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Evening star., 1948-12-07
Pollution Diminishing
Engineer Unit Told;
7 Bad Areas Studied

Slowly but surely, American rivers
are becoming cleaner.
Thisswas the consensus of speakers
who addressed the Chemical En-
glneers' Club. of Washington last
night In the Interior Department
Auditorium.
The two problem areas in Mary
land are the Luke-Cumberland sec
ton of the Potomac River and the
Baltimore bay front, according to
Frank C. Wachter, member of the
Maryland Water Pollution Control
Commission. He said study Is now
being made of pollution In these
areas.
He said the commission hopes that
information will be on hand by next
year to assist in relieving pollution
| in both sections.
I'VE OF the commission" MIR
Wachter said, have chosen to op-
crate along q line of education and
cooperation, rather than to use a
big stick.
First Effort Successful.
1--WE realize the problems OF in
dustry and of municipalities In re-
ducing pollution, and we believe we
will get further If we first educate
toward the benefits to be obtained
from pollution abatement and then
cooperate In efforts to find solu-
tions to the various pollution PROB
lens.
The only major test to date OF
the efficiency of such policy" Mr..
Wachter added. has been the ef-
forts to clean up the canneries
throughout the State. And in this
instance, 1t can be said, the ap-
proach has been emminently sue
cessful."
DR.. Abel Wolman, professor OF
sanitary engineering at Johns Hop
kins University, Baltimore, and q
consultant to the Atomic Energy
Commission, reported that studies
are being made Of methods to treat
wastes from atomic energy plants.
DR.. Wolman said both laboratories
and pilot treatment plants have
been established. and advances have
been made in treating these waste
products.
Sees Task Taking Time.
Replying to Frank Mulkern, q ma
tional director of the Izaak Walton
League, who asked If he favored
stricter antipollution legislation, DR..
Wolman said the only difference be-
tween him and Mr.. Mulkern was
one of time.
II am a realist," he said. II real
ize that we do not live in the mil
|lennium-that we couldn't clean up
all of our streams overnight if we
wanted to"
Lyman Cox, representing the Du
Pont Co., described the work Of his
organization in controlling indus
trial pollution.
L. D. Dworsky of the Public
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Youth Awake to World Issues,
Book Fair Audience Is Told

movements and unity through re-
ligion."
Emphasizing that she was not
speaking of the "goody- -goody" type
of student. she said:
Its getting stylish to have re-
ligion. They're not getting drips
and goons and eoddy- goodies out for
many a football player
in the groups these days"
The fair will be open at the Arts
Club, 20l7 I street NV. from 2 to
6 and 8 to 10 pm. daily through Fri
day and from II am. to S pm. Sat-
urday, children's day.
Miss Ann L. Barley. author of
Patrick Calls Me Mother" and
Mai. Andrew Geer, author of The
Sea Chase" are to speak at 4 and
$50 pm. respectively. today.
Evening star., 1948-12-07

If world leaders sidestep war until
the present generation of high
school and college students gets out
into the field of international rela-
tions, I'VE may see an era of great
world understanding" Washing
ton author said here last night.
Mrs. Catherine burlington. author
of a recently published book, Three
to Make Ready about her teen-age
children. told an audience at the
Arts Clubs New Book Fair that
young people today seem to be
thinking more about worthwhile
things than when I was young"
This generation is awake to what
Is going on in the world" Mrs.
said Many of them
are interested in world government
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Anti Submarine Warfare
Well in Hand, DenfeId Says
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 7.-Admiral
Louis Denfeld. Chief of Naval Oper-
ations, says the Navy is develop
ing devices to detect and destroy the
modern submarine, and ! assure you
that the situation is well in hand"
Admiral Denfeld made the declar-
alton in a statement released last
night after lack of time prevented
him from delivering a prepared
speech at the annual preparedness
Evening star., 1948-12-07
Reds Avoiding Conflict.
Benes' Brother Says
sy tho A,,oe;o,sd Pres.

RIVERSIDE, Calf, Dec. 7.-Dr.
Bohus Benes says Soviet leaders
don't want open conflict but can't
understand that invasion OF Czecho-
slovakia Is "a sure step toward q
Third World War"
The brother OF the late Czech
President, Eduard Benes. told the
25th Institute Of World Affairs yes
terday that Russian leaders believe
Western Europe to be In q state of
sharp decline and ready for progress
sive socialization and Marxisrn.''
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
IUC Told TO
Support CIO

WASHINGTON, March II
(LPA)-State and city industrial
unions councils were reminded
last week by John Brophy, CIO
councils director, that they have
an obligation to take a forth
right stand" in support of the
Marshall plan and of CIO-PAC
electoral policy.
Brophy wrote "our councils
should understand clearly that as
subordinate agencies of the CIO
they are bound organizationally
and as a matter of sound union
principle to follow national CIO
policies"
Support of Henry Wallace's
third party was pointedly for
hidden, in a statement citing that
compromise declarations were
expressly and deliberately re-
jected at meetings of the CIO
Board and PAC." Councils were
warned that communications
from CIO cannot be rejected,
tabled or ignored"
Brophy's letter was follow
up to the action of Director of
Organization Allan Haywood dis
missing "left-winger" Harry
Bridges from his post of North
ern California CIO regional di-
rector.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
IVA Hearings
To Be Opened

WASHINGTON, March II
(LPA)-A campaign by big bust
ness interests to kill the gov
ernment owned and operated
Tennessee Valley Authority got
into swing this week as hearings
opened on a bill introduced last
summer by Senator Kenneth Nc
Kellar 3D., Tenn to amend the
TV. act.
The bill, now before the SEN
ate Committee on Public Works,
proposes change which pro-
ponents of the Tennessee Valley
project say would make utterly
impossible Twas continued op-
Grafton on basis permitting it to
fulfill the purposes for which it
was created"
Each provision of the Mcclellan
bill is considered harmful TO
IVA, but perhaps the most
vicious is one that would require
the Valley Authority, now run
as a government corporation, to
turn its revenue into the Treas
ury Department each month and
become dependent on annual
Congressional appropriations to
finance the operation Of its dams
and power plants.
Such arrangement, it is said,
would hamstring Twas power
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Many Units Pick
Shop Committees
Continued from Page !

Sheets Elevator: Otto Kries,
chairman; Ralph Roberts, Sec
retary- treasurer and Courtney
Davis, committeeman.
Standard Tool and Die: Ray
Tomaszewski, chairman; Harry
E. Diehl, vice chairman and
Frank Machcinski, secretary
treasurer.
Toledo Metal Furniture: Ches-
ter Szmczak, chairman, Joseph
Zywiczynski, secretary; Troy
Estell, Floyd Wolniewicz and
Stanley Bartnikowski, commit
tee.
Toledo Wire: Chester Max
owski, chairman and William A.
Chapman, committeeman.
Watson Mfg: Ed Breen, chair
man; William Grojane, vice
and J. R. Wood, Sec
retary.
York Foundry; Andy Bochi,
chairman; Mike Macy, vice
chairman and Melvin Blue, sec
retary.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
coop Opens
A New Store

WASHINGTON, an arch II
(LPA) - The first consumer
owned department store in the
country opened in a suburb of
the nations capital last week.
An overflow crowd heard Sena-
tor George Aiken (R., N. H.
and Assistant Agricultural Sec
retary Charles Brannan hail the
pioneering venture, first of 100
such stores planned with the aid
Of funds left by the late E. A.
Filene, Boston department store
owner.
Local union leaders, including
the president of the Central
Labor Union and the Retail
Clerks-AFL local, have been
active in promoting sales of stock
for the new cooperative, which
has $4,000 square feet of floor
and sells everything from mems
suits to pressure cookers.
Aiken hailed the new store as
a symbol of "the progressive
spirit in the cooperative move
ment." He told the opening-day
crowd that prices will be strick-
ly competitive, and that the ven-
ture, with the benefits returned
to members in the form of
patronage refunds at the end of
the year. Non-members' pur-
chase slips can be used to build
up credit toward purchase of
stock.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
NLRB Business
Hits Bio Boom

WASHINGTON, M arch II
(LPA) - The NLRB revealed
last week that it is in no danger
of going out of business with the
Taft-Hartley law on the books.
In the first six months of the
Acts operation 1850 cases were
filed with the Board, more than
in any one of the Boards first
IL years of operation under the
Wagner Act.
Of these, 1912 were petitions
for election of a collective bar
& a ining G representative; 7718
were for union shop authorize
tion elections, while 1850 alleged
unfair labor practices by en-
ployers, and 420 claimed unfair
actions by unions.
In sharp contrast to these
figures are the number of cleo
tions actually conducted by the
Board: not quite 5000 union shop
polls, $50 collective bargaining
votes and so liberalization
elections.
The Board statement says that
of the 420 charges again S t
unions, 144 allege secondary
boycotts and Al claim the ex-
istence of jurisdictional strife.
No summary of the nature of
union charges against employers
is included.
Regional direct tors of the
NLRB filed IL injunction pro-
cedureS against unions, only one
against employers, in the six
months of Taft-Hartley. Courts
have granted five injunctions
against unions, and two restrain
ing orders. The one Board re-
quest for action against an en-
ployer - the General Motors
Corp. - resulted in restrain
ing order. Judges have dismissed
two complaints against labor and
two are still pending.
General Counsel Robert Den
ham presented the Board with
AZ complaints - "a aga n t
unions, 18 against employers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
.CIO Labels
COP Tax Cut
AS A Steal

WASHINGTON (LPA) -
CLEARLY and unequivocally
HR 4790 is a tax steal for the
and a stab in the
back for the poor" Stanley
Ruttenberg, assistant director of
research for national CIO told
the Senate Finance Committee
last week.
Ruttenberg warned the Senate
committee conducting hearings
on the House approved measure
fathered by Representative
Harold Knutson (R., Mimi that
Federal revenue must be main
tanned at an adequate level,
while tax relief is given low in
come families at the expense of
corporation profits.
He pointed out that during the
war broadening the tax base
brought in many new low in
come tax payers. Postwar in
flation has so lessened their pur-
chasing power that they should
be relieved of income taxpay-
ments entirely, Ruttenberg said.
Emphasizing the CLOS con-
viction that federal revenues
must be high enough to cover
the necessary expenses of gov
ernment, its spokesmen demand
that the decrease in tax receipts
from needy families be COM
pensated for by increasing corpo-
ration excess profits taxes.
Commenting directly on the
Knutson bill, Ruttenberg said
that the 26,500,000 taxpayers,
over half the total number, with
net incomes of less than $4,000
receive 239o of the relief under
the bill, while 2,225, 400, 40 of
the total number, with incomes
over $500 get a third of the total
relief. The head of a family
making $500 a year will save
S110 under the bill, while the
$4,000 man retains $3322 of
what he has been paying.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
.UE Quits PAC;
Charges CIO

WASHINGTON (LPA) -
A meeting of the CIO Politi-
cal Action Comittee's execu-
tive board here on March 19
will have before it the resig-
nation of two members of the
PAC top board - President AL
bert Fitzgerald and Secretary
treasurer julius Emspack OF the
United Electrical, Radio e. Ma
chine Workers-CIO.
The UE has decided to with
draw from PAC, il announced,
because in some cities UE repre-
sentatives had been pushed out
of lacol PAC groups because of
their support of Henry Wallace.
The most recent CIO executive
board meeting, national PAC
spoksmen point out, specifically
left the CIO in the position of
not endorsing any aspirant for
the Presidency, but opposing the
third party movement of Wal
lace as divisive.
UE, however, charged that
.PAC is no longer non-partisan,
but IAN appendage of the Demo-
cratic machine" The UE Off
cials, in a letter to CIO Presi-
dnt Philip Murray, said that
local prosecutions of UE Wal
laceites in PAC" make il impos-
sible" for the union Ito carry
forward a constructive campaign
for the election of a progressive
Congress and progressive state
and local tickets.
Both CIO President Philip
Murray and PAC Director Jack
Kroll reserved comment until
the PAC meeting this week.
PAC headquarters here said so
far no other CIO unions which
generally follow UE's lead had
indicated that they would dis
affiliate. UE contributions to
.PAC last year are estimated at
considerably less than one-third
of the total PAC funds.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
JobIess Numbers Up

WASHINGTON NPA - IN
employment climbed steeply in
February, ccording to the
Census Bureau. The number of
jobless increased by $4,000. AT
the end of February, it appeared
that there were more people
pressing claims for unemploy-
ment compensation payments
than there were at any time
in January this. year. This is
the conclusion of the Federal
Security Agency's Bureau of En-
ployment Security.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
&C Profits Up
Rejects Raise

NEW YORK, March II (LPA)
General Electric Corp. isn't
stony broke by any means. After
retaining a good slice of its earn
ings, GE had profits of $95, $685.
$40 in 1947 compared to $43,-
OO8, $50 in 1916.
GE, which went into wage
negotiations with the United
Electrical, Radio & Machine
-CIO with a flat rejec-
ton of any wage increase, paid
only part of its earnings in divi-
dens, retaining an earned surplus
of $219, ,231,612 at the end of 1947
contrasted with $168,998,537 at
the end of the previous year,
according to GE's own annual
report.
In negotiations with GE and
with Westinghouse, the union is
asking wage boosts to COM
pensate for the $12 to $13 loss
sustained by workers in the in
dustry as a result of the price
rises between January 1945 and
early this year.
The GE talks, which involve
the wages of 100000 workers,
began with the flat statment by
the company management that
despite record profits last year
"If GE should give a wage in
crease, it in all probability would
sweep across the country and be
imposed on everyone with the
necessity of everyone trying to
raise prices"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
YWCA To Open
Spring Gloss

The Health Education Depart
ment Of the YWCA, a Red Fea-
ther Agency is announcing the
opening of the Spring Term,
which will begin March % and
continue until May 20, said Mary
Stewart, director of the depart.
ment.
There Is a wide variety of
classes being offered to men,
women, high school boys and
girls and juniors.
Sports classes include tennis,
archery, badminton, volleyball,
fencing, golf and horseback rid.
ing. The latter two classes will
start in April.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
London Conferees
Support ERP

LONDON UPA) - US. and
Western European trade union
delegates last week pledged CO.
operation in making the Mar.
shall plan for European recovery
a success. They said, unanimous
ly, that American aid is neces-
sary for the rehabilitation oi
Europe, and that ERP will not
interfere with the internal af
fairs of any nation.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Leoncrd Wins LoeoI

DETROIT (LPA)-Richard T.
Leonard, former UAW-CIO vice
president last week was elected
president of his home local, at
the DeSoto plant of the Chrysler
Corp. Leonard returned to his
old job as welder after his defeat
last November at the UAW con-
Vention.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19

and the national economy. "
The d cum e n t which the
committee compiled to sup
port this claim was pieced to.
gether without consultation with
a single representative of organ
lied labor.
Sen. Joseph Ball (R., Mimi
presented the report in the Sen
ate, just three days after he had
informed a group of union Off
GERS that come summer they will
be allowed to tell the committee
of which he is chairman what
they think of the union-baiting
law.
Among the claims which the
Joint Committee made for the
Act are:
j. II has lessened Communist
influence In unions. y
z. The number of secondary
boycott5 has decreased.
3. There are fewer jurisdic.
tional disputes since the passage
of Taft.Hartley,
q. "A strong trend has set in
among labor unions to accept re-
sponsibility."
5. Organization of workers by
craft has been encouraged.
s. Strikes have declined.
2. Wages have not been ad-
versely affected by the operation
of the law.
8. Unions have gained in
membership since the passage of
Taft.Hartley.
3. Rights of individual work
ers are protected.
10. More public confidence
has been won by the NLRB.
Is Not Convincing
No convincing evidence is pre-.
sented by the committee to dem.
onstrate that any of these claims
calculated to lessen labor's OBJ
iectionS to Taft-Hartley actually
represent gains to labor flowing
from the existence Of the union.
batting law. For example, wages
have stayed up because of infla.
ton, not Taft-Hartley. Union
membership has increased be.
cause of union activity, not Taft
Hartley. Strikes have been few
because Of initiation, which makes
1T possible for employers who
wish to do so to meet union de-
mands, not because an anti-labor
law is on the statute books.
The Committee report admits
that the NLRB is not keeping up
with its case load, but attributes
this TO the backlog of cases from
the Wagner Act.
So pleased is the Committee
with the Taft-Hartley law that III
stratght-facedly says: mo infor-
nation has been received indicat-
ing a need for amendment at this
time"
Appended to the Committees
report Is copy of the Justice
Department indictment of CIOI
President Philip Murray, and a
series OF studies of labor.manaee.
ment relations in several indus.
tries. High praise is given in
the appendix to the incentive
plan of an open-shop employer.
Some unions bargaining records
are admitted good, while others
are condemned. In every in.
stance the Committee attempts
to prove that unions have not
been impeded by Taft Hartley.
without mentioning the fact that.
in none of the cases studied have
contracts expired since the pass.
age of the Act,,'
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19

/. ITU President Wood
ruff Randolph took the stand
in the Federal injunction pro-
ceedings against his union, under
way in Federal court here. He
gave a stirring defense of the
TITUS policy in fighting to avoid
the pitfalls of the TIL Act.
2. Both the big daily news
papers and the huge commercial
printing establishments of
Americas largest metropolis,
New York City, virtually de-
clared "war" on the typos"
8. Despite all obstacles, the
ITU has rolled up many new
gains in its battle to win wage
increases without being tied up
in the snarls of a aft-Hartley
type of contract. Latest "box
score" of the union shows that
347 agree m en- t S have been
negotiated with newspapers and
3O4 in the commercial printing
industry, without any Taft-Hart-
ley strings attached.
At the federal court hearing
on the injunction sought by
Robert N. Denham, general coun-
sci of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board, Randolph vigorously
d enied d that the self-defense
policy now being pursued by the,
union violates the Taft-Hartley
Act.
Closed Shop Ban
"We have not asked for any
contract continuing the closed
shop Randolph said. "We don't
intend to ask any closed con-
tract in any our locals, in
spite of all the misrepresenta-
ton to the contrary from the
publishers association, the print
ing industry and the public press
- and fir m the government
attorneys"
All that the ITU wanted to
do is maintain a CLOSED shop
condition" - one under which
everyone in shop would be
union man-and he insisted that
the method by which the union
is seeking to accomplish this was
not illegal.
Randolph gave a detailed ac-
count of how the ITU policy was
arrived at and how it is being
applied. He contended that man
agement and labor could peace
fully get along under this policy,
but that many hostile" pub
fishers and job shop owners are
deliberately trying to use the
Taft Hartley Act to stir up strife
and undermine the union.
Operation without a contract
is not new, Randolph pointed
out. Even prior to the Taft
Hartley Act, so to 20 locals
operated without written agree
ments, he said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Local II Staff
Is ReoSsiqned
Continued from Page l

Wel-Ever Piston Ring-Ollie
Pecord.
The balance of the shops will
be serviced as follows:
Airway Electric, Don Blair;
DeVilbiss, Gerald Biddle; Martin
P AIRY, Walter Madrzykowski;
National Supply, Howard Redi-
ger; Spicer (production and Of
flee units,) Walter Murphy; To-
ledo Scale, Cyrus Martin; WHY'S
Overland, Charles Ballard.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Time For Plain Talk

that in order to widen the
downtown streets they would
either have to take space
say from the sidewalks or
move the buildings out of the
way. He is crazy enough to
think that this would be quite
a chore on such buildings as
the Nicholas, Splitter, Com
modore Perry, Lasalles, Ohio
Building, or Toledo Trust.
With this in mind, he
thought of a way by which the
traffic pressure might be re-
lieved, and in a nutshell this
is it. Street cars are being
eliminated in Toledo. There
are only two lines remaining,
Cherry and Long Belt. All
street car operation must
cease by the year 1851.
Cherry Street, on which one
of the lines operates, is in sad
need of repaving. Therefore,
he says lets kill two birds
with one stone. Take out the
tracks on Cherry Street, ex-
cavate a subway by open cut
method, lay really rapid
transit tracks below ground.
Repair the street making it a
six lane boulevard with CEN
ter strip without using a foot
more Of street width space
therefore making it unneces-
sary to pay damages or land
acquisition costs to a single
property owner. The subway
would start at Superior and
Madison to Huron to Cherry
to Collingwood to Detroit, to
Sylvania to Jackman Road
with appropriate stops to
service residents and indus
trial workers.
SECOND PROPOSAL
Next thing this guy pro-
poses is a traffic tunnel under
st. Clair Street running from
l. ia yette or Washington
Streets to the intersection of
st. Clair and Summit near
Cherry. This tunnel would
have routed through it all bus
and trackless trolley lines in
the city. We then would have
our entire transit system off
our downtown streets.
Not satisfied with this crazy
plan, do you know what this
guy proposes next? Well, in
the downtown section the
subway and traffic tunnel
would be two levels below
street grade. The first level
would be a pedestrian shop.
ping plaza extending from st.
Clair to Huron and from
Jefferson to Adams. Pedes-
trians could move about freely
on sidewalks as wide as the
street and sidewalk combined
above their heads. Merchants
could install show windows
and entrances in what is now
their easements. Citizens could
step on a vehicle of the transit
system near their homes,
alight in the downton section,
do their business or shopping,
and return to their homes
without ever coming out into
the weather.
Next week we will discuss
other details of this plan such
as financing, engineering, con-
struction and advantages to
the public.