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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-12-10
National
Supply Unit News
By Deak & Dock

sOIIc <O Oh MS DeSL years,
pusher Frank Jones, Dept. 43,
was told to get out of the shop
and stay out. This probably will
break his heart because Frank
thought he had earned some
thing more than that, and was
told to him by none other than
Slicker Sullivan, not a bad idea
slicker, why don't you try it to?
There's a rumor that in the
midst of a big argument, Slicker
Sullivan told Red Harmon that
ne put him on the job and could
remove him. Then why did
Louie Ringman have to come in
the plant the other night and do
this dirty job?
Clarence Fisher of Dept. 81,
made a bet on the election, but
ne would not pay off until the
official count was recorded.
Ted Steeles little girl came
home from the hospital Sat-
urday, Nov. 81. She Is recov-
ering from Polio, best of luck
to the young lady.
Something noteworthy in the
N. 5. Bowling League, up to
Nov. rs, they have six teams
tied for first place and only six
games separate the rest of the
leagues 10 teams. Also the mis-
fits (R. Cannon, c. Robinson, c.
Wrayton, H. Loren) hold the
three game high for the season.
Now that Red Harmon is no
longer with the N. S. Co. we
wonder if the misfit of the mis-
fits will now fit.
George Pund and Homer
Harris were elected delegates
to the state convention Jan.
l3, to be held i'm Cleveand.
We have a sweeper in Dept.
A, that would like to start a
glue factory, if anybody has any
horse hoofs contact Lester
Smell, second shift.
Juice from the grape vine is
that John Zitzlerburger took
some of the fellows to the foot.
ball game at Columbus in his
new Hudson, the fares should
Just about make a payment, Ay!
John.
Did you ever read the book
(The Courtship Love And Mar
riage Of The Angleworn) by
G.I.'s some vacation Zir1mer.
man.
Jim Davis second trick oiler
is recovering in Riverside
Hospital, hurry back Jim.
Shorty is getting tired of
working nights.
Larry docking the barn
after the horse is stolen) Bur-
goon, told the Warner & Swasey
operators, Dept. 50, that he
would give them tools to work
with after they finished the Job
they're doing.
Who's the guy in Dept. 1913,
affectionately called "Porky''
who wears his overalls for three
weeks and even then they are
not dirty. How does he do it?
Mystery in the foundry, who's
the guy who went wild turkey
hunting? Or who lost the duck?
The boys in Dept. So, nights
wonder where Eddie Merickle
hides when they want him.
We wonder If he thinks Of
some of the nasty things he's
done in his life and feels so
small and hides in a tool joint.
We wonder if Quincy Hagley
day grinder in Dept. So, thinks
he is going to get a better Job
by trying to boost production or
is he afraid of Mac (the whip)
Harmon Lee recently gave
Mlllard Farber big red apple
to give to Eddie Merickle. Har-
mon said, "he would like to get
back on the good side of Eddie
again."
The second shift sweeper in
Dept. A, is offering a reward
for the name of the person who
brought that horse hoof in the
shop.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-12-10
Ragging the
Scale

ONCE more the annual feather
" party went over with a bang
and we do not mean the bang
made by one of our members
falling down the steps, although
it is rumored he made quite a
racket.
Our thanks to George Knight
and Frank Johnson for the swell
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-12-10
SDarkletS-Champion Unit

NTE have heard that Clifford Kell Eng. Insp. 1st shift
w is catover. He gets up at loo m. to feed his
latest brood Cliff did not give their but it is nice
hear that he is thoughtful and kind dumb animals
Speaking about animals did hear about Dale Irwin.
The union times., 1948-07-24
Examiner Says All Construction Comes Under Act
Denham Agrees, But Labor Management Board Has
 Yet To Rule

Building trades unionists throughout the country this week are studying the deci- sion of an NLRB trial exam iner which holds that most construction work in the U. s. is covered by the Taft-HartIey law. The decision is not a sur prise in view of the repeated statements of NLRB General Counsel Robert N. Denham.
 The case on which NLRB trial examiner Earl s. Bellman ruled involves the labor policy of a Denver, Colo, electrical con- tractor who purchases only about 55,OOO worth of material a year ln interstate commerce.
 IGNORES U. S. COURT
 Defendants in the case were the Denver Building & Construction Trades Council-AFL, and the Den yer locals of the Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, and the United Assn of Journeymen Plumbers.
 These labor organizations initiated boycott against the Gould & Preis- ner Co. which buys $55,OOO worth of goods from outside the state, but itself works on a purely intra-state basis.
 The NLRB official found them guilty of violating the Hartley secondary boycott ban despite ruling Tn the same case by Federal Judge J. Foster Symes, who refused to issue an injunction because of the intra- state character of the dispute.
 ONE CARPENTER
 The carpenters union was cited in Bellman's decision, although only one member of that union was involved in the. dispute.
 Bellman conceded that only about $500 worth of out-Of-state goods were used in the particular nOn-uniOn electrical work on the building projects out of which the ease arose. But, he said, neither the immediate or the ultimate effect upon commerce of unfair labor practices can be measured in terms of the above figures"
 The trial examiner aligned himself with the unlimited NLRB jurisdiction theories of General Counsel Denham. Board Chairman Paul Herzog has ex- pressed his disagreement with Den hams belief that the board must con- slider every case which appears to come under Taft-Hartley. He wishes to limit board action to cases which sub stantially and directly affect interstate commerce.
 Pending before the five-man board now is the Chattanooga car penters' case, involving many of the questions raised by Bellman's anti-labOr decision. When the NLRB hands down its ruling in the Chatta- nOOga dispute the precedent for the final ruling on the Denver case will be set and the Taft-Hartley laws application to all construction workers defined.
The union times., 1948-07-24
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

George Ritter, director of Conn, Council l6, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Elm. plOyees, doing an outstanding joh in this state. Not only will city and state workers benefit-the public will benefit in increased services. because man works best when he has job security, is paid decent wages, and has good working condi. tiOns. Some mayors and governors have yet to learn this basic truth.
 An interesting story in the DalIas (Tex.) Morning Ne,Us:
 'sThere were at least Ia more Americans in the world Thursday night than there had been during the morning.
 ''One elderly gentleman did the job.'
 One of the most remarkable in. dictments of the Taft-Hartley Act has come from an unexpected source-the ''Wall Street Journal.''
 That paper, a s'Bible' of Big Business, pointed out that one major industrial dispute after an other-on the railroads, in the coal mines, and in the maritime indus
The union times., 1948-07-24
.UMWAsksDeWey To Repudiate
 .Taft-Hartley

COP presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey was called upon by the United Mine Workers this week to come out for repeal of the Taft Hart ley Act.
 An editorial in the Mine Workers Journal claimed that the COP plat form plank On the labor issue ''con- tains enough elasticity for Dewey to roll his own.'''
 We believe that the opportunity exists for Governor Dewey to come out forthright1y for repeal of the NAM-Ta Taft-Hartley Act," the Journal declared. That of necessity means tha t the Wagner Act (which the NAM-Taft-Hartley Act amends) would go by the boards"
 ''We believe that the country would welcome such a fortnight proposal. We believe that it affords the biggest contribution that Dewey can offer the people of the nation to restore democracy and free col lective bargaining and promote peaceful labor relations.
 "We believe that 1t would be a ten strike in eliminating the most cancer ous bureaucracy that is threatening the principles of democracy, wasting the peoples money, hampering production and promoting industrial warfare"
 The same editorial sharply criti- cized President Truman for his sponsorship of labor draft law in the l046 railroad strike and claim ed that Truman, while vetOing the Taft-Hartley Act, ''quit cOld'' on ef- forts to have Congress sustain his veto.
 The editorial winds up by declaring that neither party blanks nor the indi- vidual viewpoints of Truman and Dewey on the Taft-Hartley Act, should be given too much importance.
 ''The power to repeal the act rests in Congress, the editorial concluded ''AnG unless labor can participate in the election of suffi- cient number of senators and con- gressmen pledged to repeal the un- American NAM-Taft-HartIey puni- tive anti-labor law, there is little hope of locating a political Santa Claus to do the job."
The union times., 1948-07-24

try-has been snagged either by court injunctiOns, or by prosecution on the part of the National Labor Relations Board.
 ''Nothing is clear" the paper said, ''except that collective bar gaining has given way to collective litigation. The main business at the moment is disentangling collective bargaining from the Taft-Hartley law"
 You can adapt this one to suit yourself: A drill press operator, noticing a foreman going around scratching his elbow, asked the guy at the next press what was wrong with the straw boss. The guy said: ''Oh, he's got an earache, and he's scratching his elbow because he doesn't know his ear from it.
 Away back in l946 a little man was reelected governor of New York for a 4-year term. And the little man said he would serve the entire term and did not aspire to higher office. There are several million Americans who want to help him keep that promise.
The union times., 1948-07-24
Matthew Woll Sees Congress As Reactionary

Washington (LPA) = The re- turning Both Congress was greeted last week with ringing denuncia- ton from Matthew Woll, vice-presi- dent of the AFL-a man often thought of as one of the most con- servative of the leaders of organ ized labor.
 "This unpardonable Congress has laShed out at the workers of the coun- try i'll more ways than one," Woll said. The adamant refusal and parliament tary trickery employed to block ade- quate housing legislation are no less shameful and contemptuous of the peo- ple's basic interests and needs than is the Taft Hartley act.'
 Woll, who has been active in the AFL's world-widc campaign for labor freedom, pointed out that even Con- gress' approval of the European re- covery program was given "grudging- ly." Its willingness to be "stampeded by reactionary industrialists has made our country an easy target of criticism for the demagogues of totalitarian Communism" the veteran president of the Photo-Engravers Union charged.
 ''All of which means" WOll con- cluded, ''that the voters-particu- larly the many millions in the ranks of organized labor, in the ranks of those who work for live ihood, will have to use their secret ha lIOf more carefully and constr,,c lively than ever before.
 Any Congressman or Senator who voted for the Taft-Hartley act is un- worthy of labor's confidence and is incapable of serving the nation accord ing to the high standards demanded by our times. Only those pledged to the repeal of this anti-democratic 1egisla- tion are worthy of labor's vote."
The union times., 1948-07-24
De1ns' Platform
 Pleases Labor
But Officials Reserve Comments On Endorsements Southern Delegates Also Opposed Plank Calling
 For Repeal Of Taft Hartley Law

In contrast to the Republi. cans, the Democratic election platform written in Philadel. phia last week calls for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Though getting rid of T-H has been labOr's number one DO. litical aim since the law was passed last June, labor did not greet the wording of the plank with unreserved enthusiasm and neither the AFL nor CIO rushed right out to officially endorse the Democratic Party and the Truman Barkley ticket.
 DIRECT TALK
 This was not taken as any indi- cation that they were ignoring President Truman's comment in his acceptance speech that ''labor never had but one friend in poli- ties and that was the Democratic Party and Franklin D. Roosevelt. j. They are the most ungratefuI people in the world if they pass the Democratic Party by this year.''
 Though neither of these two labor groups have come through with anything officially yet, it is expect ed that AFL President William Green will personally back Truman and the ClO will take some kind of stand at its next executive board meeting. Joseph Keenan, director of LabOr's League for Political Education said that in Washington Truman's case is supported by the fact that Gin l6 years organized la- Dor has enjoyed its greatest devel- opment in this country, with total membership rising from two to l5,OOO,OOO.
 A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, came out for Truman before the con- vention. The only labor leader to ad- dress the convention, he called for re- peal of the Taft-Hartley law, asking the delegates to "take immediate steps to remove that crown of thorns placed upon the head of labor by the Repub- lican party"
 The day before, he said that he wanted not only I'll repeal but reinstatement of the Wagner Act" something that is not Specifically call ed for in the platform as it was passed.
 DIXIE AGAIN
 Southern delegates were bitterly op- posed to the Taft-Hartley section as adopted. The much-discussed policy
The union times., 1948-07-24
Firm Lists Dead Men For NLRB

WEST COLUMBIA, s. C-(FP) If the Columbia Mills had its way even the dead would have voted in an NLRB union security election
 The Textile Workers Union dis covered this when the company pre- Sented a list of 1,310 eligibles for the election. The figure was 210 more than that submitted by the union After careful scrutiny, the names of dead men, workers who had been fired and others in hospitals were found on the company roster.
 Reason for the company's padding even with corpses-was that the Taft Hartley machinery provides that per son not voting in union security election is recorded as voting No. But even counting those, the company chalked up only 16 votes to 915 for the TWUA.
The union times., 1948-07-24

WILL CONTINUE
 Flour, lard, cheese, sugar, cocoa and egg price rises were reported. Retail trade experts predicted that groceries and canned goods will continue to rise, keeping pace with zOOming wholesale costs or outdis- tancing them.
 Food canning company spokesmen echoed the warning of retailers, blam- ing expected higher costs of raw vege- tables and fruits for the rise.
 A spot check of meat prices in 10 cities showed increases on all cuts the last two weeks. From spare ribs to T-bOne steaks the story was the same. Housewives just had to pay more money -i if they could afford to buy. In Miami lamb chops were selling at $l.5O a pound. In Kansas City butchers were wrap ping them up at $l.39. Two weeks ago the average price was $l.Ol.
 ALL AGREE
 Even the understandable Ma tonial Industrial Conference Board admitted consumer prices were at a record high, releasing a June index
The union times., 1948-07-24
Building Trades Again Hit By T-H Law
Teachers Union Plans Fight For
 Aid To Schools

ClenwOOd Springs, Colo. (LPA) A four-pOint program to provide sOrely needed federal aid to the teachers and school systems of the nation will be prepared for intro- duction in the 8lst Congress by the American Federation of Teachers AFL. The decision was made at the Slst annual convention of the AFL here last week.
 Delegates acted after hearing a re- port from Selma Borchardt, AFL vice-president and legislative repre- sentative in Washington. She had pro- posed that the AFT, along with the whole AFL, prepare bill to include Federal aid for salaries of public school teachers to be administered by the public educational authorities of the state. 2-Federal aid for all chi1- dren five to 17 years of age, to be administered by such public agency as would be permitted under state law to administer such a program for all chil- dren. 3-Federal aid for scholarships to enable needy children and youths to remain in school, the payments to be made directly to the needy child and youth by a properly designated public agency. 4HFederal aid to wipe out llliteracy i'll this country.
 The program goes far beyond any, thing which received serious consid- eration at the last session of Congress.
 A new president of the teachers union, John M. Eklund, was chosen to replace Joseph F. Landis of Cleveland. Eklund, who previously was national vice-president of AFT, is a teacher at the Opportun- ity School in Denver.
The union times., 1948-07-24
Actors Union Wins IncreaseOf $15

New York (LPA--Altho both par ties were coy about revealing exact terms of their contract, it appeared last week that Actors Equity Ass'n-AFL has won real victory in its negotia- tions with the League of New York Theaters. A pay increase of SIS a week for actors and musical show per formers highlights the agreement.
 Base salaries for actors while work ing in the metropolis will rise from $o0 to $75 week When show is on the road the base pay will be $8O. During rehearsals performers will get $40 under the new contract.
 Arbitration of disputes will be han died thru an impartial panel, it is re- ported. Producers were dissatisfied with Equity's stand for continuance of an actor councils jurisdiction over grievance cases. Artists working in a show retain, however, the right to first consider the complaints of their col leagues
 Chorus girls are assured the same base pay as actors.
The union times., 1948-07-24
Grizley Ridley
 A Big Bad Wolf?

Washington (LPA) = A new at tempt to intimidate unions-this time by implying that union funds are in jeopardy if unions take political action was made last week by Rep Ross Ridley (R., Okla.).
 Ridley, chairman of the House Com mittee on Campaign Expenditures, has sent to international unions a question: naire about their prediction activity. It cites Section BOA of the Taft-Hart- ley law, the section which forbids un- ions to spend funds in political cam paigns. Detailed questions are asked as to where political funds of the union are located, and how they are dis burSed.
The union times., 1948-07-24

figure of 1644, compared with 100 in January 1889.
 Recognizing the difficulty of buying meat on the average budget, the New York city market department recom- mended that housewives boycott meat and substitute fish, Immediately after this announcement, fish prices went up.
 In June 1947, according to U. S. government economists, the minimum weekly budget to maintain family of tour in New York was $64. A recent AFL survey shows most workers who need much more money today receive weekly wages far below that. Hotel laundry, tobacco, cleaning and dyelng industry workers average $40. Leather workers make $42.50. In the metal trades the average is $56.94.
 The New York City Welfare Dept. estimates that at least $2O weekly is needed for food.
 With rent and other items rising, the only conclusion is that workers are being forced to abide by Sen. Robert A. Taft's advice of last spring-tO eat less.
The union times., 1948-07-24
GEL. Convention
 ToOpen Sept. 21st

BRIDGEPORT. = Following change in the constitution at last years Stamford Convention, the open ing day of the forthcoming annual meet of the Connecticut Federation of Labor will be changed from Labor Day to the third Tuesday in Septem- Der.
 According to a report by the Fed eration'S Executive Council at its quarterly conference, the convention will be held at the Hotel Stratheld Tuesday to Friday, September 21-24.
The union times., 1948-07-24
Welcome Home, Joe!

The best news in years for Connecticut labor is that Joe Tone is coming back to Connec- ticut. The executive board of the International Association of Ma chinists has appointed Joe Grand Lodge Representative for this state, which means that things will begin to hum. As one of the leading industrial states in the Union, Joe will have broad field of endeavor in Con- necticut. His assignment here means, we hope, that he will have some time for public speak ing. As one of the best orators in public life, Tone is in constant demand. We missed you, Joe, and we're delighted that you're back.
The union times., 1948-07-24

reads: "We advocate the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. It was enacted by the Republican 80th Congress over the Presidents veto. That act was pro- posed with the promise that it would secure the legitimate rights of both employees and employers in their rela- tions affecting commerce. It has failed.
 The number of bor-management disputes has increased. The number of cases before the Natl Labor Relations Board has more than doubled since the act was passed, and efficient prompt administration is becoming more and more difficult. It has encouraged litiga- ton in labor disputes and undermined the established American policy of col lective bargaining
 Recent decisions by the courts prove that the act was so poorly drawn that its application is uncer- tain, and that it is probably, in some instances, unconstitutional. We advocate such legislation as is desirable. to establish a just body of rules to assure free and effective collective bargaining and to deter mine, in the public interest, the rights of employees and employers, to reduce to a minimum their con- fiict of interest, and to enable un- ions to keep their membership free from Communistic influ- ences."
 .Vice-presidential candidate Sen. AL ben w. Barkley has gone a step fur ther i'll his keynote speech when he re- ferred to the Wagner Act as '1abor's Magma Carta."