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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
Local Expands
Office Space

In order to accommodate the
increased number of dues pay
ing members, the Local IL dues
offices are being expanded.
Space now used for the office
of Melvin Schultz, Norman
Meyers and Lloyd Speidell will
be taken up by the new dues
office. Additional windows will
be installed to speed up the
handling of dues payments and
to expedite all business pertain
ing to this office.
Office space will be provided
on the second floor for the Off
GERS who are giving up their
quarters to make room for the
dues office expansion.
WHY'S Overland, American
Can and Spicer Units are NOV
ing their second floor rooms
which will be made into offices
for the officers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
Labor Wins In
New Congress
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Continued from page l
servicemen's votes will prob
ably decide.
Labor Gets Majority
Labor-endorsed n d | dates
were far in the majority among
the newcomers. Most satisfying
victory for the President, how
ever, was the ousting of Repre-
sentative Ham Fish of New
York by Augustus Bennett, who
ran on the Democratic, Amer
ican Labor, and Liberal party
tickets.
Representative Clare Booth
Luce (R., Conn.,, whom Presi-
dent Roosevelt said the country
would be "better off without"
through for a second
term on the tiniest margin over
la b o r-endorsed newcomer,
Margaret Connors, who carried
all of the states larger cities
and industrial centers.
Helen Gahagan Douglas Cd,
Calif), with union support, won
out over seven men while in
Wisconsin, Andrew Biemiller,
former chief of the WPB's La
Dor Production Division, went
back to Washington as a new
Democratic member of the
House.
A special triumph for labor
was the defeat of Charles S.
Dewey (R., I'D, who was
spokesman on the House floor
for Sewell Avery in his fight
with the Montgomery Ward
union members.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
Lame Duck
Congress Faces
Bic Closing
Continued from page

IOntlnueu lTOHl pdSC
raises up to that level without
WLB review, is now in the Sen
ate hopper in the form Of res
olution by Senator Pepper Cd,
Fla.) Outgrowth of the hear
ings on the plight of the white
collar workers in wartime, the
resolution has the support of
CIO and AFL, as well as repre-
sentatives Of such loW-Wage
workers as those in the textile
industry.
Oppose Military Training
Heated controversy in the
closing weeks Of the session is
expected if any move is made
to bring out of committee one
of the four proposals for post
war compulsory military train
ing. The Railway Labor Execu-
tives' Association has voted to
oppose any such measure and
has instructed its representa-
tives to appear in opposition be-
fore Congressional hearings.
The Commission on Educa-
tional Reconstruction of the
Amer. Fed. of Teachers (AFL)
has urged that consideration be
postponed. Representatives of 25
Protestant denominations oppose
any consideration Of a peace
time draft until the war ends,
and are joined in this stand by
the national federation of par
ent teachers groups.
Insurance Lobby Busy
The powerful insurance lobby
is expected to press for passage
of a bill to keep the insurance
companies free from the anti
trust laws. Charges have been
made by the Department of jus
tice that insurance companies
have in many cases agreed
among themselves to set rates
for fire insurance, and the lobby
would like to exempt such prac-
tices from prosecution. The bill
has passed the House, but it is
expected to meet very stiff op-
position in the Senate.
A storm of opposition, both
from labor and women's groups,
may have slowed down the
drive for so-called equal
rights" constitutional amend
ment, Under this proposal, all
measures setting up special pro-
tections for women, including
minimum wage and hour laws,
would be declared unconStitu-
tional. Lame duck Senator Guy
Gillette 3D., Iowa) is sponsoring
the amendment, which is high
up on the Senate calendar.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
THANK GOD FOR
The America of Both Parties
An article by William Hard, significant this moment
that is printed here public seruice in aduance of
its appearance the Decembr issue of The Readers Digest

" WRITE before the election. As
to its outcome, / know only
II that the victors will think
they own the country and the
yanquished will think America
lost. Both will be wrong.
In the total vote the victors will
be victors only by margin which
they will need carefully and tenn
perately to conserve. Moreover,
they will include many factions;
and they will not be able to adopt
any extreme measures without in
curing the danger of revolt
within their own ranks.
The vanquished will retain
great strength in the federal Con-
gress, in the governorShips and
legislatures of the states, and in
the ofhce-holding bodies of coun,
ties, cities, towns, villages.
The Democrats were Presiden,
TALLY moved down in 1860, 1864,
1868, 1879, 1876 and 1880 = six
successive times. The Republicans
could survive for a similar period,
A minority party in the United
States always has the chance to
start again from the grass-roots.
That is because we in the United
States still have the most strongly
localized observation-disclosures
produced in any great country to
balance its central national au-
thority. On that balance rests our
stability. May it never be over
thrown.
Forever throughout American
history each party learns from the
other; and forever, in degree,
often very large, there is an Amer
ica of both parties.
There is a quite considerable
America of both parties today.
Observing it, / am brought to this
nonpartisan suggestion:
Let both parties cease from
shadotc-bOsing, and coop
crate for their common
country on principles on
ichich in fact they are
agreed.
Those principles are numerous
and paradoxical. A majority Of I
the Democratic Party and a ma
jority of the Republican Party, as
shown by the speeches of their
responsible leaders. and as shown
also by reliable polls of public
opinion, are determined to have
an America in which there shall
be both Social Security and In.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
Little Steel Revision
Vetoed By Mayor

LORRAIN, Ohio. (LPA) In
this steel town, City Council
finally passed a resolution call
ing for the abandonment of the
Little Steel formula, over the
obstructionism of five Repub-
lican members.
Mayor VanWagnen vetoed it.
The veto is attributed by "Lo-
rain Labor Leader" local pa
per of the United Steel workers
CIO, to Mayor VanWagnen's
domination by the local big
Business" National Tube Com
pany.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17

Now, as the Republicans are en-
bracing Security, so are the Demo-
Gratis embracing Opportunity.
The President is declaring
repeatedly for Free Enterprise.
Nobody knows the Presidents
mind better than Mr.. Harry Hop
kins. who writes in The American
Magazine:
Opportunity to work must be
provided for all. We must not
imagine that public works alone
can do the job. 1t must be
done by the establishment of new
businesses. Industry must be
given every opportunity to ex-
pand. -. Competition through
free enterprise can help destroy
poverty in America. A con-
slant reliance upon large-scale
Government spending is not con-
sistent with the continuation of
our competitive system"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
Toledo Union
Journal Named
AS TIUC Organ
Continued from page ]

liam KlockoWski, Tom Adair,
John Weaver. Assistant sergeant
at arms, Winfield Vernier, Nor
ton Ackerman, Elzie Bush, Jen-
kins Williams, Frank KowalSki.
Nominated for treasurer were
Ivo Erwin, Michael Burke, Carl
Schick, George Jones. Librarian,
Evelyn Marks, Florence Ord
way, Nick .Szabo, Robert Bur
kart. Three years trustee, Peter
Hess, Cy Babione.
Board members at large
(eight to be elected) Melvin La
zette, Joseph Shea, Lewis Mat
tox, Chester Kapela, Frank
Cygnor, Charles Rodgers, James
Jones, George Scott, Michael
Burke, John Grup, Anthony
Eckhart, Clyde DeGood, Frank
Kowalski, Marshall Myers, Bes-
sic MuraVa, Ellie Bush, William
Akos, Frank Zaborowski, and
Marion Carroll.
Board of Control (CIO News),
Irving Woodtke, Anthony Pa
cholski, Norton Ackerman, Jack
Lane, Dan Sahadi, Robert Bur-
kart, Marion Carroll and Ran
dolph Gray.
VINO Speakers
Ralph Snyder, VINO area di-
rector and William Muldoon, Co.
lumbus, state VINO commission
office spoke to the meeting. Mr..
Snyder told the Council dele
gates that about 800 people
would soon be laid off in one
Toledo plant due to cutbacks.
Mr., Snyder said there was no
need for "cutback jitters" be-
cause there are three jobs for
each of the 800 laid off. Avail
able war jobs are listed at the
u. S, Employment Service Of
flee, las Michigan st.
In his talk, Mr.. Muldoon said
that it was not true as stated
in some quarters, that the VINO
was opposed to civilian produc-
ton. He said that it was neces-
sary to use the available man.
power in essential war produc-
ton and that until the priority
needs were met, civilian produc-
ton needs could not be handled.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
Paid Advertisements

(along with so many parks, pleas
ure boulevards and concert halls)
that they would use up all of the
national income needed for indus
trial development and thus stop
all economic and social progress.
Some people want Free Enter
prise but want so much of it az
to leave businessmen free to COM
bine to give us a business COM
munity not free but enslaved.
And lots of people want Free
Enterprise while at the same time
wanting to exact taxes that will
destroy Free Enterprise.
There is nothing wrong with
the ultimate purpose of the
American people in the matter of
Security and in the matter of En-
terprise. There is everything right
with it. But the practical achieve
ment of it will require the most
vivid vision and the most detailed
drudgery of which our political
parties are capable.
So will practical achievement
of the international cooperation
to which the leaders Of both par
ties are committed. How can that
cooperation give proper place to
the Great Powers without becom-
ing worldwide tyranny How
can it give proper place to small
powers without becoming a world
wide bedlam1 For the answers to
such questions the mass of Demo-
Gratis and the mass of Republicans
look to both parties.
I suggest to both of them an
issue for 1913:
Which party has outdone the
other in refraining from the
demagoguery which promotes
classes and divides Americans>
Which party has outdone the
other in contributions to the Sc.
curity-plus.Enterprise ideal which
diminishes classes and unites
Americans Which party has out
done the other in putting the
American spirit into a world or
ganizationa In other words, which
party has outdone the other in :,
service to the America of BOTH
partiess u
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
What the people want

| could quote from numerous
New Deal Democrats in the same
tenor. They know what is admir-
ably expressed by Mr.. Wendell
Berge, Assistant Attorney Cen
cral;
The American people are
agreed that they shall have an
economic order which allows a
maximum of free play for private
enterprise. They hate regimenta-
ton and love freedom; and they
will demand the largest measure
of freedom they can get, regard
less of rOhat administration is in
power."
The mass of Americans are to-
day pursuing the ideal of a society
in which every man shall be Sc
cure in minimum of subsistence.
but in which nevertheless every
man shall be free to undertake a
maximum of adventure.
This ideal presents towering
problems. For instance:
How can Social Security meet
peoples honest needs and vet
not encourage dishonest greeds
and grafts1 How can Individual
Initiative and Opportunity be
opened to all without allowing
people individually to do the
things which collectively dropped
us into the abysmal crash of 1899
and ie3o9
Some people want Social Secur-
ity but want 30 much of II 90 fast
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
IAN Opposes
"EquoI Rights

WASHINGTON, November Ii
(LPA)-An urgent appeal, es.
pecially to women members OF
the Init. Assn. of Machinists, has
been issued by president Har-
vey w. Brown, TO inform Con-
gressmen Of lam members op-
position to the so-called Equal
Rights Amendment" to the CON
stitution. The measure is now
before Congress.
The lam has a special interest
in the equal pay for equal work
proposal, because II won the first
case on this issue before the
Natl. War Labor Board, after
which the principle was incor-
porated in General Order No. l6
OF the WLB.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17

portant, from the workers
amendments to the state cons
and Arkansas. These, the So
called "ri G h TT o-w or k"
amendments, sponsored by
sweatshop interests, were de-
signed to outlaw union shop
agreements and other collective
bargaining advantages.
The reactionary interests did
not stint in their effort to safe
guard themselves. Money waS
freely forthcoming to pay for
newspaper advertisements, radio
broadcasts and all other media
of swaying the voters.
Yet California, the largest Of
the three states, refused the
amendment by a nearly 2 to l
majority. Labor, war veterans,
fair-minded employers, all lib
eral interests, worked together
and won the battle.
Arkansas passed the amend
ment with a small majority.
Labor is not so firmly rooted
there Except in Little Rock, the
major industrial center of the
state. where the amendment lost
out)
Florida, too, proved sweatshop
minded rather than union
minded, by voting the amend
ment into its constitution by a
small margin.
Measures Unconstitutional
1t is expected that the new
amendments of Florida and Ar
kansas will be found unconsti-
tutional. AFL, which led the
fight against the amendments,
has already announced that it
will carry cases to the Supreme
Court if necessary. The amend
ments conflict with War Labor
Board directives which have
already been tested, and 0n
which Wisconsin and California
courts have ruled that, because
WLB is a Federal agency, its
directives supersede state laws.
WLB General Counsel Jesse
Friedin said in a formal state
ment that no employer or labor
union would violate a state law
by obeying WLB directives, cit
ing many state and Federal
court decisions to prove his
point. And since, WLB direc-
tives, it was announced by WLB
a week before the election, will
continue to include the mainte-
nance of membership clause
(Which Arkansas has specifically
banned), friction on that point
will undoubtedly arise.
Townsend Plan Loses
Other State Amendments: Old
age security through the Town.
send $3.50 at 60" pension plan
was voted upon in four states.
California, Arizona, Oregon and
Washington. In each case the
proposals were defeated.
In Washington, an effort to
permit combination of public
utility districts for the purpose
of making cheap power avail
able through the purchase of
private power companies was
unsuccessful. Farm and labor
organizations, supporting the
proposal, were unable to over
come the private power inter-
ests.
The ghost of Prohibition was
slapped back into its grave by
Nebraskas nearly 2 to / major
ity rejecting a constitutional
amendment which would ban
sale or possession of spurious
liquors.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
Anti-Labor Measures
Win And Lose

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 GPA)-Important labor pro-
posas addition candidates for office before the
scrutiny of Americas election day. The most i'm
nortant from the workers viewpoint the proposed
amendments to constitutions of California Florida
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
No basic quarrel

No basic quarrel
Mr.. Thomas E. Dewey has ad-
vocated an expansion of our pres
ent Social Security against Old
Age and against UnemploymenD
to people not yet covered by it.
A similar expansion has been adj
yocated by an overwhelming vote
among the hundreds of business
organizations composing the u. S.
Chamber of Commerce. Increased
Social Security is now an objective
of the American people as whole.
Collective Bargaining is secur-
ity (when needed) against arbi-
trary powers by employers. The
Democrats have accepted the
Republican Collective Bargaining
Railway Labor Act of 1896. The
Republicans. in this campaign
have accepted the Democratic
Collective Bargaining General
National Labor Relations Acts of
1885. Both parties could now Co
operate to make both acts work
better. They are agreed on the
spirit of both.
They are agreed also on laws
like the Pure Food Law of Roose-
welt (Theodore), and the Securi-
ties and Exchange Law of Roose.
welt (Franklin Delano). Such laws
are security to the consumer.
Among numerous such Republi.
can laws the Democrats have at.
tempted the repeal of not one.
Among numerous such Demo
cratic laws the Republicans in this
campsign have suggested the re-
peal of not one. Both parties can
now cooperate to save such laws
from abuses by headstrong
bufeaucrats.
NJ They can also cooperate on the
other great principle: Individual
Initiative and Opportunity. This
may seem 90 be the opposite of
Security, bat it is really its paral-
leLtoday in American thought.
Not long ago the Democrats
specialized on Security and the
Republicans on Opportunity.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17

dividual Initiative and oppor.
tunity. The theoretical quarrel
between those two principles is
finished. The practical task of
combining them into an America
which will stand staunch in the
world winds of totalitarianism
now starts. 1t is a task which
should evoke sincerity from both
parties.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
OF Personal Note in Capital

Mrs. Alvin Newmyer will return
today from Atlantic City. where Mr.
Newmyer joined her during the
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marc Goldnamer
have returned after spending their
vacation in Atlantic City.
Mrs. Miriam Gelman of Indianap-
oils is the guest of 1t. and Mrs
Henry Meise.
Mrs. Estelle Nordinger and Mrs
Camille Nordinger have returned
from Atlantic City, where they
spent most of the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Frank have
returned from Lake Champlain
where they spent the summer.
Mrs. Morris Simon and her
daughters, Ruth and Jane. will re-
turn this week to their home in
Chevy Chase after spending the
summer on the Rangeley Lakes.
Her son, Mr.. Louis Simon, U. S. N,
joined them in Maine on his fur
Tough and has now returned I'd the
West Coast.
Mrs. Harry Gutmann OF New York
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Harold
Singer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Grosner
and their daughters, Gerry and Sue,
have returned from Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ullman have
returned from a vacation in the
CatSkillS and Atlantic Citv
Mrs. Louis Steiner and her daugh-
ter are visiting in New York.
Miss Betty Beckanstin, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Beckanstin
has returned to her studies al
Smith College.
Mrs. Sidney West has returned
from Atlantic City, where she spent
a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phil May have re.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Arlington County Communities
Many Return From Vacations
|As Others Leaue for Tribs

Mrs. Benjamin Soule Gantz Of
Arlington Ridge has returned from
a tour of Canada, visiting Montreal,
Quebec, Nettis Beach and st. Johns.
She was accompanied by Mrs. Roger
Williams of New York, where she
also visited.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Pigg Of Vir-
ginia Highlands are visiting Mr..
Pigg's brother-in-law and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hudson, in
Pelham, N. c.
Mrs. Frank w. Dyer of Aurora
Hills is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Frances Wiberg, in Lindstrom,
MINI, and also relatives in ST..
Paul.
Miss Mary Louise and Miss Vir-
ginia Mae Inbody of North Arling-
ton are spending some time at their
parents cottage at Yellow Springs,
| w. Va. Miss Virginia Inbody will
leave for Westminster on September
26, where she will enter her fresh
man year at Western Maryland
College.
Miss Fola La Toilette of North
Arlington has returned from q visit
at Wakefield, R. l., and Old Say
brook, Conn.
Sergt. A. c. Brown of Mather
Field, near Sacramento, is visiting.
his wife and young son, who have
been living with Mrs. Browns par
ents, Judge and Mrs. Hugh Reid Of
North Arlington, and also his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas B.
Brown. Mr.. and Mrs. Brown also
have as guest their niece, Miss
Charlotte Bramhall Of Erie.
Mrs. Joseph c. Mcclellan of Vir-
ginia Highlands and her grandsons
have returned from Ouray, Colo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold A. Kemp of
North Arlington have as guests
Mrs. Kemp's sister, Mrs. John Holli-
day Kennett, and her daughters,
Archer and Ellen Kennett, of Roa-
noke. Miss Virginia Kemp is SPEND
ing the week end at West Point,
where she attended the ring dance
last night as the guest Of Cadet
William Holcombe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry T. Buchanan,
with their three children, who have
been making their home.in Virginia
Highlands for several years, left
Friday for Wilmington, N. c., to
Evening star., 1944-09-10

turned to their home in Charleston.
w. Va, after spending the summer
here.
Mrs. Jesse Kornicker Of New York
is visiting her mother, Mrs. Nathan
Kahn.
Mrs. Louis Simon has returned
from Star Lake, N. Y. where she
spent the summer. She also spent
short time in New York.
Pvt. Everett Steinem has returned
to Fort Jackson, S. c., after spend
ing his furlough with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Steinem.
Mrs. Sol Peyser has returned from
Atlantic City, where she spent the
summer.
Mrs. Jack Frank is visiting Mrs.
Helen Goldman in Atlantic City.
Mrs. Samuel Solomon and Mrs
Clara Krafkin are vacationing in
Atlantic City.
Miss Louise Schurman will enter
tain at an open house this afternoon
at 17l7 Allison street from until
o'clock for young women interested
in becoming members of the Busi-
ness and Professional Women's
B'nai Birth.
Evening star., 1944-09-10

which city Mr.. Buchanan Is being
transferred.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Stinson of
North Arlington will leave In few
days for Boise, Idaho, their future
home, Mr.. Stinson being transferred
there as regional counsel for the
Bureau Of Reclamation.
Mrs. Robert N. McMillen Of North
Arlington is spending this month ,in
Cleveland as the guest of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Byron J. Newton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brayton w. Field of
Ashton Heights have as guest their
daughter-in-lAw. Mrs. Brayton w.
Field. tr., Of Columbus, Ohio. whose
husband, Aviation Cadet Field, is
station at San Antonio. Mrs. Field
will leave shortly for Athens. Ohio.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Guests Entertained
In WarrentOu

WARRENTON. Va. Sept. s.-Mrs,
Bennett Frank Buie and her little
daughters, Susanna and Julie, left
this week for Poughkeepsie, where
they will spend the winter while
Mrs. Buie has a position in Vassar
College.
Mr.. Wilbur Stone celebrated his
91st birthday anniversary Sunday
at his home, where he lives with
his daughter, Mrs. w. w. Patton.
Sergt. and Mrs. Adrian w. Thayer
are spending his leave with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Thayer,
in Jeffersonton, Va.
Mrs. William Dillon Of Alexandria
is with Miss Leila Marshall Gable
at Evergreen, near Markham. while
her mother, Mrs. George Gable, is
in Florida.
Henry Krogstadt has returned
from a camp in New England and
Is the guest Of his aunt, Mrs. H. r.
Oxnard, near Upperville.
Mrs. T. w. Smith is the guest of
her brother, DR.. E. Maurice Black
well, in Cherrydale.
Evening star., 1944-09-10

Goebbels called our Flying For
tresses Flying Cofflns." We need
more Of them over Germany. Let's
all back the attack. Buy more War
Bonds,