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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-26

AT the time of the Cleveland UAW board
meeting, made the statement that if pric 2
went up that wages must also be raised y
Those who have watched the Auto Workers
for the past few years know that we have
tried to hold the price line rather than increase
wages and that we only demanded more money
when we were unable to hold price levels in
line with wages
Once again, because of the failure of Con-
gress to hold price controls, we are faced with
a situation of rapidly increasing prices which
we cannot control and which shrink our in
comes to the point where the majority of the
workers cannot live as weel as they did during
the war. When prices get out of line with
wages as radically as they have since OPA
was allowed to die, we have no choice but to
force increases in our wages +
Congress, which is torn apart on the matter
of providing the country with a price control
bill which will really control, cannot be de-
pended upon to do the job. And we cannot
wait for the slow moving House and Senate as
prices 60 up. We must have our wages in
creased as soon we can because we know
from the past performances of Congress that
we can expect nothing from it except harder
way to CO.
This is part of the crisis which reported
in the Cedar Point regional conference last
month. 1t is the crisis which grinds the work
ers between high prices and inadequate wages
and leads to confusion and unrest from which
the entire country is bound to suffer
We recognize that nothing is gained when
rapidly rising prices force wages to go up.
The worker can buy no more than he did be-
fore the price and wage raises, if he can pur-
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which gets him no more food, clothing ano
other commodities than he had before.
We do not consider an increase in wages an
advance unless that increase will put more
goods in the hands of the workers and other
consumers. Of what value is an increase of
18 or even 80 cents an hour to the worker
when he is forced to pay higher prices for
food, clothing and rent which be manipu-
lated by those who control the markets?
THE TEST
This is the crisis which will test the work
ers and plain people of America and determine
if we are going to have governmental controls
until such time that the economy can operate,
If it can operate under the laws of supply and
demand
/ recognize that there are many people
who do not believe in any kind of controls
under any circumstances, but / also recognize Z,
that unless some controls are held over those J:
who are hungry for quick profits that we are
heading for serious trouble which will make
the strikes which brought about the 1874 cents
an hour wage increase seem like mild affair.
We have reached the point where there
must be showdown. We are going to require
higher wages, but most of all we are going to
demand and make every effort to get back
price control and protection from the profit
hungry and greedy operators who are now
forcing us to fight.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-26


Editors Note During the ollie Pecord,
vacation, the guest writer this week Jerome Gross.
fair question from organized labor would be
what is the Committee?
Who set up how it work, what want to
complish?
It's not hard to such questions
First of ALL the LMC is committee of 18 Toledo citizens
equal representatives of labor management of public
These people appointed by Mayor Toledo and
then spent more than working out method of seeking
industrial harmony that would acceptable both sides
cened and safeguard the interest of the public Labor had
voice in setting the LMC charter which the Bible of the
LMC So did anagement, and so did the public
Briefly what the LMC wants to accomplish is industrial
harmony in Toledo That MEANS the charter states
than elimination of strikes sowdowns ockouts 1t
practical commonsense recognition of the rights of both
ployer employees their joint responsibility citizens
whole 1t provides that management acknowledges the
rights of workers to form join labor organizations
labor recognizes right to direct operations of the
enterprise
union and the But it believes every
such issues be settled without oppages which
costly to all sides dispute be
of production loss of and profits everyone gained
Labor might well ask at this pont-'Does the LMC
away right to striker"
The is a big mo" 1t takes away no rights All
participation in the LMC recognition of its aims
the taking advantage of its services try settle
cheaper the negotiation Cancellation
long been recognized helpful LMC Cancellation
and mediation approach Improvement upon pre-
Vlous arrangements. Why?
Well first of ALL it's not works in panels
has representative that panel management pub
lie member the balance between the two sides
That panel has the thinking sides in dispute at
hand because is made of from both points view
1t has in the past proved fair and effective number
ance 1t has been able to readily find point
and to bring the opposing parties to a settlement.
All this done without compulsion LMC is strictly
voluntary operation 1t does not and labor
management to do something It's strictly free democratic
proposition for free, democratic community.
Expenses of the LMC provided by
the city council and its office is the City Fire
Police Alarm Building.
Applications for participation in the charter being
made both by unions and companies
opportunity to get their applications certificate pa
cpation will be issued by the committee.
COMMITTEE members devote lot time to their
ton jobs and they do for nothing Richard Goser Law
Seinberg and Edward T. Cheyf until he left Toledo
time have represented CIO the LC committee
from its inception Three AFL members represented their
group.
The Labor Management Citizens committee is not some
thing fosted Toledo workers companies by an out
side It's something they built themselves to service
community need and something they keep running For
LC operation directed solely by the LC committee
voluntary Toledo method to settle industrial differences
greatest benefit of labor management and the public
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-26
Toledo's Plan For
IndustrialHarnony
The LNC
BY Jerome Gross
Erecutiue Secretary

Labor Management Citizens Committee
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-26

Credit for the years outstanding contribu-
ton to new types of strike strategy goes to the
United Public Workers-CIO of Louisville KY
When the city aldermen refused the garbage
collectors zoe an hour raise, a union dele
cation visited Mayor E. L. Taylor and told him
that the union had voted not to collect garbage
from each block where city alderman lived.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-26

the people. But we can full
fill our destiny as a nation
only as the individual citizens,
acting not as groups, but as
Americans, work for the good
of all the people-for all
America
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-26
Regional
Views
By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2B. UAW-ClO

AT the time of the Cleveland UAW board
meeting, I made the statement that if pric,
went up that wages must also be raised. "
l. III
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-26
The Danger Of
Over>Reaching
By Ruth Taylor

One of the most harmful
Effects of group thinking as its
tendency to create over-reach
ing ambitions within the group
itself. That is, the group may
start with a good idea, worth
while fight for a deserved
right, but once this is attained,
its members are not content.
They have tasted the wine OF
the power of teamwork, and
they over-reach themselves to
90 out after privileges. Then,
in their search for power,
they, too often, in turn
trample on the rights OF
others.
Again and again in history
has this happened, from the
Rule of the Ten in Rome in
the year 367 B. C.-and even
before-up to the present
time. There is nothing so in
tolerant as the intolerance of
those who have fought their
way to power. They have so
concentrated on their own
struggle that they have been
prone to overlook the fact that
other people have to live too.
Up to now one of the great
advantages of our republic
has been that it was never
static long enough for any
group to keep control too long
The country was too big, too
varied in its resources, to be
anything but fluid. Founded
upon religious freedom, re-
ligious autocracy has never
been allowed a foothold. Not
erected upon a class structure,
It has not divided into classes
for in each generation men
have found their own level. as
individuals, not as a group or
groups. The clasic phrase IS
"three generations from shirt
sleeves to shirt sleeves.
Lately, however, there has
been an increasing tendency to
separate into groups, or
cliques, governed by ideas.
This trend is definitely dan
gerous-for any group which
claims unique revelations or
political preferment is a di-
visive influence aiming at
physical, economic or mental
domination over others. 1t is
the breeder of dissension, i'm
tolerance and trouble among
our people,
When Americans put the
interests of their own group
before the interests fAmer-
lea as a whole, they are set
ting up in our country the
breeding grounds for disputes,
the like of which have laid
waste Europe for enturies.
Whether those interests be
special privileges for labor;
whether they be special con-
sideration for any religious
group or special favors for
any minority, they still spell
over-reaching. There is no
group whose record is guilt
less in this respect.
Justice for all, equal in its
application, should be our aim
as Americans. Before we make
a demand, we should figure
out if we are asking for a
favor or a right-and if we
are willing that the same right
or favor be granted to every
one. The primary fallacy in
logic is arguing from he indi-
vidual to the group.
We are government of the
people, by the people and for
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-07-26

War Assets Corporation has a happy-mind-
ed soul doing its press releases. Last week he
wrote that Approximately 10000 surplus
bonbers are being offered for sale 'on the
hoof for their scrap and salvage value"
We're waiting breathlessly to see whether next
week he has for sale 10000 cows ION the
wing"
The union times., 1946-06-22
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

Every man kills the thing he loves, some dopey poet said. Which probably explains what a lot of friends of labor have been doing recently.
 "All I can get on this radio, ;" complained the farmer, ''is speeches by Bilbo, speeches by Senator Vandenberg, speeches by Kaltenborn, speeches. .''
 s'No wonder" interrupted his neighbor. ''You have the aerial strung from the outhouse to the windmill and back. What do you expect to get?"
 Unions-even the public some times-suffer under the deIusion that men organized into labor un- ions have not only the right to strike but the right to win a strike, complains the Wall St. Journal in an editorial.
 Fantastic! That's as bad as be- lieving that because the Constitu- ton guarantees freedom of the press we're entitled to free press -or have one.
 For a few incredible hours it looked as though the WOOd-Rankin unAmerican committee might ac- tually investigate Ku Klux Klan ac- tiyities. But Rep. Rankin quickly brought the committee to its senses.
 The Associated Press, says The Champ, organ of Yellow Truck Lo- cal 594, JAM, reported from Co., lumbus that General Motors Pres. C. E. Wilson had paid the world record price of $l6,3OO for a 6H-year-old bull. It was an Ayr shire.
 ''That's nothing, you dear Associ- ated Press" comments The Champ. "Wilson pays at least ten times that much for the bull put out each year by the GM publicity de- partment headed by Paul Garrett. Paul is no 6-year old, or Ayrshire either"
 'NET profits of banks reached new high in l945," the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation re- ported this week.
 (Continued on Page Four)
The union times., 1946-06-22
Drive To Destroy
 N.L.R.B. Rejected

Another attempt to make the Wagner Act dead letter fell by the waySide in the House this week.
 During consideration of the Labor Department Appropriation bill drive was launched by foes of unions to de- stroy the National Labor Relations Board, which enforces the act, by cut ting off its appropriations.
 The movement was headed by Congressman John Tabor (Rep. N. Y.), who consistently snipes at workers.
 The attack was turned back, but not until the power of the board to protect. workers had been whit tied down somewhat.
 On motion of Congressman Alfred J. Elliott O., Calf ), reactionary, the House voted to remove fruit and vegetable packing workers and farm laborers from the boards jurisdiction.
 These workers, perhaps, need protection more than any other groups. For years they have been brOw-beaten and oppressed by the Associated Farmers of California and other anti-uniOn organizations.
 As the appropriation goes to the Senate, it provides that the United States Employment Service be turned back to state control on October l, next
The union times., 1946-06-22
Truman Heaves FOR Policy With Appointments
Refuses To Consult Labor On Shift Of Key
 Personnel

WASHINGTON (LPA) = All sections of organized labor were shocked at President Truman's action last week in appointing John R. Steelman, White House "labor ad- wiser" to be Mobilization and Recon version Directory and James J. Rey- holds, to be member of the Natl. Labor Relations Board.
 Neither the CIO nor the AFL was consulted on either appoint ment. Truman's failure to do so, at least on the NLRB appointment, is further evidence of his indiffer- ence to organized labor, several union leaders said. It was con- sistent policy during Roosevelt's administration for the AFL and CIO to be asked their opinions of prospective appointments to posi- tiOns affecting labor.
 Reynolds, a virtual unknown to AFL and CIO headquarters, was for merly assistant to the president of the U. s. Pipe & Foundry Co.,, Burling- ton, N. J. A brother of Quentin Rey- holds, noted journalist, he served as special assistant on labor relations to the undersecretary of the Navy.
 He is 39. Reynolds succeeds Gerard Reilly, NLRB member who has been under continuous fire, particularly from the CIO, for his violent dissents from board decisions including those giving foremen the right to organize and join rank and file unions.
The union times., 1946-06-22
OPA Death Kneu Rings As House, Senate Confer
Conference Group Action Rests On Truman's Atti-
 tude On Amendments

WASHINGTON OPA) = The Senate and the House of Representatives sat back to rest last week after their long labors in smothering the OPA under an avalanche of price-raising amendments, and the spotlight shifted instead to the conference com mlttee representing both houses of Congress whose task will be to try to iron out the differences between the two OPA-extension bills so far passed by Congress.
 Labor observers wondered what good could possibly come out of a conference committee which is or dinarily limited in its powers to choosing between the various pro- visions adopted by the two Houses. Reports persisted in official circles. however, that President Truman would ask the committee to throw out the worst of the amendments adopted by both Houses, and sub-e init bill containing only a few oH the amendments.
 Truman would be willing, the re-. ports indicated, to sign a price con- trol bill that threw out OPA's MAP plan for getting low end production of clothing and for weakening OPA's powers in other directions. He would not, however, accept all the amend merlts presently attached to the bill. If the Committee would report, and the Congress woiid accept, such a bill, Truman would sign it. Other wise, he will veto the bill submitted by Congress and ask for an entirely new bill to be adopted.
 Truman's position, if the reports are correct, would be a weakening of the position he had previously taken. Union and consumer groups had hoped that Truman would stick by his announced determination to veto any bill that weakened price control.
 '"The facts justify the conclusion that in order to protect the public interest and preserve the basic principles of our national econ- Omy," the AFL declared in a state- ment last week, ''the President will be forced to veto the amended Price Control Act and to insist on and demand the extension of ade- quate price control"
 Meanwhile, anger of labor against OPA's own price-raising regulations continued to build up, as that agency issued further regulations which per nlitted one after another of the in dustry groups to charge the consumer more. The latest action to arouse the ire of labor was an order permitting restaurants and in-plant feeding es- tabliShmentS-to raise their prices every 60 days from now on, as prices rise on food items which have been decontro1led by OPA.
 Since these items were originally removed from control with an ex- planation by OPA that the prices would not go up, labor leaders felt that OPA had sold the public a bad bill of goods and opened the door
 Continued on Page Three)
The union times., 1946-06-22
Feiinmark Named State Organizer
 ForCouncilNO16
Represents American Fed eration of State, County,
 Municipal Employees

The appointment of Harold V. Feinmark of New Haven as General Representative of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, was an- nOunced this week by George W. Thorpe, International vice-presi- dent of the A.F. L. organization. Feinmark, who was formerly sec retary treasurer of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, will work for Connecticut Council No. l6, with which all A.F.L. unions of state and city workers in Connecticut are affiliated. Thorpe is also presi- dent of Council l6.
 "With our present membership of 5000 among state and city workers continuously growing, the need for a full-time representative has been felt for some time," Thorpe said "We are delighted that MT. Feinmark has ac- cepted this position with us, and look to strong and steady growth of our organization in Connecticut. In addi- tion to organizing activities, MT. Fein- mark will represent our unions in handling their grievances and other problems before state and city boards and commissions. With his experience not only in labor, but also as a public spirited citizen who has participated in civic activities, I know that he will help us in many ways"
 Feinmark has largely been cred ited with piloting the State Labor Relations Act through the last regular session of the General As sembly, after labor had fought for its passage for six years. He was president of the New Haven Gen. tral Labor Council for seven years; has been a member of the State Interracial Commission; and twice has represented Connecticut at the national conference on labor legis- lation called by the US. Depart ment of Labor.
The union times., 1946-06-22
ere'sWhyCongress Defies Public Wish

DENVER = (FP) The National Opinion Research Center thinks it has a clue to why Congress SO consistent ly thumbs its nose at the will and needs of the people.
 A nationwide survey by the center showed that only one person in eight ever bother to write a letter to his senator or congressman. The other seven may talk, but do not act.
 Although only 1870 of the US. people have ever written a letter to their congressman or other gov ernment officials to give their views about some public question. even one letter apiece from them has meant between 10 and 12 mil lion letters on official desks.
 According to the survey, domestic issues provoke 1etter-writing more easily than international questions, with OPA or price control the most frequent subject. Draft and dernobil- ization followed, with letters on labor strikes or wages ranking third. The poll did not distinguish between union and non-union members.
The union times., 1946-06-22

The fact that 95% of those in the building trades educational pro- gram are veterans indicates that Connecticut labor has taken a lead ing role in actively guiding CI Joe back to his pre-war civilian status.
 Details of the program were out lined by I. Harry Hyman, field rep resentative in Bridgeport of the La Dor Departments apprentice training service
 800 Enrolled
 Reporting the addition of three more field representatives to help ex- servicemen with their apprentice training needs, Hyman related that already the number enrolled in job training projects through 60 commit tees has exceeded 800.
 The committees include 9 in painting, l3 in plumbing and steamftting, 8 in electric wiring, IA carpentry, 10 in masonry, 2 in ironworking, 2 in sheet metal working, one in glazing and one in roofing.
 Hyman pointed out that this achievement was not only a credit to the building trades and the unions therein but to management which has carried out its obligation to ex-serv- icemen despite materials shortages which have curtailed production
 Praises Council
 He highly praised the cooperation that Connecticut labor has shown in apprentice training with federal and state agencies and indicated that the State Building Trades Council was expanding an al1-state program in con junction with state and federal groups
 Directly under the supervision of local unions, the apprentice train ing committees ''have the admins trative responsibility for all trade training relating to the particular craft over which the committee has jurisdiction. It will have the bene- ficial effect of guaranteeing to the trainee that he will receive both all around job instruction and such re- lated technical instruction as is re- quired to train competent crafts man.''
The union times., 1946-06-22
Going Up!

In the first three months of this year the railroads set aside more than $56,OOO,OOO for the payment of dividends on their stocks, according to a report is- sued this week by the I.C.C.
 This was am increase of about 70 per cent over the same pc riod of l945, when the roads were flush with war profits. In March alone the increase was approximately 300 per cent over last year.
 This is one of the reasons railroad stocks have been such good performers in the market.
The union times., 1946-06-22
Congress Seen F Forcing Initiation On US
NewHaven To Unite F For Political Actior
H.R.H. Engaging In
 C. E. With Unions

LONDON CPD = King Georges coachmen, fOOtmen, valets and other retainers who may have had union buttons lurking in the folds of their eIe- gant clothing can bring them out in the open now.
 The first collective bargaining in history by 28O royal house. hold members netted them weekly pay increases. averaging $4, retroactive to last October. The workers are members of Branch 145, Civil Service Un- ion, with whose officials Treas ury and Ministry of Labor rep resentatives negotiated the pay increases.
 The agreement covers work CTS at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and MarlbOr- Ough House.
The union times., 1946-06-22
Bridgeport Joins
 NewHaven,H Hartford

Adoption by the Bridgeport Com mon Council of an ordinance recog- nizing the right of city. employees to join labor unions and providing for the setting up of effective" grievance procedure by department heads was hailed today by President Timothy M. Collins of the Connecticut Federation of Labor as a forward step.
 The A. F. of L. leader recalled that he had previously chided Mayor Jasper McLevy when the city head had ob- jected to the ordinance sponsored by the Bridgeport Central Labor Union as unnecessary" and praised him for now agreeing to "1abor's reasonable proposal" which, he said, makes Bridgeport the third city in the state to pass such an ordinance. The other two were Hartford and New Haven.