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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-13
EPAc c oIls.
For PR
Petitions

Clayton Rusch, chairman o1
the Political Action Committee
early this week sent out a call
for all circulators of the petitions
calling for repeal of the PR sys-
tenn of electing city councilmen
to get their filled petitions into
the PAC office at the earliest
possible time.
In explaining the purpose in
asking all circulators to turn in
their PR petitions, Mr.. Rusch
said, ''our goal for the petitions
is 10000 names. We would like
to get an accurate count at the
earliest possible time so we can
see how many more names we
need. We must have 1880
valid signatures to put the pro-
posal on the November ballot" :"
Need More Signers
Mr.. Rusch said that approx
mately 5000 names had been
turned into his office, but that
he was anxious to have the petit
tions turned in as soon as they
are filled. Petitions must be
filed with the clerk of city coun-
Gil by August 8.
PAC officials said that the
drive to secure signatures was
being intensified with dozens of
additional circulators working
in many neighborhoods on
house-to-house canvass to insure
the securing of the required
number of names. All CIO shops
are circulating petitions through
their executive shop committees
and stewards.
"We are confident we will get
the proposal on the fall ballot,
but want to recall all outstanding
petitions when we have reached
our goal" said Rusch.
The present effort to eliminate
the PR system of electing city
councilmen was sponsored by
PAC after public sentiment in
dicated that the system was not
and was nfusing to
the voters. PR has been under
attack almost constantly since its
adoption here. The city manager
form of government is not under
fire and will be continued if the
referendum carries.
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Packard
Resumes


Production at the Toledo
plant of the Packard Motor
Car Co., has been resumed
since the Detroit strike situa-
ton has eased according to
UAW-CIO members of the Pac-
kard executive o m m i tt e e.
Workers laid off because of ma
terial shortages have been re-
called and work is about back to
normal.
At the same time production
was resumed, MESA. raiding eff
forts were renewed by Chair
man William Wisenburn head of
the Packard group. Mr.. Wisen-
burn has been rather quiet for
the past several weeks, but is
once more back at his usual
tactics both in and out of his
own union.
Afraid of Chairman
A former MESA employee of
the packard Co., related last
week that the workers in Wisen-
burns union are "afraid of him"
"They don't like his methods of
doing business" said the former
Packard workers, "but what can
they do when he can have them
fired for getting in his hair"
Two employees in MESA de-
partments are fearful lest their
chairman still carry out his
threats of several weeks ago to
fire them. One of them was
called to order for wearing a
UAW-CIO bowling shirt. Wisen-
burn has been again telling some
of his assistant organizers that
there is still some cleaning to
be done in our own bunch"
Worried About Election
Earl Streeter, in charge of
Toledo MESA is reliably report
ed to be worried lest the NLRB
order an election requested by
his union some time ago for
production employees already
organized in Local IL, UAW-
CIO. His worry has been given
good grounds due to the fact
that he himself was forced to
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WPB, however, still could
not announce any overall re-
conversion plan. Krug's only
plan to date seems to be the
removal of industry controls,
even where there are material
shortages, while wage controls
are maintained.
Plants Gradually Shifting
Two days after Willow Run
shut down the first new Fords
came out of River Rouge and
WPB learned that the first
truckload of washing machines
left an Iowa factory for Mime
apolis. Other war plants were
gradually shifting over to civil
ian production, but some manu-
facturers were Sitting out"
waiting to see whether the govs
ernment wouldn't subsidize theis
reconversion costs.
The nearest thing to an over
all reconversion program was
contained in the report last
week by War Mobilization Di-
rector Vinson who pointed out
that "We have asked workers
voluntarily to give up the right
to strike. But the no-strike
pledge implies an obligation on
our part to protect the workers
standard of living. Therefore,
we must be prepared to make
some upward adjustments to
compensate for several declines
in take-home pay"
Vinson For Compensation
Vinson also asked for an ade-
quate unemployment compen-
sation law, for liberalized vete-
rams benefits, expansion of the
social security program and the
planning of a large public works
program "if unemployment is
slow"
However, little chance was
seen that any of Wilson's recon-
mendations would be put into
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| Other proposed ch ng e S
would clear the way to pay
raises in those industries where
wage rates have Jagged most
sharply behind living costs and
where workers earnings are
being slashed by downgrading
and reclassifications.
Outright boosting of the little
steel formula is still in the dis
tance. Some public members
were reputed to have leaned for
a while toward the idea of rails
ing the little steel ceiling to
800 which would bring across
the-board increases to level
with the official cost-of- living
index. During the past week,
however, the public members
treated from the proposal.
Concessions so far indicated
by the public members are en-
couraging, but don't 60 far
enough, laborites declared. A
real wage program, one that
would ensure preservation of
purchasing power and avert a
postwar economic collapse,
must include, they said, boost
in hourly rates of at least 30%,
sufficient to cover both the ad-
vance in the cost of living and
the decline in take-home pay as
working hours fall.
II is time, union spokesmen
contend, for Vinson and the
Administration to suit the deed
to the word - and put into eff
feet substantial wage increases
now.
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The headlines were about
$4,000 workers Throughout
the country being on strike
They did not mention the de
nunciation of h i g h-m n d e
methods by Selective Service
Director Hershey in revoking the
occupational defermentS of
group Of striking rubber work
ers in Akron.
Hershey Is Criticized
Hershey, already under fire
for his union busting supersen'
iority ideas, was criticized by
the Industrial Union of Marine
and Shipbuilding Workers-CIO
Local AZ, Philadelphia. The
union protested to President
Truman, WLB Chairman Tay-
lor, Economic Sterilization Di-
rector Davis, H ershey and
Ohio's Gov. Lausche.
With labor members dissent
ing the War Labor Board sus-
pended the shift premiums and
vacation pay that it had grant
ed Local 2 of the United Rub
ber Workers-CIO of Akron on
April 3. David disclosed that he
had asked Hershey to cancel
the strikers deferments. With
skilled rubber workers desper-
ately needed, union leaders are
waiting to see how many Her
shey will attempt to take from
the plants for induction.
Return To Work
More than $4,000 unionists
returned to work at Goodyear
after President Truman ordered
seizure of the company's five
Strikebound plants. However,
the Senate war investigating
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Army Loses I.Is6.0oo

w ASHIN TON (LPA)-
Losses to the Army from the be-
ginning of the war to the pres
ent now total 1861, 900. Total
deaths (battle and non-battle)
have been $4,000; honorable
discharges 1,412,000; prisoners
of war and missing $4,000;
other separations $4,000. "Other
separations" include men who
were placed on an inactive list,
personnel given discharges other
than honorable, retirements of
regular Army personnel and
other miscellaneous separations.
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vised wage policy for the
reconversion period.
One of the plans gaining
headway would give the "green
light to wage increases nego-
tiated voluntarily b ct w n
unions and managements, even
though these exceed the little
steel formula provided such
pay boosts aren't used as basis
for demanding price hike.
Labor Pushes Plan
Labor members have been
pushing this plan as one major
cornerstone of a revised wage
program to protect workers
earnings from taking a nosedive
and public members were re-
ported to : favorable to the
idea. Tk, plan would also
pave the way to at least a par
tial return to free collective bar
S01lAAAl6'
Some union chiefs are conf
dent that, given free hand to
negotiate wage raises within
present price levels, they can
"go to town. in many industries
which have been rolling in fat
wartime profits and which can
easily grant higher pay rates
without affecting prices.
Another revision being dis
cussed would involve a new di-
rective from the White House
giving the board greater leeway
than it now has to grant wage
adjustments for correction of in
equalities.
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rendered several pleasing num-
bers ending with the playing of
the National Anthem while the
American flag was being raised
over the baseball park. Sylvia
Gorski, drum majorette, gave a
fine performance of strutting and
baton tWirling.
Local IL was host to 1000
youngsters at the game and pre-
sented the Future Fans Club
with thousands of bags of pea
nuts, refreshments, and noise
makers for the occasion.
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postwar periods.
Kilgore's bill asks, as did
Truman, for unemployment
benefits up to $25 week for
26 weeks with Federal funds
supplementing present state
payments. If passed the legis-
lation will also make benefits
available to millions of govern
ment and maritime workers and
employees of small firms not
now covered.
Would Amend GI. Bill
In addition the bill would amend
the CT Bill of Rights by allow
ing $25 a week for single vete-
rams and $50 a week for vete-
rams with dependents for a to-
tai of So weeks. AS the CT Bill
stands now it provides for only
$40 a week regardless of
whether the veteran is single or
has dependents.
Besides Kilgore, the legisla-
ton has the sponsorship of Sen
ators Murray Cd, Mont), Wag-
ner 3D., N. ", Guffey Cd, Pa.)
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Lock" Looked Wrong

CLEVELAND (LPA) = Look
magazine pulled a boner on
President Truman's voting rec
ord as a Sen or, and the
Cleveland Industrial I'm i o n
Council spotted it. According
to Look, Truman favored the
Smith Connally anti-strike act
and voted to override the
Roosevelt veto on it. The CIUC
checked the Congressional Rec
ord, found Truman's slate clean,
and told Look so, urging that the
magazine print a correction
without delay.
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and Pepper 3D., Fla.)
Expectations were that the
bill would go to the Senate FL
nance Committee, the majority
of whose members have bad rec
ords on labor issues. Union
groups hoped that it might pos
sibly be sent to the Senate La
Dor and Education Committee
where it would have its best
chance of a favorable report
without crippling amendments.
Hearings will probably not be
held before September or Octo-
Der.
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Krus Boasts But
Announces No Plan

WASHINGTON, July g. IPA) - The first autos and
the first washing machines struggling off the production
lines but the reconveron muddle has become with
increasing cutbacks that frequently affect thousands of
workers without advance notice.
WPB Chairman ]. A. Krug proudly announced last
week that American workers last year produced forve
of the worlds munitions and supplied the best
equipment in the world the largest navy the largest air.
force and one of the largest armies in the world"
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Monroe Sweetland, one of
the organizers of the Oregon
Commonwealth F e d alton,
which enlisted the political
support of practically all that
states trade union movement,
has been Red Cross represent
ative in the China Burma In
dia theater for nearly two
years. AS secretary of the
Commonwealth F e d e r alton,
Sweetland, now in Okinawa,
helped build that labor in
to a political organization that
held the balance of power in
Oregon for several years and
helped elect many friends of
unionism to the state and ma
tionaI legislature. Before join
ing the Red Cross, Sweetland
was national director of the
CIO War Relief Committee.
UPA.)
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Strikes Make Headlines
As | Labor Works

WASHINGTON July g. (LPA) = War workers stuck to
their jobs July instead of taking holiday and accord
ing to the Bureau of Labor Statistics that single day they
nut in more work than been lost by all strikes since Pearl
Harbor But that didn't make headlines on July D.
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Crowd Of 900 Attends
First Annual Go Niqht

While thousands of baseball fans looked with approval
Richard Gosser director of Region 2B introduced
them by Melvin Schultz, president of Local r. UAWCIO
Tuesday night Swayne Field during the Veterans Fund
program crowd 1000 turned witness the baseball
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Wage Hike
Required Now

WASHINGTON, July 10, QPA) - There was lot of
talk in the nations capital during the past week about the
need of easing up wage controls but little real action
Some progress made inside the Natl War Labor
Board which for several weeks has been discussing re-
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Correction On
Die Council

This is to correct the time
for the meetings of the
Greater Toledo Tool and
Die Council reported in last
weeks issue: The time
should have read First and
Third shift meetings, Mon
day, July 16, at 500 p. m.
Second shift - Thursday,
July 10, at 1000 a. m.
Both meetings will be
held at Local IL headquar-
ters, 425 Winthrop st.
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J0bLess Benefits
BiUGoes Before
Congress
Kilgore Asks Congress
Okay OF Bill

WASHINGTON, July TO- QPA) = Congress this week
asked by Sen Harley Kigore d. W. Va to okay Pre-
sdent Trumans request for liberalzed unemployment
compensation system to help tide workers and
others who dsemployed during the reconveson and
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Corporate Interests
CONTINUED from Page One)

feet that their business would be in
jured if the st. Lawrence development
goes through. Last, but not least, is
the formal opposition of Railroad
Brotherhoods.
The browning victory of the vested
interests opposing the st. Lawrence
project has so far been the opposition
of the Railroad Brotherhoods to the
development. From conversation with
railroad employees, l learn that they
have been shamelessly misinformed
They have been told that the st. Law
renee Seaway would have unlimited
capacity, that it would take a good
share of the business away from the
railroads (although the same inter
ests that tell these lies to the railroad
men have no hesitancy in telling other
groups that the st. Lawrence Seaway
would be a waste of money because no
one would use it,.
The products of the Great Lakes
which would pass through the Seaway
would be manufactured products des-
tluSu lOi lOlSlSh pm I'd anu dStiCut
tural products of the Midwest des-
tined for consumers on our eastern
seaboard.
The increased export trade made
possible by the seaway would mean
more work for American labor. The
lowered cost of transporting agricultu-
raj products to the eastern seaboard
would mean cheaper living costs for
consumers.
The st. Lawrence fight is another
battle in the war between the apostles
of scarcity and high prices and the
of plenty and low prices. 1t
is fight which we must carry on I'M
til victory is won. If we win this fight,
we will win others of similar nature
and full employment in the postwar
period will be assured.
The opponents of the st. Lawrence
stop at nothing. In 1941 the president
of the United States, the secretary of
state, the secretary of war, the secre-
tary of the navy, the chairman of the
maritime commission, and virtually
every high government official pleaded
with the congress, even while the
clouds of war were gathering, to auth
prize this development so that its re-
sources would be ready for the de-
tense of America.
These officials told us that we would
be short of shipping, which could be
constructed on the Great Lakes, but
which could not be moved to the ocean
through existing waterways. They
-old us that we would be short of cleo
-ric energy with which to produce the
of the war. Yet, the enemies
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-11-09
Co-operatives Fight Back

tive association sold two million heat
dollars. That year, the Farmers I'm
ion Grain Terminal association han
died 129 million bushels of grain and
had receipts of more than S5,800,000
And one of the organizations in the
consumer cooperative field, Midland
Cooperative Wholesale, had sales to
falling more than 10 million dollars for
the year.
Businessmen who have studied OBJ
jectively the nature and growth of the
co-operatives have little sympathy
with the tax campaign against the
co-ops. These businessmen have faith
in their own business methods and
institutions. They realize that if CO.
operatives savings should be taxed,
the co-operatives could avoid the taxes
by lowering daily price margins. But
that would merely hamper the cooper
atives to no good purpose.
These co-operatives, their services
and the genius of their leaders, will
be highly important assets in coping
with the peacetime economic prob
lens that lie ahead Public policies
affecting those co-operatives should
not be shaped by Minneapolis grain
traders with private axes to grind
The people of this country, if they
have the facts, will not stand for
the cooperative movement
through the proposed tax device
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of the st. Lawrence Seaway and Pow
er Project, who must have known the
truth of these statements of high gov
eminent officials, but who for years
had been reaping tremendous profits
from the American public, were so
powerful that they delayed action on
the development by the congress until
we were actually in the war and it
was then too late to start construc-
ton.
No one can tell how many thousand
lives of American boys have been lost
and how many additional billion dol
lars of taxpayers money have been
spent through failure to have the st.
Lawrence Seaway available for use in
this war. The same merciless opposi-
ton that held national security so
cheap in comparison with profits will
fight the postwar development of the
ST. Lawrence through every under
handed method they can devise.
Will we be so blind that we cannot
see the need for developing it without
delay? VIII we be so cowardly that
we will let the vested interests pre-
vent the st. Lawrence development be-
cause we fear them?
Within the next few months a de-
termined and concerted effort will be
made to secure the approval of the
congress to the agreement between the
United States and Canada by which
the st. Lawrence development will be
Public opinion in America is
rising fast. 1t will rise faster as the
war nears its end and the need for en-
ployment becomes more apparent. The
men now in the service look to us to
see that opportunity awaits them when
they return home. The development
Of our great natural resources is the
most important thing we can do to as
sure them of that opportunity.
DEMAND THE UNION LABEL!
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An Open Letter
(Conffnued from PAGE one)

CONTINUED from Page One)
wrong men, now that the war is over
Or isn't it?
People want peace they want to
think peace, prepare for peace, live
peacefully. They have done well, and
they deserve change. Militarism
has led and is leading us again
straight toward war AND toward the
dictatorship of the military class. We
do not want the military to control
our country, but we are moving rapid
ly in that direction. You will find,
l am sure, that the average service
man and civilian alike are in agree
ment at this point
| do hope that your judgment at this
point will be changed-and against any
type of peace-time military training
that is in any way compulsory.
Very truly yours,
REV. M. ]. WILCOX,
The Methodist Church,
Laurel, Montana.
Dated Nov. 5, 1915.
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WOMEN OPERATE
|C0-OPS I'm
MANY FIELDS

CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-(NAC)-Rogel
W. Babson, widely read financial col
umnist, reported recently the story
of Folly Cove, cooperative organiza
ton of women in Gloucester, Mass.
created to market at cost their table
doilies, scarfs, dresses, curtains and
other fancy work they make in their
homes.
Babson could have a bigger story,
suggests the National Association of
Co-operatives, if he investigated the
cooperative curb markets run by farm
women in hundreds of communities.
Here he would find farm housewives,
not only selling homemade scarfs,
doilies, etcetera, but also eggs, honey,
fried chicken, doughnuts, pickles pre-
serves and pie. Pin money, picked up
this way, runs to thousands of dollars
annually; helps buy new dresses or
new paper for the kitchen; perhaps
a piano or modern plumbing now and
then. And quite often it put Junior
or Sis through the state agricultural
college.
Women of yelling, Okla, continues
the National Association of Co-opera-
tives have a "Weavers Cooperative"
composed of 20 women who have band
ed together to market the handmade
afghans, rugs, blankets, mems and
women's suiting and other products
of the looms they operate in leisure
hol1rs in their home
Also reported by the MAC. is the
Producers Cooperative, organized
among Mohammedan girls by Presby-
terrain missionaries of the American
Junior College for Girls at Beirut,
Syria. Turbans, sweaters, handker-
chiefs, underwear and other garments
produced at the weekly sewing ses-
sions of the school girls, along with
american" jam, also made by the
youthful co-operators, find an eager.
sellers market in their home commu-
nifty
Through cooperation and cooper
one of the colleges teachers
is quoted as remarking 1--WE are teach
ing the girls the Christian way of
working together and helping each
other"
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What the Veteran

Continued from Page Three)
new occupation or profession he
wishes to learn provided that in the
opinion of the vocational advisors of
the Veterans Administration, the vet
cram has the phyical ability aptitude
and educational qualifications neces-
sary to be successful in the course of
his choice
Vocational testing. Veterans will be
given tests to enable Veterans Ad-
ministration advisors to prescribe and
provide suitable training for their new
occupation.
Injuries while in training. Should a
veteran suffer an injury as a result
of taking course, and not the result
of his own misconduct, and any such
injury causes additional disability or
death, benefits will be awarded in the
same way as if the injury, aggravation
or death resulted from war service
Application for these must be made
within two years after injury.
Loans. Where the circumstances
warrant, it is possible to receive an
advancement not exceeding $100 to be |
paid back without interest
Some veterans will be eligible for
Vocational Rehabilitation under Pub
lie Law 16 or for the educational ben
efits under the CT Bill of Rights. How
ever, if eligible for both, the veteran
must elect one or the other. He can
not have both The educational bene-
fits under the CT Bill of Rights were
discussed at length in the preceding
section Education of Veterans).
Montana Vocational Rehabilitation | II
Bureau, Power Block, Helena, Mont. II
Continued Next Week. II