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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
Court Orders
Vote On Tax
Continued From Page 1

II axe
tax, Richard Gosser, UAW-CIO
Regional Director; Tom Burke,
city counc | m n, and o. j.
Pecord, managing editor of the
TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL are
out of the city at the present
attending the 10th Annual UAW-
CIO convention in Atlantic City.
The fight is being carried on by
/. N. Steinberg, URWDSEA, Di-
rector, David Guberman, CIO
attorney and Clayton Rush, PAC
Chairman.
Serious opposition TO the In
come Payroll type of tax de-
veloped this week at the Auto
Workers convention in Atlantic
City, when a resolution prepared
by Toledo delegates was pre-
sented at the meeting and op-
posed in principle.
UAW Will Fight
Principle opposition to the tax
Is bound to come from the Auto
Workers, Toledo's largest group
OF union workers. Evidences of
the JAW sen m ITS was
stressed by Richard Gosser at
Atlantic City this week when he
stated his feelings about the tax.
Said Gosser, 1--WE have op-
posed the income payroll tax
from its introduction to the pres
ent time, on the ground that the
tax is unjust and is not based
upon ability to pay. / was in
Philadelphia last week, the town
where the tax originated and If
the appearance Of that city. COM
bined with complaints l heard
from its '"zens Is an indication
OF the of the tax to do
anything :, eally aid the home
owner and general public, / am
more opposed to the tax than
ever"
MIR. Gosser indicated that a
vigorous campaign would be
conducted against the tax and
that he and his group would use
all available sources of public
information TO defeat the pay
roll tax ordinance in the April
IL election.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29

NEW YORK (LPA) A new
standard-size n wspaper for
Harlem was scheduled to appear
last week, the product of Amer
lean N e wspaper Guild-CIO
members who are now on strike
against the Amsterdam News.
Six months of union-busting ac-
tivities by the city's largest
Negro publication, in an "effort
to nullify the Guild contract"
according to one official, was
climaxed by the down-grading
of another union officer and,
after several weeks of futile
negotiation, the workers walked
out and prepared to print their
own paper.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
Journal Situation
Is Satisfactory

Newsprint shortages reported
in the East which have effected
many labor papers have not
been felt y the TOLEDO UNION
JOURNAL it was reported here
this week by Randolph Gray,
Local IL financial secretary
who is member of the papers
Board of Control.
While the newsprint shortage
is serious, the Paryski Publish
ing Co. in whose plant the
JOURNAL is printed report that
they have sufficient paper to
handle their immediate needs.
1t was pointed out, however,
that serious boarding has been
taking place in the East.
Tentative plans for increasing
the size of the JOURNAL are
being temporarily held in abey-
ance until the situation shows
improvement.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
$50 u. S. Workers
Killed

WASHINGTON '(LPA)-T h e
last three months of 1945 saw
$50 American workers killed
and $500 permanently disabled
in manufacturing plants, the
Labor Department reported last
week. Eleven thousand manu-
featuring plants recorded about
1900 accidents, 1900 less than
in the third quarter and $4,000
less than in the 1914 quarter.
The death and permanent dis
ability figure, however, was
higher than in the third quarter
of 1945. This was partly due
to employees taking on un-
familiar work during reconver-
sion.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
Wife Kept job Worm

GRAFTON, Wis. (LPA)-She
held down his union job while
he was in the army, and last
week Alvin Kirst returned to his
post as president of Local 2639,
United Textile Workers-AFL,
succeeding his wife, Hilda, who
had been president for the three
years he was away. The union
voted Alvin's reelection within
five days after his honorable
discharge, in what is thought to
be the only instance of a wife
keeping the union as we'll as the
home fires burning.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
cIO Expects
Foremen TO
Join Unions
Continued From Page 1

Continued from rage L
could obtain a national union
charter. 3-A CIO international
union could charter them. In
each of these instances, Hay
wood emphasized, the CIO rank
and-file union In the field would
first have to give its permission.
In some cases, he said, 1t works
out that the supervisory work
ers are members of a rank and
file local but have their own
unit within the local with their
own unit officers.
The criterion for admitting
foremen to union membership
has for many years and still to
great extent revolves around the
question of whether the foremen
has the right to fire other en-
ployeS and whether his position
is such that he participates in
major policy decisions affecting
the workers.
This "yardstick", however, Is
open to future modification
Haywood said, pointing out that
the status of foremen has chang
ed considerably in recent years
Instead of being, as they once
were, almost all-powerful in the
shop, today in many cases they
are little more than shift OF
crew leaders.
Privileges Disintegrate
"Foremen's privileges have
gradually disintegrated," Hay
wood said. "Once they had
some assurance Of a steady job
Then the companies took ad-
vantage OF their disorganization
and sometimes worked them
part time. Then some of them
found that they were doing the
work of rank and file union
workers. That awakened many
of them. In many instances
they were actually getting less
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
MurraY Labels
c. Z. Wilson
Statement I A Lie
Continued From Page ]

harder than any other person
in America land severely crit1-
cized both William Green and
John L. Lewis for their failure
to take stand with him on the
wage situation at the Weshing-
ton labor-managment conference
last fall. Had they done so,
there would have been no need
for the major strikes in the past
few months" he said.
Murray said that the CIO
wanted to settle the wage issue
by peaceful means but stated
eve had to undergo tremendous
strikes to achieve our gains"
Nor Powerful
Stating that the CIO is more
powerful now than at any time
in its history, President Murray
said that American workers
want CIO."
He discussed the political
situation in Congress and Ia
beled the present Congress as
the most reactionary that we
have had in the past II years.
He called for the election of pro-
gressives and said, Il don't care
whether they are Democrats or
Republicans"
Cautioning the auto workers
against division in their ranks,
Murray said, Don't let it get
into the public print that you
are going to tear your house
down" He ended by thanking
the top officers of the Union for
their cooperation and support
and included Richard T. Frank
enstein, retiring UAW vice-pres-
ident, who was on the platform
for the first time today since
the opening of the convention.
Reuther Demonstration
A tremendous ovation was
given the CIO head when he had
completed his talk which then
went into a Reuther demonstra-
ton with hundreds of placards
appearing all over the audi
torium which read "our leaders
Murray and Reuther."
Reuther forces here are say
ing today that the GM division
head will win the election over
Thomas by a margin of 900 to
1000 votes.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
Price Control
Facing Threats
Continued From Page 1

regulation remain.
The third major threat was
offered by OPA itself, as il
weakened its hold-the-line pro-
gram on several fronts, giving
in to demands of the auto manu-
facturers, to the petroleum in
dustry, and to the textile indus
try. Price ceilings were raised
for autos, crude and refined oil,
and for certain scarce textile
products such as mems shirts.
Sets A Deadline
On the Congressional front,
as hearings before the House
Banking and Currency Com
mittee ground on, reports were
current that the Administration
had set a deadline of May l for
passage extending the Price
Control Act for a year from
June 30, without crippling
amendments.
Unless speedy action is taken,
price control supporters fear
serious consequences as manu-
facturers slow down or stop pro-
duction, taking ''wait and see"
attitude until they find out
whether they will operate under
price ceilings next year.
House committeeman were
treated to another week of testi-
mony by the profits-first lobby
lists. who appeared one after the
other to demand lifting of all
price control on their own prod
ucts.
NAM Is OutspOken
Most outspoken was National
Association of Manufacturers
President Robert r. WaSon, who
flatly opposed any extension OF
the Price Control Act. Obvi-
ously trying to initiate former
OPA Administrator c h e s t e +
Bowles, the NAM chiefs testi-
mony was neatly lettered on lis
huge cardboard sheets, and an
assistant turned the pages" as
Wason carried on his all-out at
tack on keeping price controls
Other testimony heard by the
House body was:
The National Association OF
Real Estate Boards demanded a
1917 increase in rents for all
landlords who could show fig
ures to prove that their costs
had risen 1919 since rents were
frozen. OPA's only recourse, II
the NAREB plan were accepted,
would be in the courts.
Complete elimination of price
control over lumber was asked
by several witnesses represent
ing the lumber dealers.
In response to tremendous
pressure from the oil industry,
which had set up special lob
bying committee to force higher
prices, OPA announced plans to
increase price ceilings on crude
and refined oil.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
Arbitration Hits
Workers

PHILADELPHIA (LPA) -
Thirty thousand full-faShioned
hosiery workers will be affected
by the outcome of the American
Federation of Hosiery Workers
arbitration hearings scheduled
for April. The industry flatly
rejected the unions demand for
a 1212c hourly wage raise, and
Saul Wallen of Harvard Busi-
ness School will be chairman Of
the three-man board to arbitrate
the case.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29

paid Political ADD
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
Toledo JAW
Delegates Favor
OPA Retention
Continued From Page ]

the Auto-Lite executive commit
tee endorsed the Toledo Income
Payroll Tax ordinance were re-
buked by unanimous action of
the Toledo caucus.
The resolution was introduced
by Robert Burkart, Spicer Unit
delegate who stated that the
Auto-Lite committee members
by their action in endorsing the
payroll tax chad broken ranks
with organized labor in Toledo" +"
The resolution which will be
presented to the convention this
week condemns the income-pay-
roll tax in principle and points
out that If the tax is permitted
to remain in effect in Toledo it
may become part of many other
cities taxation program and take
from those who are least able to
bear the burden of taxation.
Attend Reuther Rally
Toledo and Region 2-B dele
gates turned out en- masSe for
the Reuther rally here last Sat-
urday night and to all appear
ances will give the majority of
their votes to the General Mo-
tors department head.
While all the political man.
euvering is taking place, Re-
gional Director Richard Gosser
still has not given his answer to
the Gosser for Vice-PreSident
Committee which has sought to
get him to give them the nod to
replace the post vacated by
Richard T. Frankensteen.
Band Gets Hand
Local 12's band showed UP al
the Breakers Hotel the opening
day of the convention and drew
plenty of applause when they
played in the lobby of the Hotel
Breakers. They sh we d up
bright and early on Sunday al
the auditorium where the con-
vention is being held and got a
generous round of applause
when they played several num-
bers before the 2300 delegates.
So far, highly controversial
issues have been conspicuous by
their absence, but it is almost
certain that there will be sharp
debate and differences of opin-
ions when the proposals increas-
ing dues and giving the officers
more money come before the
convention delegates.
Local II has already voted to
favor the increase in the officers
salaries, but the delegates from
Region 2-B may be split on this
and the dues proposals.
Prospects for ending the con-
vention by next Saturday are
not only good, but a must, be-
cause another convention is
scheduled for that day. BY next
Monday, most of the delegates
will be back on their jobs ano
another great UAW convention
will have passed into history and
mere memory in the minds oi
those who are now here.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
State Body offers
Award

LIN COLIN, Neb. (LPA) -
Scholarship award of $50 has
been offered by the Nebraska
State Federation of Labor to the
winner of an essay contest on
the theme, "The American Fed
Grafton of Labor's Contribution
to Democracy" Open to all
Nebraska high school graduates,
the money will aid in sending a
student to an institution of high
er learning.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
Advertisers
Eye Labor
Publication

NEW 4OfSfAJ NdICu 20
NPA) Many national adj
vertisers ara viewing the
labor press as a new poten-
tial medium for their sales
messages, according to Advertis-
ing Age, leading weekly publica-
ton of the advertising industry.
Setting the total of regularly
established printed labor news
papers at between 800 and 900,
the study, written by George
Biderman, gives the labor press
a leadership of more than 49,
100000 out of $40, 100000 per-
sons in union families.
''The field is complicated by
the fact that rates in labor pa
pers are generally much higher
than daily newspaper rates,
Biderman found, adding that
'.most labor papers screen ad-
vertising and advertisers care
fully before accepting their
business"
Factor Considered
A factor that is being seriously
considered by advertisers, said
the writer, is that the labor
press has a large number of
readers who have high degree
of emotional Identification with
their union and its paper. These
are the union members as OPP
posed to the card holders and
many labor papers take pains
to transfer their Identification
from the paper to its adver-
tisers."
Of the lat national union pub
lications, II do not accept ad-
vertising, the survey found.
Forty-one out of 89 AFL ma
tional publications accepted ad-
vertising as do "a of the CLOS
Al and all II of the railway
brotherhoods.
unions also face the prob
lem" according to Biderman,
"of the degree to which they
can expose their members to
corporate advertising General
Electric, for example, advertised
in some labor papers), the de-
gree of supposed advertising in
fluence on their editors, and the
degree to which labor papers can
afford to become dependent on
advertising for their existence.
Within the CIO leadership,
there was considerable diverg-
encs of opinion on this question,
but majority agreement seems to
have been reached on the ad-
visibility of accepting advertis-
ing. According TO CIO sources,
the union leaders feel that their
papers should become self-sup-
porting and strive for leadership
outside the CIO unions. To do
this. advertising is regarded as
indispensable.
There also seems to be an
increasing number of advertis-
ers sufficiently interested in the
potentialities of the labor press
to survey the medium. II will
be a lengthy and probably costly
process. There are many mimeo-
graphed Shets, some publications
come out on irregular schedules,
and there are innumerable vari-
ations In size, quality and print
ing facilities of the various pub
locations.
According TO General Mills
sources, one project under con-
sideration by that company Is to
Join forces with other interested
advertisers In a thorough study
of the field to explore the pos
sibilities of exploiting that 49,
100000 leadership"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29


US All This
Worth 500
Aweek?I
1 Elimination of7$6,-
- e42,N3 of eity
debt | 5 years
2 Increased pub lie
serVicAs: $780,
900 a Year or 5
years. I
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pairs and replace
ments: $3.50, 900
a year foF5 Years.
4 Permanen capital
inn provo Ments:
$3.50, 900 year
for 5 year
All This and ore Is
whof you qeN under
the present Pc in
come fox. III
And you ge+Hj+ for
soc a week N YOU
earn $50 a week. You
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If you earn US q
week.
The upper Prsekef
man nofuraIIY Psys a
LOT more; if He eorns
$500 a week he pays
S. a week, or twenty
times what The $25 a
week man pays.
There are nj exsmp-
ions and no. denue-
fions. Every b dy
pays exaefly one
cent OUT Of edch DOL
lar he eorns inTo-
Iedo. &
Further. +he nan Who
Is out Of work doekn'f
pay anYfhiHg while
he's out Of Work. And
he doesn't become
delinquent either
And on +oR of Hot.
the person who Ikes
Out Of TcIede but
earns his money In
Toledo. peys his %
So fhat'sWhy wetay
This is a fair. Justice,
opera+iXe +ax otter
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TO fhs weIfare Of
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And hof's Why we
:ay:Eo+e to ratain
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plants added
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29

pay than rank-and-file work.
ers."
The day is fast approaching,
Haywood concluded, when fore
men will be as fully organized
as production workers. 1t is just
as inevitable as in their desire
for job security and the best
possible wage levels.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
Unions Urge
British Loan

WASHINGTON (LPA) - The
Senate Banking Committee had
pleasant surprise last week
when, on the same day, it re-
ceived statements from the AFL,
CIO, and u. S. Chamber of Gem
merce, all urging approval of the
proposed $S,75O,OOO,0OO loan to
Great Britain. All said that the
loan would assure lasting peace,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-07
THOUSANDS BEING
 DISQUALIFIED 10
 GOVERN IN JAPAN

TOKYO, Jan. 7.-Supreme Head quarters will issue at least one more major list of Japanese war criminal suspects to engulf high government officials who might escape the lat est sweeping directive for a politi- cal purge, Brig. Gen. Elliott R. Thorpe declared today.
 The chief of intelligence said he had talked the matter over recently with General MacArthur who had left open the question of future arrests.
 Thorpe likewise served notice that Japanese officials who resign under MacArthur's order last week to re- move from office all those who help cd lead Japan to war might still oe prosecuted by Allied courts
 The Japanese press published stories saying that the order had eleated Japans "sreatest political ccnfusion,' challenging the murs oi Prsmlar Shidehsra's mueh-clii- cized cabinet
 A government source estimated that at least 800 top-ranking off cials would lose their jobs and that several thousand Japanese office holders of lesser rank had been dis qualified as result of the order.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-07
PACIFIC ARMY
 0LYMpI(S ARE SPORTS GIANT
Biggest Athletic Project of Kind Is Now Nearing
 Finals Across Ocean

MANILA, P. T., Jan. ' - Across the Pacific from Honolulu to Tokyo, a small army of athletes is staging one of the greatest ath- letic contests in sports history the Pacific Army Olympics Sol dier athletes are competing from Hawaii's sunny beaches to the snowclad fields of Honshu for places in the Olympic finals, which will be held late this month in Honolulu, Saipan, Guam, Manila and Tokyo.
 It is the biggest sports project of its kind ever attempted. Nearly 5000 officers and enlisted men stationed in the Pacific area are competing for places in the finals, and more than a quarter million men will watch the events.
 The Army Transport Command is arranging special planes to fly the athletes to their destinations. One football team will travel from Hawaii to Japan. That's distance of 5000 miles and will be one of the longest football junkets ever made
 There are many familiar sports figures helping the soldiers pre- pare the contest. Among them are famed football coach Jock Suther- land, Fred Hoffman of the St. Louis Browns, AAU track chairman Bert Hopper for Hawaii, Kirby Higbe of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Roy Clifford of Western Reserve University.
 Championships will be decided in Is sports, ranging from table tennis to football and baseball.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-07
AUSSIES F0RECA5T TO DOMINATE POST WAR TENNIS WORLD
Unified States Must look 10 Young Stars-Mouled-
 ous Promising

NEW YORK, Jan. "A survey oi the postwar tennis world strongly indicates that Australia is due tC rule the international roost for g number of years, or at least until the l U. s. or some other nation can pro- duce a new crop of outstanding play , ers.
 ] The Aussies, with Jack Bromwicf and Adrian Quist still going strong and several promising young stars headed by Denny Pail, coming along appear almost cinch to defend the Davis Cup successfully in. the first postwar challenge cup, this year at Melbourne
 1 Bromwich and Quist were good enough to trim the best we had at Merton in 1889, when they took the Big Mug back to the other side oi the world, and it is extremely doubtful that this country is as strongly fixed for talent now as il was at that time, when Bobby Riggs still was available as an amateur. As for France and Britain, which are expected to meet for the Euro pean Zone title and the right to play thc winner of the American Zone doubtless the U. S.--in the Inter- gene final, word from the other side is that both countries will have tc start virtually from scratch.
 Just recently in this city, on the cold hard floor of the 22nd Regi- ment Armory, Americas younger tennis stars crowned their indoor champions in week-long display of what likely will be the backbone of this country's tennis strength ir future international competition.
 Although travel restrictions made it principally an eastern affair, the first National Indoor Tournament fol Juniors and Boys since l940-to- gether with the latest rankings produced an interesting perview oi what we may expect from our rac- ket-weilders in the next few years Foremost in this long-range spec ulation is the feeling that the Fal West and the Eastern Seaboard, long ' looked upon as the strongholds oi American tennis, are due for plenty of competition from the Midwest and the South.
 Standout in the Boys Division here was 15-year-old Richard Moule. dous of New Orleans La, called by many the best locking young pros. pect to come along since Vincent Richards teamed with Bill Tilden tt win the National Doubles champion ship at the same age.
 Mculedous, who added the boys indoor singles title to his nationa outdoor crown by defeating Gilber Bcgley, Chevy Chase, Md, 6-8, 6-2 in the finals, lost only one set ir six major tournament during 1945.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-07
RADDE ROLLS ACES UP NOTCH IN STUD
 LOOP ALLEY MEET
Maple Schedule Rounds Back to Full Size Again
 This Week al EIks

With Captain Ed Radde counting a 627 match total that included one 233 game, the Aces dumped the Straights into definite last-spot in Stud League" rolling at the Elks Sunday afternoon. The Aces grabbed all three games.
 In the other match, which pitted two clubs pared to three rollers each, the Jokers held up to their two-out-of- three percentage and league lead by nabbing the odd game from the second-spot Flushes.
 Tournament rolling is back in full swing at the Elks again this week, with all loops slated for play. Tonight, the ladies of the High Heel League will engage each other Tuesday evening, it will be the Major Leaguers back on the maple after a two-week layoff, while Friday evening the Mer- chants Leaguers will continue to just roll along.
 The High Heel event scheduled for this evening is: Skirts vs. Molls and Gals vs. Dolls. Sundays Poker Flats" scores were: