Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-10
INSIDE
AMERICA
(Written by the Staff OF
The CIO News

-ElSCIlOIl Lay 10 lCSo bAAoAA
days away. Between now ano
November 2, CIO unions are
launching biggest campaign
drive in history behind Presi-
dent Truman. 1t will surpass
activities in 194 4, when
unions played major role in
electing President Roosevelt
to his fourth term.
CIO Executive Board and
heads of CIO-PAC mapped
plans in Washington just be-
fore Labor Day. Results will
soon be seen-in speeches, arti-
cles, leaflets, meetings, raj
lies, registration drives and
get-out-the-vote campaign.
CIO President Phil Murray
has predicted that President
Truman can be, will be re-
elected. On his election-and
equally important overthrow
of COP leadership in Con-
gress hinges future of
American liberalism.
Union leaders know that
and are getting ready to work
with sleeves rolled up in
political affairs.
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CLOS endorsement of
President Truman and Alben
w. Barkley was taken by 35-
IL vote at Executive Board
meeting. 1t followed long dis
cussion with spokesmen from
IL CIO unions who favor
Henry Wallace.
Basis of the pro-Wallace
argument Is that there's no
difference between Truman
and Dewey. But spokesmen
for unions with 809o of CLOS
membership m p h z
ed strongly that the argu-
ments is nonsense-and went
on to charge tn a I basis of
Progressive Party campaign is
Communists strategy of well
coming reaction into full pos
session of Washington for
next four years.
CIO leaders, however, know
that present boom cycle may
be followed by worst bust in
country's history. They know,
too, that liberal economic
policies can prevent bust. And
they know that if COP con-
trolls the White House and
Congress during depression
period, we'll be in worse soup
than Hoover in 80.
Re = election of President
Truman and removal of re.
dictionary controls from Con-
gress thus become a matter of
personal interest to every
family in America.
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CIO-PAC, which will carry
brunt of labor's political work
in cooperation with unions,
operates strictly and entire
on voluntary donations from
union members and the pub
lie.
Your buck for PAC will
help carry on the good fight
give it today at your union
hall.
CIO-PAC work does pay
off. For instance, take St.
Clair County in Michigan,
home district of Rep. Jesse
Wolcott (R) head of the
powerful House Banking
Committee and water boy for
the big real estate lobby in
Washington.
CIO and AFL unions in st.
Clair used visit of Freedom
Train to promote interest in
registering to vote. st. Clair
CIO Council distributed TO-
600 pledge cards in local fac
tories, asking If workers had
signed Freedom Pledge; if
they were registered; If they
weren't registered, whether
they'd promised to do so; and
If they'd vote In November.
About 30% of 5000 cards
returned to local CIO head
quarters were from unregist-
cred. citizens. But follow.up
campaign brought big results
when registration rolls
closed, 95% of eligible voters
had their names on the dot
ted line.
Big registration and a big
vote insure a peoples vic
tory.
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CLOS friendly, helping
hand to workers in war-de-
wasted countries rarely makes
the headlines.
Yet it's type of humanitarian
work that goes on day-in,
day-out - and helps tighten
the burden of semi-starvation
that afflictS million of human
beings in Europe and Asia.
Last week, CLOS Phil Muir
ray presented $4,000 check
to CARE for a thousand pack
ages to be distributed to union
members in a dozen European
countries - on both sides of
the Iron Curtain.
Each package, with its Al
600 calories of food, will
brighten life of a working