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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
LET ConGre esS
Know
BY Federated Press

With members Of the house
and senate back home until the
end of their Easter recess April
13, labor is letting the legislators
know that it is interested in their
votes on the following bills:
Poll Tax Repeal CHR y: Pass
ed by the house, this bill is set
for senate action April II, by
agreement with Senate Majority
Leader Alben Barkley. Unionists
are increasing their messages of
support of this bill to their sem
ators, asking them to stop poll
tax filibuster by invoking the
cloture rule and accepting no
amendments.
School Lunches IS 1921 and S
1920: Almost identical, these
bills provide US. funds for hot
lunches for school children and
help the war effort by permit
ting mothers to remain in war
plants during the day. The house
has killed a similar plan. Labor
is asking senators to seek early
hearings and passage, and telling
house members to reverse their
action when the bill comes be-
fore them again.
Price Control: Price control
must be renewed by congress by
June 80. This means the continu-
alton of OPA and control of the
cost of living. Unionists are urg-
ing renewal of the Price Control
act without crippling, damaging
amendments that would aid price
profiteers.
Gil Bill IS 1767): Bill for re-
Mobilization of veterans of thtS
war. Provides unemployment
pay and for disqualification and
education of veterans. Passed by
senate, it may have a hard time
in the house, where Rep. John
Rankin Cd, Miss heads Com
mittee on War Veterans Legisla-
tion. Urge local congressman TO
vote for the senate bill without
amendments.
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election will result in victory
for their organization. They
claim that they have signed up
substantial group of the work
ers and that others will give
them support. Basing their
claims on the results which the
Scale Workers have accom-
plished, the CIO believes that
the workers now are satisfied
that the so-called independent"
union cannot win them any sub
stantial gains and are ready to
make a change to a bona-fide
union.
CIO members of the Toledo
Scale Co. are pointing to the case
of r. f. Morris, chief inspector,
who was discharged by the COM
pany on April l after nearly 33
years of faithful service. They
are asking company employees
who are won over by the COM
pany's plea to the workers to
"be loyal" what they expect to
gain from their loyalty if they
do not have strong union to
defend them.
Discharge of Mr.. Morris SUBJ
stantiates the claims made in
recent issues of the TOLEDO
UNION JOURNAL that dis
charges of high company super
visors would result from the
studies made in the plant by the
efficiency engineers hired by the
company.
Hours for voting have been
set from 800 p. m. to els p. m.
All departments will be called
in turn and given the opportu-
nifty to vote. Balloting will take
place in voting booth on the
company's parking lot.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
Race Prejudice
Warming Given

NEW YORK (FP)-A warn
ing against high geared Nazi
plans to divide the American
people by introducing the germ
of religious and race hatred was
sounded by speakers at a Ma
tional Federation for Constitu-
tional Liberties dinner.
Attended by 500 people, the
event was highlighted with the
taking of pledge for racial and
national unity by all those pres
ent.
Asserting that organized labor
is awake to the danger of intol-
erance, CIO General Counsel Lee
PreSSman called on all groups
and organizations to join in the
fight to wipe out "the most vici-
Gus form of HitleriSm, namely,
racial discrimination"
Pressman cited the absence of
any disturbances in unionized
plants during the June Detroit
riots and the battle to achieve
full citizenship for millions of
Americans in the south through
the elimination of the polltaX"
as evidence that labor is in the
vanguard of the campaign
against race discrimination
A message from President
Roosevelt called the dinner IAN
outstanding contribution to the
achievement of that unity, so
essential to winning the war and
securing an enduring peace"
NFCL Chairman George Mar
shall presented Paul Robson,
singer and actor, with an award
for his outstanding contribution
toward building interracial
unity"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
Rankin Finds
Fault With
O. |. Bill

WASHINGTON (FP) - Ole
John Rankin, the Mississippi
polltaxer who heads the House
Committee on World War Vet
Grams Legislation, has found
some serious faults with the G-l
bill designed to rehabilitate vet.
Grams of this conflict.
Rankin addressed the house
April l and expressed concern
because the G-I bill provides for
unemployment compensation for
veterans for up to So weeks.
But let Rankin tell the story.
THE danger | see in provision
of this kind is that it might en-
courage unemployment and al
the same time discriminate
against the man who goes back
to his old job, back into his shop
or his store, or to the farm, and
therefore gets no such unemploy-
ment pay.
Again, am afraid it might
result in a demand for an exten-
sion of this unemployment pay
at the end of the year. There
would probably be hundreds of
thousands or maybe several mil
lions of them drawing this unem-
ployment pay, which could
amount to several billions of dol
lars a year.
There is also a provision that
it shall not be considered unem-
ployment if man applies to and
is refused employment at a shop
that is closed on account of a
strike.
That provision should be
eliminated because if these boys
feel about these strikes as do the
ones who write from overseas.
they are going to take delight in
breaking up some strikes when
they get back home, and l do not
want to see them shut out by
any such provision; nor do
want this law to be used as an
excuse for not giving them
work"
Rankin's TRADE was against a
provision of the bill that safe
guards the veterans from being
used as NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
them to retain their unemploy-
ed pay status if the position of
fered is vacant due directly to
strike, lockout or other labor
dispute"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
TWU Scores
Starvation
Wages

ATLANTA, April 5 (FP)-
Union surveys of living condi-
tions in five typical textile COM
munities reveal that the average
textile workers substandard SIC
hourly wage has led to ''malnu-
triton, lack of clothing, insuffi-
cient medical attention and no
comforts" the Textile Workers
Union (CIO) said here.
The plight of the grossly un-
derpaid textile worker was pre-
sented to a national War Labor
Board panel at hearings on TWU
wage demands. The union is ask
ing a general wage increase CT
not less than 10c an hour, a min
imum 60c hourly wage, mini
mum rates in all job classified
tions, a guaranteed daily mini
mum wage, a third shift differ
ential and vacations with pay.
TWU President Emil Rieve
served notice on the mill owners
that the soc minimum is merely
Stopgap and that the union
will be back for more.
1t costs textile workers S29.33
a week to live on a budget de-
vised by WPA for relief workers
in 1885, the union survey found.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
estimates that the average cot
ton-rayon worker earns S22. so
a week.
Eighteen cotton textile mills
for which financial reports are
available for 1943 reported a net
profit of about 1000 annually for
each employe on the payroll, be-
fore taxes and reserve deduc-
tions were made, as contrasted
to an annual wage paid the
worker of S1140, the union said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
IVA Amendment
Faces Defect >
WASHINGTON. Apri

WASHINGTON, April
1t is the almost universe
ion of the boys in the pre-
leries, that the House will kill
the anti-TVA amendments pass
ed by the Senate.
The principal fight, as Con-
gress moved toward its Easter
recess March 80, centers around
the haymaker landed by Senator
Kenneth McKellar ID. Tenn as
an amendment to the independ-
ent offices appropriation bills :
McKellar's plan would require
IVA to abolish its revolving
fund and obtain yearly appro-
priations from Congress.
Two of the leading House
Democrats have lined up in sup
port of the federal power
agency: Majority Leader John
w. Mccormack Cd. Mass.) and
Rep. Robert Ramspeck (Da. Ga.)
the majority whip. Both have
publicly announced opposition
to changes in TWAS operations.
Additionally, practically the
entire Southern bloc is up in
arms against the McKellar
amendment and editorials from
a dozen major Southern news
papers have been read into the
Congressional Record condemn
ing the senator's action.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07

The CIO and the AT of l.
have gotten together a pro-
gram which will within a
short time result in loosening
the chains which bind the corr
porations' pocket b o ks and
prevent millions of wage earn
ers and consumers from keep
ing up with living costs. In the
final analysis it will be up to
President Roosevelt to revise
the present setup and effectuate
a stabilization program that will
maintain a fair balance between
wages and prices.
Organized Labor COOperates
In our own community it has
been the responsibility of organ
lied labor to cooperate in aid.
ing the consuming public by
protecting retail purchasers
against greedy monopolies and
those local merchants who
would be only too willing to
contribute their bit toward in
flation by charging exhorbitant
prices for the necessities of life.
Local II, UAW-CIO has play
ed prominent part in carrying
on the fight of the workingman
in this community. We have
been successful in electing our
vice president, T h o mas H.
Burke, to a seat in City Council,
and he has been recognized by
thousands of Toledoans as al.
re y being an outstanding
member of that body.
Ours is a difficult task. We
are doing our best TO help not
only our members, but all who
work for q living in this coms
munity. Only by united action
can we succeed.
1t is our duty TO organize the
industrial workers on a basis
which will enable them to cope
with organized management.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
Senofe Agrees
On Poll Tex

WASHINGTON, April 1. -
(FP) - Agreement has been
reached in the u. S. Senate to
bring up HR 7, the poll tax re-
peal bill, for a vote directly
after the Easter recess which
ends April II.
Senator James Mead Cd. N.
W announced March 20 that
the bill would be called up
promptly after the senate re-
turns from the spring recess
Mead's announcement followed
a conference with Senate Major
ity Leader Alben Barkley ID.
KY and Senator Pat McCar-
ran, Cd. New. The bill passed
the House 10 months ago.
Under terms of the bill, the
poll tax would be abolished as
a prerequisite to vote in federal
elections-for president, vice
president, congressman and sem
ators. There are now eight poll
tax states: Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Tennes-
see, Georgia, Virginia and South
Carolina.
Mrs. Katherine Shryv yer,
chairman of the Natl Commit
tee to Abolish the Poll Hax,
hailed the decision as the final
stage of a five year fight and
said lin the way of the bills
passage looms only the threat
of an irresponsible minority of
filibuster the bill to death, as
was done in the last session of
congress. The means exists to
defeat this filibuster and the
champions of the bill are we'll
aware of them.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07

NEW YORK (FP)-The Com
mittee for a United Labor Party
scored a sweeping victory in the
American Labor party primary,
marking the first major triumph
in labor's 1914 political action
campaign. Leaders of the right
wing, which controlled the party
for eight years, formally seeded
after their defeat.
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council as follows: Harry Heiner,
eStling commission; Joe
Packo, boxing commission; How
ard Eggleston, publicity and eff
ficiency commission; Stanley E.
Kryzaniak, publicity and eff
cheney commission; f d war d
Kirschner, sinking fund trustees;
Arthur r. Cline, city planning
commission; and Philip F.
Murphy, civil service commits
sion.
An ordinance making 1t a mis-
demeanor punishable by a $25
fine to smoke in theatres except
smoking rooms was adopted.
Ordinances granting the use
of Civic Auditorium to the Old
Newsboys Association for use on
April IL and the VFW for April
% free of charge was adopted.
Permission was granted to the
Great Lakes Terminal Ware
house, 331 Morris st. to erect a
stairway by passage of an ordi-
nance which provides for its re-
moval at the request of the city.
Fifteen spectators were pres
ent at the session which was suf-
ficient TO stimulate Councilman
Addison Q, Thacher TO show off
with the usual brand of Thacher-
ian humor II broke the mono
tony for the spectators as we'll
as the other councilmen who OBJ
liged by laughing at the white
thached Thacher's puns.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
Furniture Workers
Back Murray

NEW YORK (FP)-President
Morris Muster of United Furni-
ture Workers (CIO) assured CIO
Pres. Philip Murray of his un-
ions complete support of Muir
rays proposal that CIO unions
waive initiation fees for ex-
servicemen. Muster said the nee
essary steps to create such a law
in the UFW would be taken i'm.
mediatelY.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
Ordway Qualities
For Primaries

Earl Ordway, member of the
Spicer Unit of Local IL, has
qualified as candidate for state
senator on the Democratic ticket
subject to the May 9 primaries.
Mr.. Ordway is a former vice
president of the Ohio CIO Coun-
Gil and at present is vice presi-
dent of the Toledo Industrial
Union Council He heads the
transportation committee of the
Spicer Manufacturing Co.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
C. of C. Cancels
1914 Convention

WASHINGTON IFP) > Cam
collation. of the 1914 annual
meeting of the u. S. Chamber
of Commerce scheduled for New
York May 3-5 was announced
March 30 by Pres. Eric A. Johns
on, who said the Chamber acted
in the national interest, 1t is
the first time in 30 years that
the organization has failed to
meet.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
2-Day Meeting

ST. LOUIS (FP) - American
workers who are winning the
fight against fascism must not
come back to slum homes after
the war, the Natl. Public Hous-
ing Conference declared at a q
day annual meeting here.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
No-S+rike Pledge
Reoffirmed

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-(FP)-
A ringing renewal of labor's no.
strike pledge climaxed historic
2-day meeting of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers (CIOl
in its first southern conference
since the union was formed in
1914.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
JAW Buys
Ford Mansion

DETROIT (FP)-The mansion
of the late Edsel Ford was
bought for a mere $4,000 by
United Auto Workers (CIO) to
house its Medical Research In
Stitute.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07

You can help us by joining
$4,000 others, and working in
conjunction with more than
million UAW-CIO members.
Vote for Local IL next Wednes-
day, and give us an opportunity
to work with and for you.
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racial discrimination by rail
roads in the south,
Lausche is 48 years old, tall,
modest, curly-haired. Son of a
steel worker, he was born and
grew up in the factory section
Of Cleveland, and helped support
six brothers and sisters after his
father died. On Clevelands sand
lots he became a star third base
man, was playing professional
ball for Duluth when World War
| broke out. He came out of
the war a second lieutenant, re-
jected baseball for law, and by
1892 he was Municipal Court
judge. He was elected to the
Common Pleas bench in 1885.
A successful crusade against
gambling clubs and racketeers
brought Lausche to public at
tention and favor. In 1941 he re-
signed from. the bench to run for
mayor of Cleveland. He defeat
ed the Republican standard
bearer by a 612o majority of
nearly 1000 votes.
Successful Mayor
LAS mayor, Frank Lausche
came closer to satisfying all the
people Of the city than any man
who has held that office within
the memory of this generation, +"
the Cleveland Press has COM
editorially. The notable
success of Mayor Lausche in
raising the fighting spirit of his
home community is known
abroad as we'll as in the United
States. He has been an in
spired war leader for the people
of Cleveland. "
Political observers, who be-
lieVe that Ohio needs the cour-
ageous leadership Lausche has
given Cleveland, predict that he
will lead the field in the Demo
cratic primary, May 9th, and
then sweep to the governorship
in November.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07
A Message To Toledo
Scale Employees

Today the bulk of the workingmans strength political
and otherwise is being amasSed and concentrated into
barraee aimed at destruction of the Little Steel Formula
which holds wages well check while the cost of living
has risen 43c6 since January /, 1912.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07

WELVE Jap deroye had hemmed lone American patrol torpedo
& boat dark night off Guadssna They began shene the little
3@ A Pr craft II looked like fine surrende-or de-
I But that isn't the American way It. 9l Bartholomew Connolly Of
K& Washington c. the old tradition. Ordering his
TO stand by attack he raced his e ship herd The destroyer
When within 500 yards Of the enemy wars he Two opedoes
Before he heard them explode he swinging wYtoad another destroyer
Again he launched his topedoes Amid hail Of shells The Pr sped
through left by the sinking ships and escaped neafhed It. Connolly
awarded the Navy Cross for hero and conspicuous courage
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-04-07

you. There isn't a safer invest
ment in the world!
In this way, when the bonds
mature, you'll have security
peace of mind with which to en-
joy the peace.
Most likely, you are buying
Bonds. But remember-the more
money you invest in them now,
the more you're going to get back
later! SO start increasing your
War Bond Savings. Start in right
now!
Evening star., 1944-03-08
T axe Ny Word for 1t
BY FRANK COLBY.
Pomposities to Avoid.

Those who go in for heavily
pontifical speech pattern, lardine
their vocalities with unnatural
mannerisms and snobbish affecta-
tions, are motivated, so it seems to
me, by a feeling Of inferiority-ot
attempting to impress by bluffing
But the average normal American
only laughs at persons of large pre-
tense who exclain, like Aesop's fly
sitting on the axle Of the chariot
What a dust I do raise!"
Correct speech falls pleasantly
upon the ear, but correct speech
like true greatness of spirit, is al
ways unpretentious. A good ex-
ample of what I mean is found in
the excellent radio speech of Cecil
B. de Mile. have never heard him
utter a single phony broad A, nor
have I ever detected the slightest
trace OF high-hatism, stuffed-shirt-
ism or sacred-cowism in his speech
He is the rare phenomenon Of Holly
wood not gone Hollywood.
Take a bow, G. B.
A pomposity that always strikes
me as particularly absurd is the
pronunciation "BAY-seez" for the
word bases the plural form OF
base). The broadcaster who speaks
of air or naval "BAY-seez" should
be kept after school and be made
to write one hundred times "the
correct pronunciation is 'BAY-sez.'
Note. There is a word bases that
is pronounced "BAY-seez." But II
Is the plural Of basis"
Evening star., 1944-03-08

VOL, 9:30-"Ths Only Girl for Me-
WMAl, s:30-ehsrIs Aqnsw from Las
Vegas Air Field, New
WR. 10:00-CharIes KuIlman, guest
tenor. sings sxtsrpk from KaImsns Gypsy
Princes"
WhAl, i0:30-pat,Y Kelly in the romance
Of Anthony and Cleopatra.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Natures Children
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
SEA CUCUMBER
(Scotopldnd).


Here is a seagoing model of the
first submarine. The sea cucumber
is a holothurian and, although diff
fering greatly in appearance from
the sea urchins and starflshes, Is
closely related to them.
The deep-sea holothurian has a
cylindrical form, and when the tube
feet and tentacles are retracted, he
resembles a big fat worm. When
out for a stroll, he resembles a sea
anemone fishing for dinner. The
tentacles form a rosettelike top.
The walls of the body are tough
and muscular. The skin has small
calcareous deposits, or spicules, OF
different shapes on it. Along the
underpart of the body there are
double rows Of tube feet, and some
times there are conical processes
without suckers. Besides using the
tube feet for transportation, the
sea cucumber may move worn
fashion by the contraction and ex-
tension of the body. This mode OF
locomotion is made possible because
the inner surface Of the tough men,
brane which covers the body is
lined with powerful transverse and
longitudinal muscles.
The mouth Of this versatile crea-
ture is surrounded by tentacles
which serve as organs of touch and
smell, and sometimes they even
have an ear sac at their base. From
the mouth the food canal, one long
coil, reaches a chamber known as
the cloaca at the stern end of the
creature. This cloaca is very Won
derful and has many branches
known as respiratory trees. These
are constantly supplied with water
through contraction
The holothurian has a water
vascular system and nervous sys-
Evening star., 1944-03-08

on the AR TODAY.
WWDc, 6:30-Mss'ing in the SiaiIsr Hotel,
music features. EvalYn 1Ynsr. pianist, with Or
ehssirs, and Mike Hunleutt'as singing N. {.
Wop. s:3o-"Fnosriips."
WINK, 9:05-Amsritan music including 50.
stiions from MatDowel and Chadureh.
WT0p, 9:00-Guest, Janet Blair.
Evening star., 1944-03-08

and usually brilliantly colored
These tubes open to the outside
near a wreath of tentacles sur
rounding the mouth. The larvae
are free-swimming and known as
auricula. In the deep-sea species
the discharged eggs and the young
are carried on the back Of the
mother.
Holothurians are distributed
through all seas. They are not
abundant except in the Eastern
seas. They may reside from shallow
to deep water, and they may be
found on rocks or in tide pools, as
we'll as In mud and sand. They live
on the tiny organic particles found
in the sand and mud.
They cannot live in stale water
They have the horrid habit of eject
ing their internal organs when this
condition is present. and they also
resort to this practice when eluding
an enemy.
Sea cucumbers play their role in
the plan of nature. They are harm
less and do not create any trouble
among their neighbors.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Boy, 9, Tokes Aspirin
For Gunshot Wound
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. - When 9-year-old
Gordon Terroux accidentally shot
himself in the leg, he calmly band
aged the wound, took an aspirin and
went to bed.
His aunt, Mrs. Floyd Walker, dis
Evening star., 1944-03-08

Wl0P. 10:30-AIse TsmpIeion features I
Gershwin swing-phony and his Interpretation o.
Il Surrender Dear"
VOL, f0:30-"Wns, Women and Song, -
by Strauss; Korsskoffs Hymn 10 the Sun, -
and Drdla's Souvenir" featured selections.
WI0P, if:45-Fredertk DeIius' Songs OIL
Sunset," setting Of poems by Ernest Dowson,
presented by Sir Thomas Besthsm.
Evening star., 1944-03-08

The 500th red ribbon signifying
eight Red Cross blood donations and
membership in the Gallon Club
has been awarded Mrs. Lillian Bron-
stein, Red Cross nurses aide.
Evening star., 1944-03-08

covered his plight hours later and
took him to hospital for proper
treatment. Doctors said he would
recover.
Evening star., 1944-03-08

tenn. Both start from a ring which
lies around the mouth, though the
water system is separated by a
plate near tie mouth.
The egg sacs are branched tubes