Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-10
Women's News
And Views
BY Odessa Overy
Secretary Women's Bureau
Region 2-B


ting his 1850 campaign under
way. 1t seems as if he thinks
that he has a pretty good chance,
if he can win the women over
to his side. Well, l don't think
that the women in this day and
age are that ignorant that they
can't see through him and his
big boasts. He certainly is trying
to get into the inner-circles OF
the women of the CIO. Several
of the women in our women S
organization are receiving liter
ature and personal letters from
our honorable foe, Mr.. Taft,
stating the essential principles
of the Taft Hartley law, and the
amendments proposed by the re-
publican minority.
Of the whole revised proposal
there is only one or two amend
ments that has any good pur-
pose behind it, and maybe they
can wiggle these amendments
around just as they did the or
iginal law so that they would
only help the employers. MIR.
Taft is a shrewd person and he
is determined to wreck the labor
movement. They have simplified
few of the forms that must be
filled out by labor unions, and
they are going to make the en-
ployers as we'll as the unions to
sign non-communist affidaVits
Other than that the new pro-
posals are just as vicious as the
present one. Mr.. Taft has made
statement to Mr.. Truman, de-
string the President to go along
with the proposals of the Thorn
as bill which is vicious in it
self without lot of amendments
to make it more complicated
then it was before. These are
some of the things that labor
must keep utmost in their minds
from now until election time
next year in November. They
are vicious and the wheels are
turning already to try to de-
feat the labor candidates.
Ohio went Democratic in last
years election and / see by the
statements that Mr.. Taft made
to the papers that the election
polls were only one percent off
in judging the percentage of the
laboring class of people that
they figured were going to
vote for them. His statement
was that it was the farmers
that they were defeated by in
the last election, for they went
democratic last year also when
before they were republican.
Well, If it wasn't for the labor
organizations going out and
beating the bushes, and educat-
ing the farmers, the democrats
would not have taken over this
phase of the election. So | think
if Taft would be honest with
himself, he would agree with
me. 1t was labor, that put Mr..
Truman in office and the rest
of the labor candidates, and !
think that the republicans will
have a time to reconvert these
farmers that took many years
oconvert to our way of think
ing.
Well Mr.. Taft, we betcha we'll
getcha in fifty, if we don't it
won't be the fault of active
of this large labor or
ganization. And when we join
forces as we did in forty-eight
to get our junior congressman,
and labor leader, Thomas Burke,
elected, again in fifty, / don't
think that we will have much
trouble in letting you take the
back seat. Just as we did to that
most hated man from district No.
8, Homer Ramey. With the big
gest share of the rank and file
of all the labor organ
izations against you, you don't
stand much chance, Mr.. Taft.
So let's all pool our thoughts
and ideas, and start working on
a good scheme to really put Mr..
Taft off of the map. Let's give
him such a trimming that he
won't want to show his face in
politics again. These are the
kind of politicians that we all
would like to see forgotten
about. When the people, or per-
son are only thinking about
themselves, and this is just what
Taft is doing when he makes
such proposals as he has been
in the last few years in
office. He might have been a
good man in the eyes of the peo-
pie in our grandfathers day
when they didn't have much to
Jay about working conditions
tic. But now when we do have
4 strong organization such as the
TIO and some individual like
Taft is trying to bust it up, he
S just barking up the wrong
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