Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-11
The Job Ahead

Congratulations are IN oruer Ior '"o
officers and members of the Lucas County
PAC for the effective part which that or
ganization played in aiding in getting out
the record breaking registration which
was completed early this week.
Congratulations are likewise in order
for the Get.Out.T .The-Vote group which
contributed its bit in making the recent
registration drive the greatest in the his
tory of Toledo.
While the organizations which work
ed so hard to insure a large vote In next
months elections did most remarkable
niece of work, we cannot help but remind
them that their Job is only half done and
that the real task still lies before them
getting the registered voters to go to the
polls in November.
Political democracy, in order to be suc-
cessfuI requires an interested and active
citizenry. 1t means that the citizens must
not only take an active interest in the
issues and the men behind the issues; but
most important of all, that the citizens
translate their interest in terms OF votes
1t has always been the belief of labor,
supported by the facts, that whenever
majority of the voters do not exercise
their right to vote, that the workers find
themselves on the receiving end of bad
legislation and Indifferent or poor admin
istrations.
This year, because of the surprising
number of people who are registered II
appears that labor will be in position to
play a most important part in the cleo
ton and that it will have no alibi ii the
wrong candidates are elected to office.
But i'm order to insure a large vote
will take the combined efforts of Fac,
the Get-Out-T -The-Vote group and all others
who are interested in having an election
participated in by the majority of eligible
voters. The real job still lies ahead
Labor and the PAC group has always
maintained that unless the workers, who
constitute the majority of the voters, ex-
ercise their political right, they could ex-
meet nothing from those elected TO poll
tical office. This year then will be the test
to either prove or disprove the claims
made by labor leaders.
Every worker should now study the
issues and the men behind the issues.
they should pay less attention to parties
than to principles and personalities and
weigh both the issues and the personali-
ties in terms of how their economic IN
terests and welfare will be effected Poll
teal control goes hand in hand with eco
nomic control, fact which cannot be
disputed in the light of the situation In
which the country and people find them
selves today.
Labor not only has a score to even by
voting out of office those who have chosen
for the past two years to ignore or oppose
the things which would be of benefit to
the workers and plain people; but 1t has
a duty to perform by electing men who
are in sympathy with labor's program
to advance the economic interests of the
workers through progressive social legiS-
latiOn.
Never before have the plain people
been in such an OppOrtune position in an
Offyear election to do their cause good as
they find themselves in this year. Ii is
their opportunity to determine the future
of their state and nation for the next two
years without alibis and without blaming
the stay-at-hOme citizens.
The real Job lies ahead. The real test of
labor's strength and its ability TO elect the
right people TO office depends upon
whether it votes and how it votes next
month.