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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31
IA A T n E R
.Mutterings
BY Jim FoltZ
Management Wages Relentless
Fight Against Absenteeism

sometime ago a sign showing
the head of laughing Jap hyena
(My apology to the four footed
hyenas) saying = Go ahead
Please take day off-Tojo likes.
This sign was placed on wall in
time office entry way. When
you enter by one door, sign is
completely covered by opened
door. This sign is partly COW
cred by a War Bond poster, and
Notices from the War Man
power Commission, and Hospital
Association. You can almost
see what is on the first sign.
The above consists of at least
$50 of the company's terrific
campaign to combat absentee
ism. Some effort, huh,
The Committee of our Unit
have in the past, suggested sew
eral worthwhile plans to help
eliminate this evil, but have not
been successful in receiving CO.
operation from management.
Today the committee has a plan
which requires no aid from man
agement. So let all of us CO.
operate. When you get up tired
from being out the night before,
don't go back to bed-go to work.
If you find your clock has been
slow, don't stay home, go to
work even though you are a
little late. You may have to take
one Of our priced 85c per hr.
jobs, but you will save your
overtime incentive for Saturday,
and you will have the Satisfac-
ton of knowing that like your
brother in uniform you are doing
your duty.
Mite Owl WOuld-be BOwlers:
Challenge in this column last
week has been accepted by
Evans Foibles. Purse prizes do
mated Rules of match and for
felt posted. Both teams ready to
go. z p. NJ. Sunday, April 2nd.
Glenwood Alleys. Each man de-
termined to win. Come over.
No admission fee, have some fun.
Cheer your favorite.
The HAS BEEN Five desires
to take on the winner of this
match.
From Here and There
Which one of the two great
fishermen of the Finish room
disappeared at 9:45 A. M. Fri
day? Found two hours later at
water filled hole for gas tank.
Seated on Pepsi-Cola case, fish
pole in hand actually fishing for
carp and catfish. Loves TO
fish. Huh?
Which foreman wearing fancy
dress shirt and beautiful cravat,
suit coat and fedora is making
other well dressed foremen look
like working men?
We now realize the reason ne
often is seen going through the
bundles of rags and waste.
Who, in the Forming Dept.
(night), brews such lousy, i'll
tasting coffee? Any one having
recipe, please place on Bulletin
Board. Notice Stan.
Mr.. Mayor of Cherry st. were
your duties so pressing that they
required your presence four
nights causing your absence
here? Campaigning?
Which Bro. sets in restaurant
every evening after work, falls
asleep at table while waiting
for wife? Donations thus far
received to better facilitate
sleeping conditions. One fold
ing camp cot, air mattress, one
elder down pillow, two slightly
used blankets, three bed socks
and one rusty bed pan.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31

*. re is a certain setup man
working on the grave yard shift
in Dept B who happens to be
in the bucks now. Good morning,
Lou
Rumor has it that since so
many *" men are now in AZ,
a 4-F Club will be started after
March 81, when big boy George
Robinson receives his AT.
NORM PRIEST SAYS
Throughout the plant we have
many who have someone dear to
them in the armed forces of our
government. BY this time no
doubt, everyone has. l am writ
ing this item mainly for the de-
partment 1 represent, namely de-
partment L. A few weeks ago
l stated that everything was 60
ing o. K. in that department,
but / certainly am sorry to have
to contradict every word / said.
The girls in that department
have always made better wages
than any other department, but
they are never satisfied. never
knew there could be such dis
sension among group that
claim to be good Unio-l members
and who assert that, they want
to see everyone get fair deal
If they would all stick together,
/ don't think anyone in the
Union would say word.
The company would like to
see four or five people turn out
the production of eight. There is
no shortage of women so why
should this be necessary. 1t is a
trick of the profiteers to get en-
ployees to turn in as much as
possible and then change nut
or a bolt so they have some ex-
cuse to cut the rate on produc
ton. Then everyone says, How
can they do that?"
This article doesn't pertain to
everyone, but the ones l am re-
fering to shouldn't miss this. /
will be there every day, SO don't
worry about me not facing any
one who takes offense at this.
LUST give a thought to those
Ing for service and those
will come back some day
n sure if we would try to
think more about our fellow
workers and Union brothers and
sisters and less of ourselves,
everything would go along d
whole lot smoother than it has
been going.
(Signed) Norman Priest
The most important privilege
that we as American citizens of
the United States of America
have, has been neglected by a
large majority of us in the past.
This greatly underestimated
privilege is our right to go to ahe
polls on election day and cast
our ballot for the men we be-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31

Pat Heams, second shift, Dept
and family, win first place
for tough breaks. After being on
sick leave for two months, her
husband was indicted into the
Army and Dorothy Nidek, Dept.
2, her sister-in-laW, fell down
the stairs and broke her shoul-
der blade. We sympathize in
your misfortunes.
Verda Wade, Dept. 3, had her
arm cut in burning machine,
Wednesday. Nightly Plucky
girl to be back to work with IL
stitches taken in her arm.
Eugene Mallernee, inspector,
has joined the MILDLY Crew
Navy to you). The girls from
the lathe line presented him with
a Shaffer pen and pencil set to
the tune of Anchors Away"
Joe Cellura, from the Bearing
Room, in on leave rejoicing with
her husband, who returned, after
three months, with a Medical
discharge from the Army.
We hear, Dad Berry from the
Bearing Room, has a heart of
gold. He doesn't feed the girls
candy, cake and other tid-bits.
Seems he like scrawny gals.
Joe Ellen Evans, Dept. 10, re-
turned from Chattanooga, Tenn,
where she was visiting her
brother, who is in the Army
That accent got a more pro-
nounced drawl while vacation
ing.
Bud McCliSh, Dept. %, leaves
March 23, for Great Lakes
Naval Training Center. The
Navy wins again.
Six factories in Toledo chose
one glamor girl each. Building
No. 25 rated. Our contribution
was Loretta Thomas, Dept. 10.
A small bundle of blond lowell
ness.
Juanita Blank, stewardess
from Dept. 10 did her good deed
Saturday, Mary Handel tainted
and Nita worked black magic
and brought her to in record
time.
/ Earl Sucker, Vice chairman
of the Executive Committee, was
placed in limited service with
Uncle Sam.
Helen Klockowski, Dept. 2,
was surprised with a birthday
dinner, served in the cafeteria.
Chicken, gifts and roses adorned
the table.
Did you ever hear of the
"Cihu (Kyhoo) Society,"" Mean
ing Can l Help You? l didn't t
either, until l read about it in
the paper, but it seems Myrtle
Burras, Dept. 4, is member in
good standing Upon. hearing
that Charlotte Wonell's (second
shift) husband was coming home
for two week furlough, she ex-
changed shifts for his time home.
That is a fine example of the
Cihu Club. Orchids to you,
Myrtle.
Does anyone. want a pet spar
row? If so inquire of Hattie
Sharp and Bernice, Dept. 81. We
hear Mr.. Sparrow perches on
their arm, gently pecking to re
mind them It's time for rations.
Fresh eggs are scarce, SO if
you are in need see Bud Trout
ner, Dept. 2, set-up man. Strict
ly fresh, rates reasonable. (HoW
about a commission, Bud)?
Walter Dobrockowski, Dept. 2
is in ST. Vincent Hospital. Would
it make YOUR StaV shorter if Won
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31
WOMEN BREAK
TRADITIONS

LOS ANGELES (FP)-Wo-
men went to work aboard ships
for the first time in the history
of Los Angeles harbor as Local
65, Init. Longshoremen's &
Warehousemen's Union (CIO),
broke traditions in recruiting
urgently needed shipscalerS.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31
Cameo CD
Opener
BY Ted MOdrOWski

What in the past had been
known as the Machine Shop and
also the Repair Dept, through
recent actions of the boys there,
had it's name changed to "Muc-
ci, Kaltenbach and Associates,
Engineers"
1t seems Johnny and Freddy
were building a machine and
each and every genius up there
had to lend helping hand, (Oh
yes! especially VicD. According
to the report all ideas submitted
were accepted and properly fill
ed-in the waste basket. There is
no doubt that this was the
proper place for them.
Floyd Madrzykowski is losing
sleep these nights trying to fig
ure out the Zebra. He wonders if
those are white stripes on a
black background or vice versa.
Please give the poor fellow some
help kind people. The best an
sWer on this should come from
Ben Macy who is somewhat of
an authority on everything.
Maybe there is something to it
but we'll venture to say that it
doesn't make sense to refrain
from eating candy during the
Lenten season only to make up
the difference by eating more
cookies, etc. How about it gals?
Pauline Ritchie is still wait
ing for that office that was to
have been built for her, but don't
get excited Pauline, the Com
mittee is still waiting for their
conference room. (The answer is
NO Dice).
WHO HAS THE ANSWER?
Remember the guy who used
to work right along with you
and thought the union was the
thing we needed and then slowly
began to fade away and get all
those anti-union ideas Well
back in the early days when the
fight was just beginning (40c an
hour days) and the gains we
made were really something to
be appreciated these boys were
in there hot and heavy, always
ready to do something that
would be instrumental in filling
their pockets.
We've come a long way since
the old days and these boys
don't have the job beside you
any more, indeed not, they are
now placing you on the job in
the morning and changing you
when their mind changes. He's
the guy that says after this war
the union will take a beating and
we will be glad to take any and
all orders just to be able to
work. 1t seems to me this guy
has an idea he wants to be in
there helping to administer that
beating, if any, and the strange
part of the story is that these
gents still carry union cards.
With the present set up there
is very little that can be done
about it, but the Committee feels
that it will be necessary to take
definite steps in eliminating this
in the future. 1t is our firm
belief that when a person who
has been a member of our unit
takes a job, call it a promotion if
you wish, where he will act in
the capacity of a supervisor he
should forfeit his seniority in the
shop and withdraw from the
union. If you apply some thought
to this question the anWers
should be easy They don't hold
these jobs unless they can show
results and their idea of results
differs from our idea of union
ism.
You cannot be for and
against the same thing at the
same time and still be honest.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31

LOS ANGELES (FP) - For
the first time in the history of
radio broadcasting union officers
were sworn in over the air at
the installation ceremonies of
the new Douglas Aircraft Local
148, United Auto Workers, CIO.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
THE LAND OF MIRACLES

If Kit Carson and his colleagues of the wilderness could
look upon the nation they explored not so many years ago, they
would think indeed that many miracles had come to pass in
America. They would see miracles where we of today see
nothing.
In Kit Carson's day, distance was a mountainous obstacle
to be traveIsed painfully on foot. The journey sometimes took
months. Now, airiners and express trains have made the
mountain into a moehin. When a housewife in the Middle
West wants a dish of fresh strawberries or a crab cocktail or
fish for dinner, she has but to go to the nearest grocery store.
If Kit Carson wanted them, he had to walk a few thousand
miles to Maine or California.
The fact that nearly 5000 carloads of fruit and vegetables
were shipped by express to all parts of the country during 1913,
is no miracle to contemporary consumers. But to the pioneers
of a hundred years ago who were acquainted with nothing more
speedy than a horse, the spectacle of a modern refrigerated
express car loaded with deicaces rolling at sixty miles an hour
across deserts and mountains, would have been overwhelming
the work of Gods from another world.
The miracle of refrigerated express is not a creation of
super men, but merely the work of the American business men,
It is only one of thousands of miracles that make the United
States a good place to live. During the next hundred years,
thousands more such miracles will be created by the same kind
of men-prOvided this country remains a land in which men
are free to create miracles.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
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SYNTHETIC

By occupying Java since 1912, the Japanese have controlled
6 per cent of the world supply of quinine. Off and on for q
ltury scientists have been trying to make quinine, but
III the Japs holding most of the cnchOna trees, whose bark
the only natural source of this drug with which dread ma
ia is fought, creating it by syntheSis became an immediate
" lust" for the scientific world, says the Independent-RecOrd.
How many chemists in how many laboratories have been
' orking on it will never be known. Two young Harvard
{ .emistS, Drs. Robert B. Woodward and William E. Doering,
c1ch 27, tackled the problem and solved it in IA months. What
tley produced was not a product like quinine, but the real thing,
nih analysis cannot distinguish from the natural product.
How these young men painstakingly discovered the archi-
tectural pattern and ingredients of the complicated quinine
Inolecule they will reveal in a scientific journal. Is it CONNER
claly profitable? Who can say as of today? 1t well may be
that after the war qunine will be imported as before from the
Dutch East Indies. The point is that importation of the drug
will not be compulsory.
Synthetic quinine, like synthetic rubber, constitutes notice
to piratical nations that the age of invention is still in it's
infancy, and that civilizations course is not to be halted by
conquest.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
Navigator and Radio Man
Of Fortress Aid Rescue

A FLYING FORTRESS BASE IN
BRITANNIA British rescue launch
summoned by radio was waiting
when the Flying Fortress Buccaneer
was forced down in the North sea
by a fuel shortage after the latest
American attack on Berlin, and her
10 crew men stepped across as she
settled, hardly wetting a foot.
The navigator, Lieut.. Norman W.
Bashant, 81, of Faust, N. Y, had
figured out where the bomber was
going to splash. The radio opera
tor, Sergt. Abraham D. Toporofskyu,
81, of New York, flashed the sig
nails for help. "Toporofskyu spared
us the ordeal of spending hours in
a light raft by the swell job he did
of contracting ground stations" said
the pilot, Lieut.. Hershel A. MCGUIRE,
%, of Hotchkiss, Colo.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
Loses Patience After
80 Years, He Files Suit

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.-Sha-
bic Malouf lost his patience and
filed suit for divorce.
Thirty years ago, he said, he babe
his wife goodby and left his home
in Serbia to live in the United States.
She promised to follow as soon as
possible. Malouf worked hard and
sent her enough money to make the
journey. He kept sending her mon
ey, but she kept deferring the trip.
After 30 years, Malouf announced
he is through. He charged his wife
with desertion.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
Output of Helium
Increases 25-FOld
Bureau of Mines Produces
Enough for All Needs.

WASHINGTON.-The bureau of
mines is producing helium in vol
ume that is more than sufficient to
meet all wartime requirements Of
the army, navy and governmental
agencies, Secretary Ickes said here.
The surplus of this lightweight,
non-in1ammable gas is now avail
able in large supply for medical, sci
entific and commercial uses, he de-
clared in a statement. The actual
production figures on helium, how
ever, must remain a secret, but it
was revealed that the bureau is
producing more than twenty-five
times the prewar output.
Helium had only a minor role
in the first World War because of
lack of facilities for extracting the
precious gas. Three experimental
plants, built in 1918 at Petrolia, in
Clay county, and in Fort Worth,
Texas, were scrapped after the war,
and a large production plant, put
up under the navy's direction, was
erected at Fort Worth. This plant
was given over to the bureau of
mines on July l, 1925, when the
federal governments entire helium
program was placed under the
authority of that agency.
The Helium Research laboratory,
which was established in Washing
ton in 1921, was formally opened
in May of that year by Nine.
Curie, who then was visiting in the
United States. This laboratory later
was moved to Amarillo, Texas.
Many new uses for helium have
recently been developed and the gas
is expected to have an important
role in this country's peacetime
economy, Mr.. Ickes said. It's use
in treatment of asthma, tuberculo-
sis and other respiratory diseases,
as well as a part of non-inham-
mable anesthesia and in the welding
of magnesium metal has been cited.
Many other potential uses are being
studied.
The United States is the only coun-
try in the world producing helium
in large volume.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
Army Chaplains Suffer
Heavy War Casualties

WASHINGTON. - Only the air
forces and the infantry have sui.
fered a larger proportion of casual
ties among their officers than the
chaplain corps, the army reported.
From the start of the war to the
end of last year, 10 ~chaplains were
killed in battle, 10 wounded, 80 were
taken prisoners, one was missing in
action, and 81 died of accidents or
illness.
Eighty = five chaplains have re-
ceived a total of three Distinguished
Service Crosses, three Croix de
Guerre, 26 Silver Stars, IS Legion of
Merit, 80 Purple Hearts and four
Soldiers Medals, or 80 decorations
in all.
At the end of the year there were
6,998 chaplains, 4,255 in the United
States and 2,743 overseas.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
Nude Bathing Is Banned
In Converted Paradise

MAJURO ATOLL, MARSHALL IS
LANDS limited States forces have
transformed this once placid, tropi
paradise into a well defended Amer
lean city, complete with road and
water systems, communications,
electric lights, stores, gasoline sta
tons and newspapers.
In fact, it has become so civilized
that orders have been issued prohib-
ting nude bathing.
A general store" operated by the
navy, does a land office business.
A library issues books. Three daily
newspapers chit the street" every
morning, with marine, Seabee and
navy units each publishing their own
papers. About 20 chow halls and
two c%afeterias are serving hot food.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
Electric Shock Is Used
To Ease Woman's Grief

BOSTON, MASS.-A Boston doc
tor, Abraham Myerson, reported in
the New England Journal of Medi-
cine that four women suffering from
pathologic grief reaction" precipi-
tated by the loss of someone close
and dear, were successfully treated
by electric shock therapy. "All the
patients fell into a vicious circle of
nervous and mental disturbance
from which it seemed impossible to
rescue them by the ordinary thera-
peutic measures" he stated. Add
ing that the treatment "does not
appear to have a psychologist foun-
dation," he said that apparently
"physiologic alterations of an IN
known type take place and this is
the basis of recovery"
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
Morse Fighter Squadron
Claims Lead in Britain

MONTREAL. - One of the Nor
wegian fighter squadrons stationed
IN Britain was top scorer among all
Allied fighter squadrons there last
year, a Norwegian press release
said here recently, quoting the Lon
don Norwegian newspaper Norsk
Tidend.
That squadron, the release added,
not only had the highest number of
enemy planes shot down-163 and 80
probables-but also had the small
est number of losses and the least
number of crashes.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
Nazi Prisoners to Man
New Laundry at Fort

FORT DEVENS, MASS. - Lieut..
Col. Erie R. Holmes, post quarter
master, has announced that German
prisoners of wal will supply labor
for a half-million-dollar post laundry
and dry cleaning plant.
The laundry has been under con-
struction since last September and
is expected to open for operations
before April l.
The plant is designed to handle
the cleaning requirements of this
fort. Lowell General hospital and
Cushing General hospital in nearby
birmingham.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
Travelling Housekeeper
Sets Things to Right

PHILADELPHIA. - A trolley car
crashed into two cases of milk bot
ties that fell from a truck. The street
was covered with broken glass.
Traffic stopped. Housewives came
out TO have a look. Mrs. Jennie
K1asky, q passenger, left the trolley,
walked into a house, came out with
. broom, swept up the glass, glared
at the other women and stepped
back or the car. Traffic proceeded.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
4.3 Pct. OF U. S. Workers
Quit Jobs Each Month

WASHINGTON. Out Of every
LOCO workers employed in industry.
43 quit each month.
Five leave to enter the armed
services, six + discharged, 81 are
hired and nine are laid off during
the same period.
The Office of War Information
cited these figures in a study of the
turnover situation to point up one
OF the reasons why industry suffered
a net loss in working force in De-
cember. This was the first time
since the United States entered the
war that employment had declined.
Laurel outlook., 1944-05-31
New Green Vegetable

Tampala is a new kind of green,
new to us at least, but old to the
Chinese. 1t belongs to the red root
or pigweed family, grows well in hot
weather when spinach does not, and
produces heavily. Some consider it
as good as spinach and better than
swiss chard, but so are weeds such
as lambs quarters and pussley.