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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-28

rooms; good well: 60 n. lo,--s2 200:
$500 down.
rooms; city water: gas; lights:
sewer-S2 $50: $3.50 down.
rooms: gas; flowing well: lot TOOK
1853 $50: 81, 900 down.
| acre; 4-room house and bath. 2
years old-s4. 500 So 900 down.
rooms baths: stoker; rented for
500 month-S6, 0O0 So, 900 down.
room modern: 3 bedrooms and bath
up; living room dining room: kitchen:
bedroom and bath down-S6. $780, So 900
down.
apartment house; rents for SIS mo.
SO 600: 81 500 down.
2-family flat: three and bath up; 4
and bath down-S6, 800
2-family flat: three and bath up.
four and bath doWn-S5, 900: "a cash.
rooms modern; 10 II. on North
Gratiot: 400 feet deep; garage and
chicken coop-S6. 500
Modern rooms; stoker; carpets: We
netian blinds-S7 .0cO with $1,000 down.
Store and fixtures with living quar-
ters above-S7, 500; stock at inventory.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-28

MODERN 3-family apt; nicely fur.
nished: has electric refrigerators ana
stoves IN apt. has stoker heat; Gear
garage Location Crocker Blvd.-s9, 900
cash; $4,000 terms.
Modern 2-family; partly furnished:
has electric refrigerator and stove:
steam heat. Gear garage: location New
street-S7 400; terms.
Modern 3-famly apt: ! apt furnish
ed: steam heat with Timken oil burn
err: pear garage. location Cass avenue
SO 900. terms.
5-famly apt. furnished; Income sl25
per months 500 terms.
6 rooms and bath on water front lot;
~ miles from Nj. Clemens-Si' 300;
terms
4 room house on ? acres OF land;
corner OF two main roads-S3, 500; $500
down.
rooms house: large lot; garage:
nice shade; good water: 3 miles from
Nj Clemens, out SO. Gratiot-s3 800;
s 500 down.
g., acres; room house; hot air
heat: combination cox and chicken
barn miles from M. Clemens; $500.
50 300 down.
40 acre farm; 6 room house; large
barn: chicken house; milk house: corn
crib--S6, 500 ST.. 500 down.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Lee Mont Shafer Rites
ARRANGED for Tomorrow

Funeral services for Lee Mont
Sheridan Shafer, II, will be held at
Chambers funeral home, 400
Chaplin street NV. at 1870 pm. to-
morrow. Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery.
Mr.. Shafer. veteran of the
Spanish American War, died at
Mount Also Hospital Monday after
an illness of several years. He
lived at 3219 Chestnut street NE.
Born in Davenport, Iowa, he
served with the 49th Iowa Company
during the war. He came to WASH
ington after the war and was
civilian employe in the finance sec
ton of the War Department until
his retirement in 1888.
He was a member of Gen. Nelson
A. Miles Camp No. /. United Span
ish War Veterans, the Brookland
Baptist Church, and the Vaughn
Bible Glass of Cavalry Baptist
Church.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Edith Buehler Shafer.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
'0PA 10 Outline Plan
For Controlling Cost Of
New Home BUILDING
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE. Jr.

The Office of Price Admins
tration, loser in a dispute over
retaining controls over home
building, prepared today to out
line its plans for keeping down
the price of new homes through
controls over virtually all build
ing materials.
Meanwhile, with the lifting OF the
War Production Board order which
had halted nearly all commercial
and residential building during the
war, local builders hailed the action
of Reconversion Director John w.
Snyder yesterday and predicted un-
precedented building in the metro
politan area.
| The Home Builders Associa ton
Of Metropolitan Washington de-
clared in a statement that Wash
ingtonians may expect to see as
many as 10000 units erected within
the first full year of unhampered
home building"
BowleS to Announce Plans.
OPA's program to hold the price
line-at least on materials in homes
is to be outlined by Administrator
Chester Bowles at a news confer
ence this afternoon.
The agency plans to issue strict
dollar-and-cents ceilings on COM
munity basis for plumbing, hard
| ware, roofing material and numer-
GUS other items in construction. In
this manner. OPA hopes to keep
down home costs to some extent and
prevent an inflated building boom
which Mr.. Bowles warns would fol-
low a scramble for materials and
outbiddlng contractors to meet
pent-up demand for construction.
While OPA officials declined COM
ment on the Snyder action on the
construction order, 1t was obvious
the agency had lost out in a pro-
jected program to set ceilings on
new homes.
Krug Acclaims Decision.
WPB Chairman J. A. Krug, who
had favored lifting all controls on
construction, described yesterday S
decision as "a major step in pro-
viding employment and speeding up
reconverSion. He warned, however,
that shortage of building mate
rials exists and will continue
through the rest of the year.
In this connection, Mr.. Bowles
warned at the hearing that building
materials may be an inflationary
threat for year or more. Mr..
Krug's statement gave weight to
the urgency of holding down prices
on building materials.
One OF the points in Mr.. Snyder S
program to spur construction-an-
nounced with the lifting of the WPB
order-calls for increasing scarce
building materials by granting pri-
ority assistance to the producers and
oy modest price increases to step
up production.
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Symingfon Nominated
Surplus Administrator

Legislation putting disposition of
the Governments vast surplus of
war stocks under one man was in
effect today.
President Truman Yesterday
signed the bill replacing the three
man Surplus Property Board with
a single administrator, and sent to
the Senate the nomination of w.
Stuart Symington to be the admin
istrator.
Mr.. Symington formerly was
chairman OF the property board.
One member, Col. E. H. Heller of
California, already has resigned.
The other member is former Gov.
Robert Hurley of Connecticut,
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Massachusetts Rules
Strange Fruit Obscene

1H the SSOClaleC tFeSS.
BOSTON, Sept. l9.-In a divided
opinion, the Massachusetts Supreme
Court has found the novel Strange
Fruit to be obscene, indecent and
impure and upheld Superior Court
conviction of the book dealer who
sold copy of it.
Abraham Eisenstadt of Cambridge
had been fined 500 for selling a
copy of the novel by Lillian Smith
which deals with miscegenation in
Southern town, and another 500
for possessing the book with intent
to sell.
In his dissent, Judge Henry T.
Lummus asserted he could find no
erotic allurement such as the opin-
ion makes necessary for a convic-
ton" and he expressed the view
that ''the book could do no substan-
tial harm to the morals of youth,
for few juveniles would ever see it,
much less read it."
Evening star., 1945-09-19
Crosby to Spend Week
In Hospital for Checkup

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 1s.-Bing
Crosby will spend week in a hos
pital after his current picture is
completed for complete checkup
and rest, his studio says.
He was absent from the set of
Blue Skies" for two days because
of severe back pains.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
EDITORIAL-
Ten Years Of Progress

Ten years is not long time in the life of nation
labor organization yet because of the times in which
live the United Automobile Workers have encompassed
whole lifetime in the ten years of their existance.
Born in the troublous thirtes, the Auto Workers
Union nurtured bitter strife which at times seemed
about the verge of overcoming the infant organization
The united opposition OF reaconary employers added to
the nexperence of the industrial union heads
handcap which the very outset threatened the young
organization with extinction.
But the ideals principles of the new Union could
be downed The greater the opposition the ap
parent it became the unorganized workers that Union
which hated and feared worth while and they
flocked to its banner.
Success followed success depression gave way to
moderate economic but just when the young
Union seemed the verge of attaining its greatest
ge and strength bitter actona struggle broke out which
for time threatened its very life.
Despite bitter nternecine struggles and economic
cessiOn the dynamic organization struggled through.
settled its differences cleansed itself of Overam-
bilious leadership and settled down continue its task of
organizing the unOrganlZed.
When war broke out, it was the Auto Workers who
met the production challenge head Through "A months
of the worst fighting in the boodiest the world has
known the UAW-CIO hesitated. 1t not only
built the guns eeps motors planes shells and other ma
erias vital to the winning of the but thousands
of its members took part in the fighting, blood to
blood banks purchased the bonds and dozens of other
ways shows their patriotic interest preserving the ideals
of democracy upon which The Union founded.
And that the has ended, the United Auto
Workers stop momenay to gaze back upon the first 10
of their exstance to take stock of the past and
present and look to the future.
Mistakes have made during these past ten years
but they have been fatal The growth of the
UAWCIO could not have occurred had it not lived to
the principles which it taught and sought to practice In
this decade has spectacular growth which, while
aided by and unusual times considerable
due the sincerity fidelity of the rank and
file and the wisdom of the leaders who have been chosen
to lead great Union.
Today, are face to face with We know
that cannot return to the conditions which existed
when the UAW-CIO born, a time which speeded up
the organizatona and covered in 10 that
which ordinarily would require So but do know that
Continued Page
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
W Day Pay
Problem

w AS SHIN TON (LPA)-
Workers who celebrated an
nouncement of Japanese sur
render by day or two away
from the job were left out on a
limb in the excitement. The
White House got crossed up on
its announcements concerning
VI day pay.
The first order was that VI
day was a legal holiday, and key
workers holding down the fort
were to get time-and-a-half, like
Christmas, while the others were
to get straight time.
Then it was announced that
the Victory Days august Is and
16) were not the official vi
day after all. TimekeeperS and
employers began to gnaw their
fingernails.
Finally the War Labor Board
Strengthened it out, in a state
ment that: employers shall not
be considered to have violated
the wage stabilization laws if
they: (D Excused employees
from work without loss of pay;
(2) Considered the regularly
scheduled hours not worked as
hours worked, for the purpose
of computing overtime pay; and
90 Compensated employees who
were retained during such peri
ods (key workers. at pre-
MUM rates"
Workers whose unions had
been far-sighted enough to in
clude a victory holiday clause in
their contracts were spared all
the worry.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
Truman Opposes
Bah Act

WASHINGTON OPA) Op-
ponents of the Ball-Burton-
Hatch Bill, which would shackle
labor through government regu-
lation of collective bargaining,
are heartened by the conclud-
ing words of President Truman's S
statement of labor policy last
week.
In his first comprehensive
statement on labor problems
since he became President, Tru-
man said, with the return to a
peacetime economy and the
elimination of the present tenn
porary wartime agencies and
procedures, we must look to col
lective bargaining, aided and
supplemented by a truly effec-
tive system of conciliation and
voluntary arbitration, as the
best and most democratic
method of maintaining sound in
dustrial relations"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
Merchant Seamen
Praised

WASHINGTON LPA)-Am-
erican merchant seamen won
the praise of the War Shipping
Administration for the discipline
and morale maintained during
the war. The establishment in
1913 of "due process" hearings
where a man has opportunity
to speak out-proved more ef-
fective than the old method of
docking a seaman's pay for in
fraction of rules at the whin of
the commanding officer In the
two-year period Just ended, only
-tenths of one percent of
misconduct cases reported were
in connection with economic
questions and disputes arising
out of collective bargaining mat
tiers, and three have been no
strikes of merchant seamen
since Pearl Harbor.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
LaborSeeks Reconversion Speedup
Unemployment Jitters
Follow End Or Jap War
RecOnversiOn Gets Top
Government Priority

WASHINGTON, Aug. %
Reconversion and full en-
ployment are getting top gov
ernment priority with Presi-
dent Truman and the War
Production Board showing their
interest in bringing about a
speedy end to the widespread
employment which has occurred
in all sections of the country
since the acceptance of the sur
render terms by the japanese
government.
Principal difficulty is with
materials which already appear
to be bottlenecked and promise
to slow down full employment
more than the actual job of re-
converting to normal civilian
production.
Unemployment figures for the
country are difficult to secure
with many conflicting figures
being given. Detroit labor Of
ficials claim that city has near
ly 100000 unemployed, while
Chicago, Cleveland, and other
large industrial cities also give
reports of mass unemployment.
A repor from The Toledo USES
Office says that city has $4,000
out of work but labor officials
there report that the figure is
nearer to 10000.
Washington Is Mecca
Washington at the present
time resembles the city at the
outbreak Of the war. Then labor
and industrial heads hurried
here to secure government war
contracts, now they are coming
seeking assurances that recon-
version will be speeded, asking
government to expedite the flow
of materials, seeking legislation
beneficial to labor in the way
of a full employment bill and
increased unemployment COM
pensation and putting consider
able pressure on governmental
agencies.
War Labor Board and other
governmental agencies which
were active during the war are
still playing a part in the begin
ming of the peacetime program.
The War Labor Board has given
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24

w alter M a drzykowski,
chairman Of the anniversary
committee, announced today
that if all attend the banquet
who have purchased tickets it
will be one of the largest, if not
the largest banquet ever held in
Toledo. Places will be set for
members of the Auto Work
ers and their friends who will at
tend. The banquet begins at TOO
p. m.
The celebration will get under
way in the afternoon when Lo-
cal lbs bard one of Toledo's
top flight musical organizations
will give a two hour concert in
Court House park beginning at
200 p. m. Carmen Broderick
will direct.
To Decorate
City officials have agreed to
observe the anniversary by dec
Grating the city building with
flags and bunting and the Civic
Center Mall will exhibit the
flags of the United Nations.
Following the afternoon con-
cert, the banquet will begin at
700 p. m. in the Hotel Secor.
Chairman MadrzykoWski again
emphasized that there would be
no formal speakers or long talks.
"The day belongs to the rank
and file and secondary leader
ship who have done so much to
build the UAW-CIO and make it
the great organization it is. We
are not going to do anything to
take the deserved credit away
from them," he said.
Mr.. MadrzykowSki said that
friends of the organization who
have assisted and cooperated
with its members and officers
over the years have been invited
to attend the banquet and that
many would be present.
An entertainment will follow
the meal. The committee chair
man would not divulge the ma
ture of the acts which will be
shown but said that they would
be of high caliber and please the
celebrants who attend the ban
quet.
Many out-of-town officers and
members from Local Unions
scattered throughout Northwest
ern Ohio will be present at the
banquet. Lima, Fremont, Port
Clinton, Marion, Sandusky, Fos-
toria and Troy Local Unions in
Region 2-B have indicated they
will be on hand for the occasion.
Toledo Locals will be represent
ed in addition to Unit officers
and members from Local II and
Locals IA, II, 16 and 48.
All members of the UAW-CIO
in the Toledo area who have
flags have been asked to OBJ
serve the anniversary date by
hanging out the colors on Satur-
day and hundreds have indicated
that they will comply with the
request.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
Winning WORDS

NEW YORK (LPA) = Four
teen hundred telegraphers kept
the words flowing out of the
San Francisco Conference of the
United Nations TO the eagerly
waiting world, it was revealed
here last week, by means o1
automatic printing telegraph
.facilities operating over high
speed multiplex channels. Al
most 100000 words a day were
sent for the first three weeks
of the conference, and total OF
100000 words sent out in ad-
dition to regular cables, tele.
grams and diplomatic messages.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
Lose By Applying


NEW YORK (LPA)-"Scape-
goatism, the underlying human
common denominator that leads
to Nazism, Fascism, Ku KluX
Klanism and race riots, is dis
cussed-and methods for eradi
eating it pointed out-in an il
lustrated pamphlet, Race Riots
Aren't Necessary, by Alfred
McClung Lee. Copies are avail
able at Workers Defense League,
112 E. 10Th ST., N. Y. c. 3.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
Kenneth Cole Dies,
HOnored By CIO
Unions and Public
attend Last Rites

Hundr e d S of Toledoans
crowded into the Adele fu-
neral home to attend the fu-
neral service for Kenneth
Cole, executive secretary of
the Toledo Union Council, who
expired at Ford Hospital, De-
troit, August II.
All walks of life, from factory
sweeper to industrial manage
ment, was represented in the
huge crowd that came to pay
final tribute to the man who
contributed so greatly to the adj
vance of the CIO in Toledo and
who was credit to the organ
ization which he served.
Leaders of the AFL joined
with the CIO in expressing their
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24

legislature late in July effec-
tive at once.
The request of the labor
management group composed of
industrialists, labor representa-
tives and public members came
out of a meeting of the labor
group on Monday of this week
that the meeting of the COM
mittee set aside the regular
order of business and consider
the proposal made by the labor
members to have an immediate
session of the legislature called
to make the new law effective
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
War Fund Opens Der. 2

NEW YORK (LPA)The Ma
tional War Fund Drive for S115,-
100000 will start on October g.
chairman Winthrop Aldrich an
nounced last week. The funds
are more necessary than ever
to maintain the morale Of our
troops awaiting home coming
to support such activities as
USO, United Seamen's Service
War Prisoners Aid, and various
relief societies such as Philip
pine War Relief and United
China Relief.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24

now instead of waiting for the
go day period called for by law.
Labor representatives on the
committee made their request to
the entire committee at the reg
ular Tuesday afternoon meeting.
1t was pointed out that with ap-
proximately 41,000 unemployed
in Toledo than the $500 in
crease in weekly compensation
which the unemployed would
get were made operative at once.
would mean an additional $780,
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
Burke Promises
Large Labor
Duy Turnout

Tom Burke, Toledo Industrial
Union secretary announced to-
day that CIO unions are pledging
that this years Labor Day Parade
will witness one of the largest
Eurnouts in several years. Every
one will march this year, be-
cause there isn't anything to
prevent them" said Mr.. Burke.
Locations of the Local Union
and Units of amalgamated Lo-
Gals will be the same as in last
years parade. Local IL, UAW-
CIO will arrange its own Units
which have been assigned the
same general streets as in the
1914 parade. A complete list of
the line of march and street To-
cations for all Locals and Units
will be sent to all the shops ear
ly next week and carried in the
newspapers.
Line Of March
The parade will assemble on
the north and south streets adj
jacent to Monroe st. Beginning
at Monroe and 22nd st. the par
ade led by the Local IL band un-
der direction of Carmen Bro
derrick will move east to Sum-
NIT; north on Summit to Jeffer-
son; West on Jefferson where it
will pass the reviewing stand in
the Commodore Perry Hotel and
countermarch and disband at
18th and Jefferson.
Judges for the floats, drum
corps and others competing for
prizes which will again be
awarded this year will be Vice
Mayor Michael V. Disable, At
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
HORSES,
HORSES

Anyone owning riding
horse and desiring to use it
in the Labor Day Parade
are requested to contact
Chuck HeebSh at Local IL
headquarters, or Howard
Rediger. The meeting place
for the contingent of riders
in the parade will be desig-
mated in the next issue of
the T o EDO MON
JOURNAL.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
Laoor-Manasement Ask
Special Legislative Call

what is believed to be of the first actions OF its
kind members of Toledo'S labormanagement committee
unanimously to request Governor Frank Lausche to
call an immediate session of the state legislature make
the increased unemployment compensation passed by the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
Council
Okeys
PR Ballot

Members of city council,
meeting in special session
August q, unanimously voted
to approve the placing of the
PR repeal on the ballot for
the November election.
Approval came after letter
from the clerk of the Board of
Elections was read announced
the validity of the petitions and
stating that 24,748 out Of 32,333
names filed with the clerk of
city council were valid. Council
had no other alternative than to
vote its approval since state law
governing petitions and re-
ferenda takes precedence over
city ordinances and charters.
Czelusta States Objections
Only councilman to voice OBJ
iections to the PR referendum
was Councilman Ollie Czelusta
who before voting stated his OPP
position to the repeal of the PR
system which he said has op-
Grated very successfully for the
past 10 years"
Councilman Czelusta claimed
that the system of voting for
Council proposed by the advo-
Gates of repeal of PR would
make it impossible to elect a
Polish councilman. He said that
the Polish people were home
owners and taxpayers and good
Americans and that the plural
ity system of electing council
men which would supplant the
PR system would disfranchise
his constituents. Kenton D. Kell-
holtz of the Toledo Small Busi-
nessmen's Assn, applauded alone
but loudly.
Burke Refutes Statement
Councilman Tom Burke re-
futed Mr.. Czelusta's statements
by pointing out that "the organ
ization which wants to repeal
the PR ssytem is not trying to
preclude the possibilities of any
group securing representation,
and pointed out that a large per-
centage of the committee op-
posing the PR system were COM
posed of people of Polish des
cent. He also stated that large
number of those who had signed
the petitions were of Polish orig
in including some veterans OF
World War II.
Replying to Mr.. Burke, Mr..
Czelusta said "they don't under
stand. l will try and educate
them"
Councilmen Ad. @. Thacher
and Earl o. Lehman were alb
sent.
PAC Officials who have been
active in seeking to place the
repeal of the PR system on the
ballot, as we'll as many other
citizens expressed themselves
pleased with the opportunity to
put the highly controversial
method of electing city council
men to a real test in the Novem-
Der election.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-24
Auto Workers To
Celebrate 10Th
Anniversary
TO Mark 10 Years
AS CEO Organization

Thousands of members of the United Automobile Work
esCIO from Toledo and Northwestern Ohio will observe
the first decade of their Unions foundation tomorrow with
public ceremony Courthouse Park and in the evening
with a banquet at the Hotel Secor