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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
.cIo Opposes
Agency Cuts

WASHINGTON, April 16 -
(LPA) - The CIO last week
threw its strength against Con-
greSsional cuts which would
would cripple crucial functions
of both the Labor Department
and the National Labor Rela-
tons Board.
CIO Secretary Treasurer Jas.
Carey, testifying before a Sen
ate Appropriations subcommit-
tee, declared that "the muir
derous cuts made by the House
mean waste, not economy. The
nation will lose far more in dol
lars as a result of the services
that are slashed than will be
saved on paper, and under the
tax bill of the House Republi-
cans, even these alleged savings
will benefit huge tax payers,
not the man in the street."
Carey pointed out that the
NLRB is already suffering from
insufficient funds as the result
of budget cuts last year when
more than one-quarter of its
staff had to be fired. The NLRB
backlog of cases is now 5400
and growing steadily, he added.
Intolerable delays in the
function of the NLRB will in
crease strikes and unrest. Be-
heading and starving the Con-
ciliation Service, with a slash of
25%, will remove machinery
for promoting agreements. Sim
ilarly disastrous will be the
500 cut for the Bureau of La.
Dor Statistics. For unless this
Bureau has the fund originally
requested, essential information
for proper negotiation or arbi-
tration of labor disputes will be
lacking. In the absence of such
information, labor and manage.
ment will start negotiations
farther apart than ever"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
Soop Operas
Threatened

NEW YORK (LPA) - II you
hate soap operas and corny
comedians you'll be plugging
for the Radio Writers Guild
four major broadcasting net
AFL to pull strike against the
works on May 10. II you're a
good unioniSt you'll hope the
100 radio writer's win a settle
ment of their demands which
chiefly involve ownership of
scripts. So If they do win, where
are you? AS a good union
member should you listen to
union-made soap operas and
corny comedians?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
AFL Enters


MILWAUKEE, (LPA)-"More
than thousand" Allis-C Chalmers
employees have asked the United
Auto lWorkers-AFL to intervene
in a hearing of the State EN-
ployment Relations Board to
determine what union should
represent workers in the A-C
plant near heTe. Neither the
CIO Auto Workers, which re.
Gently voted to end a 328-day
strike at the plant, nor the In
depedent Workers of Allis-
Chalmers was able to obtain
sufficient votes in a recent state
board election.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
Labor Gains Endangered By
Shocking Anti-Labor Bills

But Sen. Taft, proclaiming his
bill to a press conference last
week, said. This bill is not
a punitive one."
There was heavy irony in the
proposal of Taft, the Republican
Congressional leader and presl-
dental hopeful, that individual
employees be given the right to
petition an NLRB election. The
NLRB already has the greatest
backlog of cases in its history
and the Republicans have push
ed through the House an appro-
priations bill which would clip
the NLRB's functions by 3O% .
Hits Welfare Funds
Taft's bill would hit union
health and welfare funds and
the House bill would regulate
the amount of initiation fees a
union could charge. Both bills
would exclude foremen from
Wagner Act protection.
Perfect anti-climax was found
in the Taft proposal to establish
a joint 14-man House-Senate
Commission to make a complete
investigation of the entire field
of labor management relations.
This was what President Tru-
man asked Congress to do be-
fore it passed any punitive leg
islation. The COP thumbed its
Congressional nose at Truman.
Labor leaders declared there
was still time to act effectively
against union-wrecking legisla-
ton. The House bill, with the
COPS steering committee green
light, will probably get through
without major changes. But 1t
was still expected that the Taft
proposal, if it gets out of com.
mittee intact, will be rewritten
on the Senate floor.
Chances of enactment of an
ti-labor legislation before the
end of April are very dim. COP
optimists have hope for mid
May.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
Tax Bill
Faces Veto

WASHINGTON, April 16 -
(LPA) - The COP tax bill,
described by some Democratic
Congressmen and labor econ
omists as phony program that
will give a windfall to the rich
and rob the nations wage earn
ers, faces a presidential veto.
There were a lot of questions
about that veto, however, Dem
ocratic Congressman agreed.
Truman, they said, may not
want, for reasons of political
strategy, to veto two bills, and
they figure that the labor leg
islation that will reach the
White House will be unaccept-
able. If Truman should ap-
prove the labor legislation now
announced in both Senate and
House "his goose would be
cooked" as far as the labor vote
is concerned next year, labor
leaders agree.
Truman's Jefferson Day ad-
dress criticizing false econ
omy" was belittled by Senator
Robert Taft (R., Ohio) who said
that The Presidents budget
will be cut. If we don't cut
taxes now the spenders will
soon find new ways to spend" +"
Labor economists and Demo-
cratic Congressman continued to
criticize the 20% across-the-
the-board reduction which the
Republicans pushed through.
Labor has demanded a proper
tionate cut giving the low in
come brackets an equal break,
1t was considered certain how
ever that the COP tax program
would be passed by both houses.
Chief reason for its enactment
given by Republican Congress
men was that it had been prom
ised in campaign speeches.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
Closed Shop
Ban Growing

CHICAGO, April 16 (LPA)-
Encouraged by the fact that 16
states have already banned or
regulated the closed shop, at
torneys general of IL states
gathered this week in Lincoln,
Neb. to prepare strategy to de-
feat organized labor's legal ap-
peals against the closed shop
statutes.
Delaware last week became
the 18th state to enact an out
right ban on the closed shop.
In addition the legislature out
lawed mass picketing and boy
colts.
The Workers Defense League
asked the attorneys general con-
ference ito urge repeal of the
various state anti-closed shop
laws, rather than to adopt poll
cies for their enforcement"
Writing to Atty. Gen. Walter
Johnson, of Nebraska, the WDL
declared that "Such legislation
increases rather than lessons in.
dustrial strife" /"
AFL President VIM. Green
appealed without avail to Gov.
A. E. Driscoll, of New Jersey,
to veto "totalitarian anti
strike" bill adopted by the state
legislature after only five hours
consideration. The measure was
clearly aimed at the striking
telephone workers.
A six to three Supreme
Court decision holding that the
National Labor Relations Act
supercedeS state labor relations
laws was hailed by AFL attor-
ney Herbert Thatcher as pro-
viding new basis for labor's ap-
peals against the closed shop
laws.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
NAACP Demands
SiqIer Refrdef

DETROIT (LPA) Governor
Kim Sigler has been asked by
the National Association for
Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie to retract his charge that
the NAACP sis led by Com.
muniSts and backed by the
CP." The organization charged
Sigler with being 'irrespon.
sible" and asked for IAN ade-
quately publicized apology to
an organization that has fought
for 38 years for real democracy
for all Americans within the
framework of the Constitution. /"
The Detroit NAACP chapter
has 10000 due-paying mem
bers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
bSA Picks New Heads

CHICAGO (LPA) - All top
officers of the United Steel
workers of America-CIO were
reelected as result of a bal.
lot OF the membership, 1t was
announced last week. President
Philip Murray, vice-preSidents
James G. Thimmes and Van A.
Bittner, and secretary-treas-
urer David j. Mcdonald all
were unopposed. Three new re-
gional directors were chosen.
James Dickerson for Texas
Oklahoma, Arkansas; James p.
Griffin. eastern Ohio; James c,
Nicholson, Canadian maritime
provinces.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
Trumon Mildly
Slops Business
Continued from Page 1


asked to present their views tc
the Council; the AFL Is under
stood to have met with the
Council already, and the CIC
has presented a brief describ'
ing their views.
Labor economists frankly sd
nit that there is reason to be
scared" They point to the
danger that the whole price
structure will collapse sudden
ly when the economy can nc
longer stand pyramiding high
prices. They point to the fac
that the Justice Department ha.
done nothing about combina.
tions of industry to keep prices
high, and is very unlikely to
act effectively TO encourage or
derly price reductions without
mangling the antitrust laws.
Truman Too Mild
Union officials expressed dis
satisfaction with Truman's mild
language about industry prof
its, even while he agreed with
one reporter that they were up
as much as 3008o. They ex.
pressed belief that prices can
be cut and wages raised with
out hurting most OF industry.
Further indications OF the
danger of high prices were seen
in reports that department store
sales for the pre- Easter week
ran 1879 behind last year when
higher prices were counted out,
that there Is a trend to buy
from mail-order houses rather
than speciality stores-indicat-
ing that consumers are being
more cautious in what they buy
and tbat building construction
is laggfng because OF skyrocket-
ing prices of building materials.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
lnquiring
Reporter
Continued from Page 1

sympathy with us instead of big
business.
Robert BOner:: Unemployment
contributions should have either
been left as they were before or
even been raised. 1t wouldn't t
take long to wipe out the fund
if there was a big layoff in the
state. This is the wrong time to
save money for the employers
when the profits are higher than
ever before. It's dangerous be-
cause a big layoff might even
cause the fund to go broke. =.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
Portal Pay Ban
May Be Vetoed

WASHINGTON, April Is -
(LPA) - Congressional legisla.
ton to ban portal-to-portal pay
suits and also to wreck the
Wage-Hour Act is stalled mid
way between the Senate and
House. Labor had good reasons
to believe that its appeals
would bring a presidential veto
of whatever bill Is decided on.
Wrangling between the House
and Senate confrees, chiefly
among the Republicans who
cannot unite against a Demo
cratic minority, has delayed
writing of the final bill. The
House passed the bill on Feb
%, the Senate on March 21.
Labor was still hoping for a
Truman veto of the legislation
which goes far beyond nullify-
ing the nearly $6 billion dol.
lars in suit for back pay under
the Wage-Hour Act. The SEN
ate-House confrees were partly
afraid of a veto and also con-
cerned about Labor Secretary
Schwellenbach's warning that
II any compromise bill became
law it would provoke a new
rash of suits which could not be
handled by the reduced staff of
attorneys in the Department.
SchWelenbach said he was
Truman to veto the bill
even before he knew what the
final version would be. 1t was
certain that whatever came out
of the Senate House conference
would severely damage the
Wage Hour Act.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
Beer War Ends

PITTSBURGH (LPA)-Both
sides expressed relief last week
when an agreement was signed
by CIO Brewery Workers and
AFL Teamsters to end open con-
flict between the two unions
over jurisdiction at three local
brewing companies. The Team
sters will await an NLRB elec-
ton at the end of the present
two-year contract between the
CIOs and the breWeries, and
both sides promised the end OF
violence that has included
bomb-tossing and win d W
smashing in 178 days of argu-
ment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
IcIo Offers
Miners Aid

PITTSBURGH, April 19 -
(LPA) = CIO unions through
out the country last week join
ed AFL groups in extending
sympathy to the United Mine
Workers-AFL and the bereaved
families of Ill victims of the
Centralia, Ill. mine disaster.
The Michigan CIO Council
asked all local unions in the
state to lower their flags to half
mast and declared, Michigan
CIO members fully recognized
their debt to the miners for
their support and solidarity in
helping to extend the benefits
of unionism throughout the
country"
Unite d. Steelworkers and
United Electrical Workers also
extended condolences.
UEA Local 1872 here said in
a message to the UNIV that
THE miners six days of mourn
ing and the death of the Ill
should symbolic the need for
unity and solidarity of all the
workers in America to stop for
ever the hazardous and danger
Gus conditions which American
workers are forced to work un-
der"
UE District Council Six said
I'VE stand ready to give what
ever help and assistance the
families of Centralia miners
may request of us"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
Marion JAW
Given Increase
Continued from Page 1

| continued from Page i
tiated by Walter Madrzykowski,
International UAW-CIO repre-
sentative.
Toledo Increases
Wage increases. were reported
by Harold Dean, Loci IL repre-
sentative in the following plants:
Toledo Porcelain Enamel: s.
cents an hour with a 4O-hour
vacation bonus to employees of
Is or more years.
Ford Pitt Steel: scents to
unskilled, 10-cents to skilled la
Dor. A previous increase had
been given Fort Pitt employees.
S. M. Jones Co.: 8-cents plant
wide increase was given to 100
employees, it was reported by
Lloyd Speidell, Local IL record,
ing secretary, who negotiated
the increase.
Buckeye Paint: 715 cents re-
troactive to Feb. 1, two paid holi-
days. Barton Dederman, Local
IL Board member negotiated
the raise with the union COM
mittee headed by William Healey.
Local union and regional Of
flee representatives stated that
a number of other increases had
been granted in Toledo and else
where in Region 2-B and would
be announced after the new
wage hikes had been signed by
union and company officials.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
Wage Hikes Needed

CLEVELAND (LPA) - The
urgent need for immediate wage
raises was presented to a Ma
tional CIO Education Confer
ence here last week. Assistant
CIO Research Director Stanley
H. Ruttenberg told the confer
ence that with high prices re-
naming at current levels sit is
only through higher income, not
only for production workers
but for white collar workers,
school teachers and o tn r
groups, that we can develop an
economy of full production and
full employment"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
Continued from Page l

fuse to bargain concerning a
demand for a provision requir-
Ing membership in a labor or
ganization as a condition of en-
plovment." The House draft
has no ''ifs" and butts; the
closed shop is forbidden.
On industry-wide bargaining,
the House bill would virtually
destroyed it. The Taft version
gives the employer the right to
refuse to bargain on a national
basis.
From there on it became a
race to see which of the two
bills could be more punitive and
vindictive than the other. The
House bill would abolish the
National Labor Relations Board
entirely and set up new board
with greatly diminished powers.
The Taft idea would be to in
crease the board from three to
five with any two able to act
for the entire board, and with
its powers curtailed.
Special Strike Ban
Eight specific types Of strikes
would be banned by the House
bill. It would demolish the Nor
ris-LaGuardia anti injunction
law, permitting both private
Employers and government to
employ it as a weapon against
unions. The Taft plan would
permit the attorney general to
bbtain injunctions that could
stop for go days strikes alleg-
edly affecting public health,
safety and welfare.
Both bills cite a long list of
unfair labor practices with
which unions could be charged.
Both give employers the fright
of free speech" which labor
leaders have charged Is simply
license for intimidation. Both
bills ban iurisdictional strikes
and secondary boycotts.
Both bills permit employers
10 sue unions into bankruptcy
If they can. Both bills would
remove the Cancellation Service
from the Labor Department and
make it a separate organization.
House Bars Picketing
:. Mass picketing, of which no
court or Congressional commit
Zee has ever made a final def
milton, is banned by the House
plan; not by the Senate. On
Communists, the Senate refused
to follow the House bills &C.
centric idea of banning any
union as a bargaining agent if
II has national or even local of
ficers who are Communists or
who can reasonably be re-
garded" as Communists.
The Taft program overlooked
q prohibition on political con-
tributions by unions; the House
bill did not.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
ILG On Air in South

ST. LOUIS (LPA) - Radio
listeners in Missouri and Ten
nesee will hear the voice of
labor over two FM stations
planned by the international
Ladies Garment Workers-AFL.
One transmitter will be atop
Signal Mountain near Chatta-
nooga; the other will be To-
Gated in downtown st. Lotus,
where the union has purchased
a building site.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18
UPWA Wins Prize

NEW YORK GPA) - The
United Packinghouse Workers
of America-CIO last week was
awarded the annual prize of the
American Public Relations AS
sociation for the best public re.
lations job in the labor field for
the past year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-18

John Russ: Cutting the con-
tributions from the employers
was lousy trick. Our compen-
sation should be raised. They
are boosting production so fast
and keeping prices so high that
there will be plenty of unem-
ployment if they don't wake up.
Half billion dollars sounds like
a lot of money, and it is, but it
wouldn't take long to eat that
up if we ran into another de-
preston. What they should do
is give us an annual guaranteed
wage of 80 per cent of our aver
age yearly income instead of
cutting contributions from the
employers. Any way you look
at it, the Ohio Senate turned
back the clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-02
CHANCES MADE IN
 COMMAND OF AIR
 FORCES IN ALASKA

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-iR-A revamping of the Air Force Com mand to fit it's new independent status brought promotions to l3 high officers.
 Secretary of Air Symington and Gen. Carl Spaatz, Air Chief ot staff. told a news conference the reorganization is intended to in crease efficiency, pick the best man for the job,' and give added stature to various commands.
 The promotions, temporary and needing Senate confirmation, were announced by President Truman.
 The new assignments and pro- motions included:
 It. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, pre- sently Commander at Wright Field, appointed Theatre Commander Tn Alaska. in control of all ground and Air Forces there.
 Mai Gen. Howard A. Craig, pre- sent Commander of the Alaskan Department, to be in charge Of ma terial with the rank of Lieutenant General.
 Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson, Commander of Air in Alaska, pro- noted to Major General.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-02
ACTION IN BILL NOW AT CAPITOL
 SHARES IN NELL

There's a treat in store Tor all visitors to the Capitol Theatre to see the exciting new Charles R. Rogers production, Angel On My Shoulder" which is showing for the last times tonight. Publicized as a comedy drama, the film has an intriguing mixture of fantasy for all those jaded cinema fans who are tired of swallowing their screen fare neat.
 Starring in the piece are Paul Muni. Claude Rains and Anne Baxter-as competent and likeable a trio of players this side of Para dise-or we might coin a pun and say Hades.
 The action of the film, you sec, starts off in Satan's dominions down below, with hell-fires burn ing and the decidedly ingratiating MT. Rains playing the Devil himself.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-02
Z FUNMAKERS, 1
 DOG, IN FEATURE
 AT 10TH CENTURY

Merry mayhem and riotous TO- nance are the keynotes of the hilarious comedy farce, 20th Gen. tury-Tox's Tt Shouldn't Happen To A Dog" which is at the 20th Century Theatre tonight for the last times, starring Carole Lan- dis, Allyn Joslyn and an amazing ly talented Dooerman Pinscher who answers to Rodney"
 As a newshound who knows all the angles, Joslyn meets up with lady cop Miss Landis) who has all the curves, and the result is 90 minutes of rib-tickling en- tertainment.
 Rodney is the dog it shouldn't happen to, and the remarkable canine is responsible for many of the films heartiest laughs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-02
MEAT PRICES
 STILL HIGHER; OTHERS DOWN
(BY The Associated Pressl

Hog and cattle prices continued to climb to or near record pri- ces today but wheat futures prices in Chicago broke the 10 cents a bushel limit after the price for December delivery had reached an all-time peak for the second straight day
 Corn futures also dropped the 8 cent limit at Chicago, and there was some other more favorable news for the hard pressed con sumer to offsett the continued meat climbs.
 Butter dropped in Chicago and New York wholesale markets. It was 1ia to 3 cents lower at Chi cage, with 93 score selling at 73 3l2 cents a pound. New York butter was down % cent after three days of advances, with 92 score A bringing 78i2 cents.
 Egg future prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange tumbled the I2 cents a dozen daily limit, and butter futures dipped 3 to 2h cents a pound. The decline was attributed partly by an exchange spokesman to the Citizens Fooo Committee request that less poul- ! try and dairy products be used ir daily diets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-02
FLOATING GOLD STORAGE PLANT
 WILL BE BUILT
New Cold Storage Co. Is Formed by Wellknown
 Alaska Residents

Formation of new cold storage company. in Juneau, was revealed today when Articles of Incorpora- tion were filed with Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle for the United Fish and Cold Storage Co.,, Inc. by attorney Henry Roden.
 The company is capitalized for S60O,000 with stock equally divided into 100000 shares of preferred and 100000 shares of common. Both types of stock will have par value f $1 per share.
 The company was formed by K. Raatikainen, of Pelican, known as Pelican Charlie; Harold B. Gron- 'oos. Alaska Veterans Employment Representative of the U. $. Depart ment of Labor; and Frederick A.. Wetche, wellknown Pelican fisher man and Juneau resident. Beside the three incorporators, two others will serve on the Board of Direc- tors. They are attorney Roden, for ,ner Territorial Attorney-General and Juneau resident; and Daniel K. Tweet, Juneau resident and wellknown Alaska fisherman and boat owner
 Floating Ice Plant The new concern plans to con- struct a cold storage plant on a large vessel and operate in the Prince William Sound area during the fishing season. It will maintain it's headquarters in Juneau how ever. The plant will have capacity Of 3,OO0,00o pounds of frozen fish and will produce between 25 and 30 tons of ice per day. Officials expect the plant to be in operation on the fishing grounds by May l, 1948.
 The estimated amount of capital necessary to the enterprise is plac- cd at $350000. The plant will cost approximately $300,000.
 Capital will be raised through the sale of stock and the acquiring Of lean from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The preferred stock will lear interest at five per- cent and, for each 100 shares of preferred stock purchased, bonus of 25 shares of common will be is- sued.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-02
HOSplIAL NOTES

St Ann's Hospital admitted Floyd Birken yesterday, and dis charged Mrs. William Smith and baby boy.
 Government Hospital had no pa tients either entering or leaving.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-02
NEW DOCTOR HERE

pr. Leon Grant, of East Rocka- way, N. Y, has arrived here to as sume his new position as Medical Officer at the Juneau Indian Hos pital. He was accompanied by Mrs. Grant They are temporarily regist- cred at the Baranof Hotel.