Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-16
INSIDE
AMERICA
written by the Staff Of
The CIO NeWS)

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all three speakers were
huddled in close knot. The
speakers; MANS president,
Morris Sayre of Corn Pro-
ducts Refining; MANS ex-
president, Earl Bunting, of
O'Sullivan Heels; and Hol-
combe Parkes, MANS public
relations chief.
Naturally, there weren't
many differences of opinion
among the trio!
At one point, Sayre hinted
that everything, simply every
thing, is perfect in these
United States. Bunting de-
INJURED. Everything's not
quite perfect yet, he opined;
but it will be mighty quick if
MANS version of private en-
terprise is given full sway!
1t was tough listening for
the radio engineers around
the network, who couldn't
help hearing the show.
\ \
The government was the
loser when Cliff Durr, mild
hammered, soft-spoken man
from Alabama stepped down
from federal office last week.
Durr wound up a five-year
term on the Federal Com
munications Commission, re-
fused an offer of re-appoint-
ment. During that period, he
acted as the 'public's con-
science" on government
agency whose powers to pro-
tect freedom of speech are
vitality important to every
American.
He fought every trend to-
toward monopoly and censor
ship; argued for better public
service by radio, and was SO
roundly attacked by those
radio industry moguls who
couldn't understand the think
ing of a man who felt that
liberty is a hundred times
more important than profit
and-loss statements.
There never were too many
top-notch public servants in
Washington; and Durr's de-
partment leaves an almost un-
fillable gap in their thinning
ranks.
Next time you're out in the
country on a Sunday after
noon drive, give some thought
to how Farmer Jones-in that
little house behind the hill
is represented in Congress. 1t
makes an interesting contrast
to your own case, regardless
of whether your Representa-
tive is good" or bad.
Take a look at the House
Agriculture Committee, for
instance. Everyone of its
members comes from farm
areas; every type of farm in
terest is directly represented.
AS even the greenest re-
porter in Washington can tell
you, any bill that hurts the
farmer doesn't get by the
Agriculture Committee.
The House Labor Commit
tee is something else again. 1t
could well be called the
House Anti-Labor Committee.
Pro-labor members are a
weak minority; its three top
ranking members - Hartly
(R., N. J.), Lands (R., Ind.>
and Hoffman (Mich-have all
earned regulations as foes of
unionism.
Up in New York, a Labor
subcommittee has been bad
gering leaders of store unions,
asking 'have you stopped
beating your wife?" Cues
tions, and threatening con-
tempt citations.
You'll have to search deep
into the records of the Agri-
culture Committee to find any
such inquisiton of farm lead
ers by their Congressional
spokesmen.
Maybe those farmers can
teach us something about
political action.
What does CIO want in a
Democratic pla tform? A
fortnight demand for repeal
of Taft-Hartley; higher mini
mum wages; anti-inflation ac-
tions; housing to meet the
needs of the American people;
a health insurance program;
federal aid for over-burdened
local school systems; improv-
ed social security; passage of
civil rights bills; taxes on ex-
cess profits.
It's program that American
needs, that can be enacted,
that should be enacted.
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HERE AND THERE: Cloth
ing, textile unions seeking a
u. S. order to require 87c-an-
hour for work done on gov
ernment clothing, textile con-
tracts, under terms of Walsh
Healey Act CIO telephone
union won NLRB election
among 4,200 workers in
Maryland Oil Workers