Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-30
Regional
Views
By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2B. UAW-ClO
Continued from Page One

has turned control into decontrol and passed
the welfare of the country over to a small
group of monopolists and greedy profiteers
who are willing to wreck our economic system
in order to gain economic and political power.
There are many other things that could be
said and which will be said between now and
the November election but the outstanding
thing that has occurred since last Labor Day, is
that most of our troubles, including the strikes
which have occurred throughout the country
are directly or indirectly the result of the acts
or failure to act of politicians whom we have
elected to represent us in Congress.
When we marched last Labor Day our main
problem were reconversion, full employment,
jobs for veterans and living wages.
This year, our production problem so far
as labor is concerned, has been solved. We are
ready now, as we have been for many months
to bring about the production which we know
we must have in order to give the people the
things they need and want. The only thing that
stands in the way of full production is the
policy of industry to wiring all it can get from
the provisions of the tax laws guaranteeing
profits, a device by which we, the workers,
through government, subsidize the attempts
which have been made to destroy our unions.
Our problems now are to get the corpora.
tions to agree with us on getting into full pro-
duction, to secure decent living wages for the
and workmen's compensation and a program
of full employment, paid holidays and in
creased vacation pay more and better housing,
national health law providing low cost medi-
cal and hospital care for all the people and old
age pensions which actually help the aged, ra.
ther than scientifically starving them.
BASIC PROBLEM
When Peter Mcclure founded Labor Day 81
years ago, the problems of the workers were
about the same as today. The problem then as
now was security, and while we do not have
the same degree of insecurity which existed in
Peter McGuire's day, we have not yet achiev.
ed security.
We can point to shorter hours, improved
working conditions, increased protection from
our employers, higher wages, unemployment
and workmens compensation and many other
gains, but we are still seeking to attain sec.
urity. The workers problems differ in degree,
but not in kind from those of Peter McGuire's
day.
And these problems will continue to exist
and we Will continue to go from crisis to crisis
until at last the workers of America come to
the realization that they cannot separate their
jobs from their political interests The history
of the past year in labor and government is the
best proof that can be offered that the welfare
of labor is inseparably tied up with the person
alities and principles of the men who run our
nation from Washington
Labor must again reaffirm its belief in its
political destiny and resolve on this Labor Day
- 1916, to continue to wage its ageless war
upon the forces which have always opposed it,
To all my fellow members in the UAW-CIO
and to all who work for a living, extend my
warmest Labor Day greetings and express
the hope that we shall again rededicate our
selves to our task, the winning Of more secur.
ity for ourselves and for all who labor.
Richard Gosser, Director,
Region 2-B, UAW.CIO.