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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
Toledo Stamping
Unit TO Picnic
Saturday

The annual picnic for mem.
bers of the Toledo Stamping
Unit Local IL and their families,
will be held Saturday at the
picnic grounds of Our Lady OF
Lourdes parish, on Hill Avenue.
Glen Hume is chairman of
the committee in charge of
games and arrangements. 1t is
estimated that more than 1000
people will attend the outing.
A complete program of sports
events and recreation will be
offered to the picnickerS and
valuable prizes will be awarded
to the winners. There will be
games for young and old and
the main event on the program
will be a Tug-O-War between
the married men and the single
men.
There will be two softball
games offered for the enjoyment
of the Toledo Stamping Unit
members. The festivities will
begin at 10 a. m. and will con-
tinue throughout the complete
day, according to chairman Glen
Hume,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
Virginia Bosses
Buy Ads TO
Boost cIO Drive

P U l. A S KI, Va, Aug. %
| Virginians rubbed their
eyes in disbelief this week when
they read their local newspapers
and decided that something re-
volutionary indeed had happen
ed in this once great citadel of
anti-unionism.
Reason for the astonishment
were paid advertisements signed
by SO companies declaring that
"A strong labor movement in
Pulaski will benefit the citizens
of Pulaski" The ads appeared
just after the workers at the
local r a dio Corporation of
America plant had voted CIO
overwhelmingly, and a few DAYS
before the employees of Coleman
Furniture Co. voted 272 for the
United Furniture Workers-CIO
to five for the AFL.
"A victory for the union
(CIO) will also mean a victory
for the citizens of this COM
munity," said the advertisement,
because organization of work.
ers will bring higher wages and
better working condi ions.
Naturally, wage increases will
be reflected in the business life
of the community. This is one
reason why the undersigned (36l
firms) hope that your victory
will be overwhelmingly COM
plete for the United Furniture
Workers. We hope Colem n
workers will join hands with |
RCA, Wallner, Acme and Vir-
ginia Maid workers to bring
about a higher standard of liv-
ing which means a more pros
porous community.
Organized workers always
enjoy better standard of living
than workers who do not have
the protection of strong union.
Management, business and pro-
fessional people have their
unions. Workers too should have
a union"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
.Riofous I7-DoY
Strike Ends In
Victory

CLINTON, M c n, Aug. %
(LPA) - A turbulent 17-day
strike, which saw flagrant strike
breaking met with flying squads
of union pickets from other
cities, ended here last week with
the surrender of the Clinton
Machine Co.
After management-provoked
rioting, the calling out of state
police and the alerting of the
national guard, the company
finally decided it could not con-
tinue operations when its "back-
to-work movement" failed dis
mally.
The United Auto Workers
CIO, which struck the plant on
July 29 for a wage raise, was
offered a 10c-an-hour hike al
though the company had previ-
ously refused to go above &c.
Contrary to some newspaper re-
ports no question of a Taft
proof contract was involved.
A token picket line remained
at the plant and company presi-
dent Don Thomas was forced to
eat his own words as he agreed
not to attempt to resume opera
tions until the local ratified the
new agreement.
Thomas had previously led a
flying wedge of strikebreakers
thru the picket lines and into
the plant where they were
forced to stay for two nights.
Meanwhile the picket lines were
reinforced by hundreds
of additional UAW Members
who rushed from Detroit, Toledo
and other cities in a manner
reminiscent of 1867 when the
union faced the same type of
management. tactics.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
Summer Camp
Fund SweIIed
By Gifts

Although this weeks dona-
tons to the Local IL Summer
Camp Fund did not equal those
of the previous week, Howard
Rediger, camp fund director, is
endeavoring to secure more con.
tributions to maintain this most
noteworthy project for the chill.
dren.
The present group of campers
will return to Toledo, Saturday,
and will be replaced by another
capacity crowd for a two weeks
period. The last group of camp
ers this season will leave Local
IL headquarters, 425 Winthrop
Street Sunday, and will return
to their homes on September 6.
Immediately after the de-
parture of this last group from
the camp grounds, the cabins,
cottages, and main buildings
will be closed up for the rest of
the year. The buildings will be
opened again and renovated in
early spring.
Donations to this weeks Sum-
mer Camp Fund were made by
the following: w. w. O'Brien
$500; Leo Podlas S1.00; At
torney friend $4,000; American
Swiss $4,000, and camp main
tenance fees $4,000. This makes
a total of $4,000, and, together
with last weeks total of S17,-
330.10, brings the grand total
of the Summer Camp Fund to
7,666.10.
Donations to the Local II
Summer Camp, in the form of
checks and money orders should
be made out to the Local IL
Summer Camp, and mailed to
Howard Rediger, AIS Winthrop
Street.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
Strike May Affect
All u. S. Ports

NEW YORK, Aug. % (LPA)
= A nationwide strike against
Isthmian Steamship Co., a sub
sidiary of the u. S. Steel Corp,
was called last week by the Sea-
farers International Union-AFL
which quickly approved a reso-
luton threatening to extend the
walkout to the entire shipping
indusry if Taft Hartley penalties
are invoked.
Chief issues are the unions
demands for the hiring hall and
rotary shipping lists. A mem
bership meeting here of $500
STU members voted to close
down any other steamship COM
pany that took over an ISthmian
ship or its cargo. The meeting
heard pledges of support from
the Master, Mates & Pilots-AFL
and the National Maritime
Union-CIO.
Previously Port Agent Paul
Hall noted that contracts held
by the Sailors Union of the
Pacific, with which the STU is
affiliated, expire on Sept. 30.
indications point to an old
fashioned brawl should the
shipowners try to knock the
props from under the SUP's
union hiring hall, which they
rightfully enjoy at the present
kiy,oo
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
Foremen Get Contract

DETROIT GPA)-The Fore
mems Association of America
unaffiliated, after only seven
hours of bargaining, won new
two-year contract with the
Kaiser Frazer Motor Co. on the
day after the Taft-Hartley bill
became law, excluding foremen
from the benefits of the Wag-
ner Act. About 400 foremen
are covered by the contract
which guarantees them raises
of $32.50 a month or nine per
cent of their old salaries, which
ever is higher.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
IL RoiI Unions
Conclude Case
For zoe Raise

CHICAGO lLPA)-S Seventeen
unions, representing over 1,OOO,-
900 incorporating" workers on
the railroads, have wound UP
their side of the testimony be-
fore an arbitration board here
on the unions demand for q
20c-an-hour wage increase.
Chiefs of nearly all of the
unions testified, giving an ac-
count of the skills of the en-
ployes they represent and sub
mitting evidence to show that
earnings of the employees failed
by far to measure up to their
skills and responsibilities.
Another major point made by
the witnesses was that, contrary
to propaganda of the carriers,
wage increa ses through the
years have not added to rail
costs. On the contrary, pro-
ductivity has outstripped the
wage boosts and thus labor costs
have declined even while wage
rates have risen, they declared.
Another major development
on the railroad wage front was
action taken by the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, at its
San Francisco convention, call
ing for drive for 30c-an- hour
pay raise.
Up to now, these two Brother
hoods and three others which
represent 100000 Operating"
workers - that is, engaged in
direct train, engine and yard
service - have been concentrat-
ing solely on a movement for
changes in rules overningI
working conditions. AS result
of the latest developments, the
five may also unite simultane-
Gus drive for wage increases.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
US. Workers Free
TO Aid Non-Gov'+
Strike Activity

WASHINGTON (LPA)-U.S.
government employees are not
prohibited from striking against
private employers despite the
Taft Hartley law, Civil Service
Commissioner Arthur S. Flem-
ming last week advised Presi-
dent Dan Tracy, of the Int'l
Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers-AFL.
Tracy had asked for an inter.
probation of the TaftHartley
provision making it illegal for
"a government employe Ito par
ticipate in any strike" He
pointed out that many union
members work for both the gov
ernment and private employers
and federal workers might wish
to engage in strike activity
against a private employer out
side of government time.
Flemming's Qualification said,
''It is true, as you state, that a
literal Interpretation of Section
305 would mean that no federal
employe could participate in any
strike, even If such strike were
against private employer.
However, it is also true, as you
state, that the Conference Re-
port makes it clear that Section
305 was intended to forbid par.
ticipation on the part of govern
ment employees in strikes
against the government.
The IBEW's nearly 400, 900
were also told last
week by President Dan Tracy
that sit is incumbent upon. us
to comply with the Taft Hartley
Act as a law of the land while
we fight thru legal means to
secure its repeal and to have its
unconstitutional provisions de-
ared invalid by the courts"
Tracy declared that the lBEW
will exhaust every legal re-
course at our command in con-
.esting the validity of the Act
.hru the courts, take every pos
'ible step within our legal power
o secure its repeal, and seek to
,ring about a reorganization of
he membership of Congress, by
exercising our voting at the bal
OF box, to the end that the in
llienable rights of the free
citizens who constitute
he ranks of labor shall once
gain be given true and full
recognition" h
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
Housing Probe
Coming, Moybe

WASHINGTON, Aug. % -
LPA)-That famous Congress
sional inquiry to find out-for
the nth time-why vets and other
home-seekers can't find homes
they can afford, may really get
under way this month.
The first meeting of the joint
congressional committee, set up
to make a long-range survey of
housing needs and the housing
shortage, was held this week, it
was announced by Rep. Ralph
A. Gamble (R., N.Y. who shares
the leadership of the committee
with Sen. Charles w. Tobey (R.,
N. HI.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22

take to put price controls back
on. A general price decline is
coming"
On the other hand, Sen. Jos.
c. O'Mahoney ID, ,Wyo.) who is
ranking minority member on the
Joint Committee on the Econo-
mic Report, put the burden of
the problem UP to Congress. He
praised the Justice Dept inve-
stigation, but warned that ''the
causes of initiation are much
deeper than search for extor-
profits"
Perhaps it ougt to be point
ed out" O'Mahoney said, that
evidence before the joint COM
mittee shows that the auto in
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22

one else can have no alternative
but to press for further wage
increases. However, we don't
want to carry around a basket
full of money to buy loaf OF
bread"
The Congressional Committee
on the Economic Report will
hold hearings in 18 or 20 cities,
Rieve noted, and the CIO and
its affiliates will try to present
testimony at all these hearings.
However, Rieve inquired, rs
this an investigation to fore
stall action? If so, great de-.
ception is being played on tfork
American people. They are exon
pecting that they will be sparecht
the ravages of continuously ris-W
ing prices. The standards OF
workers are being depressed by
these prices. Their meager
budgets are becoming more
and more slender as they are
able to buy fewer and fewer
things. The situation is truly
becoming dangerous"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22

trict will be represented by
the marchers.
The four Labor Day parade
marshals will include Richard
Gosser, Director of Region 2-B,
UAW-CIO, Lawrence Steinberg,
Peter Zvarra and William Akos.
The reviewing stand will be in
front of the Commodore Perry
Hotel and will seat the parade
judges, Municipal Court Judges
Grzczynski, Frank Wiley
and Attorney Edward Lamb. Mel
vim Lazette will be the official
counter during the parade. Be-
sides the parade judges, news
paper, magazine and movie cam.
eramen will occupy the judges
stand.
Immediately following the pa
rade the CIO members will go
to Navarro Park where the Labor
Day picnic festivities will be
held. A complete program Of
games and sports has been ar.
ranged for the picnickers. The
Local II baseball team will play
the main game of a double
header with team yet to be Sc
lected. A tug-o-war between sim
gle and married men and the
same kind of contest between
single and married women will
be the features of the athletic
program.
The line of march for the
parade and the chairmen of the
picnic committees as announced
by Burney Zawodny, general
are as follows: Al
Kengott, picnic; Clarence Tuck
n and Al Baker, finances; Ro-
bert Cousino, parade arrange
nents and lineup; Kenneth De-
Long, picnic arrangements and /.
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22

me week ended August y,
showed new postwar peak for
he fourth successive week; the
Agriculture Dept predicted that
'ood prices would stay high.
Attorney General Tom Clark
announced immediate launching
IT "a program aimed at con-
piracies to maintain or increase
present prices in the food,
clothing and housing fields.
such consipracies would be pro-
iecuted criminally" by the
Antitrust Division.
Repeating, like phonograph
whose needle was stuck, almost
word for word his assurances
ast year, Rep. Jesse Wolcott
R.,Mich.) issued a statement
hat 1T would be a grave mis-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22

nefits up to So weeks; 4-Unli-
mited hospital ward service up
to 120 days on any one sickness
or accident. All hospital costs
and services, without exception,
are paid under the plan; s.
Surgical payments according to
a fixed schedule running from
$5 to SITS; 6-Payment for
doctor calls. SIS is allowed for
each home or hospital visit by
a doctor and So for call at the
doctors office.
Family benefits are financed
thru additional payments by
the worker made thru check
off arrangement with the COM
oany.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
IIUMSW Chief
Asks Truman Aid
TO End Lockout

CAMDEN N. j., Aug. %
(LPA)-President Truman was
asked last week to intervene in
the lockout" of $1,000 CIO
shipyard workers idle for more
than two months in 18 of the
nations major shipbuilding and
repair yards.
President John Green, of the
Industrial Union of Marine &
Shipbuilding Workers-CIO, in a
letter to Truman outlined five
suggested steps which Truman
might take to end the lockout
Immediately.
The IUMSW chief noted that
in negotiations with various en-
ployers sponsored by the u. S.
Cancellation Service sthe en-
ployers proposed in language
which varies, but with intent
that is identical, changes in our
collective bargaining agreements
which would take from our
such protection and
security that. they have obtained
in the past 13 years by col
lective bargaining and thru
directives issued thru the war
years by the War Labor Board
and its agencies"
Charging that the major ship
yard firms desire to destroy
union conditions in order that
they might increase their al
ready war-swollen prof it, S
Green told Truman, "In my
opinion this conspiracy is not
only directed against this union,
out against the government"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22

Company.
Although the majority of
the contract clauses have
been agreed upon, wages and
a merit system, the latter a
company proposal, prevented fl
nal settlement of the pact and
led to the walkout when Attor'
ney Harry Bugbee, representa-
tive of the company, rejected a
ompromise offer made Friday
Richard Gosser, UAW direc-
Peaceful settlement of the dis
puted sections of the contract
was by-passed by Attorney Bug
bee, who twice refused the Un-
ions offer to submit the case to
the Toledo Labor. Management
Citizens Committee.
Contract negotiations between
the company and Local IL have
been in progress since March 81,
following an NLRB election in
which the employees selected the
UAW-CIO as their bargaining
agent. The international Asso-
citation of Machinists formerly
held jurisdiction.
Director Gosser entered the
negotiations last week when the
discussions were deadlocked.
Walter Murphy, assistant to the
UAW director, and Lloyd Spei-
dell, Local IL recording secre-
tary, represented the Union. At
torney Oscar Smith and John
Bower represented the COM
pany management.
No meetings have been held
since the negotiations broke down
last week and none had been
scheduled up to Wednesday of
this week.
Picket lines are being main
tanned at the company's St. Clair
St. plant. No attempts have been
made by the company to violate
the picket lines.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22


Financed by the company
and administered mainly by th'
union, the insurance program
provides life insurance, weekly
sickness and accident benefits
and hospital and surgical pay
ments. Six thousand workers
and their families, a total Of
approximately $4,000, are COW
cred.
The policy, largest to be
written since the Michigan CIO
Councils social security insur-
ance program was launched last
year, specified:
$4,000 life insurance with
double indemnity; $4,000 dis
memberment benefit; 3-S25
weekly sickness or accident be-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
Training Program
Open TO Vets

Inc FAN session or the vet
Grams Training Program, spon-
sored by the Toledo Board OF
Education, will begin September
8 for an 18 week term.
Shop Practice and Related In
struction, both Beginning and
Advanced, will be offered in the
following: Auto Mechanics,
Auto Electrics, Auto Body Re-
pair, Commercial Art, Refrig-
Grafton, Practical Accounting,
Cabinet Making, Electricity,
Mechanical Drafting, Machine
Shop, Welding, Radio Repair.
Shops and classes will operate
6 hours daily, Monday thru
Friday, from 800 Pm. to $50
PM, for full-time trainees, and
8 hours daily, from 8 to 6 or
$40 to $50 for part time
trainees. This training is free
to Veterans using their entitle-
ment under the CT Bill of
Rights. Such Veterans are eli
gible for subsistence allowance,
either full or half, depending
upon time devoted to training.
Non Veteran enrollees will be
same tuition charges as pro-
vided for Veterans in the con-
accepted on the payment of the,
tract with the Veterans Admin
lstration.
Veterans now in training or
formerly enrolled in any pro-
gram sponsored by the Toledo
Board of Education need only
ill out a Remittance form at
lime of registration.
Registration will begin August |
18th in the Veterans Training
Office of the Board of Educa-
ion, 1857 Vermont Ave, or at
he Macomber Vocational High /
school, Monroe & 18th SITS. Ad-
information may be OBJ
aimed by calling AID. 9201, Vet.
,rans Training Office, Board of
Education.
Those unable to register dur
ng the day, due to conflicting
hours, etc, may regis
er by telephoning or writing
his office for a registration
orm which will be sent to you
or completion and return.
Carl T. Cotter, Director, Vo.
ational & Industrial Arts Edu-
alton.
A. c. Schrader, Supervisor,
Teterans Training Program.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
Appointee

President Truman's ap-
pointment of Cyrus Ching,
industrial relations direc-
tor for u. S. Rubber Co.,
to be director of the new
Federal Mediation Service
under the Taft Hartley law
could have been worse, la
Dor leaders agree. At least
the genial Ching is one of
the handful of industrialists
not wholly unacceptable to
labor and probably the
nearest thing to a liberal
that could squeeze past
Senators Robert Taft and
Joe Ball for Senate con-
firmation. (LPA)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
Need
information :?

Are you a member of
Local IL, UAW-CIO?
Do you need information
about your dues?
Do you want an answer
to your Local IL shop prob.
lem?
Do you want to talk to
a Local IL representative?
For the above and all in
formation relating to Local
IL, call Local IL Headquar-
terS-
Main qI26
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'C7O Labor Day Parade Set;
To Picnic At NnunTre Park
Line Of March Announced

The most spectacular display of Unonsm in
Toledo will be presented to the spectators of the 1947 Labor
Day parade Preparade estimates indicate that there will
be approximately 10000 members of the CIO in the line of
march September l. Every phase of the CIO in this dis
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
Picket Line Set
At Toledo Plant

No. H. UAWCIO set picket line at the American Floor
Surfacing Company plant last Saturday following break
down in contract negotiations between the Union the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
UAW-OO Insurance Pact Is
Strongest In Labor History

Muckegon, Mich. Aug. % (LPA)-An agreement said tc
the broadest union health accident insurance
yet written in the made history here when the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
CIODemandGOUf t
Restore RaHOning
AndPrice Controls

WASHINGTON Aug % (LPA) - The CIO this week
called President Truman to summon conference OF IN
dusra farm leaders to develope for
voluntary price reductions.
Charging productivity increased that
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-22
Prices Jump 1875
In Year; Probe
Pushed By GOUf

WASHINGTON, Aug 22-(LPA)-Two members of Con-
sss summed up price developments in the nation last week
clearly They had before them
cost of living the highest June IS above
he before wholesale price compilations for
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Continued on Page 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
COMPANY STARTS
new TEST WELL
Carolina Petroleum Spuds
In Eighth Wildcat OPP
Grafton In State

MERIT, March IA -R-The
Carolina Petroleum company
resumed drilling on its eighth
wildcat well in Eastern North
Carolina today in its search for
oil and gas in commercial quaint
ties.
The current operation is located
two miles east of this rural village
in Pamlico county. It was spudded
in and drilled 10 feet Tuesday be-
fore shutting down to set pipe.
Officials of the company said
they expected to sink about 20
wells in this section of the state
and would continue to explore I'M
til it was definitely determined
whether commercial quantities OF
oil and gas could be found here.
Drillers Confident
The drilling officials are conf
dent that there is some oil and
gas hidden below the surface in
these parts. Five of the wells
drilled in the Merrimon section OF
Carteret county since last April
have had showings Of oil and gas.
The present well is located a.
cross the Neuse river some seven
miles north of the most northerly
well in Carteret. Officials expect
to complete the well in about 10
days. 1t will be bottomed between
8, 500 and 1000 feet.
There is no commercial oil pro-
duction in North Carolina now.