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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04

regional area.
Wage increases which have
so far been granted, as well
as those where the company
management indicated rails e S
would be given, have been on
an interim basis similar to the
agreements which existed in the
region prior to the 1872 cents
national wage pattern last year.
All rate hikes have been from
a minimum of 512 cents an hour
as in the case of the Sheets
Elevator here, up to 30-cents,
top rate of increases granted by
the Martin Parry Co. which
adjusted its rates from Scents
an hour upward.
Shops Are Listed
Other increases granted in
Toledo include Acklin Stamping
Co., 5 to Accents an hour;
Toledo Pressed Steel, 10-cents;
Hall Mfg. Co. which raised its
engineering and clerical classifi-
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fective in Ohio, Missouri,
Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Kentucky where the employees
are represented by the United
Office and Professional Workers
CIO.
The principal issue of the
strike is the unions demand
for a $50 weekly guarantee for
the company's agents who were
working without any assured
income. Union officials here
point out that the company
which has its headquarters in
Baltimore, Md. can we'll afford
the guarantee. The companys
net dividend to its stockholders
for 1916 was 100000.
POlicyholders Advised
Ray Lehlbach, UOPWA-CIO
representative here today ad-
vised policy holders who know
that they cannot reinstate their
insurance after the grace period
allowed in their contract to pay
their premiums by mail, but
urged all who are in sympathy
with the desire of the agents to
earn living wage to wait until
the end of the period.
An appeal by the union to
Lee Shields, Columbus, State
Insurance Commissioner relative
to the premiums and grace
period has been unanswered.
Federal Cancellation Service
has been unable to effect a meet
ing between the union and COM
pany representatives up to the
present time.
Danger of a nationwide in
surance strike was suggested by
local UOPWA officials who
stated that John Hancock,
Metropolitan and Prudential in
surance agents contracts were
up for negotiations and that in
each case the company and
union were far apart.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
LocaI 638. JAW
Elects Officers

DEFIANCE, April 2 - L. H.
Rosselet was elected president of
Local 638, UAW-CIO here last
week at the annual election OF
union officers it was announced
today by Harold Kobe, Inter
national union representative.
Other officers who were
named were George Beiswenger,
vice-president; Ray Wagner, re-
cording secretary; William Wir-
rick, financial ecr tary and
Claude Strok, treasurer.
Members of the executive
shop committee who were
electe d were Leo Hessel-
schwartz, Leonard Fricke, Ray
Wagner, Charles Hardy, Mahlon
Hall, Leonard Rosselet and
Claude Stork.
The newly elected officers
will serve for one year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
ACW Builds
New Homes
NEW YORK. April 2 LPA)

NEW YORK, April 2 (LPA)
- The Amalgamated Clothing
Workers-CIO, which pioneered
in the field of low-cost housing
for its members in 1927, is again
showing the way with 700
family apartment development
to be built here.
The Almalgamated Housing
Corp. announced, within a few
hours after Gov. Thomas Dewey
signed enabling legislation, that
the huge apartment project will
get under way very soon. Half
of the apartments will be re-
served for veterans.
The housing development is a
limited dividend cooperation, and
each tenant will invest $500 a
room, plus paying SIS a month
a room toward retiring the
mortgage and for maintenance
costs.
Mayor O'Dwyer, in a state
ment hailing the plan, said he
will recommend to the City
Council a law granting 80 years
exemption from real estate taxes
on the new buildings.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
Closed Shop
Hit Lawyers

LANSING (LPA) The CIO
has never opposed the closed
shop of lawyers. But the Michi-
gan state legislature has a bill
to require that referees hired
by the state unemployment COM
pensation commission must be
lawyers. Says the Michigan CIO:
"a knowledge of industrial
practice, a basic sympathy and
understanding of the aims of un-
employment compensation, plus
a working knowledge of the laws
. those things make a good
referee. The CIO thinks that re-
quiring referees to have worked
in factory and then been laid off
is just as reasonable as the re-
quirement that they have a law
degree"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
TIUC To Issue
"CIinic" (" Call

Members of all CIO Interna-
tional unions affiliated with the
Toledo Industrial Union Council
will be given a call to attend a
Legislative clinic" to be held
this month by Toledo area rep
resentatives to the Ohio General
Assembly, it was announced on
Wednesday of this week by
Richard Lazette, TIUC secretary.
The decision to issue the call
came as a result of action taken
by The TIUC Executive Board on
Tuesday night of this week and
was the first step of series to
be undertaken during April
which has been designated as
Defend Labor Month" by the
national CIO executive board.
Notice of the date of meeting
with the legislators will be an
nounced as soon as the Toledo
representatives d e erm n it.
The meeting will be held in the
Toledo City Council chambers.
Tentative plans were made for
other concerted CIO actions to
impress upon Congress labor's
opposition to anti-labor bills
which are now in process of
hearings or which are soon to
be sent to the House and Senate
for debate and vote.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
No O'NeilI For
Washington

ASHIN G. TON, April 2
GPA) - The fight by Actors
Equity-AFL and the Committee
for Racial Democracy in the
Nations Capital against exclu-
sion of Negroes from theaters
here won new adherents last
week when playwright Eugene
ONeill wired the committee he
would not allow future produc-
tions of his works to be shown
in theaters where Negroes were
excluded. In d dition, the
Theater Guild announced it was
considering cancelling its Wash
ington offerings because many
of its playwrights had already
taken O'Neill's stand.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04

personnel who work in the
shadow of the Capitol" ;"
Reach No Conclusion
The harmony meeting" COM
prising five representatives each
from the Reuther and Adde's
camps, reached no effective con-
clusions on welding the intra-
union breach.
Meanwhile, the UAW extend
e its demand for a 2312-cent-
an-hour wage raise from Chrys-
Ter to General Motors and Ford.
There was virtually no differ
ence between the two sets of
contract demands. The General
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Meyer Elected
By Piquo JAW

PIQUA, April 2 - Newl y
elected officers of the Wood
Shovel & Tool Co., Local 827,
UAW-CIO were in nstalle d in
office last week by Orville
Beemer, International UAW rep
resentative.
Those who took office were
William Meyer, president; Oda
Pitman, vice president; Lewis
Bode, fins cial secretary
treasurer; George Woodell, re-
cording secretary; Marion Byers,
G u d e; Orel Shellenbarger,
sergeant-at-arms and Herschel
Starr, three year trustee.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04

a meeting of the 22-man
board which had been given
advance billing as a "har-
mony meeting"
Reuther, who has frankly ad-
mitted his desire to eliminate
Communist influence from un-
ion policy-making circles, lost
a long brewing fight for the re-
moval of Irving Richter, UAW
| e gi S la i've representative in
Washington.
The UAW chief had charged
Richter with disloyalty to the
union and allegiance to outside
interests. Reuther told the
board that the union should be
very careful in the selection OF
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04

Mr.. Gosser stated that work
will begin Immediately to pre-
pare the site as summer
camp for children of Local II
and for underprlvileged
Toledo children. The lake which
is located in the Irish Hills is
so miles from Toledo and con
sists of 25 acres.
The purchase price agreed
upon was $4,000 according to
the UAW head who stated that
the Sportsmen's Club was fully
aware that their property was
worth many times what the
union paid for it, but sold at a
low figure in order to make a
contribution to the welfare of
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the House bill would be a vi
cious catch-all law, it was re-
moved last week by Chairman
Fred Hartley (R., N. J.) and
Rep. Gerald w. Lands (R.,
Ind). Hartley boasted, Were
going to write an awfully strong
bill" and Lands predicted that
the legislation would include
"double-barreled" anti closed
shop provision.
Would Invade Rights
Ironically titled the Labor
Management Peace Act of 1947,"
the draft supervised by Hartley
would invade union rights in
the following way:
FORBID industry wide bar
gaining. 2-Prohibit strikes for
a closed shop contract and de-
prive unions striking for such
contract of their collective bar
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least two drafts of restrictive
proposals, expects to have its
legislation ready for floor de-
bate on April IA. The Senate
Labor Committee, with larger
pro-labor minority, will not re-
port out its bill until later in
athe week or the next week.
q The expectation became a
hear certainty this week that
there would be huge discrepan-
cies between the two bills. The
Senate unit will probably not
recommend any outright ban on
either the closed shop or collec-
tive bargaining. 1t may, in fact,
be a relatively mild version,
dealing with jurisdictional dis
putes, secondary boycotts, reg
istration of unions, and provi-
sion for labor organizations to
be sued.
If there was any doubt that
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04

The speakers who pre-
sented a dual program of leg
islation favored and opposed
by labor, reviewed the proposed
laws for both state and national
legislative bodies and recon-
mended that PAC increase its
a ctivities in awakening the
workers to their political
interests.
Interspersing his discussion of
social legislation favored by Ohio
labor with frequent criticism of
the Republican party and Ed
Schorr, former state Republican
chairman, Mr.. Clayman said,
Ed Schorr is still running the
show from his office in Cincin-
natl and from Columbus, and
the legislature is bowling
abjectly to his beck and call"
Criticizing legislation tn al
would bring back the 10 hour
day for women, the CIO legisla-
tive representative said, this
law if passed would drive
women and children back 20
sweatshop hours"
For Minimum Wages
Charging that employers in
Ohio could pay as little as 19-
cents an hour to employees and
still remain within the law, Mr..
Clayman said that Ohio should
have minimum wage law in
keeping with the needs of the
workers.
He told of the agreement be.
tween all unions in Ohio to in
crease the workmen's compen-
sation to SIS week and told
of the other benefits in the new
law which was proposed by
organized labor.
Also advocated by Mr.. Clay
man were laws changing the
old age pensioners allotment
to base it upon the merits
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
Troy UAW-cIO
Picks Officers

TROY, April 2 - Results of
the annual election of Hobart
Mfg. Co. Local 1913, UAW-CIO
were announced here today by
Kendall Driscoll, union financial
secretary.
Elected were Arthur Fagan
president; William Boram, vice
president; Ruby Roecher, record
ing secretary; Kendall Driscoll,
secretary-t r u rer;
Charles Hines, Arthur Irwin and
Marion Buirley, trustees, Robert
S trine, sergeat-at-arms and
Charles Moreland guide.
President elect Pagan former
ly served as recording secretary.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
Conodions Wont Control

OTTAWA, Canada LPA)-
Officials of the Canadian Con-
gress of Labor, meeting last
week in their annual presenta-
ton of views to the Canadian
government, report they got no
commitments that prices in the
dominion would be held down.
The union spokesmen told re-
presentatives of Prime Minister
Mackenzie King that "The gov
ernment must use controls to de-
feat Canada's greatest enemy,
involuntary poverty" and must
keep down prices and control
profits.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04

the youth of Toledo.
Seek Adequate Funds
Plans for turning the lake
property into summer camp
will require a considerable out
lay of money which will be
supplied in part by Units of
Local II whose chairmen voted
unanimously to back the camp
at a meeting held at Local II
headquarters, March %.
Other support will be given
by public-spirited local citizens
who are interested in providing
a camp for undernourlshed
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Victor Screw Elects

Victor Screw Unit elected the
following officers last week:
Ralph Zeman, chairman; Dale
Enteman, secretary, and Harley
Cheeves, treasurer. The new
officers will assume their duties
following the next regular Unit
meeting.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
Nc AFL-cIO Pressure

WASHIN TON, April 2
(LPA)-Daily press reports that
the CIO and AFL have put
pressure" on the independent
NFTW to call off their pending
strike were vigorously denied
here this week by an NFTW
spokesman. "There hasn't even
been a suggestion from either,
much less any pressure" he
said. The item said that the two
feared an NFTW walkout would
precipitate Congressional anti
labor legislation.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
Peters Unit Elects

Newly elected officers Of
Peters Unit of Local IL, UAW-
CIO were announced this week
by Harold Dean, Local IL repre-
sentative in charge. Elected
were Ray Kopp, chairman; Lyle
st. Clair, vice chairman; Esther
Lower, treasurer; Irene Carr,
secretary and Gilbert CARRIER,
Georgana Purvis and Clara
Schultz, committee at-large.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
Help Please

Edward J. Duck, assistant
AutO.Lite director, again
urges Toledo AutO-Lite EN-
plOyes TO turn over some
of their 1916 paycheck
stubs to their executive
committeeman as quickly
as possible. They will be
used in the OrganizatiOnal
drive in AutO-Lite shops in
the Cincinnati area. Note
on the back what type of
work classification the en-
ploye is engaged in.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
.IndustYLaughs
AT Truman Plan

ASHIN GTON, April 2
(LPA) - President Truman and
Treasury Secretary Snyder last
week appealed to industry to
see the handwriting on the wall
and take steps to lower prices
before the wage spiral reaches
disastrous proportions.
Industry responded by insist
ing that it was the other guys
who were causing the spiraling
prices the distributors and
retailers, and the raw materials
producers.
Truman is expected to receive
shortly, from his three-man
Council of Economic Advisers, a
study on what's happening as a
result of the continued rise in
prices.
Previous Appeal Made
Polite but firm requests that
basic industries-especially steel
plan to cut prices have been
made by Commerce Department
officials in previous weeks.
However, pri m ary market
prices continued to rise last
week, with average prices of all
commodities other than food and
farm products increasing 1go
during the seven days ended
March %. prices of crude
petroleum products rose sharply,
the fifth advance since decon-
troll" the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported.
Costs Go Up
While the retail consumer
price index complied by BIS
dropped 0.2% between mid
January and mid-February, it
was reported last week, non-food
living essentials rose 0.4% in
the month.
In mid-February consumers
goods and services used by
families in large cities were
1872 higher than a year ago,
and 51.6% above the Jan. /,
1941 level.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04

William Heidtman: It isn't
fair. It's always the small tax,
payers who pay anyway, not the
big guy. Nobody whose income is
under S2,500 should be taxed.
The way the living costs are now,
you don't have anything left
after you pay your taxes and buy
the things you really need
Then you can't get everything
you need anyhow.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
They Object

How many people have
you heard say, "what busi.
ness have the unions med
ding i'm politics?" Clayton
Rusch, PAC chairman will
give the ans wer i'm his
weekly radio broa dcast
which Is heard each Satur.
day over Station WTOL
from 1880 to las p. M.
Tune i'm and hear Mr.. Rusch
discuss Labor and Politics"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
lnquiring
Reporter

Employees of Bingham
Stamping Co. were asked the
question this week What do
you think about the tax cut
voted by Congress last week
giving 30 per cent TO those
under $1,000 and 20 per cent
to those above $1,000?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
Interim Wage
Raises GiUen:
Await Pattern
Region 2-B Reports Indicate
Industry-Union Cooperation

Cooperation between the United Auto Workers CIO,
its contract plants throughout Region 2B were ndi-
Gated this week by series of wage increases which have
already been granted Toledo and several in the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
JAW Board Split
Remains UnheaIed
Richter Is Retained By
Boards Majority Vote

LOUISVILLE April LPA)-The split in the execu-
tive board of the United Auto WorkerCIO between sup
porers of President Walter Reuther and the followers of
George Adde's and VcePresident j.
Thomas closer to being healed last week following
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
Monumental Strike
Enters 3rd Week

Agents of the Monumental Life Insurance Co., Gardner
Bldg who have been strike since March a. will begin
the third week of their work stoppage next Monday.
The strike which was called when negotiations between
the union and management broke down in Cleveland is eff
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
Labor TOLearn
Congress- VIII
"Peace Act" Seen AS
Union Rights Breach

WASHINGTON April QPA)-United States labor
will learn probably during the week of April a. what
gress has in store for in the way of new
laws.
The House Labor Committee, which has completed at
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
.CIO Warns Or
Congress Threat
TIUC Planning Observance
Of defend Labor Week

Destruction of the unions very existance IS threat
ened the message brought to the Go legislative con-
ference here last Sunday afternoon by William Lavele,
Ohio CIO Council executive secretary and Jacob Clayman
Go legislative representative, both of Columbus.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04
Local ~ Closes
Sand Lake Deal
Plans Announced For Children's
Summer Recreation Health Camp

Purchase of Sand Lake, Mich, by Local H. UAW-ClO,
completed Wednesday evening of this week follow
ing negotiations between union officials and representatives
of the Will-O-Land Sportsmens Club announced
today by Richard Cosser. UAWCIO regional director.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04

Rose Cutcher: It's really un-
fair. With the high cost of living
you don't have enough left to
get by on. The 20 per cent cut
doesn't mean a thing. Congress
should look out more for the
working class. They are not do
ing it now. They should cut
taxes to the point where the
workers would have a little
money left.
Ollie Wisniewski: don't
think it's right. The little guy
with two, three or four kids
can't afford the tax. I get ex-
emptions for a wife and two
children, but even if you work
every day in the week, you
still can't make enough money
to make ends meet. l think the
tax should be graduated so the
big guys who can afford it will
pay their proper proportionate
share.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-04

Kenneth Hopkins: The cut in
the taxes as it was passed does
not help the working people.
They might as well left it the
way it was. If they are going
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This is Rep. Frank B. Keefe
(R., Wis.,, the man chiefly re-
spOnsibIe for the vicious hat
chet job on the Labor Depart
ment and the NLRB. He in
stigated and obtained from
the House a A per cent cut in
funds for the Labor Depart
ment and nearly so per cent
for the NLRB. His appropri-
ations bill would practically
cripple both agencies and re-
quire the firing of COncilia-
ton Director Edgar Warren
and 100 of his staff. OPA)
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-27
PALM SUNDAY AT
ST. PAUL'S METHODIST

"Who Is Your King?" will be the
subject for Rev. Harry C. Marsh's
sermon, on Sunday morning at IL
o'clock at st. PauIs Methodist
Church, North Potomac Street.
The Pre-Easter Rally in the Church
School comes to a climax on Sun
day and it is hoped that banner
attendance will be present both this
Sunday and Easter Sunday.
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock a
baptismal service will be held for
babies and small children in the
Church auditorium. If you have
children you wish baptized at this
time, contact the pastor.
At the evening hour, 7:30, the
choir, under the direction of Mr..
John Whitmore, with Mrs W. P.
Sperow at the organ, will render
From Olivet to Calvary" in spe-
cial service of Easter music. The
public is invited to all services at
st. PauPs
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-27
ST. PAUL'S EV. LUTHERAN
CHURCH, FUNKSTOWN

On Palm Sunday, March 80, at
$50 a. m, st. Paups Lutheran
Church, Funkstown, will welcome
into its membership new members
received by confirmation, Baptism
and Letters of Transfer. The Pas
tor, Rev. r. M. Miller, will preach
on the theme, "The Time of Thy
Visitation" The Senior Choir will
sing, "Methinks 1 hear The Heavens
Resound," a Baroque number by
Lutkin. Sunday School will be held
at l0:40 a. m. and Luther League
at $50 p. m.
Ae Vespers, 1880 p. m, picture
meditation will be given on the
painting of Edward Won Gebhardt,
'The Triumphal Entry"
The mid-week Lenten Service
will be held on Wednesday, April 2,
with service of Public Confession
A REORGANIZATION will be given
on the painting of Beraud, Christ
Bearing The Cross" Holy Com
munion will be held on Holy Thurs
day.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-27
SERVICE AT FIRST CHURCH
OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST

Reality" will be the subject of
the Lesson-Sermon at the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, 235
North Potomac Street, on Sunday.
The Golden Text will be from
Psalms 1922 - Thou, o Lord,
shall endure for ever: and thy re-
memberance unto all generations"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible-Psalms 1892
LET Israel rejoice in him that
made him: let the children Of Zion
be joyful in their King"
The Lesson-Sernon also will in
clude passages from the Christian
Science textbook. Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
by Mary Baker Eddy, among which
is the following, page 513 - God
creates all forms of reality. His
thoughts are spiritual realities"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-27
Church NewS
MORNING DEVOTIONS
HEARD OVER WEI

The following ministers will con-
duct the Morning Devotions for the
ensuing week, heard over radio sta
ton WEI every weekday morning
at 1918 o'clock.
Friday, Captain Churchill,
Salvation Army; Saturday, Rev.
Walter ]. Dice, St Matthew's
Ev. U. B. Church; Monday, Rev.
Raymond M. Miller, st. PauPs Luz
theran Church, Funkstown; Tues
day, Rev DR.. William M. Norment,
First Christian Church; Wednesday,
Rev. Harold Tapscott Smith, Pres
byterian Church, Waynesboro;
Thursday, Rev. David C. Fleagle,
Seventh Day Adventist Church.