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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01

military training in peace
time have flooded the House
Postwar Military Policy Com
mittee which will hold hearings
on the subject when the new
Congress convenes.
Union officials predict there
will be considerable opposition
from. organized labor when the
bill comes up and showed par
ticular concern over the state
ment by a member of the House
Military Affairs Committee that
an educational program will be
undertaken by the American
Legion.
Recall Legion Role
Recalling the role played by
the American Legion in many
organizing drives and strikes,
one union leader declared that
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Powder Founders

directive.
Meanwhile, the AFL has been
busy trying to secure member
ship in their union, but without
success. Memberships in the CIO
are still coming in from en-
ployees of the Lamson Co. and
the union continues to grow.
Mr.. Steinberg commented up
on the last minute efforts of the
AFL to secure members in
Lamson's and said, lit seems 10
me that the AFL, no less than
the employers are doing every
thing they can to retard our case
and give comfort to the en-
ployers. We certainly do not
want them to stop their efforts
to secure memberships, because
we want to show them what we
can do 10 them when the people
of Lamson's vote. But they
might act more like union in
stead of a bunch of disruption
lists until the election has been
granted"
The CIO director said he
would welcome the AFL on the
ballot when the Lamson cleo
ton takes place because we
want to prove to the AFL, the
employees of other downtown
department stores, and the peo-
pie of Toledo that we were pre-
senting facts in the NLRB hear
ing when it was held here. BY
the same token we will show
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Comero Club
En+er+oinS
Visitors

Director Arnold Shenofsky
and members of the Local IL
Camera Club entertained mem
bers of the Educational and
Camera Club Committee of Lo-
cal 174, Detroit, at their meeting
of November %.
Detroit guests included Will
liam Kemsley, chairman of the
Educational Committee, A n n
Terech, secretary, Educational
Committee; Jack Sharp, chair
man, Local 174 Camera Club
Mickey Cippoletti, coordinator.
Local 174 Camera Club and
Lottie Szubeczak, member OF
the Educational Committee OF
Local 174.
Local IL Camera Club illus
trated the work which is being
done by the members of the To-
cal organization including model
shots, backgrounds and other
technical work which the Locals
organization is studying.
The Detroit visitors were
taken on an inspection of Local
IL headquarters at 425 Winthrop
st. following their visit.
Members of the Local 174 edu-
cational group and camera club
were invited to attend the Local
IL meeting by Arnold Shenof-
sky, Local IL Camera Club di-
rector during the recent Grand
Rapids UAW-CIO convention.
The Detroit Local extended its
invitation to the Local IL group
to attend one of their meetings
after the first of the year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01

date to the President to make
real the Economic Bill Of
Rights" enunciated in the
Presidents campaign speech in
which he asserted $4,000, 900
jobs should be our postwar goal,
the CIO affirmed in its state
ment on the postwar problem.
Point number one, all dele
gates agreed, was that a high
level of wages must be main
tanned in the postwar period.
"Our national policy shall be
that the present weekly wages,
as a minimum, must be main
tanned and cannot be reduced
with the decline in overtime.
The minimum wage must be
sharply increased above prevail
ing substandard levels" :"
Guaranteed Annual Wage
Along with this must come the
establishment of a guaranteed
annual wage, the convention
resolved.
These measures will encourage
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
JAW Marks Up
Another Election

Region 2-B, UAW-CIO con-
tinues to grow with the McCord
Radiator Corp. employees OF
Wauseon being the most recent
to enter the ranks of the CIO.
Results of the recent election
gave the UAW-CIO 81 votes
while the UAW-AFL could gar
ner but 10 ballots. No union re-
ceived five votes.
The McCord plant had q
closed shop for the past two
years with the UAW-AFL. This
agreement existed not only In
the Wauseon plant, but in six OF
the other eight McCord plants
The practice of the War Labor
Board in cases similar to this is
to give the union which wins an
election a similar clause in its
contract.
Negotiations on the new con-
tract will be instituted after an
election of permanent officers
for the new organization on No
vember 80.
Approximately 95 per cent of
the company employees are wo-
men.
Regional Director Gosser ex-
pressed his thanks to the plant
committee for their work dur
ing. the organizational drive and
promised to give the group his
fullest cooperation and support.
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DiSaIIe
Seeks Draft

Rumored appointment OF
John Quinlivan, Democratic
member of the Board OF
Elections to collector of in
ternal revenue has brought
out crop of party aspirants for
the post which carries consid-
erable influence in party circles
Among names of those promi-
nently mentioned are Council
man Michael V. Disable and
John Kelly, deputy clerk of the
Board of Elections. Others have
been mentioned but Disable and
Kelly are the ones who are at
tracing greatest attention be-
cause of their prominence.
Mr.. Disable is understood to
be cool about the position be-
cause he is reluctant to resign
from city council and leave
Councilman Tom Burke the only
Democrat in that body. Disable
feels that to accept the position
would be to endanger his politi-
cal future. His friends, however,
say that he will accept the post
if drafted" by the Democrats.
Kelly Is Interested
John Kelly former city coun-
Gilman and member of the
county commission is not be-
lieved to have more than an out
side chance to succeed Mr..
Quinlivan, if and when the lat
ter's appointment comes through
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01

The strike, conducted by
members of the Federation
of Telephone Workers, indie
pendent, began in Dayton, Ohio,
in protest against the bringing in
of out-of-town operators who
were paid a bonus of S1825 a
week. Regular operators got S21
weekly, working up to S31 d
week after 10 years service.
The union argues that the pay
ment of the bonus to transferred
operators is a ruse to avoid rails
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01

only for workers on the second
and third shifts.
These increases, a WLB of
ficial admitted, give raises aver
aging 31s cents an hour to 300,-
900 steel workers on the rotat-
ing shifts but mean only 22
cents an hour more throughout
the entire industry.
Here is the scoreboard:
!. General wage adjustmen OF
17c-DENIED.
2. Establishment of fund for
steelworkers in the armed
forces-DENIED.
3. Guaranteed annual wage
DENIED.
4. Geographical wage differen-
tial Observation-Disclosures.
5. Group insurance plans
DENIED.
Continued on Page 2
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MESA
Spoofs
Workers

DETROIT, Nov. 70 (Spe-
ciaD-Matthew Smith, secre-
tary of the MESA, still
smarting from his recent
spanking at the hands OF
Richard Gosser, UAW CIO
regional director of Toledo,
attacks the UAW-CIO in the
current editorial of the MESA
Educator"
Smith who ANONYMOUSLY
withdrew from a strike in To-
ledo after calling out of local
and Toledo MESA workers,
takes his spite out on the Auto
workers by calling them
strike breakers" News has
leaked out that Smith stopped
his strike in Toledo after the
Army took over Willys-Over-
land and several other plants
when UAW director Gosser re-
fused to permit Smith to tell
the Auto Workers how to deal
with UAW members who were
victims of MESA raiding at the
Auto-Lite's plant in Toledo.
Tries To Bluff
Authoritative sources reveal
that Smith tried to bluff the
Army and Director Gosser by
calling out all MESA workers
in Toledo and then extending
the strike into this important
war area. When his bluff failed,
he called off the strike and sent
his people back to their jobs.
It has been learned that
Smith in calling off his strike
sought to pledge all the parties
to the conference in which he
capitulated, to secrecy. He tacit-
ly admitted that if his members
discovered what his tactics were
that he would find himself in a
difficult position in his own
union.
What the terms of Smiths
surrender were have not been
revealed, but it is known that
the people whom he sought to
save have gone to trial in Toledo
before the Auto-Lite Unit of Lo-
cal IL, UAW-CIO, which refused
to permit Smith to dictate its
policy.
Resorts to Paper
Malicious news items in the
MESA organ are seen by UAW
leaders as an attempt by Smith
to throw a smoke screen about
the failure of his organization to
secure wage scales comparable
with those of the auto workers.
Moreover, CIO heads say that in
order to cover up, Smith is now
planning new raids upon UAW
plants to distract the attention
of MESA members from their
unsatisfactory conditions in To-
ledo and Detroit plants.
UAW officials point out that
Smiths paper attacks the auto
workers and then prints a plea
for industrial democracy. One
Detroit labor leader, not mem
ber of the UAW stated the case
Of Smith by referring to his pa
per and its articles as whist
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to meet living cost increases
ranging up to As per cent
came to naught, ironically,
while the nations two great
R,nion federations were in con-
Far from being broken, the
Little Steel formula, in the
words of WLB chairman William
II. Davis "has not even been
bent"
The nations steelworkers pre-
se.ted WLB with Ia demands;
M. were granted and these
4 E-s 4the least important and
Beneficial to the workers.
Adjustment Denied
Where the United Steelwork-
ers asked for ar overall wage
Increase of II cents an hour,
WLB allowed increases of 4
cents and 6 cents an hour but
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ing basic wages for all operators
Sympathy with the Dayton op-
orators demands, plus many
other grievances about wages
which have accumulated in the
past few years, are declared by
union leaders to have been the
reasons that the strike spread
rapidly in the state, and was ex-
tended to the nations capitol
and to Detroit before it ended.
Ordered Back To Work
The National War Labor
Board ordered the operators
back to work, and, when they
refused to return, certified the
case to Economic Stabilizer Vim
son at the White House.
The union in each city offered
to leave on duty enough opera
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Toledo Strikers Return

Striking ledo telephone
operators returned to their jobs
on Nov. "a following the deci-
sion of their officers to end the
work stoppage. The pickets en-
tertained themselves the last
night by playing "ring-around-
the-rosie."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
Important Fac+s
To Remember

/. Mail all Christmas cards
and packages by Dec. 1.
2. Address correctly; wrap
securely.
8. To expedite the han
ding of Christmas mails
please use correct zone
numbers and wise
your correspondents to
do likewise.
4. Don't mail armfuls of
cards and packages all
at once. Space out your
mailings over a few
days tirle.
S. Many people have NOV
ed to new addresses.
Christmas cards sent by
first class mail will be
forwarded.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
VETERANS

An important meeting of
the Local IL Veterans Com
mittee will be held in Par
lor "C", Local IL head
quarters, Monday, Dec. a
at 500 p. m. All ex-serv-
icemen of World War l or
III are asked to attend this
meeting.
Ted MOdrOwski, chairman.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
Wage Freeze Is
Retained byWB

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (LPA) - Organized labors
high hopes the War Labor Board would relax the Little
Steel wage freeze given faefu kick in the teeth
Nov. 26.
The struggle of all sections of labor to raise pay levels
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01

international labor arena and
at the peace table, the out
line of an immediate and a
postwar tax program, and the
blueprint for the CLOS Political
Action Committee in its future
work.
Challenged at its first session
to look ahead, the convention
from beginning to end was key
ed to action. In his opening ad-
dress, Bishop Bernard J. Shell
of the Archdiocese of Chicago
stirred the delegates with his as
sertion that "the coming peace
can offer but two choices: 1t
shall be either a return to the
discredited past or a bold step
into the future. This is an ex-
hilarating challenge" the Bishop
said, to all men TO embark upon
the construction of a world of
human beings, where fear and
wretchedness will no longer ex-
ist; where oppression and ex-
ploitation of man by man will
be abolished
Raising Wages
The necessity of raising wages
now, looking to the postwar
period when hours would be
shortened and labor would have
to fight hard to maintain pur-
chasing power, was emphasized
in officers reports and in reso-
iutions passed unanimously by
the delegates. The resolution
which was passed called for a re-
vision of the Little Steel formula
to grant wage requests of Go
Unions, abolition OF the "abom-
Unable" wage bracket system and
Substitution of the policy of
lequal pay for similar work with
lin each industry. Any wage be-
low Csc an hour should be con-
sidered substandard by the
WLB, the convention urged, and
the WLB should enunciate a
policy of forbidding any wage
cuts as reconversion starts.
Continuation of the CLOS Po-
litical Action Committee, just
emerged from the presidential
election in which it played a ma
jor role, was voted after a
lengthy and spirited demonstra-
ton for the PAC's chairman,
Sidney Hillman. Future activi-
ties of the CIO PAC should in
clude laying the groundwork for
the off year" elections in 1945
and 1916, political education, ex-
tension of the franchise to all
citizens, and stimulation of ac-
tivities of community organiza-
tions formed under the leader
ship or with the participation of
the CIO.
No "soft Peace"
Expressing the CLOS views on
international matters, the con-
vention passed a resolution at
tacking any proposals for soft
peace" and said that THE Ger
man people must be taught that
they shall atone for the horrors
and crimes which they have Wis
tied upon this earth" The reso-
luton added that German indus
trialists and Junkers should
have no opportunity to renew
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IA " Says CiUiIian
Goods Possible
In Ninety Days
Claim RecOnversiOn
Can Be Sneeded

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 QPA)-Reconverson of the
auto industry to civilian production be accomplished
within 80 days after victory in Europe according to the
United Auto Workers-CIO
Production can be under way within three months
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Hello Girls Strike
Ended By Union

WASHINGTON Nov rs UPA)-A week-ong strike
of telephone operators originating in Ohio and spreading
workers struck in sympathy in Detroit and Washington
ended abruptly Nov % with the workers still before
the War Labor Board for decision.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
War Training Fight
Interests Labor

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 IPA)-The biggest battle in
Washington renewal of the price control act is
shaping up in Congress the question of peacetme
army and compulsory military training.
Thousands of letters and kilograms opposing compulsory
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
OOCharts Course Of Action
On Important Questions
international Policies on
Politics, Wages Formed

CHICAGO, Nov 25 LPA-Looking forward to a
cial year for organized labor home and abroad 7
National CO convention closed here Nov "a after five
days of sessions Covered in policy decisions such vi
tai matters the wage freeze the role Of the Go in the
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Plans For Jobs
Drafted by Go

CHICAGO, Nov. Is (LPA)|The outlines OF the CIO $
postwar program growing out of the struggles and expert
of the years. has taken shape CO leaders COM
mented as the CIO convention drew to close Nov "a
he people of the nation have given fortnight man.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01

Continued on Page 2
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-07
WAR UPSET WOULD
CHANGE EDUCATION

Boston, June 7.-(UP)-President
James B. Conant of Harvard Uni
versity has emphasized the need OF
the United. Nations to achieve un-
conditional victory SO that American
national life will not be confined
within a straightforward of military
necessity"
If by some miracle Hitler should
succeed in forcing stalemate In
this war, the kind Of education to
be provided to the United States
would be far different from that
which I am going to advocate to-
night" he said.
Conant predicted that free edu-
cation would continue in America
after the war. He added that the
postwar battle from freedom will
be the fight for a free people COM
mitted to the ideal Of fluid society
with equal opportunity for all.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-07
LABOR OFFICERS
FREED OF CHARGE

Boston, June 7-(UP)--Indict-
,plents charging four labor union Of
thcials with extorting thousands Of
dollars from laborers employed In
construction work at Fort Devens
Nn 1910 and 1941 have been dis
Nnissed by Federal Judge George G.
Sweeney.
The men are Joseph L. Carbone,
president of Local 80, International
Carriers 81 Common Laborers Union
xAFL); John Stropparo, treasurer
and Wantee Hyhtaniemi financial
secretary, all of Fitchburg, and
Vincent Di Nunno Of Boston, presi-
dent Of the eastern Massachusetts,
division OF the union,
In Diminishing the indictments yes
terday, Sweeney said they did not
Allege that the defendants were en-
kployars or had the authority of the
employers to hire or discharge the
Haborers. The men were accused
bf collecting IS weekly from eacf
Sbf the workers, ostensibly for initia.
kon fees,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-07
COLLEGE ISSUES
BOOK NEXT WEEK
"The School Controversy,
I80l-1803" Written By
Providence Professor

Providence, r. T., June - Very
Rev. DR.. John j. Dillon, OF, pres
ident Of Providence College, today
announced the publication on June
IA of 1.-THE School Controversy.
189l-1S93" by Rev. DR.. Daniel F.
Reilly, O. p, professor Of American
history, as part of Providence Col
leges thinking and action on the
problems of postwar education"
This publication" DR.. Dillon said,
Outlines policies and experiences
which Catholic and other private
educational institutions must con-
slider for their survival and for the
greater effectiveness Of liberal arts
education in the postwar period"
The book is being printed by the
Catholic University Of America
Press.
DR.. Reilly's preface describes the
school controversy as concerned not
only with the feasibility Of allow
ing State control over Catholic
schools in return for public funds,
but also the right Of the State to
educate" His book, in addition to
being a treatment Of the legal and
canonical principles involved, Is a
study of the personalities of Card
inal Gibbons, Archbishop John Ire
land and host of other prelates
and churchmen. Besides its his
torical interest, 1.-THE School Con-
troversy' contains matter Of current
reference and Importance in de-
fining the relation Of church and
state on the educational question.
Written at the suggestion of Mon
signor Peter Guilday, noted histor-
ian, DR.. Reilly's dissertation was
under the direction Of DR.. Richard
]. Purcell Of Catholic University,
with Monsignor George johnson
and DR.. Robert ]. Slavin, o. p, as
readers. The volume is being dis
tributed by the Providence College
Book Store, Providence B, Rhode
Island.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-07
EISENHOWER GLAD
TO DIRECT FIGHT
General Receives Appoint
ment as Allied COmmar1.
der With Pleasure
Nv EDWARD V. ROBERTS

By EDWARD v. ROBERTS
United Press War Correspondent
Representing The Combined U. 3
Press
Advanced Command Post, Eng,
June 6 = CU.P.) - Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery expressed pleasure to-
day upon the official announcement
of his appointment as Allied Assault
Commander because always get
along we'll with Americans and the
American army always gives me
everything I want-and want &c
do everything can for them"
He chatted informally with re-
porters at his temporary home near
here.
Allied solidarity is most i'm.
portant to success IN Europe,
Montgomery said. land keep. tell.
ing myself now that I'm an Allied
commander. That's important"
He seemed we'll pleased with the
initial success Of the Allied assault
forces in France and was in gooc
humor as reporters gathered arounc
him on the lawn of the rambling
rose-covered country house. He
apologized for his informal appear
ance. He wore his beret, grey
sweater and a pair of faded, cordu'
roy Stacks. -,
This is what I fight in" he said
"Of course, when I want to looF
smarter, I have a new battle dres!
outfit that the Americans gave me
straight from New York and it's the
finest suit I ever had"
Chuckling, he added: Il broke my
watch recently and the Americans
gave me new watch, too A good
one. It keeps time"
The man whose job 1t will be Il
direct the forthcoming Allied lanc
smash at German continental mill
tary might after the French bridge
head Is secured, told reporters he
understood things ARE going nicely
but I haven't been out of the house
all day."
He said he had complete conf
dence in the success of the whole
operation. He conceded that there
may be "a bit of a rough house be.
fore we are finished"