Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
By
EdtUdrd Duck
Representative
2B
UAW-CIO


nothing except at criminal
prices. No wonder people are
unhappy. No wonder crime
has increased. No wonder
certain groups of conservative
clerical workers are issuing
ultimatums and threatening to
strike. (After all these years.)
Yes, the present era is
enough to try the patience of
a saint THE land of the free,
with no homes for the brave"
would make an appropriate
national slogan. The housing
situation is truly a national
disgrace. Combat men who
fought foreign fascists to
make America safe for the big
business monopolists are eth
er living in tents or novels, or
in partnership with in-laws.
The foxhole boys laid in
mud and water and dreamed
of building a home. A dream
it was. Why, a guy would
have to draw the salary of an
executive to afford building a
five-room bungalow.
Meat. Is anyone so stupid
as to believe the cattle and
pigs in this country disappear
ed overnight, The meat would
be on your table next week if
the meat-trusters were allow
ed to charge you whatever
they wished. And still you
hear working people blaming
the OPA instead of those who
are withholding their food.
OF course, if you were a
congressman like II o. m er
Ramey (who would no doubt
appreciate your vote in
NoVember) you could afford
to plank your carcass before a
4-buck rhapsody in steer, and
wall about the government
picking on the food dispenS-
ors. Homer reminded us of the
cartoon showing a fat Repub-
lican family sitting down to a
well-filled dinner table--tur-
key, pie, ice cream, cham
pagne, ct al-with the gouty
master of the tribe querying
of the missus, Shall we say
grace?"
HOW CAN THEY
1t Is difficult to understand
how supposedly intelligent
people can vote for Rameys
and Tafts and Brickers and
Hoovers and Landons and n
lot more Of their ilk, but
somebody elects them.
1t is also beyond the com
prehension of a normal human
being to figure out why the
majority of those who really
have legitimate complaint
against the politicians are not
even registered voters half of
the time.
And there are those who
are flattered because some
crook who manages TO main
tain himself in public office
speaks to them on the street
or gave them a drink of
whisky six years ago. When
politician buys drinks it's
usually for a purpose, and us
ually with someone elSes
money.
People are becoming angry,
but people don't know what
to do about the situation. A
strike is no good unless ii
hurts the employer more than
il does the worker, either pre-
Sently or in the long run. With
two-year governmental guar
antees of $50 profits to the
manufacturers, based on their
1889 earnings, how can any
one believe that the average
strike is the full and complete
solution TO the working mans
problem today?
1t IS lot easier TO register
10 vote, and to vote wisely,
than to shiver and go hungry
in a winter-long picket line,
while your family is evicted
from their home and your
children i'll from pneumonia
or influenza.
How much better it is to
take few minutes off once
every election day, than to be
unemployed with a minimum
of benefits from the govern
ment--not even enough COM
pensation to supply the bare
necessities OF life.
Getting mad at your grocer
or butcher or landlord or con-
gresham il not enough. II
might help a little, but the
real answer is found in vot-
ing. Won't you register now,
and campaign for your friends
TO register, too? Monday is
the last day, and if you don't
register and vote, you are
bringing all this upset condi-
ton on yourself,