Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-09-15
It's News
To Me

By 0. J. Pecord

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Sept 13--well, folks the
venon got real kick tonight of Harold Ickes speech in
which he Thomas Dewey apart. Held his
naked bones for the auto workers to look at
And the auto workers equal to the occasion cheering
capng and boon what the secretary the interior had
about the Republican standard bearer
But it's Dewey Ickes wish to write about much
it is this convention This meeting solid for President
Roosevelt with single dissenting when he given
the unanimous endorsements of the delegates today.
No need worry about the workers leadership
the shops They solid the political front like they have
relating union policy, they 100
cent in agreement on the president
UNITY OF PURPOSE
At bottom the UAW-CIo is a union that wants to go
places Dsregardng minority who want
to hand the union to the employers this convention
seriously looking at the problems which present day cond
tions give rise to.
Reconverson, postwar planning, full employment
scale without regard geographical considerations
unemployment security for the workers
the things that the convention giving lot of thought to-
OF course there battles of the issues not
because the delegates do not agree on the issues pn
cpay because they disagree the that to be used
in effectively combating the problems revolving around these
subjects.
POLITICAL ACTION
subject considerable attention and
due to receive considerable political action 1t is evil
dent that the workers aroused this they have not
been for quite time and their determination to express
themselves in November cannot help but carry to the
shops from which they
No other subject get the political
issues of this years campaign and this is all to the good Re
gardess what resolutions by the convention and how
determined the workers be to that they get the kind
nothing long if administration takes our
government which is the tool of big business.
Veterans seniority planning for full production and other
relating the bread and butter of the workers
only things involved in this years elections The
the themselves at stake The Roose
the workers the right to collectively
bargain that Republican administration
would these gains under Dewey
1T CAN HAPPEN
of people still thinking that it can't happen
themseves"Ths is America, country is
devoted will remain that way But the
but itself to their minds they will but
stop that despite freedom has only been
labors rights America have been recog
nzed and given status under the law.
We can't help the labor board movement
in Germany prior Hitler and the insanity of
throughout the world great and progressive force yet it
the first fall under Corporal Adoph the reformed house
painter.
Labor not America and this convention has
repeatedly had its attention called the dangers which
round from different We not let ourselves
be lued into false feeling of security because of the l
words of those who record
Our danger is real and must not be minimized.
Those who attending the convention under
stand full well that the only labor protect itself under
the circumstances is to make full of the ballot and seek to
accomplish by peaceful and legal the saving of the gains
which have been made and their extenton No to be-
eve that the future of the labor this country
secure and that labors worries are over forever.