Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-10-13
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(LPA EXCLUSIVE )-Antl-laD Dor
propaganda and faxed anti-un-
ion stories in the daily press are
being carefully examined and
compiled day-by- day by a top
official of the Office of War In
formation.
Thousands of lies, distortions
and commissions concerning or
ganized labor's war record have
already been documented from
the daily press and will appear
in book form next January.
Most notorious of the hun
dreds of anti-labor stories which
caught headlines from coast to
coast, according to the Owl Of
merchant seamen refusing to
unload badly needed munitions
and supplies at Guadalcanal.
First printed by the Akron
Beacon-Journal, this horror
item was flatIy branded untrue
by the War Dept. The Beacon
Journal never substantiated its
story altho it was given numer-
Gus opportunities by government
agencies and unions.
Another widespread anti-labor
story, in the Owl officials files,
reports that the crews of the
merchant ship Coos Bay" took
up a collection to help out the
"underpaid" workers who went
out on strike in a war plant.
The strike, shortlived, was un-
authorized and every union of
ficial strove to get the men back
on their jobs. But the anti
labor press played the incident
so strenuously that it got into
the servicemen's papers accord
ing to the Owl official.
"The anti-labor press never
gives up" he declared, mo mat
ter how many times its stories
have been proven lies and dis
tortions. All thru these news
paper articles runs one single
purpose-to ALLEVIATE servicemen
from the workers who have
been making their weapons,
clothes, ships, medicines and
equipment. All these stories,
consciously or unconsciously,
figure on a peacetime America,
in which civil war is far more
potential than w h e n Hoover
gassed the bonus-marching vet
erans out of their tents and huts
on the Anacostia Flats near
Washington"
For the majority of the daily
press, he said, it's the relatively
small one and two day strikes
that make the headlines-not
the Presidents own statement
that labor has been 80 and
44/100% true to its no strike
pledge"
"If we balance our strike rec
ord against that of Britain's," ;"
said the Owl official, I'VE find
that we have done a much bet
ter job than they have, and
without the compulsory con-
trolls on strikes and walkouts
because it was fighting for its
life.
But all in ALL" declared the
Owl official, 'our strike record
is far better. than England's,
even without the penalties that
threaten anyone who leaves his
job without permission, or who
is absent or tardy too many
times.
"You don't ever hear about
that in the anti-labor press" he
continued. 1--WE hear very lit
tie about the huge strikes by
the Welsh miners because they
don't get thru censorship. Or
strikes in the Glasgow ship
building yards. Reading the an
ti-labor press in the United
States you would get the i'm
preston that the only people in
the world who don't want to
defeat the Axis are members of
organized labor" "
The entire story of how the
anti-labor press has aided Nazi
Germany and Japan by foster
ing disunity between the armed
forces and the workers on whom
they depend for weapons has
been written by the Owl Off
cial ond will anDear in book