Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-09
INSIDE
AMERICA
(Written by the Staff of
The CIO News)

AO4 IlOllIS ~ uIlG 10 DuL It's
melody fingers on.
Harry Truman, reputed to
be a pretty good piano play
er himself, banged out some
sharp chords in the fortnight
after Congress adjournment.
The President put his sigma
ture to three bills passed by
the 80th-but in each case
voiced regret there was moth
ing else he could do, voiced
hope a future Congress would
improve on the 80th's work.
The Presidents sharpest
words were reserved for the
teeny weeny" mortgage
guarantee bill passed by the
COP majority in place of the
Taft Ellender Wagner houS-
ing measure.
The President called it
'hasty patchwork" "slipshop
legislation" a "sad disap-
poitnment to millions of our
people"
a 1t took two long paragraphs
for the President to tell what
congress didn't do to give
Americans decent housing. In
cluded among the missing
provisions of the housing pro-
gram: slum clearance, aid to
pre-fab home builders, farm
homes, public housing pro-
jects, housing research, aid to
large-scale home construction
projects.
Bill to admit Displaced Per-
sons into the U. S. from war
refugee camps of Europe
finally cleared Congress, leav-
ing a bitter taste in the
mouths of many people.
Truman said it was a "close
question" whether the DIP
bill was better or worse than
none at all; he finally signed
it as a measure to give hope to
war refugees.
Many organizations joined
in condemning bill as finally
passed, agreed that it Knocks
the American tradition of fair
play" and discriminates
against b o tn Catholics and
Jews.
There's a top job in the
governments European re-
covery program ready for
Harry Martin, able president
of the CIO American News
paper Guild.
Martin has been given a
years leave of absence by the
Guild (The ANG presidency
isn't fulltime job) and by
his paper, the Memphis Com
Appeal. He'll serve in
Paris offices of the Economic
r GOV cry Administra-
tion (ECA) as contact man to
European unions and as labor
information specialist.
Martin was a member of
the u. S. delegation to the
UN's Free Press meeting in
Geneva this spring. (Some
State Department silly-billies
held up his passport for while
on grounds that Martin had
contributed money to liberal
10 years agoD
Overseas, he took the ball
away from publishers and
professors in the U. S. group,
really carried the brunt of the
job in the fierce in
collective bargain
ng over resolutions on free
press. Russian delegates found
hat u. S. trade unionists can
ak, win friends and influ-
snce people.
European unions will find
Martin a man who knows
heir problems.
Some of strongest words of
encouragement to the pack
ng union came from Bishop
Bernard j. She'll of Chicago
(UPW President Ralph Hell
stein described him aptly as
the patron saint of the pack
nghouse workers~.
"You gave of yourselves in
a cause that was just" Bishop
She'll told the meat packing
workers. "This was only q
,kirmish, not the end of
To their total
iiscredit and our national
they (the packers)
hose to starve you into sub
mission.
"To an objective observer,
his was all part of the pat
ern that has made its an
,earance since the close of the
var: a pattern designed by
he NAM.
"A portion of this pattern
vas obligingly put into ac-
ion bv the 80th Congress
When it passed the notorious
Act"
NOTES FORM HERE AND
THERE; Jim Carey, CIO Sec
etary Treasurer, will pre-
ent CLOS platform sugges-
ions to the Democratic con-
'ention resolutions committee
HTn EJ1tnotin, liant fc