Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-18
Inside
America
Written by the staff Of
the CIO NeWs)

tea MuSlCldHs AoS"A
Union 1901 in South Bend.
Norris, SO years old, ha
worked at Bendix Corp. for 19
wears. On the side he's written
music, played in bands. Now
You Have Broken My Heart
is his biggest success to date
but another one, Greet the
Sun With A Grin" is in the
hands of publishers.
Do you know what a tooth.
pick builder Is? A squeak? A
hog operator? A shower bump
er?
You may think you debut
chances are your definition
won't match the job titles
10000 of 'en) recently issued
In an occupational directory
Just issued by the Ohio State
Employment Service.
For instance:
A toothpick builder doesn't
make things for cleaning your
teeth-he's a radio parts
maker.
A squeak (slso known as Q
grunt) is a gent who hands or
hoists tools to a linesman,
Usually, he does it without any
sound at all!
A hog operator grinds scrai
rubber articles - he doesn'
use a surgeons knife on pigs
A shower bumper isn't the
guy who keeps order in a clean
up room; 1t says here he's a
person who solidifies and gran
ulates "paradichlorobenzene."
What's in a name? John L.
Lewis Is running for state
legislature in Rhode Island
he's president of a steel work
ers local In the country's small
est state.
Lewis SchWellenbach, the
late Secretary of Labor, was
in his quiet way one of Ameri-
cas- best public servants.
AS a Senator from the state
of Washington, he was one of
the staunchest of the New Deal
the New Deal group that sup
ported President Roosevelt
back in the sos. AS a federal
Judge he ruled wisely and fair
ly. AS Secretary of Labor at a
period when reaction was in
the saddle, he served the peo-
pie faithfully under difficult
conditions.
His Department of Labor, at
the hands of a Republlcan-con'
trolled Congress was sliced
down to a mere shadow of Its
potential usefulness. It's budg-
ct was by far the smallest Of
any of the Cabinet agencies.
Just a day or two before his
death, the Congress voted to
pull the u. S. Employment Ser
vice out of Labor Dept. and
make II an adjunct of one
small bureau of the Federal
Security Agency.
Despite these handicaps,
Lewis Schwellenbach did his
best to help American work.
ingmen and women. And the
tributes from leaders of unions
came from the heart.
Statesmanship Note. TT G
New Jersey CIO News tells the
story about a certain New Jer-
sey Congressm an who
weighs" the opinions OF his
constituents. On any issue, the
Congressman places the pro
mail In one pile, the cons" In
another pile,
When it's time for a vote
the Congressman weighs each
pile. The heaviest gets his vote
The Jersey CIO News urges
members to write him on the
heaviest possible bond paper
so that their letters will have
strongest possible effect wher
the mail gets weighed In fol
the vote!
Industry's united front
against wage increase Is pretty
thoroughly shattered.
Following the General Mo
tors agreement with CIO auto
union, Chrysler and other i'm
portant manufacturers have
agreed to a pattern of a boos'
amounting to about 13e. Gen
eral Electric, which had talked
pompously of halting initiation
by holding back on pay raises
changed its tune.
Biggest raises of the sea
son-outside Of Transport
Workers long overdue 24e an
hour increase on New Yorl
City transit lines-has gone
to Oil Workers Union through
out the East, West and South
west. Oil workers are pickini
up 1715 and 18e wage hike
from important units of on
of the nations most lucrativ
industries. (Wage costs, Incl
dentally, are smaller in pro
portion to total sales revenu