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are creating a very great hazard
to children attending one public
and one parochial school.
If the Clark Street situation
remains as it is, a funeral pro-
cession would have to cross the
Cherry Street bridge, proceed
through the downtown section to
the High Level bridge and re-
cross the river in order to pull
up in front of the Good Shepard
Church. 1t would have to go
four miles to cover three blocks.
| have talked with many truck
drivers and they are generally
in favor of the original plan of
cutting off cross traffic at this
intersection. They naturally
feel this way because it is a
tough job to nurse a big truck
and trailer up the bridge in
cline if they don't get much of
a start. Most of them said, how
ever, that the most they use this
bridge is every other day and
that on their trips they hang
back so they can make both the
Oak and Clark street lights on
one pass.
USED INTERSECTION
The residents of that neigh
borhood spend all of their lives
there and have always used that
intersection. Many of them were
carried across this intersection
to be baptized, walked across it
to 60 to school, drove across it
to be married, and are again car
ried across it for burial. Many
have been required to use this
intersection to reach their homes
or leave them going to and from
work, the grocery store, and the
little everyday honey tasks they
do to live a full life.
For your information, Mr..
Blade, the engineers are now
studying to reach a solution to
the problem. The residents are
not opposed to progress or mod
ernization. However, they feel
that modernization should serve
their needs too. Merely dismiss
ing their case by accusing them
of narrow sectionalism will not
solve a problem. Here, as in
every case, modernization must
be pliable enough to fill the
needs of society and until 1t
does it cannot be functional.
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Labor Backs New Fight
On Social Security Bill

the right to choose their own
doctors from among those who
participate in the program.
Chief opposition to the bill is
expected on two scores; the
health insurance provision and
the proposal for Federal un-
employment compen a i o n
system.
The American Medical Assn,
which was primarily instru-
mental in having the legislation
ditched last year, is expected to
raise the traditional hue and cry
of "socialized medicine" The
ANA was found to be medical
monopoly and in criminal viola
ton of the antitrust laws by the
u. S. Supreme Court last year.
Historically, the ANA, opposed
by many liberal physicians, has
fought cooperative low cost
health programs and group
health insurance plans.
LIBERALIZATION
Federalization of unemploy-
ment compensation will be OPP
posed by sweatshop employers In
those states that have unemploy-
ment compensation benefit rates
ranging as low as $5 or SO a
week. A Federal system would
force all such rates upward to
at least bare subsistence level.
Wagner sought to have the bill
60 to the liberal-minded Sen
ate Labor and Education Com
mittee for hearings, but he lost
out. Because it involves finan-
cling it was referred by the Sen
ate to the more hostile Finance
Committee. In the House the
measure was sent to the Ways
and. Means Committee for hear
ings.
Major support of the bill dur
ing hearings is expected to come
from unions, many of whom are
already preparing their testi-
mony. Union members every
where can help out by writing
or wiring their members of Con-
gress-Senators and Representa-
tives-to support the bill.
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Status OF
WLB Cases

Editors Note: Following is
the latest report compiled by
Local IL of Unit cases before
the War Labor Board. Changes
in status and new cases will
be reported as important
changes occur.
Acme Specialty-Janitors SC
increase on Form 10.
Bliss Foundry-Company or
dered to negotiate wage Unequal
tiles that exist in this plant. This
plant uses what the Company
refers to as Random rate
range" The dictionary says the
word random" means-in a
haphazard m n n er, left to
chance or done without previous
calculation.
Burt Foundry " at o n
granted which amounts to 48
hours for one year or more and
96 hours for 5 years or more.
dupont Chemical - Granted
time-and-one-half for the sixth
day worked. Saturday..
GOrdOn-Board agree d that
time off for Union work can be
counted as time worked when
computing pay for the sixth day,
Hall Mfg.-Tool and Die max
ers granted rate range of $1.15
to $1.50.
PIaskon-It took a year to do
it, but this Unit finally got a
good contract thru the Board.
Also, three Still Operator Help
ers got Sc increase.
Rathbun JOnes-S hake out
and Lay off men got increases
of Sc and &c.
Spicer Office Workers-These
people took advantage of Union
ism and got themselves a stand
ard 48 and 96 hour vacation.
Swartz baugh-Class A Tool
and Die Makers increased to
S1.40 to S1.55 Glass B $1.20 to
$140.
Tillots o n-Millwrights in
creased $1,05 to $1.25.
Toledo Standard C0mmutatOr
Granted a new vacation plan
30 of the total earnings for one
year or more and 40 for five
years or more. Also, an added
sc for second shift employees
and 10c for third shift.
Toledo Steel Products-This
company thought it could termi-
nate the contract in spite of the
automatic extending duration
clause. The re G on al board
thought differently. The Com
pany appealed to Washington
but was turned down. Result
the contract is still in force.
Toledo Steel Tube-Welding
Machine Operators and Set-ur
men. receive a 10c increase.
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workers prior to and after the
birth of a child.
z. The whole program would
be financed by a payroll tax OF
4 percent on employees and 4
percent on employers for all
earnings up to $500 a year.
The present social security tax
is / percent, but destined even
tually to rise to 8 percent. The 4
percent rate, however, is sharp
reduction from the 6 percent
figure in last years Wagner
Murray-D -Dingell bills.
Wagner Tells Senate
In submitting the measure,
Wagner told the Senate:
"This bill improves and ex-
tends our social security system
it has the strong endorse
ment of the responsible and pa
triotic American labor leader
ship, as well as the Farmers
Union and other organizations.
This bill provides protection
agains the major economic haz-
ards besetting American families
the cost of medical and hos
pital care, loss of income in case
of unemployment, temporary
sickness, extended disability, re-
tirement, or death of the bread
winner.
"All these changes are accom-
plished under a national system
of social insurance, with one set
of contributions, one set of rec
ords and reports, and one set Of
local offices for all the programs
that provide cash benefits. The
bill also gives the war veteran
and his family wage credits for
periods of service in the armed
forces under every phase of this
insurance protection"
Assails Medical Leaders
Wagner assailed propag ganda
spread by certain medical lead
ers that health insurance con-
stituted "socialized medicine. :"
He pointed out that insured per-
sons under the bill would have
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SOhbAluCa AAOUA PdBC
cue from the food industry, had
advocated a "bare shelf policy
so that at the end of the war
there would be no surplus stocks
of food on hand. Labor and con-
sumer Representatives attribute
large part of the meat short
age to Jones' optimistic estimate
that the war would end last fall,
and his resulting curtailment in
meat production.
Just as Jones short-sighted
program is only now affecting
the consumers, it will be some
time, government experts assert,
before there will be any actual
results of the new program in
the form of fresh meat on the
butcher counters,
Meanwhile, consumer and la
Dor leaders point out, a strong
OPA is needed to see that avail
able supplies are shared fairly,
and that black marketing is
wiped out.
Consolidation of the war food
agencies under the Dept. of Agri-
culture, announced last week by
President Truman, may help,
labor men here assert, but they
are waiting to see what is done
by ex-Congresman Clinton p.
Anderson, new Secretary of Ag-
riculture, and Paul c. Stark, di-
rector of Home food Supply in
VIA, to insure full production
on American farms.
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Labor Head
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ington when only a youngster OF
eight He studied law, and dur
ing his earlier years as an attor-
ney defended unions in many
cases, particularly in bitter
strike battles. He crusaded, too.
for public ownership of electric
power.
When he ran for the u. S. SEN
ate in 1884 on the Democratic
ticket, an outstanding feature of
his campaign was his advocacy
of production for use" His
platform called for creation of a
state industrial authority which,
with the assistance of federal
funds, would take over idle fac
tories and abandoned farms and
operate them, putting people
to work at decent wages"
Fought Jap Sales
AS a member of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committe, he
put up a stiff battle to stop the
sale of scrap iron to Japan, and
sought legislation toward that
end, Schwellenbach also adj
vocated naturalization of the
munitions industry to "take the
profits out of war"
Like Truman, Schwellenbach
is a veteran of the first World
War. He fought inside the
American Legion against the re-
dictionaries who were in control
in his home state and who often
used the Legion for "vigilante"
attacks on striking workers.
Victory in that battle came when
he was elected state commander
of the Legion.
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-01
CIO Son Wins
HIGHEST Award

SHIN GTON, May &c
(LPA)-The son of member oi
the Industrial Union of Marine
& Shipbuilding Workers, CIO
last week was given the Con-
gressional Medal of Honor by
President Harry Truman in g
Joint session of Congress, the
first such ceremony of both
houses In American history. The
hero was Technical Sergeant
Jake w. Lindsey, of Lucedale
Miss.
The proud father, the War
Department announced, is CIC
employee of the Alabama Dry
Docks g. Shipbuilding Corp.
Mobile, Ala. The Congressional
Medal of Honor is the nations
highest award for gallantry
above and beyond the call OF
duty.
Sgt. Lindsey, the War Depart
ment revealed, was a platoon
leader with the First Army near
Hamich, Germany, on Nov. Is,
1914, when he attacked strong
German position. During the
action he received a painful
shrapnel wound in the knee but
stayed at his post when a fresh
company of German infantry
men, supported by five tanks,
counterattacked, concentrating
fire on the remaining six men OF
his platoon.
Lindsey, from an exposed po-
sition in front of his platoon
stopped the advance of the
enemy infantry with accurate
rifle fire.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-01

WASHINGTON LPA) - En-
ployers in need of more labor
may pay bonuses to employees
who recruit new workers, the
Natl. War Labor Board declared
last week. 1t directed the re-
gional board at Kansas City to
reconsider a case in which a plan
for payment of such bonuses,
submitted by the Aluminium
Company of America for it's
plant in Malvern, Ark, had been
rejected. The regional boards
denial was based on the false
assumption that such bonuses are
contrary to stabilization regula-
tions, the WLB declared.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-01
Union Ask Probe
Of Army Lobby

WASHINGTON, May 20 -
(LPA)-An investigation by the
Dept. of Justice has been asked
into charges that Army person
mel has been assigned to lobby
for passage of legislation on
peacetime compulsory military
training. The Michigan Labor
Comittee A gainst Peacetime
Conscription has written to the
Dept, asking about reports that
Mai. Gen. Walter Il. Weible, di-
rector of military training of the
Army Service Forces, and his
entire department, as we'll as one
man in each corps area office,
are devoting their time to pro-
motion of peacetime conscrip-
tion.
Meanwhile, the American Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Auxiliaries-
AFL executive committee, meet
ing here last week, stated that
wiz es of union men believe that
whatever postwar army is need
ed by America for defense can
and should be built up volun-
tarily and not by conscription.
Present rates of pay in the
armed services should be
doubled for peacetime, the COM
mittee urged. Such action, it
contended, would attract all the
men required for an adequate
army, without compulsion.
Hearings on the bill are sched-
uled to start before the House
Committee on Postwar Military
Policy on June 4.
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Volunteer FEPc Formed

PHILADELPHIA GPA) =
Voluntary compliance with the
principles of fair employment
practice in business and labor
dealings is being pledged by en-
ployers and employees alike, as
part of drive conducted by the
Council for Equal Job Opportu-
nifty here. The aid of the Cham
Der of Commerce, CIO and AFL
was asked at meeting of the
Council last week, Copies of the
pledge will be circulated in the
community, and firms signing up
will receive a certificate, suit
able for framing and display.
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being used to foist on the Ameri-
can bills that has been intro
duced in Congress since the
founding of the Republic"
President Green, when shown
the ad, minced no words in his
condemnation of it. In letter
to the editor of "The Labor
Union" he termed the ad "vici-
GUS propaganda" and asked that
his letter be published by the
paper as reputation of the ad
and as an expression of the
AFL's true position in regard to
the legislation.
Endorsed by Unions
Sen. Wagner's office told LPA
that not single union group in
the nation is on record, as far
as they know, against the bill,
while all major labor organiza-
tions and scores of local unions
have fully endorsed it.
Masthead of the paper gives
j. E. Breidenbach as president,
James R. Anderson, editor, and
Richard S. Jamison, associate
editor.
Nelson Cruikshank, director OF
the AFL's Social Insurance ac-
tivities, joined Green in con-
demning the ad, "The principles
of the Wagner-Murray bill were
twice endorsed unanimously by
the AFL convention" he said
ANY attack on the bill PLAYS
into the hands of the selfish in
terests that are opposing it on
trumped up and fictitious
charges of socialized medicine
Such an advertisement also goes
against the support of the bill
given by large liberal segment
of the medical profession"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-01
Superseniori+y
Splits Groups

w "A . n ~ u L - ~, May 20
(LPA) Complete confusion
reigned in Washington this week
on the question of supersenior-
ity for returning veterans. The
Justice Department wants it
tested in the courts; the Labor
Dept. is opposed to supersenior-
ity as interpreted by Selective
Service Director Hershey.
At issue was Memorandum
1904, an Interpretation of thex
Selective Service Act which
would permit World War II vets
to bump World War l vets or
anyone else with greater ac-
cumulated seniority out of their
jobs. All of organized labor has
agreed to the idea that soldier
accumulates seniority on his job
for time spent in the armed
forces.
The Justice Dept. notified all
Federal attorneys to represent
GPs claiming superseniority but
warned that since superseniority
is not free from doubt under the
Act the Justice Dept. will ex-
pect the attorneys to present
the issue to the courts with full
candor. The Justice Dept. also
emphasized that all cases in
volving the closed shop should
be referred to the department
before court action is taken.
Union leaders have commended
that literal Interpretation of
Memorandum 1904 could be
used by anti-union employers
as unionbusting weapon.
Labor Dept. Dissatisfied
The Labor Dept. is not at all
satisfied with Hershey's ideas on
superseniority. An officia1
memorandum, not designed for
publication, from the Douglas
B. Maggs, Labor Dept. Solicitor,
to Howard T. Colvin', acting di-
rector of the Cancellation Serv-
ice, declared that "The Depart
ment of Labor interprets certain
provisions of the Selective Serv-
ice Training Act differently from
the Selective Service Admin
stration. These interpretations of
the Department of Labor are nd
more binding than the inter-
pretations of the Selective Serv-
ice Administration. They are
maintained, however, not only
by the Department, but also by
business institutions and labor
organizations"
The total effect of the Labor
Departments position is to give
greater emphasis to existing un.
ion contracts in decisions on
seniority. Crux of the difference
was expressed by the Maggs
statement that "It is our view
that the returning veteran is en-
titled to his place on the senior
iity list in the business estab-
lishment and that the statute
does not call for the displace-
ment of senior workers in the
event the force has been re-
duced to such an extent that the
issue is raised"
Out of the confusion and diff
ferences between the Justice
Dept, Labor Dept. and the
Selective Service System one
clear fact emerged. Neither the
Justice Dept. nor the Labor
Dept. fully share the opinion of
Selective Service on supersenio-
rity. Therefore the whole ques-
ton will probably hinge on the
first court test of Hershey's in
| depreciation.
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Consult your OPA area
rent office 6saaaedSaselI
You cannot be evicted for
refusing to pay more than
the legal rent fixed by OpA
In most states, a tenant
does not have to move until
a court order is Issued.
An OPA eviction form IS
not an order to move. :.
neither Is the notice given !
to YOU by your landlord
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Recruiting Bonuses oK'd

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Seeing Eye-w,oUn's

there was room for more. How
about attending the next party?
We know we were careless about
putting the Notice in this col
umn and we will see that it does
not happen again.
Willys Unit members, please
get behind the movement and
help get that new Veterans Hos
pital located here. We need
projects like this, as it will help
the City. The little land it will
use in Ottawa Park will never
Be missed after it is used to help
cure those who might have paid
the supreme sacrifice that we
might live.
Watch for Notices and Post
cards notifying you of Political
Action Committee meetings in
your Ward. Please attend and
bring your friends with you. If
this is read by any of the for
mer Stewards, have you any
PAC Membership tickets in your
possession, or any yellow cards?
If so, mail or deliver them to
Claude Hess, WHY'S Unit, 425
Winthrop ST., Toledo, Ohio, any
that does not belong to you.
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Tie Standard
Bulletin
Local 497-Standard
Products-POrt Clinton

The Ladies Auxiliary of Local
497 held their first meeting and
bingo party last Wednesday with
good attendance. Mrs. Louise
McNaught was guest peaker, al
the close of the evening a deli
cious lunch was served. Cathe.
rine Gillas will be the next guest
speaker. A drive for new mem.
bers is on, so please come to the
next meeting.
The committee consists of
Pauline Kowalczak, publicity,
Catherine Winnie, refreshments,
Ann Hansen, chairman, Irene
Dodway, temp. secretary.
Has anyone seen the new
spark in Dorothy Pepas eyes.
The reason is that she and Bing
Sumersett became engaged last
week.
Rumors are that Hazel Nc
Coskey will be the next bride.
Margaret Weley has left the
Standard Products. Lots of luck
in your new job as wife of
Cryle.
The president of Local 497 is
a proud father of a pound 6
ounce baby boy on Labor Day.
Don't lose all the buttons on
your coat daddy!
Its time for your Standard
Products Union members to or
ganize your departments.
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The
|Acklinite
n, n.I
By Bud Herroon

Well here is another edition
of the Acklinite, and if we had {
few people that would submit
some of the shop news, we might
have better column.
There have been some people
who have not been receiving
their paper regularly some to
the extent of eleven weeks. l do
not know the reason why but il
you will contact me l will see
that you get a grievance sheet
to file, which will probably cor
rect it.
Winthin the next week or ten
days there will be paper
passed out for you to sign with
your name and addres and other
information if you are interested
in attending the three safety con-
ferences which will be held
starting September 25th. Your
full cooperation in this matter
will be very much appreciated.
If you have any questions you
may contact Frank Bennett and
he will give you all the dope.
The last month has been a very
safe month, let's keep it that
way.
| wonder who knows the an
swer as to why one of our day
committeeman went on nights?
Do you suppose it was to see
how they got along, straighten
them out, or maybe the coming
convention had something to do
with it. How about it Lew?
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Toledo Stamping
Notes

Congratulations to the Harry
Mikolajczyk's who are blessed
evening. It's 7 lb. 10 OF. boy.
Maybe the ones who don't
pack cotton in their ears in the
miscellaneous dept. can tell us
why the other ones do.
Paul Ramm, j. Nelson, Al
Rose and Ann Ryoke are absent
from work. We wish them a
speedy recovery.
One of the things Joe Juszczak
will never know is what was
on the end of his fish line that
took the pole and scrammed
for the middle of the river.
When last seen the pole was
heading for the lake.
Judging from the reports we
have received about Trudy Dom
browski's birthday, it seems she
should have them oftener.
Ted Drocy starting out for
work one morning last week,
backed the car out of the garage
without opening the doors. Il
always did want an air-con-
ditioned garage" he said.
Nearly everyone is back to
work after a short layoff. Every
body is now waiting for their
back wages which have been
promised for the end of the
month.
Eva Spangler who had we'd
ding anniversary last week says
the celebration will have to
wait until her husband gets
home from the army.
Attendance at the Unit meet
ing this month showed some i'm
provement, but could be lots
better. There are plenty of
gripes in the shop pest rooms, so
why not bring tkem to a meet
ing and air rfhem when and
where theXshould be aired?