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Evening star., 1949-12-14

talk about skyscrapers in New
York of which she seemed to be
very proud. They pride themselves
on their motor cars and motor
highways. but we have not. come
across q single American who
prides himself or herself on Allen
Poe or Eugene O'Neill or Pearl
Buck.
Sitting in this comfortable and
bright living room which is warm
as spring In the midst Of winter,
I felt dry and dreary as If I were
wandering about a desert. I can
not but feel some measure of
anxiety. disappointment and lone
illness as to the future Of America
which should be the center Of
world civilization" Mrs. Mogi re-
lates.
Asks Spiritual TRANSMISSION.
"Why has not higher intel
ligence been born out Of such
abundant resources? This Is a
Evening star., 1949-12-14

serious weakness for America.
That the moral and spiritual
civilization is not parallel with
the material and mechanical
civilization is suggestive Of some
thing grave for the future which
America is leading. -.
I'm my three years experience,
the greater part Of the Americans
who came with the occupation do
not understand Japan. Certainly
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A Swiss brewery has bought
$500,000 worth of Barvarian malt
to produce a new type Of beer
with q Munich" flavor.
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these people are not the kind of
people who possess high American
culture. But it is nonetheless GER
tain that they represent the gen.
eral American public" Mrs. Mogi
declares.
Finally, thanking America for
the food she has shipped to Japan
in the last four years, Mrs. Mogi
requests that Americans of in
telligence also supply a spiritual
Evening star., 1949-12-14

blood TRANSMISSION. This is bound
to encourage and elevate this de-
feated and frustrated Japan and
create an ocean of understanding
between U.s."
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-06
Regional
Views
BY Richard Gosser, Vice President
International UAW-CIO
WHAT does the worker want?

WHAT does the worker want?
" He wants security. living wage good working conditions
and recognition
There you it. you gentlemen who are writing books
and making speeches abor-management relations It
simple as that
To Management say, "Are you willing to pay little
bit that 1t costs comparatively to capture the important
and most elusive advantage your business needs?
You cannot cajole bribe good will faith or loyalty
from employees You buy it only with
efts not by high methods Workers
told how wonderful their working conditions are how
much they loved their working conditions
really employer really doing the right
thing by them they will not wait for him to talk about
THEY will say 20.
You cannot begin proposition false premise and
end with logical conclusion This music
logic chemistry medicine just plain business
relations An Empire State Building would be worthless
placed wobbly ottering foundation Fair play and the
golden rule the only stable foundation employer
employee relations Eratz substutions worthless
the present Chinese currency in Shanghai.
Speaking of Shanghai there few employers who
still think the best method of treating Labor the Shanghai
week that at least Toledo employers picking up
stakes because of alleged labor relations The moving
moved before However this has rarely proved
solution for the people who did the moving Pigeons have
way of coming home to roost usually Furthermore such
statements do nothing for Toledo
Security is the thing desired by worker. He
needs for his famy sake and that strikes pretty close to
the heart of the problem How much money makes
each day each week isn't nearly important how
weeks months and this is going to continue long
The term working conditions" covers lot of territory
is in this field that its biggest mistake
Advances made compared to previous conditions instead
of goal being the ideal Previous conditions left much
to be desired to put it mildly.
Attitudes count for lot and open field awaits the
which wishes make strides the of
working conditions The workday should be pleasant it
possibly be made supervision should friendly and
diplomatic possible with being treated as fairly
If he customer stockholder After all, aren't
each of these people human beings with the wants
needs desires, likes and dislikes, less?
Recognition should be given for good work for dill
and for idea Compensation should be given
well commendation The worker feel he
somebody that his work important that he is needed
Psychologists will that this is necessary
The worker of his daylight hours the shop
than in his home Shouldn't those hours be
anti Happy workers do better work live
with Others and the best advertisement any company
could have.
You do not solve problem by running away from it.
Even if what the Toledo Times true 1t wouldn't
speak well for people admitting they clicked" by the
problem of human relations they should have solved
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-06
Minor Leagues First

Some folks seem to have the cock
eyed notion that politics is a game which
the nation plays earnestly only on Leap
Year.
It's true that the big game in the
Major League is played only once in four
years - when President is elected.
But all members of the House and a
third of the Senate are elected each two
years.
And in the odd-numbered years -
such as 1949 - there are several hun
dred city, county and state elections in
areas where labor is an important force.
This year there are more than 500 such
elections.
Perhaps we can say that the off-year
elections are in the Minor Leagues -
but that doesn't mean they're not i'm
portant.
They are important - vitality impor-
tant - for two reasons:
/. In many respects, state and local
legislation has more effect on the daily
lives of citizens than do the laws passed
O. Many of the players in the Minor
Leagues move up to the Majors as time
passes.
Thus PAC Dir. Jack Kroll isn't talk
ing through his hat when he says CIO
must carry on political action work the
year around, year in and year out.
And his statement that PAC needs
dollar contributions this year m e S
sense, too.
What's been happening on Capitol
Hill in Washington shows the necessity
for laying the groundwork now for the
Congressional elections next year
The 81st Congress isn't a shining ex-
ample of the type of legislative body
labor wants and the nation as whole
needs If progress is to be made.
Sure, lot of good guys" were elect
ed last Fall but there are still too
many bad guys" around.
And lot of the latter are likely to be
around in 1850, so and even later unless
labor and other liberal forces use their
energy and money to retire them to pri-
vate life.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-06
Time For Plain Talk
Continued from Page /

have never in my life claimed the CIO or
the labor movement generally, as my religion
l have held always that the principles of or
ganized labor are not incompatible with the
principles of religion and therefore have felt
free to participate in the affairs of organized
labor. This editor any other could write
thousands of editorials about me and they
could not change my order of priority-ny
God my country, my family my union.
Mr.. Editor says that sounded Off mean
ing of course, that l yelled and shouted mere
nothings Well, think he sounded off about
something he evidently knows nothing about,
He admits that he got his information about
my speech from the news columns of the
Blade, AS it happens the Blade chose to re-
peat only my references to the Toledo Plan
and the LMC These references used up only
minute, or less, of a twenty minute speech.
Why didn't he criticize the rek Of 1T?
All | said about the LMC was that 1t is
good plan, and it has worked we'll; but If we
continue national labor policy based on the
philosophy of the Taft Hartley Act such
plans will be destroyed And they will, make
no mistake about that.
Mr., Hartley, co-author of the Act spouted
off all over the country before the last cleo
ton, that we hadn't seen the full potential
power of the Act in operation. We in labor
knew that without his telling u.s. because
of the working people had sufficiently felt its
laSh that they looked INTO II themselves ana
came to the conclusion that Mr.. Hartley, him
self later told us about
This theme was thoroughly developed in
our subcommittee hearings and its truth was
admitted even by the architects of the Act.
All of the provisions that were supposed to be
designed to effectuate the glamorous and
great high purposes Of such things as "the
right to work" freedom of speech for en-
ployers," protecting the working man against
the union" protecting the public interest"
and all the rest, were put under the micro
scope of analytical questioning.
The only purpose of these provisions was
disclosed to be exactly what the union always
said it was, to supply an instrument for de-
stroying organized labor where possible and
for minimizing its power to bargain where it
was not possible to destroy.
l would like to inform the editor of the
Times that the main theme of my speech was
national labor policy. The question this Con-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-06
BY BRADFORD V. CARTER
LPA COlumniSt

MOST Representatives were in their seats
I'A last Tuesday when Rep, Ray Madden ID.
Ind) rose to move discussion of the Thomas
Lesinsld bill--the Taft-Hartley repeater No
matter how they intend to vote finally on the
bill--and on the various substitutes and
amendments which will be offered to it--all
of the Congressman agreed on one thing: this
is the most important single question that
will come before the slst Congress
Important to them-and to the nation--are
the political implications of the action that
Congress will take,
No pledge that the victorius Democratic
party made during the 194S electoral cam
paign was more specific than its pledge to re-
peal the Taft Hartley law And that pledge
which activated union members throughout
the country on behalf of the Democratic ticket
was one OF the most important factors in
bringing victory to Truman and his party
AT the Democratic convention not even
the most rabid of the southern union -haters at
tempted to prevent the party from writing a
TIL repeal promise into its platform They
sat on their hands thru the reading of the part
of the platform-holding their fire for the
civil rights section. They know that without
firm commitment to organized labor their
party hadn't chance of winning the election.
Even Gov. Thurmond in his presidential
campaign as a States RICHTER Sidestepped the
Taft-Hartley issue
Now the southerners-the minority who
supported Thurmond, and the majority who
whatever their personal attitudes stuck with
Truman-hold the balance of power if this de-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-06
JUST An Incident

The other day one of the Washington
newspapers carried an "unimportant"
story about an "unimportant" woman
employe at the Pentagon who didn't like
the kind of milk served at Pentagon
cafeterias.
The young lady began circulating
petition, asking that the cafeterias switch
back to a brand of milk they formerly
used
A lieutenant-colonel stopped the young
lady in a snack bar, asked her her name
and where she worked. She told him such
information was no concern of his.
I'm going to have you picked up"
said the officer and he did She was
taken a short time later to an Army office
office and questioned. She was released,
then called back
On the second trip the young lady's
boss, an attorney, went along. After lis
tening to the questioning, he told the
colonel, II think you're a little out of
order"
Said the officer, We'll, how do we
know she's not Communist?
Said the boss, Now / know damn
well you're out of order!
What happened was, of course, "just
an incident" insofar as the public welfare
is concerned, but it serves to illustrate
the type of crackpot thinking on matters
theological which permeates large part
of official Washington.
The reporter who wrote the story said
1t illustrates what stupid thing a
Gesatpo can be.
Right
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-06
" EIpEU5

greSs is called upon to decide is simply this:
Shall we have as our national labor policy the
principle that the working man has the dignity
of humanity and therefore an inherent human
right to bargain collectively and to organize
to match the economic power of his employer
so that he can effectively exercise that right?
If he has, then it is up to government to guar
antee by law his free exercise of that right
Or on the other hand shall our national
labor policy be the Taft Hartley philosophy of
giving lip service to the existence of that right
and to its legal guarantee, merely for politi-
cal expediency. and then denying the guar
sntee by law in veritable labyrinth of legal
isms?
am convinced that my election to this
high office was accomplished because the
working people wanted the honest, fortnight
guarantee, free from legalistic obstacle courses
and hirden denial of stated intents and pur-
poses.
Although it Is extraneous to the subject at
hand | will comment on the last part of the
second editorial When this editor speaks of
moving plants around like checkers on
checker board, he is talking right up my alley
I don't pretend to be a sees-all knows-all wise
acre and therefore seek to qualify as an edi-
torial writer, but, Mr.. Editor, do know pro-
duction. Even the industrialists will admit
that.
AS you suggest, "there is significant rea-
SON." in the case of one plants moving part
of its operation to another city / cant talk
about the other, because you see I am not
like you'll just can't know everything about.
everything and don't try. That would be too
big job and there are too many people work
ing at it now I am afraid person winds up
scatterbraned when he does try
One Of the plants of which you speak has
already had wheels under it, ready to go at
a moments notice, when conditions didn't
exactly suit its management What that man
agement hasn't learned yet is that no matter
how often how fast or how far you run, that
which you are trying to escape catches up
with you and the final reckoning is always
double or triple what it might have been This
Is because in the very act of running away,
you are making no effort to correct the situa-
tion that caused the condition that caused you
to run, This is rather involved, but make your
own investigation and see what answer you
come up with.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-06
The Great Debate Begins

bate which will determine the pattern of labor
relations in the US for at least the next sew
ersl years.
For few Republican Congresmen, probably
not more than a couple of dozen-will vote
consistently for the union supported Thomas
Lesinski bill. One of this handful, Rep.
Richard Welch (R. CALI told his colleagues
on the first day of the debate that their Taft
Hartleyism has driven millions of workers
away from the party of Abraham Lincoln, and
made II hopeless minority" Welch is right,
but few of his party's representatives will
heed his warning.
For the Republican leaders, firm in their
faith that no institution-be il the labor move
ment or federal regulatory agency-should
have enough power to interfere with the big
corporations freedom to exploit--are playing
for big stakes.
Not only do they want to maintain an un-
democratic system of employer -employe rela-
tions, they want too to use the Taft-Hartley
fight to cement their bipartisan coalition with
the southern Democrats, and so prevent Presi-
dent Truman and his supporters from enacting
laws which would at least partially compen-
safe workers for the losses they would suffer
from q retention of Taft Hartley principles"
To counter this strategy administration
leaders last week canvasSed both the mod
crate" southerners and union spokesmen to
see II agreement could be reached on amend
ments that would WOO enough southerners
away from bipartisaniSm to support Of the
Thomas-LesinSki bill without making it un-
satisfactory to organized workers,
Which team will win--not only in the House
but particularly when the Thomas-Lesinski
bill goes to the Senate-is snybodys guess.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-05-06
What's New?
BY Edward J. Duck
Journal Columnist

TOLEDO anxious to something about hs
high cost of living They proved last weekend when
than 5000 the Coop Fair Local IL
Headquarters We had almost ten tons groceries and they
faded before the Thursday patrons like popke under the
summer sun Ask those who were there Thursday evening
Friday, Saturday.
The first days receipts topped the three thousand dollar
mark Fridays Saturdays would larger
would have had the the shoppers after
there limit to the of weight the floor could
safely hold and must confess the turnout greater than
anticipated.
So cannot be denied that the Coop idea caught on
People asked questions They looked at the Coop label
as good the more expensive They
Coop Deluxe cleaner sold for S2se commenting
thimbful of Coop soapess shampoo
would equal 28c worth of Luse Creme 15c worth of Halo
$27s worth of the highly Elizabeth Arden sham
poo a cost of 21zc per shampoo.
The big question in most peoples mind
"How is store going to and where's 1t 60
ing to be-"
of supermarkets shopping centers Secondly
the customers them and anyone be customer and
member of the Coop Thirdly the first of the chain of such
shopping going be located in West Toledo and
will be Forthcoming within the next ten days
than 10000 square feet there
will be than $500 items handled
modern station, handling gasoline OIL and auto
mobile accessories is included in the plans In addition to
groceries, and vegetables the shopping center will
handle appliances work clothes hardware drugs cosmetics
The first shopping planned for be-
the greatest percentage of membership from that
Before long there will announcement of
second third shopping center These will be placed the
negborhoods where the greatest of members
located The ideal plan would be for second retail warehouse
Toledo present difficult say exactly
where the next will be opened since the membership is
evenly distributed with the exception of the present West
Toledo majority,
When person joins the Coop he is member of the
tire citywde shopping centers will be credited
with his purchases of the retail warehouse outlets when
the yearly division of profits is made known the patronage
refund system If the dividend is found to be cent for
example members SIS for hundred spent at the
Coop during the previous year
Membership in the Coop is acquired by purchasing
share of S25 Class Common Stock This share gives its
holder lifetime membership voice and vote in meetings,
the right to nominate and for office and share in the
profits savings of the Coop described above There
dues Membership is to the public not
just to union members factory workers Husband and wife
jointly share they each share and the
children share if that is desired No
receives than vote and when shares held jointly
the other is designated carrying the voting rights
This folks is economic democracy 1t at least big
thing and important the union itself The Coop in
corporated for 10000 members want to be of
them, it's up to you!
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-11-17
Entertains HOmemakers
Club At Home Recently

The Homemakers club of the
Berne community met at the
home of Miss Blanche Smith re-
Gently. The day was spent So
cially with games and contests.
Contest prizes were won by
Mrs. Ruby Leasure and Mrs.
Bernetta Schell. The hostess re-
ceived beautiful birthday gift
from a member of the club.
The following members attend
ed the meeting: Mrs. Gertrude
Kuhn Ida Dimmerling, Tharcilla
Larrick, Kathryn Warner, Win
ME Rucker, Bernetta Schell,
Ruby Leasure, Belle Spence,
Mabel Hesson, Loretta Ritter
beck and the hostess.
Two guests were present, Rita
10 Ritterbeck and j. X. Larrick
The next meeting will be held
at the home of Loretta Ritter
beck on Dec. 7.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-11-17
Anna Davis Is Hostess
jolly Good NeighbOrS

The Jolly Good NelghborS
club of the Ava community met
at the home of the president,
Anna Davis, recently.
Miss Ada Gossage, home de-
monStration agent, was a guest
and demonstrated to the club in
painting on glass.
A covered dish supper was
enjoyed at noon and contests
and election of officers occupied
the afternoon hours. Contest
winners were Leila Stiers and
Susie Secrest. Lena Crow was
awarded the door prize.
Those present were: Dorothy
Bates, Ethel Stiers, Betty Hedge,
Velma Bryan, Helen Boley, Leila
Stiers, Sadie Moore, Susie Sc
crest, Grace Bond, Gladys Dud-
ley, Eva Davis, Lena Crow and
two guests, Miss Gossage and
Anna Jordan. of Caldwell.
The next meeting will be
held at the home of Gladys
Dudley on Dec. 8 beginning a
1000 o'clock.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-11-17
Meeting Held Tuesday
AT RAYMOND MOOre'S

Members of the Women's Mis-
sionary society and of the Wheel
er Bible class of the First Bap-
tist church met in a combined
meeting at the home of Mrs.
Raymond Moore, Walnut street,
Tuesday evening, with Mrs. Har-
ry Colley as companion hostess.
The meeting was opened by
the president of the missionary
society, Mrs. Raymond Moore,
with song. Mrs. Edna Wehr had
charge of the devotional service,
using as her theme the third
chapter of Joshua. Members of
the Wheeler Bible class sang
their theme song, Beneath the
Cross of Christ. Every member
of both societies participated in
the program and business ses-
sions was held by each society.
The hostesses served delicious
refreshments during the social
hour to the following present:
Mrs. Edna Wehr, Mrs. Charles
Milligan, Mrs. David Doan. Mrs.
Nellie Kirkbride, Mrs. Forest
McCune, Mrs. John Morris, Mrs.
Gerald Ramage, Mrs. Elizabeth
Dilley, Mrs. Ed Ickes, Mrs. Lou
Bramley, Mrs. Charles Moore, of
Jersey City, N. j., Miss Lilly
Harris and Miss Jean Moore.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1949-11-17
Rayner Home Scene Of
Ava w. G.. T. u. Meeting

The Ava w. G. I. U. met last
Friday evening for the regular
meeting at the home of Mrs.
Faye Rayner.
The devotional service was In
charge of the president, Mrs.
Velma Cartel. The program was
in charge of Mrs. Mary Wood,
Mrs. Greta Hamilton and Betty
Hedge.
Members present besides the
above mentioned were Mrs.
Bessie Daw, Mrs. Eta Rayner,
Mrs. Charles Stiers, Miss Joan
Shattuck and Miss Evelyn Bry-
an.
A social hour was enjoyed fol-
lowing the meeting and delicious
refreshments served by the host
ess in keeping with the Thanks
giving season. The hostess was
assisted by Miss Evelyn Bryan