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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-17

so long as its major provisions
stay on the statute books. He
admitted AFL and CIO charges
that his substitute bill would
keep TIL in operation.
Speaking for Taft Hartley
forces, Sen. Claude Pepper ID.
Fla.) ridiculed the claims of the
big-business supporters of the
law that the Wagner act was
unfair to them He told how
corporation profits continued to
rise throughout the life of the
pro-labor Wagner act.
Sen. Irving Ives (R. N. "
and Sen. Garrett Withers Cd.
KY spoke for compromise -
Ives wanting the Taft bill as
the framework, Withers favor
ing amendment of the Thomas
bill.
Veto Plant Seizure
Ives introduced an amend
ment of his own striking the
injunction proviso from the Taft
proposals. In its place he sug-
gested that the President be
empowered to seize struck key
plants, referring the national
emergency strike to Congress,
Congress could veto the plant
seizure. Ives also wants Con-
gress to have the last word on
a major strike still unsettled
If the mediation and plant
seizure efforts of the president
fail.
Sen. Wayne Morse (R. Ore. }
one of the most consistent Re-
ublican critcis of T-H gave his
qualified endorsement to Ives
proposal In his speech Morse
told Senators that all of organ
lied labor considers the national
emergency injunctions section of
TIL grave injustice, and
warned against writing it into
new bill, an Taft's substitute
does.
Throughout the week AFL
and CIO state and local union
officers trudged the halls of the
Capitol, and the congressional of
flee buildings, urging their rep
resentatives TO vote the Taft
Hartley law out.
The weeks debate in the Sen
ate ended with strong pro-re-
peal speeches by two new Sena-
tors-Paul Douglass I'd. I'D
and Hubert Humphrey Cd.
Mimi
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-17
Woqe ToIk Open

CLEVELAND (LPA)-United
Steelworkers-CIO will be & n
wage talks with Republic Steel
Corp ,on June Is here. The
union is seeking a wage in
crease plus a health and vel
fare plan, estimated by the un-
ion to cost the company SAC an
hour. The contract covers ap-
proximately $4,000 employees
throughout the country.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-17
Students: Beware
NEW YORK GPA'

NEW YORK (LPA) - II the
MANS own published stand on
issues of the day can serve as a
guide, here are the ideas it will
feed into the nations educa-
tional system:
Keep the Hartley Act;
don't increase the minimum
wage to rs cents; don't expand
federal aid TO education; don't
pass health insurance; don't
broaden socia lsecurity. at least
not much; don't adopt the Bran
nan palm for aid to farmers;
don't enact any housing legisla-
ton; junk rent controls; give
business a free hand, but keep
labor in chains.
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the battle won't be certain.
While Sen. Ebert Thomas
I'd. Utah), chairman Of the Sen
ate Labor Committee was max.
ing his scholarly presentation OF
the case against Taft-Hartley, a
bipartisan group of Senators IN
troduced four amendments 10
the Thomas bill.
In Harmony
Thomas described them as in
harmony" with his proposal
Sen. Robert A. Taft Or. Ohio)
floor leader in the fight to keep
his law in the books agreed he
said that the amendments spon-
sored by the coalition OF anti
Taft Hartley Democrats and Re-
publican liberals are "unimpor-
tant" and continued to press for
his own substitute bill.
Three of the four amend
ments have been accepted by
the AFL as "in the best interest
of labor" and, while not specl-
fically approved by the CIO
were described as introduced
by a group of liberal Senators
10 Offset the Taft amendments
and to gain support of southern
senator's"
Both AFL President William
Green and CIO President Philip
Murray denied that they have
made any secret agreements"
TO accept Oppressive amend
ments.' The charge was level
led by United Mine Workers
President John l.. Lewis and
promptly endorsed by the Com
munist party In the pages Of
the Daily Worker.
No Mandate Says Taft
Sen. Thomas was followed on
the floor by Taft, who made the
paradoxical remark that altho
President Truman was given a
mandate from the voters to ask
for the repeal of TIL, Congress
has no mandate to actually re-
peal 1t.
Taft added, candidly, that he
doesn't care whether or not the
TIL law is nominallY repealed
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do the job. The aim will be
to glorify Gree enterprise"
NAM version.
Propaganda Stories
Managing Director Earl Bunt-
ing declared the NAM will seek
to "get the story of industry's
problems and detectives before
the students of the nation-in
grade and high schools as we'll
as colleges and universities,
where undergraduates are some
times exposed to collectivist doc
trine."
The NAM intends to rope in
schoolmarms and schoolmaste $
to aid the scheme. keystone of
the expanded program" it said,
"will be the creation of an Edu-
cational Council of outstanding
educators :. whose advice and
council will be continually
sought"
Campuses of Colleges
Another top priority activ-
ity," the NAM let it be known,
will be to arrange for leading
industrialists to tell the story of
American enterprise before stu
dent assemblies on the campuses
of colleges and universities
across the nation. Thi sactivity
already is functioning."
Spelling the program out fur
ther, the NAM said it would
seek to indoctrinate students to
appreciate the advantages ~
we'll as responsibilities of livl
in free democratic society"
and to make available to teach
ers at al Educational levels in
formative material concerning
the role of industy in the
growth of our country"
Also, the NAM is to have rep
resentatives participate in all
major conventions conferences
and meetings of leading ma
tional professional educational
associations" so as to put its
ideas across.
Union spokesmen, studying
the progra m,declared its gilt
tering generalities hide an in
tention of the NAM to poison
stuednt minds against organized
labor and against progressive
legislation in Congress. They
won't be surprised if NAM liz
erature glorifying the Taft
Hartley act and warning against
social welfare laws starts pour
ing into the schools soon.
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to the House, and easy passage
is predicted.
Stage Set for Public Housing
The stage was set for early
passage of public housing legis-
lation as the Senate passed (also
by a 30 to 0 vote0, the urban
redevelopment bill. This slum
clearance measure is wanted by
the real estate lobby, which is
still Waging a vigorous cam
paign against public housing.
Governor Lausche has pledged
himself to public housing legis-
lation and has passed the word
that he will lnot sign the urban
redevelopment bill without pub
lie housing. Word was that the
Senate would take up public
housing shortly and that pas
sage was assured.
Governor Signs Three
Labor Bills
The Governor has signed
three bills, supported by Labor,
thus setting the dates they will
become law.
S. B.-142, the Unemployment
Compensation Bill, will become
effective August %.
H. B.~531, which liberalizes
the Workmen's Compensation
Law, will become effective on
September /.
S. B.-134, setting up a study
commission to investigate the
need for sickness and disability
insurance, has an August 25th
effective date.
House Committee Moves
On Two Labor Bills
After extended hearings and
executive sessions, the House
Labor Committee this week went
to work on a substitute for the
Little Wagner Act (H. B.-222).
The substitute, designed to bring
the language up to date, still
failed to please the Big Busi-
mes sspokesmen.
They opposed the bill, with
the Chamber of Commerce not
ing it didn't want any kind of
Labor legislation. In effect, the
c. of c. called for a return to
"the law of the Jungle" The
House Committee passed the bill
out for favorable action.
Meanwhile, earrings con-
tinued on the substitute for the
Ferguson Law. Labor was back,
ing the substitute, which sets
up effective conciliation and ar
bitration machinery for the air
ing of public employees gripes.
On this bill, as we'll, the Labor
Committee voted favorably.
FEPC Delayed Again
Action on FEPC was delayed
for another week as the Repub-
lican members on the joint con-
ference committee sought and
received another weekend for
study"
The committee, which In
cludes four Democrats favoring
compulsory FEPC and the two
Republicans opposed, is expected
to bring back a report calling
for passage of enforceable legis-
lation, which the CIO wants and
which both parties pledged dur
ing the campaign.
Presently, all parliamentary
experts are agreed that this /
time there will be no chance for
parliamentary tricks or maneuv-
ers. When the committee report /
comes out, they say, the legisla-
tors will be faced with the ques-
tion of accepting or rejecting
FEPC.
II they are right, for the first
time in .Ohio's FEPC legislative
history, the elected representa-
tives are going to have to cast
a plain "yes" or mo" vote on
FEPC.
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City Aquarama
Plans Complete
Continued from Page l


Mayors Day celebration during
which Toledo plays host to some
60 Ohio mayors all furnish the
highlights of the celebration.
Rowing Contest
In sports events, Toledo will
see, for the first time in more
than so years, a full-scale row.
ing contest with single sculls,
paired oars, doubles, light and
heavy four and eight-man rae
ing shells. Scheduled for July
10, this event has attracted De-
troit's best rowing aggregationS
from the Detroit Boat Club, De-
troit Rowing Club, Ecorse and
Wyandotte Boat Clubs.
Other sports competition for
Aquarama includes swimming,
shuffleboard, tennis, a pro-am
golf tournament, inboard and
outboard motorboat races, sail
ing races, archery, pistol shoot
ing, softball, bait and fly cast
ing, trap and skeet shoots.
Special Events
General events include fire
works, displays, dances, excur-
sionS, and special events are
scheduled for the University of
Toledo, the Toledo Museum of
Art, the Toledo Zoo and the To-
ledo Public Library.
t rough hout the 10 days
packed with spectator and par
ticipant sports, hundreds of
thousands of visitors are expect
ed from four states. Entries to
various events already have
been received from communities
in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.
The Toledo Aquarama ends
July II.
From a low of $4,000 self-em-
ployment claims filed in Janu-
ary, 1949, the number climbed
to $4,000 in April. Nearly ia
900 claims were filed in April
af Iagf xtoar
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-17
NAM FooIery Indoetrinate
Schools In Industry Campaign
Union Spekesmen Say Program Intends
Te Poison Students Against Labor

NEW YORK (LPA - big drive to plant its propa-
ganda in the nations schools launched this week by
the National Association of Manufacturers
In its official weekly organ, the NAM announced
it establishing enlarged Education Departmental
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-17
Taft-HartIey Battle
Result Still In Doubt

WASHINGTON 1PA) - With few Interruptions for
other business the Senate last week devoted its time to
hearing the pros and of TafHartley repeal Until the
s are taken this week on some of the key amendments
70 the lahorhacked bill the outcome OF
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-17
legislative News Letter
Ohio CIO Council

Organized Labor chalked another score in the Legis
laure this week. when the united opposition of all Ohio
Labor seemed to have effectively stymied the preprimary
convention bill in the House Election Committee.
The measure, authored by Senators Edwin Sawicki
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-17
Administrators BUG Bill
! Over First Hurdle

Without dissenting vote, an
other Unemployment Compen-
sation Bill sailed through the
Senate. S. B.-227 is sponsored
by the Administrator of the Blu
reau of Unemployment Compen-
sation and makes administration
easier and more efficient.
Top item in the bill, which
.chalked up a 800 vote in the
Senate, Is a provision clarifying
appeal procedure. Presently, all
benefit checks due a claimant
are tied up pending appeals,
even If only one weeks claim is
involved. The new bill stops
benefit checks for just the weeks
involved in the appeal. Now the
non-controversial measure goes
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-17
BOttled-Up Bill
To Be Freed

That important Labor backed
bill, which has remained bottled
up in the House Rules Commit
/ to come up for a vote shortly,
tee since March 18th, Is going
while word spread about the
Legislature that Labor had re-
ceived enough"
Since the bill wipes out the
present nine-hour day, and re-
turns the law TO its pre-war
status, Labor was determined it
should come up for a vote and
not be killed in the powerful
Rules Committee. This week, the
House leadership gave assur-
ance that II. B-399 would be
up for a vote shortly, and the
Legislators would have to stand
and be counted,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-17

d., Cuahoga), FredR. Seibert
CR., Auglaize) and Evan Ford
3D., franklin, would have
given political b osses firm
control of the top state Of
fices, by nullify ying Ohio's
direct primary"
CIO Fights Boss Control
Traditionally, the Trade I'm
ion movement has fought for a
free choice of candidates by the
people, opposing boss-controlled
politics. and the CIO, AFL and
Railroad Brotherhoods present
ed a firm front in opposition to
S. B.-272, calling it "the first
step in an attempt to solidify
big city boss control"
CIO revealed that business in
terests we're in favor of the bill
and recalled that the last vigor-
Gus attack on the direct pri'
mary" system came during the
"open-shop" days after World
War |. The tie-in between re-
dictionary business and machine
politics was obvious to the COM
mittee.
Proponents, who had expected
to slip the bill by the House
without violent opposition, as it
had squeaked through the Sen
ate, we're startled. Unable to
muster enough votes in com
mittee, they conceded the bill
,,,.z - r,1oL nc doaI
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-17

Mayors Day celebration during
which Toledo plays host to some
90 Ohio mayors all furnish the
highlights of the celebration.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-17
CO.OPRlfR,eIRA,oss
ACT NOW!

Tear out, fill in and mail
to Central States Cooper
atives, The refrigerator
will be delivered and con.
nected for service in your
kitchen by the COOP
service man,
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-14
Beelzebub Breaks
 Into Bridges Perjury Trial

SAN FRANCISCO. (P)-A pseu- do-serious discussion of the rela- tiOnship of Beelzebub (the evil one of the Bible) to the commun- ist party rocked the Harry Bridges perjury trial with gales of laugh ter here yesterday.
 The break in the solemn and often stormy federal court trial of the West Coast longshore leader developed shortly after a govern ment witness Manning R. John son of New York had testified Bridges twice had been a member of the powerful political bureau of the communist party in Amer ica.
 Johnson, a Negro and now in ternational representative of the AFL clerks union, testified he had become a communist in 1881 while working as a longshoreman in Buffalo, N. Y, and had quit in 1889. shortly after the announce ment of the Soviet-Nazi Germany pact.
 It was Johnson's explanation of
 Continued on Page Five)
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-14
National Security To Cost Twent, Billions Yearly
(BY Sterling F. GreenJ

WASHINGTON, (P)-The com mittee for economic development (CED) estimated today that na- tional security will cost at least $20, 0,000,0O0 a year for years to come.
 In the face of this costly cold war defense, it urged definite ac- tion to: CD Safeguard civilian su- premacy in the Republic, @ Strengthen long-range security and (3) protect individual freedam.
 The CED, an organization of business executives, said the $20,- 000.000,000 estimate on the annu- al cost of security for the next several years embraces several items. Military defense is the big one, followed by rearming Of non communist nations, European re- covery spending, atomic energy development. U. s. broadcastS overseas, and much of the gov ernment's diplomacy and intelli- gence work.
 One of its principal recommen- dations was for a transfusion of civilian leadership into the whole security program. The CED criti- cized today's preparedness plan ming as being neither efficient nor in balance"
 The report said that a powerful military machine can dominate the economy and, unless held in balance, "can destroy a free econ omy.'
 And, while urging continued strong action against subversive activities, it called for caution in the handling. of "loyalty" inquir- ies.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-14
Find Fisherman With Frozen Feet

JUNEAU, (P)-Both feet frozen. D. B. Mercado, 49, said today he had lived for seven days without food after a trolling boat turned over in St. James Bay, drowning his partner.
 Reported lost was Andy Half ner. 59.
 Mercado, known to fishermen as Filipino Mack" was brought to Juneau today by the Coast Guard after a searching party found him in a small cabin at Boat Harbor.
 He said he and his partner were anchored in St. James Bay when a storm came up and overturned their boat. As it sank, he said, Haffner forced open a door and swan to the surface.
 Mercado smashed the pilot house door to escape. He heard cries for a moment, then silence.
 Reaching shore barefooted,
 Continued on Page Four
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-14
10 Missing In Dutch Ship Explosion, Fire

MIAMI, Fla CP)-A coast guard search plane found the burning hulk of the Dutch motorShip DoroS 300 miles due east of Miami today and radioed terSely "No survivors sighted"
 Sixteen men were missing fol- lowing an explosion and fire aboard the craft. Eight others were rescued.
 A coast guard PBM from St. Petersburg said there wasn't any debris near the smouldering mo- torship and no sign of other life boats in the area.
 Coast guard air sea rescue head quarters said a plane planned to meet the American tanker Spar rows Point at the Hole-in-t the-Wall about noon to pick up all eight of the survivors, including one man reported badly burned.
 The Hole-in-the-Wall is at the southern end of Abaco Island in the Bahamas.
 Meanwhile air and surface craft continued to search the area in the hope of locating other sur vivors.
 The chief engineer was among the eight picked up from a life boat. None of the men aboard were identified.
 The explosion and fire occurred about 1O:45 am. Monday. The chief engineer said he believed the captain, chief mate, second and third mates, apprentice cleo trician, second and third assistant engineers and the steward were lost.
 Twety-four men were aboard the Doros when it left New York Dec. 8 for Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
 The Doros was built in Holland in 1889 and it's home port was Am sterdam. It was a vessel of 921 gross tons.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-14
NEWS IN BRIEF

WASHINGTON. (P) - Thirty States, acting under their police power against violators of air safety regulations, have prose cuted 349 cases and levied fines totalling nearly $36,OOO, the civil aeronautics administration said today.
 The survey, described by a CAA spokesman as incomplete and un- official, covers reports received during two-year period ending this fall.
 Alaska reported one violator and one jail sentence.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-14
Consul General Denies Consulate Was Spy Ring

Aboard Lakeland Victory en- route to Pusan, Korea, (P)-COn- sul general Angus Ward today de nied the Mukden consulate was a United States spy ring headquar- ters, a charge the communists said they used as basis for deporting the last Americans from Man churia.
 The decree came in a verdict from a Mukden criminal court which convicted eight Japanese ad Chinese on charges of being American spies. They were sen fenced to prison terms ranging from two to four years each.
 The court also found them guilty of plotting rebellions and upris- ings and undermining the revolu- tionary eterprise of the Chinese people,"
 The court, which during the trial said it had "evidence" the ac- cused Japanese and Chinese work ed with American intelligence agencies operating out of the Mukden consulate, then decreed the consulate endangered the na- tional welfare of the Peoples Re public of China" and said 'the entire group of foreign personnel of the former American consulate should be deported from China
 Ward denied intelligence agents worked out of the consulate while he was in Mukden. He said an American detachment. which the Mukden court termed "an Ameri- can espionage organ" had an of- flee in Mukden while he was there but he denied there was any connection between it and the consulate.
 The consul general said he knew several American officers whom the Mukden court listed as intelligence agents but denied they they were attached or work ed out of the consulate.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-14

BLOOMINGTON. Ind. (P) "A five-gallon can of this city's sur plus water was on its way today to Mayor William O'Dwyer of wa ter-short New York City.
 Staff member sof radio station WITS and televisiOn station WITTY noted water was flowing over the WaterWorkS dam here and de- cided to start what they called an irrigation-by-mail plan.
 With New York's bathless- shaveless Friday decree in mind. they said in a letter to Mayor O'Dwyer, Hope this will be good for a few slaves, anyway"
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-14
OAKLAND. Cal. P)-Upwards

OAKLAND. Cal. (P)-UpWards of 1000 persons were forced to flee their homes before dawn to- day as waves of ammonia gas spread through 20 square blocks of West Oakland.
 Scores were overcome and many made ill. Five were known to have been hospitalized.
 A tank car, filled with liquid ammonia, was being pumped out at a fertilizer plant when a pipe split and the cargo spilled into the streets. Gas formed quickly.
 Eight police cars, with sirens screeching, moved slowly through the residential area warning per sons to flee.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-14

mai to help Mrs. Ragsdale's arth- ritis and wound up with not only a goat dairy but rather complete dossier on goat habits and philos- ophy.
 MT. and Mrs. Ragsdale say goats have a strong Sense of what is right and wrong in the way they shoud be handled, and if one thinks he has been sighted, he sulks or pouts or butts. They also have very long memories. Some practically demand to be address ed by name. And they don't eat rags or tin cans.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-14
CHICAGO, R)-Mrs. Ruth Bol-

OHIOANO, IHJ-WTS. hutn BOI- now had 40 tiny boys and girls from the Riverside Nursery School and a problem-on her hands. She wanted to take the kids on a tour of the huge Union Railroad station but she didn't want to lose any of them So she got a long rope. The tots grasped it and, strung out like snake dancers. they stayed in place as Mrs. Boll- now led them through the term inal.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-14

NEW YORK, (P)-This country has 50,000 drug stores, and Amer jeans visit them five billion times each year. The figures are cited by Robert P. Fischelis, ceretary fthe American Pharmaceutical Co. The frequency of visits makes pharmacies a good place to use in health education programs, he told the Public Health Cancer As sociation.