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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-12-19
Mrs. Gun+rup
Expires, Dec. IL

Allie B. Guntrup, rs, wife of
Walter c. Guntrup editor of the
Toledo Union Leader passed away
Wednesday morning in Flower
Hospital.
Mrs. Guntrup in earlier years
had been active in the labor
movement. She organized the
Ladies Auxiliary of Glass Work,
ers of which she was president
Was a delegate to Ohio State
Federation Convention in 1907
Later she joined the Letter Car,
riers Auxiliary, serving as presi
dent of that organization for
two years.
Surviving is husband, Walter;
sister Mae Sayre, Cleveland
Grandchildren: Robert and Betty
Bragg, Washington, D. c.; VIM.
Bragg, Gibsonburg, Ohio.
Funeral services VIII be con-
Quoted by the Eastern Star Sat
urday 2 P. M. at Walker.Wenner
Funeral Home, 2749 Monroe st.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-12-19
GIassUnion
Elects Four

Four officers were elected
by Local 9, Federation OF
Flat Glass Workers-CIO in
runoff elections held at the
plants of the Libbey-Owens-
Ford Co. Dec. II. Following are
the results of the balloting:
First vice president - John
Reiter-1181. Wade Williams,
1922.
Vice Chairman-John Weaver,
1929 Fred LaVrar, 974.
Trustee, three year term -
John Leach, 1892. James Smith,
945.
Inner Guard-Adolph Miercze-
iewski, 1117, Paul T. Myers, 966.
Local 8 will hold its last reg
ular meeting until after the holi-
days this evening at union head
quarters, 513 E. Broadway. Fol
lowing the meeting, Local 12's
Summer Camp film, Building
for Tomorrow" will be shown.
Regular meetings of the Local
will begin January 9 when the
newly elected officers will be in
stalled.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-12-19
Vets Pofronize
Service Store

Toledo veterans are taking
advantage of the Veterans Cash
And Carry Sales Center which
was opened for business here
Friday, Dec. 5 by the War
Assets Administration. Blankets,
shovels, chains, tires and tubes
and other items went fast on the
first day when $50 veterans
visited the center.
The store is operated in con-
nection with the Customers
Service Center, 1401 Campbell
st. at Junction. 1t is open on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
of each week from 900 a. m. to
400 p. m. Veterans must show
their discharge papers before
making their purchase.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-12-19
TWOC-CIO Plans
Monthly Pepper

WASHINGTON, Dec. IT -
UPA3-The newly-formed Tele
phone Workers Organizing Com
mittee.CIO will publish its owr
monthly paper starting in Jan
uary, it was announced last week
bv TWOC Chairman Allan S
Haywood.
The new paper, the Telephone
Organizer, will be edited in New
York by Oscar Jager, who is
also editor of the AUTW Voice,
monthly publication of the Amer
lean Union of Telephone Work
ers.CIO. TWOC now has four
affiliates representing 10000
telephone workers, but 10000
more telepohne workers are eX-
pected to ballot on TWOC affilia'
tion in the West Coast area, Hay
wood said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-12-19

Richard LaZette Tom Burke
President Lazette's victory
which gives him his fifth con,
secutive term as CIO Council
head, was won over Fred Bebb
president and Edward Roman
president-elect, both of Local
706, Die Casters, MMSW-CIO
The vote was Lazette, 1874;
Bebb, 30, Roman, 20.
Tom Burke's victory over
Earl Spencer, Local 706 Die
Casters was equally impressive.
Burke who will begin his fourth
term in the executive secretary
post received 205 votes against
Spencer's 80.
COakley Is Reelected
An outstanding victory was
won by Eleanor Coakley, re-
cording secretary, Toledo News
paper Guild. Miss Coakley re-
ceived 214 votes to II for Val
Klein her opponent from Local
706, Die Casters.
Melvin Lazette, Local IL,
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Kenngott Is
Appointed To
.Gosser Staff

Appointment of Al Kenn-
gott to the post of assistant
director of the Thompson
Products organizational staff
was announced on Monday OF
this week by Vice President
Richard Gosser.
Mr.. Kenngott will make his
headquarters in Cleveland, o.,
where he will be employed IN
the renewed drive to organize
the workers of the Thompson
Products Co.
Kenngott has been a member
of Champion Unit of Local II,
since its organization in the
Auto Workers. He has served as
a member of the Local II
executive board and was Local
treasurer until he entered the
Army in 1912. Following his
discharge from the armed
forces, he was elected to the
Champion executive shop com
mittee on which he was serving
until his appointment by Vice
President Gosser this week.
Organizational work in thu
Thompson Products plants hai
been difficult due to the extrem'
resistance given the union by th'
corporations management. The
subject was widely discussed
throughout the Auto Workers or
ganization prior to and during
the Atlantic City convention. Re
newal of the drive is in accord
with the wish of the convention
Mr.. Kenngott makes his home
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Fred Kenngott, I'LL Coventry.
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Pure Oil Co.
Says No 10
Arbitration

Efforts of the Toledo La
Dor Management Citizens
Committee to end the nine
months strike of the Oil
Workers Union-CIO was re-
Iiected by L. S. Wescoat, Chi
Icago, president of the Pure Oil
Co., in a letter sent late last
week to Michael V. Disable,
LMC chairman.
Obviously out of patience
with the lack of progress in the
contract negotiations between
the company and union, the
LMC on Dec. 10 strongly re-
commended to both parties that
they consent to arbitration in
an effort to end the protracted
stoppage.
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The committee statement is
sued by LMC recommended that
both parties to the dispute agree
to accept as final and binding a
decision of the LMC panel and
that "the union agree to return
to work pending the decision"
Union Accepts Proposal
Clyde Shamblen, chairman of
the Pure Oil Unit of Local 346
said that the union would agree
to the proposal and would go
further:
Said Shamblen, "our men
will return to work Immediately
if the company will merely
agree to present the dispute for
LMC mediation, provided the.
also agree that if it is not settled
in 30 days they will then sub
NIT it to arbitration by ar
LMC panel"
In his letter to Mr.. Disable
Pure Oil President Wescoai
said:
"It is well recognized that ar
bitration is an instrument to be
used only in disposing Of grisv.
ances that arise under the
terms of a contract already a.
greed upon.
No Existing Contract
Unfortunately, the Pure Oil
Co., and its Toledo refinery en-
ployes have no contract, and to
attempt to have any third party
make a contract which must be
accepted by both involves the
surrender of fundamental rights
by each. To do this would put
burden upon the arbitrators
which responsible men would
hesitate to accept"
Commenting on the COM
pany's letter, Mr.. Disable said,
"the LMC does not like to ar
bitrate such disputes, but as it
vitality effects the welfare of
the nation and community we
decided unusual action was ne
cessary. The LMC agreed to
accept the responsibility that
accompanied our offer, and that
offer still stands"
Union Recognizes Rights
Clyde Shamblen commenting
on the Pure Oil Company's re-
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afraid to fight"
Green was out of town when
the message was delivered, but
AFL officials had anticipated
Lewis action. If anything was
unexpected it was the UMW's
speed in pulling out of the AFL.
The secession was in the cards
after Lewis attack on Green
and other ,AFL leaders at the
AFL convention for allegedly
"surrendering" to the Hart
ley requirement of anti-Commu-
mist affidavits.
Fought Affidavits
At the convention Lewis fought
futilely against an executive
C coun ell recommendation that
AFL officers sign the anti Com
munist affidavits. The Mine
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op earnings or dividends.
The House Ways & Means
Committee, which held ex-
tensive hearings on plans to
kill the present tax exemption OF
farmers co-ops, has become com
pletely frightened. Committee
members discovered belatedly
how extensive farm co-ops are
and how many votes their mem
bers may cast in next years
elections.
Rep. Harold Knutson R.,
Mimi, chairman of the Commit
tee, was one of the first to get
scared. Although he is author of
two "rob-the-poor" tax bills
which were vetoed by President
Truman, Knutson has favored
coop taxation but he remem-
bered as hearings drew to a close
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AFL.
In a two-word handwritten
message in crayon to AFL
President William Green,
Lewis announced the secession
which was voted unanimously by
the UMW's 30-man executive
board. The message read:
Green, AFL. We disaffiliate.
12-12-47. Lewis"
The message went to Green
by messenger after it was given
to press conference which
Lewis did not attend. A UNIV
spokesman, asked why the UNIV
was leaving the AFL, said,
There's no reason why the
United Mine Workers should
sacrifice itself to go along as an
umbrella for a labor movement
that protects political acquies-
cence of those who are too
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CoakIey Goes
To City Desk

The Toledo Blade, which
last July banished a reporter
to the papers reference Ii
brary because of union activ-
ity has agreed to reinstate
the employe, Eleanor Coakley
to the news staff rather than
wait for ruling by the National
Labor Relations Board on unfair
labor practice charges.
Miss Coakley, retiring presi-
dent of the Toledo Newspaper
Guild, was transferred from a
reporting job to the Blade library
when she accepted election to
the executive board of the Tole-
do Industrial Council, CIO, re-
cording secretary.
Because she was unable to
handle heavy file drawers, fol-
lowing an auto accident, she was
subsequently transferred to the
society department. The settle
ment agreement, recommended
by David c. Finlay, NLRB field
examiner and approved by M. S.
Ryder, Cleveland, regional direc-
tor, NLRB, provides that within
80 days she will be given an
assignment to the news staff
under the direction of the city
editor.
In a statement published in
the Blade at the time of the
transfer, the paper declared
unqualified objections to en-
ployees of the newspapers edi-
torial department being associ-
ated with outside business, labor
or political organizations"
The company did not abandon
its stand on union activity in
settling the case but agreed to
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that farmers co-ops in his {
state were stronger than a
where else in the country.
Lots of Votes
The COPS predicament
detailed by the New York j
nal of Commerce, big BUSH
daily, which pointed out
"Spokesmen for farmer
operatives alerted commi
members to acute realiza|
that there are lots of farn|
lots of farmer cooperatives;
of votes among farmers who
members of cooperatives."
The complete failure of
big business campaign to taxi
ops was revealed when
Journal of Commerce report
Continued on Page 2
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Congress To Go Home
Leaving Work Undone
Controls To Stop Imitation
Rejected By COPS Majority

WASHINGTON, Dec. II LPA)-Congress is expecte
to return home for the holidays Dec l9 with the sto
gap aid program enacted into law, but with very little
show to stop initiation at home
Republicans last week unveiled their own program
which took over two of President Trumans ten points dea
with three other proposals for government controls by SUI
sttung voluntary agreements by industry, and promise
action later on rent control.
The COP plan, which very distastefulto more il
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-12-19
Roman Elected
BY Die Casters
Runoff Required In
Naming Four Posts

Edward Roman was elected
president of Local 706, Die
Casters, UMMSW-CIO, in the
annual election of officers
held at the Doehler-Jarvis
Corp. plant Dec. 10. Roman de-
feated Fred (Scotty) Bebb four
term die caster president by a
vote of 937 to 855.
Elected to the vice-presidential
post was Al Kruger who won
over Steve Rhodey 1923 to 712
Four runoff elections were
made necessary when candidates
for the posts failed to secure
majority vote. Most important OF
the posts was that of chief Ste
ward held by Ernie Love. Love
secured 884 votes to F. Frider's
583. William Antrim, the third
candidate was eliminated with
S29 ballots. The runoff elections
were to be held on Tuesday al
the company plant.
In Runoff Elections
Also scheduled to participate
in the runoff elections were Earl
Spencer with 566 votes and Ray
Wierszewski who received 373
They are candidates for the
trustee post for a three year
term.
Competing in the runoff for
the post of assistant sergeant-at-
arms were Elmer Gray and Joe
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eral Republicans like Nor:
of Oregon, Tobey of Ne
Hampshire, and Flanders
Vermont, rejected entirely Tr
mans proposals for selecti'
price and wage controls, al
authority for the President to i
ton scarce commodities. It d
include a one-year extension
export controls and power to
locate transportation facilities.
Major objection of Democrs
to the COP program center'
around a proposal that anti-trt
laws exempt voluntary agre
ments by industry or agricultu
groups for the ALLEGATION
scarce materials. Such agre
ments would be the COP su
stitute for government-enforc
rationing.
President Truman assert
that there would be no relax
ton of the antitrust laws
long as he could do anythi
about it-though earlier in
year he had asked Attorn
General Clark to decide wheth
voluntary price-reducing agrt
ments would be considered mo
opoly activities.
AS if a spur to Congressior
action was needed, the Bure
Of Labor Statistics last week
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Last years party which
surpassed all previous CROWD
records will very likely be
broken this year according tt
Local IL officials and Christmas
party committee m m b ers
New h less, arrangements
which have been completed by
the committee will insure each
child getting their candy, games
and gifts through a newly de-
vised system for distributing the
Christmas parcels.
The party which will follow
the pattern of other years will
be headlined by professional acts
provided by Eddie Hanf, popular
Toledo dancer and theatrical
agent and will include other acts
from the Hanf School of Dane
ing.
Santa Will Appear
High point of the afternoon
will be the arrival of Santa
Claus who will greet the children
and lead them in singing the
usual Christmas songs. T h e
jolly old elf will preside over the
distribution of the toys, candy
and gifts which will be passed
out to the children as they leave
the auditorium.
William Healey, committee
chairman in charge of arrange
ments has requested all volun-
teers who are going to assist
with packaging candy and gifts
to be at the Civic Auditorium at
HOO a. m. Sunday. A large
number of volunteers are needed
and Mr.. Healey expressed the
hope that a good sized group
would be on hand to aid in the
preparations for the party.
Urge Early Corners
Mr.. Healey announced that the
doors of Civic Auditorium would
be open at 100 p. m. and urged
parents with small children to
come early in order to get the
best selection of seats. The en-
tertainment will be over at ap-
proximately 500 p. m. Children
not accompanied by their parents
will be able to pick up their gifts
and reach home before dark.
Members of the Flying Squad
rons from Willys-Overland, Ma
tional Supply, Mather Spring and
Standard Commutator will be on
hand to assist the crowd in find
ing seats and securing their gifts
following the show.
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Thomas Gets cIo Post

WASHINGTON (LPA)-R|
Thomas, former president of
United Auto Workers-CIO std
ed work as a CIO field REP
sentative last week. Thon|
who was defeated for re-elect|
Jas a UAW vice president
Richard Gosser last month
on the staff of Allan S. III
wood, CIO director of orga'
zatiOn.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-12-19
WANTED
SINGERS

There are still plenty of
vacancies in the WOmen's
Chorus composed of Local
IL Women. Practice is held
each Monday night at Local
IL ii adquarters, 425 Win
throp St, at 500 p. M. If
you can sing or if you know
of any other women who
would be interested in join.
ing the chorus, bring them
to the weekly singing
classes.
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Profits Justify Wage Hike

PHILADELPHIA Dec II (LPA)-Net profits for american
industry piled wonderfully 1916 the Securities exchange
Commission reported verifying claims by labor
economists The SEC showed that for 256 manufacturing COM
panies the profit after COM
pared with $998, 764 900 in 1945.
Profits that would easily justify third round OF wage IN,
creaes reported by of companies Iypca OF many
he to were the following:
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LdSeHe, Burke Win
In TUG Election
Large Delegate Turnout Gives
Incumbents Decisive Victory

Richard Lazette, president, and Tom Burke executive
secretary of the Toledo Industrial Union Council de-
csvey reelected to in their present posts by
usually large turnout of delegates the annual election
held at TIUC headquarters Monday night.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-12-19
Children AWait
Christmas Party
Large Crowd Is Expected
At 9th Annual Yule Show

When the doors of Civic Auditorium open at loo pm
next Sunday afternoon it will be the signal for thousands
of Local IL children accompanied by their parents to troop
into the auditorium for what will probably be the largest
Christmas party held in Toledo.
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Congress Skips Bills
To Tax Coop Stores
Farm Groups Cause OF
Dropping "Hot Potato

WASHINGTON, Dec. II QPA)-Proposals to tax
ops have proved the hottest potato the Republican
gress has tried to handle this session with the result
there will be legislation this year calling for taxes
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-12-19

Michael v. Disable on
Tuesday of this week sent
wire to l.. S. Wescoat, Pure
Oil Co. president, Chicago,
advising him that the LMC
was willing to assume the
responsibility for arbitrating
the nine months contract
dispute between the com
pany and its union employees.
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We Disaffi||iate Says
UMWs Lewis To AFL
Secession Expected Following
San Francisco UNIV RepudiatiOn

WASHINGTON, Dec II dPA)-President John L.
Lewis of the United Mine WorkersAF last week fulfilled
the threat he made the AFL convention in San Francisco
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Evening star., 1947-01-15
ADJUSTMENTS

Rod Cameron, at Ella Raines'
party, is asked, How
Evening star., 1947-01-15

has been tying lives together, and
helping to keep them tied.
Something of that sort happened
to Mr.. Wallach at the Occidental.
He ate there during his couple OF
weeks in Washington, as theater
people. politicians and so many other
types do. He liked the attention he
got nightly from member OF the
staff whose name he did not know.
In return for this courtesy. he
decided to reward the man with a
pair of tickets for Blossom Time.
In his quiet way, he wrote out an
order on the boxoffice and sent 1t
over to his benefactor.
Turned out he couldn't have done
a happier thing. The man was at
the Wallach table in flash.
my name is D. K. Millspaugh,'
he said. 81 can't thank you enough
for those tickets. You see, I took
my wife to see it the night we were
married 20 years ago in Sioux Falls.
Idaho"
Mr.. Wallach is always finding
happy marriages which, as long as
they have lasted, have not lasted as
long as Blossom Time"
X X X 4
When Preston Sturges, that artful
one, wanted Harold Lloyd to play
the lead in THE Sin of Harold
Diddlebock," he did nothing so Grass
and crude as ask him to do so. Ap-
preaching, instead, from the oblique,
he asked Lloyd to study the script
with the possible idea of directing it.
Lloyd did as he was advised, then
returned to Sturges.
This character sounds more like
the parts I've always played than
anything I've ever read" Lloyd said.
"Say the word and you're 'Diddle-
bock,'" Sturges replied.
Lloyd said the word, but Sturges
kept mum about having written the
character from the beginning with
no one but Lloyd in mind
Evening star., 1947-01-15

/ Cooper have begun the long slide
to oblivion.
All 1t means is that the two pic
lures In which each appeared merely
did not turn out to be as popular
as many other pictures; some OF
them wild enough to look like over
sexed apparitions of the best pic
lures made by Gary and Bette In
the past.
This waywardness in public taste
has manifested itself before but has
never been permanent There al
ready are signs that surfeit has set
in, or is beginning to, which may
mean an entirely new scrambling
of the top money-earners in the
films.
incidentally, the final 16 among
Variety's 80 in boxoffice averages
were Danny Kaye, Fred MacMurray
Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Cornell
Wilde, Paulette Goddard, Cooper.
Alan Ladd, Olivia DeHavilland
Claudette Colbert, Barbara STAN
wyck, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bo-
CART, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Dar-
nell, Miss Davis and Edward G..
Robinson.
Comb the list from top to bottom.
and you won't find Jane Russell
mentioned.
Removal of the Johnston Office
seal from THE Outlaw" Is respon-
sible
y II X
Edgar Wallach who travels ahead
of Blossom Time" is quiet sort
with a sentimental heart. His ad-
ventures are not the large, exciting
kind, but rather those which go with
such natures. They are made up
mostly of small, satisfying expe-
riences which show how Blossom
Time" over a quarter of century.
Evening star., 1947-01-15
HOLLYWOOD.

f1oLL1 WoNA.
Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur
are co-starring in Farewell, MY
Beloved" for Milton Bren, with the
script by John Jacoby-an Ed
Lasker Capitol Productions venture
Lasker, incidentally, is spending
100000 to do over his already
fabulous mansion for his soon-to-
be-bride, Nancy Guild.
Joan Fontaine is kind of compel :
ing with herself in her two latest
pictures. Both Ivy" and The
Emperor's Waltz" are in the same
period and have the same kind OF
clothes. But ivy" which Joan IS
now making, will be released ahead
of her picture with Bing Crosby
because it is in black and white;
''The Emperor's Waltz is in color,
and that's mighty hard to get these
days.
Betty Macdonald, making trail
er to ballyhoo her picture, The
Egg and l." wanted to describe the
stove-one of the leading char
acters in the book-as "a stinker."
But to forestall Johnston Once
action, the boys at Universal
Evening star., 1947-01-15

Is your love life?" I'm free-lanc-
Ing" replied Rod, who used to be
Elias No. / escort after her separ-
alton from Kenneth Trout. Ella
shows me her engagement ring and
it's beaut--a big diamond, mount
ed above smaller diamonds. "And
Travis Banton is giving me we'd
ding dress as wedding present" :"
she tells me excitedly.
Ronald Reagan has joined the
cavalcade of stars who want to do
westerns. And Robert Taylor now
has a western for his next picture.
1t was called THE Texan" but that
title is already owned by Para
mount. Anyway. it's the story of
Sam Houston. But to go back to
Ronnie for a second. the spoofers
here are calling his current picture,
might Unto Night" Month Unto
Month" because the movie is now
approaching its hundredth day of
shooting.
Claude Rains has to start "The
Iron Gates" with Don Siegel direct