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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
'Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

by remembering that famous song praise The Lord and
pass the ammunition . :"
EOR US IN TOLEDO this relatively small sacrifice will
Il be bit difficult because while we shall be
called upon to assist sisters and brothers in the Chry
Ter organization shall have continue our own local
fight against masters of Toledo's Big Business.
There is no escaping that fight, either
Toledos Big Shots determined to defeat our
program to smash our union if they can get away
with it.
Toledo's Big Shots determined not to permit the
disappearance of our Fear from Want"
But, often in the past, again those who
who would deny what is rghtfulIy ours , those who
would deny the fruits of abors shall not succeed
in their diabolica plans
They shall be defeated.
And our people shall win this battle just as they
have many other battles since the formation of our
great organization.
Continued on Page Four
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03

TNRAGICALLY enough, however, did not banlsh
Fear. And Want is still very much with us 80 mucn
So that right upwards of 100000 fellow UAW-ClO
nenbers-our brothers and sisters pounding the
bricks, walking the picket lines to achieve at least
measure of freedom from Want.
fight is always unpleasant Often it very bitter
and frghtfully costly.
And certainly strike is fight not only un-
pleasant but extremely costly for those who are least
able to pay the price.
1t is only natural therefore that those of who are
the side-lines those of us who not directly
called upon to sacrifice pay checks to pound the
bricks the picket lines put shoulders to the
wheel and help.
Yes, HELP to the fullest possible degree.
because WHILE the "sdeines" actually
- and in cold-blooded reality very much part
of this struggle.
1t is struggle.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
Local u Band
Applications
Every Saturday

Any boy or girl interested In
becoming a member of the Lo-
cal IL Junior Band is asked to
file an application any Satur-
day at Local IL Hall from 10
am. to 3 pm. it was announced
by c. e. Broderick, director and
instructor of the band.
Instructions and lessons are
free to all youngsters by MIR.
Broderick who has years of ex-
perience as an instructor and
director of bands.
The Junior Band is being
sponsored by Local IL and is
open to all youngsters six years
and older. Interviews are being
scheduled each Saturday in Par
lor H at the Local.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03

1t is so, because if the Chrysler workers win,
shall have also. Only fool hypocrite would
deny that.
On the other hand, if the Chrysler workers should
lose, would lose, too.
II WAS WITH these inescapable facts in mind that
last UAWCIO international Convention passed the
resolution TO provide for the special dollarperweek
sessment-for period to exceed IL weeks-in
International Union should find it necessary call
upon workers in of $4,000 to strike for their de-
mands at any one time.
With upwards of $4,000 Chrysler workers out, this
condition than met
Therefore, in accordance with their incumbent duty
the international Executive Board of union has voted
to put into effect this resolution and you will be
called upon donate 81 per week out of your earnings
to carry this fight"
You will be asked to deliver the goods"
And you do it. Just like boys did the far
flung battle fields of World War H. You do it much
easier and with great deal spirit and enthusiasm
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
Local L Meets
Friday Feb. 10
Nominations Of
Officers Scheduled

Howard Seren, President of
Local IL, UAW-CIO issued a re-
minder that nomination for Of
ficers of Local II will be held at
the regular monthly meeting
next Friday, Feb. 10 at 8 pm.
Also on the agenda will be the
selection of an election commit
tee and to set an elections date
for officers.
He said other important busi-
ness will be discussed at the
which will be held in
Parlor A at Local headquarters,
425 Winthrop st.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03

pension plan WHICH Is secure
and the funds will be there
regardless of whether the un-
ion is there or the company Is
there, so when a worker is IS he
will know he can retire and the
fund will be there to pay him."
(Full text Resolution on page -,
Ballard At Meeting
Charles Ballard, Region 2-B,
UAW-CIO Director explained
the tactics used by the Toledo
Corporations and The Toledo
Blade to undermine the pension
plan. The Plaskon members
showed their determination 100
per cent to go all out for the
pension plan by not recording q
single dissenting vote against
striking.
Mr.. Ballard then told the
group that the Policy Commit
tee of Local II UAW-CIO, COM
posed of all Unit chairmen voted
Wednesday night that any shop
going out to win the pension
plan would have whole-hearted
support from the Units. The
committee, Mr.. Ballard said rec
commended 81 contributions from
their members in the shops to
support the striking Unit for a
pension plan and a health, med
ical and security program.
The Plaskon Unit is the first
among Toledo Units to adopt q
resolution to hit the pavement
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
Correction

The next meeting of the
northwestern Ohio Skilled
Trades Council will be
held on Tuesday, Feb. 7
instead OF Monday as an
n0unced last week.
The Council will meet in
Parlor I at Local IL head
quarters, AIS Winthrop St,
at 8 pm.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
ADOPT RESOLUTION

After hour of discussion the members adopted
outon which part reads to add demands that the
entire contract settlement along with the pension plan be
part of strike and finally 1--WE will stay out strike
til such time the Paskon Company lives to its con-
tract and grants workers in this community adequate
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
W-0 Meeting At
Woodward High
Attention Being Called
To chonqe Of Site

Members of Willys-Overland
Unit, Local IL, UAW-CIO are
having their attention called to
the change of meeting site.
The regular monthly meeting
tonight friday will be held in
the auditorium of Woodward
High School instead of Scott
High School, 1t was announced
by Homer Avery, Unit chairman.
The meeting is scheduled to
begin at 8 pm, he said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
Bingham, Unit
Elects Feb. 4

Election of officers of Bing-
ham Stamping Unit will be held
at Local IL Hall on Saturday,
Feb. 4, it was announced by
William Weston. Unit chairman.
Voting will be conducted in
Parlor B at Local II hesdquar-
ters from 10 am. to / pm.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
PIaskon Workers Out
For Adequate Pension
Union journal
Inquirins Reporter

With pensions being the top in the Toledo the
Inqurng Reporter attended the regular monthly
Local IL Educational League meeting to ask few questions
Interviewed of
monthly meetings to be posted the develop
ments of the pension plan.
Local Unions the having representatives the meet
ing Friday night Local 913 Departure General
Motors Division Sandusky Oho Bowling Green Local $780,
Troy Ohio, Local 128; and Bellevue Mfg Local 493.
In commenting the Local Area Pension Plan the repre-
sentatives from the Sandusky Local said:
Although not being resident of Toledo may you to
believe not interested in the pension plan which
originated in Toledo We very positively Toledo
Area Pension Plan intelligent step
ward for every Union member and his family most
necessary.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
] &L Unit
Meets Feb. 4

The Jones & Laughlin Unit Cd
Local IL UAW-CIO, formerly
American Can will have an
election of Unit officers on Sat
urday, Feb. 4 in room 315 at
Local II headquarters, AIS
Winthrop st.
Vince Nowak, secretary OF
the Unit said balloting will be
from 9 am. to 2:30 pm. with
attendance card or paid up re-
'ceipt necessary to be eligible to
vote.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
Itional Photos on Page p

asking the view point of the representatives of the
various Local Unions the sentiment with many
commenting that the limit could lowered instead of
65 the plan calls for at the time survey they said
has convinced the officers of the Local Unions that the Area
Pension Plan is the to the worker old work
but young die Can say specifically they ask
All of the representatives been attending
IL League Educational meetings the Pension Plan became
issue that the present Pension Plan the
economical problem and the workers of half decent v
ing problem.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
'DRAISE THE LORD and pass the al
u a great song

'DRAISE THE LORD and pass the ammunition =" is
l. great song.
1t was born out of the blood and sweat the agony
and death of boodsoaked battle fields in World War
IL 1t is great song because, perhaps more than any
other song typfed the desperate longing for survival
and ultimate victory in great and bloody human drama
1t is great song because it helped to achieve vic
tory in the greatest of all history
But did we achieve victory?
This question today is far pertinent than most
people to realize.
For, after all, what did fight for? Did we fight
for better and happier world? Did fight for
among many other things Freedom from Fear? Free
dom from Want?
Of course did. God alone knows how many OF
gave their lives happy with the thought that
those they left behind shall enjoy the fruits of their bitter
victory
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
Vote Is Unanimous To Hit Bricks
Until Health And Security Is Won
Local II Policy Committee Pledges
Help In Opening Fight On Pensions

The fight to win adequate pensions and Health and
Security program officially got underway Thursday
when approximately 500 members of Paskon Unit of Local
H. UAWCIO by unanimous vote accepted the challenge of
Toledo corporations all for the pension pan Pick
citing at the Plaskon plant began this morning.
The action taken when the members met in spe-
cia meeting Thursday morning to decide future action
against the Plaskon Company which recently has directly
violated the contract and stalled action grievances and
complaints and topped off by dismssing six employees
without Just cause.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
Facts for JAW Members In
Toledo About Area Pension Plan

First question to ask yourself:
in your lifetime has any one of the newspapers or
fighting the Toledo Area Pan forward with
proposal to improve your way OF life?
Second question to ask yourself:
their account with proposal that would give
security on your job or more pay on your job?
Third questinon to ask yourself
Why that the UAwc1o and Richard
took place until the Toledo Area Pension Program
proposed?
Fourth question to ask yourself
Since the companies and object to the Toledo Area
Pension Program where Is their offer provide Toledo workers
with decent pensions?
Fifth question to ask yourself:
UAw has Toledo ghost city why
workers and industries in Toledo than
nations biggest steel companies has just moved here'
Sixth question to ask YOURSELF
How is 1t that little boy who has never done anything and
had to living his father left him
hreemion dollar fund expert pensions
workers entitled to?
What is the Toledo Area Pension Program?
1t is plan by which all the employers in the Toledo
will into single fund provide workers with when
they are too old to work and too young to die.
Is there anything un American about the Toledo Area
Pension Plan?
ganda Program to finance their dishonest propaganda against
pensions.
The Toledo Area Pension Plan is like any insurance plan
half dozen people could possibly their lives
themselves forming company which pools
their insurance payments they insure their lives.
We have Toledo Area Community Chest
We pool money in a Toledo Area Government Fund.
Would the Toledo Area Pension Plan cost companies
any more than any other kind of pension program?
No The that would Employers would
pensions age
their DEATH just the they other kinds of nsr
ance.
the into special Toledo Fund by company
and union representatives
If there is Toledo Area Pension Plan is there any
other way for workers to get industrial pensions?
large companies yes But in small
companies is not feasible to set pension plan that
ny few hundred workers But under the Toledo Pension
Plan will be possible for worker Toledo be covered
'y pension
What the advantages of the Toledo Area Pension
Plan.
First, it enables workers in small plants, well large
'lants, to be covered by pensions
Second it bigger plan many posi-
which enables to get pension for the
# money
Third makes possible change jobs without
osing his pension rights So long worked
the Toledo Area Pension Program you would by
pension.
Fourth would give people incentive working
living in Toledo.
Fifth it the objection company pension program
enables old age security being
own to one plant
Sixth it would purchasing
the hands of older citizens good times and bad and this
,oud be against deep depressions could
Inference between soveny and BANKRUPTCY for Toledo
rms in tough times.
Continued on Page Three i
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
British Courtesy Visit
To Israel Is Criticized
BY the Associated Press
PTS FM Mopom I

JERUSALEM. - Mapam, the
leftist and pro- Communist politi-
cal party of Israel, bitterly criti-
cized in the Israeli parliament here
the recent courtesy visit to Israel's
ports by Admiral Sir John Edel-
stem, commander -in-chief of the
British Mediterranean fleet.
Moshe Erem, Mapam spokes.-
man, said the British navy had
served as an instrument for the
immigrant hunt and had block
AIDED the country during the strug-
gle for liberation
Premier David Ben Gurion re-
piled I'VE prefer to forget the past.
not only in our relations with
England, but also with all states
which in the past acted against
the Zionist movement"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
ZOO Pound Man Swims
500 Miles in Year
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO.-If you ever see a
big. bronze fellow swimming far
off the Chicago shore, chances are
it will be William Lewis Clifford.
Mr.. Gifford-he's So and weighs
200 pounds-haS been stroking
through Lake Michigan's waters
for Is years. His season begins in
April and ends in November.
The temperature of the water
determines the length of his swim.
He carries a thermometer around
his waist. The warmer the water,
the farther he goes. He figures he
has swum 500 miles a year and
now is we'll past the 7,500-mile
mark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Failure Of Monsoon
Brings on Fumine
By the Assoeiated Press

MADRAS, India-The failure
of the monsoon for the third sue
cessive year has left this south
Indian state with a critical situa-
ton. Lakes are dry, crops have
withered and cattle are starving.
Some farmers are migrating. The
price of rice has tripled in the
black market and rice rations are
down to less than seven ounces
a day. Official estimates are that
8 million people have been af-
fected by the scarcity of food.
Food officials have tried to sup
plement the rice ration with
wheat, milo and millet. But rice
eaters don't like these grains, and
it has not been possible to provide
adequate stocks, anyway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Indio Plans to Import
100000 Tons of Sugar
BY The Associated Press

NEW DELHI.-India must i'm
port 100000 tons of sugar to meet
essential needs during the present
year, the food ministry has an
nounced.
Indian domestic sugar produc-
ton was short of the target figure
last year and this years crop also
appears likely to be less than
hoped. The possibility of making
up the shortage with purchases
from Formosa or Cuba is being
investigated. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Tower of Pisa Getting Ready
Fall in About 300 Wears

table, however. The tumble, after
which the tower will be only a pile
mangled marble, is coming very
gradually.
1T may be about 800 years be-
for the towers underpinnings give
way" Ranieri Noccioli, the young
engineer in charge here. told me,
Anybody who wants to see the
tower fall in his lifetime is prob
ably going to be disappointed"
The tower says -tenths of
millimeter more to the south,
toward Rome, every year. But for
this inclination to turn into a bow
and finally an outright fall, may
take anything from 20 to 1000
years. I'VE can measure the in
crease in the leaning" Noccioli
said, but the tower may change
its mind and decide not to fall"
The 179-foot tower. in fact, has
a bewildering dency to
straighten up a little. These at
tempts at recovery occur in the
late summer when the suns heat
on the southern side of the mar
BILE lasts longest. The marble eX-
pandS from top to bottom. and
the tower gets a fresh grip on
gravity. The tendency is small
though, in relation to the 13-foot
error of 600 years ago when it was
finished.
Sways in the Wind.
Besides being leaning constantly
and falling slowly, the tower goes
through two other gyrations. 1t
weaves around in an eclipse. and
it Sways in the wind. The weaving
is caused by the suns unequal ex-
pansion Of the marble and covers
about three seconds of the sky's
circumference, or about Six-tenths
of a millimeter. The Swaying, like
a skyscraper's. depends on the
wind. -
Noccioli keeps daily charts of
the towers temperamental be-
havior. He frankly confessed, how
ever:
I'VE often don't know why the
tower behaves the way it does.
Some years it stands straight up
in the hottest weather, never wav-
ering. We keep daily charts show
ing the water level in the blue clay
under the tower, whether the day
is clouded or sunny, which way
the wind blows and how much
all to try to explain the degree of
fall that day.
But sometimes we can't figure
out the answer"
Checked BY Plumbline.
The towers behavior is checked
by a plumbline inside, under mi
croscopic watch. When Pisa was
bombed and shelled heavily in the
war, the needle in the tower hard
ly Wavered.
Tourists sometimes worry
about their weight bringing the
tower down. They try to stand on
the north side. to compensate, -
said Noccioli. That's silly. The
tower behaves in its own way,
whether mobs 60 up or nobody
does"
The tower behaves pretty
steadily, Noccioli declared, in re-
lation to the load of 264 pounds
per square centimeter it carries.
That's just "a times as much as
the maximum load allowed for
foundations in the same part of
Pisa today" he said.
Even if the tower tends to top
pie faster, it is possible to check
the fall a little by dismounting
the great octave of bells on the
belfry. The bells weigh IL tons,
and getting rid of them might
help lower the center of gravity
a few inches.
But when the tower does fall, it
ought to come down in a last
great dying chord of its bells. the
people of Pisa think. Let the bells
stay till the end, they say.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Cruise Without Landings

HAIFA, Israel P.-Israelis are
going in for something new
Mediterranean cruises without any
ports of call. Nearly 800 tourists
left in the steamer "Artza" re-
Gently for a five-day pleasure voy-
age, but the vessel did not put in
at any foreign port. The national
treasury imposed the restriction
to save foreign currency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Cos Tuxes Going Up

CHICAGO P.-Twenty- seven
States have raised their motor
fuel taxes since the end of World
War II. The reason, says the
American Public Works Associa-
ton, lis the pressing need for
funds to bring highways, rural
roads and urban streets up to
modern standards"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
India Finds Mueunese

NEW DELHI, India (P.-Re-
serves of manganese estimated at
100000 tons have been discoV-
cred in Kalahandi, Bihar State,
the Geological Survey of India
reports. The Survey also an
nounces that the search for oil
has been carried to the Andaman
Islands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Love in the KremIin
By Todeusz Norwid
North Amerieon Newspaper Alliance

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 8-(By Air
maiD There are no gossip col
umnists back of the Iron Curtain
This is "decadent bourgeois
practice in the eyes of the Red
leaders who exploit rigid secrecy
about their personal lives to build
a legend of themselves as super
men.
Nevertheless, the people of the
Soviet do gossip, and about their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
By George Weller
Foreign Correspondent of The Stor and
the Chicoao Daily News

PISA, Italy.-The Leaning
Tower of Pisa is getting ready
to collapse. This disaster cam
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13

The Uriter, q former Polish
Journalist specializing in Rus
sian affairs, is noW in SWeden.
This is the first OF his tao arti-
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