Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-16
Political
Action
BY
Clayton
Rusch
Chairman
Of the

Political Action Committee
The following self-explana-
tory resolution was adopted by
the Ohio CIO-PAC State Cen
trail Committee on July %,
1946:
WHEREAS, the Congress OF
the United States, with the in
spiration and cooperation OF
big business and its handmade
ems, the National Association
of Manufacturer and the
United States Chamber of
Commerce, have effectively
opened the floodgates of infla-
ton. The new OPA law, while
perhaps an improvement over
the original Taft monstrosity
vetoed by President Truman,
still fails to effectively block
the rising tide of living In
Ohio and America.
The cost of food on the
table, clothes on the back, the
ordinary necessaries of life,
have mounted far beyond the
pocketbook of the mass of the
American people.
The upward rush of the
basic cost of living imposes
cruel burden on the recipients
of state aid, the teachers and
state employees and the in
mates of our state institutions.
Consider the desperate lot of
the unemployed worker of
Ohio, whose maximum is
$21.00 a week the injured
and manned workmen's COM
pensation claimant, VIII ose
maximum is $24.50 a week
the old age pensioner cur
rently receiving an average OF
$4,000 a month. All of these
unfortunate casualties of our
economy who even formerly
were hard put to make ends
meet on the meager allowance
granted by the state of Ohio,
are now forced to exist on the
level of the most primitive OF
standards. They are now COM
mitted to the cheapest OF
foods, the sleaziest of clothing,
and the humblest of dwellings
The teachers and state en-
ployes, who additionally have
been the victims of a false
economy-conscious L eg S la
ture, now find themselves vic
timized by spiralling living
costs.
This same worship of econ
omy above humanity finds the
thousands of inmates in our
state institutions, the mentally
sick, the tubercular, the blind,
the window and the fatherless,
improperly clothed, fed and
housed. Their situation in the
past, barbaric and brutal as it
was, will continue to grow
worse and more shameful be-
cause legislative appropriation
cannot be stretched to provide
these defenseless charges of
the state with the humane
treatment thir conditions de-
mand. Now, therefore, be 1t
RESOLVED, that the Ohio
CIO-PAC State Central Com
mittee does hereby call upon
the governor to issue call to
the state legislature for a Spe-
cial session. The purpose OF
such session should be to in
crease maximum workmen's
compensation, unemployment
benefits and old age pension
allowance. Likewise, the legis-
lature in special session must
give immediate relief to the
teachers and state employees,
with additional appropriations
to adequately care for the
tragic inmates of our state in
stitutionS. Be it further
RESOLVED, that the Ohio
CIO-PAC carefully scrutinize
the various candidates for
public office in regard to their
attitude on these issues and
lend its aid and influence in
the coming state elections to
those who are committed to
the policy of more adequately
providing for those hapless fell
low humans who have been
buffeted by the cruelties of
our society, as our INDECENT
aged, our injured workers, our
e mentally
sick, the tub Fular, the halt
and the blind. YAnd be it fur
ther
RESOLVED, rhat a copy OF
this resolution be forwarded to
Governor Frank ]. Lausche
and to the members of the
Ohio legislature.
A highly indignant Arkan-
Sas clubwoman wrote a long
letter to the War Assets Ad-