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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
MESA choirmdn
Given Rehuke
Streefer's Problem
Boy Receives
Rough Treatment

William WlSeDoom, MEOA
chairman at the Packard
Motor Car Co., and central
figure in the turbulent activ-
titles of that union for many
weeks, hangs like sword over
the head of Earl Streeter,
MESA head man in Toledo.
These words told by mem
ber of the MESA TX Division at
the Packard plant may be the
clue to the treatment handed
Chairman Wiseboom last week
by members of the TX after the
turbulent leader attempted to
advise" TX members how to
conduct their busines.
Advice Not Needed
Wiseboom was told that his
advice was not n eeded nor
wanted by the TX group after
he had offered his suggestions
on matters being considered by
the TX meeting. Stung by the
sharp rebuke, Wiseboom sat
quietly in his seat and was not
heard from again during the bal
ance of the meeting.
MESA members who know
the situation in the Packard
plant see in the rebuke an effort
on the part of Earl Streeter to
solve the situation which has
grown up in the Packard MESA
as result of the high-handed
way in which Mr.. Wiseboom has
fired and threatened to fire
members of his own group
whom he suspected of being
friendly to the UAW-CIO, or
who did not agree with the
wisdom of some of his acts.
Explained BY Members
Several members of MESA
told their CIO friends at Pack
ard last week that Wiseboom is
a problem for Earl Streeter. One
said, "Streeter finds himself in
a bad spot. If he gets rid of
Wiseboom it will confirm every
thing that has been said around
the shop. If he keeps him he is
liable to find himself hard put
to hold his own union together"
Threatened firing of Raymond
Whitley" Van Vorce and Harold
Buckley, MESA employees in
dept, TDX last week by Wise
boom has failed to materialize.
This is the first time that Wise
boom has failed to carry out his
threat of firing a worker, indi-
eating that he probably has been
cooled off" by someone higher
up" in his Union.
AS a result of the MESA's in
tramural political situation, the
drive to raid the UAW-CIO has
begged down and some MESA
members have boomeranged
into the CIO, disgusted with the
situation existing in their union.
One such member told a CIO
official early this week, Boy!
We are sure in one hell of a
mess in the MESA. If this guy
(Wiseboom) keeps on you should
put him on the CIO payroll as
an organizer"
One MESA member signed up
with the UAW-CIO this week. !
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Poll T ak
FiIibuster
Planned

WASHINGTON, June 20
LPA) - Threat of a filibus-
ter in the Senate when it
takes up the HouSe-approved
bill abolishing the poll tax re-
quirement in federal elections
h;ghlighted a series of North
South controversies here last
week.
On the poll tax, the issue was
almost entirely a regional one,
with Southerners claiming that
the Congress should not inter-
fere with states rights to control
elections. The favorable vote in
the House on the measure was
251 to 1O5.
The fate of the permanent Fair
Employment Practices Commit
tee bill, kept under wraps by the
House Rules Committee for three
months, is still in the balance.
The rules group, by six to six
vote, finally killed any action to
place it on the calendar last
week. Now, hope is pinned on a
discharge petition being circu-
lated by House Labor Commit
tee chairman Mary Norton 3D.,
N J).
Passed Without Funds
Earlier, a threat from South
ern Democrat members of the
Rules Committee-who make up
majority-had been made TO
members of the Appropriations
Committee. The threat was that
no appropriations bill dealing
with war agencies would get
clearance if it contained any
funds for the wartime FEPC. AS
a result of the War Agencies Ap-
preparations Bill was reported
cut and passed without funds for
the present FEPC, which is due
to expire July l unless the SEN
ate restores the cut.
Charges that Republicans were
backing down on their Presiden-
tial election platform were made
on several occasions last week,
as only a small number of Re-
pl blican Congressman signed the
discharge petition to take the
permanent FEPC bill to the
floor.
The House vote on the poll
tax showed: for abolition-18l
Republicans, 118 Democrats,
minor party members; against
abolition-86 Democrats, 19 Re-
publicans.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
BULLETIN

Orders were received June
20 by the l.. o. F. manage
ment and union to meet in
Washington efore the
NWLB, July 10-11. Both
indicated they would at
tend.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
VIVA TO Discuss
RecOnUerSIO7l
Right To Strike
To Be Considered

Problems arising out of reconverson, wages, the right
to strike and manpower controls will be among the
important topics before the UAWCIO conference
tomorrow Cedar Point according to Richard Gosser
UAWCIO regional director who will preside the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-22
Wage Control Fight
Heads for Showdown

labor for relaxing of controls heading closer the
showdown stage The Natl War Labor Board has finally got
ten down to the actual drafting Of proposals for
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Written in History

we have stopped cold everything that has been thrown at us from the north, east, south, west" said the Christmas edition of little paper put out by one of the encircled American outfits at BaS- togne. "How effectively this was done will be written in history, not alone in the history of our glorious units, but in the history of the world" Those are confident words, but they are not con- ceited. They are the words of men who knew what they had suffered, and they had accomplished by their suffering. And as nearly as one can predict, they are true.
 It must be solemn and glorious thing to realize that circumstances have brought one to the point where his ac- tionS may serve to guide or direct or in- Spire the lives of men in generations un- born and undreamed of. And surely 1t must be a realization granted only to few. It is doubtful that the Greeks at Thermopylae, the nobles at Runnymede, the farmers of Lexington or the citizens army before the Bastille could have real ized the impact that one day in their lives would have upon history
 But the men of BaStogne knew the stakes for which they expended their courage and their blood. They stopped the enemy at a critical moment, and did it with an unflinching bravery which is in the highest tradition of great soldiers. The thanks and glory they receive will be meager recompenSe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Views Of The Press

to grave" concept. Proposals to eX- tend this program to include farm workers. and to employees of Fed eraI, State and municipal govern ments will also be made.
 Perhaps one of the hottest issues with which Congress will deal, how ever, will be that of universal mili- tary service. Hearings on a com pulsory peacetime training system for boys in the eighteen-year-old group have been scheduled by the House Military Affairs committee, and organized groups representing divergent opinions have already be- come vocal. One group, including many religious leaders, would post pone discussion of such a law until after the war. The other group be- lieves that the law should be passed now to assure the United States an uninterrupted flow of trained youth fer the troubled days following the signing of a peace treaty. MT Roosevelt has lhus Gar expressed himself only in the 7aguest terms, saying that he Is ir favor Of a year of service" which many interpret as meaning service similar to that of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
 There is, however. one issue that all Americans regardless Of political belief fe-vertly hope that the roth Congress will have the problem of dealing Tith--a defeated Germany and Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Uniform Air Laws

/ The A state legislatures meeting this month and next will have before them three bills of national importance They are the proposed uniform air. laws which have been drafted by the National ASso- citation of State Aviation Officials and the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, after consultation with the Civil AerOnauticS Administration. The bills are titled the State AeronauticS Depart ment Act, the State Airports Act, and the State Airport Zoning Act. Their gen. eral purpose is to avoid, before postwar flying expansion begins, the mistakes and federal-state conflicts that have plagued other forms of transportation in the past.
 Under the first act the CA would still make the regulations governing the com potency of flyers and airWorthineSS of planes, as it does now. But the regis tration of federal licenses and the en- forcement of these uniform regulations would be in the hands of the states By this act the Staes would adopt regula- tionS consistent with the federal rules, and would define their rights to establish and maintain airports and to finance and otherwise assist developments by the states political subdivisions.
 The State Airport Act would give the states uniform law generally concerned with federal aid, financing and taxation of state, county and city airportS. The State Zoning Act would protect planes, pilots and passengers from such hazards as high tension wires and tall buildings in the immediate vicinity of flying fields. These proposed laws are the result Of careful study and the consensus of many minds. And they seem eminently com anendable for a variety of reasons. Per haps the most important is that their passage would avoid the creation of an- other great bureaucracy in Washington. Ut is not eXtravagant to predict that half million airline, private and commer- lcial planes may be flying American skies before many years have passed. The lntrl- cacies of licensing and regulating them will require a large force which might more safely and practically be distribut- ed among the several states.
 The present CA requirements for pilots and planes have worked out suc- cessfully. But state government can- mot enforce federal laws. So if air con- trol is to be decentralized, it will be neces- Bary to duplicate these requirements in state laws and assign enforcement to the states. It is true that some legislatures have touchy feeling about federal dlc- tation." But it seems to us that in this ease the "dictation," endorsed by several state governments, is beneficial. To com bat it would be a disserVce to the states as well as to the country as whole.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
GOVERNORS MANSION
CHartford Courant)

(Hartford CouranD
 If plans recently announced by the Legislative Committee on the Governors Mansion materialiZe, Governor and Mrs. Raymond E. Baldwin may be lat home" at the corner of Prospect and Asylum Avenues before many weeks are passed. According to the Committee the War Production Board has re- leased the necessary materials for repairs and improvements, so that work may be resumed.
 That is not to say that all therepairs and Improvements are of them selves necessary. Fourteen months ago it was disclosed that the Com mittee was contemplating job on the residence of the late Dr. George c. F. Williams, now to be the Gov ernor's that would make it man sion indeed. The $94 500. including the purchase price of $33, 800. origin ally estimated for the project was reported all gone more than a year ago, and tie Committee thought that SIS ,000 more would be sufficient to take care ~. al! the furnishings and trimmings Now we learn from the Comptroller, who has had charge of the repairs. that SIS, ,075 has been ex- pended and that $22,000 is available for further repairs. The total of these two sums only slightly exceeds the original estimate, but nothing is said about the furnishings. The cost of those may bring the grand total to the $l70.000 estimate for this modest Mansion made after the General Assembly had approved purchase of 6 home for the Chief Executive.
 However. beginning today Con- necticut will have a new Comptrol- Ter, John M. Dove, Democrat, in place of Fred R. Teller, a Republi- can. Despite the cost of WhiteWash. Chairman Peet Of the Committee applied to the Mansion when this subject of expenditures came be- fore a special session of the Gen eral Assembly, MT. Dove may have quite different ideas as to how ex- pensively and luxuriou6iy the Man sion should be furnished, if it is ill his power to economiZe he will find that Governor Baldwin, who has already expressed himself in favor of an unpretentious residence will be wholly satisfied. The Governor is just as democratic as the most democratic Democrat. He would be the last person to advocate eXtrava- gance in furnishing the Mansion just because the States finances are in excellent condition.
 Perhaps, after all, the WIPE re- striction, now modified on the use of vital materials for the the ex- tensive repairs, comes within the tegory of those fortuitous events described as Acts of God. The Committee has had time for some sober reflections by which the State may profit without infiicting needless hardships upon. His ex- cellency and his family.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Statistics Can Be Wrong

So far, destructive inflationary price Increases have been successfully avoided. Naturally a major part of the credit for this success should go to the OPA and other wartime government agencies. But 1t is only fair to recognize the efforts of others, without whom price and ration ing control would never have worked. Aside from the cooperation of the public itself, the greatest asset the country has had in furthering it's stabilization pro- gram, has been our system of mass pro- auction and mass distribution. This modern system works on the principle of producing and selling large volume of goods at minimum prices - an automatic antidote to imitation which is just the re- verse of the age-old principle of charging all the traffic would bear.
 The modern chain store is an outstand- ing example of the effectiveness of pres ent day mass distributing methods, just as millions of automobiles on the road show what mass production has meant to the country.
 In the confusion wrought by vast gov ernment spending and soaring debt, many people have overlooked the full Signifi- canoe of mass production and mass dis tribution in the fight against imitation. They point to the statistics at the end ot the last war to prove dangerous boom is now impending, as an argument for yet more stringent government controls over our daily life in the years to come. They even contemplate the possibility that in dustry will deliberately seek to raise prices. Such reasoning, with an eye on events of 25 years ago, is not convincing. There was no particular incentive then fo keep pfices down. Few had ever heard of mass production and mass distribu- sion. So prices did go up.
 TO day manufacturers and distributors
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
GRYEK. REGENCY
York Tlmes)

Winstcn ChurchiIl's visit to Athens revealed the advantages of grasping the Greek nettle firmly. Had he lacked the moral courage to deal fairly with factions he had lately denounced as "br;gards." cc the physical courage to face the sniper's bullet, there could have been no peace in that torn and tragic land. Because he possessed both, at lcaS! & beginning at ccu- ciiiation nas been made under the Gay-old degency Of Archbishop Damaskinos.
 Tn Greece, today as in ancient days. politics is a passion. There liberty is sometimes conceived as the right of every man to pick I'D a gun and disagree violently with his neighbor. The sickness of people just liberated from Nazi slavery accertuated every differ ence. But MT. Churchills confer ences with the warning party lead CTS indicated a. least a unity cf opposition. Right and left, all ex- cept @ handful of royalists mis. trusted the exiled King.
 The success of Archbishop Damas- kinas will depend on his skill ill gathering a representative admin istration. The Fam seems confident that he will, or the Elas would not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
Car Care

The outlook for new tires in 1945 is definitely bleak. The outlook for new cars just isn't All of which calls for more nursing, coddling and fussing than ever if the old bus is going to endure for the duration. What to do about it is old stuff by now. But perhaps brief round- up is worth repeating, especially for the many service wives who may be faced with symptoms of automotive Senility that would even stump the family tinkerer who is now overseas. So here are few dos and don'ts suggested by car and tire manufacturers:
 Keep tires properly inflated. Check pressure weekly. Switch tires, including spare, at least every 5000 miles. Check wheel alignment, casing flaws, brake bal ance. Avoid fast stops and starts - and don't speed Have regular checks Of ignition and battery. Replace worn spark plugs which waste gasoline and put an undue load on the battery. Keep head and tail light lenses clean. Have spare bulb on hand. Let the garage man go over distributor, coil condenser, voltage regulator, generator and starter. Don't tinker unless you know how. Garages are busy and short of help. But it takes less time and bother to check for early trouble than to repair breakdown.
 So use your car with care and kindness in 1945 and you'll stand better chance of having it at the station when your soldier or sailor comes home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
AS A MATTER OF FACT

Enter the ladies. Nine of them took their seats in Congress this week. All were conservatively dressed so the press columns stated. Mrs. Mary Norton, dean of Congresswomen, did the honors. Mrs. Chase Going Woodehouse sat beside Emily Taft Douglas of Illinois Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce was immediately identified by the bows in her blonde hair. They wore roses, orchids, and gardenias, and suits seemed the order of the sartorial day. We are sure they looked as we'll dressed congressWomen should look.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
PATIENTS SHOULD DEMAND
 ASEPSIS

Patient recently delivered !: a snooty hospital where the husband Is not permitted to remain with h.s wife during delivery-of course not-happened to have some eX- pert Knowledge of surgical asepslS. So when the nurse attending her dropped a pad dressing or the floor, picked 1t up and was about to apply 1t. the patient cried out in dismay and demanded stef-ie dressing. The nurse thereupon adopted @ characteristicaly suTly demeanor-and what is worse. she got away with it, thanks to the wretched standards in the nospl- tai. When the patient reported the incident to her physician the dcc- tor, being subservient to the gang running the hospital, merely tried , to laugh 1t of as of no significance, and laughed himself out of the further patronage of the patients family.
 Such atrocious ofTenSes against the safety Of the patient are com mitted many times a day in Eospi- tals of shady character, in the oi- flee of physicians. 5cecialists ana dentists, and 1t is high time that the public become familiar with the principles Of Rsepsis so that these dangerous doctors, surgeons, specialists. dentists and nurses may be compelled to give patients break.
 A patient in the chair of a den- tist waited while the dentist an swered the telephone, jingled keys etc. in his pocket, handled things on his desk, wrote down a memor- andum, and then attempted to con- tinue working in the patients mouth without wasting any of his valuable time washing his hands. The patient properly protested. The tooth mechanic, for of course he was nothing else, thereupon Waxed sarcastic-and never did any more work for the patients family.
 It would be only justice if both of these patients brought suits against the rirty hospital and the dirty dentist for damages due to such malpractice. It might teach these dangerous people a whole some lesson If they were required to compensate some of their victims for the damage done by their filthy methods.
 A nose and throat specialists highly officious office gill (she pur- ports to be a nurse, of course), went from patient to patient, in the waiting-room, applying nose sprays or Swabs to prepare the patient for the examination or treatment by the doctor. She had cri herself. One patient asked why she did not wear a mask. The girl brazened it out, presuming upon the ignorance of the laity, by say ing the doctor didn't approve of wearing masks-masks might frigh- ten some patients. you know . and the patient who dared to won- der about the breach of simple asepsis made some excuse to get out of the dangerous environment of that office before the so-called nurse could give her sample of whatever she had. The patient never consulted the dirty nose and throat specialist again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05

Unthinkable and frightful things hap pen daily and hourly in the war areas. Unthinkable things also happen on the home front A shameful occurrence was that reported in Thursdays papers, the opening of mausoleum in cemetery ln a New Jersey town and the ransacking of a coffin holding the remains Of Roman Catholic Prelate. The perpetra- tors of such a dissertation should, if ana when apprehended, be dealt out punish. ment commensurate with the degree or the crime.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05
ANSWERS and QUESTIONS
 Come. Come. Now

Yesterday I went to doctor and he said I am done for no medicine can help muscles of my heart are weak. (W. E)
 Answer-It is hard to believe a bona f1de physician told a patient any such thing. Of req. benefit in most cases of heart muscle weak ness. and harmless in any case, is 9 teaspoonflll of syrup Of vitamin B-complex three times & day. Send ten cents and stamped enve'oHe bearing your address. for CVD~-& booklet about heart and arteries.
 Gargle for Singers and Speakers
 l have read about a gargle you prescribe for huskiness or hoarse- ness of singers and speakers.
 Answer-Tne gargle was origin ally prepared by MT. J. W. England, p!tal, according to Shoemaker aid should be called "Englands Gar gle.' Some singers and speakers find the frequent use just before and in the co,rse of a program. Of a garg!e made of a rounded teAspoocful oi alum, l-2 teacup- fulS Of barley water and enough honey hacored with rose extract to fill half pint bottle, quite satis- factory.
 It's Just Hell
 Can you throw any light on the cause Of thinning of the ha!r on top Of the head? l thought If there is anything to do to stop 1t I had better do it now. (R. S. W.
 AnsWcr--When mine began to go I thought it was worry about where I could raise money for the rent and the grocer. But the more worried tEe faster the hair went, and that made me worry still more, until eventually I decided. oh, vel. to hell with it. Don't worry. son. Se:,d ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your address for a booklet telling all about the hair and scalp, dandinfF, graying hair, falling hsir, superfuous etc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05

such burden on US back, the conch can rise no more, and so, buried alive in the grave which it has dug for itself, it perishes miserably.
 This is a good example of the way evil habits fasten themselves upon our lives. At first they may cause us only discomfort. If we permit them to stay any length of time. they grow, pushing the life down further and further until at last habit becomes master. This is a sorry state, indeed. for anyone to be in. The poor chap who reels
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-05

schemes advanced during the last campaign. Firs t was the c. I. O. Political Action Committees idea to Give a Buck to Re elec t Roosevelt T h e theory that five million l a b o r Il n ion members would hear this plea fell far short of realization, and the P. A. c. didn't get much over a million. At the