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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15
Regional
Views
By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2B. UAW-ClO

During the campaign for the Guitteau
Amendment providing for 2l-man Council
Mayor form of government, CIO-PAC took the
position that if the Amendment won that we
would abide by the desires of the voters.
We then made pledge that in the event
the Guitteau amendment lost that we would
call meeting of all civic groups interested in
good government in an effort to unite all of US
in some common plan which would be salts
factory to all groups.
While 1 recognize that there are many
ideas about what kind of government we should
have / feel that none of us are so far apart
that we could not work out some suitable plan
upon which we could all agree. For this reason
we are keeping our pledge in the hope that we
can cooperate with other groups to bring about
an improvement in our city government
FREE TO TALK
Every group is acting as free agent and
will be given every opportunity to express
their opinions and plans in democratic man
ner. l believe that this is absolutely necessary
to bring about better understanding and mu-
tual respect between the groups and to bring
out the best points of each plan as the groups
offer them.
So far as CIO is concerned, nobody should
have any doubt about our opposition to the
PR system. We not only attempted to replace
the PR system last year, but we condemned 1t
again this year although we did not take any
position with respect to the Guitteau Amend
ment.
There is no doubt in my mind that the To-
ledo Small Businessmen's Association, while
stating its preference for the PR system, will
come into the city government conference as
the Association promised, with an open mind"
For any group to take part in such meeting
with the idea of dominating the thinking of
the meeting would not only be bad begin
ming, but would probably antagonize all the
other groups present.
1t is my firm conviction that by far the
majority of the people of this city are opposed
to the PR system and want some other method
of electing their public officials. / have not
the least doubt that the majority of the peo-
pie of this city want a small council and
mayor.
With these points being in general agree
ment, it seems to me that all of us could dis
cuss the plans, select the best points and even
tually agree upon them and then let the vot-
ers do the rest. Unless such a method is fol-
lowed, some plan will eventually be advanced
which will win, and it might not be the best
plan.
We of CIO are hopeful that all the groups
can reach common ground and settle upon
plan which will be understandable and bene-
ficial to this city and all its people.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15
Luekman Tells EN-

Charles Luckman, president of Lever
Bros. Co., manufacturers of Ivory soap
ioined the thin ranks of members of the
employing class who have the intelligence
to see and think clearly, and the courage
to speak honestly and bluntly about the
practices of his Observation-Disclosures.
1t is refreshing for workers to read the
words of Mr.. Luckman delivered before
the Super Market Institute last week IN
Chicago.
In delivering his verbal flOgging to in
dustry, Luckman unlimbered his choicest
shots by saying, "We declared war on col
Iective bargaining. We opposed taxes for
education We fought health and safety
ordinances. We battled child labor legis-
lation. We yipped against minimum wage
laws.
eve struggled against unemployment
insurance We decried social security and
currently we are kicking the stuffing out
of proposals to provide universal sickness
and accident insurance.
1--WE did all these things" continued
the soap tycoon, without making one
single constructive suggestion which
would assure the American people of our
desire to achieve the same results for them
on a basis which would be more business
like and less political"
"We did all these things and today we
wonder why people don't like big business
and why il is necessary to start campaigns
TO save free enterprise from the damna-
tiOn bow-wows."
That is one of Americas leading in
dustrialistS speaking and doing a better
and more authoritative job of it than any
radical labor leader or labor publication
could do.
Thus speaks an industrialist who heads
firm with an annual sales vOlumn of
$2OO,OOO,O 900.
Thus speaks one of the big industrial
members of the National Association of
Manufacturers.
And then TO cap the climax he con-
cluded, "sinCe the faults of business were
the fertile ground for the growth of many
of the vices of organized labor, the refor-
nation of business will have to precede
the reformation of labor"
That's good enough for us Mr.. Luck
man. We believe you even as we marvel
at your honesty and courage.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15
Something New

What appears to be a new angle in
labOr-management relations developed
here this week when Local 1863 went into
court, asked for and was granted an in
junction against the Pure Oil Co. restrain
ing it from enforcing proposed regulations
over its employees.
1t has been quite common for indus
trial firms, particularly those which are
trike-bound, to go into court and seek and
frequently get injunctions limiting the
number of pickets and permitting certain
office and supervisory employees to enter
the company premises, but this is the first
case OF its kind TO come to our attention, a
case where the man bit the dog.
American Jurisprudence is supposedly
based upon equal rights and responsible.
itieS before the law, a theory which for the
most part has not proved out in the many
years that legal history has been develop
ing. However, in the present instance, the
law has been on the side of the labor
union. Instead of striking the union has
resorted to the law TO secure its Just legal
rights.
Something new has been added, a
happy foretaste of what might be when
the courts have the courage to interpret
the law so that equal justice is done to
those who seek its rights and protection,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15
From The Desk
Melvin Schultz
Local II, UAW-CIO
President,

Whv the mechanics and the mechanics ap-
prenticeS should become members OF Local
No. IL, UAW-CIO.
The United Automobile Workers of Amer
lea were organized more then decade ago
and at that time were chartered.as a Federal
Labor Union under the American Fedora
tion of Labor Because of the fact that the
majority of the people working in the auto
motive industry wanted to have one solid
united union of automobile workers, there
arose large dispute between those who were
chartered in Federal Labor Unions and other
International Unions of the then only Labor
Movement In America.
When this dispute was settled, an Inter-
national Union of United Automobile Workers
was the result Due to the fact that many
of the other international Unions still per-
sisted in dividing up the Automobile Work.
ers, the International Union of United Auto
mobile Workers eventually withdrew from
the American Federation Of Labor so that
they could organize on an industry-wide basis.
This has been done and the United Auto
Workers have grown from approximately
$4,000 members to more than 100000
membership.
The mechanics working in the garages of
Toledo are among the very few workers COM
ing within the jurisdiction of the automobile
industry who have not yet affiliated with
the UAW-CIO In many of the large cities,
ciated with our International Union. No one
can deny that their proper jurisdiction is with
the workers who produce the cars on which
they work.
There Is further reasoning for each one
individually when 1t may be realized that the
mechanics in Toledo have for years been
without adequate representation. 1t has been
years since a contract has been negotiated for
the garage mechanics and If it were not that
the UAW-CIO started an organizational cam
paign among the garage mechanics, it is
doubtful in my opinion as to whether any
effort would have been made in the direction
Of a labor contract for these workers. There
never has been real security through seniority
nor has there ever been any real wages es-
tablished by union contract for the garage
mechanics These can be accomplished under
the UAW-CIO and each and every worker in
the garages should give serious thought in
making his final selection of which Union
he desires to have represent him.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15

The meat shortage which caused hundreds of
miners to out strike has had another unforeseen effect
that struck terror the hearts of the editors the wall street
Journal last week The shortage menacng the future
OF American art according the Journal which usually more
concerned with pig than Pcasso did this come abot9
Artists brushes tufed with hairs steers ex
plains the Journal Watercolor paints contain OK GALL For
the Wall Street Journal OPA of course to blame for all
shortages. But steers ears? In a pigs eye =
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15

The Civilian Production Administration de-
bated SO long over the permissible length of
women's skirts it became known as the hern-
and-haw line. This was another decontrol ac-
complished by the Republican senator from
Ohio in an old-fashioned Tafty-pull.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15
Washington
|LaborReport
By BRADFORD ". CARTER
LPA COlumniSt

states has been elected and
the most optimistic appraisal
of the situation cannot make
that Congress anything less
than hostile to the purpose of
organized labor. M Tor over
there is no question but that
Congress apparently repre-
sents the overwhelming senti-
ment of the voters of the
United States.
And if anything is to be
rescued from this turn of
events, hard headed candor
must be the order of the day
in labor'S political thinking.
The dissatisfaction of the
voters with the administration
stemmed from two immediate
issues. First was price con-
troll. The game of price con-
troll, off again on again, Gre
ated an atmosphere of chaos
and confusion. Despite the
fact that the Republicans had
at least as much to do with
this situation as the Admins
tration, the voters resentment
had to be taken out on some
body. The voters did the ma
tural thing - they took it out
on the party in power.
The second immediate issue
which, it is clear, put the Re-
publicans in power, was the
Administrations fumbling of
the strike wave. AS in price
control, the effects were dis
cernible at first hand for
everybody to see for himself.
For the voters of foreign
extraction, observers in such
cities as Detroit, Chicago, and
New York suggest that the
Administrations apparent ac-
quieScence in Soviet Russia's
expansion program in Eastern
Europe was of primary impor-
tance in turning these voters
against the Democratic Party.
FACTORS
Whether or not you agree
with the average voters re-
sponse to price control, strikes
and foregn policy is of less
Importance than a recognition
that these views were potent
factors in turning the Demo
craic Party out of power in
Congress.
There were more subtle ele-
ments at work in the results
of the election. During Mr..
Roosevelt'S tenure as Presi-
dent of the U. S., liberal and
labor forces relied upon the
symbol of his personality to
serve as the cementing force
which gave the New Deal a
mes assure of cohesiveness.
When that personality left us,
nothing remained which could
give purpose and meaning to
the set of ideas which has
loosely been called the New
Deal.
Some of the reasons for the
election setback were newt
able. Some reaction after the
end of the war was unavoid-
able. In England that reac-
tion took a progressive ave-
nue. by overturning Churchill
and putting into power a La
Dor government. In the u. S.
the pendulum swung in the
other direction. But the pen
dulum had to swing, it
couldn't remain stationary.
If we're smart about this
debacle, we will learn the OBJ
vious lesson which is this: 1t
isn't enough to get the people
out to vote. They have got
to be given an intelligent pro-
gram to vote FOR. The con-
tent of the program and put
ting the program into action
is the first item on the labor
political agenda.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15

During the campaign for the Guitteau
Amendment providing for 21-man Council
Mayor form of government, CIO-PAC took the
position that if the Amendment won that we
would abide by the desires of the voters
We then made pledge that In the event
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15

The newest thing in aviation is a slot ma
e%hlne % mat somehow gives us a great doubt
about the much -ballyhooed efficiencv of ths
machine age. With this slot machine Won de-
posi- quarter and get an insurance policy
against almost anything that can happen 10
you ~ air travel But there Just isn't snv
insurance against some things. The day the
insurance machines were installed in the New
YORK alrlines terminal the AFL pilots went on
strike ueing up every Trans World Airlines
plane around the world
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15

In Louisville, KY. the president of an
asphalt company mistakenly gave one of his
employees $4,000 bill which he was taking
home to show his wife. A frantic search for
the high-digit green stuff was unsuccessful.
The next morning it was returned by the en-
ploye who explained that he had figured up
his overtime for that week and it Just didn't
amount to that much.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15

lred business men should take noondav
maps says Dr. Irvine H. Page, research direc-
.e. Ior OF tne Cleveland Clinic. Who's he kidding?
4H Iis business mas been asleep on in feet since
the reconversion program started
Evening star., 1946-04-07
johnson Herd Wins
Production HOnOrs

The purebred Jersey herd of
Wheatley M. Johnson's Clover Hill
farm, Manassas, Va, led the Prince
William County Dairy Herd I'm
provement Association in March.
according to the monthly report of
John N. Neese, testing supervisor.
The johnson herd produced an
average of 343 pounds of butterfat
and 694 pounds of milk.
The herd of John M. Kline.
Manassas, rated second with an
average production of 34.1 pounds
butterfat and 1855 pounds milk per
COW. Third was the herd of Mrs. C.
Eileen Jones, Warrenton, which
averaged 1872 pounds butterfat and
727 pounds milk.
Three herds rated fourth place
with 32.2 pounds butterfat per COW.
They are owned by L. r. Cowne,
Nokesville, j. Carl Kincheloe, Nokes-
vile and w. M. Kline, Manassas,
and produced 998, $50, and s12
pounds milk respectively.
Mr.. Kincheloe's Hale farm herd,
Nokesville, was fifth with an average
OF 31.9 pounds butterfat and 1856
pounds milk. The herd of T. G..
Hutchison, Adie, rated sixth with
an average production of 31.8 pounds
butterfat and BAL pounds milk per
| COW.
Evening star., 1946-04-07
VIRGINIA.

Wednesday, Berryville-Directo
of the Clarke County Farmers Co.
operative, Inc, will meet at pm.
at the county agents Office.
Wednesday, LOudoun County
Meeting of the Planters Club, $50
pm. at members home.
Friday, Manassas-Soil conserva-
ton meeting, 2 pm, county agent S
office
Evening star., 1946-04-07
Maryland. Virginia
| Farm Calendar
MARYLAND.

Tuesday, University of Maryland
Ornamental Garden School, Gas
am, Horticulture Building audito-
rum.
Wednesday, La Plata-Meeting of
AAA Committee and Charles County
farmers for explanation of trial
tobacco insurance program, 8 pm,
Court House.
Evening star., 1946-04-07

from 10 to so per cent Of capacity.
Yes, the black market boys are IN
the saddle!
4. The $700,00o,00o meat subsidy
the Government Is paying, insofar
as 1t protects the American house.
wife in obtaining cheaper meat,
might as well be dumped into a rat
hole. The black market boys are in
the drivers seat and in spite of
|OPA are regulating prices. The
black market meat prices increase
the American meat bill in excess Of
81 ,250. .000,0 900 per year. This Is in
addition to the 100000 900 subsidy.
5. The s7o0, 900 900 subsidy has the
cattle producers frightened to death.
This subsidy is, of course, reflected
back into the farm price, and the
farmer does not know whether this
reflected price is fiction or fact. He
does know If 1t is removed in such
a way as to lower cattle prices that
he is ruined. It would seem, at
least, that this subsidy should be
removed at once and a correspond
ing increase made in retail prices.
II this is not done in a short time
we are going to find great shortage
in finished cattle. %
The only cure, in my opinion, IS
the removal of both subsidies and
ceiling prices on meat. +
Evening star., 1946-04-07

WelgnC OF 6lU pounds, and II the
steer dresses at, say, $40 pounds,
although its live weight was 1000
pounds, the steer only weighs, ac-
cording to OPA rules, $40 pounds
and you have missed your guess
and therefore become subject to an
OPA penalty or Jail sentence.
Hard to Judge.
The second game is played in this
manner: We will take the same
1,0O0- pound AA steer to illustrate.
The buyer looks the steer over
and sizes 1t up to be an AA steer,
buys it and pays the AA price, but
when the steer is dressed and graded,
the grader decides that the steer is
not an AA steer but an A steer, and
under the OPA rules the buyer has
paid too much for the steer, having
paid the AA price instead of the
price according to the grader and
is therefore subject to an OPA pen
atty or jail sentence. Now no living
man, no matter how much schooling
he has had in cattle, can look
through the hide of live steer and
tell exactly how much its carcass
is going to weigh out, or exactly
what grade the grader will put on
the carcass. Yet under the OPA
rules and regulations the buyer
is required to do these impossible
things.
Now, let me briefly state the con-
sequences Of these strange OPA
rules and regulations:
/. The black market in meat Is
the legitimate. offspring OF these
nonsensical, impossible, unenforce-
able meat orders and regulations Is
sued by OPA. Why? Simply be-
cause the OPA orders and regula-
tions impose upon the packers and
slaughterers the impossible. and be-
cause they realize that they cannot
do the impossible, they are being
forced off the cattle markets. This
has resulted In turning the cattle
market over to the bootlegger and
the opening up of black markets in
meat in every city, town. village and
hamlet In America. The old liquor
bootlegger of the prohibition days
is piker compared to the modern
Evening star., 1946-04-07
Quick Freeze Plant
For Clarke Farmers
To Be Ready May l

A 420-locker quick-freeze plant,
being constructed at Berryville, Va,
by the Clarke County Farmers CO.
operative Inc. is expected to be COM
pleted by May /, it was reported at
the annual meeting of the organiza-
ton.
Organized in April, 1899, as the
Clarke County Agriculture Board,
the cooperative has grown from "a
original members to membership
of 440. 1t has distributed more than
$4,000 tons of lime mari from one
river bed, besides selling and distrib-
uting more than 100000 worth of
mari. Tie mari has averaged about
80 per cent available calcium oxide.
The cooperative also has con-
Quoted four draft horse and farm
machinery sales that have brought
ClarkeScoun consignors more than
$4,000 and more than $4,000 for
surplus machinery.
Four .tri-breed purebred cattle
sales, sponsored by the cooperative,
have brought more than $4,000 to
cattlemen in Clarke. Fauquier, Fred
erick, Loudoun, Shenandoah and
Warren Counties. During the last
four years the organization has
handled more than 1000 lambs for
Clarke farmers.
Each Fall, the cooperative spon-
sors feeder calf sale. This has
averaged 400 calves year, bringing
farmers In the six Northern Virginia
counties more than 500 5000.
During the last four years the
organization has acted as agent for
theUnited Wool Growers, collecting
and selling more than s35 900 worth
of wool. Nearly 5000 sheep are
dipped each year by means of the
co-operatives portable dip vats.
officers elected include: H. ].
Hardesty, president; Clifton Price,
vice president; Francis Seabright,
treasurer; j. w. Olcott, county
agent, secretary, and D. G. Cooley,
assistant secretary.
Directors, in addition to the off,
GERS. include j. Wilmer Carpenter,
w. M. Gaunt and r. L. Bromley, all
of Berryville.
Evening star., 1946-04-07

Will keep a cigarette burning. That
is why most smokers like cigarette
blended with type 80.
In 1918, a total of $4,000 acres
were planted in tobacco in Southern
Maryland. Until 1943 the acreage
varied above and below this figure
but in the latter year, it was only
6oo acres above the 1918 total. Yield
mas varied with good and bad grow
Ing seasons, ranging from a $7054.-
600 crop in 1918. to a $40 900 900 crop
In 1914.
In asking Southern MARYLAND
growers to produce more tobacco
this year. agriculture experts are
aware that the problem of critical
labor shortages must be met. It is
believed that farm labor will con-
tlnue short for several years, and
farmers are being instructed in
labor-Saving methods.
In growing tobacco, it is con-
sidered that so square yards of bed
Is suff1cient to provide plants for
one acre. Growers also have been
ADVISED to prepare seed beds near
water to avoid the extra labor in
VOWED in carrying moisture to the
plants. Good fertilizer should be
used on beds to produce healthy
plants that will live when trans
planted In the elds. This will save
labor in resetting.
Labor may be saved in the field
by selecting fertile soils, the use of
at least 300 pounds of commercial
fertilizer to the acre and after the
harvest by paying more attention to
curing barns and stripping rooms.
Growers Must Watch Disease.
In period of high-priced labor
production costs must be watched,
Diseased plants mean more resetting
and lower yields. Much of this may
be controlled by growing healthy
plants in seed beds.
Growers should watch for the ap-
pearance OF blue mold, fungus dis
ease that may delay transplanting
from 10 to IS days. When the disease
appears, plant beds should be
sprayed or busted twice week with
fermate. Specific information on
sprays should be gotten from the
county agent.
Growers must also guard against
the tobacco flea beetle, which can
do considerable harm to the plant
bed. These insects can be controlled
by light application of a / per cent
rotenone dust. Lead arsenate and
lime also may be used. DOT also
may be used to kill the flea beetle,
but it still is in the experimental
stage and is not recommended for
general use.
In the months ahead, Prince
Georges County farmers may receive
some relief from the labor shortage
through exchanging help, using
school boys and through an agri-
cultural job training program being
set up through the eVterans' Ad-
ministration.
Under this program it will be pos
sible for a veteran who wishes to
enter agriculture to learn farming
at first hand on county farm. The
farmer will be responsible for the
veterans progress and accomplish
ments. and will work under the su-
pervision ofa Veterans Administra-
ton training officer