Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
It's News
To Me
By 0. ]. Pecord
TWO AGENCIES

This weeks spasm with those two great
mental the oPA Office of Price Assassination and the
WLB, or Wage Lowering Board
Now that the Act enabling the OPA continue another
has been passed almost safe discuss that
without AS WIB
sona action has been directed against that adjunct of
hence be discussed with relative freedom
For the workers. life in this country quite paradox
Back in the days when they working PWA projects for
the muncent of SIS week. there supposed to be
surplus of food Inventories mounted the ceiling and
the New Deal aimed to create actual shortage of food by
blowing under cotton and little pigs.
Today, the workers have money their pockets but
the results of the lew Deal food shortage policies still with
The deficiency in food in proportion to the deficiency in
human brains and the workers usual the fiddler
going poke their the unexpored
places which escaping investigation and will doubt
taking place There will surely be some scandal come out OF
this food and wage business where the WB Wage Lowering
Boar floors become ceilings and the OPA
oce of Price Assassination ceilings prices to be-
floors
THE BUNK
Personally and this for only myself am dsgused
sick tired of watching millions American workers
shots of the big shots and for the big shots am disguised with
myself and other workers for sitting fannies listening
lot of business the OPA hand out lot of maarey and
asking o swallow
I'm watching the greatest supply world
walk the hoo while told task is
feed Europe and the from occurring He'll
did that the last time and still involved the greatest
I'm up with baloney you get without
paying points, I'm fed with unlimited profits
flag say the ndustrasts performed
great miracle of production which not only armed nation
but the entire Allied which defeated Hitler and Germany
without destroying Naziism.
up government which gave the industrial
market their weapons exercised
little control their activities but which created Wage
Lowering Board to keep the workers line with which the
workers agreed the point of trying keep strike
pledge to be used against them by their masters.
Pm sick of OPA which has failed still failing
hold the line and which has rapidly nsu
and in thousands of entirely disappearing of
growing unemployment.
HOW
And look the situation which daily grows worse
looking to leaders of labor something about
these things We expect leadership to lead resistance
the things which unjust nequitabe practically
There isn't thinking worker in America who isn't willing
that this country should help feed European need
food There isn't worker in the country doesn't feel
and abiding sympathy with the of the
European but there certain limits which of
stupid workers have to maginatons the lengths to
which swallow the propaganda and hooe with which
constantly beseged
Now that plants reconverted reconverng its
time labor begin
which has been eliminated during this time
the unions back first principles begin exercise
the basic principles upon which they foundedhe
right to collectively bargain
More than this the Wage Lowering should be
along with the nosrke pledge for those which
have recovered of reconveng this
tempt will be resisted by the reacionare cannot doubted
if fight (and it will be fight to
the controls which been over during
these years. then let it begin into
Let the production which is required still continue
without interruption but let eliminate controls
industries which will attempt the Wage Lowering Board
to cut production costs civilian
it write itself off by continuation of its policies.