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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
Vets Quit
Their Jobs

WASHINGTON, March IL -
(LPA) = Veterans are quitting
their jobs much faster than
civilian workers, a study by the
Labor Dept. Bureau of Labor
Statistics showed last week.
While 81 of every 1000 non
veterans quit their jobs in De-
cember, the corresponding rate
for veterans was 81, BIS found
However, the report pointed out
that Turnover is always great
er among recently hired work.
ers than among longer-service
employees. Hence undue import
ance should not be attached to
the higher quit rate among vet
erans."
Discharges and firings of vet.
erans were only half as large for
veterans as for non-veterans, it
was disclosed with only 10 out
of every 1000 vets discharged or
laid off while the rate for non
vets was 20.
BIS also discovered that more
than two-fifths of all persons
hired by manufacturing indus
tries during December were vet
Grams. AS result, veterans in
manufacturing now number >
10000 or almost 10 per rent of
the total.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
P+. Clinton Strike
RemuinS Peaceful

PORT CLINTON, March 13 =
No progress has been made in
the settlement of the week old
Standard Products strike here,
according to Tom Kenny, Local
497, UAW-CIO official.
Mr.. Kenny reported that the
picket lines have been peaceful
and that the only incidents
which have occurred were the
turning back of trucks which
attempted to deliver steel to the
plant.
Members of the strike COM
mittee report morale as being
high and a determination to
hold the line until the corpora
ton accedes to the demands of
the strikes.
Public sentiment is on the
side of the strikers with both
local weekly newspapers han
ding the strike news impair
TALLY.
Principal issues in the dispute
are wages and a backlog of 161
unsettled grievances. More than
5000 workers have been fired or
quit since the present plant man.
ager was employed by the COM
pany some months ago.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
AWuif Truman


WASHINGTON, March IL -
(LPA) - Washington last week
awaited appointment by Presi-
dent Truman of the three econ
omic advisers provided for in
the Employment Act of 1946.
Names of those under considera-
ton by the White House is a
closely guarded secret, but sew
eral liberal organizations have
offered Truman lists of favored
candidates.
Success or failure of the en-
ployment law, according to labor
economists, will rest in great
part with the three men whom
Truman appoints.
Part of the advisers RESPONSE
bility will be to prepare an an
nual report for Truman's SUBJ
mission to Congress analyzing
the employment situation, the
prospects for full employment
during the coming year, the
methods of filling the gap with
public works programs If prl-
vate industry is unable to ao-
sorb the available workers.
Commerce Secretary Henry
Wallace, hailing passage of the
act, said that "There is no ques-
ton but that the U. S. govern
ment can or should accept its
own proper share of the total
responsibility. Private business
in our private enterprise system
can and must carry the load. But
private business cannot shoulder
the whole responsibility, for the
simple reason that the discharge
of that responsibility involves
factors over which private busi-
ness has no control"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

Spark Plug, who got either
18c, 18Rc, or lower rates to be
adjusted upward to the industry
scale when the GIN strike ends.
Textile Workers Union of
America, $4,000 workers get
ting &c an hour in northern
cotton mills, 15c an hour in
woolen and worsted mills, 10c
an hour in carpet and rug mills,
and lie an hour in synthetic
yarn mills;
Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers industry got 209O to 31%
raises; Electrical, Radio e. Ma
chine Workers, $4,000 workers
got 1870 an hour, tic an hour,
and 20%o raises. Oil Workers,
10000 strong, won 1870 raises.
Only major settlements are re-
ported in the summary, and the
CIO adds that "There are many
others, involving smaller unions
and fewer workers, that could
be added to the total"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

DETROIT, March IL - LPA)
Chester Bowles needs the sup
port of every consumer in his
courageous fight to hold the
price line against the masSed
forces of initiation which have
descended on the nations capi-
tal," UAW Consumers Division
director Walter P. Reuther told
union locals last week.
HE deserves, and must have
the backing of every auto work
er family. Chester Bowles is
fighting our fight. We must let
the President and the Congress
know that we back Bowles. l
call on all UAW-CIO members
to tell their elected representa-
tives Immediately by wire, or
postcard that they must fight
with us and with Bowles against
the spectators and profiteers
who seek to wreck price con-
troll"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
Lima Loco Gives
Wage Increases
Workers Approve
Company Offer

LIMA, March II - Twenty
six hundred workers of Lima
Locomotive Works of iris
city, members of Local 106,
UAW-CIO will gain in excess OF
S1,O00,000 annually as result
of an 1914 cent wage increase
granted them on March 8, by the
company.
Approval of the increase was
voted unanimously here over
the weekend by a packed mass
meeting held in Memorial Hall.
Included in he contract
agreement were a four hour
call-in pay, double time for
Saturdays afternoon and about
20 other concessions granted by
the Lima Locomotive Workers
management.
Strike Is Averted
Settlement of the wage scale
and other points in dispute at
the Locomotive Works avert
ed strike which was threaten
Continued On Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

majority OF their constituents
wanted the OPA continued,
both Senate and House none
theless voted to slash deficiency
appropriations for OPA to fight
black markets between now and
June 80.
A conference committee was
still considering the slash in
half of this appropriation asked
by OPA, and unions and consul
mer groups are urging wires and
phone calls to the members of
the conference committee: Sena-
tors Millard Tydings 3D., Md,
Kenneth Mcclellan 3D., Tenn,
Carl Hayden 3D., Ariz.); Repre-
sentatives Clarence Cannon 3D.,
Mo-, Louis Lutlow 3D., Ind.),
Emmett O'Neal 3D., Ky.) and
Louis c. Rabaut 3D., Mich.)
Support Given Reluctantly
Support was given reluctant
ly" by the powerful House Spe-
cial Committee on Postwar Eco
nomic Policy and Planning to
extension of the Price Control
Act. Killing OPA at this time
would most likely result in ru-
inous initiation and would react
unfavorably not only to the
wage earners and consumers but
to business ITSELF" the commit
tee concluded.
This bipartisan body held
hearings over a five-month pc
riod and is not known for its
liberalism.
No words were minced by top
stabilization officials in a bar
rage of press statements early
last week, in which the finger
was clearly pointed at the lob
bies that have been fighting be-
hind the scenes, as we'll as in
public, to kill the stabilization
machinery.
Continued on Page 3
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

@. M. Aid
Is Reported

Reports of a citywide GIN
strike committee are made each
Thursday to delegates from
local shops which meet at Local
IL headquarters. Income and
expenditures are detailed at the
weekly meeting.
In the last report, it was
shown that 588 families are re-
ceiving aid.
Assistance given to the fami-
lies of Chevrolet workers varies
according to the size of the ia
mily and the need. In order to
be eligible for aid the striker
must be on the picket line at
least eight hours each week.
Food and fuel are the principal
items furnished the strikers. No
luxuries are allowed since the
money is limited and does not
permit going beyong food al
loWances.
Morale Is High
The morale of the 1000 To-
ledo GIN strikers remains re-
markably high despite 116 days
of idleness forced upon them by
the stubborn attitude of the
corporation. They feel that
they have the moral and fl
nancial support of the workers
of Toledo and have confidence
in the justice of their cause.
Put in the words of one of
the strikers, "we are prepared
to see this strike through no
matter what the cost. This is
more than a fight for a nickle
in our pay envelopes. 1t is a
struggle to determine if the
largest corporation in the ma
ton can run rough-shod over
the workers who produce its
wealth, the public who buys its
products and the government
which represents all the people.
Chevrolet workers have asked
that their thanks to the work
ers of Toledo be expressed
through the TOLEDO UNION
JOURNAL and add, with such
support the strike will ultimate
ly be won"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

farm equipment, maritime
and other unions, CIO head
quarters reports.
"Under the militant policy OF
CIO President Murray" write
Fred d'Avila and Everett Kas-
salow in the CLOS national
weekly, "CIO affiliates took
their case to the people in dem
onstrations and on picket lines
that not only won badly needed
raises for hundreds of thou
sands of workers, but also guar
anteed continued security for
their unions"
Report Wage Gains
Here are some of the wage
gains reported: United Steel
workers, 18 12c an hour for $780,
600 workers 100000 have the
raise, 25O,000 still out will get
it,: Unfted Auto Workers, 211,-
800 in Ford, Chrysler Stude-
baker, Briggs, Kaiser-Fraizer,
Willys-OverIand, hamp o n
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

Averted

WASHINGTON, March II
UPA) - A nationwide tele-
phone strike was averted last
week just 80 minutes before
a deadline that would have
silenced millions of phone, l.
100000 miles of teletype and
telegraph circuits and 10000
miles of radio lines. Z
Union officials counted the
new agreement, which provides
for pay raises up to 1880 an
hour, as a complete victory.
Terms of the new contract,
which will run for one year, in
clude: $5 to So increase for out
side maintenance and construc-
ton men and plant craftsmen;
SIS to 81 for operators; SIS to 81
for clerical employees and mes
sage operators; $5 across the
board for mechanics, house
service employees and others.
The raise generally will
amount to 17.6c an hour, but in
the case of the 10000 long
lines employees fringe gains will
bring the total hike to 1873
cents.
Jump the Gun
Settlement came after 81 al
most continuous hours of dis
cusSions. Workers in Washing
ton and other cities jumped the
6 o'clock deadline and were al
ready marching on picketlines
when the agreement was an
nounced.
Retroactive to Feb. l. the
|neW contract provides for main
'tenAnce OF membership and .
number of fringe improvements
Individual affiliates will now
bargain with local or regional
Bell systems on particular con-
tract clauses such as classifica-
tions and shift differentials.
One of the immediate effects
of the victory, apart from
strengthening an organization
that has hitherto been a loose
federation of so autonomous
groups, will probably be the af-
filiation of thousands of other
phone workers who are either
unorganized or members of
unions not connected with the
NFTW.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
Packard Election
Won by LocaI II

An mveStIg cation by the reg
ional National Labor Relations
Board into the representation
election held at the plant of the
Packard Motor Co., Laskey Rd.,
March z, participated in between
Local II and the MESA is all
most certain to return the UAW.
CIO a winner it is believed.
Results of the election were
as follows:
Local IL, NAW-CIO IS votes
MESA ............ is votes
Challenged ......... % votes
All votes challenged were by
the MESA and will be investi-
gated by the NLRB. Local II of
ficials express every confidence
that more than enough of the
challenged votes will be vail
dated by the regional NLRB to
insure the UAW a majority of
the go votes cast.
MESA Asks Election
Application for the election
was made by the MESA which
stated in its petition last Sept. 8
that As UAW members had de-
signated their union as bargain
ing agent.
Approval of the election came
following an NLRB hearing and
setting the date of the election
or March z.
Certification of Local IL will
follow investigation of the chal-
lenged votes by the NLRB. If
one vote out of the % which was
challenged is validated the UAw
will be declared winner.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

making "a deliberate attempt to
encourage the spread of COM
munism" in refusing to bargain
in good faith.
Senator Pepper 3D., Fla.) in
blistering telegram to Civilian
Production Administrator John
D. Small, demanded that the lat
ter exercise his authority under
the second War Powers Act and
allocate the unused steel GIN
has on hand to those industries
which need steel and are work
ing"
Proof that GIN had no inten-
tion to bargain in good faith be-
came flagrantly evident once
again when the company re-
jected the offer of the United
Auto Workers-CIO to arbitrate
and countered with a proposal
that the 175,000 strikers be se-
Continued On Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
WATCH IT
CROW

Many Local IL workers
have been granted wage
increases either in the way
of token raises which will
be re-negOtiated b a S e d
upon the national wage
pattern, or in conformity
with the pattern.
Turn to the table at the
top of page 2 and see what
the increased wage scale
means to the workers them
selves and to the business
of Toledo. Increased pur-
chasing power reflects it
self in every business and
brings greater benefits to
the entire community.
Has your shop been
given an increase. See
Page 2.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
Election Date
Set

Members of the Board of
Elections meeting on We'd
neSday morning of this
week by unanimous apprO-
val set May !, as the date
for the payroll tax Ordin-
ance referendum.
Board members felt that
because of the expense OF
conducting a special cleo
tiOn, insufficient time to
mail ballots to the service
men and the confusion at
tendent upon preparing for
the election in a short time,
that the election should be
held cOncurrently with the
party primaries.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

fact finding boards recon-
mendation of a 1912-cent an
hour wage increase.
Indignant disgust with the
worlds richest corporation hit a
new high, particularly in the
Senate where Senator James
Murray 3D., Mont.) and Wayne
Morse (R., Ore.) are pushing for
full-fledged congressional in
vestigation of the causes of the
GIN and other strikes.
Said Murray, Members of
the Senate Labor Committee now
feel that the principal thing GIN
is after now is to bust the un-
ion" He was joined by Morse
who declared that ST think we've
got to find out whether certain
segments of industry are out to
wreck unions"
LaFOllette Charges GM
Rep. Charles LaFollette (R.,
Ind.) told the House that GIN is
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
Churches Support Strike

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March IL
= (LPA) - Labor's goals were
strongly supported in a report
presented to the plenary session
of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ in America
here last week. The churchmen
reaffirmed the right of labor to
strike, called for good faith in
collective bargaining" support
ed the basic right to work at an
adequate wage and at a mans
highest capacity regardless of
creed or race, and urged that
the competitive motive in indus
try be kept at a minimum.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
Round The Clock
Conferences Brine
End Of Stoppase

DETROIT March 13-Announcement made today
of the end of the General Motors strike after 113 days idle
which cost the corporation and workers millions of dol
lars in lost time and sales.
Details of the agreement not Immediately avail
able although the wage scale had been agreed upon The
figure accepted by the union 1872 cents Whether the
additional the had asked for would be submitted
arbitration the union had requested last week
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

announced.
Settlement of the strike
came after the 18th straight
hour of conference which con-
tinued night and day between
the union and company officials.
Settlement Was Alternative
When the negotiations began
on Tuesday negotiators had the
alternative of either settling now
or putting off final settlement
until April l according to word
given out here. With the end
in sight, negotiators settled
down to their task with the de-
termination to affect a final
solution to Cheir problems as
long as there was any hope of
making a settlement.
One of the principal points in
the dispute after the settlement
of the pay issue was reported to
be the question of retroactive
pay.
The settlement was rumored
to be final settlement and not
a Temporary deal between the
corporation and union.
Laid To Convention
Rumors around Detroit were
that the strike settlement was
made because of the forthcom-
Continued On Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

City Council.
On Monday morning of this
week, the council clerk re-
ported the petitions to Council
which was unable to make up
it's mind about ordering the
election after Wilfred Christen-
sen, city law director expressed
the opinion that the election
must be held within 80 days
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

following certification, or about
April 10.
Councilman Tom Burke speak
ing for PAC which circulated
and filed the petitions, told
Council that his organization
did not desire a special election
Continued On Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
OPAFunds SIashed ;
Bow|es B|ames Greed

WASHINGTON, March IL (LPA)-No veteran of the
Washington willing last week to predict the out
come of the fight to extend the Price Control Act without
crippling amendments While congressman eyed with inter-
est the public opinion polls indicating that overwhelming
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
Congress Patience
With GIN Wanes

WASHINGTON, March II LPA)-Congressional pa
tience with the ourlushng tactics of General Motors
thinner and thinner last week and temper
the boiling point following President Trumans
that he still believed GIN should accede the government
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
Go Wage Gains
Hit Half Million
More Raises Remain
To Be Negotiated

WASHINGTON, March II NPA)-The Go has won
gains of about $500 1000 year for million and half
workers. according to reports received at CO headquarters
here from II of the major CIO international unions More
raises yet to be negotiated in auto shpyard packing
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
Pay Roll Tdr Vote
Assured By 10, Oh
Valid Signatures
Efforts To Sabotage
CIO,PetitiOns Fail

enacted by City Council JAM II assured place the
ballot Saturday of week when the Board of Elections
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15
BowIes Fights Our Fight

Continued ON Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-15

The Voice of the
CIO in
Northwestern Ohio
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-09
Scrap Deorth Cuts Steel
 Production

New York, Aug. 9-(NEA)-An- ither crisis is looming on the indus rial horizon, just when everything seemed to be going nicely at last. This time it isn't strikes, although strikes are an important indirect factor. It's shortage of steel scrap.
 Only about 3 percent of the steel industry's open hearth furnaces are shut down now. But if the flow of scrap continues at the present poor rate mill inventories will be virtually gone in four to six weeks, American Iron and Steel Institute officials predict.
 Such an eventuality would natur- ally affect all manufacturing de- pendent on steel, from locomotives to common pins. A continued short age would repeat the steel strike story of last Winter-unemploy- ment, retarded industrial recovery, further swelling Of unsatisfied con- sumer demand, and another serious inflationary threat.
 To understand the shortage it is necessary to understand, first of all, that the steel industry must feed upon itself in order to exist. By the open hearth method, which pro- duces about 90 percent of our steel, scrap and pig iron are used in ap- proximately 50-50 proportions. Elec- tric furnaces use almost all scrap.
 Principal Causes
 The principal causes of the shortage are these:
 l. The steel strike. During last Winters two months shutdown little scrap was used, of course. But there was also little production of scrap. Steel-making is somewhat like cookie-making. The dough left over after the cookies are cut can be gathered up, rolled out, and made into more cookies. Virtually the same process goes on in the cotmtry's steel mills, which provide
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-09
Judd Family In Reunion

The home of MT. and Mrs. Eugene Taylor of Marble Dale was the scene recently of the 22nd annual reunion of the Judd family.
 Members attending were: Mrs George Judd, MT. and Mrs. Her bert Chase, Nancy, Laura and Paul Chase, MT. and Mrs. Charles Her. rold, Shirley Herrold, Merton Reid all of Bristol; MT. and Mrs. Robert Hotchkiss and MT. and Mrs. Floyd Goodman of Cheshire and Carol Goodwin, MT. and Mrs. Harold Hotchkiss, Robert HotchkiSs, MT and Mrs Arthur Johnson, Barbara and Ruth Johnson of Plainyille, MT. and Mrs Malvin Clemens, Shirley and Judd Clemens of Penn sylvania, MT. and Mrs. Robert Schaff. Robert and William Schaff, MT. and Mrs. E. Corcoran, Robert Corcoran, MT. and Mrs Chester Judd, MT. and Mrs. Ernest Reid Leland Reid, MT. and Mrs A. Sandulli, David and Joseph San dulli, MT, and Mrs. L. Leroy Judd MT. and Mrs. Francis Judd, Peter Judd, all of Waterbury; MT. and Mrs. Eugene Taylor, MT and Mrs. Malcolm Reid. Mrs. Minnie Way.
 MT. and Mrs. Clarence Katan Maxine, Reid and Nancy Rattan Mrs. Albert Collins, Garth, Fred Verne and Florence Collins, Mrs F. Degnan Darby and Maureen Degnan, MT. and Mrs. Ralph John son and Eric Johnson, all of Mar ble Dale; MT and Mrs. B. Smith Edward and Richard Smith, all ot Plainville.
 Guests of the family were Miss Carolyn Holmes, Miss Jean Nc. Carroll, William Hedus and Dale Clark.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-09
Playground Drama Finals Tonight at 7

Washington Park Community House will be the scene of the fi- nals of the park departments an- nual inter-playground drama con- test tonight at T. The show was originally scheduled at the Ander- son gym. Only adults will be ad- mitted because of a ticket short age. Parents of cast members will be given first preference for tickets.
 Fairlawn, last years winner, will present rom Sawyer, Classroom Scene" Plays to be offered by the other finalists are Washington Park, "Wonders of Storybook Land;;" Warner Gardens, ''The Lit tie Cousin,' and Fulton Park, "A Bargain is a Bargain" The plays will be judged for acting, diction, general effect and interpretation.