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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
!. SerViCennen'S
Letters
Dear Mr.. Gosser:

Dear Mr.. GosSer:
Just a few lines while have
a little time before going to
work to let you know how
things are over here. l am get
ting along fine and am in good
health so far and | hope can
stay that way as it don't pay
to get sick over in this mo
mans land" and l mean no
man with his right mind
would care to own it. All it
does over here is rain even
when the sun shines which is
very seldom,
What | wouldn't give just
for a look at Toledo again.
Sure hope it isn't far away.
Mr.. Gosser | would sure like
you to do me a little favor and
that is thank the folks at the
Willys plant and also the Lo-
cal members for all they have
done for the boys in the SerV-
ice, the boxes and the letters
we get from home. If there is
anyone who would care to
write to me, l would sure well
II!M | pue sL7l9I I!sql 9uoo
answer each one so tell them
all to write and to keep up the
good work on the home front
and l hope and pray that this
war is over soon, so we can
all go home and live in peace
again.
So will close for this time,
hope to hear from you again
soon.
AS ever, your fried and fell
low member and worker,
Pvt. Charles r. Broshions,
353491888, 340th @. M.
Depot Co. Com. z E T o
APO. 562, co Postmaster
New York, N. Y.
u. S. Army, France
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01

Views
By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2B, UAW>ClO

CHICAGO, Nov. 25-One of the most i'm
portant actions taken by the CIO convention
here this week was the decision to continue
the PAC.
Labor is awake to its political interests as
never before, and for good reason. These past
three war years have driven home the lesson
to labor that it is not only the employers with
which it must deal, but the government itself
In our dealings with the government, the
War Labor Board, the War Manpower Com
mission, National War Labor Board and other
government agencies, we have learned many
lessons over these war years. We realize now
that government is moved by political con-
siderations and that we must deal with it
politically.
In the days before the war, we were able
to conduct negotiations with employers and
sign contract, and that was that. Today, we
have difficulty in even negotiating. We have
a feeling sometimes that the War Labor Board
is opposed to labor and on more than one oc-
casion, we have gained concessions from man.
agement only to have them knocked down by
government agency.
CONGRESS TOO
During the past two years we have OBJ
served congress in action. Search as NAV. |
cannot find any legislation of any value TO
labor. But need not search too long or hard
interests of the workers. y
For the past two years, bills have marched
into and through congress which would have
been of value to the workers The Kilgore
bill was one of the outstanding bills of this
type. You know what occurred to the Kilgore
bill. 1t was showed under.
You saw the anti-strike bill passed which
even Governor Tom Dewey labeled as a
mistake" There was no difficulty in getting
-(N lN
You saw congress repudiate the PresideA -
executive order limiting annual incomes in
high brackets. Then you saw the War LabS1
Board carry out the Presidents executive or
der which froze your wages more effectively
than high incomes were ever frozen.
You saw the equality of sacrifice" proposal
turned into laugh The employers have
never been part of the equality of sacrifice
Profits are marching on.
You Martin Dies do his best to witch
hunt in the ranks of organized labor, and you
saw labor answer him politically In six
months Martin Dies will be one of the real
forgotten men of the 18th congress.
IT'S POLITICS
Seeing all these things, the CIO entered
upon the political campaign of this fall and
did job which the country is going to talk
about for long time to come And in the
light of that job and the unfinished business
which still needs to be taken care of before
labor can draw deep breath, the PAC is to
be continued.
Our task is cut out for us. We are not
going to be caught short in 1916 as we were
in 1912. We recognize our interests, we are
going to work to safeguard and advance them
on the political front. To that end, the Chi
cago convention made its decision 1t is now
up to each and every one of us to not only
continue our education job in the political
field, but to enlarge upon it and show our own
and other people that we need two instru-
ments, the economic and the political.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01

England, Nov. 8, 1914
Mr., Dick Gosser
2B Regional Director
Winthrop Street
Toledo, Ohio
Dear Dick, and all Brothers
and Sisters of CIO, Local IL,
Overland Unit:
/ am now safely in England,
ad must say it is a beautiful
country, but l am longing for
the day when / can return TO
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
Editors Mail
Thanks Poper

Dear Sir:
Please accept my belated
thanks for the fine support
which the TOLEDO UNION
JOURNAL gave me during the
recent political campaign. l
am sure that the work of the
paper and the PAC contribut-
ed materially to my vote and
election
Sincerely yours,
John w. Hackett.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
Political
Action
BY
Clayton
Rusch
Chairman

of the Political Action Committee
The CIO Convention has
gone on record in recommend
in that the PAC be continued.
This is good news to PAC
members in Toledo because it
means that we shall get CO.
operation of the National or
ganization in the building of
the Toledo Area, PAC.
There are 21 Wards and 9
Townships clubs in the local
area PAC.
The clubs meet once each
month in their respective
neighborhoods at any date be-
tween the 18th and the last
day of each month.
So far our local organization
has put forth most of its eff
fort the last two months be-
fore the public elections, but
from now on the local area
PAC must be year round
organization doing year
round job.
ENTERTAINMENTS
One way in which the name
of the PAC will be kept be-
fore the public from now on
will be by sponsoring at least
four entertainments per year.
The first of these will be a
Valentines day dance which
will be held February 10, 1945
in Parlor "A" at Local IL
Hall.
The Ward and Township
Clubs will also be activized by
having some form of enter
tainment of their monthly
meetings.
1t is not only important that
we endorse and work for the
election of the right people. at
election time, but it is equally
important to keep the workers
informed of the various legis-
lation which comes before the
National and State Legisla-
lures.
There will be bills which
seek to promote the interests
of labor coming before our
legislatures. Letters should be
written by CIO and PAC
members urging that our
elected representatives sup
port such beneficial legisla-
ton.
There are also anti-labor
bills which are continually in
troduced into Congress and
the state legislatures. On these
bills letters should be written
from the CIO and the PAC
members urging our elected
representatives to oppose such
bills.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
The legislative committee of
the PAC headed by David Gu
herman Local IL attorney is
doing a good job of summariz-
ing all bills which pertain to
social legislation and prepar-
ing reports on them to be
given at the PAC Ward and
Township Clubs meetings.
In this way our members
will be kept informed of what
is going on in Congress and
the state legislatures, so our
people can write to their elect
ed representatives and let
them know what they want in
the way of legislation.
Our membership has greatly
swelled due to the recent
membership drive, but we are
still short of our goal for 50,-
600 members.
Very soon the 1945 cards
will be available. These will
include membership in both
the National and Local PAC.
Literature on PAC is avail
able in the PAC office in
Room 410, 425 Winthrop st.
Come up and obtain some en-
tightening reading material.
Now is the time to renew
your membership for 1945.
If you are not a member,
come to our office and take
out membership.
If the local workers will
join and become active in PAC
our endeavor to secure the
passage of social legislation in
the future is bound to be sue
cessful.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
TAKE YOUR PICK

THE Nazi party iealously
guards its right to lead the
people and will brook no in
terference from any other in
stitution nor will it share this
leadership with any other in
stitution. The education and
control Of the German people
belongs to the Nazi party
alone"
DIR. ROBERT LEY, Nazi
Labor Front Leader.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
And Another

Dear Sir:
l want to thank you for
your efforts in my behalf in
the election of November Z.
There is no doubt in my mind
that the work and support
which your group gave me
was the extra push needed to
aid me in my campaign for the
Court of Appeals.
Sincerely,
Amos l.. Conn.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-25
Sculptures Predicts
Art Renaissance
BY ADELAIDE KERR
AP News Features

VALLY WIESELTHIER, Vi
enna-born sculptress who is now
an American citizen, believes the
world is heading toward a rem
aissance of art.
The copper-haired artist said
so the day her own show opened
in the Orrefors Galleries in New
York.
CATER so much destruction
there must be some building up"
she said. "Some people are going
to be shocked by what say-but
T thinks we should not feel so bad
about the destruction of art In
Europe. It's terrible, of course,
And we all wish it could have
been prevented. But it may push
people into creating something
new.
s'Now we shall have to build a
new world on the broken pieces
of the old. There will be new ar
tistic creation. It will extend be-
yond painting and sculpture to
the things we all live with-fur-
niture, dishes and doorknobs.
There may be less and the mod
ernistic trend. When we got our
chairs so plain and square they
looked like boxes and our lamps
were two triangles thanking
light, that was about as far as
We could 60 in this direction.
THE boys at war have had
their fill Of plain looking things.
They will want more richness
when they return - not fussi-
ness. but elegance. We can look
for 4 new. richer art and deco.
ration after the war;
Her present exhibition is made
up of modern Tanagras INSPIRED
by the small Greek sculptures,
glazed busts and framed tiles.
She also has some larger pieces
such as fountains. Wiese1thier
says her sculpture is done by the
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-25

same method the aborigines used
to make their pots. She uses no
armature, but builds hollow fig
ures from the outside, letting a
narrow edging of clay dry before
she builds up the outside wall
any further. Her glaze is made of
glass powder, mixed with water
and laid on.
She lives and works in a 57th
Street apartment that's a scram-
bled weller of figures, clay, pots,
painted furniture, scattered pa
pers, casually arranged furniture,
growing plants, two cats, three
kittens and dog.
Valley had no intention of be-
coming sculptress when. she
braved her lawyer fathers wrath
to study painting at the Wiener
Werkstaette vienna Workshop
instead Of being ga home sitter"
Then one day another student
brought some clay to the school.
Vally traded her necklace for
half of it and modelled a little
figure. Next day her professor
said, ''Now I know what Vally
is; she's a sculptor
Later she showed her work at
the Frankfort Faor, came home
with books full of orders for ce-
ramics and fabric designs and
was launched as a success. In 1923
she came to New York with IL
boxes of her work intending to
exhibit and return. But her New
York exhibition led to others in
Pittsburgh, Detroit and else
where, orders flocked to her and
she has remained in New York
ever since.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-25

Subscribe 70 The Nugget.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-03-23
Extension Agent to
Tell New Processes

Mrs. Gladys K. Bolon returned
from Yakima Saturday night
where she attended the district
conference on food preservation,
March II and ID.
The latest food preservation
techniques and problems of food
spoilage were discussed by DR..
c. c. Prouty and Miss Eleanor
Davis from Pullman. During the
hour and half open for the
public, slides were prepared from
spoiled food brought in by people
and they were able to see under
the microscope the organism caus-
ing the spoilage. A discussion of
the principles involved in killing
the botulinum organisms and the
toxin they produce was also q
part of the meeting. Mrs. Bolon
will be very glad to give this in
formation to individuals or groups
interested in food preservation and
food spoilage through the county
extension office.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-03-23
R.C. Nursing Classes
Are Still Being Held

b The Red Cross home nursing
classes are still very active in
Benton county. There are classe:
progress now in Hanford and in
Richland, the classes in Prosser
Benton City, Kennewick land two
in Hartford have terminated.
About go more ladies in the
Richland area are registered for
the standard course of "a hours
to be started in near future.
Anyone interested in the home
nursing course will please register
with the following chairman in
their locality. Hanford: Mrs. Jean
Edwards, Mrs. E. j. Snodgrass;
Richland: Mrs. Nelson Taylor.
Mrs. Hardleben, R.N.; Prosser:
Miss Lucille Perry; Benton City:
Mrs. Ira Hartman; Kennewick:
Mrs. Jess Vinson, Mrs. Harry
Linn, R.N.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-03-23
FLA Boys Learn
How to Shear Sheep

A large number of boys en-
rolled in vocational agriculture
in the local high school under di-
rection of Victor D. Rogers at
tended recent school shearing
school.
The shearing was done at the
Christensen farm on the River
Road with Lyman Taft from Top
penish in direct charge.
The following 20 boys took part:
John Thrasher, Nathan Burrows,
Phillip Falk, Harry Lee, Duane
Galloway, John Gravenslund,
Oliver Steward, Dee Roy Gamma
day, Wilbur Perkins Norman Ham
ilton, Richard Smith, Lee Long,
Junior Schreier, Merle George,
Clayton Sweek, Herby Foraker,
Donald McInturff, Milton Far
agher, Carl Dahlberg, Herbert
Draper, Leland Klinetobe, Dale
Westermeyer, Lloyd Benton and
Herbert Erickson.
A few of the boys will shear
some of our local sheep as result
of thos training.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-03-23
Price Control
Committee Needs
More Volunteers

The local OPA board this week
started selection of volunteers who
will serve on the price control
committee for this community.
More qualified committee MEM
bers are needed, it was announced
by Chairman G. E.. Ridley, who
asked that persons interested i'm
mediately contact Rubie A. Ben
son at the local board.
"The work of this committee is
the most important now faced by
the government in its price pro-
grams" Mr.. Ridley said. Ration
ing, administered by leaders in the
communities of America, is well
in hand and now local boards
will have greater power to act
in the fight against initiation.
1T means more work for the
local boards, but it also means
that we in our own community,
will be given the first real au-
thority to deal effectively with
those who refuse to abide by the
laws which govern their more
patriotic competitors.
"The price control committee
will also serve as an invaluable aid
to honest merchants. It's functions
will be to make GIA regulations
more easily understood and to re-
duce, in every possible way, the
burdens now encountered by
merchants operating under the
many complex requirements of
war"
Part-time, as well as full time
workers are sought.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-03-23
Most Kennewick People
Miss Huge Explosion

Most Kennewick people missed
hearing the big explosion at Her
mission Tuesday night when one
of the ammunition igloos exploded
Others claimed to have felt and
heard the thing and reports OF
the same have come from as far
as Lewiston and Spokane.
The big hill just south of Ken
newick is supposed to have shunt-
ed most of the noise and conclusion
from this immediate area, although
KenneWick is much nearer the
plant than the other cities men
toned.
Five men and woman were
killed in the explosion, which did
no other damage to the several
hundred other igloos scattered over
the 10-mile square area. In the
town of Hermiston, some 10 miles
from the plant windows were
broken and some little other dam
age reported. There was no in
dication of sabotage.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-03-23
Recreation Agent
Here ] tuesday,

T. c. Hoagland, of Seattle, rep
resentative of the division of recre-
alton of the Federal Securities
Agency was in Kennewick Tues
day and met with the local War
Recreation committee that eve
ming for discussion of the pro-
posed recereational program for
this community.
On account of the several shifts
in the local situation the past
few weeks, plans which We're be-
ing worked out previously have
had to undergo considerable OF
change and modification, accord
ing to Rev. j. B. Coan, general
chairman of the group.
1t is now the plan developed
Tuesday night to make immediate
pplication for an outdoor spring
and summer program for the chill
dren and youth of the community
and to press for immediate action
This will be followed, it was stat.
ed, by application for necessary
construction of recreation facil.
tiles as soon as possible.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-03-23
Local Hospital
Association Meets

A meeting has been called for
Thursday tonight of the MEM
bership of the Kennewick Hos
pital association for the purpose of
effecting its organization, adopting
its bylaws and incorporation pa
pers and electing its trustees.
The group will meet in the par
lor of the Methodist church with
its chairman, Urban Koelker pre-
siding. The group represents Is
organizations of the community
and district and with several mem
bers at large in addition.
They will also consider the Fed
eral agency proposal to finance
one half of the building costs of
the proposed hospital.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-03-23
1914 Seal Sale Doubles
Last Years An-Time High

Mrs. j. r. Ayers, seal sale chair
man for the Benton County Tu-
berculosis League, has turned over
a total of $3562,18 to the treas
urer for the 1913 Christmas Seal
sale which is more than double the
all-time high of $1416.03 of last
year.
The league wished to thank all
who helped in any way to make
the sale such a success for the
task was made doubly great by
the sudden rapid increase in popu-
lation in the county. The 1914
sale this fall will need many more
helpers. All of this work is
volunteer.
Two schools in the county did
outstanding work. In the little
school at Paterson the children
sold subscriptions to papers and
sent the SIS thus made as a dona-
ton. The seventh grade at Han
ford asked for seals to sell and
sent in over 1925 from their sale.
More than two-thirds of this
money stays in Benton County to
be used in carrying out the pro-
gram for the year.
Final returns were:
Benton City and Horse Heaven,
seals $299.60, bonds $40, pins So,
total S322.60; Paterson, seals $18.-
40, pins zoe, donation SIS, total
$3.50; Prosser, seals S4O6.O2,
bonds $50, pins $4.75, total 44O.77:
Rattlesnake, seals $21.93; Walnut
Grove, seals $44.50, bonds $40, to-
tai $3.50: Whitstran, seals ST..
pins 81, total $78; Kennewick,
bonds, $3.50, pins $5l.75, total
S129.25; Pomona Grange, bonds
$40; Finley, pins $3.37; rest of
county, S2477.86; totals, seals,
S3345.6l, bonds $147.50, pins sea-
or; donations SIS, total $3562. 18.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-03-23
New Projects
Outlined for the
Postwar Activity
School, hospital, post
office, sewers, paving
and sidewalks i'm plans

Local planning for postwar
activities and improvements was
started last Friday night, when a
representative group Of business
and professional men met under
call Of Mayor A. c. Anon to Or
panize for the project. The meet
ing was called in response to a
request from Governor Arthur b.
Langlie, who offered the mayor
such assistance along these lines
as the state departments could
supply.
About twenty men responded TO
the call Of the mayor, represent
ing nearly all local organizations
chamber of commerce, Kiwanis
club, city council, city and county
planning commission, etc. A ten
tative program of the delayed
projects and improvements created
by or through the war was OUT
lined and the community is to be
organized to follow them up as
and when conditions are such as
to permit them. -
IL was agreed among those pres
ent that the first and most i'm
portant project to the community,
the state and the nation as a
whole, was the development of the
High Line project, the prelimin-
airy work for which has already
been completed. This project has
the endorsement Of the reclama-
ton bureau and will undoubtedly
be one of the first undertakings
by the federal government, as il
has such a high value in man.
power use, in providing food for
the war-torn world and homes and
jobs for displaced men from the
services and those who have come
to the Northwest as a result of the
war projects here.
Other items named on the pro-
gram were mostly of local inn
portance, but vital to the progress
and prosperity of the district.
These projects include the sewer
extensions and disposal plant, a
vastly increased recreation pro-
ject and program, including new
and enlarged parks. In the build
ing program new post office,
and union depot were included
hospital, school and new city hall,
in the projects the town should
work for.
Other items were air and water
port developments, street paving
and sidewalk extensions. Also
the possibility Of securing an
underpass for the railroad cross
ings was discussed.
Further meetings of this COM
mittee will be called from time
to time as conditions permit and
cooperation from the state will be
solicited and used in the several
larger projects.