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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25
ATTEMPTED Sabofoqe

1t was a bit like socking a guy in the
teeth when he wasn't expecting fight.
Congress spent months discussing the
need for a program that would help war
torn Europe get back on its feet. The issues
involved were debated at length.
Then, finally, a European Recovery
Program was approved by both the House
and Senate and an agency to administer
the plan was created.
At this point most Americans thought
the government could settle down to the
delicate and difficult task of making ERP
work.
But, no.
They hadn't taken into account the
scheme being Matched by the House APP
preparations Committee. They hadn't real
lied the House itself would go along with
the committee on plan to sabotage ERP
Here's how it happened:
The newspapers were telling the nation
about the Congressional logjam that our
lawmakers were trying TO break SO they
could adjourn June 10.
COP presidential hopefuls were
dent Truman was on junket designed to
win prestige and influence voters.
Then, bingo!
The House Appropriations Committee,
headed by COP Rep Taber, announced it
wanted TO cut the heart out of ERP by
slicing its appropriation by nearly So
billion.
Then, almost before the country real
lied what was happening, the House ap.
proved the reduction by voice vote.
Ii the House had been branch of the
Kremlin it could hardly have done more to.
bring JOY to Joe Stain. Hadn't it done
fine job of proving what the Reds had been
saying-that Western Europe couldn't de-
pend on unreliable" America?
If the Senate should go along with the
House, ERP will have two strikes on it
before its entire team Is on the field
because Taber ct al threw fast curve
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25
tn UnuIfered

The Taft-Hartley Act was praised and
criticized at the final week of hearings
conducted by Senator Joe Balls joint
Congressional watchdog committee-but
nothing's going to happen to TIL in '48
The Minnesota Republican-who faces
tough contest from Mayor Hubert Hum
phreys of Minneapolis this fall--said no
legislative changes would be asked of the
80th Congress-
Business witnesses, not content with
the victory last year, pressed for ban on
industry-wide bargaining between unions
and employers, and some urged that all
forms OF union security be outlawed
An exception to the industry view was
taken by the head of Hart, Schnaffer &
Marx-men's suit makers-who held that
industry-wide bargaining with the CIO
Clothing Workers has brought stability
and better conditions.
John Paradise, counsel for the CIO
Brewery Workers, said the Taft-Hartley
law is "one-sided to the point of being lop-
sided in favor of employers. He charged
that closed shop and hiring hall agree
ments established by the union during go
years of negotiations had been badly dis
turbed by the TIL law.
The TIL law has worked havoc with
our contract negotiations" Paradise de-
clared. AS a result, increasing friction.
strikes, threats of strikes, endless days in
contract negotiations, and in general
deterioration of labor-management rela-
tons have ensued."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25
II No Longer Does The Job

IrOnic news is coming from Europe
these days. Nations which are trying to
pull themselves out of the mire of the
worst war the world ever knew are re-
storing and improving their social security
programs.
IrOniC news is coming out of the great
City of Washington these days, too. In that
center of prosperous America, Congress
is paying little or no attention to improv-
ing the nations now Out-dated Social
Security system.
worker with no dependents gets less
than SIS a month if he retires at age IS.
When you figure that SIS is worth only
SIS in 1899 purchasing power, you can
realize why we call our Social Security
system Outdated.
Not long ago, Congress increased the
pay of Supreme Court justices to $4,000
yearly. When justice retireS, having full
filled the legal conditions, he can get
pension of $4,000 a year. That we are
for But, we also submit that $25 is ap-
pallingly low for workers pension.
Retired workers have to eat, sleep, be
housed and have medical care, too.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25

O. The SSs54 per year shall be paid into the
ing indebtedness of the City of required be
ed from the proceeds of taxes raised within the 1Om
sutuuonal and statutory tax limitations
g. The $500 900 per wear or such part thereof
may be appropriated by Council to General Fund gen.
eral operating expenses
a. Each there to be paid Mainen-
ance and New Equipment Fund the of $25OOoO
part thereof appropriated by Council the purpose
OF paying the cost of deferred maintenance and the purchase
equipment
Each year shall be paid into the Capital Improve
ment Fund the of $55OOo part thereof may be
appropriated by Council for the of the
Each there shall be paid Sterilization
serve Fund the balance collected under this to
$4BOOOO whatever shall raised
by one mill of the real estate levy.
When the Sterilization Reserve Fund reaches amount
equivalent 10 mill levy the Council of the City of Toledo shall
release to the Lucas County Budget mill
Fund in order that the Budget may make
such mill fraction thereof available County
The set aside the Sterilization Reserve Fund shall
be placed in the General Fund to replace the mill levy
ton thereof that has been released.
The balance of funds collected under provisions of
this ordinance shall be placed in the
ed Indebtedness
Please sub-sectons No. and No. provide for
the payment of funds into the bond
retirement fund set repository this money be
held IN until the bonds 1t is intended pay off fully
BY the end of this the amount money this will
be sufficient to off all the outstanding
DEBT ANY money remaining after this requirement would
ably have apply the outside debt bonds unless the
men is passed by the people,
When the original ordinance drawn there was some
doubt that there would be enough collected take
TINS manner Council that sections
NO l. No. and No. would be taken They
100 sure OF the remaining ALLEGATIONS although estimates
seemed to set fairly positive figure of three half mil
lion dollars in annual collections This
very conservative rather than the around
tons for l947 have reached the total five
lions plus.
The money provided for nsub-secon main
tenance and new equipment fund has bring
Ciys equipment and physical plant good standard Out
OF this fund has been purchased fire equipment
squad equipment new police and patrols trucks
automotve equipment for the various
also been used for maintenance and city buildings
real estate
The money provided for No. has been used
for such items the gold star memorial contagious
hospta acquisition of land for the Union Station plaza
grounds health center and extension of the civic center This
money also building swimming pools baseball and softba
diamonds and building to house department
ment.
The money provided for in subsection is
to the Stabzaon Reserve Fund that equivalent
mill of real estate taxation released County Budget
Commission This commission of two things with
this millase Allocate to of the other subdivisions
scn as the schools county or townships Knock mill
off the tax BILL So far this money been aocaed mostly
to the schools
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25
The Duty of HappinesCt
BY Ruth Taylor

One day not so long ago, one of the boys
I know in the labor movement came to me for
advice on two jobs that were offered him.
Now I am one of those who think the worst
sin is intruding on anothers privacy of de-
cision, so all l could do was to tell him story.
He said it worked-so pass the story on to
you.
One of the great preachers, when asked
what had inspired him most, said that when he
was a small boy, his father was day laborer
in Scotland One dawn he woke just as his
father was leaving the cottage for work. He
saw his father pause at the doorway and say,
firmly and proudly, to himself: This day I
60 out in the name of the Lord!" Could any
man have given greater heritage to his soilS
That is the spirit in which work must be
done. Otherwise the bread it brings is bitter
bread, salt with unshed teaPs.
Happiness is not thing from without but
reflection of an inner strength. AS philo-
sopher once said-we have no more right to
consume happiness without producing it, than
to consume wealth without producing it.
We can give happiness but we cannot
take it. We can work with a desire to do our
best, to make the thing we build, the service
we render such that another will find joy in
our work And its very doing will bring
happiness to us.
But do you know what I'm facing? What
have to be happy about?"
My brother, let me give you the answer
very old and very wise labor leader gave me
when I asked just that. "I've noticed that in
all important crises in my life, God alwy n
showed up at the right moment, if I wak ~-
for him"
When disappointment disillusonment des-
pair, seem to devastate your life-what do
you plant on the graves of your heart? Do you
set up tombstones to mark your defeat? Or
do you plant growing things to cover the place
and make it a thing of beauty?
1t is up to you You can tune in with
God. You can 60 out in the name of the Lord.
You can fulfill your duty of bringing hap
pinesS to others. Whatever your work-do it
with love for your fellowmen in your heart,
and your reward will be peace and happiness
for yourself.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25
FROM LABOR PRESS

Another thing labor holds
against the Republican Party
is It's ingratitude. II should
have held open a large bloc
of delegates seats at the con-
vention for the southern Dem
ocratS who made the Taft
Hartley Law and other Re-
publican victories possible.
During debate on Taft-Hartley
amendments the Republicans
never had to worry about
absenteeism. If they were off
the floor the Southern Dem
ocrats would vote for them as
II they had just walked out of
Republican causus. 1t got so
bad, in fact, that Taft had to
call halt; the southern Dem
ocrats were going to make the
bill so bad that Taft was
afraid that some of the milder
Republicans wouldn't vote for
1t. Under the two-party sys-
tenn the southerners feel that
If they follow the symbol of
the donkey they could vote
like an ass.
TIL e working capital of
U. S. corporations jumped
So.3 billion last year and is
now $50 billion, the highest
In history, according to the
Securities g. Exchange Com
mission. But you've got to re-
member that an awful lot of
this money goes to pay the
salaries of executives so they
can argue before Congression-
al committees that the federal
minimum wage shouldn't be
raised above the present 40c
an-hour.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25
Swim Reports
By ALLAN L. SWIM

George Morris, Daily Worker columnistr-
is becoming one of the nations most prolif.
fiction writers.
And the word fiction" according to Funk
& Wagnalls dictionary, is that which is
feigned or imagined, as opposed to that which
is true"
Morris, unlike most fictioneers, follows the
same plot week after week and writes about
the same characters.
Hero No. / of his stories, of course Is the
current party line policy.
The Williams are Phil Murray, Jim Carey,
a guy named Swim, who edits the CIO News,
and other right-wingers in the CIO.
Right now Murray is william No. 1. The
rest of us are merely minor villians-smau
fry, that is
The Morris plot, as fantastic as a Sax
Rohmer mystery yarn, is designed to make
the gullible reader believe that there's Wall
st. firm named P. Murray & Co., Inc q
Phillip Murray, of course, is president and
Jim Carey is secretary treasurer. A fellow
named Swim edits the ''house organ" of the
firm and writes about the dirty capitalistic
lies" which the officers peddle here and there.
This firm" Morris would have you be-
lieve, is engaged almost exclusively in the
business oflselling the working man down the
river
What other business could it be n Morris
rSdSOHS, IL IL opposes henry wallace ana IN.
dorses the European Recovery Program?
Morris although he frequently writes
beautiful fiction doesn't dream up his own
plots. They're Matched by top CPers and
they're an important part of the party line.
The current plot is the most interesting one
the Commies have designed since that cam
paign entitled "The Yanks Aren't Coming"
You remember - that's the campaign which
was dropped like hot potato when Unol Z
Joe Stain and Adolph quit playing militafS
footsie.
Purpose of the current drive is to discredit
the leadership of the CO. sow dissentfon in
the ranks of labor and elect H. Agard Wallace
to the presidency.
In such a campaign the lefties-like other
groups-turn their biggest pop guns loose on
their most powerful opponent In this case,
the guy they're trying to scalp is Phil Murray.
Any resemblance between Red-baiting and
what is written here is purely Intentional
and make no mistake about it!
We're not talking about that despicable
type of "red batting which consists almost
entirely of branding as Communist anybody
who advocates liberal or progressive idea.
There's been too much of that.
We're merely using the Commies pet
phrase for those of us who feel compelled to
criticize them-and if giving a Red hell fo4
doing something you don't like is Red-baitng,
then we're proudly guilty.
We're proudly guilty of lot of NAM
batting, too!
And, furthermore, we intend to 'bait' any
group which engages in activities we consider
harmful to majority of the CIO membership.
Morris, If he's as human as the boys around
the press table say he is, will denounce me
for writing this-and he'll probably say some
thing about my being dirty so-and-so."
He couldn't be blamed for that
The term 'fiction writer as used here ISM
exactly compliment, you know.
But, ho-hum -.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25
Whats
New?
By
EdWdrd ].
Duck,
Assistant
Director,
National
Auto-Lite
Division

While the Republicans are
arguing which clown they'll
run for the top spot of our
government, may pause to
offer a suggestion-purely my
own idea, mind you-to the
Democrats?
The state of the union" is
in such rugged shape right
now that it needs to be given
a powerful injection of some
thing or other. Small business
is becoming smaller, big busi-
ness growing bigger, and La
Dor, even with its newly
gotten thirteen cents, is way
behind in the race with the
cost of living.
What politics needs most of
all is an injection of honesty
and stralgh forWardnesS.
Hence my suggestion:
should like to see the
name of Helen Gahagen Doug
las placed on the Democratic
ballot as candidate for Vice
President of The Unite e d
States. Yes, a woman. She was
victorious in the congressional
primaries in California, whip
ping her male opponents on
both the Democratic and Re-
publican tickets. When a gal
can do that she must have
something
There are a few people in
this country who possess the
brain, the honesty, and the
genuine feeling for the people
that Mrs. Douglas possesses.
She doesn't just fill a chair in
Congress. She hits the floor,
and when she does, her collea-
CUES and opponents alike lis
ten to what she has to say.
There are too many double
dealing crooks in politics.
There are too many skylarks
tripping the light fantastic for
their own or anyone else's
good. A few, or perhaps more
than a few, have been on a
Washingtonian lost we k
end" so to speak, ever since
they arrived, from what I've
seen and read and heard.
Helen Gahagen Douglas
breathes fresh air into some
what sordid atmosphere. The
disgraceful do-nothing record
of our last Congress was by
no means agreeable to the
Congresswoman from Califor-
MIA. She fought tooth-and-nail
for the rights of little people.
She stood for what Franklin
Roosevelt preached and prac-
ticed while he was alive. Mrs.
Douglas, in my opinion, has
been one of the most out
standing representatives of the
American people in recent
years.
| agree with those who are
leery of getting a bunch of
hens mixed up in the affairs
of state. Mrs. Douglas, how
ever, is not a hen, and she
is far from mixed up" in her
thinking.
l would hate to see a
woman elected because she
was a woman, but 1t is in
finitely worse to see a person
of integrity and capability
by-passed simply because of
her sex.
Furthermore, if the con-
stitutions of the various
unions mean what they say,
and if Democracy in America
is really what we are told 1t
is, then the unions and the
Democratic bigwigs should not
fail to consider Mrs. Douglas
w h en- deciding who they
would like to run against the
cloWnsn
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25

Ioll llCOme TAX, lneSe allOCaC0nS are pro-
vided for in the ordinance itself and because
1t was referred to the people and voted upon
by them it cannot be amended in any way by
Council. Below appears Section ID of Ordi-
nance 18-46
The funds collected under the provisions of
this ordinance shall be applied for the follow
ing purposes and in the following order, to-
wit:
/, Such part thereof as shall be necessary
to defray all costs of collecting the taxes lev
led by this ordinance and the cost of admin
tering and enforcing the provisions hereof
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25
CAVIL>CADE

BY Les Finnegan
Labor Press Associates


COP strategists decided at
secret meeting last week that
there's one Republican slogan
you've heard the last of: that's
Had Enough?" Originally the
slogan - plastered on bill
boards and COW barns - was
supposed to mean, Have you
had enough of a Democratic
administration" But during
the final week it became OBJ
vious that the question was
directed to big business and
the NAM. The Republican
Congress had given tn e m
"aid-the-rich" tax bill, the
Taft-Hartley law, a weakened
social security act, exemption
of railroads from the anti
trust laws and almost every
thing else their greedy little
hearts desired. So the Re-
publicans were asking, Had
enough? Can we 60 home
now?" The NAM gave its per-
mission. Which was a good
thing because the poor Re-
publicans had applauded SO
many pieces of reactionary
legislation they had become
clap-happy.
c-ks
Congress couldn't get
around to a decent housing
program, to civil rights legis-
lation, to the oleomargarine
tax or to lifting the minimum
wage. But don't think it was
remiss in its duties to the ma
ton. 1t took strong militant
action to change the import
duty on fire hose, authorized
special stamp honoring the
founder of the Girl Scouts,
changed the law governing
BARRIERS in Washington, and
gave permission for disposal
for surplus sand at Fort
Story, Va. On the long over
due issue of Alaskan state
hood 1t fiddled while Nome
burned, and the question of
Hawaii was deferred so
large group of investigating"
Congressmen could spend the
summer in Honolulu and on
Waikiki Beach at the tax
payers expense. Truman said
it was the worst Congress
since the Civil War, and in
truth it did resemble a fife
and doldrumS corps.
y
1t was expected that fewer
labor leaders than ever before
would attend the Republican
national convention as dele
gates. Actually labor is some
what divided on the question.
The AFL cigar makers like
the idea of the 'smoke-filled
rooms" but the CIO electrical
workers are afraid that the
convention may set television
back so years.
The Republican high COM
mand showed how open mind
ed it was when it selected
Sen. H. c. Lodge to help write
the labor section of the con-
vention platform. Sen. Wayne
Morse, probably the most re-
spected of all Republicans and
who opposed the Taft-H Hartley
Act, wasn't named to any
committee at all. The high
command was open minded
to any arrangement h a t
stacked the cards against
labor.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25
Time for Plain Talk
by Tom Burke

In discussions talked about the terms used
IN all talk about the payroll income the types debt
city owes the methods of debt payment opposing
ions the proposed would like TO
tell about the ALLEGATIONS collected under the paw
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-25
To Our Readers
Editors Note

Editors Note
Because of the tremendous amount OF
wage negotiations, it has been impossible
for Richard Gosser, International UAW-
CIO vice-president to write his column
this week in the Toledo Union Journal.
However, the column titled Regional
Views" will appear in this usual spot in
next weeks issue of the Journal
Montana labor news., 1948-06-10
RANDOLPH SLATE WINS
It'll ELECTION

Indianapolis. Up All Progressive
party candidates. headed by Pres.
Woodruff Randolph. have been as
snred election as Officers of the Init.
Typographical Union (AFL). an UNI
official count Of ballots showed here.
Randolph won reelection over his
Independent party opponent, John X.
Evans. by 35.So4 to 25.SG2. according
to results announced by ITU public
relations director Daniel O'Sullivan.
O'Sulliyan said the conclusive re-
suits were based on returns from GG5
out Of $50 lTIl locals and represented
about $1,000 out OF 10000 votes ex.
pected i'll the election. Official tabu-
lation of the ballots was to be made
in ITU headquarters here May %.
Running for reelection as secre.
tary-treasurer. Don lIurd led Leland
shores. Independent candidate. by 3.,-
9S1 to 22.7S6. flurd topped his ticket.
Other Progressive candidates with
substantial leads included Vice presi.
dents Larry Taylor, Elmer Brown and
Joseph =. Bailey.
Reelection Of Randolph and his fell
low-olficers was interpreted as a vote
OF confidence in their policy of wag-
ing 4 militant fight against the Taft
Hartley law.
Montana labor news., 1948-06-10

"lTanIey has been assistant attorney
general for eleven years He Will opl
pose Helena Mayor ] K Wine Jr, and
Arnold Olsen OF Butte. A tn. Demo
cratic primary election July -.
%llanl,y pfacticed law in Butte be
fore appointment 10 the state post
He Is a veteran III the first war he
hid IN his petition, filed H. the .re
t.tarv OF states office.
Il VIII. during my term Of office.
use tho experience gained as an assist
ant attorney general the Last II Years.
as a u hool teacher and school district
trustee. together with experience in
tho active practice Of Law over q per.
ioi OF s. years in both eastern and
western Montana. in performing tn.
duties Of tile numerous boards and
commissions OF which the attorney
general is by Law 4 member A. AZ.
iofney general. viii honestly con.
scieniionsly iearlrssly aud imparfially
enforce All til. Laws to the best Of ny
abiii,y
IIanley asked that there be printed
on the ballot Present assistant at.
'ofney general veteran Montana
graduate, 3, years legal experience
Montana labor news., 1948-06-10

Cannon will be opposed by Jack
c. Toole of Shelby and John T.. Ken
nedy OF Missoula. The Butte mer-
chant was a member Of the Montana
house of representatives i'll the 1899,
1871 and 1913 sessions and is a former
speaker pro ten and Democratic floor
leader in the lower house. He was
Democratic nominee for lieutenant
governor in 1911.
Cannon said he would Favor
building Montana into the leading
state Of the northwest; favor creating
a new division OF our state govern
ment to encourage the establishment
OF new industry in Montana which
will increase our population and pro-
vide new jobs and business oppOrtun-
tiles for our veterans and e markets
for our farmers: favor expanding and
undermining our entire state highway
system; favor reorganizing and i'm
proving all phases of u state educa-
tional system with adequate provision
for necessary funds to accomplish
this purpose; favor needed conserva.
ton measures to save our rapidly di-
minishing fish and wildlife resources;
favor creating a separate department
of labor"
He asked to have printed on the
ballot: Develop MISUNDERSTANDING
e lndustry-create new jobs. mark
cts and business opportunities