Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-12-03
Women's News
And Views
BY Odessa Overy
Secretary Women's Bureau
Region 2-B

been attending practice ses-
sions the past three weeks.
And if I must say so myself,
it is beginning to sound like a
real chorus. The girls are also
taking more enthusiastic at
titude.
We have only seven more
weeks to practice before we
go to Cleveland for the State
CIO convention. In order to
be eligible to go to the con-
vention the choral group must
attend at least six lessons out
of the last ten practices. The
girls that wish to go to Cleve-
land with the choral group,
and have not attended any of
the last three lessons will
have to attend the balance of
classes between now and the
18th of January.
The state convention will
be held on the 18th, 14th,
18th, and 18th, of January.
If Local IL can get a half
hours program on the agenda
for two days at the conven-
ton they will finance the ex-
penses of the choral group
with all their transportation
taken care of, by way of local
IL bus. This a very good in
centive for the girls to looS.
forward to. They seem to have
more spirit ia their singing. I
don't know if this has any
thing to do with the enthusi-
asm or not, but anyway they
are showing up more prompt
ly for practice.
The choral group has had
another invitation to sing
January, rs. The Lions club,
through Mrs. Davies, has ex-
tended to us the invitation to
attend their banquet at Colum-
bus Grove, This will make
another nice trip for us if the
girls like it. We have twenty
five that said they would go,
which is a very nice average.
The songs that we have select
ed seem to be going over very
nicely. The biggest share of
the girls seem to like more of
the popular songs, and that is
just what we are giving them
this time. If it doesn't turn out
like we figure it will, then we
will go back to more of the
classical variety and light
opera.
The women's conference
committee had their first
meeting and the delegates
that attended the conference
were all sent a special invi-
tation to attend the meeting.
AT this meeting "a womens
organization was organized.
This organization was set up
to make the women a perma-
ment fixture in the union. The
fees are very reasonable, and
they will aid in helping to
make each and every confer
ence here after a better one.
This will enable us to pro-
mote a better conference. 1t
will also give us more of the
active women from the indivi-
dual units to participate in
this organization. And we will
not have to go out and beat
the bushes to get each and
every unit to take a part in
this organization. We should
have the women from that
particular shop to beat the
bushes for us. This organiza-
ton is a seperate group from
the Women's Summer Camp
Guild, although we expect to
have some of the same women
in both organizations. The
Permanent women's organiza-
ton has an entry fee of
twenty-five cents and a
monthly dues of twenty-five
cents. We have to date twen-
ty-three women that have
signed up and paid their en-
try fee and dues. The purpose
of our organization will be to
form committee of various
types to investigate different
phases of our union, such as
curity, old age pension, medi-
Coop, time study, social Sc
cal care etc. We are going to
have our second meeting on
Nov. 27, and / hope that more
of the delegates that attended
the conference will be there
and sign up for this good
purpose.
Again ! say that the people
that we put in office will have
a hard time if they don't get
the cooperation of the south,
ern Democrats as well as the
people that supported them.
1t did the union minded peo-
pie lot of good to see that
Wallace didn't progress as