davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-24

BOAT "LOA" for Sale-$4,900 com
 pletely equipped, documented net 5 ton. Phone Green 669. (304-tf)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-24

FOR SALE-Piling, good hemlock, see Ralph Reischl, Phone Red 065 or write Box 2651, Juneau.
 (291-t12)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-24

BOAT FOR CHARTER, Darnells Sport Center Phone 829 or 436.
 (293-tf)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-24

ROCK, SAND, Gravel, lawn dirt hauled. Phone 849, Bill Tons guard. (297-1 mo-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-24

NEW TROLLER, completely equip
 ed. Phone Green 669. (285-tf) FOR SALES room house; Aux Bay, $500; '36 Ford, s175; V. A. Hensey, Gen. Del. (265-tf)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-24

; it. WIDE BY 2 it. high over head door, complete with hard ware $4950; 50 and hundred pound gunny sacks: adding ma chine stand; revolving cap rack, George Brothers. (299-tf)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-24

Z DOUBLE BEDS complete, small
 dining room table, and 4 chairs. Douglas 234. t303-t3)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-24

PIANOS RENTED ana TUNED
 Anderson Shop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-24

Lola's beaury Shop. Phone 201 3l5 Decker Way.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
Regional
Views
By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2B. UAW-ClO

There are so many people telling us the
meaning of the election that another opinion
or two won't make much difference
No matter what our reaction may be to
the Republican win, we can only conclude
three points:
l. The American people have expressed
their preference and now must live with their
decision.
2. Regardless whether it was a case of
rejecting the Democrats and electing the Re-
publicans, the election was neither a defeat
for the Democrats nor victory for the Re-
publicans.
3. Republican success in 1948 which the
party Is already claiming is going to depend
upon how they conduct themselves during
the next two years.
We have no apologies to offer for the
support which we gave to the Democrats In
fact, If we had it all to do over again our
choice would be the same. This by no means
ties us to the Democrats We have not been
in the past, and will not be in the future DOM
mated by the political thinking of any party
unless we are in agreement with that think
ing.
Most of us are not too surprised at what
happened last Tuesday. We hated to think
that for the first time in our history that the
loWly hot dog and hamburger had become ma
tional issues, but 1t appears now that the
majority of the voters are willing to pay toll
to the big business interests to get the things
they want and were unwilling to continue to
make the fight against the real culprits
PHONY ISSUES
Actually, the issues, or what passed for
issues during the political campaign just
closed were phony issues most of them based
upon local situations or the personalities of
the contestants, or, as was shown by the re-
Suits a desire on the part of the voters for
a change.
Wages and prices were never prominent
In the discussion of issues, and yet, these are
two of the most important issues which face
the people, the same as they have faced them
during the past.
Production and consumption were men
toned, but only in effort on the part of
the Republican party to make 1t appear that
the reason why the country doesn't have more
cars refrigerators and other commodities was
because of controls sponsored and enforced
by the Democrats combined with their cod
ding of labor which had failed to produce
the things needed.
am not political prophet, but I'll chance
this prediction-that the country will now
find out that it Is due for change and that
1t isn't going to like 1t in the long rum
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
From The Desk
Melvin Schultz
Local II, UAW.ClO
President,

short time ago. a decision was handed
down by the United States supreme court
which is now known as the Mt clemens Poc'
tery Case. This decision involves the wage
and Hour Law and has rather far reaching
effects, insofar as, benefits to workers are con-
cerned, under the Wage and Hour Law
Under the Wage and Hour Law, workers
are entitled to no less than time and one-halt
for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours
week since October, 194O, and in excess of az
hours a week since October, 1889, and In ex'
cess of "A hours a week since October, 1888.
The big question under this law has been what
are "hours worked?"
In the Mt Clemens Pottery Case, one OF the
more important conclusions Is that time spent
walking on the premises before punching the
time clock is working time. Also, that time
spent to and from your job after punching the
time clock is working time.
Time spent in preparing for the job, such
as, putting aprons, overalls, removing shirts,
dipping or greasing arms, preparing equipment
for productive work, turning on switches open
ing windows, assembling tools, ETC., is work
ing time
1t is my opinion in particularly the larger
shops that instead of the employees being re.
qured to walk many blocks before reaching
their time clocks and then If they are minute
late being required to lose portion or the
hours pay, companies can either be forced to
set the time clocks by the entrances 10 tnelr
premises or be required to pay for the amount
of time required to reach these clocks. 1t Is
not necessary for the employee to prove the
exact amount Of time since employers are re-
qured to keep records of the employees time.
The burden of proof rests on the employer to
produce evidence to the contrary.
Claims under this act may go back as far
as the law as stated above permits, except that
they could not extend retroactivity farther than
the statute of limitations in the State of Ohio
allows.
Since this Supreme Court decision has been
very favorable to employees, it seems that we
should work doubly hard to safeguard and pro.
tect law which has created this protection for
workers. Do not forget that this has been
accomplished through legislation and con only
be preserved through political action.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
Now For The PR

Defeat of the Guitteau amendment ex'
racted by the political observers was by
such a small majority that it is evident
now that sooner or later the PR system of
electing members of city council VIII DC
eliminated.
We are of the opinion, the same as
many of those who played major part IN
the defeat of the Guitteau plan, that an
other plan satisfactory to all groups which
are opposed to the PR system must be de-
vised within a very short time and the
citizens again given an opportunity to vote
their preference.
Defeat of the Guitteau plan by the
smallest margin ever marked up in the
many assaults on the PR system is an IN
dication that the amendment had an ap-
neal to the voters which no other plan
previously advanced possessed.
One of the most frequently voiced OBJ
iections to the 21-man council plan was
the large number of cOuncilmen. One OF
the most frequently advanced favorable
comments was that the plan provided for
a mayor.
If these favorable and unfavOrable
comments are analysed, it would appear
that the plan advocated by PAC last year
"a nne-man council plus the mayor pro-
vision of the Guitteau plan-would make
a satisfactory basis upon which to advance
an alternative containing the best features
of both the PAC and Guitteau plans.
There are many who favor setting up
districts, while others would wish to see
the councilmen elected at-large. These,
however, are details which could be
worked out by those who are interested
in a nne-man-mayOr-cOu and would
not interfere with the basic agreement on
a small council and mayor form of gov
ernment.
One thing is certain, the vast majority
of the people are completely fed up with
the PR system and want some other form
of government more readily understand
able and more responsible than PR has
proved itself to be.
The days of the shuffle-duffle system
are numbered and it is now up to those
people whom the Toledo Blade most aptly
refers to as go day citizens" to unite with
other groups, who, like them, are anxious
to provide Toledo with a more effective
and better form OF government
In the final analysis, the character of
any form of government depends upon the
type of people we elect TO office. Re-
gardless how perfect the mechanics of
government may be, there is no substitute
for proper discrimination in electing our
public officials.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
T IdIlk N, OIuS,
Att Dixie Highway

In 1921, he said, we had fallen
way behind by August Of 1945.
BY that time, according to this
business man, labor needed
wage increase of l8 per cent
to bring us up to date,
I don't know how many of
the business men at the con-
ference decided to run right
home and jack up their work
ers' wages. l don't think that
their Wall Street bosses would
have let them if they had tried.
But they certainly could have
found plenty of workers whose
wages need raising in line
with past productivity in
creases.
I'm quite sure that the mar
wells of technology will go on
even faster than in the past,
And so will the business racket
that has tried to put so much
of the benefits of technology
into the treasures of the cor
porations instead of the pay
envelopes of the workers. If
II does go on as in the past,
then just as in the past we
will have to wait for wars to
provide the Jobs that are de-
stroyed in peacetime by the
productivity racket.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
Aid For Strikers

In looking over the donations which
have been made to the striking employees
of the J. i. Case, Allis Chalmers, Mack
Truck and Canadian strikers, we are proud
of the solidarity of the workers in Region
2-B who have given to the cause in order
that those who are fighting the battle of
the union may continue their struggle
until victory comes.
There are no doubt many local unions
which have taken up strike fund for the
embattled workers of the struck UAW-
CIO plants who have not yet reported
their collections, but we are certain that
when the list is complete that every local
union and unit of the UAW-CIO in Region
2-B will have done its part.
In making donations to aid our striking
fellow members, we can always have the
comforting thought that what we are
doing for others may some day be done by
others for us, a thought which we know
has good reason to exist in the face of
the support which this area has always
given to those who needed il.
We urge everyone who is employed TO
make donation to the strike fund when
it helps where and when help is needed
most. It's good thing to remember the
admonition-"DO unto others as you
would have them do unto YOU"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08

II you don't think times are
tough, consider the sad case
last week of Tom Girdler,
chairman of Republic Steel.
Girdler loves unions like most
people love a bullet hole
through the head. A Cleve-
land court orered Girdler to
return an unlawful $51, 900
salary bonus. That was a dirty
trick, especially when II was
made so clear to the judge
that the bonus was In addition
to Girdler's 175,000-a-year
minimum pay.
The carry-back tax-relief
racket has brought extra mil
lions to the profit-swollen
corporations and the wartime
flim-flammers of the u. S Z.
Treasury. Last week Senator
Glen Taylor 3D., Idaho) asked
President Truman to back
legislation that would give
carry-back tax credit to per-
sons whose incomes fill below
the level necessary for health
and a decent standard of liv-
ing. The only question about
this legislation is whether its
chances of being passed by
Congress are greater than its
prospects of being approved
by the National Association of
Manufacturers, the Chamber
of Commerce, u. S. Steel and
General Motors.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
Wants New Daily
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
/ am writing this to you to
ask you if you think there will
ever be another daily news
paper in Toledo. Do you think
that the TOLEDO u N 10 N
JOURNAL could ever get into
the daily newspaper class? l
know the Blade is doing a lot
better, but I still think that a
town with only one newspaper
Is missing something. Do you
think anything could be done
about it?
Jasper Good
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08

Frances totaltarian regime in Spain has
been unable to suppress a new stink among the
civilian population Last week one of FRANCOIS
leading papers, the Diario de Barcelona, de.
ciared that nobody should be disturbed by "the
odor detected in cocoa.butter furnished under
the rationing system, as it disappears com.
pletey once the butter is used in cooking"
Nevertheless, the public refused to accept it,,
and protests became so numerous that the Bar.
celona chief of police had to issue a special or.
der to owners of newsstands making them re.
sponsible for any uncouth remarks made at
their stands about the regime and above all
"any sarcastic comments about the cocoa.butter
recently furnished the civil population as a sub
stitute for olive oil"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
Editors Mail

Editors Note: Letters to the
editor are welcomed by this
newspaper, Material of libel
Gus nature or personal attacks
will not be printed. Letters In
excess of $50 words will be
edited to that amount.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
Likes Editorials

To the Editor:
want to congratulate the
JOURNAL for the page ! edi-
torials which have appeared in
recent weeks. The one of last
week, "Have We Forgotten?"
was quite good. The trouble Is
that so many of the workers
seem to be influenced by po-
litical parties instead of voting
labor's way. I'm hoping
against hope that they will do
the job right this time.
Leo Levine,
RR /, Toledo, Ohio
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
Defends RameY

To the Editor:
AS a reader of the JOUR-
NAL l always have admired
the editorial page except when
Pecord and Duck attack our
representative to Congress, Mr..
Ramey.
understand that everybody
has a right to their own opin-
ion, but l would think that
both of these writers could cut
down on the invective and not
make their stuff so nasty.
Otherwise, think the paper is
fine.
Frank r. OldS,
ATT Dixie Highway
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
Vents Shop News
To the Editor:

To the Editor;
To a lot of the shop people
your shops news is the best
part of the paper. There are
still a lot of shops which could
appear in our paper, but some
of them never appear. It's a
good way for the people to
keep In touch with each other
and with the people In the
other shops.
Fritz Kulti
W-O Unit
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08

Kenny Delmar, the Senator Claghorn'' of
radio, has offered Sen. Bilbo ID, Miss) role
in a new movie at a salary of $500 week.
The thick-skinned labor hater almost fell for
the temptation until someone old him he'd
have to join the AFL Screen Actors Guild.
Then he hit the ceiling and in $4,000 we'll
chosen words said no. Latest Hollywood re-
port is that they've made him a second offer
Ito dub in one of his campaign speeches for
a remake of "The Voice of Bugle Ann
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
Washington
LaborReport
BY Bradford v. Carter
LPA COlumnist

Editors Note: Due to Ill.
ness, the column which usually
occupies this space has been
omitted this week. Mr.. Rusch'
column will re-appear next
week II he has recovered suffi'
cientIy to write one by that
time.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08

cientIy to write one by that
time.
One of President Roose-
velt'S last official acts before
his death was to request the
Office of War Mobilization
and Reconversion to under
take a study of the guaranteed
annual wage. Nothing much
has been heard about the
study and a report of its
whereabouts might be inter-
esting.
The study was put under
the direction of Murray Lati-
mer with the guidance of a
subcommittee made up of
Eric Johnston, ch a ir m a n,
Philip Murray, Albert GosS
of the National Grange, and
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg.
The Bureau of Labor Stat
istics was deputized to do a
detailed survey of guarantee
plans in operation now or in
the relatively immediate past.
BIS proceeded to 60 about
finding out the answer to this
question in Its usually thor
ough manner. 1t circu1arized
the 10000 establishments who
provide it with periodical en-
ployment statistics.
From this number 1900
plants were selected for visits
by BIS agents. The 1900 were
further boiled down to 800
plants which really had guar
antees Of one sort or other. To
get at the heart of the prob
lem the 1900 were reduced to
so for intensive investigation,
which meant talking with the
management, unions and
workers involved.
RESULTS
When the results of the in
vestigation are analyzed it
may provide the most author
itative answer yet, to some of
the following questions:
1. Who initiated the plans,
management alone or through
collective bargaining?
2. What type of industries
industries with sharp sea-
sonal fluctuations or indus
tries whose employment Is
regular by the very nature of
the business - for example,
building trades as opposed to
public utilities?
3. Did the guarantee force
employers to extra ingenuity
to cut down fluctuations in
business by embarking on the
production of new goods in
the normal slack season?
4. Did the presence of a
guarantee increase the feel
ing of workers security in a
psychological sense?
S. OF the plans which were
abandoned, why were they
abandoned?
6. What are some Of the
administrative problems in
working out q guaranteed an
nual wagei
In the meantime, a staff
under Latimer at OWMR is
concentrating on some of the
broader implications of the
guaranteed annual wage. This
angle Is being explored
through monographs by uni
versity economists. The key
questions here are: To what
extent can the guaranteed an
nual wage function in stab
liking the economy as a
whole? What should be the
role of government in putting
the guaranteed annual wage
into effect?
The study has been a long
time in coming to a head.
But ii may be worth the long
wait II 1t provides some an
swers which will be of con-
sequence to the whole ques-
ton Of full employment in
our time. Now, not later, is
the time for all good men, and
women too, to think about
full employment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
Productivity
Racket
By Ben Dor

Editors Note: We regret
that Eddie Ducks column did
not reach us in time for this
weeks publication. Whats
New" will be back again next
week, however, playing at the
same old stand explaining why
so many Democrats voted the
Republican ticket.
II you were a betting man,
where would you put your
money? On the magic carpet
that you heard about when
you were a kid, or on the mod
ern, four-motored plane flying
over your head today2
The great God Thor, they
said, had a hammer that could
split mountains. Would you
match him against one little
old atom bomb?
Aladdin could work mira
cles with his magic lamp; but
we're way ahead of him today
with a magic of our own
called technology"
Ever since the first caveman
tied a rock to a stick and in
vented the hammer, technol-
ogy has been giving US more
power and skill.
Back in the early 1900's,
technology was adding to our
productive ability at the rate
of about one-half per cent per
year. But just before the war
began, productivity was going
up at the rate of 2s per cent
per year. That meant that,
over a period of 10 years, the
average worker increased his
output pretty close to 30 per
cent. That's a kind of miracle
too, If you look at it closely.
Wars have a big influence
on productivity. The same
miracle that took 10 years to
happen before World War II
happened in the three years
right after World War /. Think
of it. In 1922, the average
worker was able to do in nine
hours what took him almost
IL hours to do in 1919.
What the figures will show
in 1949 is anybody's guess.
But it's no guess that the in
crease that will follow World
War II will make Aladdin
look like he wasn't even
trying.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
WHO BENEFITS

WHO BENEFITS
Recently, at a conference in
Washington, heard a man tell
how his corporation had spent
20 million dollars and had fig
ured out how to make better
and cheaper motors.
Now, said the man as he
told about this big jump in
chronological progress, what's
our company going to get out
Of it? He sounded kind of sad
as he asked the question. /
think that he knows the an
swer just as we'll as we do.
The answer Is: If the COM
pany is really going to sell
those shiny new motors along
with all the other things II
makes, II can't get much of
anything out of this new proc
ess that 1t spent 20 million
bucks to work out.
Sounds cruel, doesn't 1t?
Sounds nuts, too, I'm afraid.
Bvt let's look at how the thing
works.
EXTRA PROFIT
This company is one of the
biggest and richest in the
world. The corporation and its
top people already have more
money than they can either
spend or invest. ! doubt If
even the 20 million made much
of a hole in their cash re-
serves. Any extra profit they
make out Of their new motors
will just be more sterile
money, money that can't get
out to make a job for some
worker.
IL employment is TO be kept
up, the price of the motors will
have to come down; the wages
of the people who make them
will have to go up. That is,
there will have to be enough
new purchasing power so that
people can buy the things that
the motors will 60 into: fans,
heaters, was h in & machines,
and so on.
OF course, that's not the way
the corporations of the coun-
try look at II. They are not,
they say, in business for their
health. They're in business for
profit.
What they mean Is that
they're going TO insist on try
ing to make a profit, no mat
ter what IL does TO the eco
nomic machine. They're going
to try for extra profits even
though 1t means another de-
preston and no profit at all,
just as in 1892.
II that sounds like a contra
diction, don't blame me. That's
the way private enterprise
works.
PROGRESS
At the same conference
where this story was told, an
other business man got up and
made different kind of
speech. He said that there was
only one thing that increased
productivity could be used for.
That Is, TO increase the stand
ard of living of the country.
Suppose, he said, that we
take 1921 as a starting point.
Suppose we suppose, he said
(but he laughed as he said it)
that wages and the cost of liv-
ing and productivity were in
line with each other in Janu-
sry 1921. If labor was okay
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-04-17
SCHOOL FOUNDER H0N0RED
BY COMMUNITY

VIDALIA, Ca, Apr. 16 (ANP)
james B. Dickerson, principal
and founder of Dickerson Teacher
Training School here, received trib-
ute from the entire community for
his distinguished 42-year record of
service. Honored guest at testi-
monial dinner, Mr.. Dickerson was
given a purse Of $500, book of tes-
timonial letters and bronze pla-
que, the contribution Of both white
and colored citizens.
President Benjamin F. Hubert,
Georgia State Industrial College,
said Mr.. Dickerson's achievement,
as shown in the 100000 school
plant here, is conclusive proof of the
growing and expanding civic and
economic opportunity for Negroes
in the south.