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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16

Murphy during the Detroit
Toronto plsyoffs two seasons ago.
Wisecrack Credit Dept: First
prize 10 the writer in Yank who
said, The years greatest dis
covery in sports was the pune
tured ear drum. Second prize
to Hap Day, coach of the Toronto|
Maple Leafs When his team
was taking a recent drubbing frona|
the powerful Canadiens at Mon
treal, one OF the Montreal fans
kept needing him Where's
the Toronto team. Day. Where's
the Toronto team" Day finally
turned TO the torTnentor, OUR
team Is in the army" snapped
Hap!
SUGGEST BAKER
". s. Nominee for Hockey|
Honors: 'Kingston's Hall OF Fans
is Americanized." was the Toronto|
Star heading on story frons|
Boston recently, saying Hobey|
Baker, the great Harvard foot I
bdI anu no[hcy star WHO ~
killed in the last war, had y
suggested for the Hall Of FamS,y|
Art Seigel, Boston newspapermar
=. Ching johnson. the old Ranger
recently went the length of th<l
ice TO score 4 goal in a game m
Los Angeles -. Detroit has aban1
doned hope OF getting Jerry|
Brown, huStiing center. from tbs
Canadian army, although LII
Brown has been declared physi !
cslly ineligible for overseas duty
. The Canadian army Ia releas1
ing 5000 such officers That I
how Detroit gained MurraJ
Armstrong.
Familiar Hoofbeats at New Or
leans: The Brown Hotel Stable I
Chief Knocker IL among the lead /
ing candidates for-Ihe Louixians|
Derby, "a are Valdins Sonora and
High Harp. other 3-year-oidI
which raced ut Detroit last sea !
son -. Thalel Is whispered "a q
good thing on the turf next TINS
out in the Southland. Don't blame
va, we're going for q deuce, tooF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16
Stste Champs Defends titles

NFWPTRGH y Tar
Up Last YEARS Charro-
N'v Caruegta Lar1r. ~ TGch-
burg ~. y and ICk Verne ot
Paterson y WI defend trrr
sSsu0E crowns on Jar 81 90 tr-
annual renewal ~ the Nida'7r'Ir
Skating Championships mere. D.
was arrol need frGat
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16

N''ne Hoppe pcr cV three
cushion billiard champion and
challenger WC.Fer Cochran 30 tan
Francisco arrive in YJerr1't Nom
csy for ? t'6-pc.ut ustcF y f.e
,IerroIt Recreation Building THf
match is part ~ 90l-p0Irt
r-rt.fle corpe
TITO pair Hr.' play 10 blocks ~
POINTS each heaa. r-F sts+fs
ard s p ~ each day from
MONDAY trroIGn SATURDAY rlElt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16
Skafine's Still Good
FOR MONDAY

There is beautiful skating AZ all
city Kinks. Belle Isle and AZ Ford
Field in Highland Park. No TO-
hOCgannlng- snow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16
Hes in Demand

GN Neucr trainer and swim
coach t-r Manhattan College and
'ra0e for the football Giants
has been named trainer FOR The
Yankee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16

Instead NJ meeting A. Crosse
PoInte Woods Thursday as sched-
ulcd the Metropolitan Classic
Bowling League matches are
booked for this Sunday night a.
S o clock Jack Gardner, secretary.
announced SATURDAY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16
Weeks Prep
Cage Gard

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE
FRIDAYS aAMEs
Southwestern a. Wilbur Wright NnSxA
western az ChAfsey Mackenzie a. T. n,
D. Cooley At Contra, hiHsr a. Southeast
err Esstsrn a. DENLY Highland PARK II
PsrshinE. Hamtrarnck a. CAAa 'Wsstsr>l
a. Rsdford 'Northesstsrn 81 Northern.
'NonhsEus game.
CATHOLIC LEAGUE
SUNDAYS CAMPS
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- charles A. hhrN y L. a. 81 Mary
r ~ Alphonsus a. o. Miehasl a.
PApick ~ 81 HedwiI ~ CaAmir a. NJ
Came 'Rotary al All Saints
TUEsDAY'R GAMEA
~ Leo q, Rsdesmsr. Lourdss a. a.
Nay R,dtord St Benedict At ~ G.sr1
ny 81 sarislaus 81 De la eslIsss
joseph ~ ~ Catherine, A. Ambro =
Annunciauon, 81 Rose a. a.. Paul D
Rsrnat1 a. p Vincent s. Rita at ps
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
RocidI Friction
Decreases
In Industry

NEW YORK (FP)--Friction be-
tween white and Negro workers in
American industry plants is rapid
ly disappearing and most employ
ers plan to employ both after the
war, a survey made by the Natl.
Urban League showed
Covered by the survey. the
league said, were 800 typical war
plants located in 100 communities
in % states and employing 100000
Negroes. Other disclosures report
ed by the league are:
L. Work of Negroes was declar-
ed satisfactory in 215 plants, fair
ly satisfactory in so and inferior
in 9.
2. Negroes do skilled work in
154 plants and semi-skilled in 247,
3. In 253 plants management
promised Jobs for Negroes after
the war OF the balance, II had
made no decision. The others re-
fused to make commitment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
Au+o Dealer
VioIufeS
OFA Rules

James White, head of the Jim
White Chevrolet Co., Adams and
10th Sts., has been charged by the
OPA with refusing to sell an auto
mobile to the Doehler Die Casting
Co. without receiving trade-in
machine.
Four witnesses were called in
Mr.. Whites defense at an OPA
hearing Monday. Witnesses were
Meiggs Curtis, purchasing agent
for the Red Cab Co.; John Grimley,
and o. E. Springs, employees of the
White automobile agency, and
Thomas Greenbaum.
Witnesses told Lee McDermott,
OPA officer presiding at the hear
ing, that agency employees had not
refused to sell new automobiles
when tentative purchasers rendered
OPA crtificates and had the funds
to purchase the cars. Mr.. Grimsley
said that 81 per cent Of the new
cars sold by the White agency
were made without any trade-in.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
Reuther Demands
Food Investigation

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-FP)
Burning of $4,000 pounds of
oranges and grapefruit in the city
incinerator at Detroit the week
before was reported to War Food
Administration by Vice-Pres. Wal
ter Reuther of the United Auto
Workers (CIO) Feb. IL. He de-
manded an immediate investiga-
tion.
Five truckloads of the fruit,
some of it in spoiled condition,
were hauled on Feb. and 5 from
the produce terminal to the City
incinerator for destruction, Off
cials reported.
"Such wanton wastage of food
cannot be tolerated in this war
emergency" Reuther told VIA.
"The public interest demands
that the facts behind this scandal
be brought to light, so that the
citizens of Detroit may know if
valuable fruits are being deliber-
ately destroyed for the purpose of
holding up retail prices" he said.
Consumer representatives in
Detroit have charged that exor-
bitant margins exist there between
cost and retail prices of
citrus fruits, according to the
UAW. Wholesale market men
claimed that the fruit destroyed
was of small size which consumers
would not buy.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18

First rumbles of the COM
ing battle were heard last
November at Cleveland, when
the National Association of Real
Estate Boards convention con-
demned all public housing as a
failure and demanded that it be
turned over to-guess who-the
real estate crowd. The real estate
lobby declared that no more public
housing should be built. AS a sub
stitute, something called rent
certificate scheme was proposed.
Under the rent certificate plan,
millions of families would have to
go on relief to qualify for better
housing. And even then there is
no assurance they would get it.
The only certain thing is that the
landlords would collect the rent
certificates, which would amount
to the cash difference between
slum rents and the price of good
home.
Would Perpetuate Slums
Experts say the rent certificates
would perpetuate the slums by
making them so valuable the cost
of removing them would be pro-
hibitive.
Congress has not appropriated
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
Power Trust
Threatens
Life Of IVA

FRANKFORT, Ky, Feb.
IA (FP) - Americas giant
power trust isn't ready yet to
quit fighting the Tennessee
Valley Authority that has
demonstrated to the United States
how electric current can be made
available everywhere at low rates.
The Kentucky senate committee
on public utilities has favorably
reported out a measure designed
to prevent towns and cities from
obtaining cheap, municipality
owned power plants in any COM
munity where privately owned,
high-rate plants exist.
Under the proposed measure,
cities could establish their own
electric power plants only by pur-
chasing existing systems at fancy
prices or by engaging in long and
expensive litigation through con-
demnation proceedings.
Muny Plants Weapon
IVA General Counsel w. c..
Fits of Knoxville, Tenn, said at
a hearing here that competing
(municipal) plants, or threat Of
such plants, was the only bargain
ing power the cities have against
private utilities.
He said the bill would force
cities to pay the asking price" of
the power companies or continue
to buy power from private COM
panies. President X. M. Watt of
the Kentucky Utilities Co. an
swered that the corporations "cus-
toners and investors must be pro-
tected."
Paducah is the only city in the
state now planning to acquire a
plant Of it's own, using Twas
cheap power. Watts company now
owns the Paducah system.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18

a dollar for slum clearance since
1887. Aim of the well-financed
real estate lobby is to see that post
war home building is left strictly
to private enterprise-which can
build only for the better paid half
of the nation.
Public housing advocates main
tain no Washington lobby. But the
National Public Housing Confer
ence, with the backing of AF'L and
CIO unions and the cooperation Of
the housing committees of the two
labor federations, is organizing a
nationwide educational job on pub
lie housing.
In direct charge Executive
Vice-President Lee F. Johnson,
who was, until Jan. 81, assistant
commissioner of the Federal Pub
lie Housing Authority. In that
post he was a key man in the
building and operation of more
than 100000 dwelling units of war
housing and $4,000 units of low
rent housing.
AFL President William Green
and CIO President Philip Murray
hailed Johnson's appointment in
messages to NPHC President Bryn
J. Hovde. "Rehousing of slum
dwellers whom private enterprise
cannot. reach is one of the first es-
sentials of Americas postwar re-
construction" Green said. Organ
lied labor" Murray said, "is vi
tally interested in the development
and execution of comprehensive
housing program"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
Wright Workers To
Get Back Pay

PATERSON, n. ]. (FP)-Ap-
proximately $5 million retroactive
pay will be collected by members
of Local 600, United Auto Work
ers (CIO), as the result of con-
tract signed with the Wright Aero
nautical Corp. for its plants in
northern New Jersey.
Retroactivity will extend, for
some workers, as far back as July
o6 1912
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
Industry Kills Almost
One Per Day

LANSING, Mich, Feb. II (FP)
Fatal accidents in Michigan in
dustry coming under the workman
compensation act totaled 276 IN
1943, or almost one per working
day, the state department of labor
and industry reports. Total injur-
les involving compensation bene-
fits were 36,994.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
Mexicons To Work
For Railroads

NEW YORK (FP)--As the re-
suit of an agreement between the
War Manpower Commission and
the Mexican government, 1,200
Mexican laborers have b e n
brought into the New York area
in the last four months to work
on the New York Central and New
York, New Haven & Hartford rail-
roads. They are employed as track
workers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
NEW STEW YARD

Walter Hickman, another of our
harder working union members, is
the new steward in the millwright
department. Walter deserves the
promotion and will no doubt give
the workers his best efforts. Give
your grievances to Walter and he
will see to it that they are taken
care of with promptness.
We extend our sincere sympathy
to Pete Mattimore of Dept. sc, who
recently lost his mother.
Frank Maners, who was recently
given an honorable discharge from
the Army after being pinned under
a jeep, is reeuperating at his home,
1915 Lane Ave. We all wish Frank
speedy recovery.
Dick Rogers is threatening to
move into civilization now that his
we'll has gone dry and is giving out
only mud.
Freddy Phillips has purchased a
combat knife and is leaving for
service Feb. 21. His partner, Bill
Rhodes, is also leaving but hopes
he will never have to use combat
knife.
Wanna dog? Anyone wishing a
good airedale dog contact George
Pund.
Just what reason did the fore
men in the Navy building have for
taking down the sign over the door
Of the mems lavatory? Strange in
deed are the ways of the bosses.
This is leap year. If you don't
believe it ask Louis Clark, who is
making the claim that when he got
on board street car the other day
all the girls whistled at him. Per-
sonally, we can't believe it. 1t will
take more than leap year to make
the girls whistle at Louis.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18

gore War Mobilization COM
mittee.
Berge appeared as wit
ness in behalf of S-7O2, bill to
create an Office of Scientific d
Technical Mobilization, which he
described as a government agency
charged with responsibility to see
that benefits of scientific research
are not denied to the public be-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
National
Supply
ROLLIE FREDERICK

Rollie Frederick, steward in
Dept. IS, is another of the Ma
tional Supply Units good union
workers. Rollie is one of those kind
of fellows who manages to get his
work done and is willing at all
times to take care of his peoples
grievances. We need good men like
Rollie and want to take this oppor-
tunity to give him a pat on the
back and tell him we think he's
doing good job.
AROUND THE SHOP
Bob Wysong of Dept. SO has
been inducted into the Army. We
want to wish Bob lot of luck and
hope that he and the rest of our
boys will soon get the job over
with and be back with us again.
High" Bisbee is threatening to
get himself pair of roller skates
since they put that new concrete
floor under him. Claims he doesn't
feel at home any more and needs
some risk to keep him on his toes.
Tim, the Inspector in Dept. 80,
pays off his bets on the INSTALL
ment plan. That's still better than
not paying off at all.
We all regret the death of John
Koenig in the flat scraping. We
extend our sympathy t. his family
in their loss.
AS soon as somebody donates
Smitty of Dept. Sc bottle of
champagne he will launch his boat.
Do we hear any offers?
This snow is tough in more than
one way. For instance, Stanley
Rozinski on the flat scraping has
had to give up wearing his white
palm beach shoes on account of the
drifts. How about wearing rub
bers?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18

cause of the private interests of
particular groups"
Competition Suppressed
He described for the committee
how under the "so-called Western
Agreement, competition among the
railroads in western territory was
almost totally suppressed" how
the Pullman Co. used its monopoly
of the sleeping car business to
make railroads pay the additional
cost of adopting new-style light
weight sleeping cars and otherwise
restrained the use of new equip
ment; and how the railroads,
through their wholly owned sub
sidiary," the Railway Express
Agency, kept up air rates and
hindered air cargo growth.
Railroads operating west of the
Mississippi entered into the West
ern Agreement in 1882 and it re-
NAMED in effect until April 1943
when it was "reputedly" cancelled
after its discovery by the Justice
Dept, Berge said:
The agreement, he said, bound
its signers not to initiate changes
in practice" which might adverse
ly affect the earnings of any,
other railroad. Nor could mem
bers to the pact introduce changes
in rates, both passenger and
freight, traffic rules and practice, y
whether or not they adversely af-
fected the earnings Of other mem
bers. Proposed changes had first
to be submitted and approved by a
Western Commissioner.
Pullman Retards Development
Development of lig h weight
sleeping trains was deliberately re-
tarded by Pullman Co., Berge said,
in order to protect the earning
power Of its old heavyweight
equipment. Such lig h t-weight
equipment furnished by the com
pany was sold under excess-cost
agreements, whose terms were de-
signed both to discourage railroad
interest in the cars and to shift to
the purchasers full financial risk
Of the investment in the cars, he
said.
In striking contrast to Berge's
testimony was an expensive adver-
tisement inserted in national mag
azines by the Assn. Of American
Railroads in February, which said:
"That's why the railroads are
not only working but are studying
so as too keep ahead of their ap-
pointed tasks-to meet the nations
war needs now, and later to pro-
vide for peacetime America the
finest transportation that expert
ence, plus modern materials and
science, can devise"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
c!O Scores in South

ATLANTA (FP)-One of the
best paid-vacation clauses in a
union contract among basic indus
tries in the south was written into
an agreement between the United
Steel Workers (CIO) and the big
Murray company here.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
MESA Seeks
TO Stop
Election
Continued from Page l

against the alleged prejudice OF
the NLRB against the MESA
when NLRB representation
hearing was held in Toledo on the
Willys-Over case, in which
Local IL UAW-CIO sought an
election in departments previously
controlled by the MESA.
Representatives of the MESA
protested the hearing in the Will
ys-Overland case, and then walk
ed out of the room to stage an
immediate strike in all cities where
the MESA had representation.
Call Off Strike
When it became apparent to
MESA leadership that the Ma
tional War labor Board was going
to take strong measures to force
the workers to return to their war
jobs, and in the face of demand
by the Board that the MESA give
up the use of the strike weapon
for the duration, the MESA or
dered its people to return to work
Temporarily, halting their strike.
George White and Matthew
Smith, president and executive
secretary respectively of the
MESA, both had defied the War
Labor Boards order to appear be-
fore the Board in Washington
after subpoenas had been issued
for them. Both men later said they
would go to Washington as or
dered.
UAW- -CI0 Is Confident
Officials of Local u, UAW-
CIO, expressed their confidence
that the majority of the people at
the Packard plant would vote for
the UAW. Melvin Schultz, presi-
dent of the Local, expressed the
view that the MESA strike of two
weeks ago had shown the workers
what weak organization the
MESA is. He said, Striking un-
der the circumstances the MESA
used to Justify its walkout is not
a sign of strength, but evidence of
weakness and lack of confidence.
Mr.. Schultz expressed his opin-
ion of the MESA's appeal to the
NLRB on the Packard election di-
rectiye, saying, "The appeal in
the Packard case was further
proof that the MESA lacks conf
dence, not only in itself but, more
Importantly, in the workers. 1t
was a face-saving gesture and not
any real consistency on the part
Of the MESA"
Workers in the Packard plant
give every indication that they will
give Local II UAW-CIO a large
vote, proof that the unpatriotic
strike policy of the MESA does
not meet with the approval of the
who are interested in
the war and belonging to
a strong industrial rnion which
can accomplish things for them,"
said Edward Duck, in charge of
-he organizational work at the
Packard Co. plant.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
Real Estate Boards Lobby
Sharpens Ak For Housing

NEW YORK, Feb Ia (FP)-A showdown is looming
between the advocates of owrent housing and small but
powerful group of property who want to keep the
Ss at any price. Labor which has always fought the
m again lining up the side of public housing
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18

there are some powerful influences
at work here to keep the people
disorganized."
Tull Makes Reply
Continuing his reply to the edi-
torial, Mr.. Tull said, "it seems to
me that the Troy paper has more
than a passing interest in the at
tempts of the UAW-CIO to or
ganize the Waco plant. Despite
its attempt to appear fair, we can
see that nothing would suit the
Troy paper better than to destroy
the organization we are building.
When the editorial writer tries to
make it appear that the unions in
terest is not in Troy and that his
is, he is not stating the truth. We
are interested in the workers. We
are interested in the industries in
which the people work.
"The statement that the union
doesn't care if a plant goes bank
rupt or not is ridiculous. The
workers are just as interested in
the solvency of corporation as
the stockholders are, in fact more
so. When a company goes bank
rupt the stockholders only lose
their money. The workers lose
their jobs"
Organization Is Growing
Mr.. Tull stated that the or
ganization of the Waco plant is
growing and that from all indica-
tions the election should prove
successful. 81 don't believe that
even the Troy News can sabotage
our election or mislead our peo-
Pile"
He stated that he was fully re-
sponsible for the handbills and that
as far as he was concerned, "the
of the Waco doesn't
have to reply to anything that we
put in our handbills as long as
they have the Troy Daily News to
do their writing for them"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
Railroad Trust Blocks
Technical Progress

WASHINGTON, Feb IA FP)-U. S. railroads have
withheld the of technical improvements restricted
services maintained high noncompetve rates and blocked
development of air cargo transportation Wendell Berge
sistant u attorney general charged here before the Kill
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
GOING INTO SERVICE

Anyone leaving for the armed
services should give their name to
Russell Riley so they will receive
their boxes. In order to expedite
matters, ask your steward for Rus
sells address. Then, as soon as you
are in camp, write Russell letter
and he will see to it that you are
taken care of.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18
Troy Newspaper
Fights JAW
In lis Columns
Continued from Page

Continued from Page /
there are some powerful influences
at work here to keep the people
disorganized."