Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-05-14
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New!
By
Eduard J.
Duck,
Assistant
Director,
National
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request is small indeed, and
If is unthinkable that any OF
us would refuse to help them.
An item of canned goods is
all they ask. None of us are
so poor, even with the high
cost of living, that we cannot
spare a single can OF mix,
beans. tomatoes or corn, when
we know it will be so greatly
appreciated by these people.
No, none of us are really
stingy. But most of us do not
bother to reflect on matters
such as this. The pensioners
are having one heck of a time
irving to live on the meager
allowance they receive each
month, their need is great.
Can you picture yourself
living on a maximum allow
ance of something like $4l.75
ner month? That's what the
aged have to do in this day OF
initiation and high prices.
They don't get this amount
for food. It covers everything.
And few get the maximum.
If we ask ourselves exactly
how we would 60 about living
on such a scanty pittance we
won't begrudge the pensioners
an item or two of canned
goods. In fact, if we just set
up a program in our own
particular shop for collecting
the canned goods, we'll find
that everyone will respond.
ACT NOW
Stewards and committee
men are quite busy these
days, but it won't take much
time nor trouble to collect the
items, and it should be done
Immediately.
One of the main troubles
with all of us is that we'd
rather brush aside the unplea-
SAINT facts of life. The sad
plight of the pensioner and
the handicapped person is
certainly no pleasant thought.
Rather than ignoring our re-
sponsibility, we should try to
do what little we can to
alleviate the unpleasantness.
The Old Age Pensioners
are victims of a state of rot
tenness in politics. If we are
to be honest with ourselves
we must admit that we are as
much responsible for their
plight as they are. Society
owes the aged a debt. They
have lived and contributed to
our improved way of life, just
as we are now doing for other
future generations. Our hope
expressed in our demands for
social security and workers
industrial pensions, is to es-
cape insecurity in our declin-
ing years. Do they not deserve
at least the same considera-
ton? If the politicians in
power will not do their duty,
at least we can show that we
are awake to our response
bility as private citizens and
as union members.
COMMENTARY
II is sad commentary in
deed, on both state and ma
tional politics, yes even on
our entire economic system,
when we consider that in
dustry and government have
failed to provide for human
beings as adequately as they
have provided for the ma
chinery and property used by
these same humans.
1t has been stated before,
and properly so, that a work
ingman does not receive the
same consideration and securi-
ty that a farmer gives a pig,
horse or COW. When a person
is healty and in the prime of
life he asks nothing of society.
When he is past that prime
industry has no use for him
and society begins to regard
him as a burden. Was this
Gods plan?
Hardly. Unless we take the
same cold, cruel atheistic
viewpoint that industry and
self seeking politicians have
taken, we must consider the
aged a vital segment of our
society, and we must recog-
niZe that any decent society
fulfills It's obligations toward
thtoC PSOPAN'
The present need of the Old
Age Pensioners is immediate.
They need food, and need it
badly. Bring a few items of
canned goods, or at least one,
into your shop next Monday
and your executive shop COM
mittee will see that it is de-
livered to the Toledo Indus
trial Union Council, GIL
Huron Street, from where it
will be distributed to the pen
sionerS.
Moscow reports that the
stain Prize" for the Soviet's
best film of the year went to
a movie that proved that
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