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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31

filiated with the CIO Coun-
Gil to get out their members
to register and vote in the
party primaries. The final week
before the close of registrations
will be known as CIO Registra-
ton Week.
Condemn Council Action
Condemnation of the action of
city council in defeating the
black market ordinance request
ed by all Toledo labor unions
was voiced by the delegates who
unanimously passed resolution
to that effect. Councilmen Tom
Burke and Michael V. Disable
were commended and thanked
for voting in favor of the legis-
lation to prosecute those who
break OPA regulations.
Confirmation of the action of
the TIUC executive board in
n; ming Tom Burke as acting
executive secretary of the Coun-
Gil was voted by the delegates.
Mr.. Burke replaced Kenneth
Cole who is on leave of absence.
Mrs. Fay Stephenson, Cleve-
land, organizer for the CIO Wo-
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Scale Co.
Planning for
Postwar Eru
Company Dominated
Union Late I'm Demands

Plans of, the Toledo Scale
Co. for greatly expanding
their manufacturing to in
clude slicers, various types
of cutting machines, railroad
scales and other new products in
the postwar leaves many
company employees wondering if
the work will be done entirely
in the Tol d 0 plant, or be
'farmed out" to outside con-
Germs.
Those who are in on the
know say that there is nothing
in the present contract between
the company dominated Scale
Workers of Ohio union to re-
tain the work in the Toledo
plant. There is, however, an at
tempt being made by the COM
pany dominated union to place
some control over the farming
out" method in their proposed
contract.
Too Little, Too Late
Workers who are becoming
increasingly critical of the
Scale Workers union, point out
that the union is asking for too
little, too late, and that the con-
tract has not yet been signed
by the company management.
Workers are pointing out that
the company union is always
behind in any progressive move,
and is forced to copy the meth
ods used by bona fide unions
such as the CIO, in its belated
attempt to salvage the the situa-
ton for Scale Co. Workers.
1t is a fact known to all work
ers at the Toledo Scale Co. that
the company is already engaged
in the manufacture of railroad
scales and that the levers and
understructure will be ma
chined at the Defiance plant
where labor costs are consider
ably lower than in Toledo.
Employees in departments 21
and rs are worried about their
Jobs, because they see in the
Defiance plant a threat which
cannot be ignored. They are
afraid that they may become
the victims of another box
factory DEAL" a feeling which
is strengthened when they know
that Defiance residents are talk
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Nears
Normal

City council, which has
been playing to packed audi
ences for the past few weeks,
during the black market or
dinance controversy, neared
normal at its regular Monday
meeting with no serious argu-
ments to mar the peace of the
meeting, and only II spectators
to witness the calm proceed
ings.
Legislation was passed au-
thorizing the expenditure of
S12,50 for immediate purchase
and equiping Of 10 passenger
automobiles and a truck for
use of the police department.
The cars will be sold to the city
by the U. S Treasury at a cost
of S89916 each. They are new
1912 models now in storage at
the New Haven, Ind. Ordinance
depot
A panel truck which will be
converted into a patrol and
ambulance will be purchased
from the Shop of Siebert, Inc
Total cost of the truck and
work necessary to convert it
will amount to S1,565.34
To Improve Sidewalks
Sidewalk Improvements a.
mounting to 100000 will be
financed by notes as result
of an ordinance pa ssed d by
Council. The notes will be is
sued in anticipation of the as
tessments to be levied against
the property benefitting by the
repairs and improvements.
Police dispatchers were voted
increases in salaries and new
titles. Salaries were set as fol-
lows by council: Corporal dis
patcher, S2400; sergeant dis
patcher, S2,500; and lieutenant
dispatcher, S2,700.
No mention was made of
what action council might take
with respect to granting vice
mayor Michael V. Disable
leave of absence when he leaves
for the army. Mr. Disable
passed his physical examination
on March 25, and was accept
ed for service in the Army.
Opinions Differ
No ruling has been made by
the city law director as to
councils authority to grant
such a leave of absence Opin-
ions heard around the city hall
vary on the question, although
it is generally conceded that
appointed city officials may be
granted military leaves; but
that the ruling does not neces-
sarily apply to elected officials.
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Davis Disproves
Soaring Wages

WASHINGTON, March rs
(FP)-Reactions's favorite yarn
about American workers wages
soaring to the skies in a wartime
boom of plenty was knocked into
the proverbial cooked hat March
% by Natl. War Labor Board
Chairman, VIM. H. Davis.
Davis appeared before the
Senate banking and currency
committee and in cold, but tell
ing manner, said wage rates
have remained substantially
unchanged" since Oct. 2, 1912
the date of enactment of the
second price control act.
Another piece of anti-labor
propaganda was punctured when
Davis said that wage increases
have little or no effect on in
creased prices. He explained that
less than one-half of one per
cent of the wage cases decided
have involved price increases.
Formula Strictly Applied
Davis declared WLB has
strictly applied the Little Steel
Formula but made it clear that
it had not shut the door to max
ing recommendations to Pres
Roosevelt for revision of the
formula if convinced it is Gre
ating gross inequities.
Figures presented by the wit
ness showed wage rates have
risen less than 2 percent be-
tween October, 1912, and De-
cember, 1943. And the u. S
Dept. of Labor shows that the
cost of living advanced five per
cent in that period, while or
ganized labor estimates the liv-
ing cost to have risen nearer 10
per cent in that time.
Davis warned the committee
that if Congress bans subsidies
in its renewal of the price con-
troll act he would feel compelled
to recommend changes in the
national wage policy.
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Forget About
InfIu+ion

NEW YORK (FP)-E V r y
ones out of step but the Natl.
Industrial Conference Board en-
ployer research outfit.
This time the NICB finds that
the cost of living for wage earn
ers and lower -salaried clerical
workers in February declined in
81 of SO industrial cities which
it surveyed.
It's estimate of a 20.2% in
crease since January 1941 is
even lower than the discredited
Bureau of Labor Statistics 24%o
estimate. Labor says costs are
UP 43 %.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31
UAW-AFL Rdises
Minimum Rates

OWENSBORO, KY. Up
Minimum rates at the Rad
Tube & Lamp Corp, here have
been raised from soc an hour
to soc and a blanket raise of &c
an hour awarded to all other
employees by the Natl. War La
Dor Board, acting on application
of the United Auto Workers
(AFL). Industry members of
the board objected.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31

giving troops a full, fair and
accurate picture of the war
time achievements of U. S.
labor.
The army's release came at a
press conference held by Sec. OF
War Henry L. Stinson. Stimson
said editors of the AFL Clipsheet
and the CIO News together with
"other competent students of
newspaper techniques, have ex-
amined the material distributed
to army publications by the
Army News Service and have
commended it for telling the
news honestly and effectively.
Joint Labor Statement
In a joint AFL-CIO release
cleared through the AFL office
the two labor organizations said
THE statement issued by the
War Dept. yesterday regarding
o. ganized labor's requests thai
servicemen be supplied witt
more and straighter' news about
labor's record on the home from
is full of evasions and half
truths.
The AFL and the CIO strong,
ly resent the implication in the
War Dept. statement that labor
asked the Army to police al
American publications or tC
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31

veterans of both World Wars
TO write out in specific detail
the unions program for re-
employment and rehabilitation
of veterans returning from
World War H." Thomas said.
Under-secretary of War Robert
Patterson and National Selective
Service Director General Lewis
B. Hershey will address the con-
ference at Thursday evening
session, April ). The only non
veterans who will speak will
be Thomas, who will open the
meeting, and Philip Murray,
president of the CIO, who will
speak Thursday evening with
Patterson and Hershey.
ther In Charge
e conference is being ar
sed by the unions War Pol
Division, of which Thomas is
I.tor. Victor G.. Reuther, as
sistant director, is in charge of
arrangements.
Approximately $50 delegates,
all of them war veterans and
UAW-CIO members, are expect
ed to attend. They are being Sc
lected by the various regions of
the international Union in num-
bers proportionate to the mem
bership in each region.
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holder of the corporation.
Profiting from the stock
holders decision we're Joseph
H. Nuffer, president; George b.
Wells, chairman and l.. j..
Pierce, secretary. The salary in
crease granted at Tuesdays
meeting in addition to another
given in the past two years
gives the top officials increases
amounting to 200 per cent.
Give Stock Option
In addition to increasing
President Nuffer's salary from
$4,000 to $18,676.96, stock
holders voted options on 10000
shares of the company stock to
Mr.. Nuffer with the option open
for three years.
Nor did the generosity of the
stockholders stop with the
salary increases and stock op-
tions. They also voted an "em-
ployes profit sharing plan"
under which the employees,
Joseph Nuffer, Geo. B. Welles
and L. j. Pierce will be given a
10 per cent cut of the COM
pany's profits.
Stockholders were loud in
ir praise for the administra-
of the business under the
Lrship of President Nuffer.
mey completely ignored the
war boom which all business
has experienced and gave all
the credit for the showing the
company has made to the COM
pany management.
Stockholders Protest
Not all the stockholders
agreed however, that the salary
raises should be given the top
company officials. Edw. Lamb,
a stockholder offered reSolu-
ton whereby all the productive
employees of the company would
be given increases of Is cents
per hour. Mr.. Lamb based his
claim on the contention that
the cost of living had risen to
point justifying the increase,
and that such a wage advance
would further the war effort
Stockholders who had just
voted a 200 per cent salary in
crease to the top company Of
ficers said that the resolution to
grant wage increases to the
productive workers was "out of
order" that it was improper
to make such a resolution" and
Mr.. Lamb was told not to "agi
tate the workers" !"
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W-O Girl Joins WAVES

Dorothy Wolfe Carlson en-
ployed at the WHY'S Overland
and a former employee of Local
IL, has enlisted in the WAVES
and will report for duty on
April 6. She is the daughter of
Mrs. Florence Ordw way en-
ployed in the office of Labor's
Political Committee.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31
Unions Charge War
Department With Evasion

WASHINGTON, March 27-(FP)-Evasions and half
truths laid the u S. War Department March 25 in
joint statement issued by the American Federation of
Labor the Congress of Industrial Organizations follow
ing War Department statement that army publications are
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31
White Supremacy
Buried In South Caroline

COLUMBIA, S. C.-(FP)-
The resolution adopted by the
house of representatives here,
reaffirming its "belief in estab-
lished white supremacy as now
prevailing in the south" died
quietly in the senate side of the
legislature.
Buried in the senate judiciary
committee just prior to adjourn
ment, the resolution brought
quick approval from the states
senior poll tax U. S. senator,
Ellison D. Cotton Ed Smith,
and outcries from the rest of
the nation.
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eQeIdI gOFeLlllIISIlL'
The rent control case orig.
mated in Macon, Ga, where
Mrs. Kate c. Willingham
challenged the right of the
OPA's administrator to fix rents
and the case came to the SUI
preme Court on direct appeal
by the government.
In an 81 decision read by
Justice VIM. O. Douglas, the high
court said that a contention that
individual hearings be granted
every landlord in every rent
freezing case might have de-
feated the program OF price con-
troll National security might
not be able to afford the luxuries
of litigation and the long delays
which preliminary hearings tra-
ditionaIly have entailed." /"
The decision said there was
"no grant of unbridled admins
trative discretion IS Mrs. VIII.
ingham argued" but that con
gress has directed that maximum
rents be fixed in those areas
where defense activities have re-
suited or threaten to result in
increased rentals inconsistent
with the purpose of the act. )"
Price Control Decision
A 6-3 split of the court de-
cided the price control case
which was brought by two Bos-
tor meat wholesalers, convicte
of selling beef at prices al
the OPA ceiling level. The oeak-
Benjamin Rottenberg anC was an
Yakus, were sentenceGst World
months imprisonmentdd of Cen
of 81 900 each in th school from
trict court at Bdean of the city
Chief Justice holic Diocese Of
delivered the
Of the court WI. who is a grsdu-
control and saiCtniversities. was
had contended Il Bethel in Fall
would compel tfore coming TO
at such prices as-ved on numer-
it impossible fog committees
such as they are, llree members
efficient, to condL board which
ness other than at 4 threatening
4 I'D declares that lool maintc-
this Act shall be
require any person no is oman
commodity Petitic,harge.
therefore not required
Act to continue sellii
at wholesale if they cou-,
do so without loss.
To a contention that the deal
ers were denied the right of US
ing a court injunction, the SUI
preme Court majority held:
Here, in the exercise of the
power to protect the national
economy from the disruptive in
fuences of initiation in time of
war Congress has seen fit to
postpone injunctions restraining
the operations of price regula-
tions until their lawfulness could
be ascertained by an appropriate
and expedious procedure. In so
doing It has done only what
court of equity could have done
What the courts do congress
can do as the guardian of the.
public interest of the nation in
time of war.
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CONSENT
ELECTION

Management of the To-
ledO Scale Co. on March
20, agreed to a consent cleo
tiOn to be held at the COM
pany's Telegraph Rd. plant
on April IL. Contesting for
bargaining rights will be
the Scale Workers Union
of Ohio which now holds
bargaining rights and Local
IL, UAW-CIO.
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Supreme Court Approves
Price Control Program

WASHINGTON, March % (FP(-Two national war
time that much to every American worker
his family the approval Of the u s. Supreme Court
March 27 when it upheld the consutonay of rent freez
ing and price control by the federal government
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31
COCOunciI Plans
Registration Drire
Asks For Neighborhood
Registration Places

Delegates to the Toledo Industrial Union Council voted
unanimously request the Board of Elections to establish
registration places in the public libraries around the city
from April April g. the last week for registration before
the May primaries Efforts will be made by all Locals al
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31

Boom


NEW YORK, March 27
(FP)-America's postw a r
housing demand will prob
ably exceed 100000 units
per year for the first 10
years, bringing vista of en-
ployment and production in
home construction and related
industries sin excess Of anything
accomplished in the past.
This prediction highlighted
findings in a major survey Of
the entire field of American
housing, its problems and pros
poets, conducted by the 10th
Century Fund. Research was di-
rected by Miles L. Colean, ar
chitect, who resigned his post as
assistant administrator of Fed
eral Housing Administration to
conduct the survey.
Basis for the surveys assur-
ance of widespread postwar con-
struction activity is its finding
that the housing stock as a
whole is in an extremely de-
Perforated condition.
City Repairs Needed
In urban areas it found more
than 23fo of all dwellings, had
no private bath in 1910 and over
1919 were in need of major re-
pairs. In the rural communities
these percentages were consider
ably higher, and on farms higher
still"
"Of the houses either needing
major repairs or without pri-
vate bath" the survey said,
"6.2 million were in urban
areas, constituting almost 20 %
of the urban supply. Disregard
ing the lack of private baths in
rural areas, 4.3 million houses,
representing over 27% of the
rural supply, were in need of
major repairs.
Promised on continued
high level of income after the
war, the survey estimated that
with a national income of S10O
billion, SO or Sc billion will be
used annually for housing con-
struction.
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JAW To Sponsor
War Veteran Conference

DETROIT, Mich, March pa national conference of
war veterans who members of the United Automobile
Workers. CIO, will be held in Washington April and Z,
R. j. Thomas, president of the union, said today.
"The UAW-CIO is asking its members who are
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31
Array Officials
Win Increases
Stockholders Reward Management,
Ignore Workers

Stockholders of the Arway Electric Co. meeting the
companys plant Auburn and Bancroft Streets March g.
granted szeabe wage increases to the three top officials
of the company under the title of resolution Employees
Profit Sharing Plan according Edward Lamb stock
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Continued On Page 2
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
PACIFIC:
Battle Plans

cts good to see you, Doug" said
the President upon greeting General
Macarthur at Pearl Harbor, and
on that note did the nations chief
executive open a three-day war con-
ference with Pacific military and
naval leaders on the development
of new offensives for the uncondi-
tional surrender of the Japanese.
Heralding things to come in the
Pacific theater, American Liberia
tors raided the Philippines for the
first time in 81 months, striking at
airfields on Mindanao island, while
giant BIOS flew over Japan itself to
rain fire-bombs on the shipbuilding
center of Nagasaki, and attacked oil
r%efineries at Palembang in the East
Indies.
Completely restored after the at
tack of December 7, 1871, Pearl Har-
Dor was bristling with acres of
planes, tanks and other battle equip
ment as Mr.. Roosevelt inspected in
s%tallations during the conferences.
AS a result of these developments,
the President said, Hawaii was no
longer an outpost of U. S. defense.
but zone of our rear areas"
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
WAR PRODUCTION:
Big Speedup

Army officials continued to stress
the need for an increase in the pro-
duction of tanks, trucks, big guns
and ammunition in view of greater
demands from the flaming battle
fronts.
Latest army bigwig to call for
more production was Maj. Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, director of mate
rial for the army service forces, who
declared that schedules for the last
half of 1914 called for a II per cent
boost in output of aircraft bombs
over the first six months.
Production programs for heavy
artillery ammunition will be up ITO
per cent; heavy artillery weapons,
70 per cent; light-heavy and heavy
weight trucks, 40 per cent; heavy
heavyweight trucks, 1913 per cent,
and tanks, SO per cent.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
Laurel Girl Member
Western Union Class

Seventeen graduates of the Bill
lings Western Union training school
received diplomas at exercises at
the Commercial club Saturday. DR..
Charles d. Dean, director of teacher
training at the Eastern Montana
Normal school, delivered the prin-
cipal address.
Miss Dorothy wager of Laurel,
was a member of the graduating
class.
Saturdays class brought the num-
Der of graduates of the Billings
training school to 125, E. C. Pres
ton, chief operator for Western
Union, said. Graduates of the
school have been assigned to west
coast offices to assist in expediting
wartime communications, Preston
said.
At the exercises Miss Norma Dan
iels and Miss Nancy Critelli played
a musical selection. Other numbers
on the program were a vocal solo
by Miss Bernita Rogers, acrobatic
dancing by Miss Yvonne Wise and
a vocal solo by Miss Helen Win
chel. Miss Wise spoke on behalf of
the graduates and Mrs. Emma Ger
nohlavek responded for the instruc-
tors.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
EUROPE:
Fronts Afre

The whole French battlefront
Quivered to the clap and clatter of
gunfire as U. S. and British forces
pressed their twin ~offensives against
the German lines, with American
troops reported approximately 30
miles from Paris.
While mechanical columns speed
ed the U. S. advance upon the for
mer French capital from the west,
British and Canadian forces were
making slower progress to the north
below Caen, where strong enemy
armored formations hacked away
to contain the onslaught while still
other large concentrations de-
1ended their exposed flank.
AS the Allied drive on Paris rolled
on through good tank country, U. S.
forces in Brittany threw in all the
weight of their superior gun and
tank fire to reduce the coastal ports
of Brest, Lorient and St. Nazaire,
which would open up important sup
ply lines from the Atlantic ocean.
With every man, woman and child
in East Prussia mustered for civil
ian wal service, and Russian forces
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
POSTWAR RELIEF:
Hot Issue

While the nations production
hummed at top peak in the fevered
war effort, senators wrangled over
measures designed to afford relief
to millions of workers who may be
left unemployed in a postwar eco
nomic relapse.
Joined by southern Democrats,
the Republican minority waged a
successful fight against the Kilgore-
Murray bills delegation of authority
to a federal work administrator, who
could deny the unemployed compen-
sation if they refused to accept posi-
tons offered them, which might in
volve moving their families to other
regions in some cases.
While the administration forces
gave way before the onslaught on
this provision, they put up a sitter
fight for the payment of unemploy-
ment compensation ranging up to
$35 a week, while the opposing coali-
ton stuck by the George bill, which
would leave these disbursements up
to the individual states, where they
run from SIS to $22 a week. The
George bill also would place all fed
eral shipyard, arsenal and other
workers under state unemployment
compensation systems.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16

Tough German paratrOopers,
who faced the American on
slaught at St. LO, developed a
deep respect for U. S. fighting
qualities.
According to one of their re-
ports, which fell into American
hands, they declared: ENEMY
artillery is distinguished by the
accuracy Of its fire and ma
neuverability. Employment in
depth, changes of positions, self
propelled guns-during infantry
attacks close to the front lines
is the doctrine followed. A
great number of observation
planes makes it possible to
fire effectively even on small tar
gets"
Speaking of U. S. fire and phoS-
phOrus bombs and high explosive
ammunition, the report revealed:
''They cause stomach trouble
and headaches. E"