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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-17
Millions of Freight Cors
UntongIed by RI Wizards

tank and box cars-all are list
ed on a form which is semitic the
accountants office of the out
going road. If the train will
move on the tracks of the New
York Central, for example, the
list is sent TO that lines clearing
office in Buffalo.
PEG FOR EACH LINE
In that office is a set of wall
pegs, one for every railroad in
the country. The long list of
freight cars is cut into strips,
one car to strip, and these are
hooked TO the proper pegs. Then
a clerk takes down the strips
and copies the notations into a
book. A new volume is started
for each road every month.
Thus does the New York Cen
trail know exactly how many
freight cars are on its tracks,
where they are, and where they
are going. Owners of all the
foreign" cars are appraised Of
the carbon copies of the slips.
The records of short roads are
usually correct up TO SO hours
of actual movement, Kendall
says. On the longer lines, the
period ranges from three to four
days.
Kendall thinks freight car
movements are one Of the most
fascinating things about rail
road operation. According TO
AAR estimates, he says, if the
roads cooperate 83 per cent
with car service division rules,
the needs Of the country's ship
pers will be met satisfactorily.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-17
Russia
CONTINUED from Page IL

a 25-mile front and came after
a drumfire barrage and violent
air attack lasting several hours.
II was termed a "msss assault
by infantry and tanks"
Russians on this sector are
commanded by 36-year-old Gen.
Ivan D. Cherniakovsky.
While the Germans acknow-
lodged local breaches" they in
sisted that the breaks were seal
ed before the Russians could
get near East Prussia" Seventy
Russian tanks were destroyed,
the Nazis asserted.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-17

WASHINGTON - (U.H DID
you ever watch the red ribbon
of a freight train wind along a
green hillside, each of its scores
of cars bearing the name of a
different railroad, and wonder
how they all got back to their
home roads? How does a rail-
road keep account of its wand
ering freight cars?
Union Pacific - Boston and
Maine - Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe-Atlantic Coast Line
- Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul-the cars go clicking by
long after the chuffing of the
engine has died away in the dis
lance. They are returned to
their place of origin, either
empty or loaded under the di-
rection Of the Association of
American Railroads.
Big, jovial Warren {. Kendall,
chairman Of the AAR's Car
Service Division, can tell you
all about it, in terms that are
understandable to persons other
than 25-year railroad veterans,
although he himself falls within
that classification. Every one Of
the 100000 freight cars in the
country is in the AAR's Equip
ment Register, listed by size,
shape, number and other char
acteristics. Each freight car
has its own individuality
Kendall says.
All the country's Glass I rail-
roads has signed a car service
agreement with the AAR set
ting up rules for handling Of
freight cars on foreign" roads.
A car belonging to an adjacent
road must be sent home when
it is unloadcd, whether there is
a return load available or not,
and if empty it has to go by the
nearest junction. If the car be-
longs TO distant road, it should
be loaded in the general direc-
tion of "home." A road may not
send its own cars to foreign"
duty if other cars are available.
An INCENTIVE to comply with
these provisions is the charge of
a dollar per car a railroad has
to pay for every day railroad
owned equipment is on its
tracks, in use or idle.
Cars not owned by railroads
rate different treatment. Fifty
private concerns such as the Pa
cific Fruit Express, Fruit Grow
ers Express, Merchants Dis
patch Inc, and packers like
Cudahy and Armour own some
10000 refrigerator cars. Oil
companies and oil car lines own
about $4,000 tank cars. The
railroads pay for the use of
these cars on a mileage basis and
they are routed in accordance
with the owners instructions.
How do railroads know the To-
cation Of their straying freight
cars?
After cars are swi c h e i
through a junction, they go out
over different railroad from |
that which brought them in. AS
the new train is being made up
the yardmaster analyses it, list
ing each car by number, destina-
ton, the road it has just left and |
the one on which it will con-
tinue its journey. Gondola cars, ,
stock cars, flat cars, refrigerator,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-17
Casualty
Continued From Page One

faced with the definite an
nouncement of Pvt. Taylor's
heroic death, today pinned
hopes that some later word may
dispel the tragedy. They say;
Hes just too lucky. We still
hope he got through"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-17
Candid AID Wins Shelter

AKRON, o. -U.P)- MIR. and
Mrs. Robert Pierson now have a
place to live. An advertisement
in a local paper in which they
described themselves as Child
less, dogless and sinleSs' brought
them the necessary shelter.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-17
Murder
CONTINUED from Page ~

Kwasniewski is charged with
having shot his wife when he
found her in bed in the Warren
township home of chance ac-
quaintance, Joseph Kopiel, early
in the morning of Sept. 3. The
Hamtramck patrolman, who
gave himself up to members OF
his own department Immediately
following the shooting, also
wounded Kopiel seriously.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
War And Freedom
BY Clayton Fountain

Our foreign policy is to win the VAR
This slogan has been shouted at us with increasing loud
every hour the Japanese attack in the Pacific
official participation in the present world conflict
It has been hurled the teeth of every democrat
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Union OiLnen To
Train Army
Engineers

LOS ANGELES, June 6 (FP)
A unique program established
here by the Oil Workers Inter
national Union, CIO, and the
Union Oil Co. will train CT Joes
and their officers who soon are
to rebuild the oil refinerieS
wrecked by the losing Nazi and
japanese forces.
That was assured by the con-
tract just signed by army repre-
sentatives on behalf of the Engi-
neer Corps and the oil company,
with the union lending its full
approval and pledge of allout
participation.
Some $50 soldiers will be
trained in small groups in class
es taught by experienced refin-
cry men, members of the union.
Their college" will be the big
Union Oil refinery at Whining
ton, near Los Angeles harbor.
The program was initiated IN
1910 after the union and the
company incorporated provisions
in their contract whereby en-
ployes, instead of advancing on
seniority only, were required to
pass written and performance
tests demonstrating their ability
IN 1nerit promotion.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
HondboII
Season TO Open

Handball and horseshoe courts
in the lot adjoining the Toledo
Industrial Union Council head
quarters, Gil Huron st. have
been put into condition in anti
cipation of a large number of en-
trants from the various shops and
Locals affiliated with the Coun-
ell.
All shops affiliated with the
TIUC are invited to send in their
entrees for handball and horse
shoe tournaments so that the
schedule may be worked out for
the season.
Information may be obtained
or entree made by calling ,he
TIUC headquarters, Gil Huron
St, Main 5525.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Negroes Want
Roosevelt

Negroes in the main Wlll not
be taken in by the constant harp
ing in some circles on the status
of the health of the President n
order to suggest that the Presi-
dents health bars him from re-
election to fourth term. "
This was the statement made
by Mr.. William p, Harrison,
chairman of the Illinois Mid
West Negro Peoples Assembly
for a Fourth Term for President
Roosevelt.
According to Mr.. Harrison,
many Negroes in the cities of the
middle west from all strata of
the population have indicated
that they will be in attendance
when the Assembly convenes on
June "a in Chicago at the Park
way Ballroom.
The movement for Roosevelt
for a fourth term is taking root
among the Negro people, accord
ing to the Assembly's survey.
Calls have been sent to church,
civic, business, labor, profession
al and fraternal groups among
the Negro people throughout the
midwest. Already the response
indicates feverish effort in the
various communities in the mid
die west to guarantee a large
representation from the various
communities.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Deer Prospects
Look Good

LANSING, June 6.-Even bet
ter deer hunting may be enjoyed
in Michigan next fall than was
the case last November, when a
record kill of 65,087 was tabu-
lated by the conservation de-
partment's game division.
A Detroit sportsmen' group,
inquiring about prospects for the
coming season, has been inform
ed by a department authority
that Deer came through one of
the lightest winters in years with
negligible starvation losses in
both penirSsulas, and reports this
spring indicate a better winter
survival than we have had in a
long time.
Last years buck fawns that
have come through the winter in
such good shape should produce
a big crop of bucks for this com
ing fall. Other things being equal
hunting next fall should be as
good or better than last year"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
y VaIv-o-Lite

Mr.. Snyder who is as opposed
to absenteeism as we are, wants
free hand to discipline en-
ployes guilty for missing work.
We feel that we should have the
right to sit in on cases of this
type and have some say in the
matter. After all, Mr. Snyder,
despite the fact his initial is the
same as Solomon'S, is not Sol
omon and possibly could use a
few words of advice in dispens-
ing justice.
Or perhaps, Mr.. Snyder be-
ing an educated man would un-
derstand better if we plagarize
a little from Don Quixote, to
wit:
The quality of mercy is not
strained.
1t is twice blessed.
1t blesseth he who giveth
And him who receiveth.
Naturally, our people who
picked the union because they
wanted its protection expect
that we will not stand idly by
while some we'll meaning (they
are always well intentioned)
person deals out punitive ac-
ton. After all, we do not know
Mr.. Snyder so well and have
no assurance that he would ad-
minister justice with all the i'm
partiality of the blind goddess.
Then, too, we are just trifle
skeptical. We have been associ-
ated with the management too
long to believe it would be per-
fectly just.
No insult intended to Mr..
Snyder; but up to this point,
we have not come into contact
with any executive of our COM
pany who had ever achieved a
record for fair dealing with the
workers. Frederick c. CraW
ford wouldn't go for that kind of
a man, and so far, we have not
heard of F. c. hating Snyder.
So, its no go as far as the
committee is concerned. We in
sist that we shall have a part
in any disciplinary action that
might be contemplated. Catch
on Mr.. Snyder?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Negro Appointed
TO CIO Group

CINCINNATI, Ohio, June s.
Paul Shearer, Negro war worker
in the Curtiss- Wright Aircraft
Corporation plant at Columbus,
today assumed his new duties as
field representative of the CIO
Political Action Committee.
Announcement of the appoint
ment was made by Jack Kroll,
regional director Shearer will
have charge of the Committee 5
political work among Negro vot-
ers in Krolls fifth region, cover
ing Ohio, West Virginia and Ken
lucky.
The appointment of Shearer,
Kroll said, is the first step in the
launching of an intensive cam
paign to enlist Negro voters of
the three states in the commit
tees political program,
After being graduated from
East High School in Columbus in
1926, Shearer attended o h o
State University and received his
Alb. degree in chemistry in 1881,
In the following depression years
he gravitated toward newspaper
ing, and was circulation manager
and columnist for the Ohio State
News until 1889, when he went
back to college for post graduate
study.
He returned to the News as
columnist in l941 and again re-
sumed his post graduate studies
at the University, specializing in
explosive chemistry. He received
his certificate in that subject in
1912. The war took him to jot
| in he Curtiss- Wright plant
where he became active in the
CIO.
To join the political actor
committee, he relinquishes posi-
tions as secretary of the County
CIO-PA League, member of the
! bylaws and political action com.
mittees of his local, and CIO rep.
Iresentative on the war manpowel
committee in the Columbus area
While Shearer'S duties will be
largely organizational, he viii
also act as special adviser tC
Kroll on Negro Press Relations
The Negro citizens are goini
to be for President Roosevelt il
1914 just as they were in 1910,
Regional Director Kroll said
They also realize that the CIC
is the only large labor group ir
America which has put up a con
sistent fight against racial dis
elimination and economic injus
tice, which has been the lot o.
minority groups,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Lake Levels
Remain Hioh

LANSING, June 6.-There is
good news for cottage owners
and resorters in the conservation
departments report that lake
levels in the northern part of the
state compare favorably with the
high stage of this period last
year.
Some lakes are higher than a
year ago and at the highest
levels recorded since the geologi-
cal survey division began taking
lake measurements in 1887 This
condition is probably a reflec-
tion of the favorable subterra-
mean reservoir conditions of the
last two years.
Average ground water levels
for May were 2 foot above the
10-year May average, 5 foot
lower than the record May high
stage of 1943, and 80 foot high
er than the record low stage of
1910.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09

behind the guns that kill our
boys.
1t is the selfishness of these
privileged minorities that con-
fuses our war aims and breeds
discord within the democratic
camp. They mouth the phrases
of freedom; but from high places
in the councils of war they cling
tightly to dictatorial controls
over economic institutions, COM
mercial spheres of influence and
colonial empires.
They don the garments of
democrats and pretend to noble
aspirations; but they act the role
of autocrats in ruling over the
far-flung domains of political
and economic activity which
sustain their privileges.
They pay lip service to free
dom from want; but they en-
ploy every device of duplicity
and legal rickery to resist the
demands of the organized work
ers for fuller and happier life.
ObstructiOnists
These are the forces - aided
by others whom they bribe and
bludgeon into serving their will
whose selfish motives and
double-d e-dealing corrupt the de-
cent humane values for which
the vast majority of the COM
mon people want to wage this
war. These are the obstruction
lists barring the way to a con-
elusive victory over FasciSm
and the contraction of an endur-
ing peace.
Unless we show them up and
slap them down now. during
the course of the war, the blood,
labor and life we expend may
well result in a fruitless victory.
For. if they win the kind of d
victory they want, they will en-
force their kind of peace
a peace based on suppression of
all the peoples and democratic
ORGANIZATIONS which aspire to
genuine world freedom.
The war for freedom will not
be won bv bullets alone. 1t will
be won, also, by ballots, by free
and open discussion of vital is
sues, and by the exercise of the
democratic right to challenge
/ the judgement of those charged
with the duty of leadership.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Disagree
With Ohio
Policy

LANSING, June 3-The tre-
mendous increase in numbers of
raccon taken by hunters and
trappers in Michigan last fall
a total of 1889, or approx
mately double the take of 1851
reported in 1942-is hailed by
conservation department game
men as complete vindication for
their stand in opposing the arti-
ficial propagation of 'coons.
Many demands have been
heard. especially during the last
two years, that the department
should engage in coon breeding
activity and should distribute
pen-raised animals. Game de-
partment men have argued that
'coons would stage comeback
Ia claim that was proved sound
last falD, and that artificial pro-
pagation of the animals would
be too expensive.
Compared With Ohio
II costs Ohio $6.40 for food
and labor during the first year
in rearing one coon, according
to available information, which
cost does not include other in
escapable expenses of housing
maintenance .of breeders the
year round, and other overhead
costs of the raccoon farm. Coon
hunters license dollars would
pay for too few 'coons, on that
basis, to materially better then
chances of success.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
CIO Issues
Financial
Statement

NEW YORK, June 4 (FP) -
Disarming its critics, who whis-
pered of huge secret funds, the
CIO Political Action Committee
June 2 released an itemized fl
nancial statement of its receipts
and disbursements from the date
of its organization to May 81,
1914.
The committee total receipts
are $3.50, ,764.11, consisting of
contributions from unions. Dis
bursements amount to S189, H.
IL. Salaries and travel expenses
of the 48 members of the COM
mittees national office staff and
the 40 employees of its Ia regional
offices total S99,398.61. Cost of
equipping and maintaining its
national office an dts Il regional
offices totals $43, 1858. Publici-
ty expenditures, including the
cost of pamphlets, the commit
tees newspaper, posters, buttons
and radio, total SIG, ,06 l.83.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
SPORTS Nez0S
Low enforcement
Chances In Ohio

COLUMBUS, June 5.-"Ohio's
hundred Game Protectors and
Supervisors look upon their
duties from very different view
points than did their predeces-
sors of many years ago. Many
years ago the protectors pay
depended on catching and con-
victing alleged violators and
splitting of fees with Justices o.
the Peace. They were not in
terested, and not expected to be,
in anything but arrests, and the
fees says Lester Bailey, Chief
of the Law Enforcement Section
of the Division of Conservation.
A monthly report, recapped
from individual reports of all
the Protectors, illustrates the
latter day idea of the many
ways in which the field men
serve the cause of conservation,
in addition to strict enforcement,
which shows them to be really
county conservation agents. The
items and totals are for the
whole State:
More Than Arrests
Number of arrests IL fisher
men checked 10,405; farmers
contacted 5,3O1; fur dealers
checked II; minnow dealers
checked 116; tree units inspected
263; applications for food patches
108; pollution cases reported 27
predators destroyed, winged
2751, ground 464; first air rem,
dered 36; meetings attended 272
Bulletin subscriptions asa; helr
in securing pond sites 27; license
agents contacted 362.
Miscellaneous activities picked
at random from individual re
ports; Erected signs, trimmed
trees at quarry; assisted a
drowning cases; gave tests t.
Boy Scouts; instructed first aic
classes; supervised planting o
trees; extinguished grass fires
dressed deer killed on highway
feeding stations serviced; sal
vaged fish; helped organize new
clubs.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
R & R Unit Noise

Chas. Kaufman, from the
gypsum room and Carl Bender
from the chemical lab, are both
in England. Leo McHue is in
Camp Tanning, Texas.
We have some gals in the
service too. There is Emma
Bascon1, a member of the WAC's
who is in Algiers working with
the Signal Corps. Betty earns,
from the packing dept, is con-
nected with the Army Air Corps.
in Dayton, Ohio.
Mary Smith, from the polish
ing room, was married to Roland
F. Burden recently. Good luck,
Mary.
Alice Sloan, shaping inspector,
is expecting an addition to her
family. Alice, says She has her
order in for a girl.
Ethel Shepard is having quite
some time with her teeth, -
she expects to be back sooi =
Walt Wilkinson has been
ing to talk himself into h..
his teeth fixed for the last tfSas.
weeks. Come on Walt! You
work on the burrs all the time,
let them work on you for awhile
now.
Your reporter, on not finding
any news from the second trick,
asked our vice chairman, Ray
Bordeaux, to write poem about
the second trick. The following
is what l got about an hour
| later.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
USW To Test Law

ATLANTA (FP)-The United
Steelworkers, CIO, will test in
the courts a vicious anti-labor
law adopted at Milledgeville,
Ga, requiring labor organizers
to pay $4,000 fees, A Steelwork-
ers organizer, who was fined
$50 under the ordinance, is ap-
pealing the decision.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
r.! t.

"Hahw snorted Mr.. Dilworth
in disgust. THAT settles that.
No more movies for me-"
But, Pop, you'll miss the next
chapter of the Galloping Ghoul, ;"
protested Little Luther
We'll, maybe just once more,
Mr.. Dilworth said, relenting
But / shall certainly write a
letter to the Times about this.
Movie stars have no business
meddling in politics. Going
around getting people to vote,
making speeches and whatnot!
Why, some of them are even run
ming for office"
IF Ham Fish can run, why
not ham alone?"
"Oh, there's no comparison at
all" cried Mr.. DilWorth. You
won't catch Hamilton yessing the
President like these actors and
actresses. No" he went on,
shaking his head sorrowfully,
"Hollywoods not what it used
to be, l seriously suspect sub
versive elements are at work
there"
Maybe Martin Dies can get
Shirley Temple to testify before
his committee" suggested Little
Luther. She's old enough to be
witness now"
How can he be sure she still
isn't influenced demanded Mr..
Dilworth. mo, it's no use. All
you get from Hollywood these
days is gaff about Roosevelt and
the war. / can remember when
all they were interested in were
parties and divorces" "
Maybe this time all they're
interested in is permanent
divorce from Hitler"
why don't they stick to that
good old formula of theirs?"
complained Mr.. Dilworth. boy
meets girl, boy loses girl, boy
gets girl,
/ Because labor-and Holly
wood, TOBIAS new formula, -
Little Luther grinned, Voter
meets congressman, congressman
loses voter, voter gets new con-
gresham"
Potatoes are OK fried, baked,
boiled or mashed, but they
should not be drunk, restaurant
owners said at meeting to con-
slider the crisis caused by WPB' S
approval of the manufacture of
potato whisky.
TUT TUT DEPT.
Tide magazine, dissatisfied
with the Newspaper Guilds
standard contract clause for
maternity leave, submitted the
following ambiguous counter pro-
posal: I
Maternity leave will be
granted by special arrangement
with the management"
Sewel l.. Avery's u. S. Gyp-
sum Co. has tightly 'regimented''
the gypsum industry, according
to several thousand pages OF
government testimony on record
! in Washington district court.