Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-30
It's News
To Me
By O. J. Pecod
A QUESTION

AS sit here typewriter striving to beat my brains
o or ne customers lhat you the guys ana ga VINO read
this stuff the thought of nowhere (Where else
could rom) that there big question before this
country which hasn't been answered
That question is-whaever of postwar planning?
"Shush, shush, says the government I'VE gotta win the
today forget tomorrow
haven't you heard tomorrow come"
And that, dear members of the inelgena is not
doesn't exist in fact
better proof you attempt
James Byrne to make all sacrifice not because sacrifice
the sake of the sacrifice?
What better proof do you than the work jail"
legislation that has been kicking around
from pillar to post these while Patton punges
into Germany at top speed and armies sweep the Naz
before them like leaves?
mer prohibions which has turned cities into morgues
after midnight in order absentees home for their beauty
rest the production plants top and
agement extract more profits from the hides of the way
ward workers.
army stage breakthrough
which spelled the beginning of the end of their hopes.
RECONvERSION
When armies racing through driving the
Germans before them there mounting talk of reconverson
confidence and optimism filled the ar loday even as our
troops set their feet on the road Berlin and score telling blow
telling blow dour in Washington raise
flash n the pan.
SO, upon verge of complete military
victory Europe the plans for complete victory the
Japs laid told produce and forget tomorrow
gives the example up the
for the day when the ends and millions of workers will be
jobs forced exc eXstance the misery
and doubtful benefits of unemployment insurance
No thinking sit back and watch his
sdeack everything and the prospects paness
without being disturbed it, Nor does the end
there the German breakhrough government
has adopted shush huh attitude and nSnuated that
who has postwar plan reconversion plan just shade
removed from treason.
Instead of discussing postwar plans and egsang
those go million jobs have heard much about will become
realities instead bitter of contention ammunition
the disappointment dsgused fashion into political
bullets legislation to tie
to industries which will be scanning their seniority
lists to weed out the late comers
NO CONFIDENCE
How the workers of the country who have produced
the fighting this
when the itself at its
mand distract their attention and throw smokescreen
of phony issues?
the soldiers who have bed, and fought
confidence to jobs when
American Legion to try and fix them with superduper
seniority otherwise seek promote another this time
between veterans and nom veterans?
ndustrialists the blinded have
the that lies before the face of the
seeming attempts ignore their postwar plans?
must not talk about these things. Let day
take of itself Let's win the then all sit down
ieness and about what going to do
with the
great day is coming A day when the workers will be
that's boys girls there amt The
great victory has been You good
faithful workers without whose devotion industry
cooperation victory could not have been
reward, sending you home
live the rewards piled by by contrbu
tons to the social security fund"
It's bleak picture, but only what expect from
which believe that all problems
with the defeat of Germany and Japan.