Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-04-08


House Republicans we're
mentary maneuver to vote a
second time on FEPC, hoping
the Mond y night session
woud find some FEPC support
ers absent and enable them to
kill the bill.
Throughout the long session,
FEPC supporters waited anxi-
ously for such move. A mo-
.tlen to reconsider the vote could
have come at any time and
would have an Al priority,
From the edge of their gallery
seats, supporters eyed the pro-
ceedings warily. They didn't
breathe easily until the session
adjourned, without the motion
coming up.
Best guess was that opponents
had quietly counted noses, knew
they were licked, and didn't
make their play. Monday was
the last opportunity for such a
maneuver. Now the bill goes to
the Snate for hearings and ac-
tion.
Unemployment Compensation
Again in News
The House Industry and La
Dor Committee hearing roo m
was again the focal point for
CIO this week. Committee
hearings on unemployment COM
pensation were nearing an end,
with Chairman Ed Wilmer 3D.,
Stark announcing the commit
tees decision to concentrate on
S. B.-142, passed by the Senate
last week.
CIO Spokesman Jacob Clay
man led off as a proponent OF
S. B.-142, but he demanded
strengthening m Id ments'
Clayman pointed to the latest
BUG figures showing Ohio had
sunk from 10th to 10Th place In
the role of states with average
weekly benefits of $l8.12.
Illustrating the checks the
BUG uses to prevent fraud, ne
said compensation was tough
not easy, to get. His examples
A iobless Marion worker, who
visited his ailing wife In a Co
lumbus hospital, was recently
denied compensation for three
weeks, because he spent his
mornings at his wife's bedside
rather than home waiting for 9
call to go to work.
Disregarded by the BUG we're
these facts: his daughter coulo
have reached him in a matter ol
minutes, no job referral ever
came. and his visits helped his
wife during her last three weeks
of life
CIO Blasts Chember
of Commerce
Clayman lashed out at the
vile attack of the Chamber oi
Commerce on CLOS proposal to
liberalize unemployment COM
pensation. Reading from a
Chamber OF Commerce commu-
nication reported in detail In
the March issue Of the Monthly
Review he roared, They lie In
their teeth and they know 1t,
and red faced Chamber lobby
lists ducked their heads,
Committee m m b er Frank
King ID, Lucas) spoke VI
when a Chamber spokesman, A
j. Destro Of Firestone, testi-
fled. do you honestly think
unemployment compensation is
communistic," King demanded
After trying evasion, Destro
contested, In my opinion, no."
Business Lobbyists Continue
To Call Names
Second string lobbyists for
business interests monopolized
the hearings, echoing arguments
made before. Low point of the
hearing came when Victor L.
Keyes, lobbyist for the druggists
and dry cleaners, spent half
hour telling how I'VE are fed
up with the whole scheme of un-
employment compensation as II
is operating today"
His testimony, filled with ref
erences to "chiselers," 'loafers'
and "schemers," wound UP with
q plea that the committee keep
this law from becoming idlers'
and loafers' insurance" His case
fell apart under sharp question
ing from Reps. Joseph DuBar
Cd, Stark, Guy Hiner (R,
Stark and Frank Simpson ID
Hamilton). as he reluctanctly
admitted he had no figures OF
"chlselers" on the rolls, and that
the businesses he represented
were the real beneficiaiers Of a
better compensation law,
House hearings ended We'd
nesday night, after Walter Mac
key. spokesman for the Ohio
Manufacturers Association, con-
nndad taNInlrn -. .Aan.I .-t.