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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Vets Training
Adds Glasses
New Subjects Include
UphoIsferine. Tailoring

Addition of two more sub
iects to the Board of Education :
veterans training program has
been nnoUnce d by A. c.
Schrader, program supervisor.
A course in upholstering viii
be offered in the late afternoon
and evening at Riverside School
The course in tailoring has been
expanded to a full subject for
enrollees at the same hours in
the fully equipped shops at
Whitney Vocational High School
A record demand for enroll
ment in the training program
caused the addition to the num-
Der of subjects. More than 300
veterans have filled all avail
able facilities and there are
waiting lists in many subjects
The tailoring and upholstering
classes will be filled from the
waiting list and by new appli-
cants who are interested.
Veterans can obtain the free
training plus subsistence pay.
ments by using their educational
entitlement under the G.. l. Bill
of Rights. Information on enroll
ment ais available at the Vet
Grams Training office, 1916 Il
Vermont Ave.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Council OF Churches
+. Observe Reformation
On Oct. 80

The Toledo council of
Churches representing 19 diff
ferent denominations in Greater
Toledo will observe Reformation
Sunday. The Service will be
held in the auditorium of the
First Congregational Church,
Collingwood & Virginia, October
3Oth at 4 p. m. The speaker
will be DR.. Ralph E. Loew,
Pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran
Church, Buffalo, N. Y. Special
music will be furnished by the
choir of First Congregational
Church. The Committee COM
posed of Rev. Ora R. Johnson,
chairman and pastor of Upton
Avenue Evangelical I'm it d
Brethren Church, DR.. John c.
alker, pastor First Congrega-
tional Church, Rev. Theodore j.
Klaudt, pastor First Evangelical
& Reformed Church, Rev. Ewald
c.. Berger, pastor Redeemer
Lutheran Church and chairman
of the Department on Evangel-
ism and Interchurch Relations,
Rev. Alexander S. Carlson,
Council President and Rev. c.
Clark Shedd, executive secre-
tary, met the past week and for
mulated definite plans for the
observance. The Ministers of
Greater Toledo will be invited to
attend the service in a body.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
JAW Can Strike
Ford Under
Michiuon Law

DETROIT (LPA) - United
Auto Workers-CIO is legally
free to call strike at the Ford
Motor Co. any time now. The
only requirement is that Ford
be given five days notice.
The Michigan State Meditation
Board last week lifted a 30day
limit on the auto unions right
to strike after Ford and UAW
jointly submitted day-to-day
contract extension agreement on
which they have been operating.
The agreement, the board said,
made it possible to waive the
30-daystrike limit on the Bon
ine-Tripp law
When Michigan Ford workers
took strike vote under the law,
80 days ago, they indicated
seven to one that they would
walk out if necessary to back
up their demands for a $100
monthly retirement pension and
wage increase. Negotiations
have been continuing on and off
since June 2, with no progress
whatever.
Meanwhile, UAW has announ-
ced that a contract termination
notice vii be filed with the
Chrysler Corp. next week. Union
officials estimate that Chrysler
workers will vote between 1870
and $50 in favor of q strike.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16

goal ends on Sept. 80, it does
not necessarily mean it will
be closed entirely, he re-
vealed. Donations will be ac-
cepted the year around as the
work on the camp grounds con-
tinues 365 days year, he said.
Fostoria Local Gives
Can selections, of voluntary
contributions in various shops,
totaled S102.76 he said with
Local IT'S, Seneca Wire, Fos-
otria, Ohio giving $25; Roy
Sautter, of Willys- Overland
Unit also contributing S25 and
yan additional amount by Pres
tole Corp. and Lillian Lehr's $5
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
U.S. Britain
Need Each
Other-Murray

WASHINGTON (LPA) - The
conference of u. S., British and
Canadian monetary experts on
Britain's dollar crisis may be a
deciding factor in the effort to
promote democracy throughout
the world, Philip Murray, presi-
dent of the Congress of Indus
trial Organizations, declared as
the crucial talks began.
"On behalf of the men and
women of the CIO, would like
to express my fervent hope for
a successful outcome of the pres
ent conference" Mr.. Murray
said.
He stated unreservedly that
Britain and America need each
other because the entire effort
to maintain peace and freedom
in the world requires that the
two countries work together as
closely as possible.
Some partisan and reaction
ary voices have sought to place
the blame for international mon
etary difficulties at the door OF
the British government because
it is a labor government" Mr.
Murray observed.
"The total falsity of this
charge is recognized even by the
British opponents of that gov
ernment. 1t is authoritatively
stated in England by conserva-
tives that these difficulties are
not due to anything that car
properly be called socialism"
Mr.. Murray poined out that
the CIO did not generally share
the socialist outlook of British
labor, but he stressed that
British and American labor have
common goals.
''It is noteworthy" he added,
chat those Americans who op-
pose further and adequate aid to
Britain on the fallacous ground
that British troubles are due to
socialism, are the identical per-
sons who also oppose President
Truman's Fair Deal and the leg
islative program supported by
American labor"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
OId-Timers Play Again

NEW YORK lLPA) - T h e
Old-Timers Symphony Orchestra
Gall over 60) has given its sec
ond concert here Sunday, Sept.
IL as part of the free music pro-
gram of American Federation of
Musicians AFL. The program
was broadcast over WFDR-FM,
station of the Init. Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Taft Addresses
Workers On
company's Time

CLEVELAND (LPA) - Hav-
ing told his story to business
men at luncheon here before
the Smaller Business of Amer
lea, Inc" Senator Robert A.
Taft celebrated his 60th birthday
as BE Kind to Workers and
Farmers" day. He toured negih-
boring Lake and Geauga coun-
ties, visited two factories, had
luncheon in an old cheese fac
tory, now the community center
of Parkman, and then covered
the farming communities.
His first stops of the day were
at the Chardon Rubber Com
pany plant in Chardon and the
johnson Rubber Company in
Middlefield. He did it up brown.
He went through each plant,
shook hands, asked questions.
At the johnson plant production
stopped while the Senator adj
dressed the entire plant per-
Sonnel in store room. P.S. Both
plants are unorganized.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Unions Back
Up British

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Both
AFL- and CIO leaders under
lined the vital concern of the
worlds democratic forces in the
continuance of British Labor
government, as Sir Stafford
Cripps told packed Natl Press
Club luncheon here that in
creased productivity and greater
British sales in the dollar using
countries (meaning lower US.
tarriffs) may pull the British out
of the War-created crisis.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16

which require correction thru
wage rate adjustments, in gen
eral it seems desirable at this
time to stabilize the level OF
wage rates." the Board declared,
proposing that the union settle
for no immediate wage gain at
this time.
Asked TO Negotiate
Meanwhile, union and COM
panies were asked to start nego-
tiations on two major benefit de-
mands of the union: pensions, on
which the board proposed a
S100-a-month level including
federal benefits; and social in
surance including group life pol
icies, disqualification and sick
ness insuance, The two plans to-
gether would cost the companies
about 10c an hour
Both recommendations were
made, under a contract which
expires in April 1850, as part
of a wage re-opening dispute
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16

Of candidates for the coming
Council election until the
next meeting scheduled for
September 19.
Original Plan Postponed
The ULC originally was
scheduled to make the selection
of their choice this week but
voted for the postponement to
withhold selection after Mr..
GoSser, in making the recon-
mendation, pointed out it will
give the Central Labor Union,
AFL, delegates which met this
week Thursday the opportunity
to select their delegates as late
as Monday and still have full
voice and vote in the ULC en-
dorsements.
AS any other union, the CLU,
following an election of officers,
are permitted to appoint or elect
delegates to the United Labor
Committee representing tn t
group. Since the CLU had an
election Of officers, Mr.. Gosser
stressed that it would permit
them to name or rename dele
gates to the ULC.
The ULC in the past election
took d leading part in helping
to elect Thomas H. Burke,
former Vice Mayor of Toledo
and former Executive Secretary
of the Toledo Industrial Union
Council, CIO as Representative
of the Ninth Congressional Dis
trict of Ohio.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Gloss Union
Official Dies

PHILADELPHIA IL P Az -
Thomas B. Eames, ga, secretary
treasurer of the Glass Bottle
Blowers Ass'n-AFL died here
Sept. 6. For thirteen years Eames
was president of the New Jersey
State Federation of Labor and
during the depression was chair
man of a special commission to
study the states Workmen's
law.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Union Bids For
NY. Cify Center

NEW LORK UPA) - Local
802, American Federation of
Musicians-AFL, wants to buy
the City Center, and has made a
bid of 100000. The Local. S
lease at its present quarters has
expired. Since 1943 the city
owned building has been offer
ing opera, dance, concerts and
shows at popular prices. Local
802 was one of the first to sign
the agreement that made the
Center possible, and Richard
McCann, its president, is on the
board. The union said the city
theater would remain if the un-
ion bought the building,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
1000 Strike
Missouri Pacific

st. Louis (LPA)-After three
years of fruitlesS ndegotiations,
1000 m m b ers of four rail
brotherhoods in the operating
crafts struck the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad, shutting the line
down. All other means of induc-
ing the road to recognize $3,-
100000 worth of grivances dat
ing back the war years had fail
ed. union spokesmen said
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16

ordered Niagara County Sheriff
lice reinforcements against str
The order came after Becker so
CIO officials charge was writer
United Auto Workers-CIO have
been on strike against Bell for
13 weeks while subject to con-
slant strikebreaking attempts by
the company.
William Hillger, president of
the Lockport CIO Council, is
now urging before the Niagara
County board of supervisors that
the sheriff be disciplined for col
lusion.
Hillger says he has evidence
that Becker is loading his staff
with Bell employees who opposed
the STRIKE and that food and
other refreshments are being
served to deputies at the expense
of the Corporation. The CIO
official asserts he can prove Bell
lent Becker a helicopter.
Sheriff Becker's wire to the
Governor claimed that in a un-
ion demonstraton on September
7 pickets were armed with base
ball bats, bricks and other
weapons which they threw at
non-Strikers.
Dewey Immediately issued a
statement accusing the union
group of "lawlesSnes' and di-
recting Becker ito exhaust the
powers and forces available to
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16

which began March 20, and
which twice already has threat
ened to end in a nationwide steel
strike.
Begin Joint Study
On the pension program, the
fact-finders recommend that the
union and the companies with
which it bargains begin immedi-
ately a joint study of how such
a pension plan should work, to
be completed by early February
so that it can be the subject of
bargaining on the expiration of
the present contract
Members of the board, APP
pointed by President Truman on
July IS, are Carroll Daugherty,
professor at Northwestern Uni
versity, David l., Cole, New Jer-
sey attorney and labor arbitra-
tor, and Judge Samuel Rosen-
man, adviser to the late Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
No Power-Seeking Bloc

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (LPA)-
Organized labor is really "a
pressure group within industry"
rather than power seeking
bloc, according to DR.. Avery
Leiserson, Professor of Political
Science at the University of
Chicago. Addressing a recent con-
ference at the University of
michigan on research on poll
tical behavior he said unions are
not private groups seeking
power or privilege without re-
lation to the rest of the COM
munity, but are IAN interest or
pressure group operating within
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16

making up the $18276 total for
the week
1t Takes 365 Days
Mr.. Rediger said it takes 365
days to operate the camp and
when the camping season ends
there are such plans as repair,
maintenance and expansion and
improvements for the coming
season.
AS reminder, donations will
be received the year around
and those desiring to contribute
to make a camping period posi-
BILE next season for a boy or girl,
will be deeply appreciated, he
said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Mrs. +. D. r. Hits
Bios In North

ATLANTA (LPA) - AS far
as racial discrimination goes,
the North is quite as bad" as
the South, Mrs. Franklin d.
Roosevelt told a press confer
ence here. She is attending a
conference of $50 churchwomen
representing 13 states, on THE
Spiritual Approach to Social
Problems" She told reporters
she did not consider President
Truman's civil rights program an
excuse for race violence.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
JAW Seeks Federal
Aid On Bell

WASHINGTON LPA) - Of
ficials of United Auto Workers
CIO are meeting with govern
ment officials here, urging the
federal government to inter-
vene in the Bell Aircraft strike
at Buffalo. Violence between
scabs and pickets has broken out
and local and state agencies, the
the union says, appear to be in
collusion with the company. Bell,
which produces jet planes, has
90@c of its contracts with the
government
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
IDriUe Begun
For Iron Lung

ERIE, Pa. (LPA) - The Erie
Industrial Union Council has
voted 5000 towards purchase of
an iron lung for the municipal
hospital. The Central Labor
Union-AFL here has already
donated an iron lung to the hos
pital. The first patient to use it
was the daughter of a CIO
member.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Fired For Attending
Labor School

LOUISVILLE, KY. (LPA) -
Herman Porter, an employe of
the Champion Wire and Iron
Company, attended the 1949
Kentucky Labor School. The
boss found out, and Porter was
fired. Local 682, IronWorkers,
found out, and Porter had a
new job-as the unions office
manager.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
SPICER UNIT
MEMB BERS
NOTICE.!

Election for Time Study
Stewards vii be held in
Bargaining c o m m t zee
room in Spicer plant on
Tues sd y, September 20,
1949. Polls will be open
from 900 A. Nj. to 400 p.
Nj. Only members in good
standing eligible to vote and
must present official dues
receipt. Those having July
out of work stamps are con-
sidered in good standing.
Edward Whaley, Chairman
Election Committee
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16

him and to deputiZe police re-
Inducements from neighboring
communities.
The Sheriff complained that
pickets interfered when he tried
to escort the busloads of strike
breakers into the plant. He re-
ported that UAW Regional Di-
rector Martin Gerber has been
hospitalized after falling from
the running board of a speed
automobile during the incident
with the scabs.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16

The Local IL Summer Camp
was won by Albert Oden of 742
Woodville st, and Yvonne Nc
Creay, 4109 Thornton. Each won
a bicycle as a prize. Prizes were
also awarded for the largest fish
caught during the camping per-
iod and oddly enough a boy and
girl came up with fish identical
in size and weight. Each was
awarded a duplicate prize do
mated by radio station WABJ in
Adrian, Mich. with that station
having Larry Payne, its program
director, conducting the broad
cast and interviewing the boys
and girls on the program. The
fishing contest winners, each re-
ceiving a rod and reel were Chet
Wood, Box II, Holland, Ohio and
Jane Smiley of Lima, Ohio.
Others interviewed by Mr.
Payne in the final program OF
the season were Glenn Holewin-
ski, camp director, Walter Muir
ply, Administrative Assistant
to Richard Gosser, camp presi-
dent and Phil Haugh, assistant
camp director.
The programs were aired over
WABJ on Saturday mornings
transcribed over station WTOD,
Toledo on Monday evenings.
Both stations presented the
broadcast as a public service
feature.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16


porations to postpone t n e
threatened nationwide strike
until "at least Sept. 25' was
accepted by US Steel, Bethle-
hem and Republic - the big
three of the industry. Smaller
companies, as is their custom,
f7ll in line rapidly.
Equivalent of 10 cents
"The national interest re-
quires that the United Steel
workers of America-CIO and
every employer involved" Tru-
man wired the parties in the dis
pute, give the greatest weight
and the most earnest considera-
ton to the findings and recon-
rnendations of the three mem
bers of the board as a basis for
a prompt settlement of such dis
putes."
The board earlier had recon-
mended no general wage in
ere ase at this time, but the
equivalent of 10 cents an hour
in a proposed pension program
to be negotiated as part of the
new contract when the present
one expires in April, 1850, and
in social insurance policies paid
-for by the employer.
ngagnsion Program
The unions original demands,
presented when the fact-finders
began hearings in midsummer,
were for 1212 cents in a gen
eral wage increase; 6.27c an
hour in insurance against death
or total and permanent disabili-
ty caused by sickness or accident
occurring off the job, and hos
pital and surgical benefits. The
union also wanted an employer
financed pension program pro-
viding S125 month for each
worker retiring voluntarily at
age IS, and also a pension, of
$3.50 per month for worker
retired for permanent disability
after 10 years of service, to be
reduced to SIPS a month at 65.
The companies had uniformly
Turned down the wage boost and
pension demands, and US Steel,
the giant of the industry, had
offered only few cents in So
cial insurance, up until the time
negotiations broke off and the
fact-finders were named by the
president.
The fact-finders, in their re-
port. hinted several times that
their examination of union and
industry figures indicated that
steel prices should be cut to
benefit the consumers, or else
q wage boost would be justified.
Directly after denying the
wage increase now, the three
men said:
However, with increased eff
ficiency and lowered costs re-
sulting from the plant-modern-
yation program, and with no
treat decrease in the demand
for steel, there should be con-
tinued and higher profits.
IF these profits do not result
in benefit to the consumer in the
form of lower prices, there
would be justification for the
union to renew its demand for
increase of wage rates in order
better to participate in the in
dustry's prosperity"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
200 attend Mich.
CIO School

DETROIT (LPA)-More than
200 CIO m e m b ers attended
classes at the FDR-CIO Labor
Center, near Port Huron, Mich,
as part of the sixth annual Mich
igan CIO Leadership Training
Institutes held this summer.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
NOTICE
To Business Firms
and Advertisers
The Toledo Union
Journal
Is the Only
CIO Official
Newspaper In Toledo


1t speaks for the Toledo In
dustrial Union Council-CIO,
the Central Body of the C1O
in this city.
There are other CIO news
papers but they are published
by and only are intended for
members of their respective
shop.
Only the Journal has city
wide distribution m Ong
members of the CIO and has
mail distribution to bona -fide
subscribers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
ONE-STOP SERVICE

Time your dues payments with other bills ond make
Local IL your one stop agency for your bills
When making your monthly visit to Local IL Hall to
your why take advantage of the services
offered to Local IL members?
At the Local Dues Window You Can Pay Your Bills For
Water Electric Gas Telephone
This agency was established for the convenience OF
members.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Over S180 Donated This Week
To Local Il Summer Camp
Contributions Will Be Accepted Year Round
Although Fund Drive Closes Officially Sept 30.

This weeks donation amounted to $18276 to boost the
the total 83 reported by Howard
Redger director of the fund for the Local II Summer
lamp.
Although the 1949 drive towards the 500 600
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
ULC Postpones Action
On Council Endorsement
Choice To Be Made After
CLU-AFL Meet Thursday
Gosser's Recommendation To Allow New
Delegates To Vote Accepted By Group

The United Labor Committee, representing majority
segents of labor Toledo through its steering committee
agreed adopt the recommendation of Richard GosSer
international UAW-CIO Vice President and of the
founders of the ULC to postpone action endorsing choices
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Hopes Of Steel Peace
Send Stocks Rising
Steel Prices Could Be Cut And Wages
Boosted Is Hint Of Fact Finding Board

PITTSBURGH UPA)-Steel stocks rose the pros
poets for settlement of the long drawn out dispute be-
United SteelworkersCIO and the industry grew
little brighter this week.
President Trumans appeal to the unions and the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
No Pay Raise But IOe In
Pensions Insurance Mapped

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Insurance and pension programs
should priority this time bargaining between the
United Seeworkers CIO and the giant steel in
dustry President Truman's fact-finding board stated
Whie there NAV conditions particular industries
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
Interviews Of Winners On
Essay And Fishing Contest
Climax Radio Camp Broadcast

3 radio broadcass from the Local II Summer
Camp Mich with the final featuring win
life and the and girl catch
ing largest fish during the camping period
The letter describing why Enjoyed Camp Life Al
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-16
CIO Accuses Sheriff
Of Collision In Strike;
Dewey Orders More Police

BUFFALO, N. Y. 1PA) = Governor Thomas E Dewey has
Niagara County Sheriff Henry Becker depuze
against strikers at the Bell Aircraft Corp
after Becker sought state aid telegram that
CIO officials charge written by Bell press agent