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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-29
Seniority
Continued from Page One

SOiitAhuCu iiOAh o6S INV
was urged by the women, for
the remainder of the war period
and during the reconversion
and until full production and
full employment on peacetime
products have been achieved" F"
Donald Montgomery, Con-
sumer Counselor for the UAW-
CIO, warned the delegates that
food rationing was endangered
by forces within the War Food
Administration, including War
Food Administrator M nv n
Jones, which would rather take
a chance on scarcity later than
have profits threatened by abun-
dant supplies.
Walter Reuther, UAW-CIO
vice president, received fire.
quent applause for speech in
which he outlined plans for the
CLOS participation in the fight
for full production and employ
ment after the war.
1--WE say very frankly that in
the immediate postwar period
we had better fight for a thirty
hour week with guarnteed
annual wage, with wages COM
ing up and prices coming down
or we are just kidding ourselves
that we can chieve full employ
ment, full production, full con-
SUMPTION" he said.
He told the conference "We
make a mistake if we believe
that seniority is the answer TO
postwar employment. 1t is not
the answer. At best it is the
rule for dividing up scarcity
when there aren't enough jobs
to go around"
Labor has a prime RESPONSE
bility, Reuther said, in trying
to develop in detail the prac-
tical machinery and the neces-
sary steps to achieve full en-
ployment. Our job goes beyond
writing resolutions, writing slo-
gans. Our job as | see it is to
work out in detail specific and
concrete proposals that we can
take to the people, that we can
take to the government and
take to industry and say: "This
is not piouS resolution. Here is
the way to get sixty million jobs
for Americans"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-29

All housewives wit h i n
reach of this paper should
take this grocery list with
them on their next shopping
trip. They should fill in the in
formation and they should see
that the list is sent Immediately
to the labor member of the local
OPA price panel or to the office
of the TOLEDO UNION JOUR-
NAL. Where there is no labor
member of the price panel,
en- d the completed list to
the secretary of the Industrial
Union Council. He will see that
the information is delivered to
the proper OPA authorities. 1t
will be up to the labor member
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-29
State Dept.
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in the U. S. or in the liberated
nations would have a real voice
in shaping the peace.
Ironically, the one candidate
acceptable to labor, Archibald
MacLeish, was approved by the
smallest margin, while other
nominees, variously charged
with pro-fascist sympatieS, big
business tie-ups and appease-
ment tendencies, found easier
going.
Roll-call votes on the confir-
nations were; Grew, 66-7;
Rockefeller, 62-9; Clayton, 81
10; Dunn, 62-10; Holmes, 619;
MacLeish, 1925.
Clayton was particularly OBJ
jectionable to organized labor
as former head of the world s
largest cotton firm and member
of one of the most violently an
ti-New Deal groups in the coun-
try.
President Intervenes
President RooseveltS inter
vention ended short-lived
"filibuster" conducted by Sen,
Pepper and other ardent New
Dealers who refused to believe
that the nominations wer
FDR's own selections and who
wanted the president to recon
slider all of them. Returning
from a three-week vacation,
however, President Roosevelt
telegraphed Sen. Pepper and
told him that the same nomina-
tions would be resubmitted to
the new Congress as soon as If
convenes if they failed Of con-
firmation in the old.
Labor leaders, while admit
ting that the confirmation was
distinct defeat, pointed out
that this was the first effort OF
its kind to influence State Dept
appointments and in its opposi-
ton labor learned a great deal
about the strategy and tactics
involved in such opposition.
Washington observers were un-
animous in their prediction
that from now on labor will
carefully scrutinize all executive
appointments that have any
bearing on the peace, the post
war world or reconversion.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-29

of the price panel to follow
through with any investigation
and action necessary. If he is
supplied with this ammunition,
he can do the job.
This is not an optional leisure
time activity. 1t is an important
assignment which can only be
discharged by the women of
labor who are genuinely inter
ested in their own personal well
fare and in the welfare of the
working people of the country.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-29

(Mail this Ballot not later than
February II, 1945).
5. After the International
Secretary Treasurer has COM
pleted the printing of the ballot
and the publication of the pro-
cedure, the special Convention
Committee shall be given the
responsibility of supervising the
mailing and the tabulation of
the ballots. The committee shall
set up its rules and procedure
for storing ballots as they are
received, and for tabulating
them, etc. In all procedures and
activities, the committee shall
have at least one representative
of each point of view on the ref
erendum.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-29
y eterans
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said, mo great work was ever
accomplished overnight. l be-
lieve we are making slow but
satisfactory progress and be-
lieve that it is only a matter of
a few more weeks when the
Veterans Committee will be
clicking. Most of the members
realize the importance of this
committee and are doing their
best to interest others in it.
Every member of organized
labor should be interested in
the Veterans welfare, for unless
the veterans get a square deal,
we may be certain that organ
lied labor will fare no better"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-29
DO YOUR PART
Housewives Mobilize
For Homefront Action

If food prices to be kept in line with established
OPA price ceilings the housewives who do the shopping
must be mobized into action Armed with the shopping
list below housewives perform yeoman service for the
pay envelope economy of the country.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-10-20
Dies Investigates
PAc Despite
BiddIe Clearance

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 -
(LPA)-CIO's Political Action
Committee Sept. % received the
attentions of the two-thirds
lame duck" Dies Committee,
Immediately following a state
ment by Attorney Gen. Biddle
that PAC and its successor, the
National Citizens Political Ac-
ton Committee, have stayed
within the federal election laws.
Biddle's legal basis was that
the PAC had confined its ac-
tivities to the primaries, which
any labor organization can do
under law, and that the National
Citizens Political Action Com
mittee, though it seeks indivi-
dual contributions from union
members, is not 6 labor union as
defined by the National Labor
Relations Act.
The Attorney General made
public his statement as a letter
to Sen. E. H. Moore Or. Okla
who had protested an earlier
statement clearing the PAC oi
illegal activities. Biddle's reply
took up Senator Moore's charge:
item by item.
Two days later, the Dies Com
mittee started its threatened in
vestigation of PAC. Irony of the
Dies investigation is that Rober
E. Stripping, the Committed
chief investigator, got his wire
crossed by inadvertently agree
ing with Mr.. Biddle that tn,
PAC was not "laboring man
organization" He charged it wa
partisan political committee
Republican attacks on PAC hav
been centered on the claims ths
the NCPAC was a union organ
ization illegally engaged in pc
litical activity.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-10-20
Amendment
Misnamed.
Charges WTUL

WASHINGTON, (LPA) Oct.
16-"Why take off your head
to cure a headache?" asks the
Women's Trade Union League in
statement issued on the eve
of Congress reconvening, in
which they charge that the
Equal Rights Amendment is
mis-named.
The amendment purports to
wipe out all difference in law
between the sexes. However, the
League believS that while some
of the discriminatory laws
against women may thus be
cured, we would kill, at the
same time, the very laws that
are enabling women to progress
and advance to real equality.
In an analysis of the amend
ment, the WTUL states that its
passage would make it impos-
sible for the state or federal
government TO ever pass d law
which applies to women alone
regardless of how necessary and
desirable such a law might be.
Passage of the amendment, it
is charged, would Cd throw out
minimum wage laws for women
which have been passed by 26
states, District of Columbia,
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, af-
fecting four million women en-
ployed in hotels, restaurants
laundries and other service in
dustries; (2) eliminate maxi
mum hour laws which have been
passed in 43 states; (3) throw
out other regulations concern
ing women which have to do
with providing proper sanitary
facilities and other health condi-
tions of employment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-10-20
War Chest
Workers Report

Volunteer workers for the
Greater Toledo Community
War Chest campaign reported
collections and pledges which
amounted to $427, ,O80, 32.4 per
cent of the total goal of 1,309,-
944 for the entire drive, at the
first report meeting in the ball
room of the Commodore Perry
hotel on Monday, Oct. 16. Rich
ard Lazette spoke on behalf OF
the CIO members at this lun-
cheon, and assured those pres
ent of the full cooperation of all
CIO members in the campaign.
This was the first of three
general report meetings to be
held during the drive. The final
report dinner will be on Thurs,
Oct. 26, the last day of the cam
paign. The last general report
luncheon will feature as its
guest speaker Miss Don Dero
who is affiliated with the ma
tional USO.
All persons attending these
luncheons and dinners pay for
their own meals.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-10-20
Spending
Your Buck
Local IL Research Dept.

Housewives who have had
to pay outrageous prices for
inferior and shoddy cotton
garments, will find the prices
still higher this fall and win
ter due to the Bankhead
Amendment which was in
tended to give parity prices
to the cotton growers, but
which in reality only serves
as a profit grab for the mills
and cotton goods manufac-
turers.
From Washington comes the
story of a sales girl in a fash
ionable department store won
dering whether anybody will
be sucker enough to buy this
junk" referring to low quail
ty cotton nightgowns priced at
$3.50 each. Before the war
these same garments retailed
at about S1.50.
Farmers Reports
Reports from the farmers
union in Oklahoma show that
farmers wives there cannot
find any cotton print goods
with which to make dresses
for themselves, due to the fact
that manufacturers can make
more money putting it into
ready made clothers to sell at
eXtortionate prices. In the
South where the cotton is
raised, the people who toll to
produce it have never been
able to afford even cotton
stockings and it is admitted
now that Bankhead's Amend
ment has failed to help them
in the least.
Last spring OPA and WPB
who have talked for two years
about the cotton situation
without doing anything about
it, hatched a plan to provide
women with $1,49 cotton
dresses for only one in six
farm women, if city women
bought none akall.
Housewives will get their
innings when Germany fails
if they follow the same pro-
cedure they did in 1920, when
consumer boycotts caught de-
partment stores with large
stocks of high priced wartime
goods. Prices will come down
if housewives refuse to buy.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-10-20
Gains Reported
At Coop
Centennial

CHICAGO (LPA SpeciaD-A
thousand delegates attending the
Cooperative Centennial Con-
gress at the Hotel Morrison
cheered the declaration of Muir
ray D. Lincoln, president of the
Cooperative League of the USA
that there is a better alternative
to the enormously called free
enterprise system than more
government regulation" and that
the alternative is the 'coopera-
tive alternative.
Summarizing cooperative pro-
gress, Lincoln said 1--WE have de-
feated monopoly on the eco
nomic battlefront. We have re-
turned ownership of property to
the common man. We have got
ten more goods to more people
at less cost"
"a Charter of Economic Free
dom" was presented to the
meeting by E. R. Bowen, gen.
eral secretary of the Cooperative
League. He declared that 'The
real four freedoms of worship,
freedom of speech, freedom to
vote, and freedom to consume"
CO-ops Check Cartels
The Committee report said
that world trade after the war
would be largely in the hands of
"private profit and govern
ment managed cartelS, either
one of which left to its own de-
vices, contains danger for pol
itical democracy, unless poy2 2zk1
full federations of coopera- -
are created to check and balS
them in the international field.
Application of the cooperative
principles of mo discrimination
because of race, creed, or polit-
ical belief and of no exploitation
of the many by the few is the
very basis of the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Ad-
ministration, UNRRA director
Herbert H. Lehman told the
delegates.
On the opening day, a session
was held on labor and the CO.
operative movement, one of
series of such special interest
meetings addressed by promi-
nent coope tors in labor,
church, youth, educational and
other fields.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-10-20
Unions Best
Guarantee Of
Vets Security
Continued from Page 1

Murray charged that section 8
of the Selective Service law as
interpreted would mean that
only zone out of every five vet
Grams will have some valid claim
on a job and that for only IL
months" He listed five def
ciencies: Cd No provision for a
service man with a disability
which might prevent him from
performing the work he did be-
fore entering service; (2) No
provision for workers whose job
was temporary or in the place
of a man already in military
service. Only the first of four or
five men who successfully leave
the same job for service has a
claim to get it back; (3) No pro-
vision for these who went di-
rectly from school or who were
unemployed when inducted; (4)
The man who left a permanent
job must apply for it within a
limited number of days after
discharge; go No provision for
a man to get a permanent job
back if expansion, upgrading,
dilution of jobs and plant shut
downs had erased or blurred
the outline of original jobs.
Robert j. Watt declared that
the aim of the AFL was to as
sure a fair deal for the return
ing service man." but, he added,
1--WE disagree with those who
believe the problem can be sOlv-
ed by merely putting all return
ing soldiers and sailors back into
their old jobs"
Permenent Workers Rights
He charged that Selective
Service interpretations hold
that the reinstatement rights
apply to so-called permanent
workers. If the individual him
self had taken the place of a
person who had enlisted, or If
the position were wartime job
that will cease after the war, or
if the job were based on an in
dividuaI contract of employment
fOl a limited period, we are in
formed no right of reinstatement
exists"
Robertson, after quoting Col
Griffith of the Veterans's Per-
sonnel Division, charged on be-
half of the railway unions that
"the law does not, of itself, give
super-seniority to veterans al
though it does protect them
against loss of seniority. 1t is
inconceivable to me that any
authority of Government could
place an Interpretation upon an
act of Congress to conflict with
the intent of labor laws already
enacted, and by which the SEN
iority rights of workers are pro-
! tected."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-10-20

to the Toledo Society for
Crippled Children about one
year ago. Mr.. Becker, who is
a member of the Spicer Unit,
saw the need for a more eff
cient method of preparing polio
packs and after talking over
the situation with his friends
and fellow workers went to
work to see what could be done
to improve the method of
treatment.
Designing and inventing the
machine was done by Spicer en-
ployees who gave their time and
efforts to the project. A COM
mittee composed of Charles
Becker, Gerald Anderson, Harry
Craig. Arthur IngWersen, Roy
Hartman, Harry Conner, Al
Riopelle, Leo Godfrey, Dael Boil
Iinger, Jane Bergin and Ellwood
Swanson went to work to make
the idea a reality.
Purchase Washing Machine
A washing machine was Sc
cured from which the agitator
was removed, but the method OF
preparing the hot packs by this
method was not entirely satls-
factory. Experimentation and
designs for new experiments
were worked out until finally a
machine was built which con-
trolls the heat and extracts the
moisture from the packs in a
highly satisfactory manner.
After a thorough test at the
Opportunity Home, hospital au-
thorities have pronounced the
machine satisfactory. Nurses
who have become familiar with
the operation of the machine are
particularly pleased with Its
efficiency.
Finance Invention
Not only did Spicer workers
design and invent the new ma
chine, but through their own
efforts financed the experiment
tation necessary to produce IT.
Nearly $1,000 were realized from
the sale of tickets on SlOOo IN
war bonds. This money was
necessary to- purchase parts
needed and to finance the en-
tire project.
II is expected that there will
be a demand for the machine
from hospitals throughout the
country which handle polio
cases A patent has been applied
for TO protect the invention. NO
body will profit from any royal
ties which will result from the
sale of the machine. Whatever
profits accrue will be turned
over TO the Toledo Society for
Crippled Children. Spicer work
ers are proud of their accom-
plishment in a humanitarian
cause and demonstrate in most
practical fashion that they are
their brothers keepers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-10-20
WLB Head Claims
Delays Show Democracy

WASHINGTON, (LPA) =
strong defense of the timing of
War Labor Board actions was
made here by WLB Chairman
William Davis, on the occasion
of the second anniversary of the
wage stabilization program. De-
cisions reached by democratic
means, when all sides have their
day before the Board, are bet
ter than "drumhead courts" of
the dictator nations, Davis said.
He attributed delays on dispute
cases to provisions in the War
Labor Disputes Act and in the
Board procedures that are de-
signed to safeguard the rights
of all parties involved.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-10-20


CIO membership behind a
huge Election Day get out
the vote" drive.
The Murray-Hillman plea was
drafted following a meeting of
the CIO-PAC Executive Com
mittee here at which final plans
for the intensification of the
campaign were prepared.
The CIO officials applauded
the workers registration success
but warned 1--WE must concen-
trate our effort on just one task
to get out the vote on Election.
Day. This is the No. l job of
every local union officer, staff
member, shop steward and PAC
committeeman. This is the No.
l job, to assure the reelection
to Pre- 81 id e n t Roosevelt for
speedy victory in the war, last
ing peace in the world and jobs
for all here at home"
Organize Shop Committees
Labor's political action army
were advised to organize imme-
diately Election Day Shop Com
mittees whose members would
be charged with canvassing
workers and their families on
and before November Z. Addi-
tionaI canvassers to work with
community organizations should
be recruited, Murray and Hill
man continued, adding where
ever possible members of the
Ebay Committee should ar
range to take off and to serve as
poll watchers and canvasserS.
Stressing that the achieve
ment of big vote-admittedly
guarantee of Roosevelt's re-
election-will depend solely on
canvassers, the CIO officials
urged that all committees CO.
operate fully with local COM
munity organizations. Where no
community groups have been
organized .non-partisan get-out-
the-vote committees within the
workers block or apartment
house should be established.
October % was set as the
date for the start of the house
toulouse canvassing campaign.
Murray and Hillman emphasized
that success would be achieved
only if workers visited home
after home, ringing doorbells
and placing the importance of
this election before each and
every eligible voter.
Urging, that every union hall
be turned into "get out the
vote center in preparation fol
November Z" the CIO Officers
stated: 1--WE have said that big
vote will be good vote. A big
vote will assure the election o.
Roosevelt and progressive
Congress. 1t is our job to make
certain that the vote will be big
There is no more important tasl
for any of us. Let's see that /
is done thoroughly and well"
Republicans Evade Issues
In a special statement, PAC'i
Executive Committee charged
that the Republican Party haC
evaded the real issues of th'
campaign and was baSing it
strategy on the constant repeti
ton of irresponsible falsehood
and reckless appeals to partisan
prejudice, race prejudice anC
class prejudice, to Wrest powel
from a confused and divided
people. "
PAC declared that the forcel
of reaction within the COP were
so fearful of PAC work that il
their desperate effort to seize
the reigns of government they
have made our Committee anc
its leaders the target of al
almost unprecedented campaign
of misrepresentation, falSifica
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