Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-30
Labor'S Log 1945>1046

OPA predicted 10 million unemployed.
Sept 49, UAW-CIO set wage policy and prepared to
take strike action against the Big Four automobile
facturers.
Tom Burke elected executive secretary of the Toledo
Industrial Union Council.
Sent 49, Richard Gosser, UAW-CIO director an
nounced Region 2B including all of Northwestern Ohio
free from strikes.
CLOS fight against the PR system of eecting city
councilmen becoming intense. Carl Christensen
debated o. Garfield JONES' the University Of Toledo
professor of political science who fosered the system in
Toledo
Oct 7. President Truman ordered the Navy take
over struck Toledo Oil plants.
Toledo Labor-Mana cement Citizens Committee sought
to solution to end the strike Of employees of
Toledo warehouses.
PAC announced Burke for Council rallies.
Oct 10. General motors Corporation rejected UAW
CLOS 80 per cent wage demands
Strikes of six warehouses settled.
Workers of the Toledo Chevrolet plant voted in favor
of the GIN strike.
Nov g. Tom Burke reelected to his second term in
City Council All charter amendments including the PAC
sponsored repeal of PR defeated Political experts
called it PRS "last stand"
Edward Cheyftz National Chairman, Die Casters
CIO his resignation from the union and said he
was going to complete book on labor.
Nov 20. General Motors strike got under way. $780,
900 UAW-CIO members walked off their jobs
Nov 49, Attempts of Philip Murray to discuss wages
at the Washington Acknowledgements parley called by
President Truman broke the conference wide open with
manag agement refusing to discuss the subject
Full employment hopes went glimmerlng as Congress
men sabotaged the full employment bill.
Nov 80. UAW-CIO women of Region 2-B opened their
first Wornen's Educational Conference in Toledo
United Auto Workers threatening to General
Motors. The strike still continued.
UAW-CIO shops supported the I'M. strike with many
workers donating 81 each week to maintain the strikers
and their families.
Dec. H. Richard Lazette reelected president Of
the Toledo Industrial Union Council
Work was resumed at the WHY'S Overland Corp. fol-
lowing settlement of the Warner Gear strike in Muncie
Indiana.
Dae "a Thousands Of Local IL children crowded into
Civic Auditorium to attend Locals annual Christmas
party Children of striking Chevrolet workers G were
also remembered with candy and gifts.
JAM IA Action the proposed Toledo incomepay-
roll tax was deferred by City Council after strong protests
against legislation had been made by Richard Gosser
and other CIO leaders.
JAN 15 Several hundred members of UAW-CIO met
in Lima to attend the Region 2B quarterly conference
Members of the Steel Workers UnionCIO prepared
for their JAN IA strike.
JAM IS. Glenn Holewinsk returned veteran was
named executive assistant PAC manager.
Hundreds of Toledo veterans wearing their uniforms
before the Chevrolet plant Of the General
Motors Corp.
Jan. Fl. Members of the Steel Workers Union, 750,
900 strong began their strike.
Congress was flooded with anlabor legislation the
General Motors strikers showed sign of weakening.
Feb. g. Labor unions from all sections of the country
denounced anti-strike legislation pending Con-
Feb. IL. Hundreds of petitions for referendum on
the Toledo incone-payroll tax began circulation.
The FEPC bill backed by labor defeated in Con-
gress.
Feb IS It was announced in Washington that the steel
strike had been settled the basis of President Trman
wage-price plan General Motors strike still unsettled
Harold Ickes resigned his post Secretary of the
Interior.
Richard Frenkensteen announced that he would not
seek reelection UAW-CIO vicepresident.
Feb II. Ford signed a contract with the UAW-CIO.I v
The Motors strike deadocked and the Auto
Workers prepared for their first postwar convention
Local IL reelected its officers +
March g. Employees of the Standard Products Co., Fre-
mont struck after reaching impasse with the company
A move to draft Richard Gosser for UAW-CIO vice
president showed marked growth. Il
PAC petitions for referendum on the Income payroll
tax ordinance declared to be in good order by the
Board of Elections u
March 13. General Motors workers ended their 113 Fl
day strike after reaching agreement with the company
wages. o
Congress slashed OPA funds. r.
It was announced by the Toledo Board of Elections that
the vote the income tax would be held May I'll
during the primary elections.
Toledo newspapers intensified their campaign of Will
cation against Richard Gosser and CIO for their oppos