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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-22
Regional
Views
By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2B, UAW~ClO

1t has been 81 days since the General Mo-
tors workers went on strike in order to securS
the wage gains to which they are entitled.
In the three months that has gone by, both
Ford and Chrysler have granted substantial
wge increases, Fraser-Kaiser have agreed to
the wage scale, the steelworkers have carried
on a successful strike with wage increases and
the Oil Workers and other industries have
been granted raises.
TODAY GIN workers still walk the picket
lines, not because they have failed to win q
victory for all labor but because of the stub
born refusal of the GIN management to accept
the inevitable.
Nobody can take it away from the GIN
strikers. They have carried the torch for the
entire labor movement and stood watching
others reap the benefits which came because
of their sacrifice. They still fight on for the {
principles in which they believe, secure in
their confidence that in the long run they can
not and will not lose.
l want to pay tribute today to the men
and women of GIN who have stood steadfast
during the past three bitter months and stuck
by their guns. This is the spirit which must
move the entire labor movement, without
which it cannot endure.
WHO WINS
The spirit of unity and sef-Sacrifice winch
the General MotorS workers nave demonStrat-
ed during the time of their strike will not be
lost in the months and years which lie ahead
And while there may be some who wiz
question who won the strike when it is oVEt~
nobody can deny that the GIN strike has dogSsstt
more to solidify and unite the labor movement
than anything that has occurred in several
years. We cannot consider the success of the
strike merely on dollar and cents basis,
although it is important that the workers gains
outweigh their losses; but in the things whid =
the strike has given to the labor movement
whole.
No support which we may have given the
workers during these past three months can
match the debt of gratitude which we owe to
the GIN strikers. They have carried our fight
assumed burden and actually won for us
before winning for themselves.
want to express my own personal thanks
to the strikers for the fight they have made
for themselves and all workers, and believe
that in expressing my own thoughts in this
matter that express the mind of the vast
majority of the Auto Workers of Region 2-B.
I realize that thanks are probably empty to
those who have borne the brunt of the fight
these past three months, but assure all GM
workers that We will not forget.
We will remember the GIN strike and the
greatness of those who have made our victory
possible.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-22
Prices and Wages

Settlement of the steelwOrkers strike
by the expedient of granting substantial
price increase to the steel corporations
proves that the strike was a good thing
for the steel companies
Wage increases granted to the steel
workers and other unions cannot be eval-
uated except in the light of the workers
experience in the next few months based
upon the vOlumn of goods their wages will
purchase On the other hand, the corpora
tions will be able to get an accurate es-
innate of their profits through their ac-
counting systems.
IL the wage increases simply mean that
the workers will be handling larger sums
of money without substantial increase in
the voIumn of goods which they will be
able to purchase, the current wage in
creases will mean little or nothing to
them and will not contribute to a stable
economy.
If the price increases enable the cor
porations to not only compensate them
selves for the wage increases which are
being granted at this time, but to continue
piIing up large profits, ultimate surpluses
leading to economic stagnation will even
tuate.
Wage and price increases granted ST.
multaneously cannot solve the problem of
maintaining healthy economy in the face
of the refusal of the corporations to open
their books to scrutiny on the grounds
that the books are the sole prerogative OF
management.
We cannot secure and maintain the
proper balance between production and
distribution without knowing all the fac
tors which play their part in the complete
industrial business picture.
The stage is all set and the signal
about to be given for one of the greatest
peacetime production drives this nation
has ever experienced. The tools are
ready, the market exists, labor is ready,
but the drive can be the great push which
may again send us down into an economic
tailspin which we can i'll afford to chance.
Unless the workers who are also the
consumers are able to purchase in Suf-
ficiently large enough vOlumn to prevent
a surplus of commodities from glutting
the market, the rapidly approaching full
scale production will be but a temporary
boom and we shall be Fastening the day
of economic reckoning.
As matters now stand, wages and
prices seem to be on trial and error bas-
/ Is with nearly everyone confused, except
! in the certainty that imbalance between
the two factors will surely hurl us into
the abyss of another depression.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-22
Iekes Resignation

Resignation of Harold IckeS after 13
years service in the cabinet, while regret
ted by labor and liberal and progressive
forces in this country is not without its
satisfying aspects.
II is indeed inspiring to see any man,
particularly one high in the administra-
tion, rise in his just indignation and con-
denim the moral aspects of an appoint
ment which smells of Shiny oil and per-
jury. This Mr.. Ickes did with very little
hesitation and in the usual effective IckeS
style.
In the resignation of Mr.. IckeS, the
country loses more than the adminiStra.
ton, for he was an honest, conscientious
and fortnight individual with a penchant
for saying terse and pungent things about
those with whom he disagreed.
The self-Styled "Old curmudgeon" was
respected and feared by those who had
occasion to tilt words with him. His de-
scriptions of Willlxe as "a simple, barefoot,
Wall st. banker" and of Thomas Dewey,
throwing his diaper into the ring" can
be appreciated by the members of the
UAW-CI0 who had occasion to hear him
describe the Republican party in an ad-
dress in 1914 before the Grand Rapids
Convention.
Under the circumstances which existed
in the administration and which led to
his resignation, we believe that Harold
Ickes will be of more value to the coun-
try on the outside looking in, than had he
swallowed his feelings in order to main
tain his high position.
AT the present time, Mr.. IckeS is
member of the committee which was or
ganized to aid the GM strikers, proof suf-
ficient that in his person labor has a
friend who is not only articulate, but who
can and will say things and say them so
they stick.
We wish Mr.. IckeS many years more of
life and feel certain that there are many
more acidulous and true words which will
come from his sharp tongue and facile
pen.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-22
The Desk
of
Melvin Schultz
President,
President,
Local II, UAW.CIO

The people of Ohio will soon be faced with
the question of choosing new senator H
conduct their senatorial business in Wash
ington. In all probability former Governor
Bricker will be one of the candidates and is
likely to be opposed by Marvin c. Harrison
1t does not seem to me to be too early to start
evaluating the potential candidates. / am not
too well acquainted with M. Harrison or his
past history to 60 to any length in proclaim
ing his virtues as far as Labor is concerned.
However, the other candidate Is well-known
in a political sense to all of the people, or at
least should be.
1t is a sad state of affairs to find Mr..
Bricker apparently is in favor of eliminating
price control. He, also, is apparently in favor
of eliminating strikes In fact it seems that
he could give Senator Taft very good run
for his money in becoming the favorite of the
reactionaries and labor-baiting big boys. l
don't know what his theories on eliminating
strikes may be, but we should never forget
that there were no strikes in Germany. There
were no strikes in Italy, Japan nor in Russia.
II we are to accept the way of life as it existed
in these countries for the sake of eliminating
strikes then I think we would be very foolish
people.
The one thing which everyone should re-
member is that strikes are not the desire of
people, but are the results of unfairness in
bargaining.
There are times In everyone LIE when he
must do something which he does not like to
do, but nevertheless does it out Of necessity.
Strikes on the part of labor like the present
refusal on the part of big business to sell
merchandise, are part of the price of democ-
racy, but in spite of this price, believe an
overwhelming majority of the people in our
country still want to retain democracy. do
not feel that people whose ideas run in con-
formity to those which have expressed ab
are the type of people whom we should [ N
to public office. am therefore writing
this time in an attempt to wake up the voters
who normally are not interested in who rep
resents them until after the elections wheL
some piece of legislation is passed detriment
to their interest.
1t seems to me that one of the uppermos
activities that every worker should have f4i y
his own benefit is to join and participate IN
the political functions which are designed ell
his benefit. Our lives, as our country, becomH
more highly mechanical will become TO a
greater degree regulated by social laws. We
should make sure that these laws are for our
protection
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-22
Editors Mail
by Patterson
From A RoiIrooder

Wherever people gather we
hear discussions about the
Payroll Tax. Most everyone
seems to feel that the incom-
petence of the City Council is
the real issue.
AS for the tax itself the real
fight is against the malad-
ministration of our city as
well as the fact that business
interests will surely oppose
paying one per cent on their
net profits and will hire law
yers to string it through end
less litigation while the work
ers will still be forced to pay.
My particular question is
the problem of collecting the
tax specifically as it effects
railroad workers.
Some railroad workers live
outside the city Some of
their money is earned inside,
some outside the city. For
example, an engineer on my
division living outside Toledo
spends part of the day within
the city limits and part out
side. How can they deter
mine what part of his work is
taxable? This is true of many
similar cases.
Railroads have good ac-
counting systems but cam
not set up another system just
to extract one per cent for
the city, so what do they do
and what do the railroaders
do about paying the tax?
We do not object to paying
taxes that are fair and which
are based on the ability to
pay. We do object to giving
hlOllSy W OH lIIGSpOllSlDlG
Council which summarily re-
iected labor's request to place
an exemption in the ordi-
nance. No plan, regardless OF
its virtues can replace respon-
sibility and a means of elect
ing city officials which has
by now proved itself a rank
failure. Eliminate PR and
you will find the people of
Toledo ready for a sane tax
program.
Yours for a better Toledo.
Harry Richardson,
215 Gibbons st.
Toledo 8, Ohio
Member-Bro. Loco.
Firemen and En-
ginemen.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-22
Thought For Today


Wouldn't this old world be
better
IL the folks we meet would
say,
81 know something good about
you"
And then treat us that way?
Wouldn't it be fine and
gracious
II each handclasp, warm
and true
Carried with it this assurance
II know something good
about your"
Wouldn't life be lots more
happy
II the good that's in us all,
Were the only thing about us
That folks bothered to re-
call?
Wouldn't it be good to prac-
tice
That nice way of thinking
too?
You know something good
about me
/ know something good
about you.
Author Unknown
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-02-22
ANTI-LABOR CASE

ANTI-LABOR CASE
To case-the-joint is burglars
way
When planning theft of sneak
foray.
In Washington, such plans are
made
When bosses plan a labor
raid.
That's why we should show
our diStaste
For efforts there to have us
"CASE"d.
(MF)
Evening star., 1946-09-17
Hearing onArmyC Courts martial
Opens in Baltimore 7 omorrow

Former servicemen who didn't like
the way the Army conducted its
courts martial will have a chance to
say so tomorrow when committee
of the American Bar Association
opens hearings on the subject in
Baltimore.
The hearings in the Post Office
building will continue three days
and are open to any resident OF
Washington or Baltimore who wish
to contribute something to revising
the War Departments rules and
methods of trying military per-
sonnel.
The bar association is holding
similar hearings all over the Nation
at the suggestion of the War De-
partment. Handling the proceedings
is the Advisory Committee on, Mill
tary Justice and presiding over the
Baltimore sessions will be Judge
Morris A. Soper of the Fourth
United States Circuit Court.
Several Washington attorneys
will testify. Also on hand will be
Associate Justice Alexander Holtzoff
Of the District Court. Justice
Holtzo1 has been designated by the
Evening star., 1946-09-17

a member of the board since 1893
and its vice president since last
winter. During the illness of Mr..
Noyes, he served as acting president.
Former Rotary Chief.
A former president of the Wash
ington Rotary Club, he also has
headed the Washington Society of
Fine Arts and the Washington
Literary Society.
Mr.. Atwood also has been active
in affairs of the Washington Board
of Trade and the Social Hygiene
Society and has undertaken nu-
merous other community services.
He is former chief editorial
writer for the Saturday Evening
Post. onetime financial editor of the
New York Press and reporter on the
New York Sun and the author of a
number of works on finance and
investments.
He once taught financial and
journalism courses at New York
University, Princeton University and
the Columbia University School OF
Journalism.
Cited for Services.
Mrs. Smith has been a member of
the board since 1882 and has been
cited for outstanding service by the
American Library Association.
She directed the Victory Book
Campaign here in 1912 and 1943
when l75,000 books we're collected
for the armed forces.
Mrs. Smith also is member OF
the Board of Education.
The elections were held at special
meeting of the board.
Evening star., 1946-09-17
Two New Polio Cases BRING
Area Total for Year 10 81

Two new cases of infantile para
lysis were reported by the District
Health Department today, bringing
the total in the District this year
to 81. Two cases were reported
late yesterday.
Those reported yesterday were a
3-year-old boy from the 1900 block
of Russell avenue, Mount Rainier,
Md, and an l1-year-old boy from
the 5000 block of Annapolis road.
Bladensburg, Md. Today's cases
were a 7-year-old boy from the
$500 block of Thirty seventh avenue
Hyattsville, Md. and an 11-year- old
boy from the 1900 block of Twenty
ninth street, Arlington. Va.
The Health Department also an
nounced a case of polio which it
will not carry on its records, at
Walter Reed Hospital. A 24-year-
old Army lieutenant from Staten
Island, N. Y, was flown to the
hospital from Tokyo.
Evening star., 1946-09-17
Ensign Wife, Mother
Sue Over Plane Death

The wife and mother of Patrick
Thomas Flynn, 81, of Alexandria,
Va. former Navy ensign, yesterday
afternoon brought suit in District
Court against the Douglas Aircraft
Corp, 300 block of Fifteenth street
NV, asking 100000 damages for
his death on August 5 in a crash
between two airplanes in nearby
Maryland.
The wife is Mrs. Alberta Hahn
Flynn. OF Alexandria, and the
mother, Mrs. Louise J. Flynn, of
Duluth, MINI.
Mr.. Flynn and three others were
killed when Navy plane in which
he was passenger and a fighter
plane collided and crashed in nearby
Maryland. The fighter plane was
on test fight, it was said. The
suit claims it was operated by a pilot
employed by the Douglas Aircraft
Corp. Shortly after the crash, a
spokesman for the corporation said
the pilot of the fighter plane was not
working directly for the corporation
at the time of the crash.
Among others killed in the crash
was 1t Edward Peary Stafford, 26,
a grandson of Admiral Robert E.
Peary, discoverer of the North Pole
The suit was filed in behalf of the
plaintiffs by Attorneys Alton S.
Bradford and l. Irwin Bolotin.
Evening star., 1946-09-17
Modern Fireboot Will Replace
Obsolete Craft Next Week

The new fireboat was described
by Chief Murphy as capable of
pumping 1000 gallons of water per
minute. 1t has a gross tonnage of
407, draws 10 feet of water and Is
powered by two diesel electric en-
gines. 1t will make IL knots and
can make 16 in an emergency.
Battalion Chief John L. Werheim,
a former Navy commander. has
been assigned temporary command
ing officer of the boat, Chief
Murphy said. A crew of 20 men
will be required to man 1t as COM
pared with "a necessary to operate
the present fireboat.
Fire Department and District
officials had been searching for a
suitable replacement for the old
fireboat for some time due to the
high cost of maintaining steam up
while the boat was moored at the
dock. 1t was estimated by Chief
Murphy that the weekly coal bill
alone on the old Firefighter ran to
more than $50.
Evening star., 1946-09-17

The Mauquianna, a 114-foot for
mer Navy tug, described as the
latest thing in fire-fighting equip
ment, will arrive in Washington next
week to replace the obsolete Fire
fighter, which has been in service
on the District water front for 40
years.
Fire Chief Clement Murphy said
the Mauquianna is completing re-
fitting at the Norfolk CVa) Navy
Yard and should be ready in a few
days. Two District firemen. Pvts.
j. r. Guy. former Coast Guard Off
Ger, and j. A. West, jr., former Navy
commander, are now assigned to the
boat in Norfolk.
The Mauquianna, which cost the
Navy $745,000 to build two years
ago, was given to the District under
the provisions of a bill approved by
President Truman August 9. The
F1rehghter, under the provisions
Of the bill, will be disposed of, Chief
Murphy said.
Evening star., 1946-09-17

SeI VI IlllRel pIlHLS lOuIlQ Oh Il
pair of dark glasses in a stolen car
was the clue which led 35 Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents and
Maryland policemen to the arrest of
the four Swami brothers for auto
mobile thefts in the Sunday morn
ing raid on their Chapel Hill, Md,
home, it was learned today.
Their capture was the climax of
a two-month-long investigation. and
the quartet, with two more brothers,
had been under 24-hour surveillance
by undercover men for 10 days.
Key men in the apprehension of
the SWanns-believed to be the
principal members of a stolen car
ring which stripped and burned
scores of automobiles from Wash
ington and nearby Maryland in re-
cent months-Were two Prince
Georges County, Md. policemen.
They are Plainclothesmen John Sid
dali and Wilson J. Purdy.
AS Officer Siddal told a Star re-
porter in an exclusive interview to-
day, the raid was worked out with
veteran FBI men after vital evi-
.dence was uncovered 10 days ago.
Fingerprints matching those of
Pennal Swami, 26, were found on a
pair of. dark glasses in a 1916 Ford
reported stolen in Washington. In
10 days, he said, Federal and State
investigators collaborated to amass
evidence which may send the
Swans to prison.
Raid Carefully Planned.
The raid was a carefully planned
maneuver, worked out by veteran
G-men who do not take chances
The six brothers-two later were
released-Were known to be armed
and their long record of arrests
for assault with intent to kill,
cuttings and other crimes of vio-
lence was common knowledge, Of
ficer Siddel said.
The Swanns-Maxwell, Joseph,
Pennal, James, Hercules and Sher-
man-were in three houses near the
tavern they own at Chapel Hill,
only II miles from Washington. The
raiding party rendezvous near the
Maryland-District line early Sunday
morning and waited until the net
was complete. The trap was sprung
at $50 am.
The care and skill applied to this
raid paid off. The Swans were
taken in their beds at about 5:35
am. and whisked away for inten-
sive questioning.
Four Held on Charges.
-Four of them are charged only
with conspiracy to violate the Ma
tional Automobile Theft Act, while
two others Hercules and Sherman
were released.
Policeman Siddall said these
charges tell only a small part Of the
story.
THE Swami boys" he said, come
from around Clinton, where their
father, Arthur Swami, still has a
little farm. There are eight of the
boys and we've had nothing but
trouble from them ever since they
were boys.
I'VE know all about them and
we've had them in Jail off and on
all their lives"
So much for the Swans until the
early summer of this year when
police of Washington and the near
by Maryland counties were swamped
with a number of complaints from
automobile owners that their cars
were being stolen. Investigators got
Evening star., 1946-09-17
A. W. Atwood Elected
To Head Trustees
OF Public Library

Albert w. Atwood has been elected
president of the Board of Trustees
of the Public Library to succeed
Theodore w. Noyes, who served in
that post from the founding of the
library until his death last July.
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith has been
elected to succeed Mr.. Atwood as
vice president.
Mr.. Atwood, magazine writer and
longtime local civic worker, has been
Evening star., 1946-09-17
HighSchoo|Cafe
Heads Request
Price Boosts
Scent Advance
Asked for Lunches,
z Cents for Milk

Plate lunches in high school
cafeterias will be 20 cents and 30
cents, in many cases a scent in
crease, and milk will be Z cents a
half pint bottle, instead of S cents,
when the schools open next week if
recommendation of committee of
cafeteria superintendents are car
ried out, Assistant School Supt.
Norman K. Nelson said today.
The committee, headed by Miss
Ruth McCray. assistant principal
of Central High School, was formed
to equalize prices in the senior
high school cafeterias. These have
varied in the past from school to
school
Another committee appointed by
School Supt. Hobart N. Corning is
surveying the entire school lunch
situation. but has not yet reported.
Mr.. Nelson said.
Miss McCray's committee recon-
mended that 20 cents be charged
for a plate lunch of meat and one
vegetable and 80 cents for a plate
lunch Of meat, two vegetables, bread
and butter.
Hope that the higher prices NAV
not be necessary rests with the
Board of Education's contract with
the Department of Agriculture which
allows Federal aid up to cents a
meal for schools complying with the
contract provisions. Heretofore only
a few Washington high schools have
taken the steps necessary to qualify |
for Federal aid. but with rising food
prices more are expected to do so,
Mf Nelson said.
He emphasized that the senior
high schools are autonomous in
their management of the economy
Of their cafeterias. The District pro-
vides the schools with kitchen and
cafeteria equipment and some main
tenance but the school staffs super
v; the purchase, preparation and
pricing of the food.
Penny milk will continue in Sc
lected schools, with the Agriculture
Department paying 2 cents and the
District the remainder, Mr.. Nelson
said.