davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
.cIO Can Win
In Iq48 IF

WASHINGTON, September 10
(LPA) - If the CIO mobilizes
its members and friends in city
wards, precincts and blocks for
the 1948 elections it can influ.
ence the replacement of 155 Con-
gressiona lincumbents, Palmer
Weber, national research direc-
tor of the CIO Political Action
Committee, declared here last
week.
Pro-labor Congressman were
defeated in the last elections in
areas where the CIO was
strongest, said Weber. Conse-
quently enactment of the Taft
Hartley law was due in large
part to labor's failure to go to
the polls.
"These facts ought to make it
pain to everyone of us in the
CIO that we cannot live with
this law" said Weber, "We must
fight it at every turn.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
COP Senator
Hits Control
By Old Cuord
WASHINGTON September II

WASHINGTON September 10
-(LPA) - "Inner circle con-
troll of Congress by the Republi-
can "Old Guard" was condemned
last week by a Republican Sena-
tor who warned that the COP
may suffer defeat in the 1948
elections if this domination con-
tinues.
Freshman Senator Raymond
E. Baldwin declared in a maga.
zine article that "If we act in
the interest only of a minority
of rock-ribbed Republicans we
shall again quickly become a mi.
nority party. If we are to re-
main the majority party, we
must act effectively in the in.
terests of the people"
The Old Guard, said Baldwin,
"gravely hindered" the Republi-
can program in the last session.
Far from being certain, a COP
election triumph in 1943 may
hinge on the independent voters
of at least 20 switch states"
including New York Pennsylva-
mia, California, Connecticut,
Illinois, Massachusetts, and Mis-
souri, he said,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
.CIO Councils
To Testify In
Price Probe

WASHINGTON, September 1C
(LPA) - The CIO- has called
upon its local and state indus
trial union councils to organize
consumers testimony in more
than 20 cities where hearings on
current high price levels will be
conducted by subcommittee OF
the Joint Congressional Commit
tee on the Economic Report.
In a letter and two memos
sent from CIO headquarters this
week, local CIO officials were
urged to ask for time to be
heard. Chairman Emil Rieve OF
the CIO Full Employment Com
mittee sent the letter and CIC
Councils Director John Brophy
added his suggestion that the
hearings will provide an "oppor
tunity for drawing the attention
of the community as a whole to
the very serious problem OF
rising prices"
Stanley Ruttenberg, assistant
director of research, sent out a
sample QUESTIONABLE for collect
ing facts on the consumer prob.
lens" of workers, along with
the Rieve letter and the Brophy
memo.
Seven major factors as they
appear in each community will
be stressed in the CIO testi-
mony: the effect of price in
creases on individual savings;
the effect of rising food prices
on families abilities to buy other
consumer goods, such as cloth.
ing, electrical appliances, fur
nishings, etc.; the degree of prof
iteering by local merchants or
manufacturers; the relationship
between wages and prices; a
comparison of retail food prices
while OPA was in operation
with present prices; and recent
increases in rent levels.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12

last month before war broke out
in Europe.
The American Meat Institute,
meeting in Chicago last week,
appeared to be contradicting its
own propaganda about prices.
On almost the same day, the
AMI bought ads in daily papers
predicting more meat is on the
way perhaps 15% more this
fall and winter" and AMI
Chairman John Krey predicted
a drop in meat production be-
cause of the corn crop failures.
The AMI's chairman and the
AMI's ad agree, however, that
it was all the fault of the house,
wife who bought chops and
steaks instead of hamburger and
stew meat that prices and prof
its were at the all-time high.
The first Justice Department
investigation of food prices
starts this week in Chicago,
where a federal grand jury has
been summoned to investigate
price increases in that city, the
commercial center of Americas
food basket"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12

of the scheduled session or
Jan. 2.
The gro in G European
crisis and the pressing need for
more effective aid to stave off
impending economic bankruptcy
in the distressed countries re-
quires the swiftest Congressional
action, according to labor and
government officials.
~ The proposal drew imme-
date fire, however, from Con-
gressional Republicans who con-
tended there was no emergency.
Rep. George Bender (R., Ohio)
contended that Truman is "mov-
ing from one international crisis
to another in order to establish
himself as leader who should
not be abandoned in the midst
of virtual state of war"
Sen. Albert Hawkes. (R. N.J.)
declared that Il know of moth
ing that Congress by being in
session could solve any more
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
Region Strikes
Are DeodIocked

No progress has been made
in the Region 2-B strikes which
have been in progress for the
past three weeks, according tc
an announcement of Walter
Murphy, assistant to Richard
Gosser, UAW director.
Still marking time while
negotiations are deadlocked are
employees of Commercial Metals
Treating Co. Ransom and Ran
dolph and the Hall Mfg. Co. all
Local IL contract plants.
Also d e d i o C k e d was the
three weeks old strike of the
1000 employees of the North
Electric Co. of Gallon and Mt.
Gilead, o., who are seeking rec
ognition and a contract from
the company following a sue
cessful organizing drive by the
UAW-CIO under Edward j.
Duck, International representa-
tive attached to the office of
Richard Gosser.
Confidence in their cause and
help from the UAW-CIO is en-
couraging the striking employees
of the North Electric to main
tain their determination to Sc
cure recognition and a contract
from the company.
No meetings have been re-
ported between the management
and union representatives up to
today.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12

executive board meeting in Buff
faIo this week will be present
for the Cleveland meeting.
Local IA delegates who will
be present include Paul Crunkil-
ton, James Steward, Murrell
Morris, Charles Coe, Roscoe
Rita, Joseph Ditzel and Tom
Russell,
Other delegates will represent
the Glass Workers, Oil Workers,
Die Casters and United Retail,
w h ole sale and Department
store workers.
All sessions of the convention
will be held in the headquarters
of the levela d Industrial
Union Council. The meeting
will continue through Monday.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
.Morkey-UAW
Agreement
Concluded

Negotiations were concluded
and an agreement was regc v
Tuesday, between officers OF
the Markey Bronze Co., Delta,
Ohio, and Walter Murphy and
Harold Kolbe, members of Di-
rector Richard Gosser's Region
2-B, UAW-CIO staff. United
States Commissioner Harry
Gray also attend the meeting.
The United A u t o m o b i e
Workers were declared bargain
ing agents by winning the cleo
ton on June 6.
The contract will be drawn
up and the general membership
will meet to ratify the actions
of the negotiating committee.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
Time for
Plain Talk
By
Tom Burke
Vice-President
Local II,
UAW,CIO

The easiest job in the world
is to criticize the guy who's
doing something. The Grand
Exalted Order of Amalgamated
Sidewalk Superintendents is
the largest lodge on earth.
Their main aim in life is to
criticize the work of other
people while keeping their
own lily whites pure and un-
defiled from the degrading
stain of the toll they criticize.
We have all observed the
workings of a huge mechan-
ical shovel digging an excava-
ton for some large building.
All of us have either in secret
or in loud and Strident tones,
according to our nature, spot
ted every wrong move made
by the engineers and workmen
on the job.
We have all met the guy
who says, Don't buy that
the merchant is trying to gyp
you. Besides, 1 can get it for
you wholesale" Most of us at
one time or another have
taken his advice and wound
up back of the well-known
eight-ball.
This kind of criticism is
criticism without a program.
It is criticism for the sake
of criticism itself. All of us
get a psychological boot out of
it because all of us secretly
enjoy seeing discontinue and
embarrassment in others. The
guy who can point out to us
the errors, real or fancied of
Continued on Page 4
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12

soaring prices.
The Gallup Poll last week
asked: Do you think that
prices in general will be
higher, lower, or about the same
six months from now"
To this question, 41% an
swered "higher" and 500 an
swered "the same" while only
2O% said ''lower" and 80 had
no opinion. This is in sharp
contract to April of this year,
when Congress was still in ses-
sion, and 46% of these polled
predicted lower prices; then,
only 22qo foresaw higher prices.
Retail food prices advanced
1.49o between mid-June and
mid-July, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported last week,
reaching a new peak for the
second successive month. Pre-
liminary figures indicate an
even sharper increase continu-
ing into mid-September. On
July Is, the family food bill
was 16go above a year ago, and
1869 above August, 1889, the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
COP Cab
Rejects
Housing

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10
|GPA)-There was more talk
than action coming from the
special Joint Congressional
Committee on Housing last
week. Major activity was press
conference called by Vice-chair-
man Joe Mccarthy (R., Wis.,
who has taken command of the
committee.
Mccarthy, fresh from a ses-
sion with the American Legion S
Housing Committee in New
York, alternated between state
ments of optimism about his
committees future work, and
repetition of the propaganda
originating in the National Asso-
citation of Real Estate Boards.
The NAREB only two weeks ago
was indicted for monopoly prac-
tices by federal grand jury
here.
"We should resign our jobs
and 90 home" Mccarthy told
reporters, if the joint commit
tee can't solve t h e housing
crisis. He added, I'm sure we
can lick it."
Mccarthy denied that he and
Chairman Ralph Gamble (R.,
N. ", his hand-picked head of
the committee, were either for
or against public housing. Nc
Carthy, however, worked close
ly with the American Legion
Housing mmittee, which
blocked any action at the Le-
gion's national convention on
the Taft -Ellender- Wagner gen.
eral housing bill. This measure
provides for federal funds to aid
local low rent housing develop
ments run by public authorities.
The T-E-W bill is expected to be
virtually scrapped by the joint
committee if it follows Nc
Carthy's lead.
With 100000 to spend, and
a deadline of March Is, 1948 for
its report to Congress, the COM
mittee last week still had not
on staff. 1t had mailed
letters to all members of Con-
gresS asking for suggestions on
how to proceed.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12

promptly than they can be
awaiting eventualities. The
wisest help we can give to the
world is the help that comes
from letting the world know
definitely that each nation must
stand on its own feet and take
care of itself"
AFL Secretary treasurer Geo.
Meany and CIO Secretary
treasurer James Carey, each of
whom is serving on three SUBJ
committees of a special non
partisan citizens committee on
the Marshall plan, will present
labor's viewpoint on America S
ability to produce the goods
needed for European rehahili-
tation. The subcommittee re-
ports will form part of a COM
prehensive analysis to be draft
ed by former Sen. Robert La
Toilette Jr. (Prog., Wis., for
presentation to Truman by Oct.
/.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
.LocaI Ia Pepper
Marks One Year

Local ID, UAW-CIO is cele.
brating the first anniversary OF
its monthly publication, "Union
Progress" this week with a page
one editorial revi e w n 6 the
gains and pitfalls of its first
year.
The Local paper issued each
month contains news and ar
ticles by Paul w. Crunkilton,
Local president, Norman Mel
link and Tom Russell and Tom
Russell and Shop news from
the various units. The paper is
edited by Paul w. Krunkilton,
Norman M Me lin k and John
Track.
Shop reporters include Arthur
Edwards, willard Weber, Chet
K rue eyer, Paul Fredericks,
Thomas McAlpin and Chuck
Coe,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
Strikes Hit
Lowest Mark

WASHINGTON, September IL
Three hundred new strikes
throughout the country in July
represented the smallest number
starting in any month since Feb
bruary, but the number of work
ers involved, 100000, was
greater than for any month this
year with the exception of April,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported last week.
July's 100000 man-days lost
was exceeded only in April and
May during the nationwide tele-
phone strike. A total of 500
strikes, including those continu.
ing from the previous month,
were in effect during July, af.
fecting about $4,000 workers.
Major factors in the July total
were the short strike of $4,000
soft coal miners and the strike
of $4,000 shipyard workers. The
Cancellation Service halted 280
strikes involving 10000 work.
erS.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12

and discussion of the dele
gates will be political action
and the Taft-Hartley Act, ac-
cording to announcements from
state CIO headquarters. With
CIO-PAC chairman Jack Kroll
occupying the chair, it is ex-
pected that strong words will be
directed against the Taft-Hart-
ley measure and those congress
men who voted in favor of it.
Local IL Largest
Largest of the Toledo delega-
tionS will be Local IL UAW-CIO
with approximately 65 repre-
sentatives. Richard Gosser,
UAW-CIO director who has
been attending the UAW-CIO
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12

ers, encouraged by the (Taft-
Hartley law; have provoked
industrial strife"
'Its complete uselessness is
demonstrated by the fact that
employers and unions who de-
sire to continue their sound in
dustrial relationship have found
it necessary to expend time
and energy in common effort
to avoid the disastrous provi-
sions Of the law. In the inter-
ests of peaceful industrial re-
lations and continued full pro-
duction and employment, it
must be clear that the sole
remedy is the repeal of this
thoroughly reactionary legisla-
ton.
Many of the CIO interna-
tional unions" the vice-presi-
dents pointed out, ''have already
determined their policy to be
one of endeavoring to settle
their problems through collec-
tive bargaining, without be-
coming enmeshed in the un-
workable machinery of the act.
This important issue. as well
as other problems created by
the Taft-Hartley Act, will be
the subject of continued discus
sion and consideration at future
meetings of the CIO executive
board at the forthcoming con-
vention."
Present at the meeting were.
President Philip Murray, Sec
retary-treasurer James Carey;
ice-presidents L. S. Buckmaster,
Joseph Curran, Albert Fi+Ts
gerald, John Green, Allan S.
Haywood, Walter P. Reuther,
Frank Rosenblum, and R. j.
Thomas, with George Baldanzi
representing Emil Rieve.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
Go Not To File
Affidavits
To Consider Issue At
Boston Oct. Convention

PITTSBURG, Sept 10 (LPA)-The CIO will not file
antCommunist afdavts required under the TatHartey
law for planning do business with the Natl Labor
Relations Board At least the affidavs will not be filed
until after the CIO convention which opens in Boston on
Oct 13 meeting of the CIO vcepredents decided here
last week.
proxatey 1900 pending CIO In strongly word
ed statement CIO officials charged that Some employ
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
CONVENTION

Next weeks issue of the
UNION JOURNAL will con.
tain a complete report of
the Ohio CI0 Council con.
ventlOn which begins today
in Cleveland. Watch for the
convention stories in next
weeks JOURNAL together
with comment upon the ac-
tiOns which will be taken
there.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
Parade Movies
Here

Movies of the clio Labor
Day parade will be shown
in Toledo movie houses
when he 1947 Union
marChers will appear in
newsreels on the screens
of the Paramount and
LOew's Valentine theaters.
The showings will ap-
pear at the Paramount
theater Sept. II through
Sept. Is. At LOew's Va
Ientine the CIO parade
will be screened Sept.
II thru Sept. IL.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
Special Congress
Session Is Seen
Growing European Crisis
Needed To Stem Emergency

WASHINGTON, Sept 10 GPA)-A special session of
urged by labor and liberal leaders
learned that Secretary of State George Marshall may ask
President Truman to the lawmakers in advance
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
CIO-PAC Elects
z047-48 Heads
Burke Given Endorsement
For City Council Post

The Lucas County CIO Political Action Committee
elected officers for the coming last Monday evening at
general membership meeting held at 425 Winthrop St
The new executive officers Clayton Rusch OF the
Wys Unit of II UAW chairman Frank Molik of the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
TOIedOans Attend
State CIO Meeting
Political Action; TIL Bill
To Occupy Ohio Convention

Toledo will be well represented at the Ohio CIO Coun-
ell convention which opens today in Cleveland. Approx
imatey 80 delegates from the various Local unions will be
present when President Jack Kroll calls the meeting to
order.
Principal points of interest which will occupy the time
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
Food Prices Hit
New High Record
Poll Reveals Public Is
Anticipating Increases

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 HPA)-Food prices are at
an atime high, and still climbing There will be short
age of meat-and high prices-next winter. Great
Britain has stopped all food buying in the IS because of
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
Local ~ Closes
Sand Lake Camp
400 Children Accommodated
During Eight Week Season

Local 12s Sand Lake Mich. summer camp for the boys
and girls of Toledo ended its first last Saturday when
boys returned to Toledo following the last two
weeks camping period.
Despite the late opening of the camp June 29 400
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12
To Open Earlier

Az OHOh A1aAAlO
Director Gosser indicated that
the camp will be opened earlier
next season and that it was the
intention of the union to handle
between 600 and 800 children
1--WE have the facilities and the
staff to accommodate this num-
ber, and it is our intention to
give every youngster possible an
opportunity to participate in the
benefits which the camp can
confer"
Camp Director Molik will
remain at the camp and direct
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-09-12

boys and girls were accom-
modated during the eight
weeks season. Construction
work which was hampered dur
ing the spring and early sum-
mer because of excessive rain
fall was completed sufficiently
to open the camp following its
formal dedication by Richard
Gosser, UAW-CIO director ano
camp founder, June %.
To Continue Work
Construction work will con-
tinue until cold weather accord
ing to Director GoSser who
stated that it was the intention
of the camps board to build ad-
ditional cabins so that much
larger group of boys and girls
could be handled next season.
Since the camp was opened,
additional power lines have
been installed which have en-
abled the camp to become a
model in time and labor saw
ing devices for the kitchen.
Michigan officials have pro-
nounced the camp one of the
finest, if not the finest in the
state of Michigan and are warm
in their praise of the union for
the way in which it has more
than compiled with state regu-
1ations governin 6 sanitation,
camp health and other require
ments.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-01-20

Sew. Min skrb bi morala biti, da
posljejo otroke redno v Solo, kar
pa Sc zal ne dogaja. Komaj ena
tretjina otrok je stalno navzo-
Glib. Eni pridejo vsako drugo
soboto, drugi vsako tretjo. Ina
10 pa p%ripravljene vsakovrstne
izgovore. v enem slucaju je BIZ
la bolezen stare name vzrok
9-letnemu ucencu, da nj mogel
v Solo. Ugotovila sem tudi, da
so deklice 95 odstotkov boil
marljive, poslusne in ubogljive
kot decki.
"Ker nasa sola nina ma raz-
polago odgovarjajocih ucnih
knjig, ie Erazem Gorshe, tajnik
Sole, sestavil in oskrbel ucno
gradivo, kar mi je v veliko po-
moo in tudi otrokom ugaja ia
nacin ucenja, ker vsak dobi pc
en- iztis naloge vsako soboto ma
novo, XII je pc vsebini raznolic-
ma in zanimiva in ia naloga po-
tenn ostane otrokova last. Po-
magazine 81 tudi z DIR. F. J. Ker-
novim berilom, slovenskim abe
cednikom in z mladinskimi re-
vijami il domovine, kjer je fla
sti najti zanimive pesmice, ka-
tere Sc otroci nauce ma pamet
in sc S tenn vadijo v izgovarja-
vi.
"Koncno zelim izreci Mr.. Cor
shetu topic zahvalo "a njegovo
prijaznost, ker mi je S svojimi
z%kusnjami in nasveti vselej do
brohotno ma razpolago."
Josephine Petric".
PoroGilo uciteljice Mrs. J. Pc
.ric je bio med zivahnim aplav-
.om sprejeto.
Ker Sc mi zdi zelo vazno, da
ii Sc v vsakem Slovenskem ma
"odnem domu morale gojiti tudi
3rosveto, cato mai DO javnosti
znano, kako Sc mi ubijamo S te-
nj problemi pri nasem Sloven-
;kem narodnem domu. Treba lie
pomniti to, da Slovenska sola
je povsod najbolj potrebna in je
podlaga vsemu nadaljnemu raz-
voju prosvetnih receh. cato
he morem nikdar dovolj mocno
poudariti, kako ogromne vazno-
sti je "a otroke slovenskih star
Sew, da hi Sc priucili jezika svo-
jih ~starsev, kar DO kdaj vsake-
mu Sc prav prislo. Vsak maj hi
zacel najprvo pri svojem narod-
nostnem jeziku, v nasem sluGa-
jul slovenskem, XII da vsakomur
kljuc V roke do znanja drugih
slovenskih jezikov. Danes sc
ne more vec potiskati v kot Slo-
vane, katerih veja smo tudi mi.
cato lie res zalostno, da v ma
Sem Clevelandu, kjer mas je to-
like SloVencev, obiskuje Slo-
vensko solo SIND samo 40 ucen-
cev in Sc ii neredno. Kaksna
zanikernost je med NAM. Pa Sc
to: Slovenska sola je ucencem
brezplacna, ker drustva in ne
kateri posamezniki darujejo vso-
te "a vzdrzavo iste. Kljub te-
nu slovenski Cleveland zmore
samo 40 ucencev, Xxi so priprav-
ljeni sc uciti slovenscine. Kriv-
la gotovo nj ma otrokih, pac pa
ma starsih. Dokler Sc roditelji ne
bodo brigali "a izobrazbo svo-
jih otrok, DO vsako prizadeva-
ME cd nase strani neuspesno.
LIE S sodelovanjem starsev otrok
Sc DO doseglo uspehe. Ako ne
DO vec otrok V slovensko Solo,
DO tudi konec pevskim zborom,
slovenski dramatiki in nasemu
:asopisju. Narodni domovi bo-
10 ostali samo Sc pivnice, to je
vse. Zdramite Sc, I'll in Ii in vi,
ocsljite svoje otroke v Sloven-
sko solo, ali pa zacnite S svojo
solo v svojem domu.
Erazem Gorshe, tajnik
S. N. Muzeja in SLOW. sole SIND.
7-A-A.ls