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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
IL Units
TO Attend
LMC Dinner

Many Units of Local IL,
UAW-CIO have made reserva-
tions to attend the Labor Man
agement- Citizens c o m m i e
dinner to be held at the Com
modore Perry Hotel, Tuesday,
February IL. The union repre-
Sentatives and their company
managements will be seated to-
gether at the tables.
Tentative plans have been
made by the LMC to issue char
ters to those industries which
have made joint application for
membership.
Principal talks of the evening
will be made by Dean Mallot,
president of the University of
Kansas and Secretary of Labor
Lewis B. Schwellenbach.
Reports indicate that a large
number of CIO Local unions
will be represented together
with their management at the
dinner.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
TUG TO Fight
Federal Economy

Consideration of the new Ohio
Bureau of Unemployment Com
pensation regulations will be one
of the important subjects to be
considered by the delegates to
the Toledo Industrial Union
Council at the next regular
meeting to be held at TIUC
headquarters next Monday
night, it was announced today
by Tom Burke, Council execu-
tive secretary.
\ Complaints which are begin
ming to pour in to the CIO be-
cause of the alteration of pay
ments and and extension of time
before claimants can collect
compensation will be discussed
and some action taken to find
ways and means of returning
the Bureau to its former prac-
tices.
The meeting will begin at 1880
pm.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
Local Il Units
Elect Officers
LoeoI To Nominafe
At Feb. Ia Meeting

Many Local II Units as
well as the Local itself will
nominate and elect their Of
ficers for the current year
this month. Nominations for
president, vice-president, trea-
surer, recording secretary, finan-
cial secretary and executive
board members of Local IL will
take place at Local IL head
quarters, Friday, February a.
Officers were named last
week by the following Local IL
Units:
Toledo Wire Products-Chair-
man, Chester Makowski, vice
chairman, Charles Cop.
Toledo Steel Tube members
reelected their present chairman,
Herb Russell. Members elected
to executive shop committee
were: Ray Blackwood, Ed Ma
polski, Joe ManuSzak, Harry
Wore and Carl Smegowski, SER
geant-at-armS.
Toledo Scale Elects
Also voting last week were
members of the Toledo Scale
Unit who elected the following
to the executive shop committee;
Harold Billheimer, Victor Nc
Call, Donald DeMars, Gale
Miller and Leon Campbell. The
committee will elect its own
officers.
Reelected chairman of Ameri-
can Can Unit for a fourth term
was Ted Modrowski, Gale Ran
dolph was named vice-chairman
and Don Roesler, sec, y-treasurer.
Elected to the committee were
Walter Witaszek, John Amstutz,
John Demski, Fred Kaltenbach,
John Stanko, and Joseph Jogo-
dzinski.
Local IL will hold its election,
Thursday and Friday, February
27-28.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07

to new extremes by the u. S.
Chamber of Commerce which
clamored for:
Chamber Asks Program
IA prohibition on industry
wide bargaining; 2-Subjecting
unions to the antitrust laws;
S-Outlawing of the closed shop
as well as jurisdictional strikes
and secondary boycotts; 4-De-
feat of President Truman's pro.
posal for a joint Congressional
commission to study the entire
field of labor-management rela.
tions.
Balls newest and fourth bill
was seen by some observers as
the worst of the recent lot.
Drafted with the help of a dis.
credited former member of the
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lied labor.
New and more vicious
anti-labor bills were intro
duced by Senators Ball (R.,
Mimi Ellender (D.,La.) and
others, while the Senate Labor
Committee heard a stream of
witnesses demanding union
wrecking legislation.
To questions on whether put
ting all anti-labor legislation into
one bill would not make a veto
easier, Rep. Fred A. Hartley (R.,
N. J.) asserted, "We intend to
get such complete support in the
House as to override any veto
that might come"
In addition to the anti-labor
witnesses before the Senate La.
Dor Committee, the Congress
sional union.haters were spurred
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07

basis.
3. A 5 per cent payment by
the company of the total pay
roll for the purpose of setting up
a retirement fund to be admin.
istered by three company EN-.
pIoyes who are members of the
union.
4. A five per cent payment by
the company of the total payroll
for the purpose of establishing a
sick and benefit Insurance. pro-
gram to be administered by the
union.
5. Granting employees the
afternoon of election days off
duty with full pay.
6. Holiday pay for New Years
Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor
Day, Armistice Day, Thanksgiv.
ing and Christmas. Employees to
be paid regular average earnings
for eight hours. If employees are
called upon to work on any Of
these days, they shall be paid
triple time.
Cites Industry Responsibility
Discussing the wage demands
the union was making in Region
2-B at a meeting of International
UAW-CIO representatives Feb.
ruary /, Director Gosser said,
"the fact that President Philip
Murray has advised CIO affi-
lated unions to "go Slow
has no special bearing up
on the wage demands which we
are making in our contract
plants. 1t is my opinion that our
plants, recognizing the need of
the workers for increased wages,
will, in the light of their own
financial standing accept their
responsibility to the workers and
grant them token increases with
an agreement to pay the differ
ence as soon as the national
wage pattern has been set.
Continuing, he said, while
some prices have come down,
the price increases in other lines
have completely wiped out any
possible gain that the workers
might have made. Because of
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here last week by Nathan.
Nathan pointed out that his
report declared explicitly
hat "these facts are descrip-
i've of the basic general situa-
ion. They do not apply exactly
20 any individual industry. OBJ
viously, the profit and wage pic
ure must be considered sep
lrately in each wage negotia-
ion" In addition, a covering
press release made it clear that
the report declared that these
7rcts, obviously, do not apply to
.dividual industry or firms"
Nathan asserted that when
me tries to analyze the eco
ionic situation in the US, OBJ
'iously an overall appraisal is
necessary. Broad judgments
annot be evolved from minute
observations. 1t was our con-
lusion that prices had risen un-
necessarily and excessively.
his has resulted in a tremen-
Lous shift in income from the
Rbor category into the profit
ategory.
''The statistics clearly indi-
ate" he said, ''that wages can
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07

while big dailies and "slick"
magazines had nearly all the
paper they wanted.
One conservative estimate by
a government official indicated
that more than $50 labor, coop,
religious and other small papers
Exclusive of trade and business
publications. had been forced
to shut down during the war
and in the year following W.
Day. Hundreds of others have
been compelled to reduce the
number of pages or skip issues.
The Cooperator, published by
the Eastern Cooperative League,
charged lin an issue 500 of
customary size) that 1900 papers
in this country get $50 of avail
able newsprint; that 10000
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
Unemployed To Suffer
Under Economy Measure
UAW Protests
New State
Regulations

Danger of large scale un-
employment due to the cold
spell this week which forced
a number of Toledo plants to
close down many gas using
departments emphasized the
plight in which Ohio's unem-
ployed find themselves and
brought a strong protest from
Richard Gosser, UAW-CIO re-
gional director.
Because of a so per cent cur
tailment in funds from the fed
eral government decreed by the
Federal Bureau of the Budget,
the Ohio Bureau of Unemploy-
ment Compensation has been
forced to cut its staff by one
half. In Toledo, the staff was
cut this week from % to IA
employees.
GOSser States Case
AS a result of the curtailment
of BUG personel, the state BUG
has issued new regulations
which will mean that those who
now become unemployed will
be forced to wait minimum of
from seven to nine weeks be-
fore receiving their first unem-
ployment benefit checks. Prior to
the new regulation, benefit
checks were received in from
three to five weeks.
Terming the situation one OF
playing politics with human
misery" Director Gosser said,
what average unemployed per-
son can afford to wait two
months for their unemployment
compensation check when they
are living on hand to. mouth
wages when they are unem-
ployed? l think the state is
wrong to force such a condition
upon the unemployed and we
are going to oppose this thing
until it is changed back to
where it was before"
Explains New Setup
Explaining the new unem-
ployment compensation setup,
Mr.. Gosser said that those who
now become unemployed must
report themselves out of work
After the two weeks waiting
period, t ey report to the
Bureau of Unemployment Com
pensation and are told to return
back in two weeks.
After the end of the two week
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
Announce Annual
Stewards Dinner

Plans are being made for the
Third Annual Local IL Steward
Dinner to be held early in
March, it was announced today
by Melvin Schultz, Local IL
president.
Tentative plans are for hold
ing the banquet March 5 in one
of the downtown hotels. AS in
previous years, Local II officers
who are elected this month will
be installed by Richard Gosser,
UAW-CIO director.
Various committees to take
charge of decorations, tickets,
entertainment, spea kers and
other activities of the annual
dinner are now being appointed
by the Local II president and
will begin to function within the
next week.
Last years dinner, held in the
Hotel Secor, brought a record
turnout which is expected to be
duplicated this year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
Union To Buy
Lake Property
Votes To Spend
$50, 900 On Land

Members of the Automo-
bile Workers Building Cor
poration at their meeting of
January 81 voted to spend
100000 for the purchase and
development of a waterfront
property within easy driving
distance of Toledo and for the
purchase of property for an
athletic field. The sum of $780,
600 has been allotted to each
project.
Richard Gosser, UAW direc-
tor, and Howard Rediger, Inter
national UAW representative,
will head the committee which
will negotiate purchase of the
lake-front property.
The lake property will be de-
veloped as a summer camp for
the children of Local IL men,
bers. Mr.. Gosser said that If II
is at all possible that the camp
will be given over for certain
period of time to the city's un-
derprivileged children.
To Hold Meeting
A meeting of the committee,
o m posed of representatives
from Local IL shops, has been
called by Mr.. Rediger to be held
at Local IL headquarters next
Wednesday, Feb. IL, at 8 p. m
Plans for the acquisition and de-
velopment of the property will
be made and arrangements com
pleted to look over several sites
already under consideration. II
is the hope of the UAW-CIO
group to be able to use the camp
during the coming summer.
Mr.. Rediger announced that
number of inquiries have al
ready been received from Local
IL and non-union sources in
quiring If donations would be
accepted to aid in maintaining
the camp. Such donations would
be gladly received, he said.
To Build Field
Purchase of the site for the
athletic field in the Toledo area
would bring about development
of softball and baseball dia-
monds for the use of Local IL
teams and the building of stands
for spectators. Plans call for the
fencing in of the property and
installation of lights for night
games.
Wilbert (Birdie) Rule, Local
IL recreational director, is chair
man of the committee for the
purchase of the athletic field.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07

Wednesday of this week
was set by the LMC for the
filing of briefs by company
and union representatives. Argu-
ments bearing on the controver.
sial issues, principally wages,
will be held on Thursday morn.
ing at 1000 a. m.
Issues which had previously
been in dispute, including sever
ance pay, transfers, union secu-
rity, preferential employment,
sick leave, outside activity, job
security, leave of absence, speed
up and struck work, were settled
in negotiations and were ap-
proved by the Guild member
ship last week.
Issues In Dispute
Remaining in dispute and SUBJ
ject to the recommendation of
the LMC are wages, hours, mil
age allowances, vacations, holi-
days and contract renewal.
Members of the full LMC
agreed to take the case following
a report of DR.. Morton Goldberg,
chairman of the three-man panel
which attempted to settle the
dispute last week.
DR.. Goldberg reported that the
negotiations had broken down
over the wage clause in the con-
tract and that the union and
company had both agreed to
their case to the full
LMC.
No New Issues
In agreeing to accept the case,
the LMC stipulated that neither
side could inject any new issues
which had already been settled
and that the briefs be confined
to the issues in dispute at the
time of last weeks meeting.
Represented by the guild are
300 workers of the Toledo Blade
and Toledo Tt m e covering
circulation, business
a d advertising departments.
The last contract expired
December 10, but under a clause
in it continues in effect until a
new agreement has been nego-
tiated and signed.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
PAC Opens
1q47 Drive
Next Week

Beginning of the 1947 PAC
membership drive next week
was announced today by
Clayton Rusch, chairman of
the CLOS Political Action
Committee.
Applications and membership
tickets for the current year were
received this week and are now
ready for distribution to the
shop officers and others who
have aided in the membership
drives during. the last several
years, said Mr.. Rusch.
Distribution of tickets to
the various plants is now under
way and all unit executive COM
mittees will soon have the men,
berships for sale.
Calls For Aid
Commenting upon the PAC
drive, Mr.. Rusch
said, The PAC takes on new
and greater importance in the
light of what is occurring in
Washington and the several |
states in the large number of
anti-labor bills which have been
dropped into the legislative hop
pers. Now, more than ever be-
fore there is need for labor unit
ing itself and using its political
power to combat those who
would damage our cause and
set it back for many years"
Saying that the need for aid
in the shops in getting more
members for PAC is greater
than ever before, Mr.. Rusch
called for volunteers from all
plants to aid in the drive.
1--WE need help, lots of help
from everyone who has their
own welfare and interest at
heart. Those who help us in our
membership drive will not only
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
Teumsfers Fined S4I6I

NEW YORK (LPA)-A two
day wildcat strike by 800 mem
bers of the Int'l Brotherhood of
Teamsters-AFL will cost the
union $4161 if the Brotherhood
accepts a fine imposed by, an
impartial arbitrator here last
week. The union argued against
the assessment, contending that
it had made every effort to in
duce the men to return to work.
The arbitrator found that the
union had not supplied other
drivers to the struck firm and
took no action against the wild
caters.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
Reqion 2-B Locals Will
Present NewWageDe
Gosser Outlines Policy
In Re-Opening Contracts

Region 2-B Local Unions will present their wage
demands of 1914 cents hour all contract plants where
have been re-opened, it announced
Tuesday of this week by Richard Gosser UAWCO director
Director Gosser implemented his statement with
letter directed all locals and of amalgamated local
unions in Region 2B outlining the following demands that
will be made by union negotiators the corporations:
l. Wages-23R cents hour the board.
2 Adjustment of Inequalities local and national
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
JAW Gifts Swell
March Of Dimes

Donations in excess of $1,000
donated by workers in Local IL
shops swelled the March of
Dimes locally and will be turn
ed over to the Lucas County
committee in charge of the 1947
fund drive, it was announced
here early this week by Clem
HoleWinski in charge of the
Local IL fund.
Mr.. ,Holewinski stated that
while the containers had not all
been turned in to him that the
sum would probably amount to
about $2400, slightly less than
last years donations.
Following are the shops re-
porting their collections and the
amounts given:
Acklin Stamping, $30,12; Ac-
me Speciality, $9.17! Airway
Electric, $52.42; A Amer C a n
Brake Shoe, $4.00; American
Can, $31.34; Auto-Lite, $257.56;
Ayling & Reichert, $4.28 Bant-
ing, $500; Bliss Foundry,
$24.22; Buckeye Paint, $3.50;
Burt Foundry, $8.91.
Cha mpion Spark Plug,
$384.43; City Machine & Tool,
$6.43; Commercial Metals, $7.02;
DeVilbiss, $121.45; Ensign Foun-
dry, $500; Fort Pitt Steel,
$3.95; Gordon Mfg. $37.78; In
dustrial Heat Treat, 1892; Jones
S. M, $11.35; LacIede Christy,
$6.71; Lakeside Biscuit, $12.35;
Mather Spring, $14.81.
National Supply, $109.58;
Packard Motor Car, $3.50; Peer
less Plastics, $11.34; Plaskon
Div. (LOF), $22.O1; Ransom &
Randolph, $22.90; Spicer Mfg,
$4,000; Surface Combustion,
S13.25; wartz baugh Mfg.
$3.50;
Tillotson Mfg. $34.38; Toledo
Industrial Rubber. $3.95; Toledo
Pipe Threading, $36.74; Toledo
Pressed Steel, $10.44; Toledo
Scale, $71.06; Toledo Stamping,
$3426; Toledo Standard Com
mutator, $31.19; Willys-Over-
land, $581.41; Butcher & Hart,
$4.70. Total S2495.15.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
UNIV Funds Hit Hiqh

WASHINGTON (LPA) - The
health and welfare fund of the
United Mine Workers-AFL has
passed the 15,500,000 mark and
is expected to hit $20,000,00 by
June 1, it was disclosed here last
week. Under terms of the con-
tract signed by the UNIV and
the government, the mine: op-
orators pay a sc royalty on each
ton of coal mined.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07

scramble for the remaining
15To."
House Votes Probe
The investigation, long de-
manded by editors of labor and
other small papers, was voted
last week by the House Steering
Committee which announced
that hearings would start with
in two weeks.
Substantiation of practically
all the charges made by labor
and coop editors was found in
a sensational report made by
Sen. James e. Murray Cd,
Mont.), chairman of the Senate
Small Business Committee dur
ing the last Congress.
A Federal Trade Commission
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Duplicafions

In changing from one
shop to another, or because
of a change of address,
some subscribers of the
JOURNAL are receiving
more than one copy of the
paper. 1t wOulC be of
value in saving paper and
costs If those who are re-
ceiving more than one
paper would send in a post
card with theil name and
address, former address,
present shop anu former
shop. Better still, fill In the
space below and mail or
bring to the JOURNAL Of
flee.
Name ........."..."".......
Address ............."..".."..
Former Address ...-.............
Shop ,..-.. .....,............
Former Shop ............."......
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
Burns Leaves cI0.PAc

ASHIN GTON (LPA)-
Thomas F. Burns. one of the
founders of the United Rubber
Workers-CIO, and assistant di-
rector of the CIO Political Ac-
ton Committee, will resign from
the latter post to accept an
executive position with the
Aldan Rubber Co., of Philadel-
phia, it was announced here last
week.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07

Beginning this week, a
new feature "Inquiring Re-
porter" will be found on
page 4. Each week, the
JOURNAL will send a re-
porter into one of the shops
to ask questions. This
weeks report is from Ack-
lin Stamping Co. Next
weeks will be from Air
way Electric. The question
which Airway workers will
be asked is "Why should
workers be given wage
raises noW?"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
Guild Contract
Goes To LING
Company And Union
Agree To Decision

Prompt settlement of the disputed issues in the 1947
Toledo Blade CoToedo Newspaper Guild contract is ex-
pected when the goes before the full LMC panel this
week following of both parties January 80 to
abide by the recommendations to be made by the panel
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
Congress To Probe
Newsprint Monopoly
House Committee Votes
To Investigate Monopoly

WASHINGTON Feb NPA) = Editors OF labor pa
pers and coop publications throughout the country hoped
this week that forthcoming Congressional investigation
into the newsprint industry will explain why the squeeze
was mt on small publications during and after the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07

The Justice Dept, has been
asked by the Textile Workers
Union.CI0 to investigate the
terroristic activities of a mob
of vigiIantes i'm South Boston,
Va, who drove Cree Radcliff
(above), TWUA organizer, out
of the city, apparently with
the cOIlusion of municipal Of
ficials. The union demanded
that Gov. William Tuck take
action and reminded him that
a similar incident occurred in
South Boston while he was
lieutenant.governOr but that
Tuck had refused to interfere
with the civil rights violations
because he was being paid
$1,000 a year by the firm the
union was trying to organize.
UPA)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
Riqht To Break
Strikes Is Newest
Ball Brainstorm

WASHINGTON, Feb QPA) - The gravity of the
Congressional antabor drive deepened last week. tighten
ed by only incident charge by Robert Wason last
years president of the National Association of Manufacture
ers that the Republican Congress sod OUT to
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07
Nathan Rebuts Distortion
Of His Wage Analysis
Says Wage Hikes Can
Be Given By Industry

AF and daily newspapers that the economic report
pared by the Robert Nathan Associates for the CIo
based on the pooling of corporate profits blasted
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-02-07

Continued on Page 2
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-22
5. (. PLANS TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE

Columbia, S. CA number of the states in the Union these days seem prone to devise ways and means of circumventing any decision of the United States Supreme Court that they didn't like.
 Now word comes from State Senator, E. w. Cantwell, Jr., of Williamsburg County, that he will introduce bill in the legis- ature in the next ten days re- curing bus companies operat- ing in South Carolina to pro vide separate buses for the white and colored races. Senator CantweI denies that this is a deliberate effort to circumvent the recent ruling of the Supreme Court outlawing racial segregation on buses travelling interstate.
 Some individuals in legisla- tive circles doubted that such a bill could be passed. Still others were of the opinion that even the bus companies would be forced to oppose such an idea being put into practice.