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Evening star., 1948-05-19
Democrats Convene
In South Carolina With
.Anti-Truman Platform
By the Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S. c., May 10
South Carolina Democrats opened
their biennial convention here today
on a platform of opposition to Presi-
dent Truman and his civil rights
program.
The convention was scheduled to
receive a recommendation calling
for nomination of presidential
electors pledged to:
/. Election of President Truman.
2. Any other presidential candi-
Evening star., 1948-05-19
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This could mean that the States
Presidential electoral vote might go
to q Republican for the first time
since 1876.
Mr.. Moorer's committee also
drafted a proposal for instruction of
South Carolina's 20 delegates to the
National Democratic Convention in
Opposition to- President Truman.
Opposition would be expressed
also to any other presidential or vice
presidential candidate favoring civil
Evening star., 1948-05-19

rights proposals advanced by the
President or a proposal for abolition
of local race segregation laws.
The convention was also scheduled
to receive a recommendation for
rules changes to permit qualified
Negro electors" to vote in the party
primaries.
Such an action would comply
Evening star., 1948-05-19
Marines Unit to Meet

A meeting of the National Capital
Detachment of the Marine Corps
League will be held at pm. tomor-
row in the Raleigh Hotel. All Ma
rines and former Marines in the Dis
trict area are invited by Detachment
Commandant Edwin w. Luther.
Evening star., 1948-05-19

date sympathetic to the Presidents
civil rights program.
Such a stand was taken last night
by the conventions Resolutions and
Platform Committee headed by J.
NJ. Moorer of Walterboro.
Mr.. Moorer explained that under
the proposed platform, electors
would cast South Carolina's electoral
vote for a person favored by the
State Democratic Executive Com
mittee or a subsequent State con-
vention
Evening star., 1948-05-19

literally with recent Federal Court
decision that qualified Negro elec-
tors" have the right to vote In the
The Nome nugget., 1948-03-03

weak to stand against the current revival of the old spirit variously called Prussian or Nazi or totali- tarian.
 The average German in Bizonia today shows no sense of responsi- bility for the war or for his own suffering-much less for the suf- fering in neighboring Allied lands. He curses us for most of his trou- bles.
 In our proper concern about Russia, let. Us not forget we still have a big German problem on our hands. And the biggest prob lem of all is that the Russian dan ger and the German danger may some day merge again as they merged in 1889.
The Nome nugget., 1948-03-03

also the of thousands of them living elsewhere in the Arab-Moslem world.
 But it also be fatal for the Arabs who are threat ened with becoming pawns in great power strug gle.
 Both Jews and Arabs have been ntransigeant Yet both have everything to lose in the present situation Is it. therefore, beyond hope that they get together in compromise?
The Nome nugget., 1948-03-03
The German Danger
(By Jack FoSter)

By Jack FOSter)
 THE RECENT STRIKE of nearly million and half German workers in British-American occupied BZonia is just proof that the situation there is bad and in some ways getting worse.
 Some of the highest German officials are guilty of non-cooperation with Allied authorities that amounts almost to political and economic sabotage.
 The demOcratiZatiOn program in German hands has become dangerous joke, with religious leaders like Pastor Niemoeller openly advocating defiance to the de-Nazification laws.
 Here in America there is temptation to attribute all of this to Russia. There is justification Russia de- flying the POtSdam pact for unifcaton of Germany has, in effect partoned the country in such way as to chaos The Communist minority works night and day to multiply strikes and unrest and to undermine British-Amercan authority.
 With Russia plotting to absorb Germany the big gest prize of all her puppe states and with Bzona coal and steel production to key to Western European cry for Marshall Plan success continued Soviet sabo- tage can be taken for granted
 Nevertheless, the major factors in West Germany for almost three years have not been Russian but British American on side and German on the other The failures in large part either Britsh-Amercan or German.
 On the British and American side there has been in- ternal wrangng and ndecision especially on key pol icy issues such dendustrialzation and sociazation There has been too much delay in recognizing the Soviet split and in setting Bizona with the goal of sefsup- port instead of more American subsidies
 This has perpetrated economic collapse and encour- aged political responsibility Even the belated new Bi- zonia quasigovernment is timd reform and contnu- ed failure to provide currency is inexcusable
 But with full allowance for British-American blum ders in difficult situation made vastly more difficult by Russia the fact remains that chiefly what is wrong with Germany today is the Germans. The spirit which welcomed Hitler as it's idol and which now planes him for losing the war but not for starting it, is again dominant Except for small mi nority the democratic Germans either dead or too
The Nome nugget., 1948-03-03
That's That
 By BRUCE GUSTIN

can families nave been ShlVSring because of the fuel oil shortage. While export quotas on petroleum products for the first quarter of 1948 were reduced to 12 million barrels-5 million before the fig ure for the first quarter of l947- the quota on fuel oils actually was increased 925,720 barrels. Not only that, but department of com merce bulletin shows American fuel oil is being exported to Costa Rica, Fl Salvador, Guatemala, Bri- tish and French West Africa where it certainly is not needed to protect people against zero wea- ther.
 Pc roleum reserves haven't been exhausted in the United States. And there is no reason why this country should lack either fuel oil or gasoline when the pe- troleum supply is gone. According to Senator O'Mahoney DemJ of Wyoming, the United States has such immense coal and oil shale reserves it need never be depend ent upon foreign sources. He esti- mates that oil shale deposits in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah have 200 to 300 billion barrels of oil
 Congressman Case of South Da- kota told the House recently that our liquid fuel reserves in sub bituminous coal are estimated to be twenty-five times that of pe- troleum. Research already car ried on demonstrates that gasoline can be produced (from coaD with present-known processes at less than 9 cents gallon" he said. "It demonstrates that fuel oil can be produced at about $l.92 a barrel. making synthetic fuel oil com petitive with fuel oil produced from petroleum"
 Senator O'Mahoney is sponsor ing a bill to extend governmen experimentation in production of oil from coal and oil shale from five year to eight and to increase the authorized expenditure from 30 million dollars to 60 millions. No better investment of public funds could be made. Private oil and coal interests are investing one-fourth billion dollars in plant in western Pennsylvania to recover liquid fuels from waste coal. The government can encour- age and facilitate private develop ment by expanding its experi- mental projects and working out commercial methods for getting fuel oil and gasoline from coal.
 There was more hokum in Pres dent Truman's tax-cut scheme than first appeared. Tn his mes sage to Congress on the state of the union, he asked that each indi- vidual be given a $40 tax reduc- ton this year, and that corporation taxes be increased enough to off set this revenue loss. Now he wants to slap on another lavy to take more than half of this tax re- duction from millions of people.
 In his budget message the Pres ident recommended another pay
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13
CI0-AFL Names
10 To Steering
Com mittee
Ballard, Fischer
Named To Head
Burke Campaign

A steering committee COM
posed of five members each
from the AFL and the ClO
to map strategy plans and
also co-chairmen for the
Joint Labor Burke for Congress
Committee were named at the
Joint meeting Tuesday night
held at CLU headquarters, 912
Adams st.
Charles Ballard, region 2-B
UAW-CIO director and Frank
Fischer, president of the ALL
Toledo Central Labor Union Will
head the joint campaign COM
mittee to elect Burke to Con-
gress in the November election.
Named by the CIO to the
Steering Committee were Ric-
hard Gosser, international UAW-
CIO vice president; Lawrence
Steinberg, director of the Joint
Toledo Council, CIO; William
Akos, president of the CIO-
Federation of Glass Ceramic &
Silica Sand Workers; Local 8;
Clement Novotney of Ottawa
County and Mr.. Ballard.
The AFL group named Oliver
Meyers, Otto Brach, Earl Cation,
Francis Hurd and Mr.. Fischer.
MIR. Hurd, CLU Legislative Com
mitteeman was elected per-
manent secretary by the two
groups.
An additional group of five
will be named from the MESA
a nd Railroad Brotherhood
Unions to the Steering Commit
tee which will map plans for the
general campaign and to have
charge of finances and regiStra-
ton.
1t was voted also by the group
to restrict their campaign to
electing Tom Burke, vice mayor
of Toledo and TIUC executive
secretary to Congress from the
Ninth District.
The two groups agreed to call
a mass meeting of all shop stew
ards, committeeman and other
officers on August "a, at Ma
Comber High School.
A meeting of the CIO-CLU
Joint Committee is scheduled
for next Tuesday night. The
MESA and Railroad Brother
hoods are expected to be rep
resented.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13
W aIIace Tabloid
Smears Clio Heads

PHILADELPHIA (LPA)-A
new weekly tabloid magazine
The National Gazette, devoted
to the Wallaceite Progressive
Party made its appearance last
week. It's publisher is Josiah w.
Git of York, Pa, chairman of
the state Progressive Party.
The "labor" article in the
first issue is signed James Hig-
gins" It's theme is that CIO
President Philip Murray, Secre-
tary-Treasurer James Coroy, and
union presidents Walter Reuther
and Joseph Curran are all cap
tives of the Association of Ca
tholic Trade Unionists.
"Thruout the CIO the factions
usually designated right wing
or 'non-Communists' are coali-
tions inspired by the ACTU, ;"
National Gazette claims.
Anti Communist victories in
the United Auto Workers, the
Industrial Union of Marine &
Shipbuilding Workers t h e
American Newspaper Guild, and
the National Maritime Union are
all chalked up to the mysterious
influence of the Catholic church
acting thru ACTU. Murray and
Carey are written up as ACTU
supporters.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13
BigMoneyBoys
Figured 1t Out
Dewey Advised Of
Quick Depression

NEW YORK (LPA) - Never
let it be said that the big money
boys don't figure all the angles.
One of Wall Streets oldest
spokesmen, Barron's National
Business & Financial Weekly in
its July 2 issue advised the
COP to stage a "deflation"
quick SOS the Democrats will get
the blame.
The exact words that the
financial sheet used were:
THE present boom in business
is ten years old. In the nature
of things its end seems wholly
likely to arrive in some time be-
fore the political campaign of
1852. If at. that time Dewey
should want to run for relec-
ton, with the hope of enjoying
a successful term, he would look
with dismay upon the arrival of
a depression in 1851 or 1852.
"The only way he could try
to avoid such a contingency
would be to shape federal poll
cies toward initiation as early as
possible in 1949. A recession
taking place so soon could easily
be blamed on the Truman Ad-
and efforts towards
recovery could be made once
the medicine were taken.
with luck Dewey could be
as the man who had
rescued the nation from a dan
gerous setback in prosperity"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13
Huff Explains
Status
Of Drivers
Brewery Drivers
Secretary Points To
RumOrs As Untrue

Emil Huff, secretary of the
United Brewery Workers Union,
Local 81. CIO stated in a letter
that there seems to be some con-
fusion regarding the status of
union membership among the
drivers for the Maumee Valley
Distributing Co.
He explained that his letter
is intended to erase confusion
and doubt about their union
status. He stated that the drivers
employed by that company are
in good standing and
they also deliver all union made
beer. He included the following
brands as union made beer;
Deihls, Barbarosa and Burger.
Mr.. Huff pointed out to re-
cent election among the drivers
with the vote being unanimous
in favor for a union.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13
COP Gives Profits
Tax The BruSh-OH
$4,000 Corporations
To Profit By Move

WASHINGTON (L P Al -
None of President Truman's rec
concentrations to the special ses-
sion of the Republican Both Con-
gress got 1.-The treatment" any
more flatly than did his request
for an excess profits tax.
Rep. Clarence Brown (R.,
Ohio), Taft's campaign manager
- of all people - chided the
President with the fact that he
himself had urged its repeal
after VI day. Senate Finance
Committee Chairman Eugene
Millikin (R., Coz dismissed the
idea instantly.
But last week, just for the rec
ord, Rep. John Dingell 3D.,
Mich.) formally introduced the
Presidents bill. Dingell said his
measures would restore S4,300,-
600, 600 to the Treasury that
was lost by the Republican laid
the rich" income tax cuts last
session, and thereby draw that
inflationary currency
away from those who need it
least.
$4,000 Benefit
The Michigan New Dealer said
that Treasury estimates indicate
that fewer than $4,000 of the
country's 100000 corporations
would be affected. He pointed
out, however, that the rapidly
rising rate of corporate profits
brings 5000 more corporations
under the tax than did the bill
he introduced last session, altho
it was tighter"
Dingell added that by hitting
the big corporations which set
prices, an excess profits tax
would serve to discourage fur
ther price increases.
Another commentary on in
flation came last week from the
Bureau of Internal Revenue. 1t
revealed that federal income of
wine, beer and liquor taxes has
fallen off 1870 in the last six
Even the more faithful
just can't afford so
much any more.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13
CIO Parade
Is
Appointed
John Blessing
Named To Head
2 Committees

John Blessing, member of the
National Supply Unit, Local IL
UAW-CIO was named chairman
of the CIO Labor Day Parade
and picnic, it was announced by
Thomas H. Burke, executive
secretary of the Toledo Indus
trial Union Council.
Expresses Enthusiasm
Mr.. Blessing said the first
was held Wednesday
and expressed enthis-
iasm for making this years par
ade bigger and more colorful
than last year. He said that the
committee pointed out that last
years parade attracted nation
wide attention being carried in
news reels all over the nation.
1t was explained that each
Unit or Local will decide its own
theme on features of their floats
The chairman reminds the Units
that to make arrangements for a
band that Milo Barrett should be
contacted on Jordan 2760. He
is confident that Mr.. Barrett
can furnish any local or unit
with band if they so desire.
Committee to Meet
Mr.. Blessing said that the over
all committee will meet again
Wednesday evening to map ad-
ditional plans for the parade and
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13
LaeIede Christy
Get A
Is Cent Boost

Thirty-four workers at the
Laclede Christy Co. won a 13
cents an hour wage boost plus
two cents adjustments on
inaquities over the 13 cent
figure. Retroactive to June ID it
may raise some production
standards up to 26 cents an
hour, it was announced by Or
vile Beemer, international rep
resentative from region 2-B,
UAW-CIO and Norman Meyers
Local IL board member.
The new one year contract
also grants union shop and
80 day wage talk reopening
clause. The high rate with the
l13 cents increase will rise to
$2.13 cents an hour.
Vacation clause changes give
a 10 year worker a vacation of
20 days. Included in the con-
tract is an insurance plan paid
by the company, the two ne
gotiators said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13
Pipe Threading
Workers Get
Increases

Toledo Pipe Threading work
ers, members of Local IL UAW-
CIO approved a contract grant
ing 13 cents an hour across the
board and from one to 13 cents
inaquities adjustments in addi-
tion to the raise grant.
The 335 employees will get the
boost retroactive to June 21, it
was announced by M lv i n
Schultz, president of Local IL
and who completed the final
He was helped in
the course of talks by board
Norman Meyers.
The new contract grants en-
ployees with Is or more years
of service an extra one cent an
hour attached to the regular
bonus.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13

Join JAW

DETROIT (LPA) - About
10000 members of the National
Association of Die Casters have
affiliated with the United Auto
Workers-CIO, the union an
nounced here last week. The die
casters, most of whom work for
companies which are suppliers
to the auto or aircraft industries,
were part of the Mine, Mill &
Smelter Workers-CIO from 1912
until last June, when they dis
affiliated because MMSW refus-
ed to comply with the non-Com-
munist affidavits requirement of
the Taft-Hartley act.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13
Site Chosen For Co 0p;
Pickus To Speak Here
West Toledo
Is Choice For
Supermarket
Others Planned
For Various
City Sections
By Edward Duck

Negotiations are b in g
completed for the purchase
of property by the Toledo
Consumers Cooperative, Inc,
and the first of a group of
warehouse supermarkets will
open in the fall, it was announc-
ed by Robert Parkinson, Coop
President.
The location will not be made
known until the final papers
have been signed, but it was
intimated that the store will be
somewhere in West Toledo"
Others will be opened at
strategic points throughout the
city he explained.
Answer to High Prices
'We intend to answer the call
of the Toledo housewives and
wage earners who at last rea-
lie the necessity of organizing
consumers, Parkinson stated.
"A meat strike or a tightening
of the belt do not constitute ar
effective answer to the high
price situation, although the
various ways # expressing re-
sentiment against price gouging
do have some effect he added.
The new coop store will be
owned by its customers. High
duality food will be available
at good prices and great saw
ings, according to the coop
official. Anyone may purchase
at the coop, but only members
will receive patronage dividends
annually, based upon the amount
of their individual purchases, a
~ncord of which is kept accur-
=. Shares of common stock
twenty-five dollars, and
are of such stock is the
limit to tach member, although
anyone may purchase larger
amounts of preferred stock.
Meetings Planned
Robert Pickus, who headed
the organizational drives of the
cooperative in Detroit, Flint,
Pontiac, Lansing and Muskegon
will meet with leaders of local
unions and units, as we'll as
other groups leaders, on Tues
day, August "a, 8 p. m. in the
YMCA, Jefferson Avenue. The
local coop group has engaged
rooms A, B, and c, and urges
shop committeeman from every
plant in the Toledo area, as we'll
as interested rank-and-file mem
bers, to attend.
Virgil Barnhart, local coop
vice president, together with
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13

picnic. All units and locals are
asked to have representatives at
the meeting to be held at TIUC
at eli Huron st.
1t is important for attendance
Mr.. Blessing said because each
Unit will be asked to make a
donation to a pool to make
necessary purchases for the
picnic. To date he pointed out
that Willys-Overland Unit has
agreed to take care of bingo
prizes and to furnish ice cream.
National Supply and Mather
Spring combined to buy the pop,
he added.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13
Contest TO Name Queen
For Labor Day Parade
Beqins In CIO Shops
Applications
Available In
Office
Beauty Winner
To Be Crowned
On Aug. 27

The contest to name a
Queen to reign over the Labor
Day Parade is in full swing
in CIO shops in the city. The
winner in the finals, to be
selected by three judges, will be
crowned on August 27, on the
stage of the Paramount Theatre,
it was announced by the contest
committee composed of Frank
Gebhardt, chairman and John
Blessing and Burny Zawodny.
Copy of entry blank on page p
Any contestant entering must
be a CIO member or a member
of an immediate family member
of the CIO. Each shop can have
an elimination contest among
those entered from their respec-
tive Unit. However, only one
contenstant from each shop is
eligible for the final Queen con-
test.
The winner from each shop is
required to obtain an indentifi-
cation card from the Toledo In
dustrial Union Council before
appearing in the finals, and
furnishing her own bathing
suit.
Applications Available
1t was pointed out by the
committee chairman that there
are no restrictions to enter the
contest and all girls working in
shops or whe have immediate
members in the CIO are invited
to fill out a blank which can be
obtained from any shop COM
mittee. The application on page
2 of the Journal can also be
filled out and mailed to Toledo
Industrial Union Council, Gil
Huron st. Entries must be post.
not later than midnight
%.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13

gave an Endorsement to
either candidate for the Ohio
governorship.
They're Not Concerned
On the national scene no
blanket endorsement was made
in the presidential race but Jack
Kroll, national PAC director for
the CIO said he likes MIR. Tru-
mans New Look" In discussing
presidential candidates he said:
Labor is not interested in
SNUG little men with little
minds who sit behind little
black mustaches waiting to see
which way the wind is blowing.
And, of course, l am talking
about the Republican candidate,
Thomas E. Dewey. And while
we're talking about Stooges, let
me say that neither are we in
terested in stooges of Moscow.
About Mr.. Truman
in Milwaukee recently, l
said that the White House has a
new look and l think the new
look is becoming. And l hope
that President Truman stays IN
fashion and keeps on fighting
for the fight for the many and
not the few"
Another principal speaker was
Helen Gahagen Douglass, liberal
Democratic congressWoman from
California. About the Republi-
cans she declared that the Re-
publicans are concerned with a
high level of profits regardless
Of the human issue at stake.
Cashing E Bonds
She asserted that republicans
are not concerned that the
American people in the middle
and lower income groups are
cashing in their E bonds to bal
ance the budget or 60 into
debt"
On profits she said there
must be a balance between pro-
fits, wages and prices in order
to avoid a certain depression to-
ward which we are headed.
Mrs. Douglass added Congress
must establish this balance"
Adopted
Of the 19 resolutions adopted
by the delegates representing
locals in all sections of the
state were repeal of the state
sales tax; remodification of the
Compensation code;
nodernization of state safety
codes; raising of present $21
minimum for unemploy-
nent compensation and removal
IF old-age pension maximums.
Condemned at the conference
vas the 80th Congress and its
recent special session.