service for the military
men as soon as possible
MANPOWER AND INDIA
Two of the most interesting resolutions from
the standpoint of the delegates the resolu-
tions dealing with manpower and India. Both
resolutions passed by good ma ajorities, but there
was considerable discussion on both subjects be-
fore debate was stopped and a vote taken.
A four point program proposed and passed
dealing with manpower, which included points
proposed by the UAW-CIO early last January
but which turned down by the VINO.
Walter Reuther, who was the one who pro.
posed four-point program early this year, spoke
in behalf of the resolution and drew a good round
of applause when he said, "Kick out the poll.
ticians and put labor leaders into the VINO and
you'll be able to mobilize labor"
Mr. Reuther said the United Nations did not
have a labor man in charge of labor mobilization
and said that until labor man was in charge
there would be effective utilization of the
workers.
1t was the decision Of the convention to offer
to join with the labor movement of Great Britain
to exert all possible efforts to reopen negota-
tions between the government of Britain and the
Indian congress with the aim of arranging the
terms for Inda's immediate freedom.
MURRAY TO SPEAK
Delegates are looking forward with interest to
Wednesdays meeting, when CIO President Philip
Murray is slated to speak. Many resolutions still
remain to be considered and it now appears that
election of officers will not take place before
Thursday.
A resolution Of UAW WCIO support for Phil \
Murray will be presented to the convention here
Wednesday and will no doubt be given him be-
fore he makes his talk. There is considerable sen.
timent favorable to our national president at this
convention and Murray undoubtedly will be given
a great ovation.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

which dealt with manpower Sc
lective service, organization Of
ex-servicemen, allied military
cooperation and India.
1t was the wish of the dele
gates that labor sponsor cam
teens for servicemen and that
the matter be referred to the
national CI0 convention when
it meets early in November.
The resolution did not specify
to what extent the UAW would
go in establishing such cam
teens hut If was the general
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

worse. This, however, had
nothing to do with the atmo-
sphere of seriousness which
seems to be in the air. The
war, the happenings of the past
year, the prospects of peace,
election of officers and other
considerations of the convention
seem to have dampened any
desire for large scale gaiety.
Committees which have been
working here, some of them for
more than a week before the
convention, have done their
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

lesser f L Y.
Thew were out
in full force to
hear the Pres
ident's antici-
pated state
ment on Gen.
C. Marshall,
whose sched-
uled demo
tion,' accord
ing to defeat
lists on the
Hill and in
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08
Washington
Scene
BY Virginia Gardner.

WASHINGTON (FP)-It was
an unusually large gathering at
the Presidents press conference
Sept. 28. Big-shot columnists
stood elbow to elbow with US
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falo, within a
stones throw
of Memorial
a u d i t orium,
girding them
selves for the
battle which
will take place
in h If a n
hour, immedi-
ately aft e r
| u n c h. Poll
tics, incentive
pay, support
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

wonder. The
manager has
benched some
of the best
regular h i t
ters, whose
power at bat
drove in many
runs for the
pro g r essive
cause. He is
S e n d ing in
S u b S t flutes,
p o crui I ed
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

BUFFALO, n. Y, Oct. A. - After attending
UAW-CIO conventions for a number of years,
can say that this one promises to be the most
serious ever held by our organization.
Housing conditions here are all that press re-
leases said they were. In fact, they are even
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

Resolutions
BY Melvin Schultz,
President, Local II, UAW-CIO.

Many important resolutions have been passed
by the UAW-CI0 convention, which opened Mon
day morning.
Tuesday some important resolutions passed
by the conference, most of which were the ones
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

work we'll and brought in their recommendations
and findings, and the convention has been busy
considering all proposals.
IMPORTANT DECISIONS
There is feeling here that this is going to be
the most important convention ever held by the
United Auto Workers, and this sentiment is very
likely well founded.
No one is attempting to deny the serious posi-
tion which we of the UAW-CIO and all other
labor unions have in the successful ending OF the
war Our delegates realize the conditions which
eaist throughout the country in the legislative
field where labor has been subjected to reaction
ary and suppressve legislation. They are just as
conscious of the antilabor legislation which is still
in process of preparation, or which has been pre-
pared and will be submitted to Congress in the
remaining months prior to the next election.
And the UAW is going to discuss every prob
lem which affects it's and the destiny of
other labor unions. Our organization is awake to
the implications of the present and the promise
and threats of the future. 1t is discussing all
these problems with a frankness and courage
which should be productive of some well consid-
cred decisions. n
REPRESENT RANK AND FILE s0.
Most of the delegates here seem to realize that
they here to represent the best interests of the
rank and file workers who sent them. They seem
determined to consider the problems and proposals
OF the convention with open minds in the best ln-
terests of the workers. They seem to realize as
never before that the UAW and all labor is facing
a dreary prospect unless they come up with
program that is constructive and far-reaching.
Out of this convention will come some far
reaching decisions, which | believe will really
represent the majority opinion of the rank and
file.
Labor realizes that it is going to have hard
fight to secure the things to which it is justly
entitled and it is beginning now to make plans
which will meet the days ahead when the war is
over and we begin to return to useful production
instead of production as we now know it.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08
It'sNews Tome sy S.ss,} yo; Z
ETCHEN. THE PHMANTHROPIsT

News that Councilman Howard W. Echen passing out eggs
and chickens deserving" friends reminds that Councilman
Ehen frequently particularly recent weeks IN
the company public benefacr and phianthopst
Councilman Addison G. Thacher.
People suspect everything of people like Addison O.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08
Regional Views
By Richard Gosser, Director,
Region 2B UAW.ClO

Editors note: This cotlmn Cas Wfttten tne dopit
before the convention started For tdst-mtn"e TeNI
ports of the convention noW beinng held at Buy
faLo, read the neWs stories on page l.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08
On The
Beam
By Clayton W. Fountain

The New Deal appears to be
diving on third base. And small
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08
What's S
New2
By Edward Duck,
Educational Director, Local IL

WHAT INCENTIVE?
AsI write this article the dele
gates are assembled in the near
bv restaurants and cafes of Buff
Evening star., 1943-03-04
Phantom Boil

A popular means of raising money
for charities is to give ball. The
method is all right II it works, but
all too often Unexpectedly heavy ex-
penses arise 50 that the committee
holding the ball is later left holding
the bag, with net contribution to
the charity of minus three or four
hundred dollars. To avoid such q
possibility, the Illinois Children's
Home and Aid Society has come
across with q brilliant invention-the
phantom ball. Subscribers just inn
agine they are attending = big dance.
They total up the cost Of the tickets,
refreshments, gowns and corsages
they would have to buy, plus amuse-
ment tax, taxi fare and incidentals.
A sizable sum results, but this is not
all. Quiet-loving husbands are ex-
pected to add generous sum in ex-
cess rs = thanks Offering for not
having had to 60, then send the
grand total to the committee. Much
can Be said for the phantom ball; in
fact, there seems only one drawback
10 It. II Is feared that I large NUM-
ber Of women Will refuse 70 attend 1t
on the ground that they have nothing
At 70 refrain fom wearing.
Evening star., 1943-03-04

know that they face the prospect Of
prompt arrest. trial and punishment.
Protracted delay in any Of these
steps, conversely, tends to encourage
the commission Of crime. Thus,
while the rehabilitation Of criminals
is important and should be fostered,
the adequate protection OF the public
against. crime is not to be ignored.
This might be accomplished by
modifying the proposal for a manda-
tory deferment of final sentence to
the extent Of permitting Judge, in
the case OF q serious outbreak Of
crime in community, to punish
offenders promptly and finally upon
conviction. This would preserve the
deterrent effect of prompt punish
ment, as protection for the public in
exceptional circumstances, without
interfering with the rehabilitation
of offenders under more normal con-
ditionS.
Evening star., 1943-03-04

This is no time to discuss Z candi-
date for 1914. say that very seri-
ously. There are 50 many things that
can happen. and I don't think 1t Is
the prerogative Of the chairman to
select q candidate. That's up to the
national convention
That was well said. and it is too
bad that the matter cannot be left
there, In philosophic acceptance Of
the fact that the national conven-
Mon's choice will be based on cir
cumstances that none of us can know
now, and even that choice must be
ratified by the people. It is too bad,
because there is not chance in the
world that the matter will be left
there,
Evening star., 1943-03-04
Only the Beginning

The most siscomfiting thing about
the fourth-tefm talk, in connection
with the Democratic National Com
mitteemen's call at the White House
yesterday, is not that the fourth term
was discussed. It is the dismal pros
pect of having to 60 through another
sixteen or more months of the same
sort Of gossip, conjecture, coy eva
sions and heated debate that led up
to the final show-do on the third
term in 1910. Doing that and fight
ing war at the same time are lust a
little too much.
Postmaster General National Com
mittee Chairman Walker did not
want to talk about the fourth term
when he left the White House yester-
day. This little trip to Mecca, fol-
lowing a committee meeting here,
was purely social. What MIR. walker
said was wormed out Of him by those
assiduous wormers, the White House
correspondents. Mr.. Walker tried to
talk Of many things. But the report
ers drove . wedge In the form of
fourth term question between every
pause in the conversation. Under
this fourth term third degree, Mr..
Walker cracked. He admitted that
one or two. perhaps two or three,
gentlemen had said something about
. fourth term. But Il the Preeident
heard them he smiled It away.
When he could gather his thoughts
the Postmaster General did ny that
Evening star., 1943-03-04
The Greatest Task

Ten years ago the President took
over leadership of his country in
another kind of war on another
front. He had one advantage then
that he lacks today. That war was
being fought on our own doorsteps.
The casualties were in evidence on
every hand and no man was free of
the fear that within days or weeks he
might be one of them. The Nation
was q single unit in its willingness to
cast every other consideration aside,
to form behind leader and to fight
what was so close to all of us.
His tenth anniversary in the White
House finds the President still the
leader In war that carries graver
threats to the Nation. But 1t is a
var that, to many of US, is still far
away-too far away, evidently, to
produce that spontaneous unity of
purpose and Of effort that are such
vital elements Of final victory Only
q fraction Of our people have been
bound by common sacrifice. Only
few Of them have learned, by tasting
1t, the bitterness of war. Too many
Of them are making the war a con-
sideration that is secondary to other
things, or seizing on other things to
avoid facing the stark facts of war.
To achieve again and to preserve
this unity at, home in fighting the
war is perhaps the Presidents most
important responsibility now and one
that demands exercise of his wisest
leadership. We are a strong Nation
and we may be able to fight the
enemy abroad while fighting among
ourselves for selfish privilege, polit-
ical advantage and economic gains
for special classes and groups. But
10 do 80 will mean longer and hard
or war. Our soldiers will fight the
battles abroad. Our President must
lead the way in giving them the sup
port Of an undivided people at home.
For there can be but single objec-
tive now.