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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
Court Upho|ds UNIV Conviction
|UAW Demands
'40-Hour Week

DETROIT, March II - Dele
gates to the National UAW- -CIC
General Motors Conference
have instructed their collective
bargaining representatives to in
clude demand for guaranteed
40-hour week in General Motors
plants when they open negotia.
tions on economic issues with
the corporation, it was an.
nounced last Saturday.
The conference, called to for.
mulate economic demands, end.
ed two-day session in Masonic
Temple Friday night.
Delegates also approved the
wage program of the Interna-
tional union, which includes q
demand for a % II cents an hour
wage increase, an employer-fi-
nanced social security plan, ar
old age retirement program and
a wage equalization fund.
Revised Vacation Pay
Another demand to be served
on the corporation asks for q
revised vacation pay schedule
providing vacation allowance;
ranging from "a hours pay fol
employees with six months tc
one year seniority to 144 hour:
pay to those with over eight
years seniority.
The delegates further in.
structed their negotiators tc
propose that General Motors
participate in the establishment
of an industry-wide labor-man-
agement committee to study
ways and means of achieving g
guaranteed annual wage in the
automobile industry.
Asks 40 Hours
The weekly wage proposal OF
the union contemplates that
when an employee is called in
to work in any one week he
shall be guaranteed 40 hours
pay for that week.
Delegates to the conference
reaffirmed their position and
that of the International union
that they are demanding a wage
increase without increases in
the prices of cars.
They also called for a ma
tional labor-management con-
ference to seek ways of alleviat-
ing material shortages and other
obstacles in the way of full pro-
duction.
The present contract between
the UAV--CIO and the General
Motors Corporation provides
that either party may request
negotiations on economic issues
as early as March 10, 1947. Sec
tions of the contract covering
non-economic issues remain in
effect another year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
DeviIbiss Wages
Are Adjusted

DeVilbiss Mfg. Co., has cor
rected wage inequities in its
plant for electricians, millwrights
and maintenance men by grant.
ing them a Scents and hour up.
ward adjustment, it was an
nounced on Monday by Cyrus
(Toots) Martin, international
UAW-CIO representative.
Firemen were included with a
1O-cents an hour raise. Other
adjustments are in process of
negotiations between the union
and company.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14

ment is to continue to sur
vive.
Speakers who warned of
the labor crisis were Harry
Read, Washinton, executive as
sistant to James B. Carey, ma
tional CIO secretary-tr treasurer;
August Scholle, Detroit, Mich,
CIO director and first president
of TIUC and Richard Gosser,
UAW-CIO regional director and
charter member of the Council.
Criticizing the current Con-
gress for its reactionary meas
ures, Mr.. Read said:
''The first amendment to the
Constitution, which provides for
freedom of religion, freedom of
speech and the right to assemble
and to petition the Government
for a redress of grievances,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
ACWA Strikes
Laundry Co.

Toledo's first strike since Oct.
IL occurred on Tuesday morning
of this week when 30 employees
of the Superior Overall Laun-
dry Co., 706 Cherry ST., men,
bers of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers (CIO), walked out
following a deadlock in their
wage negotiations with the COM
pany management.
Negotiations had been under
way for a month, according to
CT ester Kapela, ACWA-CIO
manager of the Toledo Joint
Board. Strike action was taken
following a complete breakdown
in negotiations.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
Sen. Wagner
Defends His
Labor Law

NEW YORK, March IL (LPA)
Robt. F. Wagner (Dl,
N. ", author of the National
Labor Relations Act, last week
rose vigorously to the defense
of the legislation which he ia
thered in 1885 and which is now
more gravely imperilled than
ever before in its history.
In an article written for Sign
Magazine, Catholic monthly,
Wagner demolished point by
point the major proposals now
pending in Congress to emascu-
late the MIRA.
Starting with the single fact
that organized labor has grown
in membership from about g.
100000 when the MIRA was
passed to about 15,000,000 at
present, Wagner declared.
"All the propaganda to the
contrary Notwithstanding the
phenomenal growth OF LABOR or
ganization has taken place
without any diminution of the
employers constitutional right
to, free speech in labor rela-
tions," he said.
"The talk of restoring free
speech to the employer is a po-
lite way of reintroducing en-
ployer interference, economic
retaliation, and other insidious
means of discouraging union
membership and union activity,
thereby greatly diminishing and
restricting the exercise of free
speech and free choice by the
working men and women of
America"
Opposes Excluding FOremen
Wagner opposed the exclusion
of foremen from MIRA cover
age and denial of their rights
to collective bargaining. Turn
ing to the charges of union
feather bedding" he declared,
Continued on Page 2
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diation and arbitration which
failed to reconcile the differences
between the disputants, the case
was accepted by the full LMC
Committee following agreement
of both sides to abide by the
recommendation of the Com.
mittee.
Difficulty in securing a rep
resentative group of the full
committee prompted the LMC to
send the case to the six-man
panel in which the final recom-
mendation to the participants
was reached.
Considered A Success
General concensus of the
committee was that the long
dispute had been of consider
able educational value to the
members and that the recon-
mendation was fair to both
Continued on Page 3
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
Lozeffe To Attend
Educational Meet

Melvin Lazette, Toledo Pipe
Threading Unit, Local IL, UAW-
CIO, will attend the National
Educational Conference spon-
sored by the CIO in Columbus
on Wednesday through Sunday
of this week. He will represent
the Toledo Industrial u n o n
Council. President Philip Muir
ray will address the gathering
at a luncheon meeting on Sun
day.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
LMC Acts In
Gas Situation

Members of the LMC meeting
on Thursday of last week went
on record as favoring joining
with other groups in urging the
governor of Ohio to appoint a
state commission to look into
the matter of securing and
storing gas supplies.
Action was taken by the COM
mittee following reading of a
letter from the Toledo Indus
trial Union Councils Gas Com
mittee which pointed out that
work stoppages from insuffi-
cient gas supplies effected both
industry and the workers as ef-
fectively as labor disputes and
strikes.
Richard Gosser, CIO member
Of the committee pointed out
that more time had been lost
from the gas shortages this win
ter than all the strikes which
would occur in a years time.
Members of the LMC ex-
pressed the opinion that the
problem was one of obtaining
gas from western gas fields and
that united action by the State
of Ohio would carry more
weight in obtaining sufficient
gas for the industrial sections of
the state.
Jerome Gross, LMC executive
secretary indicated today that
the matter would be called to
the attention of Governor Thos.
M. Herbert in unity with other
local interested groups.
Members of the TIUC Gas
Committee indicated that they
would continue to give the mat
ter their attention and would
not cease their activity to aid
in the solution of serious OBJ
stacle to industrial operation
and expansion.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
Developing Unit Elects

Members of the Toledo De-
veloping and Mfg. Co. Unit
elected a new committee last
week, it was announced today
by Harold Dean, Local II rep
resentative in charge. Following
were selected by the Unit:
Robert Mayors, chairman; An
thony Kliszewski, vice-chairman
and Sybil Fulk, secretary.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
WoIling Successor
Is Named

WAS INGTON (LPA) -
President Truman has nomi-
mated William r. McComb as
Administrator of the Wage g.
Hour Division of the Labor De-
partment. He is to replace L.
Metcalfe Walling, whose resig-
nation becomes affective March
Is,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14

he has been chairman of the Fly
ing Squadron.
Mrs. Williams served in an of
ficial capacity in the Unit be-
ginning in I940 as record clerk,
a position which she held until
her retirement last week. She
has been active on many union
Continued on Page 2
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ara and was
elected U nit
t r u S e e in
1941. He sue
ceeded Charles
Ballard as a
member of the
shop executive
committee fol-
lowing the lat
ter's elevation
to Unit chair
man. For the
.Jlst two years
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
Women to Hear Peeord

Women of the Region 2-B
Education Conference will hear
Ollie Pecord, UNION JOURNAL
managing editor discuss How
Government Operates" at their
evening class session, Monday,
March II at Local IL head
quarters, 425 Winthrop st. The
class begins at 800 p. m.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14


in their honor
last week Sat-
urday at the
Catholic Club.
Th e couple
have been ac-
[ We in the
UAW-CIO ever
since its Begin
ming and be
fore that in tles
federal charter
union. P e t e
1I
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
Duck TO Speak

Speaker on the WTOL
Labor's Side of The News
program, Saturday, March
Is, will be Edward j. Duck,
International UAW.CIO re.
preventative from the staff
of Richard Gosser, UAW-
CIO regional director. Mr..
Duck will discuss Labor
and Legislation" Time of
the program Is 1880 to
las p. m.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
Union Leaders
Leave W-O Unit

Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Williams,
known to their fellow-workers
at the Willys-Overland plant as
Pete and Lena" were guests of
honor at a farewell party given
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
Labor Faces A
Severe Crisis
Say CIO Heads
TIUC Hears Unity Urged
At 10th Anniversary Meet

Delegates the Toledo Industrial Union Council OBJ
serving the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Council
on Monday of this week heard three weknown labor lead
ers warn them that the labor facing the great
est its history and urge them to unite the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
GOsser Expresses
Confidence In LMC
In Magazine Article
Saws Industrial Peace Can
Exist IL All Parties Want Tt

Toledo has shown that can have industrial peace
and time when strikes and labor unrest have swept the
rest of the nation formed the main theme of article by
Richard Gosser UAWCO regional director published in
the current of Automove Topics trade management
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
Court To Decide On
Contract Termination

WASHINGTON, March IL LPA)-The u. S. Supreme
Court split to two last week to uphold the contempt
WorkerS-AFL
The arbitrarily found the original $500 600 fine
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14

Fete Williams holds seniority
dating to 1925 when he began in
the shipping division, while Lena
began her employment with the
company in 1926.
Mr.. Williams served as a stew.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
LMC Settles ANG
Blade CO. Dispute
Employees to Receive
% Per Cent Wage Increase

Settlement Of the wage dispute between the Toledo
Newspaper Guild-CIO and Toledo Blade Co., on
Thursday of last week when the Toledo Labor-Manage-
Committee handed down its decision to the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14

monthly magazine published
in Detroit.
Director Gosser's article, "Car
We Have Industrial Peace?" in
it's opening paragraphs points
out that I'While the plan has
worked effectively in Toledo, il
would be well to point out
that the same plan might not
work elsewhere, unless those
who participate in its delibera-
tion-labor, management and the
public members-approach their
problem with sincere desire to
maintain peace, or restore it
quickly when industrial strife
arises"
Stating that cit is certainty
that no plan can succeed, regard
less of its merits, unless the
members of the committee are
willing to accept their RESPONSE
bilities and possess qualities of
leadership" Mr.. Gosser made it
clear that the "Toledo Plan" or
any other plan cannot begin to
operate and will surely fail un.
less all parties to it accept the
basis upon which the plan de-
pends.
Qualities OF Members
Discussing the qualifications
of the labor-management mem
bers of the committee, Mr.. Cos
ser wrote, Employers with a
long history of labor-baiting and
labor-hating who are suspicious
of every proposal made by labor,
would, of course, not make very
good timber for committee
which is supposed to iron out
labor-management disputes"
Likewise, any labor leader
who doubts the fairness or sin
cerity of all employers with
whom he come into contact
would not make a satisfactory
Continued on Page 8
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BILL

BILL WHAT ACTION
Wage,HOur Offers Bin by Senator'S
Rs m sl57 70 w5sSH Wosd limit w6 @ sOon sa due for action
rights to dam
age claims
Variety of propo
1nion security Report and COM Iimitab rights
hamper strike bind bill due in
rights, fortnight
sideraion.
Anti labor Wide variety Of House Labor wire
bills proposals m
repeal proposals
Act compulsory Hartley suggests weaken lab
arbitration and 10 points rights
Bill ions
offers cent Referred House
soak poor" savings Comm heavier
famli in
big windfals
wealthy.
IWoud dremov Pepper
tax as o n
ga in sever speediest
R ct federal ministra possible action
Comm o
Administration
Banking
Control Bill ends Currency effective rent
$50 effective enforce report soon control for
Sub-comm
proved bill 32
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Murray contro an ate &
stable
Appropra Ends oPA aivi Senate con- wire
Congressman to
m 1900 vet housing pro- 0 in % two full oPA
gram o tvites
Address Building
all Office Building Washington rs, D. c.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
Keep Your Eye On Congress
ACTION
WHERE 1T is

WHERE 1T is ACTION
Bill passed by Wire Senators to
House: Senate ver- defeat S. 40.
sion due for action
soon.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-03-14
Qualities OF Members

Continued on Page 3
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(See Editorial, Page ~
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Ask S e n a { rs,
c o n gresham to
push for speediest
possible action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-04-23
by SonSt0ntlne brown
Sfor Foreign Affairs Anolyst

ROME (By maiD The Italian
general staff, which is composed of
professional military men who have
had little or no connection with
italian politics, is concerned over
Marshal Tito's aims toward Italy.
Through various channels the
general staff has obtained positive
information that the 4th Yugoslav
Army. with headquarters at Lju-
bljana, has been strengthened con-
siderably by units drawn from the
Macedonian sector and other areas
A quiet mobilization is going on
in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavfan reserve
officers in Greece and Czechoslo-
vakia were ordered by their con-
sulates to return home before April
Is. All other citizens of military age
who are in the reserve received the
same order. which must be observed
under threat of severe penalties to
themselves or their families.
Movements of troops and sup
plies indicate that Marshal Tito is
getting ready for the summer, when
he expects American and British
troops to leave Italy and be re-
placed by weak and demoralized
italian units on the Eastern Dor
ders of the country.
The domestic situation in Yugo-
slavia is bad and the Italians be-
lieve that Marshal Tito may go
ahead with an aggression against
Italy, without waiting for green
light from Moscow. According to
italian military men, the ,Yugoslav
leader feels that Russia will not
desert him, particularly If his ac-
tons are correlated with those of
Palmiro Togliatti, Italian Commu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-04-23
Baltimore Executive to Answer
Charges in Machine Gun Theft

/. A Baltimore airline executive was
to appear before the United States
commissioner In Baltimore today to
answer charges that he was con-
nected with the cache Of 81 machine
guns found yesterday by Federal
Bureau Of Investigation raiders on
an estate near Ellicott City. Md
guns which the FBI says were stolen
from the Government.
The raid on the 400-acre estate
was followed by the arrest at Pim-
leo Airport Of j. Meredith Russell.
"a, described by the FBI as vice
president Of the Pan American
Transport. Inc.
Still sought by the FBI is a man
Identified as Karl John Eisenhardt,
about 60. president of the new air.
line and owner Of Twyford Hall
Farm where the cache was discov-
cred in the basement Of the dwelling,
and a third man identified only as
Edward Browder.
Warrants for the arrest Of the
three men had been issued in Au-
gusta, Ga, after q complaint of
Stealing Government property"
we're filed before the United States
Commissioner there. the FBI stated.
Fred Hallford, FBI agent in Balti-
more, said the stolen guns had been
flown to Baltimore from Augusta
in war-surplus B-24 bomber. The
guns were stolen from War Sur
plus Property Depot there on the
night of April IA, Mr.. Hallford said.
The FBI refused to comment on
the intended use Of the guns, which
were a type used on Navy fighter
planes during the war.
Seized in the pre-dawn raid yes
terday were 20 .50-caliber machine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-04-23

guns, one .30-caliber machine gun.
| two cases of machine gun ammuni-
ton and numerous machine gun
parts.
Russell plotted the craft and has
admitted unloading the weapons and
transporting them to Eisenhardt,s
estate, according TO Mr.. Hallford.
Russell, the FBI said, described
himself as former fight officer in
the Army Air Forces. The airline
operates between Baltimore and
various parts of the United States
and Mexico. 1t Is not connected
with Pan American Anyways.
The FBI also has charged Russell
with unlawful possession of 81 ma
chine guns. and transporting stolen
property.
Eisenhardt served as special rep
resentative to Venezuela for the
Board of Economic Warfare in 1913,
has held positions in the Office of
Defence Transportation and is presi-
dent of Coastal Tank Lines, a firm
which operates transport trucks
hauling liquid cargo with offices in
Baltimore, according to the FBI.
In Augusta, FIJI Agent D. K.
Brown said evidence showed that
the men broke into the warehouse
at Bush Field on April IA, according
to the Associated Press.
The guns were passed through a
window, loaded on truck parked
nearby and then taken to the Mu-1
nicipal Airport, Mr.. Brown said.
There they were loaded in a plane
the men had purchased from the
War Assets Administration and
flown to Baltimore.
Mr.. Brown said four machine guns
still are unaccounted for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-04-23
By the Assoeioted Press

g NEW YORK, April 23.-Rober1
Mclean, president of the Philadel-
phia Evening Bulletin, yesterday
was reelected president of the AS
ISOLATED Press by the Board of Di.
rectors.
: Frank B. Moves, who retired from
the board this year after 81 years
service, was reelected honorary
president. Mr.. Moves, president of
The Washington Star, was president
of the Associated Press from 1900
to 1898.
Edward E. Lindsay of the De-
catur Qll.) Herald and John S.
Knight of the Miami Herald were
named vice presidents.
Kent Cooper continues as execu-
tive director and general manager.
Lloyd Strattonf was reelected
secretary; Frank ]. Starzel, as
sistant secretary; Robert Booth,
treasurer, and Alan J. Gould, as
sistant treasurer.
The Executive Committee was re-
elected. Members are: Mr.. Mclean,
Paul Bellamy, Cleveland Plain Deal
er: Arthur Hays Sulzberger, New
York Times; Paul Patterson, Balti-
more Sun; Stuart H. Perry, Adrian
(Mich.) Telegram, and George F.
Booth, Worcester Telegram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-04-23
Italian General Staff Worried
At Tito Mobilization Reports

mist leader, who is striving to place
his country behind the iron curtain.
In spite of the strict Belgrade
censorship, there is plenty of EVIL
.dence that discomfort has now
reached a high point in Yugoslavia.
All available food is earmarked
for the armed forces and for the
loyal friends Of the regime. Since
UNRRA ceased operations even that
pittance which was doled out to
the urban population in Yugoslavia
lis not Forthcoming.
The peasants in Serbia, Bosnia,
Croatia and Slovenia are now on
strike, cultivating small acreages,
just enough to keep themselves alive.
The agents of the OZNA, Yugoslav
counterpart of Russia's NKVD, are
mot numerous enough to eonfiscate
the peasants crops.
Marshal Tito realizes that he
could take away the little the peas
ants now have by sending armed
forces through the agricultural
areas, but the consequence would
be defamation of the tillers. Mar
|shal Tito cannot afford to initiate
Josef Stain by executing millions
of peasants or deporting them to
Siberia because of their resistance
to collectivization. The population
of Yugoslavia is too small for such
luxury.
The peasants no longer bring their
cattle, hogs and sheep to market.
They are discouraged by govern
ment regulations. which require
that they first obtain a permit from
the local government representative.
Even If the peasant finds cloth or
leather products which he wants! in
the market, he cannot simply ex-
change his produce for them. He
just returns to hts village with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-04-23
I'D. {. Men Convicted APP Renames Mclean
|0f Freight Theft Nine As-Head and Cooper
Hours After Arrest General Manager

Tie conviction of two men within
nine hours Of their arrest yesterday
evoked a District Court jurist's
praise for the new rules Of criminal
procedure which allow defendant
to waive grand jury indictment and
plead guilty to police information
on q felony. sh@& IL
!. The defendants, both colored,
were Samuel A. Fluid, Is, of the
first block Of I street NE, and Rich
ard w. Allen, "a, of the 600 block of
M street NV. Both admitted the
larceny from interstate shipments
on two occasions this month of q
total OF 20 crates of oranges and
lemons.
They were seen removing Is crates
of oranges from a freight car in the
lexington Freight Yards at 4:30
am. yesterday. Terminal police ar
rested F]udd on the spot. Allen who
fed, soon afterward was found
hiding behind roof ventilator on
a nearby building.
Ordered held for the grand jury
By United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage later In the
morning, the defendants decided to
plead guilty to the police informa-
ton after comforting with Assistant
United States Attorney Sylvan
Schwartz.
At about pm. they entered their
plea IN the oranpas theft and the
lemons theft on April Is, before
Justice Alexander Holtzoff. It was
at this time that the justice COM
mented: Here is an example Of
the benefits conferred by the new
procedure rules which enable de-
PENDANT to plead to an information !"
The cases were referred to pro-
baton for report and sentencing at
q later date.