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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-08
STEAMER MOVEMENTS


 Princess Norah, from Vancouver. arrived at .3:30 o'clock this after noon. Leaves tonight for Skagway returing southbound Sunday morn ing
 North Sea, from Seattle, schedul- ed to arrive Sunday.
 Baranof, from Seattle, schedul- ed to arrive Sunday.
 Taku Scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow.
 Denali, from Westward, schedul- ed southbound Tuesday.
 Arrival of Alaska. from westward indefinite. Has survivors of .Yu- kon wreck aboard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-08
MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN
Reports from Marine s.atcns at 12:30 P M. Today

Southeast Alaska walters southwestery wind per coude with local light rain snow
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-08
LOIS McKIM ARRIVES

Lois McKim of Hollister, Calf. is a guest at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-08

MANY ILL, FLU A great many children of the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
False Report

The following statement was
issued by Walter p. Reutheri
president of the UAW-CIO:
"Within the last several days
stories have appeared in a num-
ber of newspapers throughout
the country that the UAW-ClO
or on behalf of the UAW-ClOi
contributed $500 to the election
campaign of Senator Burton K
Wheeler Of Montana.
Those stories are completely
false"
"They were apparently picked
up from an erroneous story in 9
Detroit newspaper on Ii 81
Wednesday. That story was
promptly corrected by my office
as soon as it appeared.
"The UAW-CIO and person
ally are vigorously and emphat-
ically opposed to Senator Wheel
er and to the policies he pro-
notes and supports in the United
States Senate.
"There is not the remotest
possibility of either the UAW-
CIO or myself endorsing or sup
porting, financially or otherwise,
any campaign for the reelection
of Senator Wheeler"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
Election
Protested

An NLRB election held Tues
day, at the Flxible Co., Louden-
vile, Ohio, is being protested on
the grounds that the president
of the company used unfair
labor tactics in making a speech,
during working hours, to the
employees urging them to vote
for an independent union.
Edward Duck and Stanley
Cutcher, International represen-
tatives, from the regional office
of Richard GOSser, have been
working on the organizational
drive and entered the protest
after the voting by 504 en-
ployees who favored the indie
pendent union with 272 votes
and cast 226 for the UAW-CIO.
Six people voted for no union
at all.
The talk by the president,
which was unfavorable to the
UAW-CIO, was recorded and
will be presented at a hearing
before the National Labor Rela-
tions Board, and will be asked
by the Union representatives to
investigate the election and set
it aside.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
WeI-Ever Unit
Gets Wage Raise

A wage agreement was reach
ed between Local II, UAW-CIO,
and the Wel-Ever Piston Ring
Co, this week, in which the en-
ployees of that company received
an increase in pay amounting to
1872 cents per hour. Fifteen
cents of that amount is retroac-
tive to April %, and the remain
ing three-and- half cents will
become effective on September
1; 1946.
Also incorporated in the agree
ment is a vacation issue. En-
ployees with one to five years
seniority shall receive weeks
vacation with pay, and those
who enjoy more than five years
seniority shall receive a vacation
period consisting of two weeks
with pay. The contract also pro-
vides for a 80 day reopening
clause on wages.
Further negotiations on in
equities will be held between
Union representatives and the
management on September l,
1916.
The negotiations were handled
for the Union by Ralph Brown,
n e r n a tional representative,
John KipIinger, Local IL repre-
sentative, Ray Fizer, Wel-Ever
Unit Chairman, and Richard
and Walter WesOIOwSki,
committee members.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
A. c. Hopping
Wages Raised

All members of the Hopping
Unit of Local IL, UAW-CIO, re-
ceived a raise in wages last
week, according to Walter MUIR
ply, International representa-.
tive from Director Richard Cos
ser's regional office.
The agreement signed by the
Union and the Company con-
tains an increase of 1914 cents
an hour which is retroactive to
February Is, 1916. A five cent
raise was given to the employees
last September and the new in
crease will bring the total up to
the national wage scale.
In regards to a vacation, each
employee will receive "A times
the hourly rate for each week
entitled to him.
In celebration of the signing
of the contract, the Hopping
Company presented each en-
ployee with a ticket to the Sec
ond Annual CIO Baseball Night
to be held next Tuesday at
Swayne Field.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19

ment. Senator James Murray
3D., Mont.) declared that the bill
may we'll result in judicial in
terpretations whereby a demand
for wages backed up by COM
pulsion of any kind, even threat
of strike, will come within the
terms of the Anti-racketeering
Act. This could be accomplished
by finding that the union action
amounted to an attempt to obtain
property (this would now include
wages) by actual or threatened
force, violence. or fear of injury
to persons or property. After all,
courts have held that even peace
full picketing is an attempt to
force an employer to do some
thing"
Under the Hobbs Bill" Muir
ray concluded, workers might
still theoretically retain their
civil rights of strike and peace
full picketing, of making demands
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19

for opinions from a number
of his cabinet members. LPA
learned that only Labor Sec
retary Schwellenbach urged Tru-
man to turn thumbs down on the
measure. Wallace did not recon-
mend veto.
The Hobbs (anti-racketeering)
Bill was denounced by CIO Presi-
dent Philip Murray and AFL
President William Green, both
of whom appealed by personal
letter to Truman for a veto
The effect on Wallace's political
future of his failure to join
Schwellenbach on this crucial
labor issue was not Immediately
apparent. Labor leaders were too
startled at the disclosure to
venture a prediction.
Democratic leaders in Congress
joined unionists in flaying the
legislation, and, unlike Wallace,
supported labor's contention that
it could be used to inflict severe
injuries on the trade union move
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
Union Fight
Defeats Bill

NEW ORLEANS, July 18th
GPA) - Legislation to out
law the closed shop in Louis1-
ana was thrown out the win
dow last week when the state
legislature by a 80 to Al vote
sustained Gov. Jimmie Davis
veto of the so-called "right-to-
work" bill.
Defeat of the measure came,
however, only after united labor
action, unprecedented in Louisi-
ana, by the CIO, AFL and Rail-
road Brotherhoods in creating
the Louisiana Labor Committee
to combat this and other pro-
posed anti-labor legislation.
Davis veto, which declared
that the measure would con-
travene such federal legislation
as the Wagner Act and the
Railway Labor Act, immediate
ly drew charges from anti
union employers that the gov
ernor was influenced by his
honorary membership in the
American Federation of Musi-
cians-AFL. AS a hill-billy band
leader and singer, Davis is rep
uted to receive an income of
around $4,000 from recordings,
radio broadcasts and stage ap-
pearances. Davis pointed out in
reply that an honorary member
does not even have the right to
attend union meetings.
Two other pieces of anti-labor
Legislation were still pending
following the veto. One prohib-
tied payment of unemployment
compensation to strikers and the
other subjected unions to civil
suits for contract violations =
a bill that both AFL and CIO
leaders have repeatedly de-
clared could bankrupt union
treasures and put labor organ
izations into debt for decades to-
come.
The union-hating character of
the vast majority of Louisiana
was attested by Fred Pieper,
state CIO director, who said
that there has not been a single
consent election for a Louisiana
plant. In every case, !NLRB
elections have been held over
the employers continual oppo-
sition. Most employers, he said,
are insistent on pay scales ris-
ing no higher than 45c an hour
in industrial plants.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19

exempted from price control by
a vote of 40 to 26.
Milk, butter, cheese and all
dairy products were exempted
from price control by a vote of
81 to 27.
Cottonseed, soybean, and their
vegetable oil and plastic by pro-
ducts were exempted from price
controls by a vote of AZ to "a.
Gasoline, oil. and all other
petroleum products in ample
supply were exempted from price
controls.
Grain was exempted from cell
ings by a AZ to 80 vote in an
amendment sponsored by New
Senators.
Tobacco and its products were
exempted from controls by a
voice vote. Senator Hoey
3D., N. CO. was sponsor.
Rents will be exempt from
federal controls wherever states
pass rent control laws, even
though these may be weak or
even inflationary in character
The vote was SO to 20.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19

The statisticians had only
gloomy news for the house
wives, however. Their pre-
dictions could be summarized in
two statements. First, prices are
still rising fast at the wholesale
level, which hasn't yet reached
the retailers. Second, there's no
assurance that retailers and dis
tributors won't increase their
mark-ups in many commodities,
thus boosting prices (and profits)
still further.
In dollars and percentage
terms, here's some of the bad
news:
Wholesale food prices in New
York were at their highest point
since June 10. 1920 on July 18th.
Cattle prices broke the highest
records of the Chicago live
stock markets 81-year history
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
Police Go Blind
AS $50 Scobs Use
Pipes On Pickefs

MORRISVILLE, Pa. (LPA)s-
An. assault on pickets by 150
scabs armed with pipes, clubs
and broken bottles climaxed five
weeks of strikebreaking activi-
ties by the Starkey Farm here.
Several of the pickets were seri-
ously injured and the union
truck was overturned.
State troopers, who had ar
rived that morning, turned their
backs on the onslaught. But
shortly thereafter they removed
a camera from Millie Selwyn,
reporter from the Trentonian,
organ of striking Trenton print
ers, who took pictures of the
wrecked union truck.
In asking a Department of JUS
tice investigation, N. ]. Rutten-
berg. business agent of the Meat
g. Cannery Workers Union-AFL,
poined out that the attack was
part of continued series of
civil rights violations including
the burning of a fiery cross,
shootings into strikers homes and
importation of strikebreakers
from nearby New Jersey in vio-
lation of the Byrnes Act. Morris
Milgram, national secretary of
the Workers Defense League,
joined Ruttenberg In asking a
federal probe.
Cause of the walkout was the
farms refusal to grant union
recognition and decent condi-
tions. Indicative of the farms
labor policy is its employment
of 7-year old kids for as little
as 15c an hour.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19

Senators Robert F. Wagner
d., N. " and Claude Pep
per 3D., Fla along with eight
other Senators, intend TO intro
duce as the last Senate amend
ment a complete substitute for
the ragged and torn price con-
troll bill. 1t would extend OPA
until Feb. 1, 1947, with all of its
power to control prices and rents
unimpaired. The ten men warned
that unless effective price con-
troll are continued "we will not
only be headed for depression
greater and more disastrous than
that of the '30s, but we will also
be sacrificing the future health
and well-being of our children
by keeping from them necessary
food shelter and clothing"
Despite a painstaking, thor
ough and stubborn fight waged
by Senator Alben Barkley, ma
jority leader, the Senate voted
for these new changes in the
emasculated bill:
Meat, poultry and eggs were
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
PAC Meeting
Set

The r egular quarterly
meeting of the PAC gen.
eral membership will be
held at 500 p. M, on Mon
day, July 20 in ParlOr A of
Local IL headquarters.
Glenn HolewinSki, assist
ant manager of PAC, an
nOunces that this pre-elec-
ton meeting will be held
for the purpose of studying
the qualifications of the
candidates for the fall cleo
ton.
An election of officers
will also be held at this
meeting. Plans for the
October meeting and also a
discussion of the fall cam
paign will be held.
The PAC top officers for
Lucas County are Richard
GOsser, m n a 6 r; Glenn
HOlewinSki, assistant man
ager; and Clayton Rusch,
chairman.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19


In travelling through seven
states, from Ohio to Montana,
the food situation looks like
, it is going to present real
problem to those who for profit
reasons prefer to sharply limit
commodities in order to main
tain prices at high level.
If automatic capitalism works
as the foes of price control have
been claiming in Congress and
prices are going to be governed
by supply and demand, food
prices are bound to take a drop.
No Real Shortage
Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and South
Dakota, through which we trav-
elled in the past three days
have bumper crops of wheat,
corn, barley, oats, sugar beets,
soya beans and other crops. Not
only are the cereal and vege-
table crops the best in years,
but as we got into the heart of
the livestock country, fat cattle,
sheep, pigs and chickens were
profuse and in excellent condi-
I ton for marketing.
The meat shortage from which
the East has been suffering is
going to take a sharp turn for
the better if the situation which
we observed develops. From In
diana to Montana, representing
1000 miles, hundreds of truck
loads of livestock were rolling
into the meat packing centers.
Cattle, sheep and pigs by the
thousands were on their way to
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
Veterans Loans

More than $4,000 veterans
have borrowed $44,000,000 un-
der the Servicemen's Readjust-
ment Act &C. I. Bill to estab-
lish their own businesses, Vet
erans Administration reported.
VA guaranteed $19,000,00o of
the amount.
VAS report includes 121 de-
faulted business loans on which
VA paid claims totaling more
than 100000. Compared to
this, 372 veterans repaid their
loans totaling $375,000.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
Truman SfolIinq
Aids Attempt To
S+orve Strikers

WASHINGTON LPA)-Pres-
ident Truman last week con-
tinued his assistance to the cam
paign of the j. 1. Case and Allis-
Chalmers farm equipment COM
panies to starve their 1000
workers into submission.
Truman's assistance to the
union-busting firms was his re-
fusal to sign a government seiz-
ure order prepared by Labor
Secretary Schwellenbach on
June and sent to the White
House on that date with the
urgent recommendation that the
two companies be taken over.
There were numerous indica-
tions that the three CIO and one
independent union involve d
were getting completely fed up
with Truman's stalling. President
Walter Reuther, of the United
Auto Workers-CIO, served no
tice, following a conference with
SchWellenbach. that if the gov
ernment does not take speedy ac-
ton to force Case and Allis-
Chalmers to negotiate a settle
,ff.es1t the strike would he ex-
tended to other parts of the in
duStry now in operation.
"We are not going to permit
any corporation" de cellar d
Reuther, ito sit back and refuse
to bargain with its workers
while it enjoys substantial tax
rebates and while people are
starving to death for lack of food
that could be produced with
badly needed farm machinery"
The JAWS first step, he said,
could be to shut down j. I. Case
plants in operation at Rock Is
land, Ill. and Burlington, Iowa.
Repeated demands by the
UAW, the CIO Farm Equipment
Workers, the CIO Electrical
Workers and the independent
National Farmers Union that the
take over the plants
to end management's sitdown
have been ignored by Truman.
Three plants of j. l. Case have
been strikebound for more than
six months and seven plants of
Allis- Chalmers for three months.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
Like TO Sing?

The Local II Girls Recreation
Club is being reorganized and
special attention is given to
their chorus. They have been in
vited to sing at the Women's
Region 2-B Conference and will
be featured at the conference
banquet to he held at the Secor
Hotel on September 13.
If you like to sing, come and
have fun with the chorus.
The first pratice will be held
at the Y. w. c. A. on Tuesday,
July 80 at 7:30 p m. All Local
II women are cordially invited
to attend these singing sessions.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
Mems Suits

Production OF mems suits
picked up considerably in the
second quarter of this year. But
the demand is still so over
whelming that hardly any dent
has been made in the shortage
Supplies in retail stores disap-
pear as soon as the suits are
put out on the racks.
Trade sources believe that 1t
will be well into 1947 - prob
ably not before the Fall of that
year - before supply really
catches up with demand. Esti-
mates of output this year range
from 21 to "a million suits -
still below the governments
goal of % million suits in 1946.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19

the death of the Office of
Price Administration as an
act by some of our govern
ment leaders in favor of the
profiteers, gamblers, spectators,
and rent gougers.
Many thousands Of working
men and women, housewives,
clerks, office workers, mer-
chants, professional men, and
even students filled the streets
as they marched to the down
town section of the city to enter
their protests together with
members of Veterans organiza-
tions, all labor Unions, Railroad
Brotherhoods, and maritime en-
ployees.
Thousands of automobiles,
driven downtown and parked
there by the demonstrators,
jammed the traffic arteries of
the city. Only the fire truck and
the police emergency lanes weer
left open to vehicle movement.
R. ]. Thomas, vice-president
of the UAW-CIO, the worlds
largest international union, was
the principal speaker of the day.
He told the immense throng that
the failure of our Congress to
sustain the life of OPA is caus-
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19

His passing was mourned
by hundreds of thousands OF
e ent workers whose
union he headed for more than
80 years, by leaders in every
section of tine American labor
movement, by workers organi-
cations in almost every country
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
Thousands At Anti-|nAation Meeting
Workers Ask Congress
To Control Prices
By Wilbert A. Rule

In the most orderly and enthusiastic demonstration
in Toledo 5000 angry citizens jammed Court House
Park Tuesday fight impending initiation and to force
Congress to reesabsh of price control with teeth
in it. Persons from all walks of life joined with the United
Auto Workers in the giant community rally against the
rising of food rent and other necessities of living
Richard Gosser, director of Region2-B UAW-CIO, was
chairman of the rally and in impassoned ad-
to the multitude strongly urged them to denounce
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19

uniquely gifted and courageous
labor leader with an immovable
belief in the destiny of the COM
mon man, the worlds toilers.
His versatility and leadership
qualities were reflected in the
positions he held at the time of
his death. He was president of
the Amalgamated Clot IN n G
Workers-CIO one of the best
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19

The Second Annual CIO
Golf Tourney will be held
at Heatherd0wns Golf Club,
Sunday, August IL, 1916.
Eddie Kurek, Local IL
golf director, will be in
charge of the tourney and
announces that it will be a
blind par affair with thirty
prizes to be awarded to the
winners of the different
events.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19

throughout the world, by gov
ernment officials and citizens in
all walks of life. To some of
them he was known as a labor
statesman; to OF hers as a
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
Nation Watches Prices
Running Wild

WASHINGTON (LPA)-From the housewife, offered a
quarerpound of butter for 25 cents to the satisticans
working their of figures every American
last week that prices looming OPA became
even more an agency of the past
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
FarcicaI Price Bill Worse
Than Vetoed Measure

WASHINGTON QPA-Despite the fact that most
labor leaders agreed with Harold ckes that the Ad
ministratons version of the OPA extension bill twill
hold the price line than coander will hold water
they were putting up last-ditch fight to save OPA.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
Stocks and Crops
GrO1U, So Prices
'NO1U Are Soaring
Food Outlook Bright AS
Bumper Crops Prosper
By Ollie Pecord

LEWISTOWN, Mont, July 12 If the crops which are
growing from Ohio Montana representative of the
general agricultural conditions elsewhere in the country,
and they faced with the prospect of bumper
crop of foodstuffs prices continue to
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
Wallace Failed To Urge
Truman Veto Hobbs Bill

WASHINGTON CLPA Exclusive)-Labor leaders who
have long befended Henry Wallace and favored him
jolt this week.
Before signing the antilabor Hobbs Bill Truman asked
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19
iiIIman's Death Mourned
By Labor Thruout World

NEW YORK NPA)-Death last week claimed Sidney
Hllman, immigrant refugee from Czarst tyranny who
became of the worlds outstanding spokesmen for the
conviction that true democracy and free trade unonsm
cannot exist without each other. He was SO.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-19

The picture above shows
Richard Gosser, Director of
Region 2-B. UAW-CIo, chair
man of the protest rally held
Tuesday, in Court House park,
as he addressed the huge
crowd.
Other pictures in the group
show the people who gathered
at the giant rally to voice
their objection to the ending
of OPA.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-09-06

A thought on which TO muse
vas brought back 10 Main Street
by a resident who has recently
returned from Mexico. and tells OF
a different attitude toward life he
found among the Latin-American
Indians. These men, whom
We can primitive. would not trade
places with the most fortunate
among the white race. because the
white man. they say. has lost his
sense OF harmony with the great
world symphony. and has built for
himself a world OF false sights
and sounds and principles In
which he strives desperately TO
find peace - and the harder he
strives the farther his goal re-
cedes. Instead OF resting
his eyes on the limitless space OF
the sky. his horizon Is limited by
skyscrspers he finds no
pleasure In the song OF birds or
the sound OF myriad earth crea-
lures. but dulls his ears Instead
with the clang and ciamor OF great
machines. for this. he has
traded all his quiet hours OF
thoughtfulness and has lost con-
tact with the great symphony OF
life. Man is single note
in this symphony. the Indian be-
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-09-06
Assembly of God Church
Holds Open Air Baptism
Of New Members Sunday

An open air baptismal service
was held Sunday afternoon at the
Lee Nelson ranch west of Cool
idge for six new members OF the
Assembly OF God Church. The
Reverend II. f. Brannoch of
Phoenix, who is serving the church
during the absence of Rev. Lima
O'Donnell. pastor, conducted the
service.
A special baptismal pool was ex-
cavated at the ranch. Those who
were baptized were; Mrs. Gertha
Stewart. Mrs. Katherine Stewart.
Mrs Tavern Mederias. Mrs. Dora
Ashley, Mrs. Berniece Spears. and
Ransom (Jack) Stewart.
There was a foot washing serv-
ice and Lords Supper at the
church that night.