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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-10-13
ECORSE
by MILO CASTOR
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Well, readers. We promised
last week to give you the dope
Gil the primary election which
was held in Ecorse last week.
Well, here goes Lawson was
nominated, as was expected, so
was DR.. Saulsberry. Ten men Of
tho other race were also nominat-
ed
Now. you Ecorse readers, know
what kind OF job we have be-
lore us. Only about half OF the
registered voters came out on
Primary election day. We must
do better than that, II we ex-
pect TO get colored representa-
ton on our City Council.
William W voislne will oppose
Francis Labsdie for the office OF
mayor on November 6. The race
Is expected TO be a fight to the
finish. Both men and their sup
pOrters are certain OF victory.
Noisine has the edge on La
hadie on the Westside Colored
voters remember what voisine
did back in the lean days. They
remembered on October 2. and
the majority promise TO do like
wise on November 6.
But We must and we shall be
100 per cent stronger on Novem-
Der S, II we intend to put our
colored candidates over the top.
Lawson placed second, with over
700 votes. 1t will take at least
1000 votes to put our men in
the council. SO, you who read
this. make date with your next
uCor-neighbor to see that every
one In your block will vote on
November s.
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Sunday School
was conducted by the superin-
tendent, Mr.. Hagler. The lesson
topic was. THE Christian Way
or Life" Mrs. Ruth Lewis re-
viewed the lesson Remarks were
made by Mr.. Green. Mrs. Cary
and Rev. ID Davis. The at
tendance banner went to Glass 5:
Offering banner, Glass !. The
contribution was s. Visitors in
cluded Eva Weldon. Luzella
Nance, Bernice Ray and Rev
\. b. McLainer
At the Sunday morning church
service. the deacons and mission
airy ladies conducted prayer serv-
ice. Rev. J. d. Davis. the pastor.
preached fine sermon. st. Mark
l4;72, subject, He cried TO the
Lord for forgiveness. Three
new members were added to the
church; namely-Mrs. Helen Har-
grove. J A. Allen. and Samuel
Davis. Ten visitors were also
present and made inspiring re-
marks Mother Bates led In sing
ing hymn. which started the
church TO rocking. Three babies
were christened by the pastor.
Miss Rosa Mae Payne was also
united 10 the church.
Members on the sick list in
clude Mrs. Mamie Smith. wife OF
Rev. Smith, $3.50 Eighteenth st.
who is In Sumby hospital; and
her baby is in Childrens hospital.
In Detroit Mrs. Leoruson Is still
on the sick list Mrs. Hightower.
president OF the Pastors choir.
Is up again and back on the
job after two weeks OF Illness.
Dallas Harris ia III at Sumby
hospital.
Members who have been and
are on vacation are: Mrs. Gum.
OF the Usher board, who spent
a month In Helena. Ark; Mrs.
Johnnie Mae SalIey. who is visit
ing relatives In Chicago.
vi. Zion Baptist Church
Sunday School was opened at
$50 Sunday morning by the SUI
perintendent The attendance was
large and the superintendent re-
the lesson.
Rev Mr.. TODD preached Sun
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-10-13

success
The River Rouee-Monroe dance
was won by River Rouge.
The Junior choir Will meet
Saturday with Mrs. Meter. on
Twelfth street.
There will be revival al First
Baptist from October through
lG
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Port Clinton
PAC Meets

PORT CLINTON, June 81,
(SpeciaD-Members of the Port
Clinton PAC composed of mem
bers of Local 497 held their first
general membership meeting
here last week to discuss the
political situation and plan for
the future program of the or
ganization.
Organized less than 80 days
ago, the Port Clinton Political
Action Committee already has
formulated its local program and
will seek to elect representation
in the Port Clinton City Coun-
Gil. Candidates names are being
considered and an endorsement
will be made in the near future.
Two members of the Local
who were in Columbus to attend
the final hearing and vote on
the unemployment compensation
bill reported to the membership.
They asked all PAC mem
bers write to Representatives
Fleckner and Kowalka urging
them to vote in favor of the bill
in the house of representatives.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22

good progress had been made,
but again, that integration of the
Negro required full employment.
Both the white and black work
ers must be free" he said.
Discussing FEPC, Mr., Town
send said, "FEPC was given to
placate us and was a political
move. The integration of the
Negro during this war period
was not due to FEPC but be-
cause of the manpower short
age. With unemployment now
facing us, we will be able to see
why we were hired.
No group can rise at the ex-
pence of another group so
long as the black workers re-
main in the gutter, the white
worker cannot rise, he said.
Pointing out that even during
the full employment period of
the war there were race riots
and violence, the CIO leader ex-
pressed the view that this was
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22

~sions at the Hotel Breakers.
Denied a convention this
year because of the redeploy-
ment of troops to the Pacific
area theatre of war, tomorrow
conference is expected to bring
out timely discussion of many
of the problems which would
ordinarily come before the an
nual convention of the Inter
national UAW-CIO.
PAC Important Subject
Political Action in Region
2-B is listed as one of the most
important subjects to come be-
fore the meeting with particular
emphasis upon the necessity for
establishing the Political Action
Committee on region wide
basis. Recent decision of the ma
tional PAC to begin a national
.!organizational drive July / will
L1euide the conference in planning
for an intensification of PAC
activities in the % counties
making up the region.
Veterans problems on the in
crease since the end of the war
in Europe, have been matter
of major concern to the UAW-
CIO with the International I'm
ion setting up a special Veterans
Bureau to aid servicemen in
securing work, protecting their
seniority and servicing them in
many other ways outside their
shops.
Speakers listed
Speakers listed for the meet
ing include Clayton Rusch, To-
ledo Area PAC chairman; Law
renee Steinberg, Ohio director,
United Retail, Wholesale, De-
!! 'partment Store Employees-Gf0,
Ollie Pecord, managing editor,
TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL:
Reuben Harper, International
UAW-CIO representative; Mel
vim Schultz, president, Local II,
UAW-CIO, Toledo and David
Guberman, Toledo labor attor-
ney.
An address of welcome to the
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Die Workers
Seek BuiIdinq

Members of Local 706. Die
casters, CIO, are considering the
purchase of a building to house
their rapidly expanding organi-
zation and give it additional Of
flee and meeting hall facilities,
it was revealed last week by
Scotty Beeb, president of the
Local.
Under consideration is the
two-story, all brick building
which formerly housed an ex-
change of the Ohio Bell Tele-
phone Co., located on Palmwood
Avenue near Hoag st.
Satisfaction of Local 9, Flat
Glass Workers, and Local IA,
UAW-CIO, with similar tele-
phone buildings, one on East
Broadway, the other on Isling
ST., have given the officers and
of Local 706 the urge
to invest in the proposed site.
A referendum vote of the
will soon be held
to decide the question.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22

behind living costs and in those
industries that are hit hardest
by "downgrading."
DR.. George w. Taylor, WLB
chairman, gave a preview of how
the public members are thinking
on the subject in addresses at
Kansas City and Chicago last
week.
He conceded that many work
ers are going to be left in nut
cracker, with prices rising
while their take-home earnings
fall, through downgrading, re-
claSsifications, and other indirect
reductions.
So far during the war wages
have more than kept up with
prices, he claimed (though labor
has consistently challenged that
claim.) He reiterated the figure
carried some time ago in WLB
report - namely that straight
time earnings have increased
368o while the cost of living has
risen 30%.
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22

Friday evening, June Is, be-
fore a group of Negro and
CIO workers. Mr.. Townsend
realistically told his listeners,
"the Negro is the first to suffer
if we do not have enough jobs
to 60 round"
Decrying the ability of the
employers and paid propa-
gandiSts to play off minority
groups against each other, Mr..
Townsend said that unlike the
foreign groups which migrated
to America, the Negro has not
been assimilated, but remains
the same, He stated his objec-
ton to proportionate layoffs for
white and colored workers and
termed it "Jim Crowism in re-
verse" Such layoffs would not
only be unfair to the whites, he
said, but would make them
"viciously anti-Negro and anti
union"
Referring to the efforts of the
CIO to abolish racial discrimint
alton, Mr.. Townsend said that
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
CIO Waits On
SchWeIIenboch

WASHINGTON, June 10 -
Washington labor circles this
week were still puzzling over the
question of whether newly ap-
pointed Sec'y of Labor Lewis
S Schwellenbach will appoint a
iCIO man as assistant. The ques-
tion came to a point because for
mer president Roosevelt had
called Michigan CIO President
John Gibson to Washington with
the idea of making him Asst.
Secretary of Labor.
1t is reported that Roosevelt's s
idea was to give CLOS Gibson a
position parallel to that held by
an AFL representative, Dan
Tracy, former head of the Intl.
Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers, who is now Asst. Secy. of
Labor. Gibson returned to Mich
igan With the whole question of
CIO representation in the Labor
Dept. resting in a vacuum and
waiting on Schwellenbach's deci-
sion.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22

sion wage policy.
Labor members have been
fighting for a drastic modifi-
cation of the Little Steel"
formula, so as to permit an i'm
mediate IL per cent general in
crease in wages to bring hourly
pay rates more nearly in line
with the official cost of living
index.
The laborites also insist the
controls should be thawed out
sufficiently to authorize another
20 per cent increase to make up
for the decline in take-home pay
when working hours fall from 48
to 40 week.
Public Members Refuse
So far, the public members
have refused to go that far
though they have thrown out in
timations on the extent of the
concessions they are willing to
make. These have been along the
line of general wage adjustments
in those industries where pay
rates have Jagged most sharply
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Woding Pool
Fund Grows

Returns from Toledo Go
shops for the Franklin D. Roose-
welt Wading Pool Memorial to
be erected at the home of the
Toledo Society For Crippled
Children are beginning to come
into CIO Council headquarters.
Es11 H.fron ST. with gratffyinr
results. This announcement was
made early this week by Tom
Burke, secretary of the Memorial
Fund who stated that ''the wad-
ing pool will become reality"
Mr. Burke said that the small
shops are showing surprising
generosity in their gifts proof
that the CLOS heart is as great
as it has always been.
Walter Madrzykowski, treas
urer of the Memorial Fund said
that as soon as final results have
been compiled a complete list of
shops would be published in the
TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL
showing the number of en-
ployees donating and the amount
of money given. Early returns
from Champion Spark Plug,
Brewery Workers and several of
the smaller CIO sh 'ps indicate
that this drive is going to sur
pass our first expectations" he
said.
RicharS G osser, committee
chairman, told the members of
the committee last week I'VE
are anxious to see this work
started so the children at the
home can get the use of the pool
at the earliest possible moment.
This summer for sure.
Containers for the fund col
lection may be obtained at the
Toledo Industrial Union Council,
GIL Huron st. or at the office of
the TOLEDO UNION JOUR
NAL, 425 Winthrop. The drive
will continue through July 3.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Report Progress
For PR Petitions

Good progress was reported
early this week on securing sig
natures to the petitions calling
for repeal of the PR system of
electing members of the city
commission.
Clayton Rusch, PAC chairman
announced that 5000 names had
been secured by petition circu-
lators in the first 10 days the
petitions were circulated. Those
shops which have not yet re-
ceived their petitions will be
taken care of Immediately and
we will intensity our drive in an
effort to secure the required
number of names early in july"
he said.
In order to secure place on
the November ballot for the pro-
posal 13, 500 valid signatures are
required. PAC is seeking to
secure 10000 names to make
certain the voters have an oppor-
tunity to express their wishes.
Tune In WTOL Every Thursday, 1880 d. m.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22

Union officials announced that
maintenance services would be
permitted to operate, but said
that all manufacturing processes
would be completely closed
down until the contract tebetween
the glass companies and the
Union is satisfactorily settled.
Popular Strike Vote
Members and officials of Local
9, Flat Glass Workers of this
city are pointing to the near
unanimous strike vote as evil
dence of the resentment against
the Libbey- -Owens-Ford Co. for
its failure to come to terms with
the Union over a new contract.
The contract under which the
workers have been operating
was written in 1912 and does not
meet the conditions which exist
today according to Union lead
ers.
Two possible actions may
come out of the strike. /. The
War Labor Board may order
the workers to return to their
jobs in a "show cause" hearing.
2. The Union may reject the
Boards demand and the Army
may be ordered to take over
the operation of the plant.
Chances of the company man.
agements and Union getting to-
gether for additional confer
ences are believed remote in the
face of the complete breakdown
of negotiations on two previous
occasions.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22

to the Act which would re-
quire recalculation of all
prices in the interests of
guaranteeing m n u { a turers
their full costs = including ad-
vertising - in the reconversion
period. Several such amend
ments have been proposed, all
of them following the same pro-
fits-guaranteeing pattern as the
Taft amendment voted down by
the Senate by 26 to Il vote
last week.
Would Cause Initiation
All such proposals will result
in disastrous initiation, labor and
consumer spokesman asserted.
you can't simply figure that
such profits guarantee would
mean rise of certain per-
centage in the workers cost of
living" a labor spokesman
pointed out, because once you
take the lid off and start re-
figuring prices, it will be a sign
to every manufacturer to get
price rise, and we'll soon be on
the merry-go-round of inf1a-
ton"
Landlord lobbyists are still
trying to get rise in rents, and
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Glass
Workers
Strike

Members of the Federation
of Flat Glass Workers, CIO,
walked out at 600 p. m. last
night in protest strike
against the management of
the Libbey Owens Ford Glass
Co. after negotiations between
the management and company
had completely broken down.
Calling of the strike followed
by one week a strike vote held
here under the jurisdiction of
the National Labor Relations
Board. The vote was counted at
the Re gional NLRB head
quarters in Cleveland last Mon
day with an overwhelming
majority favoring the work
stoppage.
Ten Locals Vote
A total of 10 Local Unions,
h wing contractual relations
with the Libbey- Ovens s-Ford
Co. and the Pittsburgh Plate
Glass Co. voted in the election.
Results of the vote in the Lib
bey-Owens-Ford plants gave the
workers in favor of the strike
90 per cent majority. The vote
was For the strike-4,672. Op-
posed-411. Result of the total
vote for all plants was, For -
10,679, Against-1085.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Price Control Battle Reaches Te||ta|e Climax
Taft, Thomas, Wherry
Lead Congress Fight

WASHINGTON, June 19 LPA) = Every person in the
country going feel in the months ahead the effects of
the gigantic pressure campaign going here to kill
price control Whether crippng amendments the Price
Control Act will finally get through Congress- whether
compromise that hampers price control by
administrative action is agreed it promises to be long,
fight and labor leaders here agree
With only matter of days to go before the Price Con-
troll Act expires House members promoting amendments
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Murray Endorses Wage
Hike For Congressman

WASHINGTON (LPA) - CIO
President Philip Murray, whose
request last week for an imme-
diate 20o pay raise for Ameri-
can workers was turned down by
President Truman, declared that
he heartily endorsed" the pro-
posed increase of pay for Con-
gressmen. Truman signed legis-
lation giving members of the
House an additional $2500 a
year for expenses, retroactive to
January 3.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22

announced today.
The New York dinner
meeting will be addressed by
Sidney Hillman, honorary chair
man of the NCPAC; Elmer. A.
Benson, former Farmer-Labor
vernon of Minnesota, and
chairman of the NCPAC Execu-
tive Council; United States SEN
ator Charles w. Tobey (R.) of
New Hampshire; DR.. Frank
Kingdom and DR.. j. Raymond
Walsh, radio commentators A.
F. Whitney, president of the
Railroad Brotherhoods of Amer
lea; and Dorothy Parker. King
don, Walsh, Whitney and Miss
Parker are vice-chairmen of the
NCPAC.
To Tour Country
In making the announcement,
c. B. Baldwin, vice-chairman
of NCPAC, said that Governor
Benson would subsequently
make a nationwide tour to meet
with progressive citizens and
political leaders in Chicago,
Minneapolis, Sioux Falls, Bis
mark, Helena, Spokane, Seattle,
Portland, Ore, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Reno, Salt Lake
City, Cheyenne, Denver, Omaha,
Des Moines, Kansas City, and
st. Louis. The tour, he said,
would start about July l, and
would cover about five weeks.
The purpose of the tour, Bald
win said, is to mobilize people
outside the labor movement,
such as farmers, business and
professional people, regardless
of party, whose real interests lie
in cooperating with the labor
movement in a program calling
for complete and final victory,
a just and durable peace, attain
ment of President Roosevelt's
Economic Bill of Rights, elimi-
nation of racial discrimination
and attainment of full voting
rights.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Soldiers Cost
$4,000

NEW YORK UPA)-In
one year of the Pacific war
every single soldier will re-
quire food: SSH; clothing:
SLAB; transportation: ST.
929; ordnance: $1,000; engi-
neering and communica-
tions: S429; quartermaster
supplies: S143; and medical
equipment S71-in round
figures, $4,000. These fig
ures do not include the
tidying up after We that
is still necessary.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Cole Predicts
4,500.000
Unemployed

Greatly increased unem-
ployment as a result of con-
tract cancellations and pro-
duction cutbacks which will
mean a minimum of 4,500,000
unemployed was predicted by
Kenneth sCole, liason officer
with the Washington UAW-CIO
headquarters, in a talk before
delegates to the Toledo Indus
trial Union Council on June IA.
Mr.. Cole told his audience, at
is not a bright picture l have to
paint. ''We must demand that
plants like Willow Run, built and
equipped with hundred mil
lion dollars of the taxpayers
money, be used to produce es-
sential civilian goods in the
postwar period"
Government Ignores Plans
Plans advanced by labor some
time ago for reconversion were
ignored by the government, ac-
cording to Mr.. Cole, who said
that unless war plants were
used for the production of
needed civilian goods an econ
omy of scarcity would again pre-
vail.
Discussing the sudden closing
of Willow Run after the govern
ment had promised to close the
plant in orderly fashion, Mr..
Cole told that the lay-offs re-.
suited ia drop of purchasing
power in Detroit of 1864 900 4
week. He quoted Prof. j. Ray
mond Walsh, Harvard eco
nomist, that soldiers who real
ize that war production has
resulted in full employment
and full wages will not be sat
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Look Here /!

An important meeting of
the members of the TO-
LEDO nj ETA l. FURNI-
TURE co. Unit of Local
IL, UAW-CIO will be held
at the Local headquarters,
AIS Winthrop, Sunday, July
/ at 200 p. m. All Unit
members are urged to make
arrangements to attend
this highly important meet
ing. F. Marlin, Unit chair
man will explain its pur-
pose.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
pAC Plans Drive
NeiU Members
To Hold Meetings
In I9 Large Cities

NEW YORK, June 18-The National Citizens Political
Action Committee will lay the groundwork for
tionwde organzational drive series of meetings 19
principal United States cities beginning with dinner the
Commodore New York Thursday, June 81
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Full Employment Asked
By Go Labor Leader

UNLESS we have full employment, the FEPC will avail
him Negro worker) nothing.
This statement the heart of talk given by Willard
Townsend Chicago president of the United Transport Work
ers CIO at the Frederick Douglass Community Center
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Fam-
lilies in the U. S. have already
received messages from $4,000
liberated American prisoners of
war through the Special Ameri-
can Red Cross communications
system set up early in June, it
was revealed here last week.