Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-10-08
INSIDE
AMERICA
(Written by the Staff Of
The CIO NewS)

N dllS al w lii OuSIlOuL A11OSL
of this land of ours.
Various polls show Presi-
dent and his running-mate,
Senator Barkley, gaining on
Dewey and Warren. In Cali
fornia, for instance, Truman
made SO gain in less than
a month.
What does it add UP to?
PAC Director Jack Kroll has
one answer, a mighty good
one, too.
Says Kroll:
Registration figures now
available indicate that our
goal of 60,0O0,O0O votes this
year will be achieved. And, if
60,000,000 Americans vote on
November 2, you can be sure
that the Truman-Barkley tick
ct will win and that we'll
have a liberal congress"
Oh, yes, keep on contribut-
ing those PAC dollars. 1--WE
can use a lot more money,
brother" says Kroll. For, if
PAC doesn't keep pressing as
1t is doing in the blocks,
wards, precincts, divisions,
districts, states and nationally,
the 60,000,00O might think
that it is too far to walk on
election day. You can't beat
high prices, get better hous-
ing, repeal Taft-Hartley, ETC.,
II you don't act politically,
Kroll warns.
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One of the best examples
OF real political action is in
the State of Minnesota. There,
Hubert H. Humphrey, dyna-
mic 37-year-old Minneapolis
mayor, is campaigning hard
and effectively against in
cumbent Senator Joe Ball
(R), a renegade from CIO
Newspaper Guild.
Humphrey Was Here"
signs are up in just about ev-
cry city, town and village of
the State. The CIO, heartily
in back of Humphrey - yes.
he is the same Humphrey who
made the stirring civil liber-
ties appeal at the Democratic
convention - is plugging at
registration by radio, by loud
speakers on busseS by leaf
lets, by house-to-house visits,
by just about every method
short of driving potential vot-
ers nuts.
And Steelworkers of the
Iron Range and Duluth like
the looks of Representative
John Blatnik CD so they're
backing him to the limit.
X + y
Henry Agard Wallace is
panied about c. B. (Beaney)
Baldwin, his campaign mana
ger. 1t seems Beaney commit
ted the heresy of saying the
Progressive lspare that name)
Party ought to back such lib
erals as Helen Douglas and
Chet Bowles. Wallace cried
out in anguish. Says he:
We've got to build a party,
Beaney, and m a ybe Chet
Bowles doesn't take peace
seriously. I do" (Peace, it's
wonderful wonderful, to Hen
ry)
1t looks as if Beaney pre-
vailed, for the Progs urged
their chums not to vote for
their candidate against Mrs.
Douglas, but to back her, how
ever reluctantly they can
swallow her liberal record.
Tom Dewey can blow his
top sometimes despite having
the appearance of a mems,
store dummy. In Albany last
February, it is revealed, he
told a VFW committee civil
service employees are medic
ere" and that he favored
abolishing civil service every
where.
Representative Hartley may
not be running again for Con-
gress Tin itself a boon to the
Nation) but he's still planting
the seeds of taking more be-
nefits from workers.
He's fighting m n i m u m
wage-fixipg sections of the
Walsh Healey Act, which sets
conditions for persons work
ing for contractors handling
Government orders.
Secretary of Labor Tobin
says VIII Law twas passed to
prevent the Government from
buying supplies from chiseling
employers and to support the
manufacturer who wishes to
pay decent wages"
Industry spokesman John
V. Van Sickle Ga Wabash Col
lege prof, testifying at the
Labor Departments public
hearings on an appeal by the
CIO Amalgamated Clothing
Workers to raise the cotton
garment industry minimum
from 40c to 75c, said:
"A fair wage may be defin-
ed as consisting of a bracket