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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
Annual July a
Fireworks At
WaIbriidgeP Park
Municipal Bond
TO Play Prior
To Display

The annual July 4 fireworks
display at Walbridge Park
which was interrupted by Worlc
War II, will be revived this year
under the sponsorship @
Citizens Advisory Recreation
Commission, it was ann,~n, ,
today by Welfare Director Ar
thur Gratop.
AT the suggestion of Mr.. Ora
top, 1877 firms, organizations ano
individuals contributed $1,000
for the scheduled two-hour show
from an island in front of the
Maumee River Yacht Club
starting at 9 P. M.
Handled BY Experts
The holiday display has been
prepared by the Fireworks Cor
poration of America Of No"
Castle, Pennsylvania, and will
be handled by experts of the
company.
Prior to the display at 7 P. M
the municipal band, under the
direction of Kenneth M, Hol
land, City Recreation Depart.
ment Music Director, will pre-.
sent a concert in the park band
stand opposite the shelterhouse.
Special traffic regulations will
be enforced in the vicinity oi
Walbridge Park all day July 4
in anticipation of a record
crowd, Traffic Inspector Edward
Hoffman announced. More thar
so policemen will patrol the
area to keep traffic moving un'
til the display is concluded.
Members of Committee
Members of the Citizens Ad
visory Recreation Commission
who were responsible for rails
ing the funds for the firework.
display are: Herbert Jorris
chairman; Fritz Lehman, treas,
urer, Charles Heebsch, a mem
Der of Willys-Overland Unit
Robert Hilty, Jerry Cullen, Ma
jor X. Simpson, Robert Horn
Mrs. Faye Dinwiddie, JOSEPH
Gallon, Thomas Bretherton, Will.
liam Hirsch, Walter Christen
Arthur Morse, Frank Merickel
Robert Kirschbaum, the Rev
Jerome Schmit, Theodore Kel
Ter, Gerald Mclaughlin, Walter
Boruh, Frank Liberkowski
Frank Bires and Clement Wal
ters.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01

the more than $4,000 claimed
by the real estate lobby.
3-"Only families of low in
come can be admitted to public
housing projects" despite the
real estate lobby's claims to the
contrary.
4-The low rent public hous
ing will not compete with pri
vate housing, Truman renter
ates, but will only compete with
present slum housing. ''Wher
these slums are cleared away
the President wrote Rayburn, ii
may be best to build public
housing where they had been
it may even be best not to builc
anything there, but to use the
land for parks. In any event, tho
local community will decid;
what shall be done in each case.
5-'Nothing could be further
from the truth" than the rea
estate lobby's claims that the
wishes of a local community
will not be consulted but gov.
ernment housing will be i'm.
posed.
6-"The real estate lobby
which last year cried that we
should not construct new public
housing projects because private
builders were building every.
thing that was needed, this yeal
is arguing that we should no
construct public housing project.
on the claim that there is M
longer any need for them. Both
claims are fallacious.
Truman charges that the
real estate lobby "twists the To-
cal tax features of the low rem
housing provisions of HR 400t
into an argument against the
bill" The bill merely writes into
law the practice that has alway.
been followed, whereby loca
governments, instead of making Z
contribution equal to the zoe
federal contributions, allows
that much exemption for the
housing project from real anc
personal property taxes.
8-The "hoary old chestnut
that has been used as an argu.
ment against proposals to ad.
vance the public welfare ever
since the nation was founded
has been dragged out again by
the lobby. This is that initiative
and thrift will be destroyed by
subsidized housing. The reverse
the President says, will be true
9-The bill is not "socialistic. -
The projects will be constructed
bW private builders, and cannot
possibly compete with private
building,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
How To Make
Money While
"Bankrupt"

NEW YORK (LPA) - Can a
railroad turn in huge profits and
yet be bankrupt? The Nassau
County Transit Commission this
week said "yes," in the case of
the Long Island Railroad.
Last year, the Long Island
went into reorganization under
Federal bankruptcy laws, on the
claim that it had been running
in the red and couldn't get
enough income to meet expenses.
That alibi was whacked by
the Transit Commission. 1t con-
tended that the Long Island is
actually rolling up a great prof
it = but that the LIS parent
railroad, the Pennsylvania, has
for years been milking the line.
Trustees Probe
The commission called upon
trustees of the Long Island to
institute thorough probe into
the corporate tieups between the
two roads.
AS an example of the milking,
the commission cited an arrange
ment between the "Pennsy" and
the Ii. for ferrying freight cars
between Greenville, N. j., and
Long Island City. For % years,
the commission said, the Long
Island has been floating the cars.
and should have received go
cents to Sl.10 a ton from the
Pennsylvania for the work.
"Pennsy" Pockets Profit
Instead, said the commission,
the Long Island received only a
small fraction of that, and the
"Pennsy" pocketed the differ
ence "for doing nothing"
Had the Long Island during the
% years received all it was en-
titled to on that ferrying and
other services, the total would
have been sufficient to wipe out
an alleged 100000 deficit in
Long Island payments to the
Pennsylvania.
Also, it would have been
enough to scale down "substan-
tally" the Long Islands $50
million bonded indebtness owed
to the Pennsylvania, the Con-
mission, said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01

which subscribing papers own
shares. In letter before the
election general manager Frank
J. Starzel told employees that
they must decide whether the
best interests of the individual
employe and the interests of the
Associated Press, which are in
Separable from those of the en-
ployes, can better be served by
the proposed method of employe
representation" % arg n ng
through the Guild)
AS ANG's national convention
in Columbus, Ohio this week,
delegates hailed a turning point
in newspaper u n n m. En-
ployes of the nations biggest
wire service had overwhelming
ly chosen the CIO Newspaper
Guild as their exclusive bargain
ing agent.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
Eviction Families
Win Postponement
TMHA Agrees
To Delay Writ
Up To July Is
Meetings Set
For Saturdays
At TUG Hall

The Toledo Metropolitan
Housing Authority, meeting
with representatives of 500
families facing evictions no.
tices in government housing
projects agreed to cooperate
with housing tenants who must
find private living quarters be-
cause their incomes exceed the
limit allowed for occupancy.
The authority further agreed at
a meeting Wednesday afternoon
to postpone until July Is all
custer proceedings against the
families ordered to move i'm
mediately.
Meet Same Evening
The about to be evictees met
the same evening at the Toledo
Industrial Union Council, CIO
to further discuss the proposal
of the TMHA to make every ef-
fort to find suitable housing
for the families to be evicted.
The group voted down the
proposal Of the TMHA to weigh
each case individually and in
stead will demand that the
hearing be held for all families
as whole facing eviction as
a group.
Goerlich Is Attorney
well Goerlich, attorney,
representing the Tenants Coun-
ell, contested the evictions be-
cause, he said, no other housing
was available in the city for
the families affected by the
order.
Does the government take
the position that if a person
cannot find housing he goes out
in the street" Mr. Goerlich
asked. 81 don't think Congress,
in its wisdom, intended that"
I He added, "the tenants do
not want to live under constant
fear that tomorrow they will
be put out All they ask is
help in finding other places to
live. If they are notified of
places to live they will be glad
to move"
Cities Cost OF Living
Mr.. Goerlich said the result
of the boards original eviction
policy will be to drive these
people back into the slums."
On the rising cost of living
he argued against the present
ceiling limitations, adding that
rising cost of living was not
taken into consideration and
from the point of view the
families were not over income.
Meetings for the overall
group is set for every Saturday
morning at the TIUC Hall, Gil
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01

crdtS caucus Wnlcn VOteQ IL 10
to support the bill, with an a.
mendment to provide for 8lO,-
600 instead of 1,050,000 low
cost units as a consession to the
DixiecratS. Leader of the eight
oppontnts, Rep. Eugene Cox I'd,
Ga.), engaged in a brief but
spirited fistfight on the floor of
the House when Rep. Adolph
SABBATH ID, Ill) refused to give
Cox the time he demanded to
debate the merits of the bill.
Cox is 79, and SABBATH, who is
the dean of the House, is 83
years old.
Roosevelt in Maiden Speech.
Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Jr. I'd, N.Y. made his maiden
speech on the floor, asking quick
passage of the measure. Earlier
in the week, he swung several
votes when he took members of
Congress to see some of the
tenement homes in his district
in New York, and then showed
them the sharp contrast with
public housing developments In
the city.
II have been shocked in re-
cent days" Truman wrote House
Speaker Sam Rayburn over the
weekend, "at the extraordinary
propaganda campaign that has
been unleashed against this bill
by the real estate lobby.
Il do not recall ever having
witnessed more deliberate
campaign of Misrepresentation
and distortion against legislation
of such crucial Importance to
the public welfare.
THE propaganda of the real
estate lobby consistently mis-
states the explicit provisions OF
the bill, consistently miSrepre-
sents what will be the actual et-
feet of the bill, and consistently
distorts the facts of the housing
situation in the country" Tru-
man insisted.
Points to be Rehashed
Here are the points-sure to
be rehashed in the House debate
on which the President shows
the real estate lobby's misrepre-
sentations:
Cost of the program. The
real estate lobby claims the bill
would cost the federal govern
'ment 20 billions dollars. Actut
ally, Truman says the bill Will
cost half that amount, spread
over a period of 80 years. The
bill authorizes: S500,000 for
planning slum clearance on bill
lion dollars as loans to commu-
mites for actual slum clearance;
loans for low-rent housing Cl,-.
050,000 units) will cost about
$3,000,000 a year for 29 to 33
years-a total of about nine to
10 billion dollars plus admins
trative expenses; S500,000,O0O
for housing research; for rural
housing, $250,0OO,O0O in loans
for. home improvements and an
other equal sum for minimum
repairs on substandard farms.
Cost of each housing unit
built under the low~rent pro-
gram will be an average at the
most of $8,465, constrasted with
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
Organizers Murderers
Being Sought

NEW YORK (LPA) - New
York police have asked nation
wide aid in catching the indicted
murderers of Int'l Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union-AFL or
ganizer William Lurye. The
murderers-an ex-convict and a
former dress industry employer
may be hiding out in the south
! or southwest. Police also sub
stantiated ILGWU charges that
open shop employers were be-
hind the organizers assassination
when they arrested another
thug for shaking down" the
owners of non-union shops, and
an accountant who'd falsified the
records of the bosses who paid
the gangster.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
PegIer Scheduled
To Testify

WASHINGTON Il p Al -
Westbrook Pegler, anti-labor
newspaper columnist, has been
subpoenaed by House Labor
subcommittee to appear on July
7. He stated that the committee
didn't need to spend any more
money looking into undemo-
cratic union practices" and that
he would tell them all they
needed" to know.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01

The top donation W "a S
m a d e by Willys-Overland
Engineers, members of the
Society of Designing Engineers
with a 5000 contribution. Local
913, UAW- -CIO the New De-
parture Division Of General
Motors in Sandusky, Ohio gave
$50 to the camp fund. Dona-
,tions of SIS each were received
from Toledo Desk & Fixture.
Chester Glowski, an Interna-
tional Representative from
Charles Ballard's Region 2-B
staff added an additional $25
from an attorney who signed
his card as a friend of Toledo
children.
S4S From Tax Refund
Landon Hall contributed SIS
as did Rev Lincoln Long.
harles Hartjes, of Onsted,
Mich, located snort distance
from the camp gave $40.
An additional $48.53 was re-
ceived as refund of State Sales
Tax Stamps. Free will can col
lections in the shops totaled
$237.19 this past week.
Youngsters at the camp and
parents heard the Local IL
Summer Camp radio program
presented by radio stations
EABJ in Adrain, Mich. and
WTOD in Toledo. Both stations
present the program each week
during the camp period as a
public service program.
The broadcast over WABJ
is presented every Saturday
morning at 8:45 am. and at
tbs pm. over WTOD on Mon
day evenings.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
Denham
Preaehes tn
To US Judges

LOS ANGELES (L p Al =
NLRB General Counsel Robert
Denham this week tried to en-
list at least the moral support OF
the federal judiciary for the
Taft Hartley law, and his rig
orous interpretations of it.
Speaking at the conference OF
circuit and district judges of the
ninth federal circuit, Denham
publicly entered the b a It'll e
against the administrations fight
to repeal the Taft-Hartley law,
and asked the judges to uphold
him in his fued with the five
man NLRB.
Admits Prejudice
IT admit to a strong prejudice
in favor of the Taft-Hartley
law" Denham declared. Il
would be dishonest if l did not
do So"
With the Senate debate on
whether or not to retain Til S
Injunction provisions in a new
labor statute at its climax, Den
ham openly aligned himself with
Sen. Robert A. Taft (R, Ohio)
and the other advocates of this
way of handling industrial dis
putes.
"Any injunction is obnoxious
to the leaders of organized labor,
but thruout all the rest of our
regulatory machinery of govern
ment, the injunction is almost
standard equipment of the ad-
ministrator, he affirmed.
Begins With Defense
Taft -Hartley's top enforce
ment officer began his speech
with a strong defense of the al
most complete independence
which TIL gives his office.
. Then he told the judges, some
of whom may have to rule on
cases involving the issue, that
the courts should uphold him,
not the board, in their current
feud.
The NLRB has asserted its
right to refuse to handle small
time labor disputes which do not
effect interstate commerce. Den
ham, again in his Los Angeles
speech, insisted that under TIL
the board must take up every
case he wants prosecuted.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
ONE-STOP SERVICE

Time your dues payments with other bills and make
Local II your one stop agency for your bills
When making your monthly visit to Local II Hall to
union dues why not take advantage of the services
offered to Local II members.
At the Local Dues Window You Can Pay Your Bills For
Water Electric Gas Telephone
This agency established for the convenience OF
members.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01

sale of gas reserves. For ten
years, he asserted, the FPC
never sought any such power.
Justice Black said that the
decision will give "the unwhole-
some practices that the Natural
Gas Act was primarily designed
to prevent, a new lease on life !"
He compared the situation to
granting jurisdiction to regu-
late railroads without power to
the tracks, routes, rights-of-way,
etc"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
How TO RepeoI
tn Act

WASHINGTON (LPA) - Pro
labor senators divided last week
on how to repeal the Taft-Hart-
ley law. Some voted for "com-
promise" proposal to permit fed
eral seizure of struck plants dur
ing national emergency strikes.
Others opposed the idea. 1t was
killed when the Dixiegops too
voted against it - preferring to
keep the TIL injunctions. Show
down votes are due this week.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
Twas In The Block

WASHINGTON {LPA) = Sen
George w. Malone (R. New
whose chief hobby is trying to
throw monkey wrenches nto
public power projects, after ex-
hausting every other possible
attack last year demanded an in
vestigation of Twas "cost allo-
cation methods" Last week, one
year later, the Federal Do"
Commission reported after ex-
tenSive study that IVA S pO p.
production costs are less than its
benefits. That's what IVA said
all along.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
No Strike Rights
Under Dicfofor

BUENOS AIRES (LPA)-Ar-
gentina unionists aren't looking
forward to any of the rights
American workers had under
the Wagner Act as long as Pres
ident Juan Peron is around.
Their delegation to the ILO con-
ference in Geneva echoed his
views last week by coming out
in opposition to legislation Civ
ing workers the right to strike.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
CIO Changes Roee Bios

NEWARK, N. J. (LPA)Racial
equality is gaining in this state
in hospitals, schools and oppor-
tunities for employment, accord
ing to J. l.. Bustard, assistant
Commissioner of Education. Bus
tard said also that the CIO had
changed" the racial pattern of
New Jersey unions.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01

decision was clearly split along
somewhat political lines with
the tribunals three outstanding
liberals Justices Hugo Black,
Black, Wiley Rutledge and Will
liam o. Douglas all strongly OPP
posed TO freeing the gas COM
panies from government regula-
ton.
The case involved jurisdiction
over Panhandle E a tern Pipe
Line Company's sales of natural
gas. Justice Stanley Reed said
that Congress never intended to
r give the commission power over
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
Carpenters Aid

SACRAMENTO, Calf. LPA)
= Jimmie Fernando, who has
been crippled since birth is
thanking members of Carpenters
Local 586 here. When the car
penters learned that Jim was
confined to a Wheelchair, they
donated their services and built
a ramp into his home. His moth
er, who had to carry him in and
out, can now wheel his chair
right into the house.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
W-0 Engineers Loea| 9l3 Top
Weeks Camp Fund Donations
Total Now Post s34.0 Towards 100000
Cool Set To Defray Expansion And Operations

total of $63O72 donated this week to the Local
IL Summer Camp fund to boost the amount to
towards the 100000 goal which last year to hep
defray expansion operating the boys and girls
vacation site on the shores of Sand Lake, Mich.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
Newspaper Guild Wins
.AP Vote By Landslide

NEW YORK (LPA)-A spectacular victory scored by
Newspaper GudCIO when ballots counted last
election than 1900
Associated Press employees thruout the country.
up the Guild to against, voting
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
Real Estate Board
Distorts Facts To
Hit Low-Rent Housinq
Give Nine Point Program To Be
Rehoshed In House Debate

WASHINGTON (LPA)-In storm of arguments centering
President Trumans bitter attack the real estate lobby
housing bill finally reached the House floor last
Victory for the measure assured by House
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-01
Supreme Court Rule May
Mean Higher Gas Rates
Federal Power Commission Has No
Control Over Natural Cos Reserved

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Higher rates predicted by
Supreme Justice Hugo Black last week. dissenting
the Federal Power Commission has
natural reserved
Supreme Court recently the natural gas
The Valley settler., 1949-06-10
GRANGE AWARDED


Tho lorth1 and Pionoor Grange 10. l just recently received $1oo. for the efforts put forth a yoar ago in tho Homo Bouuti- ficnt ion Conto st. Tho Tasi1la Grongo No. 9 received on award of $50. in this samo contest.
 offor prize of $15.Oo in Home Beauti- ii cation Contest which would close at Fair inc. Those nresont Y orc in favor of stre ss ing the naming of Farms and display ing the name of the farm at the entrance to the farm homo so that thoro would be some identificat ion in directing visitors to the homes or Valley esidents. T,'e nam need not be any other than tho ornor's name. l.erlbers felt that the Grange should cont inue to promote Homo Identification in the Valley.
The Valley settler., 1949-06-10
OR. HAM GOING 70 VALOEZ

Tho people of the Valley arc very sorry. to 10 arn that Dr. Ham vi1l bo leaving tho Valley soon to go to Valdez to practico. Us thoro is an urgent mood for a doctor in Valdez, Dr. Ham decided to mako tho trans- for.
 Dr. Ham came to tho Valley this last fal1, but has boon unablo to find housing so that ho could bring his family horo. To undor- stand that housing ac conrno dations voro of- fcrod him at Valdez.
The Valley settler., 1949-06-10
VALLEY

Roy. n,d Hrs. B.J. Bing1o loft for Foir- banks on Thursday of this uook fo1lo~ing a four day conference at King'o L,ko this uook. Thoy will roturn to the Valley o. gain on tho 18th Of this month to attend which will last through tho 27th. Tho Binglos mako tho ir homo at Co1log go, 4laska.
The Valley settler., 1949-06-10
4Au fEpORTEi0 AT SUITE

Yos- it docs hail in Alaska and TO do hovo thunder md 1ightning--not oftm Of course but such phenomena arc not unknown to -loskons.
 On Thursday aft ornoon Of this rook tho Valley experienced typical mid-Uo st orm afternoon thunder shouor hich uas also oc comp aniod by hail in somo parts of tho Valley. Frank Ba1ogh reported hni1 in tho Butto area md thoro uoro ot hor TO- ports of hail to tho north md TO st of Palror.
The Valley settler., 1949-06-10
VISI '

Friends of Bill Ising uoro surprised to moot him on tho stroots Of Palmor this uook. Bill cano up ovor tho Highray with his son-in-1aU rho has ompl oyraont in Alaska
 Bill gives Q vory good report of his feni- ly. Norbert is getting along uonderful1y uol1 and is almost roc ovorod from Iris ill., moss. Tho rast of tho family is in ox- co11ont hasath and enjoying southern Cali- fOrnia sunshine.
 Bill intends to do a 1ittlo fish ing boforo ho re turns to California.
The Valley settler., 1949-06-10

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