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The frontiersman., 1947-01-11

has become a tradi- tion with the Woman fs Club since it's organ - izat ion, is one of the two large par ties planned each year. The other is the Chr Is tmas party held annually for all Sel- dovia's woman resi- dents dur ing the month of Dec ember The Men's Party is GUS tomar fly held in February, but was ad- vanced this year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
New Violence Marks
PhiIIv News Strike

PHILADELPHIA (LPA)-New
violence flared last week in the
strike of the American News
paper Guild-CIO against the
Philadelphia Record and the
Camden, N. ]. Courier and Post
Previous violence, provoked by
goons, was climaxed when four
hoodlums tossed a half-dozen
bottles filled with paint and nails
thru the glass front doors and
the first floor windows of the
home of Arthur Riordan, secre-
tary of the Guild.
Riordan, who was asleep, mar
rowly escaped injury while fur
nishings and clothing were
ruined. Damage exceeded $500
and Guild officials Immediately
asked the FBI, the district at
torney and the Justice Dept
Civil Liberties Section to in
vestigate. On Jan. 13 the Record
that similar attacks
had been directed against three
executives of the struck papers.
1t offered a $1,000 reward for
arrest and conviction of the
vandalS and the Guild promptly
the offer.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
NMU Membership
SpIi+ On Curron

NEW YORK (LPA)-Com-
munism charges continued to
fly thick and fast in the National
Maritime Union-CIO last week
as more locals voted on the ques-
ton of NMU President Joseph
Curran's resignation as co-chair-
man of the Committee for Mari
time Unity.
The New Orleans NMU not
only endorsed Curran's resigna-
ton, which has been violently
assailed by Communists within
and outside the union, but also
called for a purge of Com
munists in the NMU. Member
ship meetings in Baltimore and
Detroit rejected support of Cur
rams position.
Curran, at a meeting of the
executive council which voted
20-10 to reject his resignation,
issued his strongest condemna-
ton Of the GNU to date. ''The
GNU with its position cannot get
unity" he declared. GNU has
to 60. It's very name prevents us
from moving on even baby
step to unity. 1t can't be correct.
1t has no possibility of going to
these people on a minimum pro-
gram of unity. / intend to stay
resigned. GNU If continued will
lead the Union to destruction. 1t
is too narrow, too dangerous. 1t
has succeeded only in capturing
our organization, allowing a few
people to dictate our policy and
where we are going"
Meanwhile Curran was re-
nominated without opposition
for president of the Greater
New York CIO Industrial Union
Council. Negotiations with 80
Atlantic and Gulf Coast shipping
companies for a 25% wage in
crease were broken off and the
union requested Labor Secretary
Schwellenbach to appoint an
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24

Use Of Troops
Angers British

LONDON (LPA)-Engiand's S
worst labor crisis since the 1926
general strike came to a close
last week as $1,000 truck and
dock workers returned to work
The walkout was precipitated
by a strike of $4,000 transport
drivers to enforce demands for a
44-hour week instead of the cur
rent 48, plus overtime for shifts
exceeding eight hours. The strike
was in defiance of union leaders,
who were negotiating the de-
mands. A sympathy strike of
more than 10000 dockers and
stevedores followed the govern
ments use of troops to break the
strike. More than 100 ships were
tied up and additional sympathy
strikes were in the offing, in
cluding a walkout of $4,000 Bir-
mingham truck drivers.
In directing the workers to
return to their jobs, the Trans
port and General Workers Union
indicated that the truckers de-
mands had been met by the en-
ployers' association.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
His Masters Voice

ASHIN GTON (LPA)-
Rep. John w. Gwynne (R.,
IoWa) is one reactionary Con-
gressman who makes no bones
about whom he represents in
Congress. Practically Gwynne's
first act in the new Congress
was to introduce legislation, de-
manded by the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, throwing
out portal-to portal pay suits.
Last week, frankly admitting
that his bill had been drawn up
by a committee representing the
insurance industry in an effort
to counteract a 1914 Supreme
Court decision, he proposed
legislation exempting the in
surance industry in the District
of Columbia from the antitrust
laws.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
Ford Price Slash
Won't Cut JAWS
231c Demand

DETROIT (LPA)-The Ford
Motor Company's surprise action
In cutting prices from SIS to
$50 per unit will not modify the
demand of the United Auto
Workers-CIO for a 23hc an
hour wage boost, UAW Ford
Department officials made clear
last week.
The price reduction was "a
step in the right direction" /"
union leaders conceded, but
pointed out that Ford prices still
were 81 % higher than in 1941.
Richard T. Leonard, director
of the JAWS Ford Department,
contended that the price slash
amounted to slightly more than
20 when the unaffected Mer-
curry and Lincoln models were
included in the general line.
Needless to say" Leonard
stated, :" this reduction in Ford
prices does not in any way re-
duce the disparity between the
high cost of living for Ford
workers and their earnings. l
trust that the Ford Co. is still
aware of the fact that Ford
workers are far short of the in
come necessary, according to
scientific opinion, to establish
minimum standards of health
and comfort"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
NLRB Again okaYs
Eoremen's Unions

WASHINGTON (LPA) - The
right of the foremen to organize
their own unions and bargain
collectively was approved by the
National Labor Board last week
in its first unanimous decision
on this long-battled issue. The
board ordered an election at the
Detroit plant of the Chicago
Pneumatic Tool Co. to determine
whether supervisory employees
wish to be represented by the
independent Foremen's Associa-
ton of America.
In a separat concurring
opinion, Board Memebr James j.
Reynolds, who had dissented in
a recent foremen's case, strongly
supported the right of foremen
to organize and bargain collec-
lively thru their own unions but
opposed their affiliation with
rank and file unions.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24

to deal with the flood Of cases
that would ensue, and thereby
break down the whole system"
said McGrath. "You could call
that step two in the plan to
strangle labor"
Industry-wide bargaining, in-
stead of being an obstacle to
production peace, has helped to
stabilize industry and to elimin~
ate geographical wage differen-
tials, McGrath pointed out. He
agreed with Labor Department
and NLRB officials that reducing
bargaining to strictly local levels
would probably result in an un-
rash of unauthorized
strikes because many locals,
lacking experienced and skilled
Continued on Page 3
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
Industry Bosses
Play The Tune;
Congress Dances

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Evi-
dence that the Congressional
bowling for anti-labor legisla-
ton is strictly an echo of the
high-pressure demands of big
business, industry and employers
associations accumulated on
Capitol Hill last week.
Even the most extreme union
wrecking proposals in Congress
had been definitely formulated
by business groups before Con-
gress ever convened. Currently
a flood of newspaper advertise
ments, speeches by corporation
executives and resolutions of
trade associations are designed
to swing public sentiment behind
anti-labor legislation which re-
dictionary employers groups have
had introduced in Congress.
Theme of the campaign was
set by the National Association
of Manufacturers in full page
advertisements. which called for:
the open shop; subjection of
Unions to the antitrust laws; no
legal protection for strikers if
the dispute involves issues
which do not relate to wages,
hours or working conditions, or
demands which the employer!
is powerless to grant; prohibition
Of mass picketing, strikes to
force union recognition, sympa-
thy strikes, strikes to enforce
featherbedding."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24

were branded as entirely
unworkable and uncalled for"
by McGrath, a Democrat who
was elected with CIO, AFL and
Railroad brotherhood support.
Balls demand for legislation
which would forbid industry
wide contracts and break inter-
national unions into local bar
gaining units "is part of the old
idea of divide and conquer, !"
McGrath declared in an inter-
view. after all industry organ
ICES on a national basis" he
pointed out.
'It would seem to be the Re-
publican plan to break unions up
into small units, then probably
deprive the National Labor Re-
lations Board of sufficient funds
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24

coverage. Matthews said the
Union was asking Chrysler to
finance this plan by means of a
monthly contribution equal to
8 percent of the gross wages of
the employees covered by the
collective bargaining agreement.
A retirement age of SIS years
for men and so years for women
is demanded in the pension plan
proposal. The scale of retirement
benefits suggested by the Union
is ! and 20 per cent of the
employees average annual earn
ings multiplied by the number
of years, service.
Members of the Chrysler
UAW-CIO Negotiating Commit
tee participated in the national
wage conference called by the
union last week in Detroit.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
Portal Suits Hit
Bv AEL oHicioIs

WAS HING T o N (LPA)-
Portal portal suits were con-
demned last week by the AFL
President Green and President
John P. Frey, of the AFL Metal
Trades Dept. Several AFL
unions, however, have already
filed or are preparing to file
such actions, it was learned.
The United Auto Workers
AFL have filed a $15,000,000
action against the Caterpillar
Tractor Co., Peoria, Ill, and an
other suit for S6,000,000 against
the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter
Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
School WoIkouf
Is Threatened

NEW YORK (LPA)-Thinly
yelled threats of teachers
strike if the Board of Education
does not take seriously their de-
mands for a pay boost of 81 ,05O
a year were made last week
even by representatives of con-
servative New York City
teachers organization.
Following closely on the heels
of Governor Dewey's recon-
mendation to the State Legisla-
ture of appropriation of $500 per
teacher to local school authori-
ties. and a minimum salary scale
on a statewide basis, the N. Y. c.
Board of Education indicated
that it would recommend the
$500 be used as an additional
pay boost for the city's teachers.
There was still a $50 gap be-
tween the $500 temporary in
creases already granted plus the
$500 recommended, and the
S1,O50 asked by the teachers.
In addition both the AFL and
CIO teachers unions are de-
manding that this increase be
made a permanent one, rather
than for an emergency" period.
Dewey has been asked to
schedule Albany hearings on
Feb. II on the teachers de-
mands, and meanwhile N. Y. c.
teachers organizations are con-
centrating their fire on the
Board of Education's budget
recommendations.
Conservative teachers organi-
cations in suburbs of New York
City protested the Dewey plan
as Temporary and inadequate in a
meeting in White Plains presided
over by DR.. James A. Cullen, a
high school principal who is
chairman of the legislative COM
mittee of the State Teachers
Association.
In Hartford, Conn, where
more than a month ago a strike
threat was made, the Board of
Education submitted a S600-a-
year proposed pay increase for
teachers in the 1947 budget.
This would provide for 81,
minimum, while the Hartford
Teachers League asks a S2,500
minimum.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24

ness session at 7:30 p. m. In
cluded in the business session
will be reports of officers,
declarations of dividends, and
election of officers for 1947. Fol
lowing the business session there
will be round and square dane
ing and refreshments, including
a hot lunch, will be served. Fifty
door prizes will be given to the
lucky winners.
There will be no admission
charge and any Spicer employee
and friends accompanied by him
will be welcome to attend the
meeting.
Dorman Brumfield, Educa-
tional Director of the Spicer
Employees Federal Credit Union
reports that the organization is
the largest of its kind in North
western Ohio, has a membership
of 3,400 persons and assets of
$473, 100000 at the present time.
1t has been chartered for eleven
years by the Federal Govern
ment and is examined period
ically by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp.
The Spicer Credit Union is a
non-profit, cooperative organi-
zation with all income, after ex-
penses are deducted, being dis
tributed to the members in the
form of dividends.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24

The present agreement be-
tween Chrysler nd tn e
UAW-CIO does not provide
for any kind of union security.
4 The demand for group
Insurance and retirement pro-
gram financed by the corpora
ton is in addition to the Unions s
demand for a 2312 cents general
wage increase, Matthews said.
In addition to these major
demands, the Union is asking for
several amendments to its agree
ment with tn e Corporation,
including a clause to make
seniority the governing factor in
promotions to higher paid or
better jobs.
The social security insurance
program proposed by the Union
includes life, health and accident,
disqualification and surgic a /
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
Reports
Legislation

COLUMBUS, Jan. "a -
First of the Ohio CIO Coun-
cil'S legislative news letters
was sent out this week to
a C q u al mt it's members
throughout the state of the legis-
lation which has been proposed
to date effecting labor.
Several measures of interest
were introduced during the last
week which are of interest to
progressives. These include the
following:
Labor Management Commits
sion bill IL, introduced by
Senator Raymond Hildebrand
(R), Toledo. The bill provides
for commission of 18 with six
members each from labor, man
agement and the public named
to serve a one year term of
office.
Patterned After Toledo
The Hildebrand bill which is
patterned after the Toledo
Plan" for preserving industrial
peace would attempt to concili-
ate major industrial disputes.
Also introduced is a new Fair
Employment Practices Act by
Senator Howard Metzenbaum
(D), Cleveland making it unlaw-
full for an employer to show
discrimination against employees
because of race, color, religious
creed, national origin or ances-
try"
The bill makes it unlawful to
question a job applicant about
his racial origin, religion or
other information which might
lead to discriminatory hiring
practices.
Many Bonus Resolutions
Reported by the CIO News
Letter are three separate vet
Grams bonus resolutions. Any re-
solution approved by the legisla-
ture will have to be submitted
to the voters of the state in the
November election.
One of the most interesting
resolutions to come before the
legislature was HR10, dealing
with floor privileges to the press.
The resolution would EXCUSE
any newspaperman, such as the
labor press, which had legisla-
ton before the Assembly, but
w o u d exonerate commercial
reporters whose e m ployers
through personal contacts, edi-
torials, news coloring and other
newspaper expedients try to
guide legislation.
The CIO News Letter will be
a regular service to the Ohio
CIO Council as long as the state
legislature remains in session.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
Congress In Mad Rush To
Hurt Labor With New Laws
SchWeIIenbdch
Praises Union
Welfare Funds

ASHIN CT ON (LPA)-
Health and welfare provisions
in union contracts were hailed
as "an effective and flexible
means of providing greater so
cial security thru collective bar
gaining" by Labor Secretary
Lewis Schwellenbach in his an
nual report to Congress last
week.
Economic stability will help
more than anything else to pro-
mote industrial peace, he de-
clared, adding that stability
must be achieved at high level
of output, and the products of
industry must be equitably dis
tributed among those who CO.
operate in their production"
After reviewing the years de-
velopments in labor legislation,
Schwellenbach cited the Depart
ments support of several mea-
sures which failed to become
law, including proposals to in
crease the now obsolete" 40c-
an-hour minimum wage law and
extend its coverage; legislation
to require employers in inter-
state commerce to observe the
principle. of equal pay for equal
work and to refrain from sex
discrimination; legislation for a
national health program estab-
lished on insurance principles
and to provide expanded support
for maternal and child health.
Collective bargaining" said
the report, "can best play its
creative role in advancing the
standard of life of the workers
and in protecting their status as
human beings. Lack of stability,
however, may provide the basis
for a renewal of the industrial
strife that characterized much of
the first postwar year."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
Block Tex WindfaII
To Struck Company.
UAW.cIO Asks Govt

DETROIT (LPA)-Denial of
carry-back tax privileges to the
struck ]. l. Case Co., of Racine,
Wis, was asked of the u. s.
Treasury Department last week
by President Walter Reuther, OF
the United Auto Workers-CIO.
Citing the union-hating firms
violation of federal law in re-
fusing to bargain with the
UAW, Reuther pointed out that
"On Dec. II, 1946, the National
Labor Relations Board rendered
its decision holding that the
c o m pany was guilty, and
specifically fin d I'M G that the
stoppage of work which oc-
Cured on Dec. 26, 1945 and the
continuation of such stoppage
were caused by this violation of
federal law 1t now appears
that the company has sought
and is seeking the benefit of the
loss and credit carry.backs un-
der the provisions of the Inter
nal Revenue Code.
"We submit that under these
circumstances" R eu t h e r told
Secretary John Sny-
der, "an employer is not entitled
to the benefit of carry-backs-
hat he has forfeited any right
10 them which he might other
wise have, Any other course
would mean only government
of and govern
nent participation in the viola
ion of its own laws"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24

first to pass an anti-labor law.
More tn a n 100 union
wrecking bills ranged from
compulsory arbitration, with
drawal of collective bargain
ing rights to strikes and bans
on walkouts in utilities to prohi-
billions Of closed shop and indus
try-wide bargaining and giving
employers the right to sue
unions out Of existence. Even
outright repeal of the Wagner
Act was demanded in both the
House and Senate.
The chaos of overlapping
lynch legislation was climaxed
with the introduction of 3
"super-Case billp by Senator'S
Ball (R., Mimi, Taft (R., Ohio)
and Smith (R., N. J.) and three
days later a "super-super Case
bill" by Representative Francis
]. Case (R., S. Dak.) himself.
Gaping the contagious frenzy
was a proposal by Ball to out
law all industry-wide bargaining
and reduce large international
Unions, in effect, to local nego-
tiating units.
In addition, Ball introduced
another bill which would not
only ban the closed shop but
also the union shop and main
tenance of membership as well.
Representative Clare Hoffman
(R., Mich.) and Senator W. Lee
O'Daniel 3D., Tex.) called for
iunking of the National Labor
Relations Act. O'Daniel and q
half-dozen others proposed the
unions be subject to the anti-
trust laws. Representative Case
(R., N. J.) along with Repre-
sentatives Miller (R., Neb.) and
Herter and Heselton (both r.,
Mass } demanded restrictions on
labor's right. to strike against
utilities. Senator Homer Fergu-
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
10000 Get I3Hze Hike
In New TWUA.cI0 Pact

NEW YORK (LPA)-Wage
increases averaging 1870 an
hour and ranging from 12c to
tic in the minimum scales have
been negotiated by the Textile
Workers Union-CIO for approx.
mately 10000 employees of the
Celanese Corp. of America at
Cumberland, Md, and six plants
of the American Viscose Corp.
chain. The increases, which viii
hike minimum pay for women
from 8Oc to 92c hourly and
from 91c to LOB for men, were
obtained under a wage reopen
ing clause in the TWUA con-
tract.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
UAW-cIo First In Va.

NORFOLK, Va. OPA)-The
first portal-to-p portal suit in
Virginia was filed here last
week by the United d Auto
-CIO which asked for
$275,000 retroact tive pay at
the Newton Park Ford plant.
Virginia action followed on the
heels of UAW suits totaling
S403, 100000 in Detroit against
the auto industry's big Three"
- General Motors, Ford and
Chrysler.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24

relations counselor.
Other speakers at the Con-
ference, which will be the
first of its kind in labor history,
will be UAW President James
Patton of the National Farmers;
CIO Secretary Treasurer James
Carey; Walter White, executive
secretary of the National AS
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People.
Top-notch technicians will
d mons rate Silk-screening,
m m o G raph machines and
mimeoscope, movies, film strip
projectors, amplifiers, radio and
a variety of other devices. Lab
oratories will be held at which
delegates will get instruction in
public relations, publications,
public opinion polls, union coun-
selling, social security, collective
bargaining and leadership train
ing.
Some of the Toledo delegates
and the Local IL UAW-CIO
Units which they will represent
at tn eEducation Conference are:
Homer Avery, Claude Hess,
Roy Sautter, Stanley Rokicki,
and Tom Noyes of the WHY'S
Unit; Cap Andrews, John Grup,
and Vernon Montague of the
Champion Spark Plug Unit;
jerome Janatowski, and Mar
garet Vegh of the Swartzbaugh
Unit; Laborie Re of the Airway
Unit; and Robert Middleton of
the Mather Spring Unit.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
Wagner Act Repeal Asked
In House And Senate

WASHINGTON GPA)-The Both Congress was well
its way this week toward establishing itself the lynch
labor" Congress- In its first two weeks it had only
ostensble purposeto clamp unprecedented shacles
the nations aborng and and wipe out union
ism's gain the past 100 years.
veritable flood of antabor proposals turned into
rush not only between individual Congressman to
could introduce the most restrictive legislation but also
between the House and Senate for the distinction of being
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
Unit Members
Given PaY Hike

The first contract between
Local IL, UAW-CIO, and the
Toledo Wire Products Co. has
just been signed with several
important issues having been
agreed upon by the Company
and the Union.
Howard Rediger, International
Representative, reports that a
Union shop, wage increases,
seniority, job bidding, and vaca-
ton pay up to 80 hours were
the main benefits received in
negotiations. Chester Makowski
and Charles Cope, members of
the Executive Shop Committee,
assisted with the negotiations.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-24
RaiI Union "S+ondSrd"

WASHINGTON (LPA)-The
23rd union to be granted status
as a standard railroad labor
organi zation participating in
selection of members on the
National Railroad Adjustment
Board is the United Transport
Service Enployes-CIO. Labor
Secretary Schwellenbach made
the certification of the UTSEA,
which represents 90% of the
nations Pullman laundry work
ers, and many dining car en-
ployes.