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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-05-10
NichoIsons Entertain AT Bridge

MI. and Mrs. H. II. Nicholson
tertained the Saturday Evening
Bridge club at their home at dessert
at 8. Mrs. Carey F. Wentz and E.
F. Gilstrap were the high scorers.
Mrs. Gilstrap and Mr.. Nicholson
were the low scorers.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-05-10
Mrs. Guenther Has Club

Mrs. Alvin Guenther entertained
her Friday bridge club at her home
at 1870. High scorer was Mrs. H. B.
Holton, second high, Mrs. Guenther,
and low scorer, Mrs. c. w. Simons.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-05-10
Mrs Bliyen Honored

Mrs. Donald c. Bliven was hon.
ored at TWO parties, when her BIRTH
day was observed. Mrs. Charles M.
Hoffman entertained at a coffee
party wednesday afternoon at her
home at 2. Birthday cake and coffee
were served. Mrs. Hoffman's mother,
Mrs. w. j. Bliven Of Glasgow, was
an out-of-town guest. Mrs. Alvin
Guenther gave a bridge party in
observance of Mrs. Bliven's birthday
Friday evening at 8 in the Guenther
home. Mrs. Bliven was presented
with a gift. Mrs. c. G. Murphy won
high score prize.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-05-10
Donahues Announce Birth

officer Candidate and Mrs. Ed
ward j. Donahue announce the
birth of a baby daughter, Martha
Ann, at the Glasgow hospital Sat
urday. Mr.. Donahue arrived Tues
day morning from Fort Belvoir, Va,
where he is stationed.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-05-10
Fort Peck News
By Mrs. Richard Eriksen
Phone 409-J
Sewing Clubs Meet

otWIHB CIuDS Nlttl
Mrs. 8, C. Berry entertained her
sewing club last Friday evening at
her home. Mrs. r. H. Turner. Mrs.
Eugene Noyes and Mrs. E. K. Miller
were special guests.
> Mrs. d. E. Pike was hostess to her
sewing club Friday afternoon at her
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-05-10

home. Her special guests were Mrs.
James d. Mclaughlin and Mrs. V. E.
Harvey.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-05-10

Leave waste fats with your grocer.
They're needed on our fighting
fronts.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-05-10

No question about it, essential war
worker Number One is Mother.
What a day -. every day! All of
the chores of peacetime and more
stretching ration points and still
keeping the family well nourished
-. preparing bandages -. salvag-
ing paper, cans and fats -. bud
getting for War Bonds and holding
onto them -. tending her Victory
Garden and preserving its surplus
-. ending a long day by writing
morale building V-Mail.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02
Nhisperings

s Faint whisperings and rumors which
are already beginning to circulate
throughout this city, designed to confuse
3 and divide the opponents of the PR sys-
EN- of electing members of city council
: an indication of the strength of the anti
PR movement.
Despite these efforts to confuse and
divide, the sentiment against PR con-
xtinueS to mount.
Evidence of the continued growth OF
sentiment opposed to the PR system was
indicated this week when members of the
North Toledo Civic Association meeting
! to discuss PR repeal were unanimous in
+ their condemnation of the system.
Nor does the resistance to continual
+ tion of PR rest exclusively in the North
I end, for sample polls of public opinion
taken in several sections of the city prove
beyond doubt that PR is marked for de-
/ feat and will be overwhelmingly rejected
4 by the voters this fall.
One of the most plausible objections
TO a referendum on the PR system this
year is that the members of the armed
forces will be unable TO vote on the issue
Under the present system, the people
lin the armed services are denied the right
to vote. This is one of the best reasons
we can think of for repeating PR.
On the other hand, should the state
legislature make it possible for the serv-
icemen to vote, the argument advanced
by the proponents of PR becomes invalid.
In either case, the justice of the PR refer
endum cannot be denied on the grounds
that it is unfair to those in the services.
Rumors that the PAC isn't sincere in
its efforts to repeal PR and that the mat
ter will be allowed to die slow death and
will never come to vote is forlorn hope
on the part of those who probably wish
their hopes could make the rumOr true.
There will definitely be referendum on
PR this fall.
There is every reason to believe that
PR is on its last legs and that when the
citizens of Toledo vote this fall they will
repeal this un-American system which has
been ideal in theory, but dismal failure
in fact.
The improvement in our city govern
ment attributed to the PR system lies not
with the system, but with the city man.
ager form of administration which has sue
ceeded in spite of PR rather than because
of it.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02
Labor Draft Bill

After weeks of hearings, debate and
wrangling congress is about to come up
with labor draft bill far removed from
what the President originally requested.
Perhaps if the war continues to pro-
gress as satisfactorily as it has for the
past two weeks, congress may even reach
the point where it feels that the bill ii is
now considering is nothing but meaning
less gesture and will end in junking il as
il did the May-Bailey work-or-fight bill.
Time alters situations, and in the case
of the labor draft bill, the need for it, if
such need ever existed is rapidly dis
appearing.
At the time the President made his re-
quest for bill to draft labor, the Ger
man breakthrough had not been erased.
The danger of more German attacks was
very real and the concern of Army Off
cials was probably genuine.
Today, the need for a manpOwer draft
seems TO be out of the question. Despite
the alarmists in the Army who succeeded
in conveying their alarm TO the President
the progress of our arms i'm Germany and
in the Pacific in recent weeks has been
quite satisfactory to the heads of the
Army and Navy.
Despite all that was said about short
ages, and il is possible that there may have
been some, il now appears that the Amer
lean armies were well prepared for the
drives which are now going forward into
Germany and in the mounting attacks
upon Japan.
How all this could be done if there
was shortage of material and equipment
is something difficult TO understand Yet,
the war has gone on, our military forces
are on the offensive and we have yet to
receive reports of "too little, too late"
since the newest drives against the
enemies have been under way.
This does not signify that some sort of
gesture will not be made by congress to
give the President a bill relative to man
power which will embody neither the let
ter nor the spirit of the executives re-
quest. Such a diluted version of labor
draft bill will, in all probability, be un-
satisfactory TO Mr.. Roosevelt.
If the President doesn't like what con
gress gives him, he has the power of veto.
Perhaps he will use that power and then
abuse a congress which saw fit to stall
until all need for compuIsion had been
completely wiped out.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02
Regional
Views
By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2B, UAW>CIO

Last week discussed the new unemploy-
ment compensation law now before the
Ohio legislature which would increase the un-
employment benefits from SIC per week for
18 weeks to $25 per week for IS weeks
This week, am going to discuss the same
question, but from different view.
We have seen how the War Labor Board
with the backing of War Mobilization Chief
James Byrnes has told labor it need expect
nothing further in the way of wage increases.
At the same time, we know that profits are
still holding up at the highest point and every
body is profiting from the war except the
workers
We also know that regardless what the
government says about manpower shortages
and crying need for additional materials
of war that the battle in Europe cannot last
much longer. We believe the end of the war
is closer than anybody in responsible job in
Washington wants to admit
We believe that the war in Europe will end
suddenly and that Immediately thousands of
American workers will be thrown out of work
due to governmental cancellation of contracts
and cutbacks
These people who will be unemployed and
the time may be sooner than any of us believe
will be on the receiving end of unemployment
compensation.
IT'S A RAISE
1t looks to me like those who realize
they will be unemployed during some or
all of the reconverson period, know that they
will have a hard time getting by on $16
weekly after they have been earning three,
four or even five times that much.
1t seems to me that the people who are go
ing to be unemployed would be interested
enough in their own welfare to recognize that
they could get by lot better on $25 each
week than they could on SIC. This is an actual
increase of nine dollars weekly and for eight
more weeks than the present unemployment
compensation law provides
The unions can do some things, but they
can't do everything Gaining increase in
unemployment compensation is one of the
things with which every worker in the state
of Ohio must help. They must cooperate with
their leaders and their unions by writing
letters to their state representatives and sem
ators asking them to vote for the bills which
will give them this raise.
Here is case which no little steel formula
governs. Here is the case where the workers
can actually do more good for themselves by
presenting the case individually to their state
representatives, than their union represen-
tatives can accomplish.
Get ready to write card or letter. Help
yourself by writing and help your union
help you get more money.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02
GUEST EDITORIAL
UAW Takes The Leod
From The Progressive

The United Automobile Workers. CIO the
largest and one of the most progressive labor
organizations in the world, has taken the lead
in the CIO family in the fight against COM
pulsory peacetime military conscroption At
the recent meeting of its International Ex-
actively against the adoption of peacetime
conscription between now and the return of
our fighting men and women"
The activating resolution called the con-
scrption bills 'un- American and undemo-
cratic and direct contradiction of our tradi-
tion of freedom" demanded that action be
withheld until servicemen have chance
to be heard on it, and said that conscription
has for its purpose the RECOMMENDATION of ''our
youth on mass basis for use as military
strike breaking, union busting force"
BY taking this strong position the UAW
served notice on the Communists in the union
movement that on this question of conscrip-
ton, the Auto Workers prepared to fight
them just as they have fought them other
issues in the past 1t is the Communists who
have discarded one of the labor movements
most powerful traditions - antimiltarism -
and are now leading the drive for conscrip-
ton.
Recently the State Council of the Wiscon-
sin CO. dominated by Communists came out
for conscription. It's action brought demand
from Racine Labor, one of the two most
prominent labor papers in the state that the
Communists be cleaned out of the labor move
ment in Wisconsin.
The impending fight on conscription may
have healthy results within the CIO. The
American worker patient and tolerant though
he has been toward Communist activity with
in his unions, may call halt when an effort
is made to foist upon him system that is
foreign to all the traditions and best interests
of the labor movement
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02
Editors Mail
Traction Problem

Dear Sir:
It's about time someone
called the bluff of the Com
munity TT a C i o n Company
with that phrase their inspec-
tors use There is a war on"
Who ever is responsible for
the dispatching of busse
either belongs to the Gay
Nineties or his hands are tied.
The crosstoWn busses which
transport employees of the
Auto-Lite, Overland, Doehler
Die Casting Company and
others would make a beauti-
full story for a wide awake
newspaper man; if he would
stand at Galena and Summit
SITS. between $50 A. M. and
1880 A. M. and see the relics
they send out for War en-
ployees; that is, providing the
relics are coming at all. Then
at 4:30 P. M. have him wit
ness the braWl in front of the
Overland where | have seen
several fist fights, with four
hundred people trying to
climb on one old relics which
finally arrives at 500 P. M.
Have him hear a couple old
women scream in the crush.
This calls for a squaWk-noW
for a solution;
Cd Change the dispatcher
to war-minded person. One
to keep the wheels turning in
defense plants instead of fa-
voritism TO doWn-tc Wn mer-
chants.
(2) To use some of the bet
ter busses in the A. M. be-
tween 6 and 8 and the p. M.
from 4 to 6; such as the OF
tawa Hills and Old Orchard
lines enjoy.
CD Make the Community
Traction Company responsible
for anyone hurt in these
brawls to get on a bus; as it is
very simple to put up iron
railings to keep the line
straight and orderly.
At one time | was gentle
man and would stand back as
/ don't like to hurt nayone in
a crush but being the type
that can push and crush my
self l soon found out that if
l did not get on that relic l
would be, "The Forgotten
Man"
Send man to the Ford Mo-
tor River Rouge Plant, see
how it's donel
Yours for modern transpor-
tation. Let's get Toledo out
of the 20's; into the 40's.
Melvin Dunlap,
W.-O. Unit.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02
| |SerViCennen'S
Letters
Keeps Promise
u. S. S. Pitt A. p. o. 223
CO Fleet P. 0.
San Francisco Calf

u. S. S. Pitt A. p. o. 223
CO Fleet P. 0.
San Francisco, Calf.
Dear Mr.. Gosser:
Your greetings were re-
ceived and before get too far
may 1 say this; there have
been many boxes of the W.-O.
l have received and also en-
JOY reading the papers and
many other reading material
they send. Seems that all of
you are doing a swell piece
of work back there and as you
and many others say, all of
us boys who are over on our
way across wishes to be home.
Those shells, jeeps and all the
aircraft material you are pro-
ducing are to your mind and
every American freedom.
I promised to do my part in
this fight which / have tried
hard to carry out and l
shall continue to do what
ever there is for me to do and
/ wish you and all others the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02
Help Yourself

Members of the CIO have been generous
in meeting the demands made upon them by
various worthy agencies for the public well
fare.
When the Community War Chest asks for
money we respond We have given generously
to the Red Cross, the March of Dimes, the
Old Newsboys and other good causes. Now it's
time for to help ourselves.
Every CIO member in Toledo can do him
self lot of good, if when advised to do
so he will write his state representatives and
senators asking them to vote for the un-
employment compensation bill which will in
crease the unemployment benefit from SIC
to $25 weekly, and increase the time that
such benefits can be received from 18 to 26
weeks
This increase can be obtained if the work
ers of Ohio make up their minds to go after
it, We must not sit back and think that the
other fellow will get it for Now is the
time to act in your own behalf. Now is the
time to do something for yourself.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02


being permanently assigned.
Due to his change he was un-
able to write a column for
this weeks paper. His column
will be resumed within a week
or two.
POSTWAR PLANS
When we discuss post war
plans, we are apt to be a little
too general. For one thing, the
term full employment should
be understood to require a
system which will provide go
million jobs.
One thing essential to
insure the existence of so
million jobs is a public works
program which will Cd pro-
vide jobs for all not en-
ployed by private industry,
(2) pay the prevailing union
rate of pay, CD be designed
to do socially useful work,
such as building projects, road
con struction, rehabilitation
programs etc. "a recognize
the right of the employee to
be represented by his union
the same as in any other in
dustry, 60 be financed by
taxation on yearly incomes in
excess of $4,000.
The above outlined pro-
visions are the only possible
basis for a full employment
program. To accomplish its
realization there is still much
to be done. The important
thing is, what steps we can
take now to bring closer the
day when full employment
can be established through
enactment of the legislation
necessary to assure it.
First, we must flood the
legislators in Washington and
Columbus with letters stating
how we wish them to vote on
legislation which affects la
Dor. Second, we must build
the Political Action Commit
tee to a point where the can
didates endorsed by it are
elected.
Our representatives in Col
umbus should be swamped
with letters demanding pas
sage of Senate bill "a and
House bill 167.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02
TO INCREASE BENEFITS


These bills will increase
unemployment compensation
from SIC for 18 weeks to $25
for 26 weeks. Letters should
also be written demanding
passage of Senate bill l44 and
house bill AIT which will
make it possible to have more
federal housing projects in
Ohio. Write to State Senators
Raymond Hildebrand and
Virgil Cramer and to State
Representatives VIM. Dono-
van, Opal Mundy, Fred Hunt,
Ben. F. Reading and Chester
Early, State House Columbus,
Ohio.
If we are to build the PAC
to the point where our sup
port will determine whether
or not a candidate is elected,
we must bring our member
ship up to $4,000 members
this year. Every CIO shop
now has its initial ALLEGATION
of 1945 membership tickets.
Under the capable direc-
ton of Walter Darowski, the
drive at the Willys-Overland
is I'm the lead with over l 500
memberships sold thus far.
This figure will no doubt be
multiplied many times.
The main issue before the
PAC right now is the repeal
of the Proportional Represen-
tation system of electing city
councilmen and the establish
ment of simple method of
balloting.
Petitions on PR repeal
have been slightly delayed to
check legal technicallities but
are now in the printers hands.
Membership in PAC is on
ly one dollar per year. lhlS
includes membership in the
National, State and County
PAC as we'll as membership
in your own neighborhood
Ward or Township Club.
Join now and help promote
social legislation. II you all
ready belong explain to your
friends why they should also
join.
JOINT MEETING
In keeping with the sug-
gestion made by Ollie Pecord
to the North Toledo Civic
Association for a joint meet
ing, we are now making ten
tative plans for such a get
together and will make ar
rangements with the North
Toledo group as soon as the
petitions are ready for the
PR repeal referendum.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02
Political
Action

Of the Political Action Committee
Editors Note: Pvt. Duck
has completed his eight day
furlough and returned to
camp where he will undergo
a brief training period before
being permanently assigned.
Due to his change he was un-
able to write a column for
this weeks paper. His column
will be resumed within a week
or two.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02

grandest happiness and con-
tinue to think of the men who
have left their hearts to go
out and fight for the freedom
of their country. Good day.
Yours truly,
Robert Lee Coe st 3/c
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02
COOP ORGANIZED

To make their wages go
farther, the Local 5 boys got
busy and organized a Con-
sumers Cooperative f o o d
store. Through this coop they
saved for themselves that
amount of their wages which
would ordinarily go to pay
big salaries to fat executives
if they bought from A & P or
Kroger.
The next step was to af-
filiate their local coop with
the Central States Cooperative
Wholesale in Chicago. At the
wholesale level more fat sal
aries, profits and dividends
which usually got to the big
boys on top, were eliminated.
Buying in big lots enabled
the wholesale to make savings
which were passed on down
through the local coop food
store to the workers who
owned it.
Thus, through ownership of
a food store and part owner
ship of a wholesale, Local 5
workers were able to exert
some control over the cost
of living.
THE NEXT STEP
In studying the cooperative
idea, the Local 5 group found
out that there was another
type of coop, commonly
known as a credit union,
through which they could
make another cut in the cost
of living.
So they organized a credit
union to service the credit
needs of the people in their
plant. This credit union CO.
op, which is simply a banking
system controlled democrati-
cally by the creditors and
debtors, took in the deposits
of those workers who had
money to save and then
loaned the money out to those
who were suddenly in need
of little extra cash.
Two things were unique
about this credit union. For
one thing, it only charged
per cent on the unpaid bal
ance of the money loaned.
Then the earnings accrued by
this charging of interest for
loans was paid back in the
form of dividends to those
who had originally deposited
their money in the pool.
The low rate of interest and
the return of the dividends
both acted to reduce the cost
of living.
SALES OF FUEL
Then the Local 5 coop de-
cided to sell coal to its people.
But at first they could not
find a wholesale coal dealer
who would sell to them.
Finally they discovered that
the farmers in the adjacent
rural areas also had a CO.
operative organization, which
did sell coal.
An arran ge m n was
worked out through which the
Local 5 coop bought its coal
from the Indiana Farm Bu-
reau Cooperative Association,
and that was the beginning of
farmer-labor cooperation in
South Bend.
Now, under the joint spon-
sorship of the educational
committees of Local 5 and the
st. Joseph County Farm Bu-
reau, small groups of workers
and farmers meet regularly
to discuss common problems.
This is grass-roots demo-
cracy in action.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02
On The
Beam
By
Clayton W..
Fountain

Local 5, UAW-CIO, located
in South Bend, Indiana, is
working on a project that
goes to the root of one of the
toughest problems of our
time.
The Local 5 Educational
Committee has worked out a
program of joint farmer-la-
Dor discussion groups in CO.
operation with the st. Joseph
County section of the Indiana
Farm Bureau. Out of these
meetings comes realistic un-
derstanding, on the part of
both workers and farmers, of
methods by which they can
work together toward COM
mon ends.
This program did not drop
down out of the clear blue
sky. 1t came about because
several serious-minded work
ers in Local 5 learned for
themselves a few years back
that labor cannot solve all its
problems by bargaining with
the boss across the conference
table.
These unionists learned, for
one thing, that wage in
crease can be meaningless if
it is followed by correspond
ing increase in the cost of liv-
ing.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-02

Editors note: Due to illness, Mr. Schultz
was unable to write his column this week. It
will be found again in the usual place follow
ing his recovery.