Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-09-06
The War Goes On

Ever since workers first conceived the
idea of uniting themselves for their COM
mon defense against those who exploit
their labor, the warfare between those
who employ labor and those who are en-
ployed has gone on.
Like all warfare, the battle does not
rage violently on all fronts at the same
time. 1t ranges from petty sniping to
full barrage with the heavy artillery of
publicity, labor-baiting, thugs, physical
violence, non-cOoperatiOn and defiance of
authority.
A case in point is that of the il. Case
strike in Racine Wis, where for period
of 255 days the members of the JAW
CIO have been walking the picket line in
protest against the company management
whirh not only has refused to bargain
with them in good faith, but which has
resisted the for@er War Labor Board, the
Department of Labor and other agencies
of government in its efforts to break the
morale of the workers, destroy their or
ganization and mark up major victory
in the industrial war which sometimes has
a lull, but which never ceases.
Even President Truman, that hardy
soul who dramatically took to the micro
phone at the time of the railroad workers
strike to denounce the railroad workers
leaders and threaten them with dire pen
alties has not had the courage to follow
the request Of Secretary of Labor Schwel-
lenbach and take over the struck plant
and demand peaceful settlement.
While the cases of the railroad work
ers and JI. Case strikers may not be in
exactly the same class, nobody can doubt
that the same thinking which motivates
our Chief Executive to get hard boiled
with the railroad workers, causes him to
hesitate and waver in dealing out justice
to anarchistic management which has
told and still tells the union and the gov
ernment TO go to hell.
Are there any workers so innocent
that they believe the JI. Case CO., is
acting solely on its own behalf and los
Ing millions of dollars worth of business
in its endeavOr to break the spirit of its
workers and destroy their only means of
protecting themselves from the excesses of
irresponsible and anti-social manage
ment?
Isn't there just a possibility that JI.
Case Co, have been chosen as the guinea
pig in the struggle which organized In
dustry has been waging against organized
labor since time immemOrial?
II is highly probable that organized
industry is not sitting back content to let
he II - L. Al
fight. Nobody can prove that But there
is every reason TO believe that the Case
Co., will not become insOlvent because il
apparently has chosen to fight war with
its workers in which the terms appear to
be unconditional surrender"
Organized labor cannot view this long
fight with indifference. The fight which
organized industry is making upon the
Jl Case workers is local engagement of
the same old war in which truce rather
than peace marks breathing space for
industry TO prepare for the next attack.
II il. Case breaks the workers and
their organization, who can say where
the fight may erupt next. 1t might be
Toledo, Detroit, Lima or Podunk but il
is sure to come.
In war we give our money and our
physical and financial support to our
country. In industrial warfare we must do
as much for our organization to safe
guard ourselves from the attack which is
certain TO come if we fail TO do our part.
Give TO the UAW-CIO JI. Case work
ers strike fund in the knowledge that you
are making it possible TO save your fell
low workers and yourselves from defeat,
humiliation and return to the same sort
OF abject conditions under which we form
erly worked before there was union. II
is your choice to make. Your welfare is
also at stake.
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