Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-15
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themselves. to him outside his
everyday working existence.
FULL PART
Leadership in the CIO very
early in its history recognized
that if it were to become a
really effective economic or
ganization, it must of necessity
take full part in community
affairs. After a Union men,
Der punches out his time clock
and goes home and changes
from his working clothes, he
is the same person who work
ed all day in the shop. His
problems continue and over
lap. He works in the shop in
order to make a living. His
condition in the shop dictates
the level of his standard of
living. His home and COM
munity life is tied in with
MS WORKING lie.
Maybe at times some of our
people don't realize the reason
for many of the moves made
by their Union. The PAC is
an example. My friend on the
telephone, for instance, prob
ably had read a great deal in
the public press about PAC.
All that he had read therefore
was aimed at the ultimate OBJ
jective of eliminating the eff
fectiveness of PAC. He didn't
stop to think that the material
he was reading was absolute
proof that PAC is effective.
If the people who own and
control the public press had
not been convinced that
through PAC their employees
were getting and will continue
to get a better shake out of
life, they would not bother to
go to the expense of trying
to tear it down.
My friend would not con-
slider for a minute hiring a
carpenter to build him a house
and then telling that carpenter
not to monkey with such fool
ishness as saw and hammer,
nails and lumber. He knows
that in order to build that
house the carpenter would
have to use tools and ma
terials. But he asks his Union
to build him a decent Ameri-
can standard of living with
out using effective tools.
REASONS AND EXCUSES
The meat shortage at pres
ent is caused by a chain OF
reasons and excuses. The arm
ed forces are heavy buyers,
we all know. We also know
that there has been bungling
in food administration, some
of which is probably unavoid-
able because of the very mag
nitude of the war program.
There is another big cause
but for some reason few peo-
pie know about It. Whenever
an employer makes conditions
so intolerable in his shop that
he practically pushes his en-
ployees out the front door, the
work stoppage is played up in
large black headlines. There Is
one strike going on now that
you don't even read about un-
less you are able to pick it
out of the accounts of the
gymnastics and antics of MEM
bers of Congress (led by Sena-
tor Taft and the lobbyists
against price control.
The picket line on this strike
doesn't carry b n n ers nor
get headlines. They figure on
staying out on strike until
Congress gives them free rein
TO make as much as the traffic
will bear.
No one likes a good steak
any better than / do, but /
don't like the one well enough
to pay a whole weeks pay for
it. That may sound silly but
look at the history of infla-
tion. The guys who works for
wages always gets it in the
neck. In countries where infla-
tion has occurred, working
men have collected their days
wages, taken them home in a
wheel barrow, and found when
they got home that it was not
enough to buy the evening
meal.
The Union through PAC Is
at the forefront of the fight
to retain price control. Taft
and his cohorts are on one side
with profits as their goal. The
American people are on the
other side with the mainte-
nance and extension of high
American standard of living as
their goal.
Get in the fight. It's for you
T~.., nAT