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Detroit evening times., 1945-12-14
BROOKLYN TOPPED

DR0OKLYNITE Eric Palmer
~ bOaSted he is a member OF
q group that has met weekly
for 25 years 10 play pinochle.
Californian George Anderson
Immediately topped this by say
ing he is member Of group
that has met weekly 10 play
poker over 2s years. Texas has
not been heard from.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-14
HORSES AND WOMEN

HORSES AND WOMEN
4 CHICAGOAN wants 20
\ know what our horses and
women department thinks OF a
widow who married again but
keeps large photograph OF her
first husband on a dressing
table in the bedroom she shares
with her second husband. Our
III. and w. experts say that
photographs Of first husbands
should be kept from view OF
second husbands.
They say a wife who dearly
loved her first husband should
keep his picture in her heart
and the photograph Of her sec
Ond husband on the dresser.
The matter of first husbands
and first wives is one which re-
quires considerable intelligent
handling by those who have
married twice. I have instructed
our II and w. department 10
do research as TO the best
methods Of handling such situa-
tions.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-14

$4,000 more men than womsn
in San Francisco - actual nE-
ures 4Sl,579 males; 3s5,ss1
females.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-14
DUFFYs SQUARE

DUFFY'S SQUARE, a cement
~ island Offering the best van
tage point for enjoying Broad
ways electhrills a crazy
graph Of lights engraved on
buildings
Sucker-baiters who pin minis-
ture American flags on lapels Of
passersby and then ask for dona-
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-14
BY L. V. DURLING

10 put up signs reading New
customers solicited
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Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16

TO the island, hc WAS told that Nus.
key had been found dead that nom
ing under dory tOW line tight
around his neck, The tragedy has
never been solved.
Snow carried ON Last August he
found the book in an old abandoned
summer house og Greater Brew stcr,
..d o.. Pace lOl be- detected series
o. Ia Ichs over certain letters.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
Vets TO Consider
New Labor Post

One of the important topics
which will come before the Sept
"a meeting of the Veterans
Committee to be held at Local
II, headquarters, 425 Winthrop
will be the question of establish
ing Labor Post for veterans.
Growing sentiment among
union veterans for their own
post has brought the subject in
to increasing Importance as
more union veterans are being
returned to their homes. Recent
refusal of the American Legion
to grant charter to a union
group seeking their its post
while chartering a liquor group
has created considerable dis
cussion among union veterans
which will likely be aired at
next Mondays meeting.
All veterans are invited to
attend whether they are mem
bers of a Union or not.
Tune In WTOL Thursday At 1880 p. m.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
Murphy and Duck
Return From War

Sergt. Walter Murphy, presi-
dent of Local IL from 1912 until
early 1943, when he was in
Quoted into the Army, and Pfc.
Edward j. Duck, former Local
IL education director, are home
on 30-day furloughs after serv-
ing in the European theatre of
war.
Sergeant Murphy, who ac-
quired his third stripe just prior
to returning to the United States,
was a member of a tank de-
stroyer battalion and saw one
years service through the French
and German campaigns. He
holds the bronze medal and saw
one years European service.
Pfc. Duck, who was in the Eu-
ropean theatre for six months,
participated in the last two major
battles in Germany and ended
up near Munich when the Nazis
surrendered. He will go to Camp
Bowie, Tex, following his fur
Tough.
Murphy is a member of the
Bingham Unit; Duck is from
Auto-Lite.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
An EDITORIAL
Toledo Today

For many weeks the Toledo Blade has carried over
its masthead the slogan LET Us Keep Thinking About
TOLEDO TOMORROW, a slogan which heartily
approve with this addition but let forget Toledo
Today"
On Sept. 13, the Toledo Blade beneath its slogan
ironically carried headline which proclaimed, Council
Talks of Plans But Does Not Act. Obviously Council
thinks of Toledo neither today tomorrow. The post
period about which Council talked for many months
is here another case of "too little too late"
We do not agree with the Toledo Blade in its buildup
of its fairhaired boy Vice-Mayor Michael V. Disable
Mr.. Disable crying to the high heavens
when Council asked to appropriate SIT 500 to match
equal amount for the County Planning Commission
whereas Councilman Tom Burke alone said "let the city
find the funds it finds them for everything else"
Councilman Burke than year ago pointed out
that everyone then employed and advocated plan
ming for the postwar in order to bring about full employ
men after the emergency ended His statements
did not find their way the public press which
seeks to make appear that Mr. Disable is the only man
in Council who wanted postwar planning.
One thing is certain, cannot lose heads in the
clouds of a visionary "TOedO Tomorrow, when feet
are sunk in the realities of Toledo today
Toledo today-with broken and out streets in
need of repavng and resurfacng undermined city
ces increasing public debt requiring deficit financing
Intellectual and futile city constantly seeking
and of averting crisis which sooner or later
must be faced and dealt with.
Toledo tOday-with COuncmen Addison O. Thacher
Continued Page
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21

pointed out that no test had ever
been made of the congressional
act and that the time limitations
were not favorable to making a
court test of the law.
One Plant Affected
Discussing the plans of the
Union to conduct a strike vote
and then strike at General Mo-
tors, Director Gosser said that
Chevrolet would be the only
plant in Toledo which would be
authorized to stop work. He out
lined the reasons why other
plants supplying parts to G. M.
competitors sh oul d continue
work and pleaded for the work.
ers to have patience during the
days that the G.. M. strike might
be in progress.
Bluntly warning those who
stage wildcat work stoppages,
the UAW head said that any
plant wishing to stage a strike
would be forced to follow the
JAW constitution and exhaust
all possible collective bargaining
procedures before attempting to
stage work stoppage.>
Warns Union Leaders
Mr.. Gosser warned the union
Continued on Page Q
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
Warehouse
Dispute Nearing
Settlement

Efforts to avert a strike of
Toledo warehouse workers,
members of Local 1863, United
Retail, Wholesale, Department
Store Employees-CIO were in
progress yesterday afternoon
between union representatives
and Toledo warehouse manage
ments. The meeting held in the
Hillcrest Hotel was arranged by
Harry Gray of the U. S. Con-
ciliation Service.
Members of the warehouse
workers union voted to strike in
a special NLRB conducted cleo
ton under the Smith Connally
Act on Sept. after the ware
house managements had refused
to negotiate uniform contract
covering all Toledo Warehouses
with which the union holds
contracts.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21

uncertainty about the date of
return of CIO officials now in
Paris for the World Trade
Union Conference.
A working committee, ap-
pointed by the labor and in
dustry group heads, is prepar-
ing a report for the meeting
this week of the full commit
tee planning the sessions. Ex-
pected to attend the full COM
mitee meetings are William
Green, AFL President, Philip
Murray, CIO President, Ira
Mosher, NAM president and
Eric Johnston, c of c president.
A stumbling block in the
path of complete labor partici-
patton in the conference was
seen in the attack on the plans
by K. c. Adams, Mine Workers
Journal editor and spokesman
for John l.. Lewis. Adams hit
the appointment of Paul Doug
las, currently in the Marine
Corps but formerly a professor
at the University of Chicago, as
head of the working committee.
The Mine Work ers editor
charged that there was too
much interference by academi-
clans in public matters already.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
PAc Dance Opens
Burke Campaign

Several hundred persons at
tending the PAC dance at the
TIUC headquarters, Sept. Is,
heard Tom Burke open his
campaign for reelection to city
council.
Addressing the dancers dur
ing an intermission, the CIO
leader said, "A lot of people
have asked me when I was 60
ing to open an active campaign
for reelection to council. Well.
this is it..
Mr.. Burke briefly reviewed
the past two years, discussed
some of the issues of the cam
paign including the PR system
to which he said he was opposed,
and promised the PAC members
and their friends that we would
continue to represent the in
terests of labor and the whole
community.
Dance Well Attended
Members of the PAC enter
tainment said that the dance was
the most successful ever held
by the organization and
that plans were already being
made for a Halloween dance to
be held the latter part of Octo-
Der. More than 800 were present
during the evening and enjoyed
the entertainment and refresh
nents arranged by the PAC
committee.
Richard Lazette, Council
president presented Mr.. Burke
to the dancers and told them
hat it was his belief that the
-IO leader would be reelected
we'll up on the candidate list.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21

Reuther In charge OF General
Motors division, set yesterday
for the GIN answer to the
unions wage demand, while
Sept. Is and 80 have been set
for Chrysler and Ford respect
lively.
Workers Suffer Loss
Determination that the motor
car companies should pay a 30
per cent increase is based upon
the loss of take-home pay to
the workers since VI Day. This
amounts to approximately 35
per cent, according to union of
fiicals who point out that there
have been no cuts in commodity
prices and that the workers
must meet the same cost of liv-
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
A Testimonial

Does anyone want to
dispute the proposition that
Tom Burke was the best
candidate CIO had to offer
in the last electiOn?"
This is not the statement
OF a member of the CIO,
but of DIR. o. Garfield
Jones, ardent devOtee and
sponsor of the PR system
in Toledo, delivered before
a meeting of the Commit
tee for the PR system held
in Hotel Secor, Sept. IL.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
Atomic Energy
Seen Job Source

NEW YORK (LPA)-"Action
will follow" says Fortune maga-
zine (Sept. 1945) 'if statesmen
catch a grain of the daring and
devotion of the physicists who
unlocked the atom" In its sup
plement, Beyond the Atomic
Bomb" scientific research pro-
gram for the nation is presented
that would cost less each year
than one-half-day of the war, yet
would when put to practical
use mean more jobs, higher
wages, shorter hours, more
abundant crops, more leisure -.
without deadening drudgery."
Legislation to this end is recon-
mended.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21

dustrial peace in Toledo.
Members of the committee
agreed to discuss the labor
unrest which exists throughout
the country after management
representatives asked that the
regular agenda for the meeting
be set aside.
1t was generally agreed that
much of the unrest and work
stoppages which are occurring
were brought about by the cut
in the workers take-home pay.
members agreed
with labor representatives that
many union contracts should
have their wage clauses re-
for negotiations due to
the continued high price level
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21

Gil at its meeting of Sept. 13.
He will serve the unexpired
term of the late Kenneth Cole.
Twenty-Five delegates were
nominated, but all withdrew
with the exception of Bruce
Melvin, Champion Unit of Local
IL, and Cyril Babione, Oil
Workers, Local 346.
Burke's term will expire in
December.
Favor Ottawa Site
Delegates to the Council
unanimously went on record in
favor of the Ottawa Park site
for the proposed Veterans
Bureau hospital which has
caused considerable controversy
throughout the city. Mr.. Burke
that the hospital was
to be for tubercular patients at
its beginning but that there was
a possibility that it would later
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21

Flint, Mich, meeting last
week.
The unanimous vote came
after Richard Gosser, -CIO
regional director who chaired
the special meeting, explained
the position of the International
Executive Board with respect to
strikes and its program for seek
ing its demands beginning first
with General Motors.
Explains Strike Position
''The no-strike pledge is out" Z"
said Director Gosser in prefacing
his explanation of the unions
position. "I'll authorize a strike,
providing that they do it right.
If you must have strike, have
1t, but do it right" Mr.. Gosser
then explained that the provi-
sions of the UAW-CIO constitu-
ton must be followed if strike
was to be authorized.
Explaining the method to be
followed in authorizing a strike,
Director Gosser said that not
only must the provisions of the
union constitution be observed,
but that application to conduct
strike vote under the Smith
Connally Act must be made and
conducted by the NLRB. He
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
Employment
Wins Round

WASHINGTON, Sept. II
NPA) = Champions of the
"full employment" bill have
won the first round in the
battle for its enactment. A
subcommittee of the Senate
Banking and Currency Commit
tee, after a series of tussles in
executive session, recommended
adoption of the measure in sub
stantially it original form.
Gripping amendments pro-
posed by Senator Robert A. Taft
(Rep., Ohio), which would
have barred the government
from entering activities which
compete" with private enter
prise, or go into a field NOR
mally open to private enter
prise" The lineup on the final
vote was:
HOW THEY VOTED
For the bill without amend
ments-Senators Robert F. Wag-
ner 3D., N. "; Abe Murdock,
Cd, Utah); Glen Taylor cd.
Idaho; Hugh Mitchell ID. Wash.)
and Chas. w. Tobey (R., N. H.)
For the crippling amendments
L. Radcliffe Cd. Md;
J. VIM. Fulbright Cd. Ark;
Taft, Hickenlooper, and C Doug
lass Buck (R. Del.)
Wagner made it clear that the
bill had been approved by the
subcommittee with its basic
principles unimpaired" Tobey
added that the CUTS of the bill
are still all in"
The measure must now clear
the full Banking and Currency
Committee before it reaches the
Senate floor. Sponsors voiced
confidence the measure would
clear the full committee also,
though by narrow margin.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21

and the loss of income suffered
by workers since the end of the
war.
Adopt A Resolution
AS a result of the agreement
among the members of the COM
mittee on the causes for labor
unrest and their determination
to seek to avoid, inasfar as pos
sible, unauthorized work stop
pages, a resolution was draw
up and unanimously adopted by
the committee.
Stating that the committee
recognized that general feel
ing of labor unrest and many
work stoppages exists through
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
Oil Workers
Strike Spreads
Toledo Plants Go
Down This Week

Toledo, an important link ir
the national oil industry was
closed this week when members
of Local 346, International Oil
Workers-CIO struck the Pure
Oil Co., Standard and Gulf Re-
fineries on three successive days
beginning Monday morning.
Decision to strike was made
by the Oil Workers in compli-
ance with the terms of the In
ternational Union constitution
following negotiations with the
various oil companies.
Demands of the Oil Workers
are for So hours pay for 10
hours work and basic SO hour
week. Pure Oil offered the
union a Is cent increase last
week with a 4 and 6 cent diff
ferential and union security.
The offer was refused by the
Union which takes the position
that the oil companies enjoy
the lowest labor cost of any ma
jor industry and could greatly
increase their wage scales with
out seriously inconveniencIng
their stockholders.
One BY One
Toledo plants went down one
by one beginning Monday of
this week when the Pure Oil
Co., workers struck. This was
followed by the Standard Oil on
Tuesday and Gulf Refinery on
Wednesday. Pickets were plac-
ed before the roads leading in
to the plants and all traffic
barred.
Motorists hastily prepared
for what they anticipated would
be a drying up of their gasoline
sources and Toledo gas stations
have done a thriving business all
week. 1t is anticipated that the
Sun Oil Co. will also be picket
ed before the week is over in
order to dry up that source of
supply. The Sun Co. is not or
sanized in the oil workers
Inion.
Clyde Shamblein, Local 346
secretary early this week said
hat the strike will spread
throughout the entire industry.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
JAW Sets Wage Program
PREPARES To Take Action
Jobs Go
Begging

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18
(LPA)-Buried in a w a r
ManpoWer Commission tele-
graph roundup of layoffs
around the country during
the past week was the answer
to the riddle: why are many
jobs still going a-begging at a
time when millions are unem-
ployed?"
The answer, revealed in the
survey, is that on the jobs avail
able wages are miserably low.
Naturally, unemployed workers
won't take them, except as a
last resort.
Here are examples of the
wages being paid, as brought to
light by the VINO in its city-by-
city checkup.
Bridgeport, Conn. About
1000 job openings are reported,
but half of them pay only so to
75c an hour.
Hartford, Conn. - Untitled
openings are $500, but 200 Of
fer less than soc and hour,
1000 from so to 75c, and only
300 pay 75c or over.
Portland, Maine. - Openings,
l4O0. Of these, 800 pay less
than soc; 800 from so to 74c;
only 300, over 75c.
Portsmouth, N. H. = 1900
openings-100 at less than 4Oc;
l80 at 40 to ACC; 1900 at so to
75c, and only $40 over 75c.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
Strike Vote To Be
Sought In OhrysIer
GIN and Ford

DETROIT, Sept. 19 = Special = From the meeting Of
the international UAWCIO board in Flint has the
pattern of the program be followed by the United Auto
Workers in seeking wage increases made necessary by
maintenance of high price level and loss of akehome pay
result of return to the 40 hour week
Leveing the big three in the automotive field =
General Motors Chryser and Ford the Auto Worker leaders
have set headlines for the plants meet their demands for
80 per increase in wages VicePresdent Walter P
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21

regular Unit meeting held
at Local IL headquarters,
Sept. Is.
Less than 800 members of
the Unit, by a two-thirds vote
required by the UAW-CIO In
ternational constitution sue
ceeded in multiplying the wishes
of the $500 which was passed
almost unanimously just four
days prior to the regular meet
ting.
Council Passes Resolution
Decision to present a unified
wage demand was made by
delegates to the Auto-Lite In
incorporation Council repre-
senting nine of the company's
IL plants in their regular meet
ing held here Sept. Z. Serving
on the committee which ap-
proved and voted for the reso-
luton calling for unified
wage demand was Leo Schmeltz
of Auto-Lite Unit of Local IL,
a member of the same group
which rescinded the Units ac-
tion last Saturday.
No reason for resembling the
action of the $500 Auto-Lite
people was given by those who
sought and succeeded in revers-
ing the will of the majority of
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21

cracking down on unions.
The threat was made last
week, in the Scripps Howard
daily papers, by the sponsors
of the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill.
which would supersede present
federal labor relations ma
chinery with compulsory arbi-
tration and other shackleS on
collective bargaining. T h ey
told Fred Perkins, Scripps-
Howard staff writer, that "hear-
ings by the Senate Education
and Labor Committee on the
tch-Ball-Burton bill were ex-
pected in the fore part of Oc-
tober, but under the present
understanding they will be de-
ferred until near Christmas.
They may never be held if the
labor management conference
works out a practical agree
ment and both sides live up to
it."
Await CIO Officials
Meanwhile, date for the la
bor-management con e r ence,
which is under the supervision
of Labor Sec'y Schwellenbach
and Commerce Sec'y Wallace,
remains indefinite because of
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
TIUC Names
Tom Burke
Secretary

Tom Burke, vice-president
of Local IL, United Auto
Workers-CIO, was elected ex-
ecutive secretary of the To-
ledo Industrial Union Coun-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
Rank and File
Pork Choppers?

CHICAGO - The epit h e I
"pork-chopper," usually reserv-
ed for members on the union
payroll by the rank-and-filer,
was turned on the rank-and-file
itself last week by Prof. Fred
erick H. Harbinson, University
of Chicago economist and execu-
tive secretary of its Industrial
Relations Center.
Said He: 'The vast majority
of union members are pork
choppers, interested in imme-
diate tangible benefits. To the
extent that management is able
to deliver the pork chops" with
out union pressure, the worker
Is often ready to shift his al
legiance to the company"
He added: I'm short, a large
proportion of American workers
are fence-sitters and are willing
to let management and organized
labor compete for their support.
They are at the same time sus-
picious of management and dis
trustful of the union leadership,
particularly when a question of
compulsory membership or pay
ment of dues arises"
Tune In WToL Thursday At 1890 p. m.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
LIN Group Seeks
Industrial Peace
Four Principles Adopted
To Aid Labor-Management

Expressing their with the problems which face
both Labor and Management result of postwar adjust
ments members of the Toledo
Committee in their meeting of last Tuesday adopted
solution with point program to aid in preserving in
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-21
Toledo Approves JAW
Wage Demand Program

Nearly 500 members of the United Auto Workers repre-
senng five Toledo Locals in special meeting held Local
IL headquarters Wednesday evening of this week.
imousy approved the 80 per cent wage demand program
instituted by the International Union executive