Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-10-29
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written BY the Staff Of The
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out a cool $150,000 to buy ra-
dio time for night-before-elec-
ton "vote-for-T Tom" broadcast.
COP bought a solid hour on
four netWorks-from 9 D. m.
to 10 p. m, eastern time. Cost
of the time runs to about
Understanding to radio
trade publications. In addition,
COP had to pay salaries of
talent and advertising agency
fees for programs which the
political show replaced on the
air. That cost alone is esti-
mated at over $50,000.
Democrats-who don't have
big money support-were able
to buy only 15-minute pre-
election broadcast on net
works.
It's open secret that big ma
jority of newspapermen who
have followed Dewey around
throughout campaign have no
affection for the man from AL
bany.
They're telling anecdote in
Washington of one wire-serv-
ice reporter assigned to do
"color story" about Dewey's
spiel in a typical whistle
stop" Reporter wrote about
the crowd at station, arrival
of the train, Dewey's type of
speech, d other human
interest details.
He concluded with this line:
"And then tn e citizens of
Jonesville saw the Republican
campaign train leave town
with a jerk"
CLOS Phil Murray, speaking
at big Truman rally in Pitts
burgh, minced no words in
voicing labor's all-out sup
port of the Presidents bid for
reelection, and for labor's
condemnation of Dewey and
Taft t-Hartleyism.
Phil Murray noted two re-
cent interpretations of the law
One limiting right of peace
full mass-picketing, the other
barring NLRB ballots to silk
ers and giving votes to strike
breakers.
II say to Taft and Hartley
and their candidate for Presi-
dent" Murray shouted to the
audience, that labor will not
permit this invasion of our
clear constitutional rights =.
Labor wants no man in the
White House who i3 committed
to, and runs on a platform,
supporting this vicious law"
Murray contrasted Truman's
Taft-Hartley veto, and the
Democratic platform pledge to
seek TIL repeal, with DeWey's
active support of anti-labor
law.
Dixiecrats leaders like to
describe their so-called party
as an organization of the solid
south. But that's window
dressing.
Real fact is that key Dixie
Gratis are top agents of big bus
mess - and as little south
ern" as Vermont blizzard.
Alabama CIO-PAC, meeting
recently in Birmingham, ex-
posed Dixiecrat leaders and
policies.
Civil rights is not the is
sue motivating the Dixiecrats,"
Alabama PAC statement said.
"The issues are oilmen's mon
ey and what's best for the
corporations. The issues are
oppression Of labor, cheap
wages, unlimited profits"
Statements called Dixiecrats
a batch of "back-door Repub-
licans," and listed a small
"who's who" among Dixiecrat
leaders. Among TIL e move
ment's bosses:
: essner T. McCorvey,
counsel for Standard Oil and
Gulf Oil.
Frank Dixon, former gov
ernor and counsel for Du-
Points. (DuPonts are in key
control positions in national
COP.
New patterns of corporation
attacks on union are shaping
up in west coast longshore and
oil workers strikes. They're
definite danger to unions ev-
erywhere.
In southern California oil
workers walkout, big oil firms
have used injunctions and law
suits to harass union. Out
standing are 1,500 contempt
of-court citations (for ignor-
ing ban on picketing and le-
gitimate union activities); $50
criminal cases" against stik-
ers (on phoney charges of vio-
lence); rs law suits against