Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-01
It's News
To Me
By O. J. Pecord
THREE YEARS

Next Thursday December 7, will mark the third annver-
of the Jap sneak attack Pearl Harbor We shall enter
When the of Pearl Harbor flashed to an out
ragged America united like never were before
indignation against their attack
the country. Rich beggarman all agreed
that the attack must be answered We were unanimously for
the
Immediately, the question asked-wha will labor do
for the efor And its counter questonhat will indus
try do for the effort?
il necessary rapidly. Labor too
action industrial Out of
proposed equality of sacrifice in which both labor
would things which they
had been committed
Labor give only weapon the right strike.
Management did not give anything, but the President by
executive order limited high sared executives $5Oo net
income annually
between labor and the National War Labor Board
was created which was to compensate labor Tor giving up m
strike adudicae differences settle
scales rates of and all controversial matters between
the workers and management.
formula adopted by the War Labor Board to guide
1t in making its decisions The so-caled little steel
formula established guide granting daow
ing theory that the cost of living
had only advanced Is cent from January 194l until the
formula adopted.
LABOR PROTECTION
TO protect labor from increases in and commodity
prices the Office Price Administration another
created which place ceiling all prices
so that the cost of living would not get out of step with the
All the gestures made between govern
men labor and industrial and embarked
the greatest production enterprise the world has ever seen
Unfortunately the honeymoon did last long When the
crucial election of 1912 rolled around labor intent its
production job and working long hours of overtime
ected to AS result the tide turned against labor in
l943 and still ebbng despite abors at the polls this
year
Congress revoked the Presidents limiting
incomes The salaries paid top flight industrial executives
heights Legislation threats
legislation damaging to labor introduced into
which Joined with in fighting the against
the workers.
Prices of commodities scared despite the OPA
Labor obstructed provoked in thousand
industrial management which seemed to determined
each month haraS and needle the who essential
to the the soldiers in actual combat.
IRRITANTS
Manufacturing groups joined together in their attempts
irrta labor AS wildcat strikes which
used by its radio commentators
to drive wedge between the soldiers the front and the
civilians back home.
Labor observed than occasion, a agency
the federal gains which it had from
industrial management
War Labor misplaced" Thousands OF
them dragged along nerminaby and then returned with
decisions which unjust favorable to the employers
Thousands of workers felt Labor
developed into combination of employers
against the workers Equality sacrifice had
thrown out the window by employers aided by friendly
gress.
And Just about to enter the fourth of
the labor told that despite realities the
situation despite the recommendation the War Labor
despite the injustice from which labor suffers from
the economic front, its to remain frozen.
So, enter the fourth year of the remember
ing Pearl Harbor remembering the sacrifices which labor
made remembering the thousands of laborS
sacrificed bed given shooting
remembering the War Labor Board remembering
broken pledges the unkept promises which labor
when abors cooperation and assistance urgently needed
Yes, we will remember Pearl Harbor. We will remember
the unkept equality of sacrifice everything
And remembering shall wait for there always
and abors day is coming