Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-04-11
It's News
To Me
By 0. ]. Pecord

Passage ~ the Senate Bill 112 by the Ohio this
week should be lesson in practical politics 10 the workers
of Ohio
When the Senate by vote of % to 10 cut off from
$20,OOOOOO to $3O,O0OO00 from employer conrou
tons the unemployment compensation fund not only
according the wishes of the Ohio Chamber OF Com
and the Manufacturers Association but ounded the
kne any hopes that labor might have had Tor IN
creased unemployment compensation now, or In the mne
dlate future.
call them reactonares and other un
complimentary but the fact is that the trouble lies not
much in the Ohio General Assembly as
1t with the workers who will not get out and vote at
election time
1t is positively tragic the workers who liable to
ayoffs at any time and who reap the benefits of unempoy
compensation when they out of jobs cannot be
made to the importance of voting And yet perhaps is
not so much matter the part of the workers
1t the Of their leadership to really get down to
the job OF education that apparently has not
yet been done awaken the rank and file to It's interests and
its duty to itself.
THE AVERAGE
Nobody can tell me that the average worker isn't
sonaby intelligent guy The fact that he works In factory
his hands overals full of doesn't mean
that he Is unteachable he has failed and he has, is to
the leadership that must look.
There be answer there is an answer to labors
Until we face the problem deal frankly without
excusng ourselves and without using the ab that the work
elections and taking the chin in state and national
legislative bodies
Blaming the Political Action Committee is not the answer
the why the workers consistently fail to vote,
why when they do vote they fall for lot of political maar
key and ignore the efforts of their organizations to elect
pro-lsbor candidates to office.
considered opinion after living close the union
for few years that all of who hold responsible positions
in organizations little bit inclined raonaize
ourselves for failure get
rank and file sadly shake heads after each election
that finds the workers and unions pushed little deeper behind
the 8-bal.
that little self-criticism and research
would only some rather startling facts for
consider, but might possibly provide the clue and
of bringing the rank and file to realization of their
excite in them the desire remedy bad
political situation by the exercise of their franchise.
NDOCTRINATIoN
indocrnaion their employees doing constantly better
job OF it. We in the union while preach and teach the
blessings of organization and collective bargaining have failed
miserably to round out the education of the workers.
Regardless of how point with pride to what we
have done, and do have certain justable
have the whole hog and succeeded the political front
have succeeded the economic front, getting the
workers to aid themselves.
1t Is little difficult to understand why group of work.
should vote unanimously strike for weeks
and months in their fight for justice obesrve
the workers neglect to vote election day. Perhaps
in because for the other failed TO
show them that what they by using their economic
strength be lost when they fail their political
To the workers of being contented
interests to be nothing but deeatism
dtion which must be eliminated from the minds of those
who hold it, We cannot forward politically with negative
thinking We cannot achieve progress merely by
of opposition
and admit that as far
political educational program merely
scratched the surface More than this situa
ton responsibilities the and file find
ways and means of matchmaking them they the
score Time Is feeting. Labor is losing ground