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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
Peeord Named TO
Housing Group

Appointment of Ollie Pecord,
TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL
managing editor to the Toledo
Metropolitan Housing Authority
was announced on Monday of
this week by Probate Judge
Charles E. Chittenden. Pecord
will replace Edward Kirschner
who resigned.
Duties of the housing commits
sion include control over all fed
eral housing projects in the city.
Prior to Pecord's appointment,
CIO had no representatives on
the Authority.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01

its request all records, papers
and information in their posses
sion relating to any matters be-
fore the board"
The committee-approved ver-
sion was Immediately denounced
by reactionaries like Rep. How
ard Smith 3D., Va.), who COM
'plained to the House that "The
bill as reported has all SEM
blance of teeth removed and is
merely title with a few kind
words"
The Senate Labor Committee
considering fact finding legisla-
ton heard vice-president Walter
Reuther of the United Auto
Workers-CIO condemn compul-
sion in fact finding procedures
in terms similar to the previ-
ously expressed opposition of
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Farm Equipment Stopped

CHICAGO - OPA) - AS the
I n e national Harvester Co.
sowed, so did it reap last week
when 10000 employees walked
out of plants in Illinois, Indiana
and New York and paralyzed the
production of $50 of the ma
tons farm equipment, tractors
and other machinery.
Negotiations between Inter
national Harvester and the Farm
Equipment Workers-CIO broke
down after two months of dis
cussion when the company ret
fused to accede to union demands
for a 800 wage increase, a lib
eralized vacation plan, an annual
wage and a union security clause.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
Bill Due
For Seno+e Vote
Minimum Wage Issue
Worries SoufhernerS

WASHINGTON, Jan. % -
GPA)- Southern Senators had
an additional reason to filibuster
last week, when the Senate La
bor and Education Committee
reported favorably the Csc min
imum wage bill.
If the Senate and House act
favorably on the bill, less than
100000 workers will be af-
fected, as a result of recent un-
ion gains that have established
Csc as the going minimum in
most industries. However, the
southerners are still worried
about the effect of Csc mini
mum on their supply of cheap
labor in farming, lumber opera
tions, food processing, and in
the unorganized textile mills.
Here is how the bill stands
as it emerged from committee:
Minimum wage under the Fair
Labor Standards Act is raised
at once from 40c to Csc. It stays
at Csc for two years, then is zoe
for two years, and becomes 75c
at the beginning of the fifth
year.
Maritime Is Included
Maritime workers will be in
cluded under the wage provi-
sion for the first time. They will
not be subject to the hour pro-
visions (setting a standard 40
hour week with overtime penal
ties for hours worked over 40).
However, maritime workers
food and board provided by the
employer will not be counted as
wages.
Western Union messengers
will have to be over 13 years
old; those aged ID to Is must
work only outside of school
hours; they may be paid lower
than the Csc minimum. Previous
ly, Western Union had obtained
complete exemption for its child
labor, the bill as originally pro-
posed would have included them
under the Csc pay provision,
and woud have prohibited en-
ployment of youths under 18 as
The present act would be
weakened by allowing workers
only two years within which to
file wage claims against employ
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
Union Propose
NV Boycott

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-LPA
"A nationwide boycott of Mont
gomery Ward by labor and the
public was urged last week by
the general executive board Of
the United Retail, Wholesale &
Dept. Store Employes-CIO in its
quarterly meeting here. Wards,
whose $4,000 employees the
URWDSEA has tried to organ
ize for nine years, has "con-
sistently attempted to defeat or
ganizations of its employees, has
resorted to espionage, coercion
and intimidation, and having
failed. refused to bargain in
good faith" the unanimously
passed resolution declared.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01

Saturday.
Government officials are
taking more optimistic
view of the situation and seem
to believe that once steel settles
its dispute with the Steelwork-
ers-CIO that the country will
be gin to experience a decided
upturn in industrial activity.
Union Is Pleased
Members of the Auto Workers
from officers down to the rank
and file expressed satisfaction
with the outcome of the Ford
and Chrysler wage settlement.
Opinion seems to be uniform
that GIN might hold out await
ing the end of the steel strike.
Meantime, UAW CIO Vice
President Walter P. Reuther
completed his testimony here
yesterday before a National La
Dor Relations Board hearing on
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01

proposal, which has been un-
der incessant fire from labor,
and approved a fact-finding
bill that eliminated the 30-day
cooling off period and also the
Ayernment's right to subpoena
~ lpany books.
- sen. Allen Ellerder ID, La.)
author of the administration bill,
said that he woulo offer an
E#NnA Andment to his own measure
VIZ eh wotld remove the cooling
~ provision and any element of
Akpmpulsion in the fact finding.
j ties In Clause
Instead of the subpoena power
the House committee wrote in
the following clause, taken al
most verbatim from the Wagner
Act: "That the several depart
ments and agencies of govern
ment when directed by the pres
ident shall furnish the board on
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
Ford And Chrys|er Settle;
GIN Situation Looks Brighter
JAW and GIN Resume
Negotiations In Detroit

WASHINGTON, Jan 80 - Bright hopes for final set
ement of the months old wage dispute between the
United Auto WorkersCIO and General Motors Corporation
expressed by Department of Labor and other govern
ment officials here result of agreement between the
two parties to resume negotiations
The beginning Of the end of the of strikes that
has resulted since the end of the due ndustrys
uctance to grant wage increases is believed in sight
suit of the Ford and Chrysler settlement in Detroit
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
California Sets Up
Employment Bill

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Jan. %
-IPA)-Sixty-three members
of the California legislature were
disclosed last week as co-authors
of a state full-employment bill
which would set up a new agen-
cy to work with the federal gov
ernment on a program to assure
continuous employment for Cali
fornia workers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01

the ClIme IL was lnLrOuuCeu
until its final passage.
AS a result of placing an emer-
gency clause in the legislation at
its passage, the measure becomes
operable at once, but the tax
period does not begin until
March l.
Grab Burke Proposal
The payroll tax came about in
directly as a result of a reSolu-
ton presented to Council early
in November of last year calling
for study and revision of To-
ledo's taxing system.
In answer to Burke's reSolu-
tion, Mayor Lloyd Roulet re-
quested that the payroll tax or
dipance which was presented to
0t aN1cil in 1943 and tabled be
am Introduced.
Wsfearings in Council were held
- Which time Richard GoSser,
- sT-CIO regional director, ex-
ssed CLOS opposition and
pledged that if the tax was
passed in its present form, he
would cause petitions to be cir
culated to place the issue on the
- ut in the fall election.
u wyyed One Month ,
HActual passage of the legisla-
ton was delayed for one month
due to Gosser's objections and
those of Vice Mayor Michael ".
Disable, who, while voting for
the tax on Monday of this week,
opposed its passage as emer-
gency legislation and forced
three readings of the ordinance.
Nine amendments were intro
duced by Mr.. Disable last week
which were passed at Mondays
session over the objection of
City Manager George N. Schoon-
maker who sought a larger op-
Grating fund.
DiSalle's amendments will
control the fund setup and allo-
cate the money under the terms
\ of the amended legislation.
Opinions Are Varied
Opinions relative to the tax
vary in various segments of the
population. Business men, city
officials and the Municipal
League all express themselves
favorable to the legislation. A
large majority of the workers,
particularly CIO members, are
opposed to the tax on the
grounds that it is inequitable as
1t is now set up.
CLOS position as expressed by
Mr.. Gosser Is that regardless of
the small amount of tax de-
Quoted from the employees pay,
that the tax is unequal and
should be based upon ability to
pay, with exemptions and grad
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
AFL Peace Is Spurned

PHILADELPHIA - (LPA) -
A plan to outlaw strikes and
establish natio n a industrial
peace boards, proposed by the
Upholsterers, Union-AFL and
endorsed by Labor Secretary
Schwellenbach and Commerce
Secretary Wallace, has been re-
jected by the nations furniture,
bedding and casket manufactur-
ers' national associations.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01

Members of the Toledo Stan
dard Commutator Unit of Local
IL, UAW-CIO, elected their Of
ficers for the ensuing year at
their last regular meeting held
at Local IL.
Elected were John Kiplinger,
John Grant, Sam Scott, Chet De-
Laney, Edward Schmidt, George
Gels and Les Goodell
The newly elected officers will
be installed at the next meeting
of the Unit, Feb. ID.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01

takes equally from the low
income workers and high
salaried executives"
Discussing the possibility of a
referendum on the tax, Pecord
said that Richard Gosser, UAW-
CIO regional director had on
three occasions pledgeu that if
the tax were passed cas- it now
stands" that he would secure
sufficient names on petitions to
place the matter on the fall
ballot.
Amendments Are Noted
Noting the amendments which
had been added to the tax ordi-
nance, ecord said, "theSe
amendments do not materially
alter the tax but merely allo-
cate the funds into which the
tax money will CO."
Continuing Pecord said, "since
the tax has not been changed,
but remains substantially the
same as it was before labor pro-
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
HOUSING

Housing is one of the
biggest problems facing the
country today. Long after
the current strikes are
settled and men and women
are back to work, people
will be seeking to find suit
able living quarters.
For an insight into the
seriousness of the housing
situation and its chances
for correction read Wash
ington Labor Report, page
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01

ParaIyzes
.Oenate

WASHINGTON, Jan. %
(LPA)-The display of igno-
rance, bigotry and ill-temper
that embarrasses the majority
of the nations legislators
every time a bill to lessen racial
discrimination reaches the floor
of Congress was again on display
in the United States Senate last
week.
Southern Democrats continued
filibuster, aided and encour-
aged by acting Senate President
Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee.
The southerners were taken by
surprise two weeks ago when
Senator Dennis Chavez ID.
N. M moved successfully to
bring to the floor the bill for a
Permanent Fair Employment
Practice Commission.
While more than 40 senators
had signed a petition asking for
vote on Characterization of
debate-there may never by a
vote on the petition because of
McKellar's ruling that the busi-
ness before the Senate is the
reading of the Journal of the
previous day. Even if it is put to
a vote, the southerners may win
since each southern state has the
same number of votes as the
much more populous northern
and western states, and a two
thirds vote is required to pass
the motion.
Barkley Attacks Action
The spectacle of the filibuster
has been vigorously attacked by
President Truman, Senate Ma
jority Leader Alben Barkley of
Kentucky, and leaders in both
Democratic and Republican
politics.
At an emergency conference
called by the National Council
for a Permanent FEPC, ex-gov-
ernor of Minnesota Harold Stas-
sen, frequently mentioned as a
possible Republican presidential
candidate in 1948, and Labor
Secretary Lewis B. Schwellen-
bach shared the platform. Both
urged in no uncertain terms the
passage of the bill.
"There is never a time when
we can afford the luxury of ST.
lence in matters such as these,
Schwellenbach said. "The gov
ernment-trustee for all of our
people-Negroes and Jews, Cath
olics and Protestants, black and
white and yellow-must pro-
claim through positive act its de-
termination to protect all of our
citizens against discrimination.
Stassen Urges Bill
Said Stassen, "The filibuster,
if long continued, constitutes,
purely and simply, obstruction
by a minority which defeats the
Elective functioning of demo-
cratic government. 1t gives
to those of the extreme
right and of the extreme left,
who seek to undermine the eff
fectiveness of and the confidence
in our representative form of
1t contributes to
the establishment of fertile
ground for the flourishing of
activities. 1t throws
a spotlight upon condition
which is of even wider signifi-
cance than the important issue
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
Labor ChiIIs Truman
CooIins-oH Proposal
House Rejects Presidents
Legislation By 1913 Vote

WASHINGTON, Jan. % QPA)-President Truman's
demand for cooling legislation put last week
by the House Labor Committee and scheduled for
equally chilly reception by the Senate Labor Committee
BY 10 to vote the House group rejected the Truman
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
PAC Hears Tar
Vote Predicted
Pensioners Seek Membership
In Political Action Group

Disagreement with the city payroll tax passed last
Monday by Council voiced by Ollie Pecord managing
editor of the TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL speaking before
meeting of the PAC Tuesday night of this week.
Pecord characterized the "an UNEQUAL levy which
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
Tax Refunds Draw
Congress Fire
Murray's Statement Forms
Basis For Many Comments

WASHINGTON, Jan. % 4PA)-Carry-back provisions
of the current profits law under fire from
labor and congressional leaders last week following wide
spread charges that because business obtain refunds
for profits allegedy lost during strikes management in
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01
Council Passes
Payroll Tares
Burke, Jurrus, Vote
Against Ordinance

BY of seven-totwo, City Council passed the one
per payroll Monday of this week follow
ing its third and final reading before the body
Voting against the were Counclmen Tom
Burke and Arthur who both opposed the tax from
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-01

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Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-28
PL.ANKS

Wooing the Negro vote, they always ao at Msssa +oa the Democratic and Republican ParIes ol ao+od chusetts assembled in convention last + +heV IanIs i'm their platforms designed to snoW thao der the interests of Negro people Any d foy 4hosa blanks must them importantly III u oi s nr neon,e to form their opinions as to relati'
 Here is the relevant text of the Democratlc Far'S platform . xxro commend Gov
 Fair Employment Practices i bpnane about nor Maurice J. Tobin for his efforts 1Il +ho M c+noant of the Fair Employment PracIces 1oe, I
 t racant of long of progressive nperal ton fostered by the Democratic Party In Massaehose
 eve urge that the limited budget ot ;n ;d bv the Republican majority be suostantlaiga M t oreaseG We urge at least $1OOOOO be appropr1aeeu ~ I nd that the provisions of the law be ettec1Vey eo piled with. . e . o.n,anon+ Ma +;ro1 Fair Employment Practices Act as advocateo y Prasident Truman and which received the Whoieheaeo snnnort of our Senior Senator, David l. Walsh. .
 eve favor Federal ant-lynchng law and the aoon- ion of the poll tax throughout the United States as pre- requisite to voting. ,
 eve denounce al forms of intolerance and olgotry.
 The foregoing detailed plank may be contrasted to inc terse text of the Republican Party platform coucne general terms devoid of specific import as hv the BOSTON HERALD of September 22) io upnold and vigorously promote the fundamental policy or and religious equality in the economc' sooi@i anu p life of the state
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-28
COURAGE

Rep John Rankin of Mississippi has broken out Tn rash of giee which reminds of the jig reportediy danced by Hitler at the of the great Franklin Delano Roosevelts passing. Rankins mirth IS always wickedness Whenever he is happy the American peo- ole have just be alarmed He is rejoicing at the forced resignation of Henry A. Wallace Secretary of Commerce Belonging to the reactionary political cabal which supports the bipartisan for egn policy get tough with Russia, Rankin IS glad exponent of Rooseves policy of Big Unity for peace has left the councils of the Truman Administration.
 Wallace exposed the Byrnes-Vandenberg policy as war policy focusing the attention of the naton of the coming November Congressional and State elections PEACE. In his relations with Pres dent Truman he has emerged figure of momentous stature while the President has dwindled in the estma large sections of the electorate such the ized labor movement. The White House handled the whole Wallace affair with what the French call gauch erie reely if not too accurately translated for present purposes as fnepttudeO. Appointment of W. Averel Harrman former Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Great Britain Mr. Waace's successor, signifies naught of the Negroes for they know little about MT. Hartman public It does not repair the Negro people. That aperture become yawnng dismissal last Monday of the plea by Paul Robeson and Crusade End Lynching for his ouspoken advocacy of Federal anti-ynching legislation.
 The departure of Mr. Wallace signalizes the aband- onment by the Administration of FDR's peace policies probably herald other capitulaons reaction u less people demand that Secretary of James Byrnes the South Carolina poltaxer be removed from his seat at the control-board of foreign policy
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-28
ZION

All lbertyloving Americans, regardless ot race creed color national origin sympath1ze With Ine as
 raons of the Jewish people for national homeland Ill Palestine The British mandate over the Holy Land for Ieague of Nations is quidated should be immediately withdrawn No argument in support of this m n last Monday when the British mperialists With fed bayonets prevented the entry of aged mflrm' ana Ill Jewish refugees from Europe and drove scores or them to suicide in the Mediterranean Sea.
 The Hafa incident mournfu reminder, R on a, nne eve of the Jewish high holidays to all mankind of the per secution to which the Jewish people are being by imperialism. It is ronical to wish our JeWsn nelgn hors HAPPY NEW YEAR at time when their klns1nen in Europe Cyprus languishing in camps some of which constructed after the military Americans must Judaism, have the duty of combatn antisemitism anywhere and everywhere aiding all CT United Nations, including country That IS the only genuine kind of greetings which we can eXtena to the oppressed Jewish people who today they Gre member Zion."
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-28

nors when we can't get into of- flee to give the people the bene- fit of our brilliance? Long years ago the Democrats-who seem to have found out that patronage is one of the best ways to influence people and win elections-rea- lized that State Committees had been outmoded by the direct pri- mary.
 If you try real hard you will find that each Democratic candi- date has his own machine, and the political plum is the fruit up- on which it lives and moves and has it's being.
 Now, you, Republican boy, by making Republicanism holy cru sade to keep the Democratic Ras- calls out of office, have tried to keep your party running without pat ronage. You have kept it's soul marching on, but year by year the body has slipped further toward that country inhabited by the Zombies.
 The cure for your Vitarmin P de- ficiency-that's the patronage vi- tamin-is a simple one, but it re- quires a lot of courage to take the treatment. All you really have to do is to reach back into the dim ages of stalwart Repub- licanism. pick our best man and put the regular party machine be- hind him. If some party mem Der butts in smack him down.
 If you do not like it that way, OK, but if you don't soon find a cure for your malady, a Re- publican Candidate will have lit tie or no chance to being voted into office where he can straight en things out in Mass.
 I should not have to tell you that a political machine travels on it's patronage, yet patronage for the little fellows in the Re- publican Party has become a thing so foreign to the party leaders that they won't even open their door when patronage knocks. If they do by chance open the door they give the job to a Democrat.
 Look, boys, even a Republican cannot exist on a starvation diet forever, so if the party does not straighten up and out it's days in the offices which the voters have given it are numbered, and you will not need a ogIarithm table to count them either.
 Love, but no kisses.
 Candid Corner.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-28
CASWELL SMITH TO LECT-
 URE AT YWCA

A coursel to promote better ra- cial and religious understanding will be offered this fall by the Boston YWCA and presented by leading authorities on the sub ject. J. CasweIl Smith, Execu- tive Secretary of the Urban League of Greater Boston, will two of the lectures in the series. November 19 his subject will be "A Picture of Negro Life in Bos- ton" and on November 26, "Do- We Make it Easy for our Ne groes?"
 Lectures will be given Tues day evening from 500 to 500 p. m., beginning October8. Regi- stration for this course is going on now and will continue through September.
 Another of the educational programs to be presented at the WV this fall will be series of lectures dealing with the pro- blems of Labor and Industry. : This course will be given Mon day evenings from 7:O0 to 500
Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-28

zens of that city. The article is undoubtedly condensation of the erroneous articles printed in the white dailies on Thursday.
 Many prominent Negroes, headed by Rev. Rembert Stokes, are Investigating press reports, police action, and numerous ru- mors. A protest has been filed to the police and through the press against the Gestapo actions of the Cambridge police and their reports to the press. To have the Negro press write an unfavorable report on the incl dent is destroying the efforts of those fighting for fair justice.
 I sincerely hope the Chronicle in the future will thoroughly in- vestigate "the news," especially that concerning racial issues be- fore printing the same.
 Edmund s. Lane,
 Chairman, Cambridge Peoples
 Committee.