Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-24
It's News
To Me
By 0. J. Pecmd

Men who fought on the beachheads Europe
cc veterans who manned the ships and the tanks and the
guns during their forces that they
coming back to grateful country which had adopted the
slogan everything for the boys"
BY radio through the press by of mouth and every
communication, the boys who fighting the
for democracy informed that their employers were do
ing everything their to aid them and that when they
returned they would find jobs and honors and houses and
portunities galore.
And in the of time, through supesor fire power
industrial and productivity of the workers the
atomic bomb maybe the will of the Almighty the end
ed in great military victory for the then United Nations
From East and West, North and South the boys came
home from the Army Navy Marine Corps
and the gals home from the WACs WAVES and SPARs
with their little ruptured duck neatly sewed onto their uni
regulations War and Navy Departments
Full of pleasant anticipation they greeted with Joy
pats the by their friends with hshy by the
clothing Dealers with phony pleasure by their bosses and with
indifference by the general public
1t didn't take long for the veterans that some
thing amss Many of them forced hang onto their
uniforms using the trousers and shirts with perhaps
lucky break to buy new suit of clothes
those married out of the ques-
this the sowness of the government to
recognize their take immediate that proper
Nor were the cities and other political subdivisions too
helpful aiding their housing problems In
than city great and cry arose from
site which might "devaluate the property of the well
placed citizens
Hospitals the disabled soldiers
other of irritation to people who protested the
building of veterans hospital in some exclusive site because
would lower property values destroy the beauty of park
perhaps ndanger their children to which apparently
believed to be jet propelled
EMPLOYERS believing that the returned veteran could be
utilized in their fight drive wedge into the ranks OF organ
labor graspng the Interpretation of the Seiectve
by General Hershey placed of the re-
turnees upon their payroll
Many a who had heard about the CT Bill OF
Rights while ne was in his counrys uniform ana nenevea
be unmgated blessing upon inVeigaton discovered
something quite different from what he believed
with other dlusoned comrades that was
better described the "GI Bill of Wrongs"
AS time went the veteran discovered that ne not only
taken the civilians without
ton instances his efforts his sweat, his
recognition.
THE UNIONS
Most of the veterans even those had been subjected
of anti-labor union propaganda
during that the only organization which had
something for them during the well as
after the labor unions
Those who had planned upon using the veterans the
the unions discovered that with few notable
plans had mscarred and that there wasn't
going between the veterans and the workers
the strikes veterans found in large num-
picket line They carried their On Strike signs
red their arms service they recognized that the
fight and that they still de-
Tending themselves against those who refused recognize their
dignity and rights human beings.
today the economic struggle reaches greater cri
sis it doubtful the veterans who have had their awakening
their discharge will be found considerable number
other side that of labor They forgotten
the They will remember the and
the praise and flag waving and they will fooled this
time.
Today IL is safe bet that majority of the men
who served in the armed forces disusioned
people They have discovered still
that the is not yet for them they
face to face with their real enemies the
try the reactionary willing
the country for the sake of the almighty dollar