Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-03-25
Regional
Views
BY Richard Gosser, Vice President
international UAW-C1O

presently with fourth round
"A of increases social security program that will
give much needed protection members and their ami
lies the time coming when collective bargaining and con-
acual demands will be quite different than in the past or
present
is that wage eventually will have to stop
somewhere We would have to be OF unsound mind not TO
recognize this However have not reached that point
In fact have not been able to keep with prices P
chasing power the thing counts bolstered With
each increase have prices out of proportion
the increased Our purchasing must be restored
and regardless of all the millions that prop
uganda to the contrary the cost of living not been lowered
during these past months.
Perhaps this be the last general increase for
long time That depends on business not labor 1t business
fit to raise prices in order to rake profits
which unquesonby has been the CUSTOM it stands to reason
The toward stability be by management La
Dor has been giving for too long time this business OF CIV
ing became two-way street
my personal before too long prices will
level off somewhat BY this do not next week or
will be quite permanent excluding the possibility of war OF
believe that for the management has accepted
organized labor After stable relationship has been eab-
shd between and prices there will be three major OBJ
jectves collective bargaining These (l)
security CD working conditions and (3 prosar-
ing plans.
E UNION has its demands pensions coVerage
for the worker and his family unemployment insurance
for negotiations this Regardless of the outcome of these
1949 negotiations the future will elaboration them
That and the nations business progresses so
must
The emphasis that will be placed working conditions
will be the most surprising aspect of rela
tions of People will how labor
have mutually managed to ignore the simple fact that the work
of daylight hours In
the factory than their home Newspaper caroons
will probably delight in pokng fun this when happens
but it will off beneficially to the worker in terms OF
health and happiness and to management terms of ncreas
ed production and profits In turn the increased output and
profits will prosperity to the too because
will be able to negotiate share of that profit increase
Some may laugh at this but managemens will go on
factory redecorang recognizing the of colors
providing pleasant background Already personally know
of three people who sold this idea right here in Toledo
factories
0N THE SUBJECT of proftsharing plans would say that
" this idea is like number of other things Two three
ndustraists have found them to be and they
have spent lot of time and running about the country
persuade American business that they've
got something the idea They have written books
subject Even the Chase National Bank of New York City
tried preach the pension protsharng idea to
However this is like number of other things and
minds of the motto reprinted in this column couple OF
which stated that it to be evidence of
sound business mind evade the and obvious solution
problem, preerring to kick proposition all the
place until it manged out of shape
Of has to with these thoughts They
personal ideas However, shall what we
shall