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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12

on this occa-
sion. 1t takes Clayton w.
CUTS to have Fountain
a erochety old cuss like Sewell
Avery tossed out of his office
on the eve of a presidential
election.
Plutocracy will make much
of this episode in the months
between now and November,
The pickings have been
pretty slim in the garden of
political issues since Pearl
Harbor. Our plutocrats have
had to console themselves with
small potato criticism of the
government. But now their
spirits are rising because they
think the Montgomery Ward
case presents them with an
extra fancy campaign issue,
Other events in the news
lend significance to the gov
ernment's action against
Avery.
WLB FIGHT
The industry members of
the National War Labor Board,
for instance, are openly up in
arms against the Boards pol
icy of writing maintenance of
membership clauses into union
agreements,
Henceforth, we are told, the
WLB industry members will
refuse to agree to Board deci-
sions which fix responsibility
for union security on employ
ers. The NAM is girding up
its loins to fight this battle
through in the courts. They
hope to prove that it is illegal
for the Board to compel an
employer to fire a worker who
fails to keep himself in good
standing in the union with
which the company has con-
tract.
1t is not strange that our
plutocrats should choose to
wage this fight in the midst of
political campaign.
THE PLOT THICKENs
This is all part of a plot to
make the public believe that
organized labor is an enemy of
democracy; that the present
government favors labor over
social groups; and that, there
fore, all good people with a
dollar to their name should
join in the political war
against labor and the Roose-
welt administration.
Farmers, professionals and
small business men will be
called loudly to the coIors of
plutocracy in the course Of this
campaign.
Ink will flow like water.
Eloquent spokesmen for husi-
ness will stump the country,
calling upon all who dwell in
the domain of the dollar to
rally to the cause of free enter
prise.
There will be many de-
mands for national unity in
the course of this campaign.
But what unity! The uni
fiers will all have their feet
high in the air trying to get
their heels firmly on the neck
OF the organized workers.
TWO AND TWO
Two and two still add up to
four. Sewell Avery's fight
against the government and
the revolt of WLB industry
members against union secur-
ity add up 10 a counter often
sive by our plutocrats against
the thin ranks of the American
democrats.
All the big guns of business
and plutocracy will be pointed
at labor and labor's friends in
government.
Armed with injunctions,
poll-tsxeS and bulky bank.
rolls, the forces of plutocracy
will plunge into the fray with
blood in their eyes. Down
with the labor unions-save
the American way of life!'
they will yell above the up
roar of the battle.
If this battle cry reminds
you of the noises Hitler made
while he rose to power, | refer
you to the Saturday Evening
Post, which swears that there
is no Fascism i'm America.
munition, buying bonds and, to
top it all, sending out h e
boxes. I'm really proud of the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12
Regional Views
By Richard Gosser, Director,
Region 2R, UAW-CIO

To those of us who have been part of 60
UAW-CIO in Toledo since its beginning, I
expression which l made at the Murray tests
monial dinner, that / would never forget the
evening as long as l lived, will need no ex-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12
It's News To Me 'y s.:s,j o; !
I'M A PESSIMIST

desk gazing orIonly at stack OF various
newspapers unopened mail letters hslfbegun
projects political propaganda subscription cards ana
lot miscellaneous junk the thought occurred to me Hell
what struggling for?"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12
American Labor
BY Melvin Schultz,
President UAW-CIO Local No. IL

WORLD WAR
The returning soldiers from World War
found jobs scarce and the cost of living soar
ing.
Responding, to pressure the AFL came
demanded protection of the right to organize
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12


Dear Sir:
| don't exactly know how to
begin this letter, as / usually
write only to people know.
/ feel as if l know you, how
ever, because of the many let
ters I've received from you. !
realize fully that the letters l
get are sent to all the boys,
yet when | read them, ii con-
Germs only me.
I'm thankful for those lovely
boxes the workers at WHY'S
Overland send me, I'm sure
you can understand how swell
a box like the ones you send
makes us feel. It's not a box
of junk a guy opens and has to
throw away because he can't
carry it. It's a box of very
useful items. For instance: |
had just come out of blitZ at
Cape Gloucester, New Britain,
on Dec. 26th, 1943. ] was tired,
dirty, wet, muddy, sleepy and
all the rest that goes right
along with big blitz. The first
connection l had with Toledo
was a package from CIO. In
this package | found soap to
clean my body, razor blades
(Which l hadn't seen for
weeks) to shave, dry cigarets
to smoke, cookies to eat and 3
REAL labor paper to read.
The handkerchiefs wer
white-the only white I'd seen
in months outside of first aid
bandages. l hope you can see
how happy | was TO get that
box. l can't thank you, the
CIO or the Willys workers
enough. am very proud to
have once worked at the Over
land.
Those Jeeps are right on the
ball. Running day and night
in all weather. But of course
I'm not trying to sell you a
Jeep-no-we need them out
here. What I'm trying to say
is this, the WHY'S workers are
turning out Jeeps, trailers, am
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12
Servicemen S
Letters
Wants Letters

MIR. Richard GoSser,
Toledo, Ohio
Dear Sir:
l wish to express my thanks
for the box | received from the
Union this month and the past
months. They are sure filled
with many useful things for a
man in service.
am now stationed at the
Marine Air Depot and am
finding my past experience at
WHY'S Overland very useful.
In closing | again thank all
of you in the unit for your
kindness. My best wishes to
al of you. / am
Yours truly,
Clarence K. Morris.
p. S.: My new address is
enclosed above If you can pub
lish my letter in your paper
or my address I'll be glad to
hear from any of the boys
and girls at Willys.
- Tune In wTOL Sunday IL 80 p. NJ. =
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12
THE AMERICAN PLAN

This was simply a drive
to destroy the unions and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
Letter Purveyor
Will Testify

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. tUP)-
George N. Briggs, identified by c..
Nelson Sparks, former Akron, o.,
mayor, as the man who supplied
him with the now disputed Hop
kins" letter, will appear before the
district grand jury Monday to tell
what he knows about the affair.
The grand jury was in recess Sat-
UTday.
Briggs. who was confidential aide
to secretary of interior Harold l..
Ickes, telegraphed Henry Schwein-
haut, justice department attorney
that he would appear at the justice
department Monday. The telegram
was sent from New York and
Schweinhaut, who had been trying
to serve a subpoena on Briggs, said
it was the first time he knew of
Briggs whereabouts. Briggs lives
in Arlington, Va.
Schweinhaut said he would take
Briggs before the grand jury i'm
mediately upon his appearance.
Briggs has become central figure
in the grand jury investigation
brought about by Harry L. Hopkins
charge that a letter which bears
his name is a forgery.
Sparks alleges that Briggs sup
piled the so-called Hopkins missive.
addressed to DR.. Umphrey Lee,
president of Southern Methodist
University, in which Hopkins pur-
portedly predicts Wendell WILKES
nomination at the comping Repub-
lican convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
Cramer Seeks Investigation
Of Prison Board Member

CISCO and quoted from letter Alec
allegedly wrote to Lloyd Sampsell,
Berkeley yacht bandit" whose es-
capes from Folsom prison harvest
camp led to Investigations of the
states prison system.
Cramer asked Alec, who is chair
man of Governor Earl Warrens
prisons investigation committee, for
public answers to seven questions
in an open letter to the press. Alec
was reappointed by Warren this
week to ten-year term on the
board. He signed Fridays commit
tee report recommending to War
rem that the states prison system
be centralized by act of specia,
session of the legislature Jan. 81.
DEMANDS PROBE
"A legislative Investigation Cra-
mer said, should be made into
Alcos relations with convicts as
far back as 1926, when as mem
ber of the board he was under fire
on charges of taking revengeful
punishment on some inmates and
of coddling Others"
Did you," Cramer asked Alec in
the open letter, write personal
letter to Folsom inmate Lloyd
Sampsell after he was assigned to
work at the Davis harvest camp in
which you stated in part:
Dear Lloyd:
II received your letter of July
l, and what you wrote made me
very happy ;. I want you to know
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
Inquiry Slated
On Closing
Big Steel Plant

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. CUP :
Chairman Pat McCarran, Cd,
Nevada, of the senate special COM
mittee to investigate the effects if
the Capitalization of heavy indus
try Saturday planned to investigate
a war production board order halt
ing construction on the structural
division of the Geneva steel mill
at Geneva, Utah.
The WPA order was issued last
month. McCarran said ut has
caused great concern in the west
and l have been directed by the
senate special committee on CEN
tralization Of industry to conduct
an Investigation
He said hearing on the Geneva
order would be held early next
month, with results being reported
to both his committee and a SINH
lar-though unofficial = committee
in the house.
Before conducting the hearing
McCarran said he would attend the
conference which the council OF
interstate cooperation will hole
next month cn this matter. Rep
reSentatiVes of California, Nevada.
and Utah will attend the confer
ence.
McCarran will thus conduct the
first investigation of the committee
he helped create in October, which
attained official status in Deem
ber.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
P|asfers
Nazi Center

LONDON, Jan. %. CUP) Big
British bomber fleets, sending a 225
ton-an-hour Anglo-American aeral
bombardment of Axis Europe into
its secon dday, dropped more than
2,240 short tons of explosives on
Magdeburg, one of the most impor-
tant war centers in Germany, Fri
day night.
A small force of four-engined
Lancasters and tWin-engined Mos
quitos madea simultaneous diver
sionary attack on Berlin, still
burning from the previous nights
recor dassault, and third forma-
tion hit targets ON the French in
vaSion coast.
The widespread attacks cost the
RAF 55 bombers, the largest loss
in single nights operations since
last August %, when 58 were lost
in heavy raid on Berlin.
The air ministry announced that
huge fires were left burning in
Magdeburg, German aircraft and
arms center rs miles southwest of
Berlin.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23

Tile lduulilS place.
General Harold r. L. G.. Alexan-
der, supreme commander of the
new Allied central Mediterranean
force, in his first report to head
quarters flashed tersely:
initial landing successful-situa-
tion progressing satisfactorily"
DIRECT THREAT ON ROME
The invasion by picked units OF
the Fifth army. spearheaded by
United States Rangers and Brit
ish Commands, pnised a direct
threat to Rome and to the German
divisions between the beachhead
and along the old battlefront to tho
south.
Rome already was reported viz
tually blockaded by paralyzine
aerial bombardment which had Gu
most of the radiating transport
lines and knocked out all but on
of its fighter plane bases.
Preparatory blows against Ger
man air bases helped keep German
fighter plane opposition to a neg
ligible minimum in the early phas-
es of the dawn invasion. United
Press Correspondent Robert Yer
million reported that in later
Continued on page 6, col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23

that my confidence and trust in
you has not Wavered for one. min
ute and l am SO grateful that you
are where you are
MAKES QUERY
Cramer also asked the San Fran
ciscan whether he had made a talk
to Folsom inmates over the prison 5
public address system extalling and
praising Sampsell and COM
mending his assignment to outside
harvest work.
Alec was inferentially charged
with telling other members of the
prison board later that Sampsll
was "a dangerous character to be at
large who should be kept within
the prison proper.
Other questions included a refer
ence to motion by the board back
in the tWentieS . forbidding any
director from interviewing an in
mate except in the presence of an
other director and was this motion
not directed at you?" AMI a query
as to whether a promise" assert
edly made to Sampsell's lady
friend" to keep her statements con-
fidential had been adhered to.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
Death Summons
Civic Leader

her mother was in coma. She
did not regain consciousness and
did not recognize anyone after she
collapsed Thursday.
CAUSE OF DEATH
The cause of death was not i'm
mediately determined but some of
her friends in Ell Centro were of
the opinion that injuries suffered
in an accident some time ago may
have been basically responsible for
her death. They recalled that she
had not been well for months even
though she went about her usual
activities.
Mrs. Meyer was one of the most
prominent women in Imperial Val
ley and was especially we'll known
socially. She was loved for her
friendly hospitality and for her
interest in the welfare and happi-
ness of her friends.
Mrs. Meyer was a member of
the First Presbyterian church in
Ell Centre and interested in the
various women's organizations of
the church. She was a member of
the Women's Ten Thousand club
and of Chapter AV of PEG.
RED CROSS WORKER
Since the war began she had
worked faithfully in Red Cross ac-
tivities, helping out where ever
she felt she could be of service.
When the ground observation corps
was in active operation, Mrs. Mey-
er was one of the observers on the
regular corps of men and women
who spent SO much time in this
war time duty.
In spite of all her activities and
interests outside her home, Mrs.
Meyer was a devoted wife, mother,
Continued on page 6, col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
Democrats Name
New Leader;
Walker Resigns
Name Chicago
For Meet,
Sack 4th Term

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. (UP)--.
The Democratic national commit
tee Saturday chose Chicago as the
site of nominating convention which
members indicated they expect to
launch President Roosevelt into
a fourth term race.
The committee unanimously ad-
opted a resolution praising Mr..
Roosevelt's leadership in war and
peace, and declaring it would solicit
him to continue as our great world
humanitarian leader"
Date of the convention was left
to the future determination of
Robert E. Hannegan, Missouri in
ternal revenue collector, who was
installed as the party's new nation
al chairman, succeeding Postmaster
General Frank C. Walker.
NO OT7iER NAMES
There was no discussion of Han
negans nomination nor of Walker S
resignation. After the 40-year-old
Missourian was proposed, it was
moved that the election be made
unanimous and this was done.
Immediately after his election,
the White House announced Han
negan's resignation as commission
er of internal revenue.
In a brief letter accepting the
resignation, Mr.. Roosevelt made
no mention of politics, but said
you have my continuing good
wishes and confidence"
Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau jr., appointed assistant
Commissioner Harold N. Groves as
acting chief of the internal revenue
bureau.
A committeeman in proposing
Hannegan as Walkers successor,
said that Hannegan had practiced
law for 15 years in st. Louis, nd
Continued on page 6, col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
BrowIey Greets
Farm Delegates

Seventy-five delegates and rep
resentatives from five southern CAL
ifornia counties were registered at
the regional Farm Bureau noon
luncheon meeting in Brawley Sat
urday.
The delegates gathered at the
Planters hotel after various COM
modify groups heard discussions in
the Brawley Union High school
were problems of food production
were considered.
The Farm Bureau members were
joined by farm home department.
women who held their sessions dur
ing the morning with Mrs. Maurice
Perry, state chairman, presiding.
DR.. Won T. Ellsworth, tax expert
and head of the California Farm
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
ALLIES Land FORCE q MILES FROM ROME
VIA Announces
New Control
On Farm Wages
Jones Sees Need
To keep Pay
And Prices Set

WASHINGTON, Jan. % (UP)-
War Food Administrator Marvin
Jones Saturday announced plans
for extending government control
over farm wage rates wherever
necessary" to check inflationary in
creaSeS.
Farm wage rates have increased
curing the past year due to the
labor shortage which tends to
| force wages upward, the VIA felt
the need to apply check to rre-
vent production costs from getting
out of hand.
Acting at the direction Of Eco
nomic S4abilization Director Fred
M. Vinson, Jones issued regulations
to govern procedure for establish
ing wages and salaries of agricul-
tural workers
TO NAME STATE UNITS
The agricultural wage boards
will be appointed where necessary
to hold public hearings and assist
in the establishing of specific wage
ceilings and in determining penal
ties for violations by either en-
oloyers or employees the an
nouncement said.
The boards will be named by
Jones 10 function in states where
he deems wage controls necessary
They will function under SUPER
vision of Col Philip c. Bruton.
director of the VIA office of
labor.
The boards will function for agri-
cultural workers in manner
similar to War. Labor Board con-.
troll over industrial wages. They
are intended to prevent rises in
farm production costs out of line
with the stabilization program.
Vinson ordered wages and salaries
of agricultural workers earning
more than 81, 400 year frozen, and
fuled that they cannot receive in
Continued on page 6, col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23

Bureau research department, met
during the morning with tax COM
mittees of the five counties, Impe-
rial, San Diego, San Bernardino,
Riverside, and Orange counties.
The days program was arranged
by S. w. Stanley of Santa Ana,
director of Region One. The after
Moons program in the hotel in
cluded an address by Bert l.. Smith,
secretary of the California Fedora
ton who spoke on the subject "The
Farm Bureau Program for 1914
Baxter Loveland of Brawley is
president of the Imperial county
Farm Bureau. Mrs. Fred Pollard
of Mt Signal is Imperial county
chairman of the home department
women.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
Russian Forces
Speed Drive
On North Front
Pour Through
Great Gaps
In n All Line

MOSCOW, Jan. % CUP)-Trium-
phant Russian columns are pouring
through great gaps in the shredded
German defense lines below Lenin-
grad, front dispatches reported
Saturday coincident with an Of
ficial hint that the Red army is
bound for Berlin.
| Speaking in the presence OF
Premier Josef Stain at a Kremlin
meeting Alexander Sherbakov, men,
ber of the Soviet Politibureau, de-
clared:
Our army and our people are
confident that the Hitlerites will
shorten their lines until the short
est line on the German front will
run along the River Spree, on
which Berlin is situated
Military dispatches revealed that
the Russians had driven the Ger
mans from second railway be-
tween Moscow and Leningrad and
were pressing on in pursuit of Nazi
units fleeing in disorder from the
Notifications comprising the vaunt-
ed "impre enable line below the
old capital
The capture of Mga, five way
rail junction 90 miles southeast OF
Leningrad, opened new channels
for supplying the Red armies of
the northern front rounding out a
week of victorious fighting.
Sherbakov spoke at a Lenin
memorial meeting of high Soviet
government officials last night
Referring ironically to the Nazi
propaganda method of backing into
admissions of German reverses. he
said:
The Germans shortened their
front in the winter of 1941, the
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
Night Raid Hits
Jap Base on
KuriIe Islands

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. CUP) =
Two night bombing raids ON the
Japanese naval base on Paramu-
shiru in the Kurile islands were
reported Saturday by the navy de-
partment, foresladowing possible
renewal of activity in the North
Pacific.
All of the American planes, Aleu-
tians-Lased navy bombers, returned
safely. The navy did not announce
the results of the attacks.
RAID DURING NIGHT
The raids were carried out dur
ing Friday night (Kurile time) and
marked the first time more than
one raid was made on the japanese
stronghold in single day.
Paramushiru is 725 miles west
of Attu, Westernmost U. S. base in
the Aleutians and 1923 miles north
east of Tokyo. 1t has been raided
seven times since early July.
The first group OF navy bomb
erS struck at enemy installations on
Paramushiru's southern coast at
midnight. The japanese sought to
drive the attackers off with anti
Continued on page 6, col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
Warren Prison
Program Calls
Fcr New Board

SACRAMENTO, Jan. %. tUP)-
The governors office Saturday re-
leased draft of a bill sent to
members of the legislature con-
aiming the prison reform program
Gov. Earl Warren will ask to be
enacted at the special session be-
thinning Thursday.
Providing for four new $lO,O00-a-
year positions, the bill sets up new
departments of corrections and JUS
ice and three-member adult at
yhority to administer paroles, set
erms, advise the governor on par
Ions, classify convicts and provide
icr punishment of recalcitrant
prisoners
SETS $4,000 SALARY
Members of the adult authority
would receive $4,000 a year, as
would a director of corrections who
would take over the executive pow
ers of the board of prison directors
in administering prisons. The four
would be appointed by the COVER
lor, subject to Senate confirma-
lion.
The present board of prison terms
md paroles, made up of two $4,000
l-year members and a S6,0c0-a-year
hartman, would be abolished, as
would the advisory pardon board.
The new department of justice
would include the attorney gen.
2rals department. the division OF
criminal identification and the di-
zisicn of narcotic enforcement. Civil
service status for employees of the
Igencies would remain in force.
The governor would appoint the
Wardens of the prisons on recon-
ICOntinlIed on page 6 col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
Board Penalties
Valley BARRIERS

shop owners and the BARRIERS had
been warned that they were violat-
ing rules.
Suspension orders ran from five
to 10 days. Shops may reopen and
BARRIERS resume work at the close
of the suspension period.
THE barber laws were passed
for the protection of the public,
Young said. "They are based on
sanitation and health. 1t is dam
gerous to ignore them"
Those who held the hearing at
state board meeting Friday night
were Lake, Harold v. Pickering,
president of the state board
and Emil c. Long, director of ex-
aminations for the board.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23

Mrs. Edith Meyer. president of
the Imperial Hardware company.
wife of Howard P. Meyer, died a.
midnight Friday in Iona Linda
sanitorium.
She went ITO the sanitorium for a
rest several weeks ago and until
recently appeared to be improving
in health. About a week ago she
became worse and her husband
went to Iona Linda to be with
her. Thursday Mrs. Frederick Pow
ers-Heald, her daughter in El Gen.
tro, was asked to go to her mother
Immediately as she was worse
When she reached the sanitorium