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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10

Jewish Women and Negro Wom-
en-, the United Council of Church
Women, the National Consum-
ers League and the National
Women's Trade Union League.
Most of the delegates were
women.
Tells Meeting Purpose
The meeting was called,
Chairman Helen Hall told the
conferees, because when vic
tory came we looked to Con-
gress for action. AS the months
wore on it came over US that
while we had won a war abroad
we were fast losing one at
home"
Now" Miss Hall went on,
this kind of thing can only
Continued On Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10

10000 granted to the 5000
company employees as a result
of the national wage agree
ment negotiated by UAW-CIO
top officers in Detroit, April 10.
Taking part in the Detroit con-
ference were UAW President
Walter P. Reuther, George Ad-
des and Richard Gosser, direc-
tor, Region 2-B.
Auto-Lite Unit was represent
ed at the Detroit negotiations
by its chairman, John Begg, and
Howard Cutcher and Virgil
Barnhart of the executive COM
mittee.
Swartzbaugh Wins Strike
Four hundred and Wenty
members of the SWartzbaugh
who ended their strike last week
Wednesday will profit to the
tune of $4,000 in increases as
the result of the agreement of
the company management to
meet the 1872 -cents-an-hour in
crease.
Employees of the Toledo In
dustrial Heat Treating Co. mem
bers of Local IL numbering %
gained $4,000 annual increase
as result of an 18-cents-an-
hour increase granted them by
the company, it was announced
by Lloyd Speidell, recording sec
retary, on Monday of this week.
Many Increases Reported
Total increases reported in
Local IL to date now amount to
SO, ,O23, ,361, which, plus wage
raises in UAW -CIO shops
throughout the region mount up
to nearly IL million dollars.
Increases have been granted
in other Local IL and UAW-C -CIO
shops which are still unreported.
These together with those which
have already been given, will
mean millions of dollars of ad-
purchasing poyer in the
hands of the workers and in
creased business for merchants
and industries.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10

president.
Very little progress was
made in negotiations for the
new contract which was sub
mitted to the company yester-
day.
Attorney S. D. L. Jackson,
Cleveland, recently employed by
the company to represent it in
negotiations was spokesman for
the management in yesterdays
session and slowed negotiations
down to marked degree. Union
representatives said that he ap-
peared to be a mouthpiece for
Claude Coon, plant manager who
has played an unimportant and
silent part in union-company
talks since his anti-labor record
was exposed by union officials
here two weeks ago.
Given UAW Aid
Spirit is high among the strik-
ers particularly since the Inter-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10

national UAW-CIO voted to aid
the strike at the Chicago Board
meeting several weeks ago. The
back work movement which
was publicized by the two local
newspapers and company man
agement in an effort to break
the strike has apparently died
out completely since none of the
strikers returned to heir jobs last
week on the day set by the COM
pany for opening its plant to
those who wished to return to
their jobs.
Principal issues at stake in
the strike are wages and a large
backlog of unsettled union griev-
ances.
Union Is Firm
Union officials stated their de-
termination to see the strike
through to a victorious conclusion
Continued On Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Straub Is Named
JAW Accuses
Radio Firms

WASHINGTON, May 5 (LPA)
"A charge by the United Auto
Workers-CIO executive board
that radio manufacturers are de-
liberately holding back the pro-
drction of combination fire.
quency modulation and standard
receiving sets was partially SUBJ
stantiated by government Off
cials here this week.
Unofficial government esti-
mates indicate that consider
ably less than 500" of the radio
sets scheduled to be manufac-
tured during the rest of the year
will contain equipment to re-
ceive FIN, the so-called static
less" broadcasts.
The UAW urged that a cam
paign be conducted by the CIO
exposing the manufacturers
policy in holding back on the
production of FM receivers ''in
the expectation that the sets now
being sold will become obsoles-
cent in a year or two and will
have to be replaced then by FM
or combination AM sets"
Both CIO and AFL unions that
have obtained or have applied
for FM licenses are concerned in
the issue, government authori-
ties pointed out. The value of a
FM broadcasting
station would be greatly reduced
if only a small number of sets in
the community could tune in its
OrO0ran7S
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
CIO Praises Governor

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Sen-
ate confirmation of Judge Will
liam H. HASTE as governor of
the Virgin Islands was COM
mended last week by CIO Pres
ident Philip Murray. HASTE "haS
the whole-hearted support of our
organization and of progressive
minded people throughout the
country" said Murray. Under
his leadership we can look for
ward to an unusually effective
administration in the Virgin
Islands"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Gosser Clarifies
Loze++e Position
Explains His Position
AS CIO Spokesman

In a statement to the Toledo
Blade last week, Richard Cos
ser, UAW-CIO regional director
clarified the position of Richard
Lazette, Toledo Industrial Union
Council president.
Director Gosser's statement
was made to amplify one made
on Thursday of last week in
which he stated that Mr.. La
zette "did not speak for CIO"
when he made a statement in
the TIUC meeting of April IL
relative to 'liquidating the
AFL."
Following is the statement
made to the Toledo Blade:
when / said Mr.. Lazette did
not speak for CIO, l intended to
convey the meaning that this
applied only in jurisdictional
matters. Mr.. Lazette does speak
for CIO, but l speak for it on
iurisdictional matters"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10

The Capitol Postoffice was
.deluged with mail, and the
Western Union office was
overwhelmed by the flood of
messages, the vast majority of
which favored extension of OPA
without the crippling amend
ments tackled onto the bill by
he House.
Veterans-some of them from
Waiter Reed Hospital here -
and housewives joined forces in
formally as they toured Con-
greSsional offices during the
week, but the anti-inflation lob
bying reached its peak on Satur-
day, when thousands of people
attended "Save OPA" rally on
the Washington Monument
grounds, to hear representatives
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Small Vote Lives Up To
Pre-primary Predictions

Labor candidates nomination in the party prirna-
res Tuesday of this week in what said to be the
smallest election in % years.
Marvin C. Harrison, PAC backed candidate for the
United States senate defeated by incumbent Senator
James w. Hoffman, while John w. Bricker, Republican
candidate named without opposition.
Governor Frank ]. Lausche easily won over his un-
known opponent Joseph Torok Jr while Thomas j. Her.
bert backed by the Republican organization throughout
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Prices
Protested

DETROIT, May 3 LPA) =
Determination of the United
Auto Workers-CIO that wage
increases shall not be used as
an excuse for raising prices
was reflected last week in a
UAW announcement that Presi-
dent Walter P. Reuther had di-
rected the unions legal depart
ment to file formal protest with
the Office of Price Administra-
ton against the granting of a
second round of price increases
to the industry.
In the event the unions pro-
test is rejected by OPA the un-
ions executive board authorized
its top officers to take the case
into the Emergency Court of Ap-
pealS.
The action was taken, said
Reuther, on behalf of the unions
members as consumers land on
behalf of all consumers who will
be asked to pay unjustifiable
prices which OPA has authoriz-
ed for the 1945 face-lifted ver-
sion of 1912 model autos"
Applies OPA Formula
The UAW pointed out that
prior to these second round"
increases in autos, OPA had ap-
piled its So-called "reconversion
formula" to passenger cars and
set prices which averaged from
$3.50 to $3.50 higher than prices
on the last previous models
1941.
In addition to its formal pro-
test the union instructed its con-
sumner counsel, Donald Mont
gomery, to investigate the So
called engineering changes and
to check into the higher costs
that consumers will be forced to
pay for cars if relatively few
cars are turned out in the low
price lines.
Reuther stated that the union
is greatly concerned with the
need of many million lpw-in-
come workers, farmers and pro-
fesSional people who require
new cars in carrying on their
occupations but may find that
most cars are priced out of their
reach. Present retail prices al
ready average about 500 higher
than In the years just before the
war.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
ALA Leaves AFL
To Join CIO

WASHINGTON, May S (LPA)
The Amalgamated Lithograph-
ers of America, until last Octo-
Der an AFL affiliate, last week
were accepted into the CIO. The
ALA, founded in 1882 and af-
filiated with the AFL in 1906,
voted to leave the Federation
and join the CIO as the result
of a prolonged and unresolved
jurisdictional dispute with other
AFL crafts.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Sets
Office Hours

Richard Lazette, Toledo In
dustrial Union Council president
and CIO Community Chest di-
rector, has established office
hours at Local IL headquarters,
425 Winthrop street, to facilitate
handling of welfare cases of
Local IL members who consti-
tute the largest majority of CIO
in this city.
Mr.. Lazette is in Room Is
daily from 100 to 400 p. m.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
March Prices Up

WASHINGTON LPA)-Even
the much-attacked Cost of Liv-
ing Index of the Dept. of Labor
showed that average retail
prices reached a new postwar
peak in mid-March With
higher prices for most principal
items in the family budget, the
consumer price index advanced
0.5% between February Is and
March Is to 1929 of the 1885
SO average"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
FU Asks
Anderson
Removal

WASHINGTON, May 5 =
tLPA) - President Truman
was urged last week to ask
for the resignation from the
cabinet of Secretary of Agri-
culture Clinton P. Anderson.
The request for Anderson's re-
moval came within "a hours
after Anderson folded up under
"a concerted drive by the meat
packers lobby, and told the Sen
ate Banking Committee that if
THE black market was not licked
within the next so days, he
Thought all price ceilings should
gbe taken off meat.
A sorm of protest followed
Anderson's offhand admission to
questions by Republican Sena-
tors that some people can't
mind paying 81 pound for but
ter" and that if ceilings were
taken off meat, pork-the poor
family's standby - would go up
to zoe a pound.
Patton Asks Custer
James Patton, National Farm
ers Union president, wrote Pres
ident Truman last week asking
that someone more sympathetic
with the policies of your Admin
isration" be appointed to replace
Anderson.
Patton wrote: In his pre-
pared statement of yesterday the
secretary is quoted in the press
as having said that continuation
of agricultural subsidies and
price conrols is essential. But
Immediately afterward, accord
ing also to the press, he issued
an open invitation to the packers
10 continue their tremendous
campaign to smash price control
by saying that controls should be
taken off of meat in 80 days un-
less the black market is ended
by hen.
The whole price control struc-
ture already is staggering under
the attack of the meat packers.
There is a strong indication that
of the present crisis in
meat is a manufactured crisis.
Continued On Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Strike Hits
Time --- Life

LOS ANGELES, (LPA) -
Four printing trades crafts went
on strike here last week against
the Pacific Press which prints
west coast editions of Life, Time
and other magazines. Chief issue
was the closed shop.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10

the state won easily over his
opposition and will lead the
state ticket in the November
election. Neither candidate was
endorsed by the Political Action
Committee.
Name Two Representatives
Michael j. Damas and Jack
Thompson both members of
Auto-Lite Unit Of Local IL won
two of the five nominations for
state representative with Frank
w. Mohn, member of the
Spicer Unit of Local IL winning
one Of the two nominations for
state senator.
John j. Grill, a member of
Local 80, URWDSEA-CIO was
defeated by Art Gratop in the
Democratic nomination for coun-
ty commissioner.
Edwin j. Lynch well known
Toledo attorney who has been
friendly to labor won over Judge
A. V. Bauman for the Demo-
cratic nomination to the District
Court of Appeals. Judge Irving
Carpener was unopposed for the
same post on the Republican
ticket.
Straub Is Named
Harvey G. Straub unopposed
for Common Pleas Court on the
Republican ticket will have no
opposition in November since no
Continued On Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Reuther
Will Bar
S" !"

DETROIT, May 5 (LPA) =
President Walter Reuther, OF
the United Auto Workers
CIO, last week issued 49,
point policy statement and
program and at the same time
disclosed that he would act to
bar Communists from the UAW
payroll.
Once again Reuther laShed
out at men whose Royalties to
groups outside the union and to
foreign powers cause them to
take positions and from time to
time shift such positions on
, union issues without regard for
the welfare of either the union,
it's members or our country"
Reuther States Goals
Reuther's statement empha-
sized that the union must inten-
sify its efforts to achieve the
following goals: Elimination
of wage inequitieS within plants,
within corporations and within
the industry; Equal pay for
equal work without discrimina-
ton and regardless of the geo
graphical location Of the plant
or the products manufactured;
Complete elimination OF piece
work systems; the 30-hour week
with no reduction in weekly
pay; longer paid vacation per-
iods; establishment of social sec
urity plans, financed by employ
ers and providing life insurance,
sickness and accident benefits,
supplementary u n e m ployment
lsnsurance and retirement pen
Ssions."
Fights Initiation
Calling for an all-out fight
against initiation, Reuther said
1--WE must integrate our program
to fight initiation with that of
the CIO. We must mobilize our
entire membership - as work
ers, consumers and citizens -
and we must work to secure the
cooperation and participation of
farm and labor groups, consum-
er organizations, civic an d
church groups and individual
citizens.
We must mobilize all of these
forces, politically and economi-
cally to show Congress, on the
one hand, and big business, on
the other, that the American
people will not tolerate the in
evitable fruits of initiation -
crippled economy, mass unem-
Continued On Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Correction

1t was reported in the
JOURNAL issue of April 19
that Richard GOSser, UAW-
CIO regional director par
ticipated in a meeting with
the Swartzbaugh Mfg. Co.
management on April 6.
This was an error. Director
GOSSer did not meet with
the Swartzbaugh Company
until April 13.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Congress Told To
Get Back To Work
Support Given To
Vets Housing Bill

WASHINGTON, May 5, NPA) = Living proof that la
boris legislative program has the support of respectable
middle class citizens who have community welfare at heart
was given here Washington last week at the Conference
ON Unfinished Business in Social Legislation.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Marion JAW
Takes JoUrnol

MARION. May 6 - Members
of Local $50, UAW-CIO, in an
overflow meeting here today
unanimously subscribed to the
TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL
after listening to talks by Wal
ter Murphy, international UAW-
CIO representative and Ollie
.Pecord, managing editor of the
Toledo labor paper.
In discussing the value of the
labor press, Pecord told his
audience, "you are subsidizing
the daily press to propagandize
you. If your union wants to get
its news into your local news
paper, chances are that the edit
or calls upon your plant man
agement to see if its satisfac-
tory with them to print your
news"
Pecord pointed out that while
the daily press was free, it used
its freedom to slant the news
against labor in many instances
and said, ''you need the labor
press to fumigate your minds
after reading some of the labor
news that the daily newspapers
y1viy,E -
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
More Wage Raises
CIO
additional Local IL Shops Meet
National WGge Schedules

UAWCIO members profited by wage increases last
week the tune of 10000 the result of 1914
hour wage increases announced by Auo-Lte Swarz-
baugh Toledo Industrial Heat Treating Units of Local IL
Heading the list Auto-Lte with total of So 3O8,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Nation Protests
Junkins Of OPA
Capitol PostOffice Deluged
With Mail For Congressman

WASHINGTON May LPA) = One of the greatest
outpourings of public feeling in u S. history reached it's
height Capitol Hill last week. the Senate closer
hearing report from its Banking and Currency Com
mittee on extension of the Price Control Act
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Little Progress Made
In H. Clinton Strike
Company Representative Slows
Down Contract Negotiations

PORT CLINTON, May -Negotiationsbetween Local
497 UAWCIO strike here since Feb 27 and the Stand
ard Products Co. which began here yesterday
will continue today it announced by Tom eKnny union
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-10
Murphy offers Aid

Walter Murphy, recently as
signed to the Marion area by
Richard Gosser, Toledo, UAW-
CIO regional director spoke
briefly and discussed the recent
wage raise given employees of
the Universal Cooler Unit of Lo-
cal $50. He complimented the
officers of the Local for their
efforts during the wage and con-
tract negotiations and told the
members that he would give
them whatever assistance they
might require.
Wage increases granted men,
berS of the Local give the mem
bers S332,000.00 in additional
purchasing power and raise
them to the national wage level.
Clarence Keeton, Local $50
president, was chairman of the
Other officers of the
Local include Paul Alexander,
vice-president; Herman Rech.
recording secretary, Ed. Beach,
financial secretary and Clifford
Alexander and Thurlon Trickey.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-20

was the playing of handball in
churches. In some French cathe-
drals the bishops, canons and 9TH
er dignitaries joined in a solemn
game of ball. The ball represented
the sun, which was supposed to
take three leaps on rising on
Easter morning.
Old Women Played Ball
The strict discipline of Lent un-
doubleday inspired this ball play
ing. The game soon evolved into
a dance. Old records indicate that
bishops and abbots took part in
the dances, which in several plac-
les were held in churches. AT
Bury st. Edmunds history says
E'the game was kept up with great
spirit by IL old women"
! Another odd custom originated
lin Bavaria, where 18th Century
priests included funny stories in
their Easter sermons. Although
they would draw moral, the
stories eventually bordered on the
sacrilegious and were prohibited
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-20

by Clement x (1670-1676) and
again by Macmillan II in the
18th Century.
Kisses For Easter
Men of North England claimed
the privilege of lifting every wo-
man from the ground three times
upon meeting her on Easter for
which they would receive a kiss
or a silver sixpence "a dime). On
Easter Monday the women tried
this out on the men.
In Germany, men servants
could whip maidservants with
switches on Easter, and the next
day the maids whipped the men.
In each case they secured their
release through payment of Eas-
ter eggs. Throughout various
countries to the north women had
the right to strike their husbands
on Easter Monday, but on Tues
day the men could strike their
wives.
Easter fires of pagan origin
were in vogue for centuries. These
big bonfires were to signify the
victory of spring over winter.
They had to be drawn from the
wood by friction-no trick flints
or transported Goals.
However, the legend of the
Easter rabbit has proved the most
satisfactory through the centuries,
and according to custom the rab.
Dit should be white. White has
always been the liturgical color
for Easter on the theory that it
represents light, joy and purity.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-20

muny Euster observances stem
directly from the pagan feost OF
Eoestre. Hdving been the mo-
jor springtime festival. the
pagan Easter inevitably be-
come mixed with the principal
festival of the Christiun yeor
folling in the some season.
Why Colored Eggs
The rabbit as the pagan en-
blem of fertility was a popular
pet among children. When eggs,
forbidden during Lent, were
brought to the table on Easter it
was natural conclusion that they
had been laid by the Easter rab-
bit. e.
Even in ancient times the eggs
were colored red to symbolic
Easter joy, according to church
historians, who trace the Easter
egg to paganism, where it signi-
fled terminating life of early
spring.
A quaint oldtime Easter custom
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-20

are crowded out when they. too,
should be considered. The pen
dulum of civic progress swings
all the way from outright graft
when a civic project goes in, to
just a very small healthy
share" to the very few who
give the city something with alb
solutely nothing to gain from
this hard work and fine spirit of
giving.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-20

gee after participating in a par
ade, two men attempted to elude
capture by fleeing in an auto
mobile. Pursued by a lime
spreader and the bus load of
students, the men submerged
themselves in a creek and left
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-20

only their NOSES pfusElksllnz
above the water. State tru0speFN
spotted them and fired snto -
water. They came 0ut wlIh tlssil
hands up. The value Il their l<at
two sacks u silver coins. 49,
about SIS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-20
WHY EASTER RABBIT LAYS
i
IL Happens To Symboise Easter Joy; Old Tradition
4
COLORED EGGS EVERY YEAR
By DAVID C. BAREUTHER
APP Newsfe0fuYeS Wrifay

story of the Eoster rabbit hot lays Euster eggs is much
older than Santa Cous perhaps any other childhood
diion.
The Eoster rabbit originally pagan symbol and like
the nome OF Euser ITSELF has been hnded down from
antiquity
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-20
ROBBERS HIDE in CREEK

HUBERT, Okla. ~ Surprised
in the act of robbing the Hubert
National Bank by a bus load OF
students returning from Musko-