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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
PUT UP OR ELSE

Even Chairman Taber of the
House Appropriations Commit.
tee, who said he saw no hum
cry people in Europe, can be
persuaded that the time has
come for the u. S. A. to put
up or shut up, and fast. A
little flaming leadership in
the White House or Congress
would help. Lacking that, it's
up to the American people
themselves.
Congressman who voted 81
billions a month for war eX.
penditures now shudder like a
line of shimmy dancers at the
thought of $585 millions for
the immediate emergency and
$4 billions a year for four
years to make the Marshall
Plan work.
The question the American
people have TO decide for their
President and their Congress is
whether or not a lasting peace
of free men is worth as much
as the immediate out.of.pocket
cost of World War III for three
months.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
From The Desk
of
Melvin Schultz
President
Local II UAW>CIO

The question of unemployment has not
been of great concern to our community as
whole for good many years, however, we are
now approaching the time when we must give
closer attention to the unemployed.
1t has just been announced that approxi-
mately 35,0 900 Auto Workers are to be laid off
in Detroit because of steel shortages. In the
past year there have been a good many lay
offs from one week to six weeks because of
one shortage or another AS production catch
es up with the ability of working people to
pay for their own production, cutbacks will
become more and more outstanding anG with
them will be greater numbers of unemployed.
The last session of our State Legislature
did not help matters in any way for unemz,
ployed people. In fact new disqualification y.
have been added to obstruct unemployed
workers in making claims for benefits.
At the present time the average weekly
compensation payment is slightly less than
$500 which am sure is far from providing
an adequate standard of living for even two
people, to say nothing of expecting a family
to exist on this amount. Further our un-
employment compensation act only allows
% weeks of claims. When real unemploy-
ment problems confront us, there will no
doubt be many people who without work
in excess of % weeks. Our State Law needs
many changes, among which one of the most
important is graduated scale of payments to
claimants based on their needs For instance,
a wage Garner who may have a family of
three to support certainly needs more for
food then single person. "-
The cost of living has more then doubled,
yet, the payments under our unemployment
compensation law remain the same. They GER
tainly should be increased in proportion t.
present day needs Neighborhood merchants
should get behind the problems of the work
ing people so that the purchasing power of
their consumers is provided for during slack
times Many a small business man will go on
the rocks the minute his particular community
is faced with serious unemployment unless he
aids labor on this score.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
THE LESSON

The letter above Is signifi-
cant to every one of us who
cares to read between the lines
and give a little thought to
the implictions contained in it.
Particularly important is the
reference to political democ-
racy and the wish of the writer
that he could be in our shoes
on election day to cast his bal
lot for candidates whom he
believed would serve his in.
tereStS.
Every worker in Toledo
should avail themselves of the
opportunity to cast their vote
Nov. 4 and vote for the peo-
lie whom he believes would
advance his interests as a
worker. Only those who do
vote are participating fully in
their duties and rights as citi-
Zens.
You can't accomplish any.
thing by not voting except to
give civic leadership to those
who may not be in your cor
ner. Vote on Nov. 4.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17

It's tough to be the. editor of a union news
paper, too. From one week TO the next, you
never know what the hazards are Labor, pub
lshed by the Railroad Brotherhoods, and one
OF the most widely circulated union papers in
the country recently carried three-column
cartoon attacking the Taft Hartley law 1t was
drawn by Labors noted cartoonist, John Baer
and with his usual skill, but Baer made one
fatal error. To represent the Taft-Hartley Act
he drew hound-dog. From coast to coast
came the howls of protest demanding that
public apology be made to the nations hounds
The next issue Of Labor carried another car
toon by Baer, constituting in effect, a retrac-
ton, and picturing much happer-l looking
beagle whose injured feelings had obviously
been Modified
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Prevent The
Accident
III
by Ruth Taylor

Prevent the accident and
you have prevented the in
jury"
We all know that safety
slogan and how very true it is.
But its truth is not confined
to industrial accidents. 1t ap-
plies to everyday life as well.
Today we must apply the
same rule to our industrial re-
lations. We m u st prevent
trouble before it occurs. Or
ganized Labor'S concern in
this is, first and foremost, its
own attitude and actions. Then
and then only it has the right
to ask and expect of the en-
ployer that he be as fair. The
machinery is already set up
for cooperative action. All that
is needed is that both sides put
it to work. But first Organized
Labor must follow its leaders
and clear out any subversive
elements that may have crept
in. 1t must clear its house of
Communist borers-from-With-
in, as Industry must clear it
self of its Fascist minded ide-
ologists.
The stand taken by the
leaders of Organized Labor on
wildcat strikes is clear cut
and unequivocal and does
more to C o m b It anti-labor
propaganda than hours of
speechifying would ever do.
Nobody really likes strike.
Ask any business agent. He
knows his success is deter
mined more by his ability to
handle negotiations without a
strike than by the number of
strikes he calls. OF course,
there are times when strikes
are the only way out, but as
their effectiveness depends to
a large part upon public opin-
ion being behind them, the
fewer they are and the farther
between, the better.
For, take it or leave it
the public will not be damned
and they are heartily sick of
unnecessary strikes.
They won't differentiate be-
tween organizations or who
calls strikes and they dislike
having t h ir inconvenience
as a club. The only real way
to avoid FURTHER anti-labor
legislation is to keep strikes
to a minimum. Prevent the
accident - the strikes that
hamper, or that seriously
handicap a whole community
and you will avoid the dam
ger of adverse public opinion.
Organized Labor knows that
sound industrial relations can
only be built where there is
friendly cooperation between
the union and management.
The way to build this is
through fair play and an hon
est attempt to understand each
others problems and for each
to cooperate to give to the
community efficient, econom-
ical and courteous service. The
public will st a n d behind
WHICHEVER group first
shows its willingness to do
this-and here lies Organized
Labor's golden opportunity.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Regional
Views
By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2-B, UAW-CIO

Fourteen months ago, Senator Taft, the
National Association of Manufacturers, the
u. S. Chamber of Commerce, meat packers
and other big interests were telling the nation
that If controls were removed from commodity
prices-prices would come down.
Taft and the people whose views he ex-
pressed told us that if controls were killed the
law of supply and demand would begun to
operate and prices would be lowered as goods
became more plentiful.
Here it is, ID months later. Prices controls
have been out for more than year and prices
are higher now than ever before. Either Taft
and his crowd were kidding US, or they have
developed new economic theory.
The fact is, that prices are doing exactly
what labor economists said they would do If
controls were removed. Furthermore, price
controls instead of being removed, have merely
been transferred from the government, which
attempted to control them, to the monopolists.
MUST DROP
This is the initiation about which we heard
so much talk during the war and Immediately
after, when labor was insisting, as it is insist
ing now, that prices must drop while wage
rates are held stable.
We have been made the victims of propa-
ganda by the monopolists that every wage in
crease requires a price increase. This, in the
face of the profits revealed for business for
1946, we know to be completely untrue. The
price increases and profits growing out of the
prices so completely out of line that the
actual profit figures supply the best answer to
those who are still trying to deceive U.S.
Now again labor must consider urgent re-
quests for additional wage boosts to meet the
greatly increased cost of living, a move which,
it it brings about more price increases, will
just about be the jumping off place for the
next depression.
Personally, it is my belief that labor must
fight this time, not for wage increases, but for
price reductions and maintaining the present
wage scales.
Labor can and must unite now to forcete
down prices. This is the real test Failing to
do this and accepting the idea that the only
alternative is to force more wage increases
without freezing prices we are hurrying the
day of reckoning and counting economic dis
aster.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17

The Am merican Economic
Foundation, an employer out.
fit, has announced that it's 60
ing to rid the accounting lang
uage of words that workers
and the general public" can't
understand Even the word
profit which the foundation
says has 2l meanings will 60
by the board" according to a
newspaper report. 1t might be
a good idea at that. More than
one union has discovered, dur
ing wage negotiations, that 1t
had one idea of the meaning of
profit and the company had
the other 20.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17

Herbert Hoover, who can
never forget how in 1881 and
1882 he gave the country "a
chicken In every pot and two
cars in every garage" is again
warning valiantly in public
print against "collectivism,"
which he makes clear is his
synonym for the New Deal.
In order to give full spiritual
backing to Hoover's crusade
against collectivism, delegates
to the national convention of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
were asked to call a stop i'm
mediately to their long time
practice of calling each other
"comrade."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Behind The
Scenes In
Politics
By
Clayton
Rusch
Chairman

Political Action Committee
IN the following authentic
letter actual names of places
and people have been omitted
or replaced by fictitious names.
THE LETTER
Dear Cousin Charles:
Thanks very much for the
box you recently sent us. The
rice and beans are being care
fully rationed, but the candy
and dried fruit is being saved
for very special occasions.
Nine-year old Donald has
not tasted candy since before
the war until now and five.
year old Maria had her first
taste of candy when we gave
her jelly beans out of the
package you sent us.
We were especially glad to
get the clothing. Clothes are
still very HARD to get.
Florence and l and the chill
dren are not starving but we
have not suffered from eating
too much either. Yet we are
better off than most of our
neighbors.
1t will be many years be-
fore our agriculture and indus
trial facilities can be self-sus-
tanning. Unfortunately, as you
well know, the international
situation is such that it looks
as though it will be a long
time before we can even get
started on the way to produc-
ing and distributing the neces.
sites of life.
Life here on the average
can be compared to pioneer
times in your America except
that the potentialities for the
future are less promising and
we do not have the natural re-
sources and facilities your an
cestors haG. Nor did your an
cestors live to the same degree
under the shadow of uncer-
tainty and insecurity.
However we have enough
facilities to build decent So
ciety if only all of us could eff
fectively express our wills.
Unfortunately not all parts
of the world have civil rights,
and the franchise as yet, and
our land is one such place.
If only we really had po-
litical freedom. If only we
could get our point of view
heard on current issues; if we
could elect our public officials
it would be a different story.
The only place better than
paradise is the United States
of America where the ordinary
people are the sovereign rulers.
Charles, you are thrice
blessed to live in a land that
has legal labor unions and
civil liberties.
l know that unions in Amer
lea are under attack politically
and that your civil liberties
are impaired by some restric-
tive legislation and discrimi-
natory racial practice;but even
so, you get the opportunity
each year to retire the enemies
of the common people from
public office and to put cham.
pions of the people in power.
hope that some day I will
also live in a country which
has political democracy. If
did, l and my fellow voters
would guarantee the emer-
gence of economic democracy.
Congratulations on living in
America and the best of luck.
I wish / could be in your shoes
on election day this year.
l hope to hear in your next
letter that all the servants of
big business get the business
in the Nov. 4th election.
Also keep me posted on de-
velopments on the Stratton
Bill designed to help the Gis-
placed persons of Europe.
Goodbye for now and best
from the family.
Affectionately yours,
lack.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-17
Washington
Labor Report
BY Paul Sifton
LPA CoIunnist

The buSinesS-as-uSual lob
bies have won the first play
in the Big Showdown. If our
luck holds, western Europe
will stay this side of the Iron
Curtin until we can get our
sights and our shipments up
to the level Of an alll-out war
fought with bread now instead
of A-bombs later.
Already, labor and public
members of the Citizens Food
Committee have pushed Chair
man Luckman and President
Truman into tougher a ct j o n
against grain gamblers, dis
tillers and brewers than was
expected. These members cid
it by sounding off at the first
meeting in favor of a special
session Of Congress and the
use of ALLEGATION and rationing
to get the best uses out of the
available grain without boost
ing prices several n o t C h e S
higher. Luckman had been con-
WINGED in advance that the
Committee could NOT recon-
mend legislation.
Whether Luckman, the Ad-
ministration and Congress like
it or not, the few labor and
public m m b ers scattered
among the food industry hot
shots on his COMMITTEE are
going to keep on urging a pro-
gram big enough and fast
enough to do the job. CIO
President Philip Murray has
already done so in his memo
to CIO affiliates showing how
much more food can be saved
and moved if the .Administra-
tion and Congress are given
the will to do it.
SALVATION BY SLOGAN
Meantime, of course, we
must do our best to make sal
vation by slogans work. I'm
doubtedly it will work best in
American homes where, in Sec
retary Marshall's grim words,
foreign policy sits at every
table.
But the goal of a hundred
million extra bushels of wheat
is not enough. This is literally
food for freedom. If one hun
dred million bushels is good,
in that it will keep free people
of Europe alive but at a star
vation level, another hundred
and fifty million bushels is
better. 1t will speed up the
job, stop the advancing Iron
Curtain and, perhaps, even roll
1t back here and there.
In this global war between
freedom for the individual hu-
man being and totalitarianism,
the side that gets to the strick.
en- peoples fastest with the
mostest food land money, ma
chinery and know-how) is go
ing to win.
We have the food, the
money, the Rlachinery and the
know.howWbr the rehabilita-
tion of thp world-all, except
the political sense to mobilize
and throw them into the bat
tie with the same all-out deter.
mination that put 100000
planes in the air anG created
the atomic bomb to win the
war.
PUT UP OR ELSE
Even Chairman Taber of the
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Evening star., 1947-12-05

Prices slightly stores few
State contract laws Right reserved 70 limit
naantie
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24
Christ Bell, Musiciun, Dies

SANTA MONICA, Calf, Aug. %
P.-The death of Christ Bell, for
mer clarinetist with the Ford Sym
phony Orchestra in Detroit, was an
nounced by the family today. He
died Thursday.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow in the Santa Monica Cath
Ollie Church Burial will be in Holy
Cross Cemetery here.
Evening star., 1947-05-05
Taft Calls ParIey 10 Fix.
Policy on Expansion
OF U. s. Aid Programs
By the Assoeie,ed Pres,

Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
called on Senate and House Re-
publicans today to decide how far
they want to 60 this year in ex-
panding Government activities in
such fields as social security, hous-
ing, health and education.
Senator Taft. who heads the Sen
ate Republican Policy Committee,
said he will name a subcommittee
soon to confer with a similar House
group on general COP policy toward
measures which call for increased
Federal expenditures at a time when
the party is trying desperately to
cut President Truman's budget.
II think we should have a Repub-
lican policy on these matters and
decide what we want to do in this
session Of Congress about the pro-
posed expansion of some Govern
ment activities while we are cutting
down on Others" he said.
He made it plain that despite his
sponsorship of bills to provide hous-
ing, health and education assist
ance, he is willing to abide by the
Evening star., 1947-05-05

the Republicans have been trying
to go too far in enacting labor
curbs."
Defeat on Floor Held Possible.
Senator Hatch predicted the
President would refuse to sign bill
containing the proposed restrictions
on industry wide bargaining.
Senator Ives, who led success
full fight against the bargaining
amendment in the Labor Commit
tee, said there is strong pos
sihility" the provision may be de-
feated on the Senate floor. He
claimed that several" Republican
Senators who voted for the coercion
ban will not line up for a restric-
ton on bargaining.
A COP poll by Senator Wherry
indicated this, but the Nebraskan
said the Republicans nevertheless
appear to have enough votes to
push the amendment through with
the help of Southern Democrats.
AS the Senate bill stands 1t out
laws the closed shop. erects new
Federal mediation agency, permits
Governemnt injunctions against
national emergency strikes and
makes unions subject to suit for
breaking contracts.
Evening star., 1947-05-05

one Oh LIlI66 ia NAiee "SatN
tional delegates of the Church Of
the Brethren denomination to at
tend the gathering.
A native of Washington, Miss
Stackhouse is q graduate of Roose-
velt High School and is employed
by Weaver Brothers, real estate
firm. "A member Of Petworth Meth
odist Church since childhood, she
has been active all her life in youth
work.
She served as president of the
youth group In her church in 1943,
and was manager of the Washing
ton East District Midwinter Insti-
tute Of the Methodist Youth Fel-
lowship In 1945 and 1946. She has
attended numerous conferences as
a representative of the District
youth group, the last one being the
Youth Convocation at
Grand Rapids, Mich, in 1916.
Miss Stackhouse is a sister of
Stackhouse, a vice presi-
dent of the Organized Bible Glass
of Washington. The
association is joining with the Dis
trict Sunday School Association in
sponsoring her trip to Oslo.
Miss Weaver is a native of Har-
risonburg, Va, and is graduate of
Bridgewater fVa.) College. She also
attended Bethany Biblical Seminary
at Chicago and came tn washington
on July /, 1945, to serve as assistant
to DR.. Warren D. Bowman, pastor
Of the Washington City Church of
the Brethren.
At present president of the
Church of the Brethren Southeast
ern Region of Youth Council, Miss
was chosen chairman of
the National Youth Council of the
last fall,
Evening star., 1947-05-05
composite Republican decision or
these and similar matters.
To Determine Available Funds.

composite Republican decision on
these and similar matters.
To Determine Available Funds.
Senator Taft said, however, that
one question to be settled is whether
there will be enough money avail
able to expand any domestic Gov
ernment services in the light of what
he said was a $4,000, ,000, 900 outlay
of foreign expenditures projected by
President Truman in the year be-
ginning next July /.
House Republicans already have
encountered strong Democratic re-
sistance In trimming the annual ap-
preparations bills, and Senate COP
members expect the same reaction.
! With Congress beginning It's fifth
month, the Republicans soon. must
decide whether they intend to limit
their program to the, passage of such
major legislation as that affecting
labor regulation, tax reduction and
foreign relief and assistance so they
eap shut up shop about August
and go home.
Democrats Predict Delay.
Democrats generally believe the
Republicans will put off until 1913,
a presidential election year, con-
sideration Of social security, vet
Grams. housing, education and such
measures.
In four months thus far, the Re-
publican controlled Congress has
brought to final action few major
bills, although several have been
passed by one House and are on the
docket Of the other.
Bills enacted include measures to
end OPA June 30, continue sugar