Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-06-21
cose Bill

Threats to revive tne NdSe Uih N~'
last week by President Truman deserve
the utmost consideration by organized
labor
In observing the brazen action taken
by the representative of the 18th Ohio
congressional district, Homer A. Ramey,
in voting to down the Presidents veto OF
the Case bill, it becomes easy to recognize
the type of thinking that is being done by
many of our congressman.
MIR. Ramey, who was found on the OPP
posite side from labor on many occasions
during his first term of office, was re-
elected two years ago despite his voting
record.
During his current term in Office, ne
has time and again gone counter to the in
terests of labor even though he has re-
ceived his share of mail from his own dis
trict asking him to vote labOr's way
When the Case bill was before the
House, Mr.. Ramey was again deluged with
mail from the workers of his district.
Again he failed to heed their wishes, and
to prove that he holds organized labor and
working people in the utmost contempt he
played consistent by voting to override
the presidential veto.
Obviously, Mr.. Ramey and others OF
his type have a low regard for the political
power of labor. He is under the impress
sion, and with good reason, that he can
vote for one to two relatively unimpOrtant
bills favored or opposed by labor and then
get away with supporting a bill like the
Case legislation without penalty.
Mr.. Ramey definitely has good reason
for voting the way he did on the Case bill
He is not politically stupid. He remembers
what he got away with during his first
term in office and set voting pattern for
himself which he has faithfully followed
during his current term.
And those who have watched MIR.
Ramey and some of the other reactionaries
in Congress cannot disagree that maybe
Mr.. Ramey is right i'm his belief that he
can get away with his votes against labor.
He did it once. Maybe he can do it again,
All the evidence is on Mr.. Ramey's
side. He has proved TO himself and to
everyone who studies his voting record
exactly where he stands.
Mr.. Ramey has proved that he is not
friend of organized labor, that he has not
the slightest fear of its votes and that he
is willing to gamble that he is again going
to be sent back to Washington TO repre-
sent the industrialists and big shots rather
than the people who really elect him.
What MIR. Ramey is indicating to the
people of the 18th Ohio congressional dis
trict is being indicated by many other con-
gressmen when they continue their efforts
to enact anti-labor legislation even as they
prepare to return to their home districts to
wage their campaign for reelection.
Maybe Mr.. Ramey is right. Perhaps
lot of other congressman are right. Maybe
a lot of them will be reelected, and they
will be as long as labor fails to rise in its
power and wrath and give them the crush
ing defeat they so richly deserve.
As long as we have men like Ramey in
Congress and people like us electing them,
just so long will the Case bill and other
repressive anti-labor legislation rise to
plague us and force us to direct much of
our energy in fighting against anti-labOr
legislation rather than for legislation fa-
vorable to labor.
Nobody can blame Homer Ramey for
trying. He has discovered that he can be
an enemy of labor and congressman at the
same time, while we have discovered that
there are enough labor votes to elect him
despite his record
Oh yes, Homer will soon be home pro-
claiming his love for labor and vigorously
defending his record Vomcr e
yuy We wish more members of organized
abOr were as wise to their Interests as ne
S to his.