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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28

Reduces
Plant Pickets
Skeleton Crews
Maintained
Over HOLIDAYS

Striking Chevrolet workers in
Toledo reduced their picket
lines before the Central Avenue
plant to a skeleton force over
the Christmas holiday, it was an
nounced this week by Thomas
F lssell, Local ID financial Sec
retary.
Only few pickets were
maintained over the plant en-
frances on Christmas day in or
der to give the majority of the
strikers an opportunity to spend
the day with their families.
Similar arrangements are be-
ing made for New Years day
when a small group of pickets
will maintain their lines at the
Toledo GIN plant.
Enjoy Christmas Holiday
Striking Chevrolet workers
and their families enjoyed full
Christmas this year according
to Stanley Badyna, Local IA
publicity director. Thanks to
the aid given to us by Local IL
and its Units, our people en-
joyed one of the finest holi-
days. We are grateful to the
Units of Local IL and to the
other Toledo Locals who so gen.
erously are supporting our
cause.
Mr.. Badyna also expressed his
tanks to y Regional Director
Richard Gosser and his staff for
the support which the Interna-
tional office is giving the Chew
rolet Unit. Director Gosser is
showing us real Union solidarity
and we are thankful to him for
he leadership which he is CIV
ng," he said.
Party For Children
A Christmas party for the
children at Local las head
quarters plus baskets and tlnan-
,ial aid extended the striking
Chevrolet workers by Toledo
JAW-CIO Locals contributed
in making this Merry
Christmas for Toledo's GIN en-
,loyees according to Local IA Of
icials.
AS a result of good Christ
mas, the spirit of the Toledo
trikers is higher than ever and
he fight for the 80 per cent
wage raise will be carried on
With renewed vigor say Chevro-
ct officers.
The GIN strike is now in its
fifth week.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
BOYS Are Coming Home

WASHINGTON IPA) - The
fact that you couldn't get that
holiday travel reservation was
due to the fact that troop move
ments have reached the highest
peak in history. Seventeen thou
sand men a day are being moved
through the ports of New York,
Boston and Hampton Roads
alone, and Army Service Forces
officials say that these three
have handled more than pa mil
lion servicemen in the less-than-
six-months since We Day. can
all time record in seaborne
movements of humanity is the
boast of the shipping agencies
that brought the GIs across the
ocean.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28

meeting will consider the var
ious economic problems facing
the workers including the fol-
lowing: Wages VS. Prices, Full
Employment and Full Produc-
ton and Voluntary VS. Compul-
sorry Arbitration.
These are the principal in
terests of the workers according
to Director Gosser and consider
able time will be spent on dis
cussion of these problems.
Mayor To Speak
The day-long session which
will open at 1000 a. m. Jan. 5
will be welcomed to Lima by
Mayor William Ferguson.
Regional Director Gosser will
deliver the principal talk of the
session on What the
General Motors Strike Means to
American Workers. Only plant
to be directly effected by the
GIN work stoppage in Region
2-B is the Chevrolet plant in
Toledo, but the impact of the
strike will effect the wages and
living conditions of all workers
for good or bad depending upon
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Can Co. Asks For
job DeVuIuo+ion
NLRB Sets Strike
Vote For Jan. ;

Disgruntled workers of the
American Can Co. members of
Local IL will vote in an NLRB
conducted elected to be held in
the company plant, Jan. 3 to
determine whether or not they
will strike.
Dissatisfaction of the workers
with the tactics used by the
company have been on the in
crease since May 1914 when
negotiations with the company
were inaugurated by the Union
on a new contract.
Company Uses EvaluatiOn
Grasping the opportunity pre-
sented by the contract negotia-
tions, the company manage
ment sought a job evaluation
clause, which, if it were adopted
would mean a loss of pay rang
ing as high as 1712 cents an
hour for company employees.
Workers in the plant are now
referring to the
company's job evaluation pro-
posal as the job devaluation'
proposition in which the man.
agement seeks to cut workers
wages by an attempted "scien-
tific" evaluation.
Union officials point out that
both female and skilled workers
N the plant are entitled to wage
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Legion Favors
Sons Of Rich

WAS GTON, Dec. "A
LPA)-The American Legion
this week renewed its annual re-
quest for peacetime conscription
in testimony before the House
Military Affairs Committee. It
presented the Legion plan which
calls for intensive training UP to
four months for all youths be-
tween 16 and 20, and those of
II who have parental consent.
Trainees would have several
ways of completing the remain
der of their years training,
either in the armed forces, the
National Guard, the ROTC or
special work in college or indus
try.
AFL spokesman Lewis Hines
made an immediate attack on
the Legion proposal. Calling it
a plan to institute a "class and
caste system, Hines charged
that the Legion proposal would
benefit the sons of the rich. He
said sons of working men would
be forced to take IL full months
of training; those who could af-
ford to go to college were given
the chance to become officers,
or work in school or industry.
Asked whether wages paid
regular trainees under the Le-
gion program should equal reg
ular army wages of $50 a
S. Perry Brown of Beau
mont, Tex, who testified for the
Legion said he did not think so.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28

General Motors almost tor
pedoed President Truman's
special fact-finding board in
the United Auto Workers-CIO
strike when it threatened to
withdraw from the hearings if
the board attempts to investigate
profits and prices as the UAW
has demanded.
GIN fatty refused to expose
its books to public scrutiny for
determination of its ability. as
the worlds richest corporation.
to pay the 30So wage increase
asked by the UAW. The fact
finding committee, after a single
days hearing recessed follow
ing GINS argument that the
corporation profits are nobody's
business save GINS. The UAW.
however, contended that the
profit-price issue was the basis
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
GI's Oppose
Peace Druff

WAS HING TON, Dec. "a
(LPA)-Congressmen who serve
on the House Military Affairs
Committee last week were
treated to the uncensored views
on peace-time conscription of a
recently discharged sergeant and
a private awaiting discharge.
In the presence of a score of
general and colonels, an Army
CT, Pvt. George L. Mark, Cleve-
land, Ohio, attacked what he
called the "P enta gon Boy
Scouts. He charged that the en-
tire military training idea is the
I oduct of "the Army Brass
Hats. He said that, ''they want
a large army to retain the Off
GERS. He testified that his own
observation was that men in the
ranks are opposed to compulsory
military training in peacetime.
Sgt. James F. Donnelly, of
Boontown, N j., told the COM
mittee that while he was over
seas he heard a great many
army officers make speeches in
favor of peacetime training. He
charged that CTS were being
compelled to keep quiet. He
cited a letter he wrote Senator
Hawkes. of New Jersey that was
returned to him, because it was
a violation of army regulations.
He told the Committee that he
was threatened with court mar
tial if he wrote anything further
against military training.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
10th
Convention

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
(LPA) - Big industry "has
ganged up against the Amer
ican people and against or
ganized labor" President L.
S. Buckmaster of the United
Rubber Workers-CIO told the
10th annual convention of the
URW here.
Buckmaster, who was re-
elected president, told the con-
vention that THE need for sub
stantial wage increase for our
workers is growing more and
more acute as the cost of every
thing we purchase continues to
rise, and as the inevitable short
ening of the working day and
the work week continues to re-
duce the take-home pay of our
people"
Industry's ganging up, Buck
master said, has a double pur-
pose: ut is not only to keep
labor in its place where they
think they should be, but it is
to take advantage of all the
American people in forcing
higher prices on the products
that we all have to buy in order
that they will be guaranteed the
high wartime profits which they
have been making during the last
four or five years.
Bishop Haas Speaks
Bishop Francis ]. Haas told
the delegates that each Amer
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28

James Carey announced that
delegates will attend the con-
ference, with the CIO Execu-
tive Board meeting the day
previous, Jan. %, to prepare an
agenda. Apportionment of dele
gates will be: national and inter
national unions and organizing
committees, one-half of their
normal number of delegates;
state CIO councils, one delegate
each; local industrial unions
with the larger membership"
one delegate each.
In calling the conference Muir
ray and Carey declared, "It is
not impossible for fascist ideas
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Is This A Striker

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Blame
for tagging radio production
which manufacturers have laid
at OPA's door should rightly be
applied to the manufacturer
themselves, said Senator James
Murray 3D., Mont.) here last
week. OPA price schedules are
still awaiting data from at least
two large radio and electric ap-
pliance firms who were asked
for the necessary information
way back in July.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28

Automobile w or k e r S-ClO
was full of entertainment
thrills, singing, dancing and
speciality acts which pleased
both the children and adults.
Eddie Hanf, master of cere-
monies handled the entire show
and kept things moving along at
rapid pace with never an idle
moment except to stop once or
twice to locate the parents of
some little tots whose curiosity
and desire to get near the stage
caused them to wander too far
from their seats.
Santa Delights Tots
But the real thrill came
when Santa Claus, a short, fat,
jolly old elf came upon the stage
of the Auditorium and greeted
the children. After waving his
greeting and proving himself a
child of larger growth, the
h SIX cred gentleman
went down into the orchestra pit
where he and his helpers pro-
ceeded to unload gifts consisting
of candy, toys and games to the
several thousand children who
formed in lines in the aisleS and
passed by the pit.
AS usual, some of the little
ones whose parents did not add
to the large crowd in the aisles
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
President avors
GMBooks
GIN Threatens To Kill
F act Finding ParIey

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-Members of the Presidents
FactFndng Committee investigating the General Motors
strike dispute slated meet here again today with
General Motors management headed by President c. E..
Wilson, and the UAW, represented by President R. J..
Thomas and iVce-President Walter P Reuther.
Labor leaders the country watching the pro-
ceedngs to if General Motors will bolt the hearings in
view of the compnys attitude the Presidents statement
that the corporation should be willing to open its books
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28

to conquer America even though
Axis military might is crushed.
reaction which was temporarily
silenced by the war, is again
becoming prevalent. Those who
place profits before people,
those who believe the Negro
should be kept lin his place,
those who seek a scapegoat in
the Jew, are now as vociferous
as ever. Likewise, those who
seek to crush labor as the pro-
tagonist of democracy are de-
termined to use unemployment
as their tool and the financial
reserves built at the taxpayers
expense as q weapon"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28

JANUARY-Top Army, Navy
officials praise labor for war
production record Anti
labor Ball-Burton-Hatch bill
denounced by unions Pres
ident Roosevelt's manpower
draft request condemned by
all labor Army operates
Is Montgomery Ward proper
ties AFL and CIO carry
fight against wage freeze to
White House Cutbacks be-
gin to hit war plants All
national union conventions for
1945 ruled out Union
busting Christian Americans
spread anti-labor law efforts
throughout South.
'EBRUARY - Union opposed
slave labor bill passes House
246 to 165 World Trade
Union Conference opens in
London Slave labor bill
junked in Senate Labor
members denounce WLB re-
port by public members ask
ing retention of wage freeze
5. AFL asks 75c hourly wage
minimum CIO and AFL |
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Al Unit To Dance

Civic Auditorium will be the
scene of the Auto-Lite Units
New Years dance, Monday, Dec.
81. Auto-Lite members, their
friends and the public are in
vited to attend this gala affair
which will see the Old year out
and the New Year in to the
tuneful m e To- dies of Drexel
Lambs orchestra.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
MEETINGS
IN Iq4b

Members of Local IL are
urged to watch page 3 of
the JOURNAL each week
for a listing of all impOr-
tant meetings.
Other Local Unions are
urged to make use of the
facilities of this paper in
listing their important
meetings each week. All
meeting notices, change of
meeting places or times
should be in the hands of
the editor not later than
Monday evening.
Remember. A good Union
member atte n d S Union
meetings.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
.EIIender
Wages Bill

WASHINGTON, Dec. "a
LPA) = A well-timed ma
neuver by Senator Arthur
Ellender d., La.) coupled
with the absenteeism of pro-
gressive committee members, re-
suited last week in another de-
lay in a vote in the Senate Labor
Committee on the proposal to
establish a 65-cent wage mini
mum.
The committee had agreed to
vote on the Pepper bill setting a
65-cent minimum wage and ex-
tending coverage to food process
sing and maritime workers un-
der the Fair Labor Standards
Act, as soon as a ecord of the
extensive hearings was COM
pleted.
Despite the fact that commit
tee members had plenty of time
to read the record, Ellender
came into the meeting insisting
that hearing had to be re-
opened on Jan. 18 to hear
spokesmen for the lumber and
canning industries, and of the
farm bloc.
Afraid Of Opposition
Apparently afraid to give
these opposition spokesmen a
chance to speak in public, Ell
lender insisted that they be
heard in executive session. "The
canning industry" charged CIO
legislative committeeman John
Edelman, doesn't want to be
against the 65-cent minimum in
public. The southern lumber in
dustry is committing suicide and
will kill the whole housing in
dustry as well by coming out
against the 65-cent minimum.
They admit they can't get labor
and admit it's because of wages
that average 40 cents and so
cents an hour"
Also attacking BLENDERS fill
clustering was Elizabeth S. Ma
gree, secretary of the National
Committee for a Fair Minimum
Wage, who said
eve object strenuously to
Senator BLENDERS inference to
the press on Tuesday that this
bill is only a labor bill: The
public has a stake, and a large
one, in the passage of this bill.
The existence of this committee
is evidence that the general pub
lie is vitality interested in the
legislation.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Go Calls For
Policy Meeting
Atlantic City Session
Scheduled For Jan. 20

WASHINGTON Dec. "a LPA)-A National Policy Con-
ference of the CIO will be held at Atlantic City, N j. on
29 81 in place of the 1945 national convention
which cancelled because of wartime travel restrictions
CIO President Philip Murray and Secretary Treasurer
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Christmas Party
PIenses Children
$500 Attend Annual
Local Il Festivities

bigger and better Christmas party than before
thrilled $500 youngsters children of Local IL members and
those of the Chevrolet Unit of Local IA last Sunday
at Civic Auditorium.
The party. annual affair given by Local Y United
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
To Air VIVA
Program At
Regional Meet
Lima Conference To Consider
Unions Economic Problems

Economic problems confronting the Union will occupy
the important place the agenda of the Region 2B
quarterly conference revealed here this week
by Richard Gosser, UAW-CIO regional director.
Practically the entire afternoon session of the Jan
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-08
MCEPTIONdGIVEN
FOR JUDGE LOPEZ
HERE LAST NIGHT

Last night Monroe County Bar
Association held reception in
the homo of County Attorney
Julius +. Stone, Jr., and ban
quot in La Casa Cayo IIucSo in
honor of Circuit Court Judge
Aquilino Lopez.
At the banquet County Judge
Raymond Il. Lord, president of
the association, called on each
member TO make Il brief address
Judge Lord said this morning
that the reception and The BAN
quot were among the most pleas
ant ,tIac bar has ever held.
Present. besides Judges Lopez
and Lord and Mr.. Stone. were
Roger Watkins, Allan Il Cleare,
Jr., Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., Will
lam V. Albury, George Brooks
John G. Sawyer, retiring Judge
Joseph Otto, Circuit Court Clerk
Ross e. Sawyer, Judge Thomas
S. Caro-, J. Lancelot Lester and
Captain Paul Sawyer, U.5A, who
is a member of the bar and is
home on Through.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-08
Mrs. Fox To Install
Legion Unit Officers

Mrs. c. J. Fox, West Palm
Beach, Fifth District President,
will be the installing officer for
the Auxiliary of Arthur Sawyer
Post No. 1913, American Legion,
when they join with the Legion
Post for gala installation on
Saturday evening at the Legion
Home, Southland and White SITS.
The officers to be installed are
President, Mrs. George w. Skies;
Vice President, Mrs. Ralph Saw
yer; Secretary and Treasurer,
Miss Gretna McClain; Chaplain,
Mrs, Josephine Piodella; Ser
geant-at-arms. Mrs. Melville
Russell, and Historian, Mrs. Geo.
Archer.
Previous to the meeting Mrs.
Fox and the honored guest of
the Legion will have dinner at
Casa Cayo Hueso and following
the installation ceremonies all
members of the Auxiliary and
Legion viii enjoy a buffet supper
and dancing.
Mrs. Fox will arrive in the city
Saturday noon accompanied by
her husband, Chas. J. Fox, and
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Brown,
Mr.. and Mrs Brown are respec-
lively Post Commander and Past
President of the Fifth District.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-08
Four Defendants
Tried Thursday In
Criminal Court

Billy +. Brown, 20, and Rufus
Jones, Jr, Is, were convicted yes
tCrday afternoon in criminal
court on charge of having COM
mlttCd an immoral act, bat The
jury recommended that, in the
case Of Brown, he be ordered to
leave town, ~ the jury consider
icd he was unfit 10 reside here
SO Brown agreed to leave, and
sentence i'll his case was ,3u5pcnd-
cd.
Jones was fined SIS and costs.
4 ut was permitted to remain i'll
Key WesI tsough Judge Caro-
|Watned hin SHAT if he was con
~ icted agah, On i similar chalgc.
he too would be expelled from
[the, community.
Marian L. MunnllC, neglesS,
was fined SIS and costs. OF 80
days i'll jail. on charge of open
profanity" and George Cohen,
charged with failure to deliver
Il certificate to Il car he had sold.
was found not guilty.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-08

Tine Navy Department an
lounceS for the United States as
a whole $40 casualties for June
5, 1915, of the u. S. Naval Forces
NIavy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard) not heretofore released on
Navy Department total casualty
lists, consisting of 12l dead, 400
wounded, and So missing. These
casualties bring the total report
ed to next of kin and released for
publication since December 7
1871, to June S, 1915, to 1853.
FLORIDA
Navy Wounded
Bailey, Peyton Garnet, Jr., Fire
man lc, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Ruth
Bailey, GIG S. Orange ST., Ocala.
Parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Peyton
Garnet Bailey, ST., same address.
McGovern, Allen j., Pvt, US
MGR. Wife, Mrs. Allen J. Nc
Govern, 80 E. Pine St, Lakeland.
Phillips, james c., Cpl, USM-
CIR. Parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
c. Phillips, ST., 1851 SW. Bird Ave,
Miami.
Russell, Hugh, Gunnery Sgt,
USING. Wife, Mrs. Mary H.. Rus
sell, 8l6 L. Jackson ST., Pensa-
cola.i
Strickland, Roy L., Cpl, USM-
CIR. Cousin, Watson Martin, Oak
land.
Sumler. Henry L., Pfc, USMC.
MOTHER, Mrs. Cassie Il. Stlnler,
$40 Celery Ave, Sanford.
Navy Missing
Day, Robert Leroy, Radioman
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-08
Japs Begin To Feel Increased
Power OF American Forces Now
Striking At Their Homeland
LARGEST TRANSACTION in REALTY ON
KEYS NOW in PROCESS OF COMPLETION

The largest transaction In
realty on the Florida Keys is now
in process of completion between
the Island Holding Company of
Florida and the Perky Properties,
Inc, as sellers, and Raymond 4.
Crane, as purchaser All capital
stock in those CORPORATIONS are
to be conveyed to Mr.. Crane.
The two corporations owned
acreage OH practically every key
between Boea Chica and Key
Largo The llstlngs are SO many
il required Is pages TO enter
them.
The first proceedings is. be-
tween the Island Holding Conn
pany of Florida and Perky In
terests, Inc. whereby the prop
crty is mortaged for $l25.000 to L.
Carlos Hensley, Robert I'll. Harris
and L. L. Written, as executors
and trustees of the will and tesla
ment of Il. {. Perky, who de-
veloped the place on Sugar Loaf
that was named after him.
Mr.. Perky experimental for
many years in the growing of
sponge in Sugar Loaf Sound, and
he had bill passed in the legis-
.lature giving him full control of
the sound, but residents of Key
West, particularly Scafaring men,
protested so strenuously, with
The Citizen strongly supporting
their views, the law was repeal
ed, and the Internal Improvement
Fund returned the sound to the
people of Monroe county.
An agreement for warranty
has been given MIR. Grain by tn.
trustees on all the holdings O
the corporations and all interes
in the holdings, except one
half inteT' Il in mineral right
that had been sold to Joe M
Dawson, and two leases for min
erals that had been given Will
lam c. Blanchard and J. p
Scranton, representative of com
lanies that have been obtaining
oil leases on the Florida Key.
the last four years
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-08
MAKES REPORT ON
HANDLING SNAKES

SILVER SPRINGS, June g.
Ross Allen announced at his Rep
!ilc Institute here today that he
had handled 1860 POISONOUS
since January /, 1912
when he began to be SWampcd
Xith war contracts for venom
used in making the life saving
SnakCbitc serum.
III revealing this unusual in
formation, Mr.. Allen pointed out
that he had personally produced
from nearly 10000 snakes. at
least onc-half of the venom sup
Piled to the nations laboratories
since January, 1912.
Each shake was handled four
times" he pointed out. three
times while being MIXED and
once while being transferred to
rest pens. Now that the war in
Europe is over at least half of
the job of supplying venom is
completed"
Mr.. Allen was bitten twice in
this unusual war con-
tract, the second bite, on Feb. rs.
1914 leaving him in the cnviable
position of being the only man in
America ever to have survived
the bite of rattlesnake whose
venom penetrated Il main artery.