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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
Toledo cIO Seeks Support
Of Lucas Co. Legislators

Safety Building, Council Cham
bers for Saturday, April rs.
Thompson Doubts Passage
In discussing his position on
the anti-labor legislation, George
E. Thompson said, II can't i'm
agine that they will pass such a
bill" He expressed doubt that
it was Van Aken's bill and
added, somebody else is writing
those bills" and pointed out the
similarity of language between
the Van AIKEN bill and similar
bills which have been introduced
in other states.
Mr.. Thompson advised the
labor group to fight these bills
in committee hearings where
there is a better chance to kill
them" He spoke favorably of
the unions and said, I'm happy
to know that labor is organized
and looking out for the common
people of their state"
Notices are being sent out by
CIO to all shops asking for at
tendance at the meeting to be
held with the entire Lucas
County legislative group, Satur-
day, April 26 at 200 p. m. The
meeting will again be held in
the Councils chambers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
Mt Appeals
To Workers
Continued from Page 1

did not think think the members
of the Southwestern Telephone
Workers Union were strike
breakers, but were fearful Of
their jobs. The strikers urged
picket line and to "dig your
the non-strikers to respect their
gardens, go fishing or visit your
relatives" while the strike was
in progress.
Settlement Believed Near
Settlement of the strike ap-
peared to be nearer this week
with the union asking the COM
pany to make it a wage offer on
a national basis.
Up to the present time, the
telephone company has rejected
all union attempts to make a
wage offer on a national scale
claiming that the rates are set
on local basis and that the
wa ges should be similarly
arrived at.
Previous to the present strike,
the company negotiated its con-
tracts with the union on an in
dustry-wide basis. The union in
slsts that it will not bargain un-
der the old method which was
discarded several years ago at
the urging of the company.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
COP Retreats
On Rent Control

WASHINGTON (LPA) - he'
publican members Of the House
of Representatives beat clumsy
retreat last week from their po-
sition favoring a 1917 across
the-board rent increase. The
House Banking Committee ma
iority decided to leave up tc
the COP steering committee the
unpleasant question of how
they'd retreat gracefully.
Meanwhile Rep. Helen Gaha-
gan 3D., CALI has introduced 9
bill TO extend rent control until
June 30, 1948 without any blan-
ket rent increases. II is a com
panion measure TO the Wagner
Murray bill in the Senate.
The Senate Banking Commit
tee earlier in the month report
ed favorably a bill initiated by
Senator Taft (R., Ohio) which
would set up an independent
agency to control rents and
would allow an area-by- area
consideration by local advisory
boards of the desirability of de-
controlling rents or granting
some rent boosts. Action prob
ably will take place after the
Greek loan question Is settled.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
Council Passes
WeoseI-Word
Labor Resolve
Continued from Page 1


are passed would set the coun
try back 100 years by destroy.
ing labor's rights"
Councilman Tom Burke stated
that he felt it was Councils
right to act on any question OF
national importance and pro.
ceeded to explain various phases
of the Hartley Bill passed last
week by the House of Repre-
sentatives.
Both Mayor Lloyd E. Roulet
and Councilman said they would
not vote on the resolution.
When the resolution was read
1t was discovered that it was
an entirely different resolution
than the one previously pro-
posed. 1t merely asked Congress
not to take any hasty legislative
action against either labor or
industry. The previous bill had
mentioned labor exclusively.
Vote Is Taken
When the vote was taken on
the resolution, all councilmen
except Mayor Roulet and Coun-
Gilman Earl o. Lehman voted.
Both asked to be excused. At
this point, City Law Director
Wilfred G.. Christensen pointed
out that Councils own rules re-
quire a yes or no vote. Both
then voted for the measure.
Councilman Addison Q. Thacher
was absent.
At the conclusion of the vote,
Ollie Pecord rose and said, 1--WE
want to thank you gentlemen
for your vote. 1t was a weak
and innocuous resolution and
doesn't mean anything"
Both AFL and the National
Federation of Telephone Work
ers had representatives at the
meeting.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
Unions Drive For
FEPC Bill

WASHINGTON, April % -
GPA) - Unqualified AFL and
CIO support of the Ives-Chavez-
Fulton-Norton ant -discrimina-
ton bill was expressed here by
William Green, AFL President,
and James B. Carey CIO Sc
cretary-treasurer.
Green, Carey and Sen. Ives
were the principal speakers at a
closed dinner meeting Of the
Board of Directors of the Ma
tional Council for a Permanent
FEPC which followed an after
noon business meeting devoted
to the formulation of plans for
and the financing of a nation
wide campaign to mobilize pub
lie opinion in support of early
enactment of the bill.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25

to so weaken, as in effect to re-
peal, the National Labor Rela-
tions Act. BY making practi-
cally all strikes unlawful, it re-
peals the Norris-LaGuardia
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
PAC Announces A
General Meeting
Continued from PAGE 1

Mr.. Rusch, in announcing the
meeting, said:
II urge every one of the
workers, regardless w h e t h r
they are members of the PAC
or not, to attend this meeting
The thing that we always
thought could not happen to us
is happening and we must not
delay in perfecting our plans for
fighting off the worst anti-labor
legislation that was ever pre-
sented to our legislative bodies,
both the state and national"
Membership Is Increasing
Increased membership in the
PAC was announced by Glen
Holewinski, assistant executive
PAC manager, who said that
"the people in our plants are
awakening to the fact that they
must protect themselves. They
see in PAC the means to carry
out their activitiesuin defense of
their rights and they are joining
in larger numbers"
Mr.. Holewinski revealed that
the latest shop to sign up 100
per cent in PAC was Acme Spe-
cialty Unit of Local IL, whose
members sent in their money
and applications last. week.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
.Union-Wreckers
Win First Round

WASHINGTON, April 23
(LPA)-Labor's charges for the
past two months that the COP
House Labor Committee was
cooking up a union-wrecking
bill were more than verified
last week by six of the commit
tees own members.
Six Democratic members of
the committee issued a minority
report which declared:
"This bill does not merely
wipe out labor's gains under the
beneficent administration of
President Roosevelt; it turns the
clock of history back at least a
century and half and elimi-
mates safeguards and projections
which both Republicans and
Democratic Congresses h ave
sponsored for generations"
The report not only charged
that: This bill is aimed at the
heart of American industrial
democracy" but also denounced
the way in which the Repub-
licans had steamrolled the bill
through.
The minority report was
signed by Reps. Ray Madden,
IndO, Arthur Klein IN. Yr
John Lesinski (Mich.), A. Kel-
ley (Pa.), John Kennedy Mass }
and Adam Powell IN. ".
The COPS proposals, which
were passed in final form by the
House by a 308 to 107 vote,
ARE deliberately designed to
wreck the living standards OF
the American people" the min
ority report charged. Under
the false guise of correcting la
Dor abuses this biH is designed
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
Randolph In Profile

TORONTO UPA - PresI
dent A. Philip Randolph of the
Brotherhood OF Sleeping Car
Porters.AFL is the subject of a
biographical article In the cur.
rent issue OF Magazine Digest.
II traces the union heads career
from his youth as the son of an
impoverished Florida preacher
to the present, when he actively
heads movements for a perma.
nent FEPC, and the Natl Edu-
cation Committee for a New
Party.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
lnquiring
Reporter
Continued from Page l

Continued from Page l
Clara Keller: ] wouldn't want
TO work in a shop where there
wasn't a good union organiza-
ton. / like our union shop and
/ don't believe that anyone is in
favor of knocking out the closed
shop. It's not right. / can hard
ly wait for the 1948 elections
because ! know at least couple
of office holders who are not
going to get my vote.
Joan Kujawa: don't know
much about the bill, but from
what l do know I hope that the
President will veto it after 1t
reaches him. l am sure that
President Truman thinks enough
of labor not to let such bill to
become law. ! think that every
congressman, including our own,
who voted for the bill should be
defeated.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25

ID. N. W and several other
Democrats. But there was also
another hope for labor: Senate
passage of the bill may not be
achieved before May l. After
that it will go to a joint SEN
ate House conference which
possibly would be prolonged for
weeks.
Conceivably the conference
debate could continue so long
that the Senate and House would
not have time to vote on the
final bill before summer re-
cess. In that event Truman
might not even be called upon
to sign the anti-labor legisla-
ton or veto it for another six
months.
There was reason for optim-
ism on this score. The three
House conferees will probably
be Hep. Hartley, Lands and
Lesinski. Rep. Lesinski ID.
Mich,), is an established friend
of organized labor who helped
to write the minority report
that blasted the Hartley and
Lands proposals.
Tho Senate conferees will
probably be Taft, one other Re-
publican, and Murray. The big
question mark Is the second
Republican. BY right of senior
ity it should be Sen. George
Aiken (R. Vt.,) who also is
known as a friend of labor and
who last week condemned Taft
for "political bossism" in push
ing through the omnibus bill.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
Hartley Bill
Passes Over
ILobor'S Protest
Continued from Page 1

a nearly every right of labor
they were inviting a veto.
The Republican strategy to
put Truman ION the spot" was
thereby settled once and for all.
The two Senate Labor Com
mittee members who voted
against the bill were James
Murray d.. Mont.) and Claude
Pepper 3D., Fla.) Before final
approval by the committee,
Taft's vicious bill was whitfield
down bit by bit. The expected
split in the committees Repub-
lican majority, for example,
aided Democrats in killing a
ban on industry-wide bargain
ing. The House bill retains
that provision.
Agree For Once
The House bill found labor
leaders and big business agreed
for once. Both declared the
legislation had been steam
rolled" by the COP majority.
On the floor of the House, Rep.
Arthur Klein 3D., N. "
charged that 1t had been ac.
tually written with the help of
the National Association of
Manufacturers and the u. S.
Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to outlawing in
dustry-wide bargaining, the
House bill would prohibit mass
picketing, ban jurisdictional
strikes and secondary boycotts.
1t also would: forbid unions to
charge initiation fees greater
than $25; require union regis
tration with the Labor Depart
ment and the filing of financial
statements; permit the Presi-
dent, through the Justice De-
partment, TO obtain injunctions
against any strike in transpor-
t { IN, communications and
other so-called public utilities;
ban political contributions by
unions; remove the Cancellation
Service from the Labor Depart
ment and set up a new agency;
exclude foremen and other su-
pervisory employees from Wag-
ner Act coVerage.
HOue Bill Professions
The Houe bill would also per-
NIT expulsion from union mem
bership of Communists and
let employers refuse to recog.
nize union if any officer is,
ever has been, or could "rea-
onably be regarded" as a Com
munist or sympathizer. En-
ployers would be given "the
right Of free speech which AFL |
and CIO witnesses before the
House and Senate labor comit-
tees charged would mean moth
ing more than a boss's right to
intimidate his employees.
Nothing, apparently, could.
stop the House in its mad rush
to injure organized labor. The
House bill was so severe that
conservative senator's took
alarm. Sen. Alexander Smith
Or. N. J) member of the SEN
ate Labor Committee, said he
thought "the House may have
gone too far Democratic Sena.
IN. YO and Harley Kilgore wv.
tors, including Robert Wagner
Va) strongly denounced the
Republican anti-labor bills. !
Veto Is Predicted
The veto possibility was pre-
dicted by Rep. Emanuel Celler
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
Prices Are Cut
Half Per Cent

WASHINGTON, April % =
/ (LPA) - Despite Presid e n
Truman's clear warning of tn,
dangers of continued higl
prices, big business and industr.
hardly budged an inch last weel
from the perilously high price
schedules. They had created
The Bureau of Labor Stats
tics reported that average pri
mary market prices decreased
only O.5% during the weel
ended April IL.
Treasury Secretary Snydel
cheerfully told reporters thai
something specific" would be
announced this week regarding
price cuts by large producers. ,
Most observers interpreted this
to mean that he expected a cut
in steel prices. Industry spokes.
men indicated they didn't have
any immediate price cutting
plans.
The consumers price index
for March 18th hit an all time
high, according to the Bureau
Of Labor Statistics. The cost o1
consumers goods, rents and
services rose about 20 between
mid-February and mid-March,
continuing the steady shrinking
of the consumers dollar that
started with the crippling OF
OPA.
Members Are Alarmed
Members of the Senate and
House committee set up under
ed over the growing gap ber
tween purchasing power and
profits were putting pressure on
the Joint Committee on the Eco
nomic Report. This is a Senate
House committee eet up under
the Employment Act of 1916
the bill that started out as the
Full Employment Bill and was
passed in Watered-down form.
Store sales - usually a bar
ometer of the level of consum-
ers purchasing power went
down SO last week, over the
entire United States.
A sharp cut in the amount
of individual savings during
1916 was reported by the Com
merce Department to be caused
by price rises increase d
quantities of consumer goods,
and the disappearance of war
time savings pressures." Saw
ings dropped from S33 billion
in 1945 to $19 billion in 1916.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-25
Continued from Page 1

pressed his views in opposition
to the legislation saying this
legislation would put us back
100 wears. Those who imagine
they have a mandate are going
to find out that they are mis-
taken when the next election
rolls around" ."
Tom Burke, TIUC executive
secretary pointed out that the
bills to which labor objected, H.
B. 49 and H. B. so, would sc-
complish the same things as the
Hartley-Taft legislation. He said
"it (the Van Aiken bill would
control strikes in about the
same manner as the fellow who
went to the doctor to have his
head cut off because he had
sinus trouble. They propose to
control strikes by destroying the
labor unions"
Support Of Representatives
Mundy and Thompson for the
position taken by the labor group
was indicated when Charles
Clark, chairman of the Spicer
Units legislative committee,
read a telegram he had prepared
to members of Congress from
Ohio in which Congress was
asked to IDEAL with the cause
and not the result Of labor un-
rest" and urged reconsideration
of the Taft Hartley legislation.
Both representatives signed
the telegram which the Spicer
representative said he would
send as soon rs signatures of the
other representatives had been
secured.
Reads Van AIKEN Bill
In order to clarity the exact
nature of the anti-labor legisla-
ton, PAC Chairman Rusch read
the complete bill laying stress
on particularly vicious parts of
the legislation.
Following the reading of the
bill, Ollie Pecord said, "it seems
to me that this bill doesn't re-
quire any long explanation. I'm
satisfied that Uncle Joe Stain
himself could not write a better
contribution to Communism"
Richard Lazette, TIUC presi-
dent said that he supposed the
rest of the Lucas County delega-
tion had been advised to remain
away from the meeting and
charged that II have sat in Han
sens Harry N Hansen, Lucas
County Republican chairman)
office and heard him tell Hide
brand and others you do this
and you do that"
Mundy Denies Orders
Mrs. Mundy replied at once:
mo one has ever told me how
TO vote"
LaZette condemned the pro-
posed anti-labor legislation and
said that IL would promote the
growth of Communism.
Following the discussion by
the labor representatives, Mrs.
Mundy expressed the view that
the meeting was enlightening
and that the group of legislators
from Toledo was not favorable
TO 1t. She explained that be-
cause of some misunderstanding
the other five Lucas County leg
islators could not attend the
meeting, but pledged that she
would do her part in getting
them to another meeting which
was set for 400 p. m. at the
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-11-13

attempt to interfere with the Divine
plan of the world which has pre-
ordained that it should be dark dur
ing the night time.
Second: Lighted streets will in
cline people to remain late out of
doors, thus leading to an increase
of ailments by colds.
Third: The fear of darkness will
vanish and drunkenness and deprav-
ity will increase.
Fourth: Horses will be frightened
and thieves emboldened"
In line with the evident timidity
Of the present Mayor and Council
on the light plant question, the May
or and Council at that time were
afraid to decide whether or not the
town should have street lights So
it was put to a public vote. Evil
dence of the opposition to lights in
Hagerstown is found in the court
of these votes; 235 for lights and 212
against.
The election to have street lights,
which was narrowly carried, took
place in 1858 Four years before
this gas company referred to above
was organized. So some of the
streets were lighted for the first
time with gas. But on many of the
streets there were no gas pipes laid
at this time, and so these sections
were first lighted by the old wick
and oil lamps One historian, writ
ing around the turn of the century,
said of these early lights: "The little
oil lamps which were then put into
use scarcely sufficed to render
darkness visible" and he contin-
ued to refer to the lights of his own
time as "Our present splendid arc
lights"
Such is the history of the lighting
of our streets-the feeble oil lights,
the mellow gas, the beginning of
electricity as our lighter, and in
more recent years, the incandescant
lamp Who left the door open and
Let all the flashers and glare lights
in?
Soon after the beginning of the
installation of street lights in Ha-
gerstown, in the fifth year of the
gas company, our own grandparents
set fine example for us by rising
as a group and insisting that the
of the general public be pro-
tected from unreasonable private
interests. The gas company
got into financial difficulties and
obtained judgement against them.
The sheriff levied upon the property
and advertised it for sale, and, of
course, the production of gas ceased.
AS the people struggled with their
old discarded lamps, and darkness
again prevailed in the streets, they
rose up in a united protest against
the carrying out of this judgement.
It was only a short time till ar
were made to satisfy the
claim in some other manner and
the gas again flowed to light the
city.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-11-13

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8:00-I Deal in Crime
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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-11-13
Horse And Buggy Days
BY IDA 10 MARTIN

Do you remember the "Old Lamp
lighter? Can you still see him
slowly making his way down the
street, climbing to each lamp, and
striking the spark that "dispelled
our darkness? If for some festive
occasion, or because of some cleo
trical catastrophy, we should re-
install the old gas lamps, and the
Old Lamplighters with them, the
younger folks of our County would
be in for a many-sided treat. The
Pickering gas lamps were Roman
tic"
And if we could, for the occasion,
ban all automotive vehicles from the
streets, and commander a "Horse
and Buggy" for every love-sick
swain, the setting would be perfect;
but the results questionable. They
wouldn't know how to drive the
poor horse.
l suppose everybody would be 60
ing around singing the Old Lamp
lighter song, and going at a little
slower pace. But it would very
likely be another kind of lamp
lighters song we should hear in the
homes as people tried to get a ro-
mantle or any other kind of light,
out of their old long-neglected Coal
oil' lamps. (Heres tip: candles
are much simpler)
Today, we think of the streets
only as we have been accustomed
to seeing them-brightly lighted at
night, not only by the street lights
themselves, but also by the beauti-
full (?) neon signs, put there for the
purpose of taking your attention "a
way from the street and traffic
while your horseless carriage rushes
indifferently down the street. Most
of us remember how our streets
looked during the recent blackouts,
but that still is not to be compared to
the pre-electric-glare days when
streets were lighted only by the soft
and friendly glow of the lamps.
The heart of the romantic mem
cries of the Old Lamplighter, of
course, lay in the actual lighting of
the lamps. One by one the lamps
began to glow, off in the distance
Nearer came the lights, and as each
person welcomed the light, so they
greeted the lamplighter, as he daily
went on his mission of cheer. To-
day, a switch is thrown, perhaps
not even by hand, and we have the
glare to contend with.
If we could turn back the clock
still little more, we should find,
perhaps some of us with surprise,
that the streets were in total dark |
ness after the sun departed, and con-
sequently deserted We are so ac-
customed to light, and plenty of it,
that it is hard for us to believe that !
there was opposition to the first |
plans for lighting the streets of Ha-
gerstown, as well as many other |
cities in those dark days.
! After the people of Hagerstown
had walked in the mud of the streets
in darkness for nearly a century, !
they finally proposed lighting the |
streets" only to be bitterly opposed
The basis for this opposition is well |
expressed in the following quota
ton from a typical Boston paper of
that time, which appeared in a pam
phlet printed by the Hagerstown
Light and Heat Co. (The Gas Coz |
The quotation was typical of the
feelings all over the country when
street lighting was first proposed:
First Artificial illumination is an