Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-02-18
Women's News
And Views
BY Odessa 0very
Secretary Women's Bureau
Region 2-B

spirational session this week.
Usually sessions conclude after
an hour or one hour and fifteen
minutes, but this one was so in
teresting that it went for the
duration of 21a hours. They had
five very prominent speakers,
and not one of them was the
type that made it boring.
Harry Ross from the Interna-
tional Fair Practices Depart
ment spoke very briefly on the
two bills that are to come up
before the house and State Sen
ate. If didn't have so much to
do certainly would take this
opportunity to go to Columbus
to help to get this bill passed.
This bill is the FEPC bill 1O6,
or the Damas bill 80, so if any
of YOU have the opportunity to
take this trip to c olu m b u S
please do so, for it depends on
the cooperation we receive
from the good people in our
units that enables us to get such
bills as these passed. This Dill
especially is for the good OF
mankind or should l say for the
betterment of our working con-
ditions as we'll as our living con-
ditions.
Vivien Musselman, from the
YWCA, spoke, or rather gave a
summary of these two bills. The
people that are backing them
will have a worthwhile cause
in store for us if we have
enough support to have these
bills passed through the state
house. Vivien is always an IN
teresting talker and no one ever
tires of hearing her speak. She
is Just as common as the rest OF
us and she doesn't profess or act
like she is better than us. She
is a person that is loved by all
of her co-workers, as well as
her social workers.
Caroline Davis, director OF
the Women's Bureau, UAW-CIO,
Just came back from Washing
ton, and while her stay there
was very short, she had the op-
portunity to speak to our own
Thomas Burke. She had him
agree to sponsor the equal pay,
or equal status bill that is to
come before the Congress, and
in the same breath, not to spon-
sor the equal rights amendment
that the league of women voters
are sponsoring. There is a great
between these two
bills. The equal Status Bill is to
give the women the same pay
and privileges that the men re-
ceive. While the equal rights
bill will do to the women prac-
tically the same thing that the
Taft Hartley Act is doing to ev-
1t will be so construed
that our rest period as well as
our lunch periods will be taken
away from us. SO it will be a
good idea to write your Con-
gressmen and Senators and ask
them to sponsor the equal status
bill. This l mean in all earnest /
ness as it is letters, cards and
kilograms such as these that will
put the pressure on them and
they will consider the bill more
thoroughly before m king a
hasty decision on such a vital
bill.
William Oliver, from our in
fair practices depart
nent, summed up the entirety
of the fair practices board, He
told the problems that have been .
settled through the fair parctices
and anti-discrimination depart I
ment. And by the way, the big
sest share of the problems that
are settled through these chan
lels, are not arce or creed prob
lens. Where the women are dis
against, where the
men are given the preference to
the women. Through the proper
channels these problems are
brought to the fair parctices
BOARD and some satisfactory de-
,ision is reached. The fair prac-
tees board at our local is
,haired by William Healy, and
co-chaired by Reuben Harper,
20 if at any time you feel that
you are being Disseminated
against, it would be good to
bring it to the attention of one
Of these members and they in
turn will give it a thorough in
vestigation. |