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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-10

body must have poure d
water in the organs pipes.
His tune turned out to be
only sputter.
All his big words and all
his cliche phrases had to be
used for this, his master
piece of sputter. He still
gives me the title of "esti-.
mable" (the horrible sus-
picion continues to grow on
me, George, that you're not
quite sincere with that title
and others) but he transfers
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-10

many Years other than, OF
course, our recent war eff
fort aginst the Rome-Berlin-
Tokyo Axis.
A few days ago, however,
the Gentleman from Mary
land came up with an idea
that | am in full occord with.
OF course, | have reference
to the Senator's disarmna-
ment proposal. AS the Sen
ator put it, he wants all the
nations to disarm "all the
wav down IN rifles"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-10
Time For Plain Talk
BY TOM BURKE

WOWl / must have really stirred up my old
w friend, George, the editor of the Toledo
Times He pulled out all the stops on the
organ when he played his tune in his editorial
on Tuesday, January 81, 1850. Too bad, some
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-10
This You Ought To Know
BY PETE ZVARA

1T ISN'T VERY often that find myself in
agreement with Sen. Millrd Tydings D,-
Md. AS matter of fact, find it impossible
to remember a single instance wherein the
Senator and l saw eye-to-eye through these
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-10

AS ELY CULBERTSON, famous bridge ex-
"A pert and author, put it on the same day
that Senator Tydings came forth with his pro-
posal there are people among us who would
like to start war now. against RUSSIA In
my opinion those people, whoever they are,
are intellectually and morally bankrupt and,
In fact, should be declared criminally insane.
Sure( these are harsh words. But we are
dealing with a harsh and brutal subject. We
are in fact dealing with the lives of millions
of our people. And it so happens that that in
cludes my own son who would, by virtue OF
his age and physical fitness, be in the first
ranks Of those clled upon to shoulder arms.
Well, I don't happen to be pacifst I'm
not against wars as such. Nor am | a so-called
conscientious objector. But / am bitterly op-
posed to war which may very we'll be avoid
ed but which, if not avoided, may destroy our
lives and our country.
TN TALKING ABOUT wars and armnaments
Il | always recall what, believe, the immor-
tai Patrick Henry said In the Virginia assemb-
ly on the eve of o. Revolution of ITS. When
informed that George III of Englnd had a
couple of battleships anchored off Virginia
presumably to cement the friendship" of the
colonies to England, Patrick Henry rose to
ask this question: "Since when have battle
ships become messengers OF peace?
Patrick Henry was right The battleships Of
George III we're not messengers of peace.
Instead of peace, they brought on the Revo-
luton
And so it has been before that time and since
that time.
Instruments of war, of whatver nature are
not conducive to peace They were never in
tended to be.
So it is today with our A-bomb and with
our future H-bomb, more recently approiately
referred to now as the Hell-bomb.
1 believe that people all over the world
are sick Of wars They yearn for peace And
that goes for the Russians as we'll as any other
people. No matter what the Russian leaders
may say or think, if we can convince their
people-and people everywhere-that Ameri-
ca wants peace, we shall hive peace.
Certainly the least we can do about it is
try to gain peace, Not by building bigger and
better" bombs but by making sincere eff
fort to get the leaders of the world into a
world conference where the sole point on the
agenda would be-the destruction of all arm
naments bigger than deer rifle
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22
Spray Gun Amt Red
Bill Passed BY Senate:
Only Seven Oppose 1t

fine for persons picketing a
court to influence a Judge.
A three-man subversive ac-
tivities control board appointed
by the President to determine
whether or not organizations are
Communist and required to reg
lister. persons and organizations
concerned could appeal to the
US Court of Appeals for the Dis
trict of Columbia.)
Seizure by the Attorney Gen
eral of Communists in time of
war or instruction. actually,
the bill says a person shall be
seized if there is reasonable
ground to believe that such per-
son may engage in, or may con-
spire with others to engage in,
acts of espionage or sabotage"
Warrants must be issued for
S seizure, and "habeas corpus"
cannot be suspended except by
constitutional means.)
When voting started Sept. IL,
Sen. Lucas, the majority leader
tried to amend h McCarran
bill by replacing the registra-
ton provisions with provisions
for wartime detention. This
move was defeated, as to 49,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22

Then Lucas proposed that the
detention feature be added to
the McCarran bill. When this
moved lost by a narrow 81 to
30 vote, the pattern was set.
Sen. Tydings asked that the
question be reconsidered a n d
two hours later detention and
registration were combined by a
voice vote after a number of
absent Senator'S were rounded
up. Meanwhile the Kilgore SUBJ
stitute was rejected, SO to %.
The seven Senators who OPP
posed the bill in the final vote
were Lehman ID, Lib. N. ",
Cd, R. -, Leahy ID,
r. ~, Kefvauver ID, e NJ,
Graham Cd, N.C.), Murphy Cd,
MONTH and Taylor Cd, Idaho).
Said Lehman: Il feel that this
legislation is unwise, unfavor-
able and indefensible / am
going,to vote against this tragic,
this unfortunate, this ill-con-
ceived legislation. My conscience
will be easier, though l realize
my political prospects may be
more difficult. I shall cast my
vote to protect the liberties of
our people"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22

and throwing the inventories In
the defense stockpile.
Symington was especially Bit
ter about the tremendous jump
in the price of crude rubber,
which has jumped 161 per cent
since the Korean war. Zinc
prices have jumped 81 per cent.
"We would like to get hold of
some of the big hoarders and
show their contributions to the
war effort" said Symington. II
look forward to presenting the
facts to this committee" 4
While Symington was bella
boring the hoarders, government
officials announced that Presi-
dent Truman had ordered full
production of the nations syn
thetic rubber facilities into
operation at once. More alcohol
producing facilities are being
reopened to bring production of
synthetic rubber to 760 1000 tons
a year. The order means reopen
ing a Goodyear plant at Akron,
and a Goodrich plant. at Insti-
tute, w. Va.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22
500 Million Propaganda
BY Big Business Wasted
Fortune Magazine States

NEW YORK (LPA) - Big
Business is spending at least
500 million this year on its
"free enterprise" propaganda
campaign, and cts not worth a
damn" Who says so? Why the
magazine Fortune, the $1.25 a
copy monthly of big business.
"Some of the most highly
touted education projects have
so provoked the unions into
counter-measures," reports For
tune magazine, "that the net eff
feet has often been to make Joe
Doakes more suspicious than he
may have been before"
Fortune says the business
man is putting out all this ex-
pensive propaganda because he
is sincerely worried over what
has been happening at the polls.
What he is after, to put it
bluntly, is a Republican victory
-. But he shirks from debating
it as such"
Fortune revealed what some
business men think of the Ma
tional Association of Manufac-
turers, and is propaganda.
"They are so discredited in the
public eye that they hurt any
thing they sponsor, said the
vice president of a manufactur-
ing firm. unions accomplish
more with no goddam adver-
Using" said the vice president
of a farm machinery company.
IF what they say is what bust
ness men t k, then I'm
ashamed of business men," said
the president of an engineering
company. "Before they try to
sell the public they'd better be
right themselves first" said the
vice president of a steel COM
pany.
US business is not selling it.
self, says Fortune, and bust
ness men are asking, "is any,
body really listening?" Fortune
says no one is listening, that
the campaigns of Education"
have failed, that the public has
been "insulted" with noxious
interpretations of the American
Dream. And never before have
so debauched and exploited
the symbols that bind u.s." For
tune asks show are democracy
and free enterprise like tooth
paste and frozen food? Or rath-
er, are they? Can you mer-
chandise a concept as you do a
concrete article?"
The business mans trouble,
says Fortune, has been his eff
fort to persuade himself that
what he is saying has nothing
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22
Hits 'DisgraeefuI
Will Crack Down

WASHINGTON (LPA)-The
apologists for big business have
been sneering at labor's charges
of profiteering. Let them try to
laugh off the charges made Sept.
Is by w. Stuart S%ymington,
chairman of the National Sc
curity Resources Board.
Symington referred to profits
as "disgraceful," recent price
rises Incredible" and assailed
"unpatriotic chiselers." In fact,
said Symington, the government
will soon crack down on them.
Appearing before the Senate
Military Preparedness Commit
tee, he said a few big hoarders
had skyrocketed prices, and that
profiteering was the "most seri-
Gus" problem affecting the de-
tense program.
Symington was also blunt
about control legislation. He
called cumbersome the provi-
sion requiring wage controls
whenever price controls are put
in effect. He pointed out that
current price increases Sin eff
feet are wage reductions"
Symington said he still hoped
profiteering could be curbed
without price-wage controls, and
the government may try first
seizing inventories of hoarders
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22

Distortions BY
Ohio Newspapers

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Fresh
evidence came last week of the
campaign of distortion b e n 6
carried on by Ohio newspapers
backing Senator Taft.
II was in the form of stories
which made use of a statement
by Alvanley Johnston, one-time
president of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, as evil
dence that Labor was support
ing its arch-enemy in his cam
paign for reelection.
Johnston, who has d
from his former office as Grand
Chief Engineer of the B. of LIE.
and no longer holds any official
position in a Labor organization,
said he was supporting Senator
Taft.
This endorsement by one lone
individual, who spoke only for
himself, merited headlines in the
newspapers - ever eager to do
anything in their. power to help
Taft's campaign Many of the
stories carefully implied Johns
ton was speaking officially for
this Union.
On the following day, tn e
present Grand Chief Engineer
of the B. of LIE, j. P. Shields,
issued an official statement out
lining the position of the Bro
therhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers
AS was to be expected, most
newspapers gave it the silent
treatment now being accorded
to all friends of Joseph T. Fer
guson, Democratic candidate for
U. S. Senator.
In his official statement,
Shields pointed out that ct h e
Brotherhood of L o C o m o v e
Engineers has not endorsed SEN
ator Taft. Such an endorsement
would have to be the action of
the membership of the o~rganiza-
ton, and the membership has
taken no such position"
MIR. Johnston's present con-
nection with the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers" Shields
said, sis only that of an indi-
vidual m e m b I. H cannot,
therefore, be presumed to b e
speaking on behalf of the B. of
LIE"
Hammering home his point,
Shields said, amy political pro-
nouncements which he (Johns-
toni may choose to make are
merely those of an individual
and do not in any sense con-
stitute the policy or position of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers
No one seriously expected the
Taft newspapers to remember
that admonition in the future.
They r too busy twisting the
news to Taft's advantage.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22
They Make Profits
Before Going
Operation

900 900 OUTFIT that made a
profit of $295,448 in the second
quarter even before it began de-
livering natural gas to the New
York area from Texas and
Louisiana. The profit came from
its investments.
Any number reported making
more money on fewer sales.
Thus, Best Foods, Inc, made
Sc, 1855 $50 in 1850, against $4,-
705, 576 in 1949, an increase of
As per cent for its fiscal year
ending June 80. But sales drop
ped Is per cent, from $90,176,-
629, to $78, 088, 697.
This financial trick of making
more money on a drop in dollar
sales volume was explained"
by the fact that selling prices on
margarine, mayonnaise and re-
lated products were cut.
Hawaiian Pineapple Co. man.
aged the same trick - higher
profits on lower sales. For it's
1850 fiscal year it made $685.
$50 on sales of $51 1853, 083; in
the 1949 fiscal year it made
$4,635,9 $50 on sales of $50, 49,
472. Sales went down., profits
went up.
Armstrong Cork Co. profits
for the first half-year went up
Al per cent although sales went
up only 5 per cent.
General Shoe Corp. profits
for the first six months of 1850
were 1000, 900 against 81 ,000,-
900 for the same period in 1949
although net sales dropped from
S64,487,00O.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22
NORA
Surprise
Toff Refuses To
Debate tn Law

Ohio "Taft
Dodges Debate on Taft-H artley
Act"
This headline, buried on an
inconSpicuous page in tt G
Columbus Citizens, portrays the
real Taft.
For it tells the story of a man
who has repeatedly and publicly
proclaimed himself as willing to
d c f e n d the Taft-H Hartley law
against all corners.
The Glendale Town Forum in
Cincinnati, a widely-known pub
lie opinion forum, gave Senator
Taft this opportunity. More than
three weeks ago it arranged with
Taft for a debate on the Taft
Hartley law, with Taft agreeing
to meet whomever Clio desig-
mated as its spokesman.
Date of the debate was set for
September 10 and the Clio nomi-
mated Henry Miller B u S C h of
Cleveland to meet Taft. Ten days
before { debate, Busch re-
ceived a request from the Clan
dale Town Forum for his photo
q aph and background material.
Shortly thereafter, S e n a t o r
Taft cancelled the engagement
without giving any public rea-
son for his action.
To Ferguson supporters, ii was
obvious Taft was afraid to meet
B h, an eminent professor
from Western Reserve Univer.
sity and a widely-known liberal,
who on two previous occasions
mad matched wits with Taft on
the public platform, and sound
ly d the Cincinnati
spokesman for Big Business.
Taft was afraid to meet a man
who knew the evils of TAT t.
Hartley and could clearly prove
his points.
Ferguson supporters m a d e
public their view that Taft was
afraid and the Taft lieutenants
Immediately launched a series OF
explanations to h ! d e the real
reason for Taft's action.
First they said B h was
Ferguson's campaign manager.
Busch denied this, pointing out
he was secretary of the Citizens
Committee for Ferguson, a COM
pletely independent group.
Then Taft's Washington head
quarters came up with a new
reason. They d Taft didn't
know that a debate was being
planned. He thought, they said,
that it was a forum discussion"
This was publicly denied by
officials of the Glendale Town
Forum, who pointed out Taft
was well aware of the entire set
up, in advance.
At this m o m e n I, the Taft
headquarters have not offered
a new explanation in n r
frantic attempts to cover up the
fact that Robert Alphonso was
afraid to meet a qualified OPP
ponent to the Taft Hartley act
in a public debate. Best guess
was that they'd offer a new alibi
shortly
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22

to do with why he is saying it.
Fortune points out that "many
of the things for which US bust
ness is now pumping its own
hand were achieved over
strong opposition of a good PAT
of US business That we
have achieved more telephones,
more bathtubs and so on per
capita is a fine fact, but 1t is
not a fact that answers the
aspirations and gripes of the
people business is seeking to
win is friends"
Fortune denies the Big Bust
ness hysteria that the American
people have so lost faith, in their
system that it has to be resold.
Says Fortune, after interview
ing a sample of top US manage
ment: 1.-THE average executive
didn't seem to believe the peo-
pie are creeping to ruin" The
same survey showed that 43 of
the 86 questioned (includit,
prominent m e m b ers of the
NAM), were almost violently
anti-NAM. They too were wor-
ried over employe misunder-
standing, but said the solution
will be determined, not by what
business says, but by what
management does.
And Fortune adds: t'The pub
lie has learned, for example,
that many prominent corpora
tons and business leaders have
contributed funds to the work
of Merwin K. Hart, Joseph p.
Ramp and DIR. Edward A.
Rumely - men that a. great
many Americans believe to be
fundamentally against the very
democratic system business
talks about So long as the
unions can make capital out of
such alliances - and they are
making very much-all of m3
agement's words to employm
however, sincere, will suffer
guilt by association"
Chart runs the National Eco
nomic Council; Kamp, the Con-
stitutional Educational League:
R m y, the Committee for
Constitutional G o.v e m e n
Ramp and Rumely have been
cited for contempt of Congress.
Ramp is now serving a Jail
term. They refused to reveal
the names of their hackers.
Hart had been branded a Fas-
cist on the floor of Congress.
All three peddle the same line
= hate labor, hate the farmer.
hate the New Deal and the Fair
Deal.)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22
Humphrey Asks Plan
For Southeast Asia

WASHINGTON (LPA) - I'm
less the u. S. Immediately I'M
dertakes a huge economic effort
In behalf of the peoples OF
southeastern Asia, the rest of
that continent may go to the
Communists by default, accord
ing 10 Sen. Hubert Humphrey
Cd, Mimi.
To meet the c o mum [
threat, he called for a plan cost
ing at least half a million dol
lars the first year TO put Asiatic
populations on their feet.
He said President Truman
should 90 before the General
Assembly of the United Nations
TO explain u. S, policy in Asia
and CLEARLY enunciate the en-
nobling idea which is democ-
racy." Then, he said, the u. S.
should pledge her full partner
ship in a United Nations pro-
gram TO achieve those goals of
freedom, peace, and security"
for Indians, Koreans, Indones-
ians and other Far Eastern
peoples.
Reminded that his proposal
greatly resembled the l00-year
program recently laid out by
Walter Reuther, president of the
United Auto Workers-CIO
Humphrey said he and Reuther
were thinking along the same
lines. He also commended the
view OF John Brophy Of the
Go who recently returned from
Southeastern Asia. Brophy said
labor could do a better job of
fighting Communism in the Far
East than the State Department
or American businessmen.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22

NEW YORK (LPA)-Apolo-
gists for big industry keep
shrieking about ruinous taxa
ton and creeping Socialism"
and how the Fair Deal is deal
ing them new death blows daily.
And the reports on spectacular
profits, extra dividends, and
special dividends, keep coming
out.
Profit increases range from
283 per cent Chats right, 283)
down. One firm even reported
a profit before it went into
business.
For the July 1880 quarter,
the u. S. Plywood Corp, rolled
up profits of S2,308, 100. For
the same quarter in l949, the
figure was $500, 900. That's a
jump of 283 per cent.
l.. C. Smith and Corona
(typewriters) reported an in
in profits for II months
of l91 per cent. Lockheed Air
craft Corp. C monthS) showed
a profit leap of ITO per cent.
Dan River Mills boosted profits
"a per cent. Motor Products
profits were SO per cent
over a year ago. General Shoe
@ months) showed a
profit jump of so per cent. Best
Inc, upped profits As per
cent.
International Harvester prof
It's for the July 1880 quarter
were almost double the 1949
quarter.
1t was the Transcontinental
Gas Pipe Line Corp. Ga $204,-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22
Wholesale Prices
On Foods Up
; Cents In Week

NEW YORK (LPA) - The
wholesale food price index pre-
p a r e d by Dun & Bradstreet
jumped 3 cents for the week
ended Sept. IL, to 1888. A year
ago the figure was $5.85.
Since June II, the index has
climbed 10 times. dropped once,
was unchanged twice. The adj
vance for the week ended Sept.
IL represented increases in IL
food prices, drops in 7. The in
dex is the total of the price per
pound of 81 foods in general
use.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22

on his trip South. To look at
Deacon, you would never think
him past 10. We think it was
that watermelon, southern fried
chicken and grits and maybe a
few mint juleps that did the
trick, and not the fountain of
youth.
Uncle Remus says: 1t takes
two kinds of wood to make a
match, Hewood and Sherwood.
Dear Co.:
You are sweeter than apple
cider,
Even sweeter than honey
from a bee
But oh gosh, oh gee, when are
you going to pass
Some of that sugar to me.
Don't forget meeting Sun
day, Sept. "a.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22

1nQucemenL Ol sOOu pay. liz
enough of it.
Dear Art: 1--WE like to have
people with an open mind on
the committee so on any dis
agreement be sure to think
things over before you agree
with me-" Grounds
Those are not canal boats
Whitley is wearing. He had to
get shoes several sizes too big
so he could get his feet into
them after vacationing in the
hills. P.S. Trimmer would never
be able to fill those shoes unless
it's with sand.
Now that Congress has
doubled S. S. and cut In halt,
the gain we won by striking, we
suppose the Co. will pass along
the savings to the employees.
Rudy the Red Nosed Foreman
rides again! You can look for a
lot of scrap and salvage from
Dept. "a now when Rudy cracks
the whip. He don't care what
kind of work his men do as long
as they make production, then
he sends his junk to inspection.
This way the whole Dept. is
blamed for the scrap instead Oh
his shift. He also has a habit Oh
running the jobs that are al
ready set UP, then shift the man
IN another Job without tearing
down the set up there. Produc-
ton, huh!
Dear Hedy: What does a gal
have on her mind when she is
not sure where she left S25O,0oO
in jewels.
Henry Ford said the auto was
not a rich mans luxury, but a
poor mans necessity and proved
il with his model I.
These modern bathing suits
r Just large enough to protect
q girl from being tanned when
somebody ought to tan her.
Bad habits are like a COM
Portable bed, they are easy TO
get into, but hard to get out OF
Football season is just around
the corner and Uncle Remus,
being an authority on the game,
will predict a few winners OF
the different leagues. First the
Ohio State of the Big Nine;
Notre Dame, cross country;
Army in the East; California on
the West Coast; Tulane in the
South; Southern Methodist In
the Texas League, and Scott In
the city.
Wa see Slicker Sullivan and
Herb Grounds is on the same
bowling team this season. sup
pose Butch Bowers will be there
with his caddy-cart service or
will he be behind the scene set
ting pins?
Harvey Sleep is now the
black sheep of Dept. y. Cheer
up Harvey, you can always go
back to the tool joint, that is II
you pay for that barrel OF oil
you spilled on the floor.
II the Committee would wear
those chicken heads we have
stored in the Unit office, the
next time they hit the Co. up
for a raise, maybe they could
scare them into giving us two
bags of peanuts.
Deacon Cox, Dept. So, claims
he found the fountain OF youth
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22
ILG In New York
To Roise 100000
For Election Fund

NEW YORK (LPA) The
AFL International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers in New York
City, by vote of the 80 man
ayers of its New York locals,
will raise 100000 ito insure
an election victory in Novem-
ber."
The group formally Endorsed
the Liberal Party ticket-Sen.
Herbert H, Lehman for re-elec-
ton; Rep. Walter A. Lynch for
governor, and Judge Ferdinand
for mayor.