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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-31
Unions Ask
Higher PaY
Continued from Page l


Board for collective bargaining
under the new policy. This ac-
ton is in line with the Boards
announced intention to accept
as few new disputes as possible.
Those it will take, the Board
indicated, will be only controv-
ersies critically affecting recon
version to peacetime production.
Chairman George w. Taylor
of the WLB pointed out that
under President Trumans di-
rective continuing the Board, its
life is only temporary, and that
the Board Is actually in the
process of liquidation so it
wants to hold its work down to
minimum.
In their battles for wage in
creases now, unions realize they
will not have a bed of roses.
With unemployment rising, en-
ployers are likely to be more
hard boiled about granting pay
boosts.
May Limit Wages
That section of the new wage
policy which forbids wage in
creases where they might cause
an application by the employer
for a price increase may hold
down wages drastically, es-
pecially in the industries max
ing consumers goods. The ex-
act effect of this provision is not
yet known, but CIO leaders in
particular are expected to insist
that the profits position of firms
be taken into consideration if
they apply for price rises.
On the other hand, however
union leaders stress the fact
that many employers anxious
to get head start on reconver-
sion, will make wage coaces-
sions so as to avoid labor
troubles which might delay get
ing new products on the market.
Among other developments on
the wage front was the dis
closure by Murray Latimer,
chairman of the Railroad Re-
tirement Board, than an ap-
appropriation will soon be asked
from Congress to finance study
Of the feasibility of the guar
anteed annual wage.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-31
A Labor Day Message

Continued from Page
must prepare ourselves for the difficulties which know
facing by uniting before to solid
front to the common enemy. -.
want to wish each and everyone of you pleasant
holiday and hope that year at this time will be
well the to the increased security for which
worker is striving.
With best wishes for the continued success of the
officers and members of your local union, am
Sincerely and fraternally yours,
Richard Gosser, Director
Region 2-B, UAW-CIO
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-31
CNO Set for Large
Labor Turnout

18th ST.
South side - Band, Local IA,
UAW-CIO Drill Team, Chevro-
let, Toledo Machine and Tool,
American Swiss, AP Parts, Kent
Owens, Maybe Mfg. Marleau,
Bunting Brass, Rauh, Knisley.
North side - Local IL, UAW-
CIO City Auto Stamping. Lo-
cal 16, UAW-CIO - Dura. Lo-
cal 48 UAW-CIO - Unitcast.
Local 65, Packing House Work
ers, Local 62, United Rubber
Workers.
18th ST.
South side - Band, sons and
daughters, Local 9, Federated
Glass Workers, Local 346, Oil
Workers; Local 20, Office and
Professional Workers; Local "a,
Gas Workers, Local SO, Gas
Workers; Local 157, Gas Work
ers.
North side = Local 706,
Doehler Die; Local 716, Schultz
Die Casting: Local 1876, Photo
Mount; Local 1897, Steel Work
ers; Local 2002, Steel Workers
(Meilink).
18th ST.
South side - ACWA Joint
Board, Local Al, Local 1855, Lo-
cal 315, Local 323.
North side - Textile Work
ers Joint Board, Local 244, Lo-
cal 225, Local 226, Local 377,
Local 502, Local 500.
MONROE & I4th ST.
South side - Local 43, Stone
and Allied Workers; Local 836.
Junk Peddlers.
North side - Motorized Units
and Advertising.
NOTE: Units forming on the
south side of each street lead
off first, starting with the head
of the parade at 22nd st. Pa
rade marshalls are requested
to parade their units in order
mount of order during the pa
rade.
The only motorized units per-
mitted in the line of march will
be floats entered by the vari-
Gus Locals and Units or those
carrying union members ply
sically unable to marchA All
trucks and advertising mast be
at the end of the parade as as
signed them in the above line
of march.
All Units and Locals are
asked to give their full coopera-
ton to the parade marshalls
and keep the motorized section
of the parade at the end of the
line of march.
All members are urged to
have their children march with
the sons and daughters Unit
which forms on the south side
of 18th st.
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IA w Has
Big Birthday
Continued from Page 1

ployment compensation imme-
'diately instead of waiting until
October for the new law to be-
come effective.
Praises Secondary Leaders
I MIR. Gosser who presided over
the meeting following the BAN
quet paid special tribute to the
secondary leaderhip and rank
and file whose cooperation dur
ing the past ten years had con-
tributed greatly to The progress
of the Union. He told of the
rapid growth of the UAW-CIO
and said that it was composed of
1,25O,OO0 members, the largest
union in the world.
Out of town leaders from Re-
gion 2-B were introduced by Di-
rector Gosser. Tom Kenney,
president of the Port Clinton
UAW-CIO Local spoke briefly as
did Homer Avery, chairmen of
the Willys-Overland Unit of Lo-
cal IL. UAW members from
Port Clinton, Sandusky, Fos-
toria, Bowling Green, Troy,
Marion, Lima and Fremont were
present as we'll as Locals IL, IA,
Is and 48 and Units of Locals IL
and IA. Brief talks were made
by many of the Local and Unit
spokesmen.
Presents Floor Show
A floor show consisting of
singing, dancing, skating and
magic acts were presented by
Paul Spor, Master of Cere-
monies, Dancing followed the
two hour performance.
Local 12's band under direc-
ton of Carmen Broderick gave a
band concert in the afternoon at
Courthouse Park. Arrangements
for the birthday celebration
were in charge of International
representative Walter Madrzy-
kowski a member of Regional
Director Gosser's staff.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-31
Employment
Bill Backed
Continued from Page


bill, have been introduced. They
include a detailed definition of
the term full employment" as.
we'll as section on farm policy,
Bill Well Supported
Outright support of the Full
Employment bill came from
Charles G.. Bolte of the Ameri-
can Veterans Commi e.
Bishop G.. Bromley Oman
speaking as head of the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ
in America, CIO President
Philip Murray, Helen Hall of
the Natl Federation of Settle
ments, Sec'y of Agriculture
Clinton Anderson, Sec'y of State
James Byrnes, and several
small manufacturers and bust
nessmen.
Support of the bill, along
with suggestions for strengthen
ing amendments came from
Farmers Union president James
Patton.
Leading off the two-Week
hearings were spokesmen for
the veterans of both World War
I and II. Gen Omar N. Brad
ley, Administrator of Veterans
Affairs, made no bones about
the fact that 81 believe that l
am safe in saying that the great
est concern of returning Vete-
rams is that of obtaining gainful
employment - either self en-
ployment or other and re-
establishing themselves in civil
lian life"
Omar Ketchum, legislative
representative of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, said that lin
creasing production without
relative purchasing poWer"
would make real the ever
present nightmare and spectre
of unemployment and depres-
sion"
Speaks For Farmers
Patton, who had a good deal
to do with original proposals
that resulted in introduction of
the Full Employment Bill,
proposed addition of a section
intended to provide opportunity
"for full time, year-round en-
ployment to the agricultural
and rural population.
Patton also asked that part
of the original Farmers Union
proposals be returned to the
Full Employment Bill, to pro-
vide for actually underwriting
the governments guarantee of
full employnngt with authority
to spend in Addition to private
investment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-31
Labor School Reacts
To VI Duy

COLUMBUS, Ohio (LPA) -
Eighty-two Antioch College sum-
mer school students from the
ranks of labor, church, school
and government, joined with
CIO National Research Director
Kermit Eby in a spontaneous
VI celebration. Their earlier
class discussions, based on post
war planning, were suddenly
more important, and Eby drew
on his own experience of resi-
dence in Japan to stress the need
for building a world where all
races can live together in peace.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-31
Technicions Get Bonus

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Test
pilots get premium pay for their
hazardous work, and now, the
War Labor Board announced last
week, the technicians who ac-
company them will also receive
more pay for testing planes in
flight. Labor members of the
Board wanted, but were unable
to get, more than $1.50 per hour
for the men. The bonus, retro
active to Aug. 7. 1943, will go to
employees of six Southern Cali
fornia aircraft companies.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-31
Political
Action

PAC NOW
Although it is a recognized
fact that from now on, much
of our effort to obtain greater
security for the people will
consist of promoting passage
of social legislation through
political action, there are still
many important problems
which can only be solved
through collective bargain
ing. Political action is the
solution to t h ose overall
problems which cannot be
solved by a good shop con-
tract. Collective bargaining
is needed to obtain wages,
hours, seniority and working
conditions within the plant.
Just as certain apologists
for the industrialiSts have
consumed lakes of ink trying
to convince us labor should
stay out of politics, we now
have spok S m e. n for the
bosses who pose as news COM
mentators and tells us that In
the interests of public welfare
the War Labor Board must
be tained d and carried
through into the postwar era.
Their argument is that be-
tween labor, whom they con-
slider a pressure group, and
the employer, whom they
consider another pressure
group, is that vast body
called the public, whose in
terests the, board will protect
from the selfishness of both
labor and capital.
THE MYTH
The myth of a third group
being involved in labor dis
putes should be fairly well
exposed by now. Practically
everyone either does or does
not have to work for a liv-
ing.
Thus they are indirectly at
least members of either the
employer or labor group.
Anyone not a member of
either group belong to an i'm
portant but numerically small
group of professional or self
employed people. There is no
large third group whose in
terests must be protected by
a board of control over col
lective bargaining. In the best
interests of all the people all
restrictions on collective bar
gaining must be removed as
the first step in providing for
the securing of as many jobs
as possible through private
enterprise.
In the last analysis the
abolition of restrictive agen-
cies as well as passage of So
cial legislation to assn r e
gre eater security for the
American people, depends on
how much active interest the
American workers take in
their government,
If you are not registered
60 to 217 Superior st. and
register now.
PAC membership cost only
one dollar per year, If you
are not a member join now
and help us make our goal
of jobs for all, adequate So
cial security measures and
freedom of expression for
everyone a concrete reality.
Do not forget the PAC
dance to be held at CIO head
quarters Gil Huron st. on
Saturday, Sept. 18th. Admis-
sion is 35c. Let's have a
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Continued from Page 1

the country would face a sur
plus of twenty million unem-
ployed.
Labor" said the CIO head
s'has been allergic to techno-
logical Improvement" he quoted
Federal Department of Com
merce figures showing that so
per cent of the workers would
sbe replaced by machines. I'VE
are headed for very critical
period in which the guaranteed
.annual wage will provide a pos
tsible answer. We see aside re-
serves for the depreciation of
machines, why not set aside re-
serves for the depreciation of
human beings"
predicts Big Changes
UNLESS something is done to
bring about full employment
and remedy conditions growing
our of this condition, capitalistic
enterprise may be at stake" he
said. We must call upon the
government to do its part said
the speaker as he told of the
work done by the War Produc-
ton Board to coordinate the eff
forts of industry during the war
and the effective results gained.
"We had a War Production
Board, perhaps we should have
a Peace Production Board" he
said.
Speaking of the atomic theory
and its possibilities, Mr.. Abram-
son discussed the revolutionary
nature of the changes which are
in the making as a result of the
use of atomic energy He said
that the theory if carried out in
the industrial and cultural life
of the world would cause radical
changes which would need to be
met.
Asks Employer Responsibility
Edward Cheyfitz, Die Casters
national chairman commended
the Toledo Joint Board for what
he termed a forward step in
getting to know each other and
discussing each others prob
lens"
Referring to the responsibility
which he said employers are
constantly asking of the Unions,
Mr.. Cheyfitz said" Labor unions
would like to have responsible
employers. We need jobs. We
want employers to broaden their
horizons and exercise business
leadership. They have succeed
ed in sales, engineering and in
other ways showed their in
genuity, but let them produce
jobs"
: Advocates Annual Wage
= Rev. NJ. j. Doyle a member
!. of the Toledo Labor Manage
ment Committee spoke and COM
mended the union for arranging
the meeting, He expressed the
view that the annual guaranteed
living wage would assist in Solv;
ing the workers security prob
lem and discussed 1t from many
angles.
He said that the plan was not
a cure all, but was a step in the
right direction. Asking the ques-
tion will an annual guaranteed
wage be burdensome to indus.
try" He said that "unemploy.
3 ment is burdensome to industry
Full employment is the first
concern of every industry" He
discussed a number of instance.
where the annual guaranteed in
come is in effect and said tina
the Proctor and Gamble Co
which has such a plan made
S20,000,000 profits last year.
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NL.RB Orders
Scale Election
Continued from Page 1

SOHLlHucu lEUn age
next weeks voting-UAW-CIO,
Scale Workers of Ohio and No
Union. Approximately 435 en-
ployees are eligible to vote.
Principal criticism of the ''in-
dependent" union is the frer
quent changes which have been
made in its top leadership; its
failure to make effective gains
for the workers and its lack of
experience in collective bargain
ing. UAW-CIO advocates in
the plant are pointing to the
stability of the Auto Workers
leadership, its record of accomp-
lished wage gains for members
of the Union during the war
and its long experience and ef-
fectiveness in collective bargain
ing.
Make Deep InrOads
Inroads made by the UAW-
CIO into the Scale workers
since the first election in 1912
and the change in the industrial
picture due to the end of the
war which has brought back
collective bargaining and to
all pratical purposes eliminated
the War Labor Board, are fac
tors which many employees of
the Scale Co. believe will swing
decisive majority to the UAW-
CIO.
Members of the Toledo Scale
purchasing department with
drew from the independent"
Scale Workers of Ohio at the
last meeting of that union, =
because of a "lack of service
by union officials who constant
ly take the position of the man
agement, and because Of the
chaotic condition of. the union. .
Ballotins will take place al
voting place in the company
parking lot between the hours
of 800 and 500 p. m,
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Toledo Union Holds
Joint LIN Meetins

He ended by saying that many
industries were in a position to
inaugurate the annual wage
plan and quoted Eric Johnston,
Bishop She'll of Chicago and
others who favored the plan.
Burke Stresses Security
Councilman Burke told of his
support for the resolution passed
by the Toledo city council which
set up the Toledo Labor-Man-
agement Committee and said
that the meeting was signifi-
cant. Labor and Management
points of view are not incom-
patible," he said.
Expressing the view that "the
surge of humanity is toward Sc
curity," Mr.. Burke told how
wars had been fought and are
still being fought in seek
ing after security. He said that
the problem is where we are
going for security and expressed
the view that it must be done
within the framework of dem
ocracy.
Both Sides Speak
Both labor and management
heads spoke on their particular
problems and prospects for the
future. Others who talked were
Blakemore Goodwin, Director:
Toledo Museum of Art; Daniel
O'Brien, president, Com m O.
dore Hotel Co. David Guber-
man, labor attorney; Virgil
Gladieux, president, Buddy's S
Box Lunch; Mr.. Bretz, vice.
president, A & p Tea Co.; Rich
ard Lazette, president, Toledo
industrial Union Council; Mr.
Overmyer, president, Merchant
and Manufacturers Warehouse
Mr.. Schroeder, vice president
Save Electric Co.; Mr.. Eschen
bacher, vice president, Great
Lakes Terminal Warehouse and
Ebert Strain of the Spicer Com
missary.
Pass Many Resolutions
The meeting which lasted
throughout the day was held in
the Toledo Room of the Com
modore Perry Hotel and was
primarily for Union stewards
and members of the Toledo Joint
Board.
Eighteen resolutions were
passed by the meeting most i'm
portant of which dealt with the
minimum hourly wage, unem-
ployment compensation, Muir
ray Wagner-Dingell bill, peace
time conscription, employment
committee, full employment
prisoners of war in available
jobs, reduction of taxes on low
incomes and price control.
Employers having contractu.
al relations with the Toledo
Joint Board will be requested
by the Union to give their EN-.
ployees a day off to view ITO.
ledo Tomorrow" at the STRAIT!
ford Theatre at the Zoo.
Plan Union Paper
Plans were set up and ap.
proved calling for the establish,
ment of a paper for the Join
Council. The new publication
will be in the hands of the edu
cation director and editorial
board.
Approved was a resolution
providing for a dance and enter
tainment to be given at the Tria
non Ballroom, Dec. 7. A dane,
band of national prominenc,
will be secured and an appropri
ate program prepared.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-04
MOST MICA MINES
IN STATE CLOSED
BY BUYING POLICY

ASHEVILLE, Jan. 3. -. (P) -
Ninety five per cent Of the mica
mines in North Carolina were clos
ed yesterday as a result of the
new buying policy of the Colonial
Mica Corp. which went into eff
feet January l, J. V. Bowers OF
NeWland, secretary of the recent
ly organized Southern Mica Mine
Operators, said today.
Bowers pointed out that practi-
cally all of the mica produced in
this State is classified as green
or white, and that under the new
colonial buying policy, only Mus
covite ruby mica is being purchas-
ed by the Government agency.
Most Of North Cardinals mica
mines are situated in MITCHELL
Yancey, or Avery counties. The
Asheville Citizen said today that
a survey at Spruce Pine indicated
that only about 20 Of more than 200
mines in these counties were OPP
Grating These 10 mines are pro-
ducing mica which is classified as
ruby. The Citizen reported that a
few mines in Haywood and Macon
counties also are producing ruby
mica.
Bowers estimated that $4,000 mi
ca operators were employed when
mining operations were at their
peak.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-04

the big black rule book you'll be
handed today with your office key.
THE Senate chamber shall not
be granted for any other purpose
than for the use of the Senate"
rule XIV states, eliminating the
chance that member might bor-
row it to run off his home movies
or hold a taffy-pull for his friends
and kinsmen.
The rules are not all negative,
either-there are a lot of perqui-
sites. You don't have to worry
about book statesmen (''the solicit
tation of book. subscriptions is
strictly forbidden). T h e barber
shop and adjoining bathrooms are
exclusively for the use of senators.
The viands served in the res
taurant shall be of the best quail
ty,' rule TX provides.
You've even got a lot to look
forward to when you die. Get bur-
led in the Congressional cemetery
and win free granite tombstone,
with suitable Inscriptions. Also,
your successor will be provided
with $50 bound copies Of your eu-
logy,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-04
IT'S NEWS TO SHAW
Reports Of Writer'S Death
Find Him Surprised

LONDON, Jan. 3 -(UP>- Ru-
mors circulated in London last
night that George Bernard Shaw
was dead. This morning a call
was made to check on the reports.
Its the first I've heard about
it," Shaw said
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-04
Trouble ForNew Senators
Ahead In Old Fz0wer Ban

WASHINGTON, Jan. s. Up -
This is fair warning that no new
senator had better show up on the
Job wearing a carnation in h S
buttonhole.
There's a rule, see? The stand
ing orders of the Senate, page lis
of the Official Senate Manual, de-
clare without compromise that
1.-The ergeant-at-arms is instruct
ed not to permit flowers to be
brought into the Senate chamber
And another thing, Messrs, Full
bright, Hoey. Johnston, McMahon,
Moses, Myers, Taylor, Capehart,
Donneu. Hickenlooper, Morse and
Saltonstall:
Just because you've been elect
ed to the Senate. don't try to fire
any union soldiers employed by
the Senate (see page ia, same
manuaD, or set up a private art
studio in any room of the Capitol
page 1922, or carry lighted CT
gar into the Senate chamber (rule
XIV.
Naturally, with an institution
like Congress which has been do
ing business since 1889, a lot of
traditions have grown up and most
of them have been embodied in
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-04
DEWEY IS SEEKING
HUGE STATE FUND

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. So
With an eye to the future, Gov
ernor Thomas E. Dewey asked the
New York Legislature today to
salt away an estimated $150,Oo0,-
900 State surplus, along with pre-
viously frozen $163, 060, 900, to help
finance an unparalleled postwar
construction program, and urged
substantial pay raises for all State
employees and legislators.
The Republican partys titular
leader. who held tight rein on
two previous legislatures, faced
avoWedly militant opposition from
the Democratic minority and the
American Labor Party in bringing
enactment of an extensive 1915
program.
AS the session opened, Demo
cratic leaders made known their
intention of presenting a strong
opposition party program, and
spokesman for the American labor
party announced it would press
vigorously for its full program for
effective support of the war eff
fort and to form a firm basis for
postwar needs.
Hyman Blumberg. ALP state
secretary. termed Deweys mes
sage "brazen political bid to re
coup upstate Republican voting
losses.
Elmer F. Quinn, newly chosen
Senate minority leader, said hi:
party would work TO further tn,
liberal program of the Democratic
party in the State.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-04
MURDERED CHILD
FOUND IN HOUSE

SCRANTON. Pa, Jan. ST.
Nine year old Mae Barrett, OF
nearby Vandling, reported missing
yesterday, was found dead today
In vacant house at Vandllng
and State Police said she had been
murdered.
The girl attended party at
the Methodist church in nearby
Forest City yesterday afternoon,
but did not board bus to re-
turn home when four of her com
panions did. They said she went
walking along the highway.
The Barrett girl was the daugn-
ter of James Barrett, a WidoWer,
VINO lives in Carbonate, Pa, but
she made her home with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Nannicks, Vandling,
How the girl was killed was not
announced by authorities as they
awaited the arrival of the coroner.
They said trail of blood in the
snow led to the house where the
Barrett girls body was found.