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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02

&c: COP agreement-federal aid
to education, minimum wage
legislation, specific mention of
an FEPC law, a labor extension
service in the Labor Depart
ment.
Four Hour Fight
Included, after a four-hour
fight in the drafting committee,
was a housing plank which ad-
vocates public low-cost housing.
The civil rights program is even
less progressive than was the
1914 platform. 1t omits all men
ton of the crucial question of
a permanent Fair Employment
Pratice law. This, Negro and
labor leaders agree, is the test
ing point of any civil rights pro-
gram in the political arena. The
platform calls for an anti-lynch-
ing law. The rest of the civil
rights plank calls for abolition
of the poll tax without men,
ton of the method) and states
the Republicans "are opposed
to the idea of segregation in the
armed services of the U. S."
Both statements leave plenty of
loopholes, as the Committee was
told by innumerable witnesses
before it deliberated. Southern
Republicans played an active
part in drafting this plank.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02
oLocaI ~
Big Four
Favors Union
Champion Casts
qOoo Votes In
Security Election

Three of Local us big tour
came through with flyin n 6
colors on their voting for
Union security. They were Will
lys-Overland, Champion Spark
Plug and Spicer Mfg. The fourth
Auto-Lite, cast their ballots on
E{hursday which was too late for
the Toledo Union Journal pub
lication.
Victory At Champion
The biggest victory was re-
corded at Champion where a
furious campaign by the COM
pany was in progress to dis
courage the workers from voting
on Union Security.
In a roundabout way, the COM
pany stated in letters to all en-
ployeees that they were not
forced to join church, lodge
or political party. The letter
added that anyone who joins
such an organization does so of
his own free will.
AL Kenngott, chairman of
Champion Unit stated that the
workers proved that point by
voting 900 for the union despite
the efforts of the management
letter. The vote was 1929 for the
union with but 213 voting
against it. Champion manage
ment further attempted to dis
courage voting on the Union Sc
curity clause by refusing to pay
down time for the voting periods,
he said.
Management Tactics
M. Kenngott added that the
members carried out their vow
that the union is their defense
against management tactics and
intend to back themselves up by
having a union stronger than
ever before.
Spicer members voted by a.
96% vote favoring the union.
The count was 1882 for the un-
ion security and only 81 against
it, it was reported by Henry
Baum, Unit secretary.
Willys-Overland had $3.50
voting in favor of the union with
III against, it was announced by
Homer Avery, Unit chairman.
Mr.. Avery expressed his pleasure
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02

To Launch
Fall Drive
Kick off Reilly
To Be Held Aug. 8
In Cincinnofi, Q.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, June
I25-Ohio CIO-Political Action
Committee will launch its fall
election campaign with state
wide rally in Cincinnati on Aug.
8, Chairman Jack Kroll and Sec
retary- Treasurer William La
vele revealed today in a joint
announcement.
Congress Record Lashed
Lashing out at the record of
both the 80th Congress and the
9th Ohio General Assembly,
they said the PAC kickoff rally
will be held in the Netherland
Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati.
Ask For Representation
In announcing the rally, Kroll
and Lavelle called for representa-
'tion from every Local Union,
Council, and PAC Unit at the
meeting, at which speaker of
national prominence will be
heard.
Scheduled for consideration
at this session will be the Ohio
CIO-PAC's state legislative pro-
gram.
PAC Officials Observed
Denouncing both the Congress
and the state Legislature for
coldly disregarding the needs of
the people in their desire to do
the bidding of selfish-vested in
terests, the PAC officials observ-
ed:-
Days
"These are grave and i'm
portant days in the history of our
country and for the Labor Move
ment, too. We must recognize the
heavy responsibility resting upon
us to preserve democratic institu-
tions which are threatened not
only on the international front,
but are seriously endangered on
the domestic scene by monopoly,
anti Unionism, extortionate prof
it and inflation.'
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02
Drafts
Republican
Labor Plank
DeWeY's Aid Serves
On Subcommittee
For COPS Views

PHILADELPHIA GPA)-A
plump, cheerful white-haired
woman attorney from New
York headed the subcommittee
of the Republican resolutions
committee which drafted the
COPS labor and social welfare
planks.
Miss Mary Donlon, one of
Gov. Thomas Dewey's top aides,
is pretty sure to have one of the
juicier Labor Department or
Federal Security posts if Dewey
wins the nomination and cleo
ton.
Serves AS Chairman
Besides serving as chairman
of the N. Y. Workmen's Com
pensation Board, Miss Donlon is
a trustee of Cornell University
and actively interested in the
School of Labor & Industrial
Relations on the campus. She
now serves as president of the
Accident Boards
and Commissions.
AS for her views on labor
questions, friends describe them
as very similar to those of Sen.
Irving Ives" Ives, freshman
COP Senator from New York,
voted for Taft-Hartley, but on
other less crucial questions has
attempted to balance that anti
labor vote.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02
Route
Favors W-O
Workers

Vice-Mayor Thomas Burke
introduced an ordinance in
City Council benefitting hun
dreds of WHY'S Overland work
ers.
Mr. Burke, who is executive
secretary of the Toledo Indus
trial Union Council proposed the
emergency ordinance to route
Cherry ST. busses during rush
hours down Wolcott Blvd. to the
WHY'S plant. The measure was
adopted and placed on a three
month trial period.
Four Trips
There will be four trips on
Wolcott Blvd. in the morning for
workers on their way to work
and six trips on the same route
at quitting time. The busses will
veer off from Cherry st. and
Collingwood intersection to VOL
colt Blvd. to the Administration
Building of that plant and back
to Haverhill and to Phillips.
The new route, having alter
nate buses and so marked if
going on Wolcottt Blvd. will give
the workers extra service and
cutting down walking, Mr..
Burke said. He added that the
service is bound to please hum
dreds of workers who were re-
quired to walk to the WHY'S
plant.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02

forgotten by Thursday when
the real business of the con-
vention, nomination of a pres
dental candidate, took place
is worded in the usual vague
generalities. That's char
acteristic not confined to the
COP platform, of course.
About Labor
Here's what it says about la
Dor: Collective bargaining is an
obligation as well as a right,
applying equally to workers and
employers; and the fundamental
right to strike is subordinate
only to paramount considera-
tions of public health and safe
ty. Governments chief function
in this field is to promote good
will, encourage cooperation, and
where resort is had to interva-
ton, to be impartial, preventing
violence and requiring obe-
dience to all law by all parties
involved. We pledge continuing
study to improve labor manage
ment legislation in the light of
experience and changing condi-
tionS.
No Specific Points
Omitted from the platform
were any mention of the specific
points on which, optimistic la
Dor spokesmen thought they'd
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02

WASHINGTON-Retail prices
reached new record highs dur
ing May, the Bureau of Labor
was 9 per cent higher than dur
Statistics reported on June %.
The price index for May 1948
ing the same month last year
and 73 per cent higher than in
August 1889.
At the same time, another
BIS report showed wages lagg-
ing far behind in the race with
prices. There was practically no
change in average wages be-
tween April and May 1948, and
present rates remained slightly
below the high point reached at
the end of 1947.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02
Ford Union
Votes 97%
On Security

Workers in the new Mound
Road plant of the Ford Motor
Company, on the outskirts Of
Detroit voted the UAW-CIO re.
gional director, announced to-
day.
Results of the NLRB election
held Monday were: UAW-CIO-
1854; No union-36.
Organizing the plant was I'm.
der the direction of McAulay
and Assistant Regional Director
James Morgan.
Ken Bannon, UAW-CIO Ford
director, said the plant
eventually will employ about
1000 workers. Bannon said the
Mound Road victory was the
second to be won by the UAW.
CIO in new Ford plants in the
last month. The other was at the
Metuchen, New Jersey plant.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02
NAM Is Prolific

NEW YORK-The National
Association of Manufacturers
announced here that over mil
lion NAM books and pamphlets
were distributed to schools,
churches, women's clubs, en-
ployees, stockholders, and civic
leaders in the first quarter of
1948.
Best-Seller, said the NAM, is
a pocket-sized pamphlet, THAT
New Labor Law" which extols
the virtues of the Taft-Hartley
Law, using the same half-truths,
whole lies and insults to the GE-
Dor Movement that have charac-
terized NAM ads.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02
Editors Note:

Editors Note:
Due to the large number of wage contract negotia-
tons on the agenda Richard GOsser, international
UAW-CIO vice-presdent forced to bypass
planned column in the Toledo Union Journal his
views of the Toledo Labor-Management Committee to
which this issue is dedicated. In telephone
ton reaching him during wage contract negotiation
he stated that he does not want to write column
this committee hurriedly and will instead express his
views at writing later date.
Mr.. Gosser is a charter member of this committee
and his advice and suggestion labor leaders in
cities have urged adoption of a Labor Management
Committee in their locality.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02
UAW-CIO First Union To
Operate Radio Station
To-
Have $1,000
Watt Power
Listening Area
includes Toledo
And Communities 8

DETROIT, (SpeciaD -
Ground was officially broken
! a st Thursday morning for
WAIW-FM, the first UAW.
CIO radio station in the ma.
ton, according to Norman
Mathews, director of the unions
radio committee.
Att e n din g the ceremonies
were Emil Macy, secretary.
treasurer and acting president,
Richard Gosser, international
UAW vice president and Nor.
man Mathews.
OWNED BY UAW
The new station Is officially
owned and operated by the UAW
Broadcasting Corporation, a nom
profit organization. OfflcerS OF
the corporation are Walter p.
Reuther, president; Emil Nancy,
secretary-treasurer; Richard Cos
ser and John Livingston, vice
presidents and Norman Mathews
member of the board of diree.
tors.
''WAIW-FM, a $1,000 watt
station, will operate on fre-
quency of 401.9 megacycies.
Mathews said. ''Its tower will be
300 feet high. The station viii
serve southeastern Michigan, in.
cluding Detroit, Mt. Clemens,
Pontiac, Windsor, Canada, Mon
roe and Ann Arbor. In the LISTEN
Continued on Page 2
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02
It's Just AS Well If COP Forqets
Labor Pledges At Convention
Not Much In II For Organized Labor
AS Specific Points Are Omitted

PHILADELPHIA QLPA) - You won't have to read the
fine print in the Republican Partys platform to learn
there's nothing much for the people of the U.s. and very
little for organized labor.
Forgotten Next day
The draft presented to the convention Wednesday-and
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02
NOTICE
To Business Firms
And Advertisers
The Toledo Union
JourndI
is the Only
cI0 offieiaI
Newspaper in Toledo

N0WSpdpcI III AOICuO
1t speaks for the Toledo In
dustrial Union Council-CIO,
the Central Body of the CIO
in this city.
There are other CIO news
papers but they are published
by and only are intended for
members of their respective
shop.
Only the Journal has city
wide distribution m o n g
members of the CIO and has
mail distribution to bona -fide
subscribers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02
Here Are Local IL
Units Answers To
Taft-Hartley Law

Listed are Local IL Units,
UAW-CIO which have voted for
Union Security in the shops.
The elections were conducted
by the National Labor Relations
Board.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02

Richard Gosser camp president said that applications
IRE available for other two week periods for boys and
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02

similar two periods for girls,
latter part of August.
The drive to meet the $100, 900
quota for operating costs and
expansions at the camp was lag
ging last week, according to
Howard Rediger, camp director
and chairman of the fund rails
ing committee. He reports that
the Will o. Land Sportsman
Club is now putting on a drive
to help raise funds for the camp
fund.
Mr.. Rediger said that only
S96.21 was collected last week
and attributed the poor collec-
ton report to the coming long
weekend holiday. He predicted
that interest will be revived
after the holidays.
The total to date as reported
by the camp director otals $19,-
41O.69 making it $80,589.31 to
meet in the 100000 goal.
MISCELLANEOUS
Henry Morris, Henry's
Bar, 1901 Dorr st. $1,000
Herbert Lahr
1914 BigelOw ..."...,".. S.OU
Harold Borgelt, Ensign
Fdy ..............,........... l'UU
Carl Bresewska, Lander
Bros, 612 Forest Ave. leo
CHAMPION SPARK PLUG
Mrs. Carl Tesch ............. LOO
Alvin Farmer ........."..." l.OO
Viola Bower ................. LOU
LenOre Richard ........"... LOO
Peter DOrsten ................. LOO
Margaret Blakely .......". LOO
John Holly ......"......... ..." LOO
Drager ....:..... LOO
Betty Lucas ................." LOO
Mary Smith ......"......... LOO
Anon ...................... LOO
Jimmie Young ................ 100
Helen Kryzaniak ......... LOO
Martha SZmania ............. LOO
Irwin Crude ................... 100
Herman Breseke ........". LOO
Ruth Bade ....,............... LOO
Nellie Barden ................ loo
DeVILBISS
Lewis Howell ........"..... ESQ
Group o DeVilbiss
EmlOyees ,.... ....,"... 1871
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-02

NOTE: The shown here in addition to that
report of the collection shown this page
but represents a breakdown of donations by shops
Evening star., 1948-12-01
Dr..George H. Ramsey Dies;
Ex-PubIic Health Official
BY the Associated Press

SARANAC LAKE, N. Y, Dec. L.
Dr.. George H. Ramsey. 81, nation
ally known in public health circles,
died yesterday at McCabe cottage
here.
DR.. Ramsey had been i'll with tu-
berculosis for about four years. He
came here last August and under
went an emergency lung operation
the following month.
DR.. Ramsey was former assistant
commissioner for preventable dis
eases of the New York State De-
partment of Health and former
deputy commissioner Of the Mich
igan State Health Department.
He was born III Olean. N. Y, and
was graduated from Rutgers Uni
verSity in 1913 and from Columbia
University School of Medicine in
1917. He received a degree of
Doctor of Public Health from Johns
Hopkins University in 1926.
Best known for his long years of
research in the prevention of yellow
and typhoid fever .epidemics and
his pioneering public health cam
paign against venereal diseases, Dr.
Ramsey helped to~rip the cloak of
false modeSty off the word "syph-
Ills" SO the disease itself could be
fought in the open.
Evening star., 1948-12-01
j. H. Cooper, Lay Preacher
And VA Division Chief, Dies

]. Herschel Cooper, 68, a Veterans
Administration division chief for
many years and acting assistant
pastor of Memorial Evangelical
United Brethren Church, died yes
terday in Georgetown University
Hospital. He was taken to the hos
pital Sunday after suffering heart
attack.
Mr.. Cooper was chief of the
Adjudicating Division, Dependents
Claims Service, and had been in
Government service since 1895 when
he came here from Dayton, Ohio, to
join the Geological Survey. He
transferred to the Pension Bureau
the next year and had been engaged
in veterans affairs ever since.
Born in West Baltimore, Ohio, Mr..
Cooper had taken some theological
courses at Columbian College, now
George Washington University, and
for'more than Is years had been lay
preacher at his church, North Capitol
and r streets. He was also super
intendent emeritus of the Sunday
School which he had served for 80
years.
Mr.. Cooper is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Ebbieline Taylor Cooper,
whom he married in 1902. Their
home was at 2451 Thirty-ninth place
NV.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Friday at the United Breth-
rem Church. The body, which is
at the Hines funeral home, 2901
Fourteenth street NV, will lie in
the church for two hours before the
funeral Burial will be in Con-
greSSional Cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-12-01
Soviet Charges U. 5.
Imports lis Children
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Dec. 1.-The Literary
Gazette charged today that Ameri-
can military authorities in Germany
are sending to the United States
some Soviet children sought by
their parents in the Soviet Union.
These children were kidnapped
and taken away from their par
ents by force" the weekly Soviet
publication said.
CThe Literary Gazette appar-
emily is referring to displaced
persons freed from NaN control
by the Western Allied armies.
The nationality of hundreds of
them, particularly those from
territory which Russia absorbed
after the war, has been in dis
pute)
The Literary Gazette mentioned
specifically the case of Valentino
Kaverzin. 1t said she was moved
to the United States despite pleas
from her parents, who live in the
Soviet Union, that she be returned
to them. (This dispatch did not
identify the girl further0
According to very incomplete in
formation, there are more than
1000 Soviet children" in the Ameri-
can occupied zone of Germany, 1t
said.
Evening star., 1948-12-01
UAW Prefers Cut in Prices
To Pay Rise; Reuther SAYS
BY the Assoeioted Press

BERKELEY, Calf, Dec. 1.-Wal-
ter P. Reuther says his CIO United
Auto Workers Union would prefer
a rollback in prices to a rise In
pay.
Il mean it when I say we don't
care about dough-but what It will
buy the UAW president told a
University of California audience
yesterday.
What we are looking for is a
wage that will give us 1914 stsnd
ard of living. We don't care how
we get it-by a rollback of prices
or a wage increase. We would pre-
fer a price rollback. however. be-
cause we believe lower prices would
help every one"
Mr.. Reuther is attending the
quarterly meeting of his unions
Executive Beard in San Francisco.
Evening star., 1948-12-01
H. B. Kirkpatrick Dies;
Pittsburgh Civic Leader
BY The Associoted Press

PITTSBURGH, Dec. III. B.
Kirkpatrick, SO. president of the
Pittsburgh School Board and prom.
inent civic leader, died today in his
home.
Mr.. Kirkpatrick formerly managed
the Koppers Building and several
other large real estate properties
and was president of the Chamber
of Commerce for many years. He
retired from business two years ago.
He was born in Anna, Ill, and
was graduated from the University
of Illinois. For five years he special
lied in Philippine Island irrigation
projects as q Government civil
engineer. He next worked as a
civil engineer in Boise, Idaho, ana
in Chicago.
Evening star., 1948-12-01
Recount Confirms
Democratic Edge
OF 81 mHouse
By the Associoted Press

A vote recount giving Democrats
another House seat in New York
confirms the edge of 81 seats they
will hold over Republicans in the
House in the Congress.
The lineup, on the basis of the
New York recount showing John c
Davies, Democrat, elected over In
cumbent Hadwen c. Fuller, Repub-
lican, in the 35th -State) district
will be:
Democrats, 262; Republicans, I'll
American-Labor, l; vacancy, /.
The vacancy, also in New York, is
in normally Democratic district
tBrooklyn) which had been repre-
sented by the late John j. Delany
Democrat, who died after the elec-
tlon.
At the start of the present Con-
gress the lineup was: Republicans
246; Democrats, 1877; American
Labor, 2.
In the new Senate, Democrats will
have 54 and Republicans, AZ seats
compared with 81 Republicans and
As Democrats in the present Senate
Some kinds of fish can be frozen
in ice and still survive.
Evening star., 1948-12-01
Navigator Quits Aviairix
On Attempted G|oba| Hop
By the Associated Press

EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. L.
Michael Townsend, navigator for
Mrs. Richard Morrow-Tait on her
attempted global flight. left here
today by plane for Montreal to re-
turn to England.
Mr.. Townsend and the British
aviatrix were flown to Edmonton re-
Gently in United States Air Force
bomber after their secondhand
light plane Thursdays Child" was
badly damaged in a forced landing
about 23O miles southeast of Fair
banks, Alaska.
The young navigator who left
England with Mrs. Morrow-Tait last
August 18 on their round-the-World
journey said he will resume his
studies at Cambridge University.
Meanwhile, the pretty, red-haired
aviatrix remained firm in her de-
termination to complete the fight.
She said she will attempt to raise
enough money to repair her plane
by singing in an Anchorage (Alaska)
night club.
She is resting here until her re-
turn to Anchorage on date still
undecided.
Evening star., 1948-12-01
1tt Mrittnrtattt

BAKER. EUGENE F. In sad but loving
memory of our dear husband and father,
EUGENE F. BAKER, who passed away
three years ago today, December l. l945.
God took you first and we remain
To walk the road alone;
Well live In memory's garden, dear,
With happy days we've known.
Each thing you've touched along the way
So many years with one we've loved
Cannot easily be forgot.
HIS DEVOTED WIFE, MARY A. BAKER,
b. AND CHILDREN.
REINHART. JOSEPHINE A. In loving
sEPHINE A. REiNHART. who departed this
life twenty-three years ago today, Decem-
Gov1NG Ie5 ii i'Is Sons AND pAuoHrERs-1N-
LAW. ALPHEus. FRANCIS, MARGU-
RITE AND ANNA.
RoTT. G. FREDERICK. In memory OF
our beloved husband and father. G.: FRED
ERICK ROTT, who departed this life nine
years ago, December /, 1889.
Let us think of him today.
Sleepins, resting. just away;
Resting where no shadows fall,
Only waiting for us all.
LOVING WIFE AND CHILDREN, IDA AND
, EMIL.
TAYLOR, SARAH A. Sacred to the
memory of our dear mother. SARAH A.
TAYLOR, who departed this life fifty years
ago today December ], 1898.
Gone. but never forgotten
HER DEVOTED CHILDREN. LETITIA A.
STEWART AND RUBEN B. TAYLOR. :