Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-11-23
Political
Action
BY
Clayton
Rusch
Chairman
of the Political Action Committee
THREE FUNCTIONS

/. To work for the election of
liberal and progressive people
to public office. 2. To keep
the legislators informed what
the people want in the way of
Social Legislation. 3. To assist
people with their problems.
Today's article deals with
latter function and is written
by Richard Meyers, Assistant
Welfare Director of the Lucas
County CIO-PAC.
Many persons have gotten
tangled up with the Ohio
Unemployment Compensation
Law because they have re-
fused TO accept referral from
the United States Employment
Service to go see about a job,
or because after going out to
see about job that they were
referred to, they refused to ac-
cept the job.
In either case their COM
pensation was stopped. Under
the law you cannot refuse to
accept referral or accept a
job and still draw unemploy-
ment compensation. No mat
ter what kind of a job they
offer you or what it pays, you
cannot refuse it.
You no longer can quit
that job until you are half
dead or at least till your
health is affected so that you
can get a doctors statement
that the job is injurious to
your health.
Does such a law as this
sound like a law that was en-
acted for the benefit of the
people?
The Ohio Unemployment
Compensation Law is just as
phony as the claims of the re-
dictionary politicians in our
State Legislature. They do not
represent the people, they re-
present and work for the big
corporations and the big
monied interests.
UNFAIR
You possibly may think
the Ohio u n m p loyment
Compensation Law is un-
fair, and l agree with you.
but, the working people
have only ourselves to blame.
We have not elected people to
public office that will work
for the people instead of the
big corporate and big monied
interests.
If the workers of the State
of Ohio will only vote for
those people who have the
interests of the workers at
heart they will find that it
will not take long to correct
such unfair laws as the COM
pensation law. The working
people must organize into
group with ting power
strong enough to elect liberal
people to office and to use
the power of the ballot to
their advantage as a club over
the head of any political who
may want to drag the workers
down into another depression
and breadlines.
Only by Political Action
can the people make the State
of Ohio a better state to live
and work in at good wages
and working conditions and
also make it a progressive
state with fair laws that will
hinder no one.
If you have not already ap-
piled for unemployment COM
pensation, contact the PAC
office and we can help to keep
you from losing your compen-
sation when you do apply for
it. You are entitled to the
compensation if you are not
working and we want to help
you to get it.
II you have already had
your compensation stopped or
are having any difficulty in
getting it, contact our office
and let us assist you in getting
it. We have in many cases re-
gained compensation for those
who have had it stopped or
have been unable to get it.
If you have any problems,
big or small, no matter what
they are, come to us and let us
help you. Also we give aSsis-
tance on problems concerning
Old Age Pension, injuries re-
ceived in shops, hunger, etc.
Our offices are at 425 Win
throp ST., Room 410. Come in,
we will be glad to talk to you.
Left; America to the Right.
Ideas in the past three
months were everywhere in
sharp conflict. America, which