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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
TWUA Signs
With NLRB

BOSTON, Oct. IS (LPA) -
The CLOS fourth largest affili.
ate, the Textile Workers Union
of America, decided here this
week it would comply with the
TIL law and file the anti-Com.
munist affidavits, thus becoming
the first major CIO union to
make such a decision.
Following a meeting of the
TWUA executive board, Presi-
dent Emil Rieve wrote to NLRB
General Counsel Robert Denham
that the TWUA protested against
his ruling but failure to file
would be an open invitation to
unaffiliated labor organizations
and company unions to begin a
campaign of raiGing that would
disrupt the orderly processes of
collective bargaining"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Labor Alerfed
By WAGE Study

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -
LPA) - The thorough going
over scheduled for federal min.
imum wage and hour legislation
starts here before a House Labor
Subcommitte on October 20.
Chairman Samuel J. McCon.
mel (R., Pa.) has indicated that
the hearings will go into all
phases of the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act, which besides regulat'
ing hours and setting a minimum
wage of 40 cents in covered in
dustries, also Ceals with child
labor regulations.
The first week will be devoted,
according to the subcommittee
spokesmen, to scholarly" dis.
cussions of the background of
wage and hour regulations, and
will include those favoring aboli.
ton of all protective legislation
as we'll as supporters OF the min
imum wage law.
Weeks two and three will be
devoted to labor and management
groups; the fourth week will
bring government administrators
of the present law before the
subcommittee.
Labor officials have mace no
secret of their concern that those
hearings may lay the ground
work for a drive, beginning in
January, to wipe all traces of the
Fair Labor Standards Act from
the law books, just as was done
this year with the Wagner Ma
tional Labor Relations Act, when
the Taft.Hartley law was en-.
acted
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Union Opens Store

ST, LOUIS (LPA) - Another
union grocery store was opened
last week, this time in st. Louis
The store, run by the Retail
Wholesale and Department Store
Union-CIO, is stocked with
staples which are being sold al
cost to meet living expenses and
force down prices generally in
the area. Customers are invited
to sign up for a projected coop
store which would be a perma-
nent replacement for the union
grocery.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
CIO TO Drive
For Liberties

BOSTON, Oct. Is (LPA) -
The major objective of the CIO
Committee to Abolish Discrimi.
nation during the coming year
will be to bring home to the CIO
membership the need for meas
ures to insure individual liber.
ties and equal protection to all
citizens under the law.
Basis of the CIO drive, ac-
cording to President Philip Muir
rays report to the CIO conven'
ton, is the report now being pre-
pared by President Truman's
Committee on Civil Rights, which
includes CIO secretary.treasurer
James Carey.
The as.yet unpubliciZed report,
according to Murray, will include
these recommendations: "legisla
ton to strengthen the power OF
the federal government in order
to secure convictions when a
citizens civil rights have been
abridged; a model civil rights
statute for the District of Co.
lumbia; a statute outlawing dis.
elimination in interstate travel;
legislation for a permanent FEPC
with judicial enforcement; and
that all federal aids to educa.
ton be administered without dis.
crinination.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17

NEW YORK (LPA) - The
Long Lines Department of the
American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co. last week dropped its
challenge of the bargaining
rights of the American Union of
Telephone Workers (TWOC-CIO)
when the union presented the
company with payroll deduction
cares signed by a majority of
the $4,000 long lines workers
throughout the country. The
challenge had come when the
unions membership voted to af-
filiate with the CIO.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Cops Refain Union

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (LPA)-
Officials of the Central Labor
Union and of the Workers De.
fense League last week were
successful in stopping a drive by
the editor of the Tuscaloosa
News to force policemen to with.
draw from membership in the
State, County & Municipal EN-.
ployes-AFL. The papers unsuc-
cessful demand came after a
clash between striking Southeast
ern Trailways bus drivers and
company guards. According to
the CLU there has been mo evi-
dence that police because of their
membership in the union had
been negligent in their duty"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
CIO Coins
In South

e BOSTON (LPA) - The CIC
southern organizing drive has in.
creased CIO membership in the
south about 20 percent during
the past year or about 100000
new members, CIO President
Philip Murray reported to the
CIO convention here.
Murray told the convention
that the CIO had won more than
$50 NLRB elections in the south.
eve feel that our gains in the
future will be greater than those
in the past" said Murray, "be-
cause we now have a smoothly
functioning field staff and more
than 1000 volunteer organizers. :"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
SafewaY Strike Ended

NEW YORK (LPA)-A three
day strike of $50 Safeway Stores
IN New York City was ended last
week when a three.man meGia-
ton panel persuaded the com.
pany to grant a renewal of a un.
ion shop and dues checkoff to the
Retail, Wholesale & Department
Stroe Employes.CIO and to SUBJ
NIT wage and other demands to
arbitration. The labor member of
the committee was John P. Gro.
gan of the Industrial Union OF
Marine & Shipbuilding Workers,
CIO.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
"1of Cargo" Law Out

SAN FRANCISCO LPA) -
The Hot Cargo" Act prohibit
ing the boycott and picketing OF
unfair materials or products was
declared unconstitutional by the
California Supreme Court last
week. The court ruled that un.
der the unbroken line of deci.
sions of the u. S. Supreme Court
picketing is a constitutional right
in connection with either a pri-
mary or secondary boycott. The
same decisions may be relied
upon to nullify the secondary
boycott provisions of the Taft
Hartley law.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Tof+-HorfIeY
Tests Awaits
Supreme Court

ASHIN C TON LPA) -
Legal tests of the Taft.Hartley
law are listed high among the
400 cases pending before the
Supreme Court but there was nc
indication when a decision might
be reached on any of them.
Cases pending include the
right of foremen to bargain col
lectively, use of injunctions, and
the collective bargaining right OF
a union which the employer
contends does not represent a
majority.
AS the court opened its 1947'
l948 term, evidence mounted
that the Supreme Court by Its
decisions early this year is show
ing increasingly little regard fol-
civil liberties.
In a review of the Courts de
cisions so far this year, billiard
Stokes, writing in the GUILD
Reporter, semi-monthly paper oi
the American Newspaper Guild
CIO, declared that Our new
u. S. Supreme Court is clamping
down on civil liberties. Three
times out of four the court rules
against them.
That means we are getting
a new bill of rights in this coun.
try" said Stokes. Because our
rights are not what we read in
the Constitution, no matter how
plain we think the words are.
They are what the court reads in
the Constitution"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Editors Opposed
To Racket Books,
Federated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. IL
.nPA)-The 36th annual con.
vention of the Int'l Labor
Press of America, the labor
press "arm" of the AFL, has
recommended a renewed drive
aginst "so-called yearbooks" ant
long.distance telephone soliciting
of ads by certain labor papers
anC voted a stinging attack or
Federated Press, labor new:
service.
The ALPA report cited Labor
Press Associates as an example
of the services of excellent
quality" which were recommend
ed to AFL papers, including also
the AFL News Service, Interna-
tional Labor News Service, Ma
tional Labor Service, and Stelzle
Service.
1--WE strongly urge all AFL
papers to discontinue Federated
Press for the same reason that
the AFL refuses to join the
dominated World Fedora
ton of Trade Unions" the ALPA
convention declared.
1--WE can edit our papers with.
out using Federated Press" he
said. "In Labor Press Asso-
ciates, you have service that is
outstanding. The merits of Labor
Press Associates should be called
to the attention of all labor
papers"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
tn Injunction
Hits AFL Miners

WASHINGTON LPA)-The
third suit under the Taft.Hart-
ley law against unions found the
United Mine Workers-AFL the
victim last week.
Charging secondary boycott,
the suit was brought by the re-
gional director of the National
Labor Relations Board in Owens.
boro, KY, and u. S. District
Court Justice j. M. SwimforG
quickly signed an order requir.
ing the union to show cause on
November 6 why an injunction
should not be issued
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
CIO Unions Will
Make Decision
Continued from Page 1

continued ITOm age i
Hartley Act and will unite to de-
feat any attempt by any employer
to use that act as a weapon to
attack or destroy any of our
unions.
''The CIO will also undertake
in conjunction with its affiliated
unions, any appropriate proceed
ings to test the constitutionality
of the many illegal provisions of
the Act including those which
require the infamous affidavits
as a condition precedent to the
use of the facilities of the
Board" the CIO statement said.
Murray, during the Board ses-
sion, was reported to have as
IS ailed d the "war.mongering"
charge by Deputy Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Vishinsky. Muir.
ray contended that there were no
evidence that he could see of a
war spirit being instigated by
government officials.
Hits At Government
The CIO Board also assailed
the Justice Department for its
"furtive sleuthing, gum shoe
detective operations anG dramatic
unearthing of hidden clues" in
connection with labor's support
of.candidates in special elections
in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
If an undercover FBI investi-
cation is being carried on, said
the Board, "It is regrettable and
indefensible in its reflection of
willingness to baGger and terrify
rank-an.file workin gmen and
women by so-called "investiga-
tons instead of a willingness to
come forth openly and bluntly to
meet the very basic issue of the
attack on Constitutional rights
involved in these sections of the
infamous Taft-Hartley law"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
NAAcP Seeks Law

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (LPA)
- A Federal Elections Act re-
quiring every state to hold pri.
mary elections for Congress and
providing the means whereby in.
dependent and minority party
candidates may be placed on the
ballot will be introduced at the
next session of Congress. An
nouncement of the bill was mace
this week at the Alabama con-
ference of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People by Leslie Perry, leg
islative representative for the
NAACP in Washington.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Socialists Win Election

NORWALK, Conn. (LPA) -
The mayor and IL of the IL can
didates for city council were
elected on the Socialist ticket
here this week, over Republican
and Democratic opposition. The
new mayor, Irving c. Freese, an
nounced that he intends to give
his full time to the job, some
thing no mayor had previously
done in NorWalk.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Sen. Boll 'Exempts
The Labor Press
Continued from Page

voting four 10 one 10 override
the Boards general counsel
Robert Denham, in his rule or
the Taft.Hartley anti-Communist
afficavits. He summoned the
five NLRB members to a closed
session of the watchdog com
mittee."
Ball claimed that this "in'
quiry" would not put the Board
members on the spot but 1t was
clear that the secret session
would do just that.
Sen. Allen Ellender Cd, La.)
contended that the NLRB's deci
sion was wrong and that the AFL
executive council anG the CIO
executive board members should
have been forced to sign the af,
fidvits.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Teomsfers Are Wealthy

INDIANAPOLIS, (LPA) =
The International Brotherhood of
Teamsters.AFL reported last
week that its net worth as of
June 80 was $17,369,520 with a
net cash balance on hand of $4,-
500, $50. The IBT's net worth in
September 1910 was $6,267,558.
Total receipts from Sept. l, 1910
to June 80, 1947 were $22,012,-
150
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Thinking 1t
Through
BY BEN DOR
LPA CoIun1niSt


Very little ever gets said
about one of the greatest dis
coveries of our times-the dis
covery of what real smart guys
can do with other peoples
money.
Life insurance is one of the
slickest rackets in the lot. It
starts out with the policy that
you buy to protect your wife
and kids. But tied in with the
policy, you agree to put up an
extra pot of money for the in
surance company to invest for
you-they say. OF course,
when you die, the family
doesn't get any of that invest
ment, but what's insurance for
anyway?
The insurance companies are
taking in about $16,000,000
day every day of the year in
cluding Sundays and holidays.
The greatest part of that
money has to be invested in
something - public utilities,
railroads, office buildings, etc.
Before the last depression, a
lot of it went into farm mort
cages. When the depression
came along, the insurance COM
panies became the biggest farm
owners in the country. When
the government began passing
out farm relief checks, guess
who the biggest checks went
to?
Now the companies are get
ting rid of a lot of farm land
at high prices. During the
last IL months, they unloaded
about $27,O00,OOO worth of
farms, but they still have about
$93,000,000 worth of farm
acreage.
HOUSING
Now, the insurance COM
panies are stalking out the same
kind of a claim in the housing
field that they have in farm
ing. They may soon be, if they
aren't already, the biggest
home owners in the country.
In August of this year, they
had about $8,000,000,000 in
real estate, a lot of it in pri-
vate housing.
Almost $600,OO0,000 has
been put into GPs housing
alone. OF course, this is pri-
vate housing, which may soon
end up being privately owned
by insurance companies, the
way the farms and a lot of
houses did during the depres-
sion. But lot of your money
is going into big housing devel.
opments, that the insurance
companies will own and run as
their own.
THE BIGGEST
The biggest operator in this
field is, of course, the Metro.
politan. But practically every
company of any size is already
in the business too. In New
York City, the Metropolitan al.
ready owns a huge housing de-
velopment; they are soon going
to be landlords to about $500
families more. The New York
Life Insurance Co. is also put
ting up about $25, 100000
worth of housing develop.
ments, and other companies
are following suit. The thing
will spread as more states-as
ID have already done-pass
laws letting insurance COM
panies put money into real
estate.
With the housing mess as
bad as it is, a lot of us feel
grateful for whatever houses
get put up, even if the insur-
ance companies do it. But New
York is already finding that the
insurance company develop
ments are being used as an ar
gument against public hous-
ing; the Metropolitan won't
like it, the authorities say.
So we'll find ourselves fight
ing a new housing trust, like
the power trust, the railroad
lobby, and a whole flock of
others. And they'll all be fl
nanced with the same kind of
money-yours.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Murray Reports
To Convention
Continued from Page 1

Continued from rage 1
accompanied by a cost analysis
which could withstand even the
crudest scrutiny. Government
action is sorely needed if we are
in the near futurn to get out of
the tumble of black and gray
markets and if we are to get into
high gear the entire economic
expansion program which is
presently being delayed by ca
pacity and production bottle
necks."
PROFITS: Corporate business
has extracted more profit in 1916
and even more in 1947 than at
any time in our industrial his
tory Profits and prices have
become a runaway team. Busi-
ness has taken the bit in its
teeth, and only a determined
fight by organized labor to focus
the merciless floodlight of pub.
licity on this greed can bring it
to a halt"
Real Wages Decline
WAGES: Real wages have de-
clied since the end of price con-
trolls in June 1916, despite the
second round of wage increases
That wages can go up and
prices come down with industry
still retaining a reasonable profit
= evidenced by experiences of
past years We in the CIO
hope and are striving to see that
it will not take another depres-
sion 10 convince modern Ameri.
can industrialists that it is for
the good of themselves and the
nation as whole and is vital to
world peace that the living stand
ards of American workers con-
tinually increase"
MONOPOLY: Industry today
with its monopoly control is able
to cut production and lay off
workers in order to create arti.
ficial scarcities which will enable
industry to continue to charge
higher prices instead of cutting
prices when the demand for pro.
duction is declining Monopoly
control over our economy must
be broken"
Hits Tax Relief
TAXES THE major tax relief
since the end of the war has been
given TO corporations and little
relief has been granted to low
income individuals. Here again
the Congress has seen to it that
big business was we'll repre-.
sented."
GUARANTEED VAC f S.
unfortunately even with the re.
appearance of seasonal unem-
ployment and the widespread
talk of an impending slump, EN-.
ployers have not adequately
grappled with the problem of
stabilizing employment and as
suring workers of steady in.
comes"
In discussing the legal prob
lens created by the Taft. Hartley
law passage, Murray comments
that with this law on the books,
labor organizations are confront
ed with the revival of many dis.
credited legal devices to hamper
and obstruct them.
1t requires almost two full
pages of the Murray report to
list the anti.labor laws passed by
state legislatures during the past
IL months. Never" SAID the
CIO president "in the past IS
years has there been a session of
state legislatures which has pro.
duced as much antilabor legis.
lation as this years session"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-14

be sufficient votes to pass the catch
all bill over a veto.
Under such a course, the strong
likelihood is that no labor legislation
will come out of this Congress. Re-
publicans will be able to put the blame
on Nh. Truman. They can argue in the
1913 campaign that the only way to
get adequate labor legislation is to put
a republican President in the White
House to work with a republican Con-
gress. You can hear the political ora
tors go to town on that argument"
This confirms the opinion already
widely held that despite whatever the
republicans promised to do to correct
labor evils during last falls campaign
the chances are a hundred to one the
present Congress will not destroy the
whip a few labor leaders hold over the
nation.
Next years presidential election, in
the estimation of such men as Senator
Taft, o%utweighs the perils the United
States faces through continuation OF
union labor leaders monopoly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-14

Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce on the problem of excessive
" inflammable wearing apparel and
decorative plastic ornaments. This is
a problem-and a serious one-which
has appeared in recent years, as new
types of materials have been developed.
Some of these materials, Mr.. Craig
stated, are a real hazard to the user.
It has been urged in many quarters
that the states pass laws forbidding
the manufacture or sale Of dangerous
wearing apparel and setting up neces-
sary definitions and standards. But
the grave fault in this is that a state
law cannot go beyond the state line
Each state would inevitably establish
different c~riteria and provisions.
The answer lies in Congressional
action.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-14
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
in proportion with its resources, to in
clude public terminals, tobacco storage
warehouses, ship repair facilities, near
by sites for heavy industry and 35-foot
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural n industrial re-
sources through better markets and food
processing, pulp wood production and
factories.
Emphasis on the regions recreation
advantages and improvement Of resort
accommodations.
Improvement Of Southeastern North
Cardinals farm-to-rnarket and primary
roads, with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the City's In
dustrial Agency to attract more in
1~ustries.
Proper utilization Of Bluethenthal air.
port for expanding air service.
DE, slopment Of Southeastern North
Cardinals health facilities, especially in
counties lacking hos pitfalls, and includ-
ing a Negro Health center.
Encouragement OF the growth of com
mercial fishing.
Consolidation of City and County
governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-14

honor of the Earl of Sandwich. On
his seconu visit, he guarded with
the natives, who killed him. An
other British explorer, George
Vancouver, who also explored
British Columbia, brought some
cattle to the islands a few years
later, and taught the people how
to build boats.
American missionaries went to
the islands in 1920, and soon the
leading natives, who belong to the
brown race, called themselves
Christians, though many of the
people still followed their heather
gods.
The old royal family died out,
and Kalakaua was elected king in
1874. He was a very bad ruler.
and tried to take away the liber-
ties of the people. On his death,
in 1891, his sister Liliuokalani
tried to follow in his footsteps.
By this time there were many
white people on the islands. They
put the Queen off the throne in
1893, declared themselves under
the protection of the United States
and asked to be joined 10 that
country. This was not allowed at
the time, but they governed them
selves as a republic. At last, in
1898, the islands YER joined to
the United States and are now gov
erned as a territory. They have =
delegate in Congress who may
speak but has no vote.
In 1910, the people voted in IA
vor of changing from a territory to
a state. A bill to bring this about
is now before Congress.
Since the islands were annexed,
their wealth has increased. The
principal crops are sugar cane
and pineapples. Rice, coffee,
hemp. tobacco and bananas also
Iare grown for export.
The population is very much
mixed. Aside from the white popu-
lation, which has been increasing,
there r those of Hawaiian and
part-Hawaiian blood, those of jap
anese ancestry, and also Chinese,
Filipinos and Koreans. The whites
are of many nationalities, but
there are more of American birth
Tor descent than of any other. Peo-
Iple born on the islands, regard