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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11

land, Ohio, received their
first monthly checks which
amounted to $58.49. Mr..
Thompson, who died in June,
was recording secretary of Lo-
cal 219, International Molders
and Foundry Workers Union.
To mark this occasion in the
history of the Social Security
Act, Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward,
one of the three members of the
Social Security Board, pre-
sented the checks to the Thomp-
son family at their home in
Parma, a Cleveland suburb,
The checks included one for
S25.07 for Mrs. Thompson and
two for. $16.71 equal amounts to
each of the children, Dale Ber-
nice, 4, and Jerald Robert, one
year old, Checks like these will
keep on coming each month,
Mrs. Woodward pointed out, for
years ahead, and the family will
have received, by the. time the
children are 10, a total of
$11,27l. Each child's check will
come until the child is ID years
old, and Mrs. Thompson's
checks will come until the baby,
Jerry Bob" is 10. Then her
as well as the boys
own, will stop,
Mrs. Thompson's checks will
begin coming again when she is
65, however, if she has not re-
or is not working on a
job which comes under the in
surance system. The checks will
continue as long as she lives.
With the benefits Mrs. Thomp-
son may receive after IS, the
total payable on Mr.. Thomp-
sons social security account
may be $4,000 or even more
Paid Premiums
For these benefits Mr.. |
Thompson had paid premiums, |
to $145, in the form
Of social security taxes at the |
rate of l per cent of his pay, |
for 7l2 years. AS required by |
aw, this tax was taken out By |
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11
Agencies
Added

Three agencies were this
week added to the list of or
ganizations receiving financial
support through the National
War Fund. The National War
Fund agencies, totaling %, are
given aid by means of the an
nual Greater Toledo Community
War Chest drive, to be held this
year, October 4-26.
The new national organiza-
.tions are: the American Field
Service, Philippine War Relief
and United Lithuanian Relief
Fund. Philippine War Relief is
organized to prepare clothing
and other material for relief
use when the Philippines are
set free United Lithuanian Re-
lief aids refugees and American
Field Service operates ambu-
lances in the combat zones.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11

his employers every pay day,
matched by them, and turned
over to the u. S. Treasury for
the Old-Age and Survivors In
surance Trust Fund.
Mrs. Thompson and the chill
dren live with her husbands S
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
f. Thompson. The senior Mr..
Thompson, also a union molder
on job that comes under the
Social Security Act, is nearing
retirement age. He will then
be able to claim old-age insur-
ance benefits which will mean
monthly checks for him and,
when his wife is 65, for each
of them as long as they live.
The million benefits now in
force are being paid out as fol-
lows, Mrs. Woodward explain
ed; to 418,500 retired workers
So, 846,000 a month; to 10000
wives, above 65, of retired
workers, $1,518,OO0 a month; to
100000 widows of insured
workers with children under 10,
So, 1885, 900 month; $4,000
children under 18 of deceased
or retired workers, $3,550,000
a month; to $4,000 widows, IS
or above, of insured workers,
81, ,172,000 a month; and to A.
500 dependent parents over IS
of insured workers who died
leaving no widow, or child un-
der 18, $4,000 month. All
told, the benefits now in force
to $18,300,000 a month.
In addition, lump-sum pay
nents amounting to $65, $50, 1000
have been paid in the cases of
100000 insured workers who
died leaving a survivor who
was entitled Immediately to
benefits.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11
Seek Ore
Price Raise

Ian SING, August =
Michigan iron mining COM
panies have the support of
Governor Harry F. Kelly in
seeking a better price for
their ores. Minnesota operators
have Jared better at the hands
of the OPA than upper peninsula
mining men, according to the
latter. Franklin G.. Pardee, state
mining engineer, will represent
the Governor before the federal
agency in Washington in ad-
vancing the case of Michigan
operators.
Minnesota iron ore, lying
near the surface, can be mined
for approximately 20 cents a
ton; it costs upwards of $2.40
to bring a tone of ore to the
surface from Michigan's deep
mines. Despite this advantage
possessed by Minnesota opera
tors, it is charged that the OPA
has further handicapped Michi-
gan companies by giving Min
neSota miners a NOR, advan-
tageous freight rate and by in
creasing the price of Minnesota
ore. Neither benefit has been
extended to Michigan COM
panies.
Pardee, with the geological
survey division of the conServa-
ton department, will point out
in Washington that the OPA's
alleged failure to lift prices on
Michigan iron ores leaves oper-
ators without sufficient margin
to finance necessary exploratory
work in uncovering new ore
sources.
State biologists and the U. S.
Geological Survey are continu-
ing their efforts to locate shall
low ore deposits in the Iron
River-Crystal Falls district of
the Menominee iron range.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11

after Fessenden. refused to order
CIO union elevator operators to
pass through picket line at
the Mayflower Hotel in Akron
to give elevator service to
Lieutenant-G General VILLA m
Knudsen, a guest at the hotel.
Service Or Else
Fessenden, CIO council mem
bers charged, was called by
telephone at his home by an
Army major, who inferred that
if Fessenden did not provide
elevator service for the general,
he would be ordered to report
for military service.
Fessenden had been origin
ally inducted into the Army last
fall, when he was only a few
months under the 38 year age
limit. After induction, he was
granted six-months deferment
as an important union official.
Since the deferment was grant
ed after induction, his position
as a member of the U. S. Army
Reserve was used to influence
his action as Akron CIO secre-
tary, the Council charges.
In May of this year, when he
refused to ask steel workers to
work 10 hours a day, he was
again ordered to report for mill
tary service. That order was
rescinded but the Army refused
to give him discharge for be-
ing over age.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11
Africo For Africans
Says Smith

DETROIT-One of the cam
paign planks of the Rev. Gerald
L. K. Smith recently nominated
for president by the America
First Party would advocate es-
tablishment on a. homeland in
Africa for the American Negro.
Smith wants the government to
force France and Great Britain
to turn over 100000 square
miles of Africa to the United
States to apply on their war
debt, on which he would settle
every Negro willing to migrate,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11

Army officials attempts to
use what they call coercion
on the union movement.
The Workers Defense League,
national union rights agency,
has also protested Fessenden's s
being "railroaded into the Army
because of his militant union
activities" in a wire from WDL
chairman Aron S. Gilmartin to
Secretary of War Stimson, re-
leased August 4th.
Fessenden was ordered to re-
port for military service at Fort
Benjamin Harrison in Indiana,
July oath, though he is 39 years
old and the father of three chill
dren. The order was issued
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Byrnes
Continued from Page 1


draft" law if the new program
doesn't get the results the brass
hats" want. One newspaperman,
at press conference held by
Byrnes on August 4th, asked the
Assistant President whether
compulsory legislation would
be sought from Congress if the
program didn't succeed. Byrnes
declined to say yes" or no"
I'D rather not discuss that, +"
he said.
To Use Prisoners
What looked ominous to labor
leaders was another part of
Byrnes statement in which he
declared that war prisoners are
going to be used on many
parts of the program" He
added, too, that more unskilled
foreign labor may be imported
to meet the reputed labor
shortage" Charges have al
ready been made by many
unions that war prisoner labor
is being used to maintain SUBJ
standard wages in both farm
work and war industries. One
labor chief declared later that
"the brass hats will be playing
with fire if they attempt to
force war prisoners in plants
where the workers don't want
them"
Byrnes' statement, as we'll as
his answers to newsmen's ques-
tions, indicated, too, that the
new directive was designed to
put up more barriers against
the orders put out recently by
Chairman Donald M. Nelson of
the War Production Board. un-
der which war plants affected
by cutbacks would be permitted
to return to civilian production
if materials and manpower
were available. New require
ments that such output would
only be allowed after approval
of the area production urgency
committee and written certifi-
cation from VINO that neither
local or "inter-regionaP labor
recruiting would be hurt, will,
spokesmen for labor say, "put
the kibosh" on resumption of
civilian production even where
local pools of labor might be
available.
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Tool and Die
Continued from Pace !

Continued from Page
organization which has FOR its
purpose the advancement of the
skilled workers. In addition to
this, the organization gives the
skilled trades an opportunity to
discuss their common problems,
make recommendations to union
and aid us in helping them"
All skilled workers are in
vited to attend the meetings
whether they are members of
the council or not. Those who
belong are urged to come to the
August II meeting and bring a
fellow worker or friend who
may be eligible for member
ship.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11
GIN Women Workers
Draw Back Pay

DAYTON, o. (FP)-The Ma
tional War Labor Boards equal
pay for equal work policy netted
women employees of the Frigi-
daire Division of General Mo-
tors almost $500,000 in back
pay.
The victory came after the
United Electrical Radio & Ma
chine Workers (CIO) took the
company to a WLB arbitrator
when it refused to settle the
claims of the women workers
in negotiation. Result waHD
wage increase for every wos
employe of Frigidaire. as
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11
Davis Mukes
Predictions

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-Wm.
H. Davis, VILE chairman mini
mizes the postwar struggle be-
tween labor and industry and
said that neither could afford
pitched battle in peacetime
any more than they could af-
ford it during wartime. He
does not believe the .no-strike,
pledge will continue after the
war.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11
Akron CIO-er RaiIroaded
Into Army, Council Says

AKRON, Ohio, Aug LPA)-Two attempts by the
hats put the Army the executive secretary of
the CIO council have been protested by the council
which asking President Roosevelt take action behalf
of Paul M Fessenden the unons involved and to stop
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11
Battle Pending for
FuHEnlpIoymentPIaR

WASHINGTON, Aug LPA)-The scene -shifters VIZ
busy on Capitol Hill this week. setting the stage for battle
to the finish on conflicting proposals to deal with postwar
job and wage security.
The Senate Finance Committee has slipped fast
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-11

CLEVELAND Aug 8 Payment the one-millionth
benefit in force under the Od-Age and Survivors In
provisions of the Social Security Act began August
g. when the widow and children of John Robert Thompson
union who had been working in plant in Cleve
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-05
State Irrigation
Unit Expands
Activity at Meet

Authority to advocate or oppose
national policies and measures af-
fecting irrigation was voted to the
Irrigation Districts Association of
California in it's semi-annual meet
ing at Fresno November 1880, it
was announced by Chairman Evans
T. Hewes of the Imperial Irrigation
District Tuesday on his return from
the meeting. The association already
had the authority to act in this re-
spect in the matter of state policies
and measures.
Hewes said that the new authority
will enable the association to initi-
ate legislation, as we'll as to support
or oppose legislation originating in
other quarters. as
Under contemplated further ac-
ton of the association, the new au-
thority will be vested in federal
relations committee of seven men,
bers, to be appointed by the associa-
tons president. This committee will
have the power to determine its
course by majority vote, but will be
subject to the general executive
committee, Hewes said.
The convention also authorized
the creation of committee to eX-
plore possibilities of statewide
cooperative group of water interests.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-05
Major Eggen Aids
In Recruiting
State Guard Unit

Major Albert W. Eggen, instruc-
tor in the tenth area for the Cali
fornia State Guard, is in Ell Centro
assisting with the recruitment cam
paign of Company A.
Imperial county now has five
State Guard companies, Major Ell
mer Heald, head of the Imperial
county battalion, said Tuesday.
Company A is in Ell Centro, Com
pany B is composed of Westmor-
land-Calipatria men, Company C is
in Calexico, Company D is in Bard,
and Company E is in Brawley.
Ell Centre is attempting to bring
Company A up to full strength
this week. Brawley's Company E
already has been recruited and has
received new woolen and suntan
uniforms. rifles, packs, sings, gas
masks, machine guns and other
necessary equipment. The Ell Centro
company will receive like euuip-
ment when up to strength.
The recruiting is being assisted
by the military affairs committee
OF the Ell Centre Chamber of Com
merce.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-05
Senators Study
Appoinfees in
State Department

WASHINGTON, Dec. S. CUP)-
The Senate foreign relations ccm-
mlttee Tuesday approved the nomi-
nations of the new state department
nigh command, but Senate floor
tight against some of President
Roosevelt's elections appeared i'm
minent
Nomination cf Joseph c. Grew to
be undersecretary was indorse d
unanimously.
There was one vote against Will
liam l.. Clayton as assistant secre-
tary-that of Senator James M.
Murray, Po, Montana-and four
unidentified votes were cast against
Archibald MacLeish as assistant Sec
retary.
All four nominations finally were
approved by the committee, how
ever, with some members reserving
the right to oppose some of the
names when they are brought up on
the floor of the Senate for con-
firmation.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-05

CHUNCKlNG, Dec. 5.
(UP)-Fresh Chinese troops
presumably n c lu d n G re-
serves withdrawn from the
Communist border area" of
the northwest, have halted
for the moment the danger
Gus Jap drive in Kweichow,
a Chinese communique re-
ported Tuesday night.
The new Chinese forces. the COM
munique said, have recaptured Pa
chai, the most ~angerous japanese
Spearhead. which is only 55 miles
southwest of the great American
air base of Kweiyang
The communique did not indicate
that the Japanese offensive threat
had been permanently reduced but
that for the moment the Chinese
have thrown a check into the at
lacking japanese armies.
The move of Chinese special
troops south from the Communist
area was expected to have far
reaching military and political re-
percuSSions.
Coming on the heels of General
issimo Chang Kai-shek's second
government shake-up, the shifting
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-05
Nine Army Men
Found Dead in
Plane Wreckage

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Dec. D,
(UP)-Army authorities at the Kern
county air base announced Tuesday
that the bodies of the nine occu-
pants of the giant army C-60 cargo
transport which crashed 30 miles
southeast of Bakersfield last Fri
day, had been removed from the
burned wreckage and taken to
Bakersfield.
All nine of the flyers were dead
when the searching party arrived
on the side of the steep cliff that
borders towering Bear mountain.
The plane was travelling from
Hondo, Texas, to Fresno.
Major Jay Montgomery, COM
manding officer at the Kern coun-
ty army air base, led the searching
party that left Bakersfield Mono ay
afternoon. The wreckage had been
spotted from the air by planes which
had combed the area in search of
the missing aircraft since last Fri
day.
Montgomery reported that the
plane crashed while making a let
down for an emergency landing
The pilot of the ill-fated ship had
radioed the Kern base for permis-
sion to land due to a shortage of
fuel. 1t is believed that he either
became confused as to the loca-
ton of the army base. or decided
to set the cargo ship down on the
Mojave cesert floor.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-05
Phoenix Officers
Care for Runaway

you've got to telephone Mrs.
Standlee because she'll be so Wor-
ried", sobbed Byron Harbord, l3-
ycar-old runaway from the Juvenile
Home at Imperial. as he talked to
officers in the sheriff's office in
Phoenix, Arizona, Monday night.
He and Glenn Gilman, l3, run
away from Portelles, New Mexico,
left the juvenile home at Imperial
Sunday afternoon after Glenn
struck the assistant matron, Mrs.
Hattie Sutterfield, on the head with
a brush handle.
Meanwhile officers in the Phoe-
nix area searched for Glenn. who
had accompanied Byron to Phoenix.
He had not been found at noon
Tuesday 1t is believed he may have
started back to his home in New
Mexico because his parents told
Mrs. Standlee they did not have
the money to send for his ticket
home.
Byron has no home and has been
kept in the juvenile home while
Mrs. Stan6l lee tries to find a home
or a school suitable for him. He
has no delinquency record, she said,
he just needs a home.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-05
Military Offers
Farm Transport

Farmers need worry no longer for
fear they will lose perishable crops
through lack of transportation. it
was revealed Tuesday by j. E.
Harshman. state delegate of the I'M
perial County Farm Bureau. +.
Through arrangements made bv
the California Farm Bureau Feder-
alton, a b-committee of the senate
military affairs committee. and the
army and navy service commands,
the army and navy will furnish
trucks and drivers to transport per-
ishables when farmers can't move
them themselves.
Farmers needing such service
should get in contact with the I'M
perial County Farm Bureau and ar
rangements will be made through j.
j. Deuel., head of the utilities de-
partment of the California Farm
Bureau Federation.
Harshman said the service is
available to all farmers in the west
coast area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-05
Legion Prepares
To Welcome
Commander, Wife

Imperial county will welcome Ed
ward N. Scheiberling, national COM
mander of the American Legion.
Mrs. Scheiberling, and an official
party January when they arrive
for 24-hour visit
The Imperial County Council of
the Legion has arranged for the
national commander and his party
to tour the Eastside Mesa, the ALL
American canal, and familiarize
themselves with plans to settle vet
erans on the mesa and with the
portents of the proposed water
treaty with Mexico.
Legionnaires and auxiliary mem
bers will attend dinner to be
given the night of January 4 in
honor of the visitors.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-05

over rOaOS CIlOkCu Will lCluSCCo
as the Soviet onrush crumpled both
flanks of the Lake Balaton line
barely so miles from Austrian soil
and 12D miles or less from Vienna
ADMIT FALL OF CITY
Berlin acknowledged the fall of
Siofok on the northeastern shore
of the lake to fast Russian col
umn that pushed up four miles
from captured Sagvar, and spoke
vaguely of elastic" defensive tao
tics in that sector-the usual pre-
lude to announcement of gen.
eral German withdrawal.
At the same time, Berlin dis
patch received in Zurich said Ges-
tapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, now
repeatedly in full control of the
Reich, had ordered NaZi officials in
Vienna to prepare for immediate de-
parture. Some Nazi leaders already
have left the Austrian capital, Zu-
rich said
Another German source in Zurich
was quoted SIS saying that the Ger
man high command had ordered all
wounded soldiers removed at once,
from Austrian hospitals to escape
capture by the advancing Russians.
COSSACKS STRIKE
Splintered into small, isolated de-
tachments by Cossack flying col
umns that slashed recklessly through
their line of flight, the Axis troops
were abandoning guns and equip
ment in a headlong race to reach
the makeshift screen of fortifica-
tons thrown cross the invasion
gaps" northeast and southwest OF
the lake.
Powerful enemy forces still were
resisting fiercely along the eastern
shores of Balaton, but their position
was deteriorating hourly as the
armored spearheadS of Marshal Feo-
dor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukranian
army drove for the opposite corners
of the lake.
With their flanks crumbling rap
idly, there appeared only a slim
chance that the Germans and Hun
garians would be able to stand for
long on the lake shores where Ber-
lin strategists repeatedly had pre-
dicted the decisive. battle for CEN
trail Europe would be fought.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-05
verde's Pupils
Top Bond Goal

Other achievements of the teach
ers and pupils in the Schools-at-
War program in Imperial county
include the feat of the Westmor-
land elementary schools where the
pupils sold $4,000 worth in three
days. These children have a goal
of $4,000, working without the help
of any organized community sale
campaign, '= 5.-
The 10 little boys and girls at
Elm school sold $3.50 worth during
the first week of the drive this time.
Bard school pupils have sold $3.50
worth. They are going to finance
purchase of a field ambulance by
February /.
Up to November 20 the elementary
schools of Brawley sold $lO56 worth,
working as usual under the super
vision of the D.A!R.
Thus far Holtville elementary
school has sold $9128 worth and still
is going strong, Mrs. Finney said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-05

1G-mile deep line protecting the
heart of the Industrial and mineral
rich Saar basin and the Rhineland
beyond
NAZIS DESPERATE
Siegfried line forts were hurting
thousands of shells across the road
of advance, into Saarlautern itself
and at the Saar bridge over which
American infantry and tanks were
pouring for the next stages of the
assault on the Saar basin.
Along a 40-mile front to the
southeast, Patton swung his right
flank northward to within little
more than six miles of Saarbruck-
en-, capital of the Saar basin, and
five miles from the French border
city of Saareguemines. Patton's ar
tillery already was bombarding
Saarbrucken.
The battle along the Roer river
before Cologne and Dusseldorf.
where the Americans first breach
eJ the Siegfried line, settled down
largely to patrol action and artil-
lery duels as the First and Ninth
armies gathered strength for n
lunge to the east bank German
preparations for cOunterattacks s
against Linnich and Lucherberg
we're smashed by American artil-
lery.
BLOW UP DIKES
At the northern tip of the 400
mile western front, the Germans
blew up dikes along the lower Rhine
river in Holland, flooding the
British Canadian bridgehead above
Nijmegen to a depth of foot in
some places in an effort to discour-
age any renewed attempt to force
the river.
The Canadians changed" some
positions in the flooded area, di,i-
patches said, but beat off an attack
by German parachute division.
Fifty Germans were killed and l10
captured.
British troops in southeast Hol-
land liquidated the German bridge
head west of Venlo, the last enem5
toehold on the west bank of tha
Mas river The Germans mao
their last stand at the ferry station
after destroying both bridges acros:
the river into Venlo.
On the Third army front, Patton
ordered his forces eastward from
Saarlautern in an effort to exploit
their successful crossing of the Saa1
river by wedging into the Siegfried
line before the enemy could regain
his balance.