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

HOLLYWOOD, Calf. (LPA)
Fighting for retention of their
homes, so prominent Negro
householders here received
fortnight backing from the
Judge who dismissed the suits
of white owners basing their
claim for custer of the Negroes
on a neighborhood restriction.
Said the judge: 1T is time that
members of the Negro race are
accorded, without reservation
and evasions, the full rights
guaranteed them under the 14th
Amendment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
B R4Rhfubs In,
Up Go Rents

LYNCHBURG, Va, Dec. "a
NPA)-Who says initiation isn't
here-and not because of wage
increases!
Cotton textile workers at the
Consolidated Mills here, plant
whose minimum wage is 50
cents and where a considerable
portion of the whole plant are
paid wages clustering fairly close
to the starting rate, have been
notified that a group of about so
mill houses have been sold to a
private real estate concern and
that their weekly rents which
have been 95 cents will now be
$3.50. The excuse which is given
for the increase in rentals is that
after many years of pressing for
bare decencies of living, bath
tubs are being installed in these
aousesl
The action of the Consolidated
Co. in selling mill owned houses
10 a private operator is fairly
typical of what goes on in the
.otton textile industry since the
Unions began to establish toler-
lble wage standards in the in
iustry.
The houses at Lynchburg are
typical mill houses flimSy
BOARD structures, built on stills,
Usually in poor condition and
,ften without indoor plumbing.
The Lynchburg workers have
lotified their employer they do
lot intend to pay the extortion-
tie charges which the new own
rs announce. Moreover, evic-
ions will be resisted. Mean
While the union is demanding
hat OPA investigate this situa-
ion and rapidly get rent control
equations into the area.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Women Due
Equal Pay

ASHIN TON, Dec. 26
(LPA)-Equal pay for equal
work, regardless of sex, is the
principle established by the War
Labor Boards recommendation
last week to the General Elec-
trio Corp. and the Westinghouse
Electric Co. Fifty thousand
women, employees of the two
firms, would each receive a 4c-
an-hour increase amounting to
an average of $120 a year.
The United Electrical g. Radio
Workers-CIO, which has been
battling for this for two years,
considers it a down payment
on its demanded So day wage
increase for all employees. A
strike of the 100000 UE work.
ers may be called early in Janu-
ary if these two companies, and
the electrical division of Gen.
eral Motors, the other member
of the big three" persist in
their refusal to negotiate.
Back pay amounting to ST.
500, 900 will also be paid the
women employees, if the COM
panies accede to the WLB rec
concentrations and a fund, based
on &c per hour per woman, is to
be established by the companies
for future disposition as agreed
on by the employers and the
union.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Women Work, loo

CHICAGO LPA)-This title
appeared over a letter from a
railroadman's wife, published in
the Signalman's Journal for De-
cember. Says the home-maker:
Various books of rules do not
state that the signalman's wife
must live on the railroad too but
she usually does within a
hundred yards of the tracks, no
bathrooms, no electricity, dan
gerous cesspools and any re-
quest for help in making repairs
is apparently filed away for at
tention in another century" She
recommends that unionists act
fast on improving our living
conditions.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Joint Council
Locals 363 4 35 URWDSEA-CIO
KUEHMANN UNIT:

We had our Christmas Party
last week end, with a swell buff
fet lunch served by the enter
tainment committee. The Stew
ards helped and sure did their
s..are of the work One of the
girls got a tree and several
others trimmed it. Ellis Kroll
put up the lights for US and CO.
operated in every way he pos
sibly could. In fact all of the
foremen did.
We had a general and a table
gift exchange, the presents all
were lovely and everybody got
just what they wanted.
There was also plenty to
drink, including coffee.
We would like to take this
way of thanking the Kuehmann
Company for the swell party
and baskets and contents pre-
sented to each of US Tuesday,
December 18th. It surely was a
pleasant surprise and is being
enjoyed over the Holidays.
We also thank the Committee,
the girls and the fellows who
made the patty success.
Thanks again and a Merry
Christmas and a Successful New
Year is the sincere wish of all of
the employees.
POP CORN PRODUCTS:
A Very Terry Christmas
party was held at the Pop Corn
plant Friday, December 21st.
Turkey, mashed potatoes, dress
ing, cranberies, jello and plenty
of Christmas cheer were enjoyed
by the employees and Mr.. Kueh-
mann and Mr.. Bremforder as
guests.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Farmers AsSdiI
FSA Appointment

ASHIN GTON, Dec. 26
(LPA)-Appointment of Dillard
Lasseter as Farm Security Ad-
ministrator makes the future of
farm security very dark in
deed" the National Farmers
Union charged last week.
Lasseter was appointed by
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton
Anderson, despite advocacy OF
the Farm Security Administra-
tion program to aid small farm
ers.
Over a period of several years
Congress has whitfield down the
FSA's functions until it is mere
ly a skeleton agency. With the
end of the war, FSA's supporters
hoped for a revival of its func-
tions, which had included aiding
small farmers to buy property
and homes, to manage their
farms efficiently, to get out of
debt, and has provided decent
facilities for the "Okies" and
I'm the fact of this situation,
other migrant farm labor
the Farmers Union said, the
secretary of agriculture has
chosen to designate as the head
of this vital agency a man who
knows nothing whatever about
it. Lasseter was never con-
nected with the farm program,
and comes from a post with the
War Manpower Commission in
Atlanta, Ga.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Wanna Buy a PIon+7

WASHINGTON - IPA) -
Chances for full employment and
speedy reconversion may be
vitality harmed unless a sound
policy for disposal and use of
$14, 100000 worth of govern
ment constructed property is
agreed on, according to the
Civilian Production Agency
(peace time successor to WPB).
To date, there has been a loss
of about soc on the dollar on
the less than 800 plants that
have been or are being disposed
of; and a greater loss is ex-
pected on the rest of the 1900
wartime constructions because
naturally they will be less de-
sirable, the longer they remain
out of use.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Cameo Unit
Opener
so 1T GOES
BY Carmen Nader

so 1T GOES
Paul Ceravolo expressed him
self in a novel way at our regu-
lar Unit meeting last month
when he told us the story of g
ladies lingerie salesman. ASK
him about it!
Anyone wanting pancakes for
breakfast see Marion Goodman
Or is it waffles, Marion?
Don (Penthouse) Roesler just
can't seem to forget that he's an
electrician, even when he's out
Whenever there's a bulb missing
anyplace he is right there, Don
ME on the spot!
We haven't heard any of those
bedtime stories as told by Frank
Falkenberg for a long time.
The folks at our plant are
wondering where Erwin Grimm
gets all of that pep since he got
promoted.
What became of the shadow
that was behind Since Nowak?
(That was only Bob Bernard
bobbing up and analyzing some
thing or other)
Why Bernie Zielinski didn't
come in last Tuesday? Did his
car really catch cold or was il
the muskrat haunting him all
night?
Did Orpha Woodring wash the
dishes the night she boWled hel
214 game? Come, come, Orpha
feSS up!
Is Francis Woods still catch
ing the big ones? We mean fish
of course.
Does Helen Johnson miss Mr.
Gus Burke?
Last, but not least, does Mary
Bishop have a beau?
ONLESS IOU hNEW
That the two new girls in de-
partment Ia are called Irene anc
Thelma.
That our supervisor of person
nell is the son of Chicago at.
torney.
That the president of Cameo
gets in the neighborhood oil
$105, 900 per year. (Nice neigh
borhood, ehD
That certain Salaried en-
ployees received a 10 per cent
wage boost. (And all that they
had to do was ask for it,
Now that you know, consider
yourself educated.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Typo Wages Up

CLEVELAND (LPA)-A wage
raise of nearly 30 per cent has
been won by the International
Typographical Union-AFL here.
The new contract, retroactive to
the expiration of the old one in
November, provides: a minimum
rate increase of S293 per day,
holidays with pay or double
time when worked Mailers on
Cleveland papers also received
pay boosts, amounting to S10.02
per week. The AFL Typos who
got the gains had the support of
the CIO Newspaper Guild.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Drug Lobby
Is WoIIoped

w A S HIN TON, Dec. "a
(LPA) - The so-called "fair
trades" act for the District OF
Columbia is still stalled in COM
mittee as a result of a storm of
consumer and labor opposition.
The bill, itroduced by Sen. Lev
erett Saltonstall (R., Mass.) is
the pride of the drug retailers
lobby. According to the Federal
Trade Commission, it has been
put through in As states, and in
only three of the first 80 states
were public hearings held.
Ostensibly, the bill would pre-
vent 'cut-throat competition"
by maintaining standard retail
prices on all trade-marked mer-
chandise.
Actually, hearings before the
Senate District Committee
brought out, the measure would
mean an immediate increase in
price OF lOTo TO 4OW on all
Standard-brand goods This
would include drugs, foods, tires,
liquor, and cosmetics
Only after hearings were for
mally closed did consumers dis
c, yer that the measure was be-
ing considered. They forced re-
opening, and after the holiday
recess the committee will re-
sumo hearings, to receive testi-
mony including a sensational
report from the Federal Trade
Commission exposing the way
the fair trades" measures have
been passed. in the states
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Hunger Draws No Lines

ASHIN G. T 0 N (LPA) -
Thirty-four senators, party lines
forgotten, signed a petition here
last week asking President Tru-
man to avert wholesale Starva-
ton and pestilence now threat
ening Europe" by raising the
present level of food rationS and
by giving permission to private
relief organizations to work with
occupation forces in Germany
and Austria, as well as by restor-
ing mail and postage service. Sig
natures of 18 Republicans, 13
Democrats and one Progressive
were on the petition.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
War Victims
UNRRA Aid

WASHINGTON (LPA) - In
time to relieve at least some of
the suffering in Europe and Asia
as an aftermath of the war, Con-
gress last week finally passed
and President Truman signed a
bill authorizing appropriation of
an additional $3.50 million to
the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Administration.
Funds are given to UNRRA
by members of the United Ma
tions on the basis of one per cent
of the national income each
year. Originally, S1,836,000 was
appropriated by Congress toward
the United States quota of ST.
$50, 100000.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Safe Place For
"A" Bomb Is
Suggested

ASHIN G. TON, Dec. rs
(LPA)-"The safest place on
this tortured planet should an
atomic war break out will be
deep below the surface of the
ocean" the Senate Atomic En-
ergy Committee was told last
week.
DR., Alvin M. Weinberg, chief
Of the theoretical physics section
of the Clinton Laboratories at
Oak Ridge, Tenn, and one of a
series of scientists who have
been heard by the committee
once again posed the terrible
choice between using atomic
energy of warfare or devoting
its fabulous power to human vel
fare.
Atomic energy, he said, can
be used, for example, in treating
100 persons at time for certain
types of cancer. Industrial de-
velopment would be possible in
vast regions devoid of water
power, and settlement of the
Arctic would be feasible.
international Control
Another scientist, DR.. John A.
Simpson, a member of the Nu-
clear Studies Institute, Univer-
sity of Chicago, declared that
/ peace requires international con.
troll of the bomb, and DR.. Clarke
Williams, of the Manhattan Pro
ject, advocated "a complete in
spection system carried on by
some international agency, add
ing that scientists and engineers
contend that an international in
spection organization is tech
nically feasible.
Simpson warned that Sin any
atomic armament race the
United States in the long run
will find itself in very unfa-
vorable position, due to highly
concentrated population and in
dustry No nation can withstand
a large scale atomic bomb at
tack. It may lose a sizeable por-
ton of its population in a few
hours of warfare. In the i'm
mediate future, before other
countries also have bombs, the
United States must take the
lead, " he concluded, Gin reshap-
ing international affairs to OBJ
tain world security"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Strikes No Fun

NEW YORK (LPA)-"Strikes
are not fun" said the Rev. DR..
Allan Knight Chalmers in a SER
mon here last week. ''They are
the often-t times desperate at
tempt which men make because
they want a chance to live, not
merely exist" Calling attention
to the charge account" on juve-
nile delinquency, strikes and
other social problems which is
now "due" because of lack of
adequate planning, the minister
summed up: when people tell
us of the church to stick to our
business, remember that when
we go into the complicated con-
flicts of society we are doing
the business of the church"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Displaced
Youngsters Study

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Edu-
alton of more than 100000 chill
!ren among the displaced per-
ons in Germany is under the
upervision of Walter Bergman,
ormer vice-pesident of the
american Federation of Teach
rs-AFL, who is now UNRRA
irector of education in the
lmerican-occupied zone for
hildren whose parents were
ews or imported as slave-labor
y the Nazis.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28

Only the Smartest ones finally
get through. Expenses are big;
school fees may run as much as
$1,000 per year, even more, and
books and laboratory fees come
extra-and high. Then it takes
years to get a practice set up,
years during which the average
person of the same age has al
ready gotten married, and is
we'll started on his life's career.
Then what happens? Does the
doctor get rich? Maybe. A lot
of doctors do. But lot of them
don't. Let's look at the figures.
In 1929, the top year of the
golden age of American prosper
| ity, one-third of the doctors in
this country earned less than
$50 per week. Half of the ordi-
nary -of-the-house doctors
made less than SIS per week
Pretty good pickings for what
the m e d ical student goes
through.
And The Patient
At the other side of the pic
ture, during the same year, there
were millions of people who
needed medical care and weren't
getting it, Millions of them were
youngsters who, IL years later,
would be turning up at draft
boards all over the country-to
be turned down for physical un-
fitness. A little medical atten-
ton in 1929 would have put
health and vigor into their
bodieS-and dollars into the
pockets of many doctors who
needed them.
But the two didn't get to-
gether. They didn't get together
because many of the youngsters,
and the eldsters too who needed
medical care, lived long way
from the nearest doctor. They
lived in areas so poor or so
thinly populated that no doctor
could live on what the patients
there could provide in the way
of fees.
Or they lived in cities where
there were plenty of doctors, but
they couldn't pay for the pre-
vention, or early curative, care
that they needed.
President Truman's new health
plan is a way of bringing to-
gether these two groups of peo-
pie who need each other so
badly-the doctors and the pa
tients.
The Opposition
But, you may ask, if the doc
tors need patients so badly, and
If the bill would provide the pa
tients they need, why does the
medical profession oppose the
bill.
I'm not sure that the medical
profession DOES oppose the bill.
The medical associations oppose
it, but they're not the profess
sion. They're only the high-paid
members of it, many of them
specialists, the big income boys
who have made good and don't
care much what happens to the
rest. While everybody has to be-
long to the associations, these
are the men. who run them. And
it is these men who make the
speeches and write the articles
in opposition to the Wagner
Murray-Dingell Health Bill.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Seeing Eye-w,oUnis Unit

We wonder if Mr.. LeWandoW-
ski, who seems to be the overall
brass hat of the plant protection,
gets an extra bonus for every
member who gets laid off We
are compelled to write these few
lines because every time work
gets slack in the plant he gets
busy figuring where he can chop
off some members head.
y, How many of our members
are going to start the New year
right by sending a postcad to
Taft and Hoffman, United States
senator's, Senate Building, and
Ramey and Bender, United
States representatives, Congress
sional Building, Washington,
D. c., asking them to vote mo
on the Fact Finding Mediation
Board and thirty-day cooling off
period, to use their influence to
bring on the floor of both houses
the Wagner Murray-Dingell I'M
poved Social Security Bill.
Brothers and sisters, are we of
organized labor going to let a
small minority group like the
American Medical Association
sell us their health insurance
plan or the one that these three
friends of labor have that is tied
UP in committees. Let's all get
busy and do a job for future
generations. Live for tomorrow
and forget about today.
How long does Mr.. Hill, trus-
tee of Adams Township, think he
is going to have the pleasure OF
getting improvements for the
Inverness Golf Club at the ex-
pense of the taxpayers two and
three miles away. This club is
wealthy enough to pay for It's
own drainage Improvements
without taking it out of the poe
kets of the workers.
To our many friends who have
returned, some after several
years in the Armed Services of
our country, you know by this
time the reactionaries in Con-
gress do not intend to do any
thing for you. So why not do
something for yourselves by
joining the Political Action Com
mittee (PAC) and help us trim
them down to the size that VIII
make them harmless? We need
your help to do this job. We
know the most of you are lib
erals because we have talked to
many members of the V. of F. W..
who belong to the Greater Biz
mingham Post and if all the
posts are like you we cannot fail
this year and in 1948 to clean
house by voting in our friends.
Let's all get together and help
PAC do the job. 1t only costs
one dollar per year.
We understand since the little
town of Holland, o., has been
incorporated it is slowly going
into the undertaker's hands.
Also the old citizens do not be-
lieve in the up-to-date PAC:
They continually fight the
would-be's who are trying to
make a real town out of it. May
be the Rip Van Wrinkles will
wake up before it is too late.
Political Action builds up towns,
it does not tear them down. Ask
the men who belong, they know
where they are going. Why don't
you all join and get the fog out
of your eyes?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28

True, there are a lot of doc
tors today who are well off. The
war took lot of the competition
out of the medical field. At the
same time, it gave lot of people
more aches and pains to worry
about. SO doctors have had
boom just like every other per-
son who had anything to sell.
But, now, what about the doc
tors who are coming out of the
army with their old practices
gone? And those who went into
the army from medical school
and never had chance to set up
a practice? The stay-at-homes
may be fat and sassy; the ones
who are coming back from war
are plenty worried. But the
medical associations don't speak
for the worried doctors.
Some of the doctor-veteran
are finding their voices, too.
And some of the others are be-
ginning to worry about their
own futures now that take-home
pay is on the skidS. And even
among the Well-paid doctors
there are some who feel their
S o c a responsibilities. These
doctors are, most of them, for
the bill. If you can find them,
get together with them, and
work on this issue with them,
you may be able to get the facts
before the public in time to put
this bill over.
The doctor would be better
off, the people would be better
off, and the country would be
better off.
Housing
The big construction boys,
like the big medical boys, just
refuse to look the facts in the
face. Just as the big-medicine
boys haven't delivered the med
ical care this country needs, so
the big-c n struction boys
haven't delivered the housing
the people need. And they re-
fuse to admit how badly they've
failed, because the profits of
failure are so big.
The present housing mess is
good example of the complete
bankruptcy Of thinking among
the builders. The country needs
housing badly. We need about
g million housing units right
now, and about 100000 more be-
come unusable each year. A
great share of the new housing
must be for the rental market.
The bulk of the houses built for
sale should be in the $4,000
$4,000 class.
Yet, the builders just don't
seem able to understand why
labor is against the program for
building practically all sale
housing, and in the $8000-and-
up class at that
don't know whether there's
any use in trying to explain any
longer. Maybe the thing to do is
to save your breath and effort
for the big push; the job of get
ting the Wagner-Ellender- Taft
Housing Bill passed. That bill
would do what arguing with the
private builders never has done;
that is, provide houses and jobs.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
Sfossen For Labor

NEW YORK (LPA) - Harold
E. Stassen, former governor of
Minnesota, told the Natl. Assn
of Manufacturers they should
not put legislative Shackles on
labor's right to strike. IF you
pull down the house of labor
you will pull down the house of
America" he said in a talk at
session which elected Robert r.
ason to succeed NAM presi-
dent Ira Mosher.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
SPOT YOUR MEETINGS

Editors time is better to make good resolves
than the beginning of the We suggest that you re-
solve to attend Unit and Local Union meetings
during 1916. Remember A GOOD UNION MEMBER AT
TENDS UNION MEETINGS. Pick out your meeting and
make sincere effort to attend
NEXT WEEKS MEETINGS
Observation-Disclosures, PlaskOn Surface Combustion
ThurSday-TillOtsOn.
Frday-Rathbun Jones' Swarzbaugh WHY'S Overland 500
Saturday-Buckeye Paint 200 p.
ATTENTION: Corrections change meeting times should
sent to TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL by shop charmen
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-12-28
The Fight For Health
And Homes
by BEN DOR
LPA COlumniSt

the health bill from the point of view of
the Or better STILL let's look at from the of
of the medical student the fellow studying
Medical nowadays is six eight hard
students
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-11
Honor Bride-Elect

THE LILAC CLUB honored
Margery Trombley at a pre-
nuptial shower al aihe home Of
Mrs. Henry LaCroix, Sr., Tues
day evening. Miss Trombley is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Trombley of this city. She
will become the bride of Dale
LaForest, of Mount Clemens,
Saturday, January 81 in st.
Peters Church. Mr.. LaForest
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert
LaForest, of Boyne City, Mich.
FIDELIS CIRCLE of Zion
Evangelical Church met last
evening with Mrs. M. H. Rodgers
for the first meeting at which
the new. officers, headed by Ell
frieda Carl as president, offici-
ated Monte Carlo whist prizes
weSt TO Gladys Bobcean, Mrs.
Howard Harder and Helen Blaf-
fert. Mrs. Edwin Roiser will be
hostess Jan. "a at 1880 o'clock.