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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13
Cheaper In The Long Run

A Londoner, Edinburgh-bound,
shared the train carriage with an
elderly, glum-looking Scot. At the
first stop his companion rushed from
the carrige, ran down the platform,
then rushed back, painting. After
this happened at three stops, the
Londoner, his curiousity aroused,
asked the reason.
WELL" said the Scot, Il went to
London to see a specialist about my
heart. He says it's very bad, and
if I'm not careful I might drop
dead; so I'm just booking from sta
ton to station"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13
RepriIlland

Riding along in taxi cab on her
first visit to the city, little old
lady noticed that the driver was
sticking his hand out of the window
every time he started to turn a cor
ner. Being a little frightened at
her new experience and all the
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13
Tough All over

Smoky - Professor Markem, !
don't think I deserve an FL in this
subject"
PROFIT agree with you, Franz
son, but that's the lowest mark I'm
allowed to give"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13

clamor of the big city traffic, she be-
came more and more uneasy, until
finally, in a nervous frenzy, she sat
up on the edge of the seat and
shrieked at the driver: young
man, I'll thank you to look to your
driving, and I'll let you know if it
starts to rain.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13
SenseleSS Sal

A gal I know is rather dumb;
She really should know better;
She thinks Jersey cow is one
That always wears sweater.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13

Landlubber: How do they make
those nets you're using?
Fisherman: Easy enough! They
just get handful of holes and then
sew them together.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13
RetOrt Par Excellence

Voter: Why, l wouldn't vote for
you if you were st. Peter himself!
Candidate: If I were st. Peter,
you couldn't vote for me - you
wouldn't be in my district.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13
ExactIY Where He BelOngs

Ink: Where is your brother?
Ink Drop: Oh, he's in pen fin
ishing a sentence.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13
Correct Usage

Teacher: Give me a sentence with
the word "analyze'.
Pupil: Anna claims she was home
last night but analyze.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13
Cause For Worry

''Why is a duck worried?"
Because he always has a bill
staring him in the face"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13

continent without having to change
cars at midcontinent gateways as at
present.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13
Doing Its Rounds

Bill: about that book l lent you
last week
Charles: Sorry, 1 just lent it to
a friend. Did you want it back?"
Bill: mot for myself, but the guy
1 borrowed it from says the owner
is looking for it"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13

Yes, your old tires ore worth money! Bring
them in today and let Wards Tire Non opProise
them. He'll give you q liberal frode-in
allowance on new Riverside Tires! Yes, change
to Riversdes-the tires that won AL OF SOY
recorded oufo races lost year. Remember
outo-roce drivers who can choose any tires,
deliberately buy stock" Riversides, not spe-
cioly built fires, but the very some tires
YOU buy right in Wards Stores. You'll want
Riversides for more miles of greater sotety.
Trade in your old fires on sofer Riversides'
TIRE REcAPPlNG AT WARDS
Your smooth tires ore RECAPPED with honest care
at Words. Thot meons months of extra wear from
your present fires. Let Wards re-cuP them now.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13
Too Great A Loss

Madge: why don't you marry
Freddy"
Marge: ooh, I'm afraid I'd be SO
lonesome without him"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-03-13
Funny Stuff?

Each To His Own Liking
She: "Do you like t'neck?"
Bob: NAV. Me fer de drumstick."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03

SAAAAOAA6s
Director Cyrus S. Ching, in
a general statement of prin-
ciples which will guide the
FM&C, said that the form will
assist the Service "in determin-
ing whether, in a particular case,
it has statutory legal authority
to intercede. :"
Of particular interest to union
leaders was Ching's statement
that the test of whether a dis
pute falls within the interstate
jurisdiction of the service will not
rely on judicial precedents but
rather we shall apply the more
limiting test whether such a
significant interruption of COM
merce is threatened by the dis
pute as clearly to require federal
interceSsion to protect the inter
est of the federal government.
This test does not draw a line
of jurisdiction. It is experiment
tai and empirical. It's success
depenCs upon the exercise of
sound judgment by regional di-
rectors in the field"
This could be, in the opinion
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03

capital replaces the origin n a
Filene funds. With the opening
of the Virginia store, CDC will
sign a management contract and
act as central buyer.
Asked whether CDC would
make available management and
buyers services to unions inter-
ested in establishment of CO.
operative enterprises, OFT re-
piled, eve would welcome the
opportunity" He further eX-
planned he believed that the
labor movement would really
have to tackle the problem of
building cooperatives on bust
ness basis with expert advice"
if unions are to succeed.
OFT announced that six buyers
were touring the n or t h e rn
Virginia area "to determine
what the people want in a de-
partment store" He said they
actually would go into homes to
find out what type of merchan-
disc at what prices and quality
were wanted by consumers in
the area.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03

of labor lawyers, flexible
formula if it is followed. OF
almost equal in terest was
Ching's statement that Gas a
general rule the Service will
refrain from interceding to settle
grievance disputes arising over
the application of an existing
collective bargaining agreement.
AS a matter of Last resort and
in exceptional cases, however,
where it appears that a signi-
ficant and adverse effect on
interstate commerce is threaten
ed, the facilities of this service
will be available in such dis
putes."
At the same time Ching an
nounced three new appoint
ments. Peter Seitz, the new gen
eral counsel was formerly Dis
putes Director of the War Board,
vice-chairman of the Wage
Sterilization Board, and former
ly with the Labor Department,
Office of the Solicitor, and legal
advisor for several years to the
US. Cancellation Service.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03

be the first of a series OF
three "pilot" stores planned
by the Consumer Distribution
Corporation, which was founded
by the late Edward A. Filene,
Boston department store mag
nate.
CDC was endowed by Filene
with over $1,000,000 in an at
tempt to bring together top
management skills and chain
store buying, with local customer
ownership in chain of depart
ment stores.
Lester C. OFT, CDC president,
told a press conference in Wash
ing ton last week that "We can't
guarantee success but we have
all the elements for success. We
won't consider our idea highly
successful unless these stores
spread all over the country"
The Virginia store will cost
$500,000 in initial capital, and
100000 of ownership stock will
be sold to consumers in the
greater Washington area.
CDC plans to reinvest funds in
new communities as fast as local
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Taft's Memory
Fails On Law

SEATTLE, Oct. / (LPA)-
Senator Robert Taft (R.,
Ohio arrived in this union
stronghold last week to give
his "big" labor speech.
The address was a renewed de.
fense of the Taft-Hartley law, but
reporters could find nothing in
it that he had not said before in
speeches, Congressional hearings
and Senate debates. He made no
such blunders as the one in Santa
Cruz where he conceded for one
day that perhaps the closed shop
prohibition could be modified.
Unionists were intrigued by
such comments on the Taft-Hart-
ley law as the following: "Of
course, union leaders do not spe.
city the particular matters to
which they object. If they die,
their arguments could be easily
answered :"
For nearly two months Taft's
own committee and Hartley'S
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Defiance JAW
Given Raises

DEFIANCE, Sept. 80 - EN-
ployes of the Defiance Screw
Machine Co. will receive wage
increases of IL u cents an houl
retroactive to July %, it wa'
announced today by Harolc
Kolbe, International UAW-CIC
representative attached to the
office of Richard Gosser, Toledo
regional director.
In addition to the wage hike
the $50 employees of the com.
pany will be given six paid holi-
days and an improved vacation
plan. Vacations will be based on
length of employment as fol-
lows: l year, 40 hours vacation;
two years, go hours; five years,
80 hours and 10, or more years
100 hours.
Contract negotiations w r e
conducted by the following COM
mittee of Local 638, UAW-CIO:
L. Roselett, Richard Wagner,
Frank Harschelswart, r. Hardy
and M. Hall.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Local 2 Unit
TO Donce For
Summer Camp

Members of the Thermopane
Division of Local 8, Flat Glass
Workers-CIO are sponsoring a
dance to be held at the unions
headquarters, 513 E. Broadway
Saturday, Oct. 4. Proceeds of
the Gance will go into a fund to
defray the expense of sending
union children to Local 12's Sand
Lake Summer Camp, according
to the committee in charge.
Thermopane Division officials
sponsoring the dance have ex-
tended a cordial invitation to all
CIO members to attend the
dance. Tickets which are 81 a
couple include lunch and re-
freShments. Round and square
dances will be added features
of the evening. Dancing will be-
gin at 800 p. m.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Illinois AL
Is Awakened

PEORIA, Ill. Oct. l (LPA) -
Joint political action with other
labor and liberal groups for the
defeat of Taft-Hartley Congress
men and the election of pro-
gressives was asked here last
week by the 65th annual con-
vention of the Illinois AFL.
The convention by-passed re-
solutions specifically naming the
CIO and railroad brotherhoods
and adopted the generalized pro-
posal which also asked for a
conference of all AFL union
presidents to set a program for
the political campaign.
Creation of what will virtu-
ally be an AFL political action
committee consisting of three
of the state executive
board and one member from
each of the 26 Congressional dis
tricts was voted by the conven-
ton.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03

authority to reduce prices and
reinstitute rationing as it deems
necessary, and to break produc-
tion bottleneckS; reinstitution of
the excess profits tax.
League of WOmen's Voters:
Called for a special session of
Congress to provide emergency
funds for Europe and to set up
machinery to combat initiation;
extension of export-import con-
trolls and consumer credit limi-
tations; establishment of con-
trolls to divert grain from live
stock to human consumption.
American Veterans Commit.
tee: Advocated restoration of the
powers contained in the Second
War Powers Act, which AVG
maintains will give the admin
stration the power to increase
supplies of scarce resources, to
limit the production of non-es-
sentials, and to distribute scarce
materials such as steel and grain
in such a way as to ease the in
flationary pressure.
Progressive Citizens of Amer
ica: Urged a special session of
Congress, rigid limitation of
profits, rationing of scarce COM
protection of the small
farmer by subsidies and vigorous
prosecution of food SPECTATORS.
National Farmers Union: Re-
turn to rationing and price con-
trolls
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Beginners Bend
Will Organize

A meeting of boys and girl!
who are interested in joining
the Local IL junior band will be
held at this Locals Headquarters
Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p. m, il
was announced today by GARNER
E. Broderick, band director.
The formation of the band
which was announced several
weeks ago will be for the pur-
pose of instructing boys and
girls in all types of band instru-
ments as well as class instruc-
tion, according to Mr.. Broderick.
Parents who are interested in
starting their children on any
band instrument are urged to
attend Tuesdays meeting.
Mr.. Broderick has had wide
experience in band instructing
and formerly directed the Local
IL band.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03

Meeting here this week,
the consumer advisers told
the Council that "We are un-
animous in the belief that Anne
rican obligations for the relief
and reconstruction of Europe
must be met. Cutting down, or
failing to expand, needed ship
mentS abroad must not be used
to solve the problems of Ameri-
can consumers at home"
Positive government con-
trolls" were termed necessary,
involving authority beyond
that which now exists"
Contradicting the views of
many Administration spokesmen
anG members of Congress, the
consumer spokesmen placed little
faith in the effectiveness of
voluntary consumer action"
which they said "can be effec-
tive as supplement to such con-
trolls, but not as a substitute for
them"
Others List Programs
Besides the action addressed
to the White House, national
organizations in several fields
last week drew up programs to
combat high prices, including:
Americans for Democratic
Action: Adopted a seven-point
program which calls for enact
ment of legislation to make the
Marshall Plan reality; setting
up of an Economic Adjustment
Administration with full legal
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Wage Cuts
Boom eranQ

ATLANTA (LPA)-The com
bination of a threatened wage
cut and a union decertification
move under the Taft-Hartley
law boomeranged on the A. D.
Juillard Co., which operates
three textile plants in Georgia
Early in September, c. A.
Townes, agent of the company
whose three mills are in Aragon,
Rome and Dalton, Ga, proposed
to the Textile Workers Union
CIO that the contract be reopen
ed in order to slash pay rates
from 80c to 75c hourly at the
three gray goods mills and a
flat sc cut in all other rates. Al
most at the same time a phony
move was initiated to decertify
the TWU as bargaining agent.
The union promptly denounc-
ed the slash and the decertifica-
ton. AS a result, TWU's organiz-
ing drive, which had temporar-
lily stalled, sprang to life. Mem
bership jumped by more than
one-third and TWU achieved an
overwhelming majority in all
three plants. Consequently, Juil-
lard is reported ready now to
talk turkey"
A general wage increase of
15c an hour to correct unjust
north-south differentials was de-
manded for 125,000 TWU mem
bers in eight southern states by
a meeting of 800 delegates here
last week. TWU Vice-president
George Baldanzi declared that a
recent sc northern hike had
brought the differential to 15c.
With a $50 increase in 1947
textile mill profits over last
years net, the industry is now
a 78c profit on each
Work-hour as compared with
59c last year, he said. Northern
textile minimums are S1.O7
hourly and southern 94c.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
To Name Burke
Council Group

Plans have been completed
for the campaign of Tom Burke
for reelection to City Council
it was announced today by
Glenn Holewinski, temporary
chairman of the Burke fol-
Council committee.
Arrangements for Mr.. Burke
to speak before large group of
Local IL and other CIO Units
will enable the CIO candidate
to discuss his record as a mem
Der of City Council and to out
line his program for the next
term, according to Mr.. Hole
Winski.
Mr.. Burke's full committee
will be announced next week.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
PAC Vote
Drive Is
Continued

PAC's registration and vote
drive was continued here this
week with all workers being
urged to go to the Board OF
Elections or to one of the con-
veniently located neighborhooo
registration places to become
eligible to vote in the Nov. 4
election.
Some increase in the registra-
ton figures were announced by
Clayton Rusch, PAC chairman
who is heading the effort to
secure large registration. I'VE
are beginning to click now, but
there are still thousands OF ClO
workers who have not qualified
to vote in next months cleo
tion," he said.
Tom Burke, council incum-
bent seeking reelection has
been given the endorsement OF
the Toledo Industrial Union
Council of which he is executive
secretary. His candidacy is ex-
pected to aid in getting out a
representative CIO vote al
though the registration figure is
lower now than two years ago.
List Registration Places
A list of the registration plac-
es in Toledo and Lucas County
have been listed and were dis
tributed to CIO shops by PAC
workers last week. Following
are the registration offices which
opened yesterday:
Jermain Library ... Galena & Superior
w. Toledo Library 1920 Sylvania
S. Side Library. Broadway & Langdon
Locke Library Greenwood g. S. Main
Lagrange Central Library I'LL East
Central
No. Engine House. .,......... Indiana g.
Division
ADAMS TWP.
Community House Heather Downs
Adams Township Hall Reynolds Rd.
& Dorr
WASHINGTON TWP.
Douglas & Monroe SITS.
Trilby Fire House
Dixie Highway & California Blvd.
OREGON TWP.
General registration will be held in
Oregon Township. Oct. 2. between the
hours of 1000 a. m. and 200 p. m.
and from 400 p. m. to 900 p. m. in
every precinct in the township.
Registrations will continue to-
day and tomorrow. All offices
will be opened between the
hours of 1000 a. m. and 200
p. m. and from 400 to 900 p.
m. Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 4,
will clude e registrations,
Those who fail to register will
be unable to vote in the Novem-
Der election.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03

various shops; resolutions 10
be presented before the con-
vention; proposed additions
to and changes in the UAW-CIO
constitution and consideration of
officers who will be elected next
month.
Despite the interest in the
politics inherent in the annual
election, delegates are mostly
concerned in securing hotel ac-
comodations convenient to the
Atlantic City convention hall.
AS in past years, despite the
large number of hotels in
Atlantic City, a lot of delegates
will find it difficult, if not al
most impossible to secure rooms
in the Chelsea Hotel, convention
headquarters, unless as one of
them put it, "they know a guy,
or a guy VINO knows a guy"
Local Ia NOmlnateS
Most recent nominations for
delegates to the 1947 convention
were those held by Local IA at
their headquarters last Sunday
afternoon. Local ID will be al
lowed 8 delegates with % votes.
Also nominating their dele
gates last week was Dura Local
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Toledo Strikes
Are Unbalanced

No progress in the strikes o1
employees of the Commercial
Metals Co., Hall Mfg. Co., ano
Ransom and Randolph was re-
ported by Local IL officials this
week. All work stoppages have
been in progress for six weeks
Union officials stated that no
meetings had been scheduled
with any of the plant manage
mentS involved in the stoppages
with the possible exception OF
Ransom and Randolph in which
the union indicated that it would
agree to mediation by the LMC
if the corporation was in agree
ment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Prices Up 1890

WASHINGTON (LPA) -
Prices are leveling off at a point
about % per cent above year
ago, the Bureau of Labor Stats
tics reported last week, as whole
sale prices hit a peak only 5 per
cent below the all-time peak of
May 1920, showing a rise for the
18th consecutive week.
The expected drop in meat
prices - though it will bring
cheers from housewives-is ex-
pected to be only temporary as
cattle are sent to the market be.
fore winter forces farmers to feed
them grain.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Montgomery Ward
Strikers Denied Claim

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (LPA)-
Ruling that labor dispute
caused the work stoppage at
Montgomery Ward in 1914, the
Illinois Supreme Court last week
affirmed the state labor depart
ment directors refusal to grant
unemployment compensation to
the $500 Ward workers who
struck at that time because the
company would not obey an
NLRB order. The Cook County
Circuit Court had originally de-
cided in favor of the union, the
Retail, Wholesale and Depart
ment Store Employees (CIO).
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03

n a o nal Brotherhood OF
Teamsters-AFL for alleged
secondary boycott, and in
Baltimore against the Interna-
tional Typographical Union-AFL
for alleged refusal to bargain in
good faith.
A trial examiners hearing on
the Baltimore case was set for
Oct. 6. In Chattanooga, the Car
penters were given until Sept. 30
to show cause why an injunction
should not be issued restraining
the union from prohibiting its
members working with nom
union workers on a floor and
wall covering job.
Meanwhile concrete evidence
developed that the efforts of
Denham, anti-labor Congress
man and big business spokesman
to stampede labor into subject
ing itself to the Taft-Hartley law
had proved a complete flop.
Of the nations nearly 10000
international and local unions,
exactly 1112 had filed the fl
nancial and organizational re-
ports required under the Taft
Hartley law by the end of the
laws first month of operation.
The remaining unions are auto
barred from use of the
NLRB services and facilities
until or unless they do file.
Await Union Action
NLRB officials indicated that
there would be no announce
ment for three or four weeks on
the number of unions that have
filed the Communist affida-
Wits but there was good reason
to believe that the total here
would also be a tiny percentage
especially after the refusal of
the AFL executive council and
CIO executive council board to
comply.
Behind this wholesale boy
colt of the Board was growing
battle over Denham's stubborn
insistence that the law requires
the top AFL and CIO officials
to sign the affidavits before af-
filiated unions can acquire any
status before the NLRB. It was
known that the Board itself was
divided over the Denham inter-
oretation with a distinct possi-
oility seen that it might be over
'uled.
Aiken Hits Law
Senator George Aiken (R.,
Vt.) who voted for the law and
also to override the Presidents
veto, characterized the Denham
lotion as SILLY" and presi-
iential hopeful, Harold Stassen.
addressing the M ssa chusetts
md New H hire Press
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Farm Union Hits InfIofion

DENVER (LPA)-Inflation is
roaring like a prairie fire thru
out America" and threatens to
burn up the world" said Presi-
dent James G. Patton, speaking
at the closing meeting of the ma.
tional board of the Farmrs' Edu.
cation and Cooperative Union
last week. The board unani.
mously urged the adoption of
governmental measures that may
bring the Imitation fire" under
control.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
LAST CHANCE

Tomorrow will be the
last chance you will have to
register before the NOvem-
ber 4 election. Remember
that we can only make pro-
gresS as individuals and as
a union if we fight on the
political as well as the eco
nOmic front. See this page
for the registration office
nearest your home, then
walk, ride or run there as
quickly as you can and re-
giSter. PREPARE NOW TO
VOTE IN NOVEMBER.