Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
What's
New?
By
Edudrd Duck
Local II
Educational
Director

the OM SLFlke S6LtIcIHCuL II
still is good.
Now that we have won the
war, we find that we have
only the atomic bomb and a
few medical and industrial
discoveries to show for our
efforts.
Where are all the golden
postwar dreams, now that the
fracas is ended? 1t seems
lot of us have been chasing
rainbows, doesn't it?
Of course, Hitler and TOTO
didn't succeed in taking over
the White House, but IL mil
lion veterans and their fami-
lies will hardly be compensat-
ed for their past efforts by
reminding themselves how
much worse the postwar
might have been, had we lost
the war.
Even a moron could realize
that the people of the United
States of America are worse
off today than before the war
began.
The consumer, however,
rates top honors as the prime
glutton for punishment. Since
the wage Garner and the con-
sumer are really the same per-
son, it simply means that all
of us are taking a double bar
relied shellacking.
THE WAGE GARNER
The wage Garner is not re-
ceiving a fair share of the
profits of the corporation he
serves. He is taxed dispro-
portionately in relation to the
wealthy individuals and busi-
nesses. On top of this, he pays
inflationary prices for the
common necessities of life.
The food trusts have gouged
the public numerically. Food
prices are growing more out
rageous by the day, yet the
huge combines are battering
OPA to pieces in an attempt to
do away with price control
altogether.
The real estate and home
building interests are lambast-
ing Chester Bowles and the
OPA in the hope that they
might exploit the victims of
the housing shortage and the
optimistic people who hope to
build new homes for them
selves at a decent price. 1t
rent control is abandoned, or
if ceiling prices on building
materials are lifted, may God
have mercy on all those who
do not already own their
homes!
If there was a Semblance OF
human understanding and de-
cency in the body of men
whom we have chosen to rep
resent us in Washington, we
would be without 95 percent.
PROFITS
General Motors, for ex
ample, Is guaranteed by our
government IS percent of its
profits for the next two years,
based on its 1889 earnings,
whether it produces a single
automobile or not. What sim
liar guarantee do the workers
receive?
The automotive company is
on a strike against both the
workers and the government.
If our congressman had
spark of right-mindedness in
them they would have already
legislated to withdraw GINS
profit guarantee, in view of
the company's actions and at
titude since the dispute began.
This guarantee of profits is
paid from taxes obtained from
the public, including the taxes
paid by the GIN workers
themselves.
Legislation should be enact
ed guaranteeing liberal COM
pensation benefits to the en-
plOyes of any corporation
which refuses to accept the
findings and recommendation
of the governmental Fact
Finding Committees.
The CIO should insist upon
the passage OF such a bill i'm
mediately, so that the work
ingmen are not starved into
submission by vicious cor
porate managements. The
bill should be retroactive to
the date wage controls were
modified, last September.
1t is common knowledge
that the GIN workers and
their families are being made
to suffer because organized
management particularly
General Motors management
wishes to turn the workers
against Walter Reuther, whom
they fear more than any other
labor leader.
Yes, the postwar is really