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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21

pirations of the American people
and who can win the confidence
of the people of Europe. Ade-
quate participation in admins
tration by labor will aid in
avoiding the mistakes in recon-
struction that followed World
War l.
9. Because Europe must be
able to make advance plans over
the next few years to become
self-supporting, the agency we
establish to administer the pro-
gram should have power to give
reasonable assurances to Europe.
A policy of merely making year
ly appropriations may defeat the
goal of self-support.
10. The form of organization
to administer the progra m
should be such as to provide the
speediest and most effective aid,
and to achieve the objectives in
dicated above"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21

NEW YORK UPA) - Labor
leaders were among A promi-
nent Americans who last week
appealed to the Secretary of
State to publicly re.affirm the
right for asylum for refugees
from the Soviet Union, and to
publicly declare that "those who
have already fled or will in the
future flee from totalitarian per-
secution in Soviet Russia will
not be returned :" Signers in
cluded President David Dubinsky
of the Intl Ladies Garment
Workers Union-AFL, Mathew
Vol, AFL Executive Council
member, former President Ken
meth Crawford of the American
Newspaper Guild-CIO, as well as
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Clare
Boothe Luce, John Dewey, Major
George Fielding Eliot, Ernest
Lindley.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Taft Is Invited
To Quit Job

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov.
19 - LPA) - More than
.250,000 signatures have been
placed on petitions in this
state asking Sen. Robert Taft
(R., Ohio) to resign, it was re.
vealed last week by Secretary.
Treasurer William Lavelle, of
the state CIO Industrial Union
Council.
Circulated by the CIO Political
Action Committee, the petitions
were authorized at the September
convention Of the CIO in CleVe.
land. Lavelle declared the petit.
tions were being signed in
astounding numbers" and that
workers and the general public
are showing a remarkable inter
est in the campaign. We antici
pate more than 100000 sigma.
lures"
Among the reasons cited on the
petitions for Taft's resignation
are his opposition to price con
trolls, his co.authorshipN of the
Taft-Hartley law, and his advice
to Americans to eat less.
ut is crystal clear" said La.
velle, that if Sen. Taft were to
run for office in Ohio today, he
would be swamped by an ava.
lanche of get out of office, Mr..
Taft votes"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Murray Recommends 10
Principles To Truman

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 .GPA)-Ten basic principles
or administering the nations foreign aid program were
to President Truman last week by CIO PreS
dent Philip Murray.
Unless we have an administration of the program that
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
USW Enroll In
Conodu Party

TORONTO (LPA) - A drive
to enroll $4,000 Canadian union
steel workers in the Canadian
Commonwealth Federation was
announced here last week. by
Murray Cotterill, of the United
Steelworkers-CIO.
Leaving his job as the USA's
Canadian publicity director to
become the unions full time
political representative, Cotter-
i'll said he will travel from
coast to coast aiding Steel
workers locals that wish to af-
filiate with the CCF. He was
named to his new position fol-
lowing decision of the Canadian
Congress- of Labor (Canada's
CIO) to support the CCF. The
Gels October convention here
urged all affiliated unions to
work for thes election of CCF
provincial and federal govern
meats.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
NLRB Cancels Elections

WA SHIN C ON, Nov. 19
(LPA) - The NLRB last week
extended its campaign to coerce
non-complying unions into sign
ing the Taft Hartley anti-Com-
munist affidavits by cancelling
five elections which it had
ordered before the law became
effective Aug. %,
Four CIO unions and one
AFL organization were the first
to be affected by the ruling as
the Board declared that the new
law prevents it from even in
vestigating any question con-
corning representation raised by
"a labor group until the union
has fulfilled the filing and regis
tration requirments of the act
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
.AFL Aids In
Organization

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21-
(LPA) - The AFL and 40
Communist labor organi-
cations in 18 western hem
isphere nations have laid the
groundwork for establish
ment of a new "Inter.American
Federation of Labor" it was dis
closed here last week by Serafino
Romualdi, AFL international
representative.
Invitations to an organizing
conference to be held in Lima,
Peru, starting Jan. 10, have al
ready been issued by the Con-
federation of Labor of Chile in
consultation with union groups
in Peru, Uruguay, Puerto Rico,
Panama and Mexico, Romualdi
declared in an interview.
Although the AFL will be by
far the largest participating
group, the initiative came strict
ly from the Latin.American
countries and the AFL has no in
tention of dominating the con-
ference, Romualdi said. The
Canadian AFL has also been
invited.
Rival of TOledano
Admittedly the new organiza-
ton will be a rival of the Con-
federation of Latin American
Workers, headed by Lombardo
Toledano, of Mexico, and fire.
quently criticized by AFL leaders
as dominated. Pre-
sumably the heart of the new
confederation would be the anti
Communist labor movements in
Chile, Peru, Mexico and Cuba.
Official name of the new or.
ganization will not be selected
until the Lima conference, but
Romualdi said there has been a
tentative, unofficial agreement
on "Inter-American Confedera-
ton of Labor" i"
There is no question" said
Romualdi, "but what the new
organization can b com
powerful bulwark against fur
ther encroachments on the labor
movement by Communism. The
Toledano group has kept repeat
ing for months that we amount
to nothing, that we have no i'm
portance. But for an unimport-
ant nothing they certainly spend
a lot of time and effort denounc-
ing u.s."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
.TWU Demands
New Increase

BOSTON, Nov. % (LPA) -
On the heels of a 9c-an-hour in
crease won for 125,00O southern
cotton textile workers, the Tex
tile Workers Union-CIO this
week prepared demands for a
15c hourly hike for 10000 work
ers in northern cotton and rayon
mills and a zoe boost for 10000
in the northern woolen and
worsted industry.
The cotton-rayon increase, ac-
cording to TWUA President Emil
Rieve, would cover employees of
125 mills in New England and
Middle Atlantic states. The
Woolen and worsted demands ap-
ply 10 142 eastern mills. The
union will also ask for seven
paid holidays, increased vacation
payments and improvement in
present group insurance pro
grams.
Rieve said that the cotton
rayon pay raise would increase
the present northern minimum
of 88c to $103 and average
hourly earnings from SLOT to
$1.22. This will mean re-estab.
liShment of the north-south diff
ferential which was all but
erased last week when the south
ern minimum was hiked to BIC
hourly.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Denhom Gets tn
Court Reversal

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. No.
vember 10 (LPA)-NLRB Cen
eneral Counsel Robert Denham
received his first major setback
in the courts last week when
U. S District Court Justice Les.
lie r. Darr rejected an NLRB
request here for an injunction
against the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters.
The court found that the un.
ions alleged violations occurred
the day before the Taft-Hartley
law went into effect and that
they did not have a continuing
effect" nor indicate that future
violations would happen, as the
NLRB contended. On Aug. 81,
the day before the law became
effective, AFL carpenters here
refused to work with non.union
employees of a speciality store
when the latter arrived at a
house to install floor covering.
This refusal constituted a Sec
ondary boycott, according to the
NERB, and the continuing eff.
feet" was supposedly in the un-
ions failure to Withdraw instruc-
tions to its members not to work
with non-union men.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Oil Workers TO
AWoi+ Contract
Continued from Page 1

No picket line has been main
tanned at the company'S East
Toledo plant in order to permit
the Bentley Co. to complete g
new cafeteria building. Mem
bers of the AFL construction
workers would not cross the
picket lines until an agreement
was worked out to remove the
pickets to permit the compile
ton of the new building before
cold weather.
Mr.. Shamblen said that the
union would not back down on
its demand for a contract with
out yellow dog" clause
which the company has insisted
upon putting into the contract.
Richard Lazette, Toledo In
dustrial Union Council presi-
dent expressed the hope that
the Pure Oil Co. would not at
tempt to reopen its plant be-
fore settling it's contract with
the union. mo employer in this
town has attempted to reopen
their plant when strikes have
occurred here for many years.
We sincerely hope that Pure
Oil will not attempt to establish
any precedents," he said.
No progress has been made
in negotiations between the
union and company and none is
in sight as the management pre-
pares to reopen its struck plant
next Monday.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Look at The Birdie!
|CIO Ask Action
On Steel

WASHINGTON, Nov. g.
GPA) - The scarcity pro-
gram of the nations steel
manufacturers has already
driven the industry in the
direction of preliminary oppo-
sition to most of the requects for
aid from the western European
countries" Otis Brubaker, re-
search director of the United
Steelworkers-CIO, declared in
testimony given to President
Truman's Council of Economic
Advisors.
"The union has been strongly
urged" said Brubaker, "to take
similar selfish or narrow
approach to the foreign aid re-
quests or run the risk of accen-
tuation of the unemployment
and sporadic employment which
have been characteristic of our
Steel fabricating industry mem
bership for many months.
Thus, world needs for steel
make some immediate action on
the capacity problem even more
imperative because it is unrea-
sonable to expect that a unions
leadership can, over a protract-
ed period of time, urge a course
of action which may mean un-
employment for its people"
Urge Truman Action
Brubaker urged the Council
to advise Truman ito take the
initiative in calling together
representatives of industry, labor
and government to draw up a
Joint program for steel expan-
Sion."
The President was asked to
coordinate the work of various
government agencies in making
study of steel capacity and
needs. "Such a study should be
accompanied or followed by a
clear declaration of government
policy which specifies expansion
goals and methods of achieving
them. Capacity expansion in ade
quate quantities will not occur
without much effort and pres
sure"
The steel industry's refusal to
expand capacity for present and
future needs, Brubaker con.
tended, 'is prompted by consid
erations which reflect normal,
conser vative investment and
business practices. The need,
however, is national and even
international"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21

Attorney
Exposed
Continued from Page l

Continued from Page l
Delval Construction Co. of New
York; Fain McGaha Oil Corp,
and the j. G.. White Engineering
I Co..
Attack Tax Plans
Liberal Congressman joined
labor in attacking the Repub-
lican tax plans. Representative
Al. Forand Cd, r. I.) last week
charged that COP tax policies
were designed to aid the wealthy
at the expense of the nation S
wage earners. The same accusa-
tion had been made earlier by
Representatives Herman Eber-
harter Cd, Pa and John Dingell
3D., Mich).
Knutson made several attempts
10 drive a wedge of antaaonism
between the farm co-ops and
organized labor. He cited the
statement OF one labor witness
10 the effect that the price OF
butter should be about 25c a
pound in terms of workers pur-
chasing power. Almost wailine
for "the poor dairymen" Knut-
son demanded TO know of the
coop witness what would hap
pen If the labor movement
opened grocery stores and sold
butter at 25c a pound.
Coop Defended
Co-opS were vigorously de-
fened, however, in testimony by
the American Farm Bureau
Federation and the National
Farmers Union headed by Presi-
dent James Patton. The AFBF,
with more than 100000 mem
berS, declared that it would
"aggressively resist the applica-
ton of new excise taxes or turn
over taxes to farmer coopera-
tives that will not apply to all
corporations alike"
Congress should be thankful
for co-ops instead Of thinking
about taxing them, said Patton,
because co-ops have made II
possible for many farmers to pay
income taxes now for the first
time.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Nations s Strike
Fiqures Tumble

SHIN GTON, Nov. 1s
CLIP Al - The nations strike
total dropped to 200 stoppageS
in September. the lowest figure
for any month since December
1916 when 168 were recorder
the Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported here last week.
About $4,000 workers were
involved in the strikes begin
ming in September, the lowest
number since last February
Including continuing strikes
there were about 400 disputes
involving a total of 165,00C
workers. The largest of these
was the CIO shipyard strike
settled last week.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
New JAW
Officers issue
Statement
Continued from Page 1

pable of winning economic de.
.mocracy without sacrificing po-
litical freedoms.
Prepared For Leadership
With teamork at the top and
solidarity in the ranks, the UAW-
Go comes out of this conven-
ton prepared to offer leadership
in the continuing struggle to
realize the promise of American
life. We extend the hand OF
solidarity to all those, in this ma
ton and abroad, who understand
the challenge implicit in the fact
that the United States Is the
greatest hope of free men every
where.
I'VE understand and accept
that challenge. We are deter
mined to weld the UAW-CIO into
a mighty force in the wider
movement of the worlds peoples
toward economic and social jus
tice under freedom. Without IL
lusions as to the difficulty of the
tasks before us, we shall pro,
ceed with confidence and re-
straint to exercise the mandate
given us by the UAW member
ship"
Has Big Majority
For the first time since its
organization, the UAW has a
majority of the international
Executive Board on the same
side of the fence and is com.
pletely free from factionalism at
the top.
In addition to the top four of.
ficers, the following board mem.
bers were elected to the regional
directorships:
Region / Norman Matthews
and Mike Lacey; Region la,
Joseph McCusker and Edward
Cote; Region 1-B, William Nc.
Auley; Region I'D, Leonard
Woodcock.
Ballard In 2.B
Region 2.B, Charles Ballard;
Region 3, Ray Barndt; Region 4,
Pat Greathouse; Region 5, Rus
sell Letner; Region 8, Tom Star
ling; Region 8, Martin Gerber
and Region GA, Charles Ker.
rigan,
Four holdovers from the for.
mer left-wing majority who were
reelected consist of Richard
Reisnger, Region 2; Paul Miley,
Region IA; Cyril O'Halloran,
Region 6 and George Burt, Re-
gion z.
Total vote of the new board
majority is 1895 as compared
with 90 of the minority group.
Plans for the carrying out of
the new majority's program en-.
dorsed by overwhelming vote of
tn majority will be announced
shortly after the first meeting of
! the International Executive Board
which is scheduled TO be held
next week in Detroit.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21

WA SHIN TON (LPA)-
Nineteen strikes involving 1880
workers were ended with the
help of the Mediation and Con
ciliation Service during the
week ending Nov. 5, while the
Service intervened in 10 new
strikes involving ITO. There
were 85 continuing strikes af-
fecting 24,3l2 in which concilia-
tors were at work.
A total of PAT 30-day Taft.
Hartley strike notices were filed
during the week, bringing the
number of current disputes to
1925.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21
Wage Law
Hearings Enter
FinoI Week
Continued from Page /

AAOAh o6O
posing one or another exemp-
tion from its provisions"
The 40-hour week is an
established practice in Ameri-
can industry, Barkin warned,
and to eliminate the 40-hour
and time-and-a-h half for over
time would "do much to dis
rupt present arrangements and
create wholesale labor disturb
ances. They would destroy many
thousands Of labor agreements
now in effect in hundreds OF
industries"
CIO Supports IS Cents
Departing from previous CIO
proposals, Barkin told the Con-
gresham the CIO now supports
I an immediate 75c minimum
wage. Previously, it has sup
ported a two-year period dur
ing which the minimum would
rise to 75c.
Justifying this, tn CIC
spokesman said that productiv-
Iity per worker has risen 1919
since the Act was passed nine
years ago; consumer prices
over the same period have
scared 38%. TO live even on the
minimum emergency WPA bud
/ get would require a 95c wage
today; the general hourly wage
level since 1888 has ris r
48.59s; the cost of increasing
wage minimums to 75c would
cost less than 80 of the an
|nual manufacturing payroll,
and would equal only 2.39o OF
the profits earned before taxes
in 1916.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-11-21

gil viii dI1O llO1O IIlG Guilt
ience of the people who re-
,eive our aid, its success will
De dubious" Murray wrote. "In
this connection, labor has a vital
stake as representatives of mil
lions of citizens and workers in
the success of the program.
Labor claims the right" the
CIO chief said, Ito participate
fully in all phases of the admin
istration of the program, so that
our experience, our aspirations
and our desires to contribute
will find full expression. This
will require adequate repre-
sentation from labor in the ad-
ministrstive, policy-making and
staff levels of the organization
which will be established" Muir
rays 10 principles were:
Ten Point Program
4. The aid should be provided
to all nations who need it to en-
able them to actually become
self : supporting, economically
healthy, and also to participate
in general European rehabilita-
ton
z. The aid should be given
without political or economic
strings designed to restrict the
social or economic or political
forms which the European
people should freely choose for
themselves.
3. The aid should be ample
enuogh to do the job so that a
healthy self-supporting Europe
will be created at the end Of the
program.
Must Allow Exports
Awe must enable Europe to
export goods, not only to the
rest of the world but also to us,
and eventually we must be pre-
pared TO accept from Europe as
much in goods as we ship to her.
5. We should oppose any at
tempt to treat Europe like a
bankrupt corporation on which
a first mortgage, impossible of
future liquidation, can be OBJ
tanned at bargain prices. Repay
ment should not be the first con-
sideration. We must stand firmly
on our conviction that working
people are the worlds best in
vestment, not to be measured in
dollars and cents but by the
larger common denominator OF
world peace.
We must recognize that an
ate program of aid will re-
ye~ aat we give more atten-
tio1 to the economic dangers to
America. Since some shortages
of food, materials, and equip
ment may result from a Euro
pean program, there must be as
surance that what is available to
our own people is distributed
equitably without regard to in
come, or whether a business is
large or small. We must take
steps necessary in the way of
controls to prevent speculation,
further initiation, or rising prices.
Expansion Is Required
=. AS a condition to meeting
our domestic and foreign re-
sponsibilities, an pandin n &
American economy is required,
with increases in our industrial
capacity where ever they are
necessary.
D. The aid program should be
administered by men who are
representatives Of the best as
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-03-13
CROWS TO CALL
ON CONGRESS

A delegation from the Grow
Tribal council left Wednesday
for Washington, D. c.. and Chi
cago to confer with congress-
men and other officials on var
ious matters of interest to the
tribe.
The principal matter involves
the leasing of restricted Land.
The delegation, among other
things, wishes it made possible
for each Crow Indian to lease
his land unrestricted.
The Indian veterans of World
Wars I and II have passed
resolutions asking for the right,
upon application, to remove all
restrictions from their auot-
ment.
The resolutions also ask Con-
gress to change the present
liquor laws to give Indians the
right to purchase liquor on an
equal basis with other citizens.
The delegation will also take
up other matters CT interest to
the Crow tribe. For the first
time, the group will be accom-
panied by the Crow Tribal at
torneys, Roy F. Allen and Ken
meth R. L. Simmons of Billings.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-03-13
Hardin to Meet Shelby in First Round
Of State Basketball Meet AT GLASGOW
Are Southern Division
B" Chdmps; Defect
Laurel in Tourney Finals

The Hardin Bulldogs will
leave for Glasgow next week
with 80 consecutive victories to
their credit to play in the stiff
est competition they have met
so far, the Montana Class B"
state tournament.
The Bulldogs will play Shelby
in the first round of the meet.
Shelbv earned the right to en-
ter the state playoffs by de-
feating Choteau last night for
second place in the divisional.
Bracketed with Hardin is the
winner of the Anaconda Cen
tral-Plentywood game. Dopsters
rate Anaconda one of the
toughest "B" aggregations in
the state, and the Bulldogs may
find themselves in trouble
against the mining city quin-
tet in the semi finals Friday
night, provided both teams take
their first-round contests.
In the other bracket of the
state m e t, Chinook meets
Hamilton and Laurel plays
ScObey in the initial round.
The Bulldogs earned the
Southern division class "B"
championship by winning three
in a row, over Joliet, Cathedral
and Laurel. The second two
contests extended the Bulldogs,
but the victories were decisive.
Don Hammer, stocky Hardin
guard, earned the most valu-
able player award in the tourn-
ament, mostly by virtue of his
work in the semi-final and fl
nal games. Other individual
awards went to Robert Tos-
hoff of Klein for sportsmanship,
Pat Kelly of Cathedral for
Continued on page AZ
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-03-13
MOVIE SHOWN
BEFO LIONS

The feature of the Hardin
Lions club meeting on Monday
evening was the showing of a
motion picture depicting reha-
Utilization of handicapped per-
sons. o. v. Crumbaker, man
ager of the Billings office of
the Vocational Rehabilitation
service, showed the film and
gave an explanatory talk.
James Medicine Crow, a Crow
Indian and a college graduate
with several degrees, was intro
duced and responded with a
talk along educational lines.
At the next meeting of the
club on Monday evening, March
"a, the speaker of the evening
will be the newly chosen presi-
dent of the Billings Polytech-
mic institute.
The serving committee for the
March "a meeting will be Bert
w. Kronmiller, Ben J. Klein
hesselink, Frank R. Knodel, A
J. Ketterling, William P. Kemp
and Lester E. Jones.