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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-05-28

all that fully exercised
is like muscle used for of time; withers
and dies
Democracy has many enemies the extreme right
and the extreme left No matter from which side they
their detectives the also their methods They
aim to right of free choice leadership
appropriate to themselves complete lives
absolute rule every activity
freedom for of security that false their
doctrines
The enemies of democracy hold to an arfully
painted picture utopan security that
plshed Once they in power the security
lost and the greatest security possess freedom
thought word worship and action gone Strange may
they find suckers among by playing upon
panderng fears and preudes The biggest suckers all
those who become petty leaders groups
hope that when their end accomplished they will become
gaueters fuehrers commars These doomed to the
greatest disappointment of all they the
feared by those they have brought to power and therefore the
first to be marked for liquidation
As long democracy has these enemies must do
thing that they do attain their detectives
Any device by which the people of
America that interests by retaining
democracy we must use to its fullest extent.
We in the Labor movement must be especially guard to
preserve our democratic rights Here our movement come
the first attacks from both sides We have always been the
first battle-ground because the labor is always the
bulwark of democracy. Toataran where
there is a working people living in liberty.
We free labor movement, have been and
tnuously both sides The Taftartey
good example of the attack from the right This nearious
piece of hatelled legislation denies of the basic
majority eligible other words
the basic right to vote not to vote the individual fit
Democracy mean compuon in its exercise. Our
enemies from the right would completely wipe out entire
movement
Our from the left would do the same thing by
their policy of rule They roping people
who true liberals issues which the eftes only for
what they exploit out of them like beavers
to tear down the leadership of the Union the leadership does
not knucle down to them The people join the leftist
parties the Communists Trotskyes themselves the
best example of what expect they
Their members cannot exercise free thought action because
the party discipline the most strict world today
the most rigidy enforced.
To all the enemies of democracy strong and vigorous
do and anything say promote the
democracy should extend all effort do symbol of
freedom flying proudly the Americans
they marching to the polls excellent of demon
sratng ourselves and to all the grateful
for blessings of freedom.
Reverend Webb has done us, our city and our nation
great service in making his suggestion
Toledo opportunity to lead the in making good
practical demonstration of appreciation rights
privileges enjoy citizens of this great United States
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-05-28
Editors Mail
Why Not Here7
Latter 10 The Editor:

Letter To The Editor:
Detroit's City Council has
approved expenditure of a
fund amounting to 81 1850, 900
to be used for emergency well
fare work for the Chrysler
strikers and those indirectly
affected by the strike.
Here in Toledo there were
$500 men and women laid off
at the Auto-Lite, and who
knows how m ~ m or e in
other plants? They were af-
fected, of course, by the
Chrysler situation.
Why does not Toledo, with
its payroll tax taken largely
from the working people, pro-
vide such a welfare fund?
This is just one example of
the necessity for political
action by the membership or
organized labor, but it should
serve as an illustration for
those who think-or used to
think-t h a a union had no
business in politics.
Edward j. Duck, Asst. Director
Natl. Auto-Lite Dept
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-05-28

There's no greater believer in America in
that old bromide save your pennies and the
dollars will take care of themselves" than
Walter S. Clifford. Clifford is president of
American Telephone g. Telegraph, the nations
largest monopoly, whose subsidiary companies
have fatty refused to make a decent wage
offer to their 3400 900 striking employees.
When Clifford refused even to discuss
Sl2 weekly pay increase demanded by Illinois
Bell Telephone Co. workers the strikers cut
the demand to Sc Still Clifford refused TO let
AT&T bargain on that figure Then the
strikers decided to put Clifford on the spot:
they offered to return to work for single
penny-an-hour raise with any additional boost
to be arbitrated. To their amazement Clifford
even turned this down.
That afternoon, in derision. the pickets
threw pennies into the entranceway of the
companys main office. Some of the nennies
were picked up by an AT&T official who was
carrying an afternoon paper under his arm
To the surprise of the pickets he started hand
Ing the pennies back to them whats that
for?" the pickets asked. The ART big shot
unfolded the afternoon paper to a story re-
porting that Walter S. Gfford's salary last
year was $209,650 or S100 day or more
than Sl2 an hour. "And you know what
President Clifford always says" declared the
AT&T official wagging his finger Take care
OF your pennies and :" He barely escaped
with his life.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-05-28
Do You Respect
Your Name!
by Ruth Taylor

How we'll do you like your own name?
Do you toss it around carelessly loaning
it to anyone who wishes padding for a conn.,
mittee, or promotion for idea? Do yol!A
think that its value is enhanced by theN
number of times it appears on lists or in the
newspapers?
Or do you treat your name with respect?
AS that part of you which Identifies you?
Which is only used in the right places at the
right time? Which is only used for the things
in which you believe and in behalf of causes
which you not only wholeheartedly support,
but in which you take an active part? Does
your name mean YOU?
Today around Washington and elsewhere
there is great deal of talk about the "inno-
cents" caught on subverSve committees Now
let me say haven't any patience with that
word "innocents" No one has a right to go
on committee blind. In fact no one has
right to go on a committee on which he is not
prepared to work. And certainly no man who
has the good sense to join a union, can be
classed as an innocent.
Yes, l know 1t is hard to say mo" to that
friend who says II won't ask any work of you. {
l know how busy you are but just to help
me, be on this committee" l was caught that
way twice myself and getting extricated took
more time than it would have to have said no
in the first place. Now just shut my eyes
and say: Il never join anything unless know
l can attend every meeting and do my full
times, they stop asking you particularly if
the committee is tinged with color That kind
don't want questioning workers.)
I know what you are thinking. "Why talk
to me? wouldn't think of joining any SUBJ
versive group. I'm too good trade unionist
to be caught that way!"
But listen here. 1t is getting fashionable
to have labor men and women on committees.
1t is supposed to show balance. And the more
respectable your name is, the better unionist
you are, the more they will seek after you
for causes in which at least in the outlines
on paper you will approve wholeheartedlN
But watch your step and ask yourself these
questions:
"Who is back of this committee? The men
whose names approve are too busy to give
time to it so I0ho is running it? (Any union
man knows how few people it really takes to
run an organization.) Why do they want me?
Can / attend all their meetings? How much
time have / to work on this? Do / want to
be identified as part of this outfit? Does my
name belong here?"
Think it over and don't be promiscuous
joiner!
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-05-28

in which It Is displayed on holiday celebra-
tions. Mr.. Webb pointed out that our public
flag display is always connected with the
various wars in which we have engaged.
There is nothing wrong with display in
connection with our various wars but he feels
that we should also make our flag displays to
note the rights and privileges which we have
won and preserved by our wars
Our flag is the symbol and the banner of
our democracy 1t is therefore appropriate
that this banner should wave in all its glory
at the time we exercise the greatest implement
of democracy, our vote. It should be displayed
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-05-28
Over And Over Again

At the risk of resembling a cracked
phonograph record which plays the same
thing over and over again, we're going to
discuss the deplorable prices-wages profits
situation.
The only new ingredient that has been
added to the mess lately is the determine
ton of big industries not to provide their
employees with badly needed pay increases.
This determination, if you believe what
you read in the ads, stemmed from in
dustrys sudden worry about initiation,
which has been worrying the nations
workers for long, long time.
And it isn't bit surprising that in
dustry's anxiety over the situation should
have broken into full bloom at almost the
very moment the CLOS three largest
unions started negotiating for pay hikes.
It's enough to make gullible uniOnist
super-cyniCal!
Let's go back to the real beginning of
the real inflatiOnary period and see what
has happened.
Let's see why Joe Doaks and all the
little Doakses are having difficulty max
ing ends meet and why they aren't happy
and contented.
With NAM carrying the ball calling the
signals and designing the strategy, Con-
gress unsheathed its little initiation axe
and chopped up the Office of Price Ad-
ministration. "Things will be OK nOw,"
the nation was assured
NAM, however, failed to point out that
things would be OK for a selected few
but not for the many.
Every person who saw his dollar be-
come smaller and smaller as prices climb
ed higher and higher knows what hap
pened next.
II wasn't good.
Labor unions pointed out time and
again that there was no justification for
the profits it was making.
Keep this up and something's going to
smash, the unions said. IL industry sOaks
up too much of the consumer purchasing
power there will be bust that will make
the last depression look like something
good.
Prices and profits went right on up
and up-and up.
Finally the unions had to admit they
had failed in their efforts to obtain action
which would hold profits and prices in
line. Then they announced ii would be
necessary to ask for substantial wage
increases.
The steel industry is now carrying the
ball and the electric and auto industries
are helping run interference in another
play designed to put the pinch on the
nations workers. The packing industry
is in there bucking the line, too.
The play is designed to convince the
public that the forces of initiation are be-
ing turned back and that this cannot be
accomplished If workers are given pay
hikes that they need badly.
It's fake play in many respects.
The price reductions that have been
announced, particularly by steel, will
make no real or immediate inroads on the
cost of living.
And nobOdy-be he uniOnist or not
can eat steel products, electrical equip-
ment and automobiles.
Well say again, as we've said many
times before, we'd be mighty happy over
some real price reductions.
Workers, however, must have nav in
creaSes if there is no substantial and
immediate reduction in the overall cost
of living.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-05-28
Time for Plain Talk
by Tom Burke

Last Monday in City Council meeting the Reverend Willis
Webb pastor of Trinity Baptist Church. presented idea
which we'll be taken by all groups and all citizens
Reverend Webbs idea is fine and its accomplishment
not difficult costly task.
The idea is simply this all citizens and organizations should
display nations flag days the manner
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-05-28

COP. newspaper publisher
from Ohio - who sponsored
bill in House, wants action
this year. Bender says poll tax
is "disgraceful'; is opposed by
majority of Senators. The bill
"must not be allowed to be
talked to death by a Senate
filibuster conducted by a hand
full of members who have never
faced a free election in their
political lives"
CIO says amen. You can
help by writing your Senators
TO-DAY. Ask them ID to sup
port the anti-poll tax bill Otis
HR 29); (2) to make sure it's
brought up for debate and
vote; CD to push for cloture
the limitation on debate that
will kill southern-poll takers
filibuster.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-05-28
What's
New?
By
EdVard J..
Duck,
Assistant
Director,
National

,
can buy a new outboard mo-
tor for $4,000?
Do you know where you
can get a sixteen-pint pres
sure cooker for canning and
large-scale cooking purposes
for S16.25?
Do you know where you can
get a giant-size of shaving
cream for 39c
Do you know where you can
pick up a brand.new sweeper,
made to special improver spe-
cifications by a very famous
electric appliance company, for
less than fifty dollars, thirty
dollars less than you would pay
elsewhere?
l do. / know these things
but I'm not half so smart as
a lot of people who are taking
advantage of this opportunity
every day. They must be
smarter than l am, because
took advantage of the cooper
ative warehouse (Which they
organized) only a few times,
whereas they deal there every
day.
The Coop warehouse is in
Detroit, Michigan, across from
the Briggs plant, on Warren
Avenue. The very first day the
Motor City Coop opened the
savings on purchases amount
ed to 80 compared to SUPER
market prices.
Is it a "communistic" or
"left-wing" idea?
Hardly. Mayor Van Antwerp
joined the first day the store
opened, and he's hardly a
'leftwinger"! It is economic
democracy in action. 1t is peo-
owning their own stores, proc
essing and manufacturing
plants, instead of buying them
for someone who fancies him.
self as being endowed by his
Creator with special privileges
of ownership.
Thomas Jefferson, one of
Americas greatest champions
of democracy, once said:
"The mass of mankind has
not been, born withs saddles on
their backs, nor a favored few,
booted or spurred, ready to
ride them legitimately, by the
grace of God"
The factory worker, the hank
clerk, the salesgirl, and the
average everyday consumer,
all have just as much right to
ownership as the person who
inherited his wealth or decided
1t was his particular spiritual
endowment to employ people
to make him richer than he al
ready was. This ownership can
hardly be acquired by gunplay
or connivery of some sort. 1t
must be legitimate, and the
consumer cooperative gives
the thirty million American
families the opportunity to
become real, profit-sharing
owners of giant business es-
tablishments at a cost of only
a few dollars and a little time
and effort.
The coop does not offer
something-for-nothing It sim
ply eliminates the profiteering,
because when people are in a
business they do not cheat
themselves, and when an in.
stitution really operates for
service rather than profit there
can be no profiteering.
Sweren did it. In the dark
days of 1928 there was no
depression and no hunger in
Cooperation eliminates
depressions, because the prof
1t motive is responsible for
business boom-and-bust eras,
and the Coop doesn't operate
on that theory.
Anyone who is interested In
the democratic way of solving
our economic problem can OBJ
tain literature on the coop If
he will just ask for it, and the
international Executive Board
20 A. TTANIY CTn A.~-Al...
Evening star., 1948-06-07
Mrs. Harold Kelly Dies;
Wife Of PBA Official

Mrs. Pauline M. Kelly, 54, dice
Saturday of a heart attack at hel
home at Hollywood Park, neal
Colesville. Md. She was the wife
Of Harold L. Kelly. chief of the
mail and files division of the Public
Buildings Administration.
A native of Mckinney, KY. Mrs
Kelly was a member of the Silver
Spring Chapter of the Eastern Star
and of Takoma Park Christian
Church. ....
During World War II she was
employed sin communications work
in the War Department. Later she
worked for the Applied Physics
Laboratory of John Hopkins Uni
versity, Silver Spring
Besides her husband, Mrs. Kelly
is survived by two sons, Maj. Harold
L. Kelly, jr., on duty with the
Engineer Corps in Germany, and
John Kelly of Hollywood Park;
four daughters, Miss Frances Kelly,
Hollywood Park; Mrs. Frank Hames,
Takoma Park, Mrs. John H. Mason,
Terrence, Calf, and Mrs. Jesse E.
Jones, Nanticoke, Pa.
Two brothers, Paul H. Moore,
Silver Spring, and Winter K. Moore,
Washington, and four sisters, Mrs.
Helen Pullman and Mrs. Maggie
Wright. both of Washington; Mrs.
Clara Tuttle, Naples, Fla, and Mrs.
Emma Walker, Detroit, also sur
YiYe.
Evening star., 1948-06-07
Luke Thompson Dies;
Retired Mail Official

Luke Thompson, II, retired as
sistant superintendent of mails at
the City Post Office, died yesterday
at his home. 3416 North Glebe road,
Arlington, after an illness of several
months.
Mr.. Thompson, resident Of Ar
lington County for AZ years, was
born in Fairfax County. Va. He
came to Washington in 1897 to work
in the City Post Office as a clerk
He had been assistant superin-
tendent of mails for about 10 years
when he retired in September, 1916.
Mr.. Thompson. Mason, is sur
vived by his widow. Mrs. Maud S.
Thompson; three daughters, Mrs
Marion Fridinger, Mrs. Margaret
Clabaugh and Mrs. Frances Oster-
haus, all of Arlington; a son, Ed
ward S. Thompson, Marblehead,
Mass: two sisters, Mrs. Molly Smith
and Miss Annie M. Thompson, both
of Arlington, and eight grandchil-
dren.
Funeral services will be held at
q pm. tomorrow at the Andrews
Chapel, Methodist Church, Fairfax
County, with burial in the church
cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-06-07

Long hours were the rule with hin
and for a stretch Of 46 years he tool
no vacation. He kept abreast of the
times in industrial development anc
when the war brought demands fol
changes he and his company met
the challenge and quickly convert
ed to manufacturing airplane en-
gines, propellers and other fighting
equipment.
He was modest In his successes
His philosophy was typified by the
the remark he once made: Il don't
believe in classes. One man in this
world is just as good as another II
he is just and honorable"
The industrialist shared some oi
his gains with his workers. HI
made annual distributions at Christ.
mas in money and gifts. The amount
of money given to workers was moi
publicly announced but was esti-
mated to be about 100000.
Mr.. Nash's last public appearance
was in June. 1916, when he attend
ed the automotive golden jubilee ir
Detroit.
He is the fifth automotive
pioneer honored at the jubilee te
have died since then. The others
were Barney Oldfield, famous race
driver; Mr.. Durant, Henry Ford
and William S. Knudsen, former
president of General Motors.
Mrs. Nash, the former Jessie Hal.
lack of Burton Township, Mich.
died last year.
Two daughters, Mrs Mae Brenton
Beverly Hills, and Mrs. c.. H. Bliss
of Crosse Point Farms, Mich, sur
vive. t.
Evening star., 1948-06-07
Mrs. C.F. Pollock Dies;
Wife OF Revenue Aide

Mrs. Kathleen Virginia Pollock
At, a Washington resident for 81
years, died yesterday at her home
Ball Quesada street NV. after a
long illness.
Mrs. Pollock was the wife of
Clarence F. Pollock of the chief
counsels office of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue.
Mrs. Pollock was born in Moore
field, w. ", but spent her early life
in Blacksburg. Her father, the Rev.
D. M. Brown, now retired, was a
Methodist minister. She came to
Washington in 1917 and was grad
uated from Central High School.
She studied voice under Otto Simon
and at one time sang in the choir at
st. Paul's Methodist Church where
her father was pastor. She also
was active in Wesley Methodist
Church.
Besides her parents who reside in
Warrenton, Va, and her husband
she is survived by a son, Ensign
Clarence F. Pollock, jr., U. S. N,
aboard the U. S. S. Philippine Sea
a daughter, Miss Marjorie A. Pol
lock, a student at American Uni
versity: a brother, Ernest M. Brown
Of Bristol, Tenn. and three sisters
Mrs. Frank A. Buchanan. johnson
City, Tenn: Mrs. G. w. Cobb
Greenville, Tenn, and Mrs. w. G
Bartenstein, Warrenton.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow at the Hines
funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will lbe private.
Evening star., 1948-06-07
Rites Arranged Toda,
For Martin Sfecker

Funeral services for Martin G
Stecker, 81, a foreign reader at the
Government Printing ONCE for more
than 25ayears before he retired two
years ago, were to be held today at
Hysong's funeral home with burial
in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Stecker, who lived with his
sister, Miss Catherine Stecker, at
,1121 Fourth street NE, died Friday
at Casualty Hospital after a long
illness.
| He was born in LIE Havre, France,
and lived short time in Bermuda.
When he was 10, he went to Mexico
to live and five years later he
founded the newspaper Ell Truenho
while living in Linares, Nuevo Leon,
Mexico. Ell Truenho later became
one Of the leading papers of north
ern Mexico.
In 1914 Mr.. Stecker came to Wash
ington and became a printer for
Gibson Bros, Inc. Several years
later he transferred to the foreign
languages section of GPO. Mr..
Stecker spoke Spanish, Portuguese
and German and lately he had been
studying the origin of foreign words.
AS foreign reader at the GPO he
checked State Department treaties
in Spanish, Pan-American bulletins,
and Army technical and field manu-
ais in Spanish and other languages
! for errors.
Besides Miss Stecker, he is sur
vived by another sister, Mrs. Mary
Stecker Rubio, and a niece, Miss
Consuelo Rubio, both of Aubuquer-
que, N. Mex.
Evening star., 1948-06-07

was an orphan at 6 and was bound
out under guardianship court Or
der to a farmer near Flushing
Mich, to work for his board ano
keep. At the age of 81, under the
agreement with the farmer, he was
to receive 500 and three suits o1
clothes.
Quit Farming in 1890.
Six years later he ran away. 60
ing from farm to farm and cram
ming a meager education as best
he could. He quqit farming in 1890
went to work for a carriage works
that William C. Durant built into
an auto manufacturing concern in
Flint.
When Mr.. Durant purchased the
Buick Motor Co., he made Mr.. Nash
president and general manager. Two
year later Mr.. Nash was president oil
General Motors and power in the
industry, but he stepped out and
formed his own company, building
the first Nash in 1917.
Mr.. Nash was a tireless worker
Evening star., 1948-06-07
Dr.. Edwin |. MoseIey Dies;
Noted Weather Forecaster

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio, June 7.
DIR. Edwtn Lincoln Moseley, SO.
professor emeritus of biology at
Bowling Green University and wide
Unknown long-range weather fore
caster. died yesterday. He was
stricken with a heart ailment April
%.
Born March 20, 1865, in Union
City, Mich, DR.. Moseley earned .
Master of Arts degree from the Uni
versity of Michigan when he was 90.
In 1887 he went to the Philippines
with the Joseph B. Steere scientific
expedition. The extensive collection
he made there of birds. shells. coral
and flora is now in the British Mu-
scum and several museums in this
country.
In 1914 he became a one-man sci-
ence faculty at Bowling Green State
University when that school was or
ganized. He retired in 1896.
DR.. Moseley was best known for
his research in drought prediction.
He accurately forecast the drought
of 1886 and 1887 and recently pre-
dicted an extensive drought for .2037.
He used the rings in tree trunks to
aid his forecasts. claiming that wet
and dry periods in the past affected
widths of the rings and indicated
drought cycles.