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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
Labor Lobbyists
Get $500: NAM
S+ooqes $28. 900

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81 -
(LPA) - Big business propa'
ganda about organized labor be-
coming a "super-government
was given the horse-laugh here
last week when salaries paid to
lobbyists were disclosed by the
clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
Walter Chamhlin, Washington
lobbyist for the Natl. Assoela-
ton of Manufacturers, receives
a $4,000 salary plus expenses
while his assistant, Samuel B.
Bledsoe, gets $4,000 plus ex-
penses. Another lobbyist is Pur-
cell L. Smith, president of the
Natl. Association of Electric
Companies who pulls down
S65,000 a year and spends about
one-quarter of his time, he said,
lobbying.
La bor'S "supergovernment"
as represented by union lobby
lists drew an average salary of
$500, the Congressional re-
cords showed. The average in
come of IL FL representatives,
who registered under the Con-
gressional Reorganization Act,
was S7310. The average for 21I
CIO representatives was S4346.
The AFL's top legislative repre-
Lewis G.. Hines re.
ceives $3.50 a year. His coun.
terpart in the CIO, Nathan
Cowan, is paid $4,000.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
Truman Demands
Military Draft

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81 -
GPA) - The drive for com
pulsory universal military train
ing - a program opposed by all
segments of organized labor -
was given boost last week
when President Truman ap-
pointed nine civilians to an Ad-
visory Commission on Universal
Military Training.
Labor officials were quick to
point out that 20 labor repre-.
sentatives were appointed to
this body and that all of the
appointees are known for their
strong proconscription views
and this in all probability indi-
Gates that the committee will
decide on the nature of the con-
scription plan instead of debat-
ing the pros and cons of con-
scription.
The AFL, CIO and Railway
had reaffirmed
their traditional opposition to
peacetime military conscription
at recent conventions, pointing
out that conscription had been
used as a weapon to break
strikes by drafting strikers in
to the army.
Joining organized labor in
their opposition to conscription
Brig. Gen. H. c. Holdridge
(Ret.), Co-chairman of the Arm
ed Forces Committee OF the
Veterans Committee,
who stated in a radio debate
that the program for compul-
sorry military training lis un.
sound and dangerous"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
CIO Strike Fund
The NAM

NEW YORK, Dec. 81 (LPA)
The current campaign of big
business to shift the curse of
monopoly" from itself to or.
ganized labor hit new low
last week when Walter B.
Weisenberger, executive vice
president of the Natl. Associa.
ton of Manufacturers claimed
that CIO President Philip Muir
rays proposal of a national
joint strike fund was further
evidence of CLOS monopolistic
actions, implying the threat of
general strike action"
In attacking the CIO, the
NAM spokesman arefully
avoided charges by Asst. Atty.
Gen. Wendell Berge last week
that big business monopolies
are now a more serious threat
than at any time since passage
of the Sherman antitrust act.
Other government officials in
recent week have cited Berge's
statement that $50 corporations
now hold two-thirds of the ma
tion's usable manufacturing
facilities, but the NAM official
ignored this in favor of assail-
ing what he said was the CLOS
to negotiate contracts
on an industry.wide basis.
Weisenberger made it clear
that industry would prefer to-
bargain with unions on a "com-
pany and plant basis" He con-
tended that "this strike fund
of the CIO is the latest
episode in a war of nerves"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
Portal Pay Fight A Billion
Dollar Knock-Down Battle
Toledo Workers
File Petitions

Dozens of suits against To-
ledo plants will be filed by the
end of this week or early next
week it was announced by the
office of Edward Lamb, Toledo
attorney who represented the
Mt. Clemens Pottery workers in
the original portal-to-portal pay
suit.
Announcement that workers
affiliated with the United Auto
Workers-CIO would file suits
was made last Saturday by
Richard Gosser, regional direc-
tor following a meeting Of re-
gional representatives in Mr..
Gosser's office. While no spe-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
Wallace
Predicts
Fascisn

NEW YORK, Oct. 81 (LPA)
1.-The Truman administration
is handling the labor situation
in such a way as to plunge the
country headlong toward Amer
lean fascism," Editor Henry
Wallace declared last week in
the New Republic magazine.
The former Commerce Secre-
tary declared that MY imme-
date program for labor centers
around the idea of a cost-of-
living bonus. Wherever pos
sible, such a bonus should be
added to a guaranteed mini
mum annual wage
Wallace said that "If there is
to be legislation l would Sug-
gest, first, a carefully worked
out program for fact-finding;
second, a mechanism for vol
untary arbitration; and third,
a labor court operating under
the supervision of the Presi-
dents Economic Advisory Coun-
Gil and dealing only with those
disputes in key industries which
it felt were of supreme interest
to the general welfare"
After joining with labor's po-
sition that compulsory arbitra-
ton in industries under private
ownership is impossible in a
democratic country" Wallace
proposed that after an industry
is seized by the government
there should be no profits to
the owners, in order to avoid
the situation we have seen in
the past where the government
has simply acted as stooge
for the employers, who have
hidden behind the pressure
created by public indignation
against the strikers and let the
government drive a harder bar
gain with the workers than is
fair and just"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
C. GM Oppose
Paw Increases

NEW YORK, Dec. 81 (LPA)
= General Motors and General
Electric formed a united front
last week against labor's de-
mand for a second round of
wage increases.
GIN Chairman Alfred P.
Sloan and GE. President Chas.
E. Wilson echoed each other in
threatening that new wage
raises will require price boosts.
The day following their state
ments the U. S. Commerce
Dept. announced that corporate
dividends for the three-month
period ending Oct. 81 totaled
$959,O00,O00, a jump of 1857.
During October divid n d S
amounted to $344,700,000, or
76% more than the same month
of 1945.
In Philadelphia, the Securi-
ties & Exchange Commission an
nounced that the market value
of the security holdings of in
companies amounted
to $3,277,856,000 while cash
and cash items, including re-
for all the reporting
companies rose from $138,525,-
900 to $141,730,000 from the
second to the third quarters.
While business was eXperienc-
ing its greatest prosperity in
history, Wilson proposed a one.
year moratorium on wage in
creases and strikes Wilson
declared that "The idea that
wage increase is justified sound
" by an increase in living costs
S an economic abSrudity."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
TrumanWarned
On Anti-Labor
COP Program

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81 -
(LPA) - One single voice in
Congress last week appealed to
President Truman not to sue
cumb to Republican demands
for anti-labor legislation
Sen. Glen H. Taylor ID.
Idaho), one of the tiny group of
remaining pro-labor Congress
man, asked Truman to ignore
the enormous amount of pres.
sure" being exerted on him to
deliver a state of the union
message to the Both Congress
which would embody the Re-
publican point of view"
Taylor's appeal came as anti
labor Congressman were join
ing forces for the kill" spur
red on by renewed demands by
the National Association of
Manufacturers and other anti
labor groups for union-busting
legislation.
Complete junking of the
Wagner Act and the Norris-La-
Guardia anti-injunction act is
being sought by a powerful
group of industrialists within
the National Association of
Manufacturers. A minority re-
port to the recent NAM con-
vention declared that Expert
ence has amply demonstrated
that the Wagner Act, the Norris
LaGuardia Act and the Wage &
Hour Act have not only failed
to accomplish their avowed
purpose but have actually made
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men of big business who
want to atomic" large
unions into small ones, while
defying the antitrust laws them
selves, Watt pointed out.
He said this new propaganda
is part of the Hitler technique"
which big corporations are copy
ing to turn public attention away
from their own monopolistic set.
Dip.
y 'It is a matter of common
knowledge that a small handful
of giant corporations and banks
exercise a controlling influence
on America industry" Watt de-
clared. ~. S. Sen. O'Mahoney
of Wyoming, the foremost trust
buster in Congress, has publicly
denounced these combines as
the. most dangerous form of
monopoly.
Finance Propaganda
yet today these very same
business interests are financing
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03

dues checkoff issues.
Six days after the National
Labor Relations Board order,
the strike entered its second
year.
The strike began Dec. 26,
1945 when $500 UAW employees
walked out of five plants in
Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa.
Case plants at Burlington, Iowa,
Rock Island, H., and Rockford,
Ill, have been reopened but the
remaining two plants at Racine,
Wis, normally employing around
300, are still struck.
The NLRB, in a unanimous
decision, ruled that Case vio-
lated the Wager Act: by re-
fusing to recognize the union
Internationally as the exclusive
bargaining representative of
all employees in the appropriate
unit" and "By insisting, as. a
condition precedent to conclud-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03

The Chicago Sun declared
editorially that the report
failed in not providing an
answer to the wage-price pro-
blem raised by unions.
"A national Council of Eco
nomic Advisers" said the edi-
torial, ought to have an opin-
ion on such questions. 1t ought
to lay down a documented stan
dard by which the behavior of
private groups can be meas
ured against the demands of the
general welfare. If wages should
be raised or lowered in the
general interest, the council
ought to say so - and prove its
point. If profits are insuffi-
cient or excessive for the pro-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03

ing any agreement that the
union agree to the principle of
individual bargaining by non.
members"
The Board also denied the
legitimacy of the company's re-
fusal to bargain on the basis of
a letter signed by the union In
1887 which agreed to the right
of individual bargaining. In this
instance, said the Board. the
Wagner Act was violated.
"By utilizing the unions 1897
letter to preclude collective bar
gaining with respect to certain
proposals made by the union,
and by refusing to discuss or
even consider any request made
by the union, including q re-
quest for a closed shop and
which may have con.
flicted with the terms of the
unions 1887 letter"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
Amnesty Appeals
Brine Response

WASHINGTON (LPA) - Or
ganized labor's efforts to OBJ
tain amnesty for the nations
imprisoned conscientious objec-
tors were only partially re.
warded last week by the ap-
pointment of a 3-man amnesty
board to consider each indi-
vidual case and then to recon-
mend action to the President.
who will decide who is to be
released.
The Presidents I. mn esty
Board, which will be headed by
Owen j. Roberts, former justice
of the Supreme Court, was set
up after the AFL, CIO, and
leIding religious and civic or
ganizations had made known
their desire for amnesty.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
DupIicofions

In changing from one
shop to another, or be-
cause of a change of ad-
dress, some subscribers of
the JOURNAL are receiv-
ing more than one copy of
the paper. 1t would be of
value in saving paper and
costs if those who are re-
ceiving more than one pa
per would send In a post
card with their name and
address, form er address,
present shop and former
shop. Better still, fill in the
space below and mail or
bring to he JOURNAL Of
flee.
Name ..."..."."............ .....
Address ......... ..................,
Former Address ............
Shop .."......................".......
Former Shop ........... .........
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
PAc cchorqes
Radio Bios

NEW YORK, Dec. 81, LPA)
Radio station WOR, key station
in the Mutual network, was &C.
cused last week of joining in a
general crusade to keep liberal
commentary from the people
as a result of the stations re-
fusal to retain liberal news
analyst Frank Kingdom on a
sustaining basis.
The charge was made by
leaders of the CIO Political Ac-
ton Committee, Natl Citizens
PAC and the Independent Citi-
zens Committee of the Arts,
Sciences & Professions.
In a letter to the Federal
Communications Com mi ssion,
the three organizations pointed
out that WOR features an ar
ray of reactionary commenta-
tors like Fulton Lewis Jr.,
Henry J. Taylor and Upton
Close at good evening times"
while dismissing Kingdom, John
Vandercook, Robert st. John
and others.
The PAC letter declared that
eve intend to present the issues
of this situation to the general
public and members of our or
ganizations so that they might
join in the fight for truly free
and democratic radio in Amer
ica."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
DeAngeIo Is
Appointed To
Safety Post
Former Director Is
Urged To Take Office

Edward A. DeAngelo former
city councilman and for six
years Safety Director of Toledo
was renamed to the safety post
which he resigned one year ago
following efforts to remove City
Manager G gorge N. Schoon'
maker.
In announcing Mr.. DeAngelo's
appointment last Tuesday after
noon, Mr.. Schoonmaker made
public a prepared statement by
the new safety head in which
he stated that he had accepted
his old position as director at
the urging of labor, clergy, in.
dustrial and other civic leaders.
MIR. DeAngelo resigned last
year together with City Man
ager Schoonmaker, and Joseph
H. Nathanson, city law director,
following a demand for Mr..
Schoonmaker's igna t n.
When city council refused to ac-
cept the city managers resigna-
ton, he withdrew it. Mr.. Nathan
son and Mr.. DeAngelo, however,
both quit their posts.
Fights Gamblers
A sworn noe of organized
gambling, Mr.. DeAngelo in the
six years he administered the
safety department drove large
scale gambling from the city
and eliminated much of its vice
conditions to make Toledo one
of the cleanest cities of its class
in the nation.
During the war, Mr.. DeAngelo
worked closely with the FBI
and other government services
and was given special recogni-
ton for his efforts.
The new safety director indi-
Gated that he would not elimi.
nate the morale.building pro-
gram inaugurated by his prede-
cessor, Maurice Myers, but ex.
pressed the view that such exer.
ciseS should be conducted on the
officers off-hours rather than
when they should be on duty
when the first job of a police
man is to stop crime" Continu.
ing, the new director added "I
want these attacks on women
stspped."
Backed BY Labor
Mr.. DeAngelo has the back
ing of labor leaders who issued
statements to the daily press
which were not printed at the
time the announcement of his
appointment was made.
Statements favorable to Mr..
DeAngelo were made by Richard
Gosser, UAW.CIO Director, Viii.
liam Sturm, AFL regional direc.
tor and Franz Berlacher, presi-
dent of the Milk Drivers Union.
AFL. All pledged their support
and expressed their satisfaction
with his appointment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
RESOLUTIONS-1947

PRESIDENT TRUMAN -
After what l did to the national
housing program I promise to
smile every time someone calls
me "a friend of the veterans.
| I promise to continue saying
that everything depends on
American workers staying on
their jobs, but if they won't !
shall not say anything about
500% industrial profits or 40%
increases in living costs.
JOHN r. STEELMAN - AS
President Trumans labor ad-
wiser / promise not to advise
him that we can have industrial
and political peace by throwing
out a few anti-labor laws to ap-
pease the NAM and the Con-
gressional lynchers. / promise
not to grab headlines for set
Ting strikes I never even heard
of, and not to dream more than
five night in a row of becom-
ing Secretary of Labor.
SENATOR ROBERT TAFT
l resolve that will put personal
pride aside and vote for every
proposed piece of union busting
legislation - even when | don't
happen to write it myself. I
will stop looking like an owl
left half-finished by taxi
dermiSt and make it a point at
least once very seven months
to say something which will in
dicate / have a sense of humor.
l will tell all reporters that as
far as the 1948 presidential
nomination is concerned every
thing is chummy between me,
Bricker, StaSsen and Vanden-
berg even though l have their
corpses hung up in the Senate
BRICKER, STASSEN and
VANDENBURG - I promise to
say the same thing-only bet
ter.
SENATOR JOSEPH BALL
/ promise to rid the country of
the octopus that is slowly
strangling 1.-THE closed shop.
l resolve not to remember that
one of the tightest closed shops
in the country is the American
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Verne thinner Dies

WASHINGTON (LPA)-One
of the foremost u. S. authorities
on workmen's compensation,
Verne A. Zimmer, director of
the Labor Departments Divi-
sion of Labor Standards since
its inception in 1884, died last
week. Zimmer started his labor
career as a factory inspector for
the N. Y. Labor Department.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
Pay Suits Filed
For Back PAY

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81
q P Al - A billion-dollar
knock down and drag out
battle in dozens of federal
courts across the nation
shaped up this week as scores
of unions filed suits for retro
active portal-to-portal pay.
The total claims came close
to billion dollars as inde-
pendent unions also entered de-
mands for portal wages under
a Supreme Court decision on a
Wage-Hour Act violation by the
Mount Clemens (Mich.) Pottery
Co.
A S25,000,O00 back pay suit
was filed by the independent
Western Electric Employees As
sociation against the Western
Electric Co. on behalf of 1900
workers and $4,000 former
employees.
Desperate industrialists hired
expensive law firms, engaged
high-powered publicity outfits
and buttonholed Congressman
in an attempt to stave off pay.
ment of the back wages.
One of the first results of the
publicity campaign was the
planting of stories designed to
prejudice the public by claiming
that the U. S. Treasury might
suffer severely from a decrease
in corporation taxes if the pay
ments were made to workers
However, Treasury officials
have not yet decided whether
the retroactive wage payments
can be deducted.
Labor Cites Law
Organized labor has con.
tended in its briefs that the
wages are due as a result of a
violation of law. IF this con-
tention is sustained, according
to labor lawyers, the companies
may not be allowed tax ex-
Looking to Congress to save
them from the courts, indus-
trialists found two Republican
Congressman from Michigan
willing to introduce legislation
on their behalf and to choke off
labor'S claims. Rep. Jesse VOL
colt and Rep. Earl c. Michneer
they would demand
a new law limiting the time in
which unions could file claims.
They were joined by Rep. John
w. Gwynne (R., Iowa) who last
year offered a bill in the House
to establish a one-year limit on
back claims.
Chamber Leads Fight
Leading the legislative drive
was the u. S. Chamber of Com.
merce which polled its MEM
oership on several proposed
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PropeIIerifes

ALI former employees Of
the American Propeller
Co., are urged by Frank
Young, Unit chairman to
call at Local IL headquar.
ters, AIS Winthrop ST.,
Saturday, Jan. 4, between
the hours of 800 a. m.
and 500 p. m. for import
ant information relative to
portaI-t0-portaI pay.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
Directions

In response to inquiries
which have been directed
to the UNION JOURNAL
office, e do not know why
the AutO-Lite paper has
suspended publication for
the past several weeks. To
complete the information
asked for, the JOURNAL
has been designated by the
Toledo Industrial Union
Council as the official pub
licatiOn for CIO in Toledo.
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cific amount is being asked in
the petitions which are being
prepared for filing with the dis
trict Federal Court here, it is
estimated that the amount will
be in excess of S20,000,00O.
Filed on Tuesday this week
was the case of the Auto-Lite
employees. Ready for filing are
additional cases covering en-
ployes of the Packard Motor
Car Co. and E. w. Bliss, while
Willys-Overland, Spicer and
other plants employing thou
sands of workers are in process
OF preparation for filing either
late this week or early next
week.
Haste Is Urged
Haste in preparing and filing
cases has been urged by at
torneys handling the suit be-
cause of the warning which
has come out of Washington
that one of the first orders of
business of the new Congress
which convenes this week will
be to place a statute of limita-
tions upon the law under which
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Press Backs Labor
Criticism Of Report
Of Economic Council

WASHINGTON Dec 81 GPA)-Organzed 1abor's
criticism of the first annual report of the Council of
nomic Advisers nearly meaningless document in
of dealing with expected depression received beated
support last week in the daily press.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
Case Ordered To Deal
With It's Employees

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81 QPA)-The j. l. Case co..
acknowledged of the nations worst antlabor
poyers during the past decadewaS found guilty of viola
ton of Wagner Act last week and ordered bargain
with the United Auto WorkersCO on the closed shop and
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
BIG Shots Make
New Resolutions

New Years resolutions being what they are-sedom
have survival value than such deathleSs employer
statements as Sorry boys; can't give you raise now
under the wage freeze; wait till the is over'
Consequently it should be made clear that the assorted
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03
Labor 'MOnOpOIy''
Charge Is RiddIed

WASHINGTON, Dec 81 (LPA)-One of the most wide
spread of the current anlabor canards-namely that
unions monopoeswas riddled last week by Robert
j. Watt AFL international representative
The monopoly" charge has chiefly from spokes-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-01-03

citizens below have formally
committed themselves to
these New Years promises
only in the sense that Adolph
Hitler is still alive, the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce has
joined the Communist Party,
and General Motors has insti-
tuted the guaranteed annual
wage.
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Haste Is Urged

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chamber Leads Fight

Leading the legislative drive
was the U. S. Chamber of Com.
merce which polled its mem.
bership on several proposed
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