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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04

Damas and Jack Thompson
candidates for state repre-.
sentatives. The three are
Democrats.
Mr.. Burke's letter contained
a brief outline of the three can
didates and asked that CIO
leaders back them. 1. BY becom-
ing members of the candidates
campaign committees. 2. Allow.
ing time for the three to speak
at all union meetings. 8. AS
sisting in getting campaign lit
erature into the hands of their
membership. A. Aid in raising
campaign funds for the three.
GOsser Asks Vote
Need for registrations and a
big vote was pointed out by
Richard GoSser, UAW-CIO di-
rector in special article print
ed this week Labor News" /"
Auto-Lite Unit publication.
Asking for united support for
Frank Mohn, Michael Damas
and Jack Thompson, all men,
bers of Local IL, UAW-CIO,
Director Gosser wrote:
I'VE have a wonderful oppor-
tunity to elect three labor men
from our own ranks to serve in
the state legislature. We have
an opportunity to win a victory
which will serve notice to the
reactionaries and those whom
we know are our enemies that
we are strong and that we have
just begun to fight"
Reuther Praises Three
Complete support for the
labor candidates in the Novem-
ber election was urged by Wal
ter P. Reuther, UAW-CIO presi-
dent during his recent visit here
to talk before the Region 2-B
Women's Educational Confer
ence.
Reuther congratulated the
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Phone Union
Asks Probe

WASHINGTON (LPA)-The
injunction granted by the Pitts
burgh court against the indepen-
dent union of Duquesne Light
Co. employees is in contradiction
to the Constitution and federal
labor laws, National Federation
of Telephone Workers president
Joseph A. Beirne charged last
week in a letter to Attorney
General Tom Clark.
Only a halliday before the
Justice Dept. announced it
planned to step into the explos-
i've strike of power employees in
Pittsburgh, Beirne urged Clark
to make IAN immediate investi-
cation of the violation of civil
rights and liberties in Pitts
burgh."
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fore. as well as the natural
increased vote due to more
people living in the city and
county, we believe that we must
secure an additional $4,000 reg
istered voters in order to have
a really representative election
this fall" said Mr.. Holewinski.
Important Election
Clayton Rusch, PAC chair
man, added his plea for registra-
tions to that of Mr.. Holewinski
and said, unless we have a big
vote turnout this fall, we will be
sure to see the candidates to
whom we will give our backing
defeated. This is one of the
most important off-year cleo
tions in many years and unless
we get out the vote, we will pay
for our negligence for a long
time to come"
Next Monday will be the last
registration day with registra-
ton places open from 1000 am.
to 200 pm. and from 400 pm.
to 900 pm. for the convenience
of those who have not yet quail
fled to vote.
PAC officials are urging all
those who have not yet register
ed to pick out one of the regis
tration places set up by the
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who stated that Fred Loescher
would receive $1057 less his un-
employment compensation for
the time he was off the job.
Strike Vote Passed
A strike vote was passed
August l by the union on the
Loescher seniority issue.
Also involved in the seniority
dispute were a number of fe-
male employees who were laid
off out of line of seniority with
the company refusing to call
them back. 1t was agreed be-
tween the union and company
that a canvass of the plant
would be made and jobs which
women could fill would be given
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Lime UAW-CiO
Aids Strikes

LIMA, Oct. 3-Locals 1O6 and
I'll, UAw-CIO have donated
generously to the UAW-ClO
strikers of J. 1. Case and Mack
Truck.
Local 1O6, Lima Locomotive
Works, has sent a check for
$500 to Richard GOsser, uAW
director for distribution to the
UAW strikers, it was announced
here last week by Allan Ireland,
Local president.
Superior Coach Local I'll has
given $500 to the strikers dlvld-
ing up the money between }. l.
Case and Mack Truck.
Contributions will be made
from time to time by both locals
as long as the strikes remain IN
progress.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
Unions Seek
To End WSB

WASHINGTON (LPA) - Lit
tie progress was reported last
week from the meetings of the
special committee requested by
President Truman to work out
a new wage-price policy for his
administration.
All of organized labor Is
sharply opposed to continuance
of the National Wage, Stabiliza-
ton Board, which was over
ruled in the AFL seamen's wage
dispute by Reconversion Direc-
tor John Steelman.
CIO President Philip Murray
and AFL President William
Green, both of whom are on the
committee set up by the Office
of War Mobilization and Recon-
version, have flatly opposed
continuance of wage controls
when prices are soaring.
Wage Sterilization Board
Chairman Willard Wirtz, one Of
the two public representatives
on the Board, has left for Chi
cago to take up his duties as
professor of law at Northwest
ern University. He has agreed
to remain as nominal head of
the Board for a short time.
President Truman, evidently in
an attempt to bolster WSB mo-
rale, last week issued a special
announcement that "the Natl.
WSB will continue to admin
lister the wage stabilization pro-
gram"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04

and the Price Decontrol
Boards actions in keeping
price ceilings off of grain,
animal feed and dairy products.
all have resulted in a tight
squeeze for workers trying to
live off their pay checks, the
CIO points out.
Joe Workers pay check now
actually can buy 1919 less than
he could buy with the pay he
got in 1945, the CIO research
ers say. They figure that week
ly take-home pay in July 1946
was S43.O7, in April 1945 it
was S47.12. That's a cut of
around 90.
IF you add the sharp price
rise to the $4,05 cut in money
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04

wages" the Outlook says, poor
Joe finds that his weekly pay
check is now worth 1879 less
than it was in 1945."
Peacetime Profits Soar
AS for profits, the CIO study
lists case after case where
peacetime profits have scared.
The six major meat producers
enjoyed an increase in profits of
2OOTo in 1942-45 over their
1868 average. Two of the
giant dairy companies enjoyed
profits in the first half of 1946
after taxes of 20 percent and
so percent above their profits
last year.
Mind you, these profits
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L Unit
Is Locked Out.
NofionaI Supply Co.
Rejects Committee

Employees of the National
Supply Co., members of Local
IL, UAW-CIO were locked out
of their plant on Wednesday
morning of this week following
dispute involving production
rates and union recognition, it
was announced Wednesday by
Tom Burke, representing Local
12.
Immediate cause of the lock-
out was an order issued by the
plant superintendent that the
union comittee investigating the
production grievance return to
their jobs or get out of the
plant. He then issued orders for
the department in which the dis
pute originated to be closed
down forcing the closing of the
entire plant.
Refuses Recognition
Primary cause of the dispute
were the arbitrary rates set up
on new jobs in the department
where the issue arose. The COM
pany had agreed prior to Wed
nesday to have a time study
made on the jobs. When union
committeeman came into the
d p a rt ment on Wednesday
morning to investigate the
grievance, he was told to mind
his own business and get back
to his own job" The case was
then referred to the shop COM
mittee resulting in the company
ordering them out of the shop
and closing the department.
Union officials say that the
company management is clearly
in violation of its contract
which calls for union recogni-
ton and has taken the position
that since the company locked
them out and forced the closing
of the plant that the next move
is up to the company.
The case was reported to the
.L-M-C committee. No meetings
had been arranged up to We'd
nesday night.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
.ANG Seeks
To Kill Pm
Endorsement

WASHINGTON, October g.
The Washington News paper
Guild-CIO last week voted to
call upon the officers of the
CIO Political Action Committee
to withdraw any endorsement
of the newspaper PM.
PM has been guilty of un-
fair labor practices toward
Guild members, the resolution
asserted, pointing out that the
international president of the
American Newspaper Guild, a
past president and member of
the local Guild executive COM
mittee have recently been dis
missed by PM. PAC had sent
out a circular urging support
to PMS current subscription
drive.
Guildsmen also heard Labor
Secretary Lewis Schwellen-
bach, in his first appearance be-
fore pencil-less reporters, COM
mend the Guild for showing
white collar workers how a
democratically run union could
benefit them. Schwellenbach
paid special tribute to Haywood
Broun, first president of the
ANG.
He urged reporters to rec
ognize the Importance of the
overwhelming number of col
lective bargaining agreements
arrived at without strikes or
violence, despite the fact that
such spectacular actions may
make the headlines.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
Garages Are
Struck By IAN

Several garages, members OF
the Toledo Automotive Trades
Association were struck late
Wednesday afternoon when the
International Association oi
MachiniSts put up their picket
lines, elimination of a dispute
over representation of mechan-
les, helpers and apprentices.
Strike action threatened by
the lam followed the refusal OF
the automobile dealers associa-
ton to agree to comply with
whatever decision the L-M-C
would make following its hear
ing of the organizational dis
pute which involved Local II,
UAW-CIO, Teamsters Union
AFL and lam.
An additional 48 hour truce
ordered on Monday this week
by the lam ended on Wednes-
day afternoon with the result
ant picketing.
Involved in the dispute are
the 33 member shops of the Toll
edo Automotive Trades Associa-
tion comprising Toledo auto
mobile dealers.
At issue is the jurisdiction
over mechanics employed in the
local garages. Local IL which
has a very definite and clear
cut majority in Weissenberger's S
and Bauer and Harrington gar
ages sought an NLRB election.
When the NLRB claimed lack
of jurisdiction, the lam and
auto dealers association claimed
the former had a contract and
that the association would not
agree to any vote which did not
include all members of the
association.
The lam contract was signed
after a cease and desist letter
had been sent to the association
members causing the UAW-CIO
to dispute the legality of the
pact. The Teamsters organiza-
ton has not been questioned by
either the lam or UAW-CIO.
Local IL, UAW-CIO had not
announced what its position
would be as a result of the
strike up to Wednesday night.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
UAW Seeks Election

VAN VERT, Oct. 3-An elec-
ton hearing petitioned by the
IUAW-CIO was held here to de-
eide the date for representa-
ton election for the So employees
of the Eisenhauer Mfg. Co. OF
this city. Organizational work
is in charge of Cold Llchtei
IUAW-CIO representative. The
company makes washing ma
chine parts.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
OH GIRLS!

If you think your husbands
job pays enough money; if you
are satisfied with your living con-
ditions, housing and the other
things of life, skip this. If you
want to help your husband pro-
tect his job and interests, then
go to the nearest registration
place today or Monday and regis
ter so you can vote in the i'm
portant November election.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
IW-O Workers Get
New Shift Bonus

All shift workers in the
illy-Overland plant were given
a scents an hour shift bonus be-
ginning on Monday of this week.
The bonus will be paid without
regard for what shift the work.
ers are on, according to Charles
Ballard, International UAW-CIO
representative attached to Re-
gional Director Gosser's office.
Immediately affected will be
guards, boiler house men and
sprinkler system employees.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04

Local 975 was awarded its
decision by arbitration in
which two female workers
were ordered reinstated to their
former jobs with back pay
amounting to $400 each. The
union based its case upon the
company's refusal to return the
women to work in line of sem
iority following their layoffS.
The arbitrator ruled that the
company did not have the power
to abridge the workers seniority
rights.
Tentative settlement of SEN
iority issue involving one en-
ployee laid off out of line of
seniority was announced by AL
Ian Ireland, Local 106 president,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
PAC Spearheads Drive
For Large November Vote
CIO Political Group Heads
Final Registration Drive

spearheading the final registration drive for the No
veber election the Toledo CIO Political Action COMMITTEES
is not resting from its effective work in getting out the vote
Glenn Holewinski PAC executive manager, early this
week revealed 133855 voters now qualified for the
November election out potential voting strength OF
152 437 Despite this Mr. Hoewink stated hat pAC wouo
mt o its efforts to bring the registration up the $4,000
mark or even surpass it. .
"Wh all the new voters who have registered be-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04

LIMA, Oct. 3-An NLRB
representation election will be
held at the Davidson Enamel Co.
plant here Nov. IL to determine
a proper bargaining agent for.
the company's $50 employees.
The date for the election was set
here last week on an election
petition filed by the UAW-CIO.
Organizational work for the
UAW-CIO has been under way
since May. Cloid Lichte, Inter-
national UAW-CIO representa-
tive, is in charge of the drive.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
Labor Candidates
GiUen CIO Support
Union Leaders Call For
United Political ActiOn

Support for labor candidates in the November election
given last week when the Toledo Industrial Union
Council through Tom Burke executive secretary sent out
letters all local CIO leadership calling for them give
their backing Frank Mohn for and Michael
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
Office Workers
Strike

Office workers employed
by the Credit Bureau of To-
ledO, 14O Huron st. went on
strike Wednesday morning
of this week when the COM
pany refused to recognize
the union, 1t was reported
by Freda BorgeIt, financial
secretary of Local 20,
United Office Workers CIO.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
Lima JAW Unions
Win Pay Disputes
Workers Seniority Rights Are
Upheld. Given Jobs and Pay

LIMA, Oct 3-Lima UAW-CIO Local 1O6 Lima Loco
motive Works. and Local 975 Ohio Steel Foundry
announced winning of seniority disputes with the company
resulting in returning workers their jobs
and winning back pay awards in both instances.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04
CiODenies Wages
Cause Initiation
Workers Pay Checks Buying
1907 Less Than In 1915

WASHINGTON Oct. 3 (LPA = Higher wages oon
necessarily lead to high prices, and union wage oeao
are not causing initiation the ClO Research Oep'r aSS
in the current issue of Economic Outlook.
OPAs kindness to industry in granting price increases
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04

Last week, the UNION
JOURNAL began to circu-
late to more than 1000
m m ers OF Local 1O6,
UAW-CIO. There are now
$500 readers of the JOUR
NAL In that city. Lima
news In this weeks JOUR
NAL is an indication of the
progressive and dynamic
character of the Lima UAW-
CIO. We welcome the new
readers and are happy to
have them with us.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-04

The House Campaign Ex-
penditures Committee several
months back decided to in
uuire into the political activi-
ties of 40 organizations. But
under the chairmanship OF
Rep. Percy Priest ID. Tenn1
the probe suddenly blossomed
ont to include 267 groups in
Guiding some of the smallest
AFL and CIO unions. Indi-
cations increase that Priest
may be starting a witch-hunt
to smear labor and liberal
groups and whitewash the
vicious political maneuverings
of employer groups.
Evening star., 1946-04-23
89-Degree Heat Sets Record
For Year; Drought Peril Grows

A steadily rising temperature
which reached 80 degrees at 2::35 pm.
today brought Washington its hot
test weather so far this year, as the
current record-breaking drought
caused further concern among agri-
cultural experts for crops in the
area.
The temperature was inching up at
the rate of degree or two an hour.
The heat was made bearable by a
humidity at noon of only q per
cent. A few light showers tonight
and tomorrow morning, which could
not relieve the drought, were fore
cast, with slightly cooler weather
tomorrow afternoon.
The hottest day so far this yea,
was in April 2, when the tempera-
ture was 83 Degrees The all-time
record of SO degrees for April %
set in 1925, appears in no danger, &C.
cording to the Weather Bureau.
Although little damage has We,
been done to crops and gardens ir
| this area, agricultural authorities
Evening star., 1946-04-23
4 Poles Reported Sought
In Poisoning Of S Men
BY the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, April 23.-United
States secret agents tonight were
reported seeking four Polish citizens
in connection with the arsenic
poisoning of 2,283 former Nazi SIS
elite Guard men at prison camp
near Nuremberg during the past
week.
Reliable sources said the Poles
were all former inmates of Nazi
concentration camps.
Poisoning of 1000 prisoners at
Stalag 13, seven miles from Nuern-
berg, was announced Friday. and
American authorities at the camp
yesterday announced that 383 more
had been stricken. No deaths have
been reported.
-Four full bottles of arsenic and
two empty arsenic bottles were
found under the floor of the Nuern-
berg German bakery which supplied
arsenic-d -duSted bread to a regiment
of prisoners April Is.
Evening star., 1946-04-23
Berserk Seaman Kills
3 Shipmates on LIST
In Yangtze River
19-Yeur-OId Stobs Self
After BIoze of Gunfire;
One Wounded Still Lives
BY the Associated Press

SHANGHAI, April ga 49,
year-old seaman killed nine
shipmates and wounded a tenth
in a berserk blaze of gunfire
aboard an LIST in the Yangtze
River today, then stabbed him
self.
The Navy announced that the
sailor was L. B. Smith, seaman Sec
ond class of Asheville, N. C.
The orgy of shooting and stab
bings ended, the Navy said, when
Smith was disarn,ed by an un-
named sailor, himself mortally
wounded, and was floored by a
metal bench welded by Kenneth
NJ. Stalnecker, 18, seaman second
class of Reading, Pa.
Has $3.50 Chance.
Brought to the Navy hospital ship
Repose in Shanghai harbor, Smith
was given a $3.50 chance to survive
three deep gasheS in the upper ab-
domen inflicted with his own knife.
This was the way the tragedy was
reconstructed by the Navy as it
prepared to launch a court of in
quiry:
Smith described as a quiet, intro
spective youth who left the United
States only February 81, had stood
a 10 pm. to midnight watch as gang
way messenger.
At midnight, it was believed, he
went aft to the fantail, where he
frequently sat alone.
Later he obtained a carbine from
the cabin of the gunnery officer, who
was away on watch. He also had a
pistol which had been concealed
among his own effects.
Seven Killed Outright.
At about 3 am. he entered the
sleeping compartment of the LIST
where 80 shipmates were asleep
Switching on the lights and with
out a word, he opened fire. Seven
Seame.. we're killed outright and two
others died later of their wounds.
Smith pumped 20 bullets into the
close quarters from his carbine ano
pistol. When his ammunition was
exhausted he leaped on his victims
with knife.
Stalnecker, who escaped the
bullets, and the mortally wounded
sailor leaped from their hunks
Despite his wounds the unnamed
sailor reached Smith first. Bu
before he could disarm Smith thu
young sailor plunged the knife int
his own body. Stalnecker ther
knocked Smith down with the meta
/ bench.
Two of Wounded Died.
Smith and the three wounded
were flown to the Repose in Nav,
ply after receiving emergency
treatment on board the LIST. two
of the wounded later died.
| The names of the dead will be
released when next of kin are no.
tilted.
The wounded sailor still alive
aboard the Repose was identified a.
George E. Simpson, Is, seaman sec.
ond class, of Waterbury, Conn. He
had bullet wound in the left side
of his chest.
A court of inquiry into the shoot.
ing was ordered by Rear Admira'
Bertram j. Rodgers, commander Of
the 7th Fleet Amphibious Forces
He made a flying trip to the LIST
later in the day for a personal in
! Vestigation.
Evening star., 1946-04-23

said there would be severe damage
if substantial rainfall was not forth
coming shortly.
Dr.. T. B. Symons, head of the ex-
tension, service at the University OF
Maryland. said the drought may re.
tard gardens, tobacco plants in
Southern Maryland and grass, but
that to date the crops have suffered
little
He said the drought is"just be-
ginning to cause us serious concern,
and that even hay crops may even
tually become affected.
Gardeners in this area have been
warned by the Agriculture Depart
ment to commence a systematic
watering of their crops Early gar
dens that cannot be watered will
suffer serious loss if rain does not
fall in this area within the next
week, DR.. Roy Magruder of the
Agriculture Departments Fruit ano
Vegetable Branch, predicted.
The Weather Bureau said the
dry belt extends from Massachusetts
to Virginia and from the Atlantic
Coast to parts of Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1946-04-23
Ethiopia Offers 100000 Tons
of Grain for European Relief

to assist the administration in its
efforts to avert the tragedy" of
widespread famine. The grain, he
said, would be made available over
the next 18 months.
Agriculture Department sources
were obviously pleased over inquir-
les reaching here from farmers in
the Northeast who are anxious to
lend a hand in supplying wheat to
famine countries. The official said
100000 bushels might be forth
coming from this section alone.
The Government hopes. under its
offer to pay a 30-cent a bushel
premium for wheat through certifi-
Gates returnable any time up to next
March, to round up 100000, 900 bu-
shells from all sections of the United
States in the next few weeks.
Good news from a long
standpoint was the statement of
Undersecretary of Agriculture N.
E. Dodd that there was a good
{see FOOD. Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1946-04-23
By the Assoeioted Press

MILAN, April 23.-Milan mu-
nicipal authorities reported to-
day that the body of Benito
Mussolini was removed during
the night from Maggiore Gene
terry here by unknown" persons
An inquiry to ascertain the re-
|sponsibility was under way. The
discovery was made by workers who
were in the cemetery to exhume
other bodies.
Watchmen were placed today in
that section of the cemetery where
Mussolini had been buried. They
forbade any one to approach the
site.
Some Milan officials said they be-
lieved FaScists removed the body fol
lveneration. Police said they saw nc
connection between the theft anc
the Easter rioting in st. Vittore
Prison, still in progress.
Morgue officials said Mussolini's
body was stripped of clothing before