Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-10-29
What's
New?
BY Edward J. Duck,
Assistant Director, National
AutO-Lite Department

n e c X COHlInullSIl1 anu
"unity?"
Ladies and gentlemen, do
you remember as / do when
two years ago the newspapers
and the Republicans screamed,
Repeal OPA, and everything
will soon be fine with every
body?"
OPA was scuttled, after the
National Association of Manu-
facturers spent three million
dollars in the campaign to do
it, and we saw how Senator
Taft had lied to us, which was
exactly what we said he was
doing.
In a radio speech lest We'd
nesday Mayor Michael V. Di-
Sale hit the nail on the noggin
when he said that the system
of rationing food at reasonable
prices was then replaced by
rationing by means of prices
which only a few could afford.
The Republicans don't dare
discuss the real issues. They
have sinned aaginst the Amer
ican public like no group in
Americas history. And Homer
Ramey ranks high on the list
of chief sinners. On sixteen
major issues affecting the
A m e r C a n public he voted
A G. AIN NST the people on
THIRTEEN. On only three
oleo tax repeal, European Re-
covery Program, and the anti
polltax bill, did he truly repre-
sent us. The ERP bill was al
most unanimously approved;
the polltax bill was naturally
to the r p u b ic a n Party's
benefit, since the polltax states
had been customarily Demo
cratic;" and we suspect that
if Ramey had been represent
ing a dairy state community
like Wisconsin he would not
have voted against oleo tax
repeal. These three votes were
easy
What about the thirteen is
sues in which he betrayed the
trust of the people? What
about the wage-hour amend
ments, the profits tax, the So
cial security legislation, the
iva Steam Plant, the REA
Power Loans, the rent control
amendment, the pro-railroad
Reed-Bulwinkle bill, the Knut-
son tax bill, the free lunch
program for school children,
and other important matters of
legislation?
We have heard a lot of
balderdash about what Ramey
did for the veteran. Baloney.
Just what DID he do for the
veteran, outside of a few spe-
cial favors for individuals
whom he is now using?
Tom Burke, Ramey's oppo-
nent, happens to BE an ex-
serviceman himself, but he
doesn't go around egging
votes on that basis. This is the
cheapest kind of politics Ra-
mey could possibly play. Ra-
mey, like Dewey, simply hasn't
got the CUTS to argue the issues
because he knows its easier
to sidestep them. Strong Ian
guage, but let's hear different
ly from Ramey or Dewey,
themselves.
The Republican Party is out
to make a killing a grand
haul. The important utility is
sues which they think the or
dinary citizen doesn't under
stand-and maybe he doesn't
things like monopoly con-
troll of tidelands oil, atomic
energy, and rural electrified
tion and power projects-will
be decided by a Republican
Congress to the detriment of
the American public. Millions
of dollars are being given to
Dixiecrats and Republicans in
the form of campaign dona-
tions so that they will return
the favor in the 81st Congress,
stealing billions of dollars
from the government and turn
ing ii over to the billionaire
monopoly utilities owners. We
and our children, and our chill
dren's children, Will pay
through the nose for years to
come, if Republican Congress
is elected. Mark these words,
dear readers, and mark them
we'll.
The m G people who
caused food prices to soar,
who skyrocketed the cost of
clothing. who voted against
adequate medical care in the
previous congress, who sabot-
aged rent control and voted as
the lumber interests told them
to on the housing bill, are now
posing as friends of the Amer
ican public, and piously plead
ing for a chance to complete
their vicious plans, to cut your
throat and mine.
Now about this business of
Tom Burke's campaign costs.
II so happens that Homer Ra-
mey has not filed his cam
paign cost bill yet, but when