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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
Senate Okdys
HOUSING Bill
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families, was the issue. Mccarthy
wanted the housing limited only
to families on relief. On this,
he finally compromised when
tn bills supporters agreed to
insert a clause that need be
considered in choosing tenants.
Cain waged last-ditch fight to
eliminate the public housing fea-
ture altogether.
If these public housing provi-
sions in the TEW bill are elimi-
mated by the House, Sen. Charles
Tobey (R. N. H.) told the Sena-
tors that it would be because of
two of the most powerful lobbies
ever to descend on Congress.
Getting specific, he named the
National Association;of Real Es-
tate Boards and the US Savings
& Loan League.
Cain (R., Wash.) waged losing
battle to separate the public
housing provisions of the meas
ure from the rest of the T-E-W
bill. Intricate e parliamentary
maneuvers by the two were, how.
ever, countered by a bipartisan
bloc of public housing supporters
The proposal that 10000 local
public housing units to built with
federal funds, for low-income
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
They Still Kill
Union Pickefs

ATLANTA, April % (LPA)-
Violence flared in the six-weeks-
old strike of the Textile Workers
Union CIO at the Anchor Duck
mills in Rome, Ga, this week,
and 19-year-old striker Hubert
Wilkey was near death as a re-
suit.
Wilkey, who is married an9A
has small child, was shot bA-
Elmer Adams, non-striker,
who has been released on $4,000
bail. Wilkey is in Mccall Hos
pital at Rome, where physicians
say his condition is very critical.
According to eyewitnesses. the
shooting took place near the
mill. Adams, scab, was on his
way to work. He jostled Her
man Hyde, picket. Wilkey,
another man and two women
arrived, and Adams started to
walk on. Then, he turned, drew
a gun, and shot. While he ap-
parently aimed at Hyde, the
first shot felled Wilkey.
Two weeks previously, three
women pickets were beaten up
by a mob of rs hammer-wield-
ing scabs led from the plant by
company officials. Despite the
violence, unionists are standing
firm, against a company which
has offered Sub-standard con-
tract,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
Brophy Insists On
CLOS LoYoIfY

WAS HING TON, April %
GPA)-CIO Councils Director
John Brophy last week ex-
planned again CLOS reasons for
insisting that local councils back
national CIO policy right down
the line - including support of
the European recovery program
and opposition to Henry Wal
lace'S third party.
Unified action in politics
and our defense in the Taft
Hartley case are based on the
same principle" Brophy wrote
California supporters of national
CIO policy, "our right to act as
an organization and not as scat
tered individuals in the political
field"
Brophy reiterated President
Philip Murray's assurance that
CIO does not question the right
of a CIO member, as an indi-
vidual, to support the candidate
he wants to, and the autonomy
of international unions.
Points Out Difference
But, he pointed out, "the re-
lationship of councils to the CIO
is quite different from that of
the individual member, or the
international unions or their To-
Gals, because our councils, like
our PAC's, are set up to carry
out CIO policy, not to make il"
Implementing h position
Brophy outlined was the action
last week of CIO-PAC, recogniz-
ing as sole political spokesman
for CIO in New York City the
Regional CIO-PAC organized by
right-wing state CIO leaders
over the objections of the pro-
Communist group which domi-
mates the Greater New York
IUC,
Meet With Murray
Leaders of the city council
met with President Murray last
week in Pittsburgh in an at
tempt to contract out" of
Brophy's earlier directive.
Neither Murray nor the left
wingers" released any statment
on their conference, but the
PAC action a few days later
showed that they had made little
impression upon the CIO chief
tain.
Nor was there any statement
issued from the meeting of CIO
vice-presidents with President
Murray in Pittsburgh last week.
1t is believed, however, that
Murray repeated his request to
leaders of both the United Auto
Workers and United Electrical
Workers that they meet together
and iron out the dispute that has
arisen recently from the action of
the UAW in taking in locals of
UE who disapprove of its left
wing leadership's policies.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
Supreme Court
Rebuffs De Mile

WASHINGTON NPA)-Cecil
B. De Miles long and expensive
series of court cases against the
Artists-AFL finally came to an
American Federation of Radio
end last week. The Supreme
Court-highest tribunal in the
land-denied the motion picture
producer review of his case
which the California Supreme
Court decided in favor of the
union five months ago. DeMille
gave up a S98,000-a-year job as
radio director rather than pay
81 political assessment to the
union. The court held that as a
union member he was subject to
union rules.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
1t Happened To
Q. Washington

WASHINGTON (LPA) - The
officers of the Army's education
and information section aren't
the first men concerned with
troop morale who have had
trouble with Congress, it was
pointed out by Gen. Charles T,
Lanham in his testimony to the
Hoffman subcommittee. George
Washington initiated the first
such program, to explain to his
troops the purposes of the Amer
lean Revolution, and hired a
man named Tom Paine to help
him, Lanham observed. And
when Washington went to Con-
gress for some funds for a print
ing press for Paine, Congress set
a precedent which has apparent
ly been followed ever since. II
turned him down.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
cIo Opposed
To UNIT; Droff

WASHIN TON, April %
NPA)-"We ask that neither
UNIT nor the draft be passed
now, but that rather we re-
inforce our democracy on the
economic and political level at
home" Nathan Cowan, CIO
legislative director told the
House Armed Service Commit
tee last week.
Cowan assured the committee,
however, that should there be
an extraordinary turn in inter
national relations, or should
open warfare appear probable or
imminent" CIO would reconsider
its position.
The CIO spokesman approved,
however, the unemployment sec
ton Of the new selective service
bill. He pointed to difficulties
that had arisen in the enforce
ment of the vets unemployment
rights section of the wartime
draft. Originally the military
had had the obligation of seeing
that vets got their old jobs
back. Transferring the task to
the Labor Department helped
improve the situation, Cowan
said.
One weakness of the wartime
act was its failure to make ade-
quate provisions for the employ
ment of disabled veterans, Cow
an said. He pointed to the action
of many unions insisting upon
their unemployment through spe-
cial clauses in contracts with
employers to overcome the laws
shortcomings. The new act af-
fords protection for disabled
draftees and gives job rights to
temporary as well as permenent
EMPLOYEES.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
Back Bay Metal Strike

SAN FRANCISCO (LPA) -
Documenting concer d
drive" by the California Metal
Trades Association to break the
strike of several thousand AFL
molders and patternmakers and
unaffiliated machinists in the
Bay area, the state Federation
of Labor has called on all unions
in the state for support. Wage
demands for the workers, start
ing at Csc to zoe an hour, and
later scaled to 15c by the union
negotiators, have been met by
concerted employer offers of &c
to 10c.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
Hits White Primary

WASHINGTON (LPA) - The
nations highest court last week
refused to overturn a lower
court ruling that Negro Demo-
Gratis have a right to vote in the
party primaries even in South
Carolina, where after an earlier
Supreme Court decision the
Democratic party constituted it.
self a private club" excluding
Negroes. AS a result, Negro cit
izens voted for the first time
since 1876 in a Democratic pri-
mary in South Carolina on
April 20.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
Di Giorgio Products
Are Hot Cargo

BAKERSFIELD, Calf (LPA)
Asparagus grown on the Di
Giorgio Ranch is being hauled
away to the company dump by
the truck load, NFLU pickets re-
ported last week. Officials of
the Natl Farm Labor Union
AFL declared, 1--WE are conf
dent that Di Giorgio will have
increasing trouble marketing his
crops as they come on. They are
Hot Cargo in California and are
on the Do Not Patronize lists
throughout the United States. :
The 1,100 workers at the ranch
have been on strike for seven
months now.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
cIo Urges Tenant
Representation
Continued from Page 1

Continued from rage
support. The Council is seeking
to establish aid for old age pen.
sioners who state income Is in
sufficient to take care of their
needs.
Candidates Speak
One of the principal talks OF
the meeting was delivered by
Tom Burke Democratic candidate
for Congress who urged the dele
gates to go to the polls next
Tuesday to vote and to get their
friends and neighbors to do like
wise.
Also speaking were Franz Ber-
lacher, candidate for sheriff,
Frank Mohn, county commission
er and Reuben Harper, state leg
islature. All are Democrats.
Motion pictures of Local l2's
Summer Camp, Sand Lake, Mich.
and of the International Typo
graphical Unions Home were
shown following the meeting.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
Union Security
Wins BY ~
Per Cent Vote
Continued from Page 1


against the Taft Hartley bill dur
ing its congressional committee
hearing, that the workers want
ed to not only maintain them
selves in their unions, but want
ed the union shop or union
security clauses in their con-
tracts.
Mr.. Taft who is cmoing here
this week to talk about his
qualifications for the presidency
might explain while he is here
his position on the Taft-Hartley
Act after eight months of the
laws operation. 1t is believed
that he might explain why the
workers are voting opposite of
what hep redicted they would
vote prior to the passage of the
act which bears his name as CO.
SPONSOR
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
Lobor Tries For
Big PrimarY Vote
Continued from Page !

COnTlnueu IrOm rage
dorsed candidate is Frank Mohn,
seeking the office of county COM
missioner. Mr.. Mohn has had
considerable experience along
the lines required for the COM
missioners post as a township
trustee in Washington Township.
He is now serving in his seventh
year as trustee and is chairman
of the group.
Interest In Governor
Interest is high in Toledo In
the Democratic contest for gov
ernor in which Ray Miller and
ex-governor Frank J. Lausche,
former Cleveland mayors and
bitter political enemies are fight
ing it out.
Mr.. Miller has the endorse
ment of the Ohio CIO-PAC.
Richard Gosser, international
UAW-CIO vice-president a n d
chairman of the Labor and Civic
Political Committee said that
the LCPC would exert every
effort to get out a large vote
May A. Dozens of volunteer
workers have been assigned
wards and precincts and will
canvass in many neighborhoods
in an attempt to bring out a
large vote for the labor endorsed
candidates.
High point in the Republican
campaign this week was sched-
uled meetings for Sen. Robt. A.
Taft at which he was slated to
confer with un k wn self
appointed union labor leaders
to discuss the labor vote,
Approximately 10 per cent OF
the total registered voters par
ticipated in the 1914 presidential
primary, a figure which labor
groups are striving substantially
to increase this year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30

pr O m in ent businessmen,
bankers, farm and labor
spokesmen, reported to the
Senate Finance Committee that
eff the people of the US are un-
able to prevent steep increases in
price levels" social security ben
.efits will have to be readjusted
to preserve their purchasing
power. Unless this Is done, the
Council unanimously warns, "the
security guaranteed by the social
insurance plan will be illusory."
Only one day later, Federal
Security Administrator Oscar
Ewing stated that "A crisis has
arisen" which has reached the
breaking point" for many elderly
people, widows and their faTni
lies, who are attempting to live
on the old age and survivors in
surance benefits.
The Advisory Council has two
labor representatives = Nelson
Cruikshank for the AFL and
Emil Rieve for the CIO.
A majority of the Senate body
is expected to be reluctant to
move on the proposals, which in
the benefits program to the self
clude:
Councils Proposals
1-Extension of protection of
employed, farm workers, house
hold workers, employees of non
profit institutions, federal civil
ian employees and railroad work
ers with present retirement sys-
TENS and the Railroad Retirement
Board representa- in working out
a plan at least as good as the
present programs), members Of
the armed forces, and on a vol
untary basis to employees of state
and local governments. All told,
more than 20,000,000 additional
workers would be covered.
2-Nearly double the average
benefits paid under the program.
Immediate payment of benefits
running from $40 a month to
S78.75 for retired workers, in
place of the present range of
SO to S44.60. In a few years,
under the proposed levels, re-
tired male workers who are sin
gle would average $55 month;
retired workers and their wives
would average about $85; and
widows with two children would
average about 500 a month.
3-Raise the taxes on employ
ers and employees to finance the
program from 10 each to 112 90
each, with the self-employed pay
ing 2Hao.
4-Make it easier for older
workers, who retire after only a
few years under the system, to
qualify for benefits and to obtain
benefits that would support them
without further public assistance.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30


to overrule Judge Ben Moore
anti-free press of the Taft
Hartley law unconstitutional.
CIO attorneys will argue the
case. which the AFL is back
ing up.
Section 304 of the Hart
lev law prohibits any political
expenditure by a trade union.
Last July President Murray or
dered CIO News to carry his en-
dorsement of an AFL member
who was running for Congress
in Maryland.
Justice Department law
yers brought the case into a fed
eral district court, where Judge
Ben Moore ruled against them
and declared that the denial of
freedom of speech, press and as.
sembly, which results from the
spending ban, violates the Con-
stitution.
CIO States Issue
The CIO document states the
issue "of whether Congress may
make il a crime for labor or
ganization to publish and circu-
late a newspaper endorsing a
candidate for federal office. "
Section 304 was Incorporated in
the 1947 statute although it is
wholly unrelated TO issues of
labor-management relations and
although Congressional commit
tees had warned against the con-
stitutional dangers implicit in a
ban of the type contained in this
section"
Chief government contention
has been that the suppression OF
union political expenditures is
justified under the government S
power to insure free elections
But the CIO points out that pro
hibiting "the right of free ex-
preston in connection with elec-
tions" is the greatest single
threat to the purity of the elec-
toral process"
The precise manner in which
Section 304 violates the liberties
guaranteed in the Bill of Rights
is described by the CIO lawyers
They assert that while previous
court decisions in civil rights
cases have emphasized that a
political majority may not i'm
munize itself from political crit.
icism which its acts occasion" "
the Both Congress tried to do
just that. 1t tried, the CIO
charges, to immunize itself from
the political criticism resulting
from the passage of the Labor.
Management Relations Act of
1947"
Would Silence Criticism
What is involved here" the
CIO lawyers believe, "is an at
tempt by Congress to silence the
viewpoint of labor and to permit
those who speak against labor to
go unrestrained."
The AFL friend of the court"
brief cites the trade union prac-
tice of publishing papers, and of
buying space in other publica-
tions to express labor's views on
political and industrial problems.
Political activities of labor or
ganizations are indispensable to
their economic activities and so
closely intertwined as to be in.
separable. The bargaining proc.
ess itself is rendered insecure
without legislation protection"
II refutes the governments S
claim that the Taft Hartley re-
strictions are legitimate as pro-
tections of an honest ballot. "Un-
der no circumstances can the in.
fringements of civil Liberties be
justified on the theory that they
are necessary 10 keep pure the
electoral processes. Rather does
the purity of our elections de-
pend upon the extent to which
freedom of expression is pro-
tected and encouraged"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
Senate Told To
Adjust Benefit
Social Security Advisory
Council Advises In Crisis

WASHINGTON, April % LPA)-The widening gap
between the of living and the benefits paid under the
u S. social security system pointed up last week by
the two groups best qualified label the situation cr
The Advisory Council on Social Security, made up Of
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30
AFL Backs Murray
In US. Court Case
Union Briefs Back CIO
Head in TIL Law Test

WASHINGTON, April 28 QPA)-Lawyers for both the
CIO and the AFL filed briefs last week with the u D
Supreme Court in the of the u S. CIO and Philip
Murray The government is appealing to the highest court
to overrue Judge Ben Moore decision which declared the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-30

NOTE: The shown here not In addition to tina
shown in the report of the collection shown this
but represents breakdown of donations by shops
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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-28
California 3rd party gets
464, 600 ballot signers

ident of the Natl. Union of Ma
rine Cooks & Stewards (CIO).
This tremendous achieve
ment," Bryson told Wallace,
was possible because vast
numbers of people feel deeply
on the basic, issues of foreign
and domestic policy facing the
country and because they are
willing to fight for a progress
sive alternative to the disas-
trous bipartisan policies which
now prevail. Added proof of
this is the overwhelming VIC
tory of Leo Isacson, newly
elected American Labor party
congressman from the Bronx"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-28

SAN FRANCISCO.-FP) -
The Independent Progressive
party, California arm of Henry
A. Wallace's third party move
ment, announced it had collect
ed $4,000 signatures, almost
twice as many as the number
required to put it on the ballot.
Only 275,970 signatures were
needed to get the newly formed
party on the ballot. News that
one out of every six voters in
the state had signed third party
petitions was flashed to Wal
lace in a wire from Hugh Bry-
son, state chairman of the IPP
organizing committee and pres
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-28

Sen. Glen Taylor of Idaho,
who this week announced that
he would be Wallace's running
mate in the campaign. will also
address the mass meeting.
The mass meeting was an
nounced here this week by
George R. Cermak, chairman of
the Illinois Citizens for Wallace,
committee of downstate pro-
greSsive leaders.
CERMAK said that Wallace's
address will be sponsored by the
Progressive Party and the Ma
tional Wallace for President Com
mittee.
1t was at the Stadium less than
a year ago that thousands of Chi
cagoans stood outside the hall as
a "standing-room-only" crowd of
81, 900 inside heard Wallace re-
port on conditions in Europe and
the need for peace.
I'm view of the overwhelm-
ing victory in the New York
congressional race of Leo Isac-
son. a Wallace endorsed candi-
date" Cermak commented. THE
Progressive Party expects a rec
ord-breaking crowd at the Sta
dunn rally"
The Wallace rally will launch
the two-day state convention of
progressives at which the Pro-
gressive Party of Illinois will be
projected out of the Progressive
Party of Cook County.
SOME 1000 delegates, it is
hoped, will be here to help found
the PPI.
The convention will be held at
the Savoy Ballroom, 47th st. and
South Parkway, April 10-11.
AT that time steps will be taken
to select suitable candidates for
state offices.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-28

The convention was set for
June 11-12-13, but third party
spokesman said that final arrange
ments, including the place, had
not yet been completed.
Henry A. Wallace and Sen.
Glen H. Taylor of Idaho, his run
ming mate, will head the progress
sives from all parts of the coun-
try who will gather for the con-
|vention.
They will also come here for
an earlier rally at the Stadium
to launch the statewide third
party in Illinois on April 10.
Elected as a Democrat to the
Senate in 1914, while the late
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was
President, Taylor told a nation
wide radio audience Monday
night that he had received a
mandate from the people of Idaho
to carry out the policies" of FDR
policies which President Tru-
man and his Administration have
abandoned, in Taylor's opinion.
Il AM not leaving the Demo-
cratic Party" declared the AZ
year-old congressman; "it left me.
Wall st. and the military have
taken over"
Recalling President Roosevelt's
warning against making the voters
choose between a Republican