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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-30
Memo From PAC

COLLECTION of one million dollars for poll
" tical action this year was the goal set by
CIO President Philip Murray in Washington
June 16 Enthusiastic cheers from over 4OO
CIO officials attending the Political Action
Conference at which Murray spoke constituted
a pledge to reach that goal.
soThere is no reason" Murray told the con-
ferees "why this group in this room can't col
lect 81 900 600 at least between now and Octo-
Der. Roll up your sleeves. Get in this thing.
Get this money. Get people registered and get
them to vote"
Following Murrays remarks the confer
ence went into closed session during which
CIO-PAC Director Jack Kroll and ClO-PAC
Secretary-Treasurer David j. Mcdonald dis
cussed in detail methods for speeding up col
lection of voluntary contributions. CIO Vice
President Allan Haywood met with ClO re-
igonal directors.
Murray devoted considerable attention to
the problems of unemployment and he cited
the city of Pittsburgh in which he said there
are over 10000 unemployed despite the fact
that the steel industry is working at 1919 OF
capacity and other industries are also working
at top speed.
"You plead the case of the weary, the
tired. the unemployed, the aged, and you plead
in vain" Murray went on. There are few IN
Congress who will lead the fight. The answer
is to organize our political strength so that
we will elect a Congress which will meet its
responsibilities to these people"
Declaring that politics is bread and butter.
a carpet on the floor and music in the home,
Murray told the conferees:
"You have the instrument, you have the
machinery. It's right here in this room - the
CIO-PAC Our people are going to get big
ger lesson in the art of politics than ever be-
cause all of organized labor is working to-
gether."
Director Joseph Keenan of the AFLs
League for Political Education was accorded
a standing ovation when he appeared to speak
before the top CIO officials conferring on
political action In Washington June 16 kee-
nan was the first top AFL official to speak
before an important CIO body since the forma-
tion Of the ClO.
In 1948, keenan, said, "they had us on the
mat and they thought they had us down for
the count We came up swinging and now the
fights even But it's no more than that"
The most urgent task of CIO unions for
the next five months is the registration TO vote
of all CIO members, their families and their
neighbors, conference of over 400 ClO union
officials in Washington June 16 declared
A statement of policy, adopted at the end
of days deliberations, called upon ClO men,
bers TO intensity their political activity with
more block and precinct work and collection
of dollars for PAC.
Every American citizen has vital stake
In this decisive campaign" the statement said.
'Hs welfare and that of his family depends
upon the outcome"
Adoption of the statement preceded visit
to the White House where President Harry S.
Truman greeted the conferees and praised
them for the 'great work" they are doing in
pointing out the issues.
Remember" he said. Election day is the
first Tuesday in November"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-30
Labor Demands

WE READ piece somewhere recently about
w ing demands.
The tone of the article seemed to be that labor was too
greedy that it stopped demanding and
and
this point gets print fairly often, it may
be that have wondered about it, too Perhaps you have
of labor.
We are happy to tell you that doubt very seriously US
hope that day will when
lied labor will be satisfied - and ask more
II this shocks you might good examine it
and what this constant demand of labor is all
Workers through their unions have relatively small
number of actual demands
They income. They want greater security.
They want stability within their union and
each holidays with longer vacations with
They want to retire with assured income after fewer
They expect their to keep plugging away trying to
get many of these things as possible for them
% ti h, ;I1ion 7. is not % condea dew antocis, When
corporation executive accepts stock bonus huge
the end of his service considered eprehensbe
indusras his associates be
represented in Congress the local community
Each expected in this democracy to improve his
that improvement be obtained with
injuring his fellows
only question that this argument
about labors demands not whether they have right
them but whether they hope for them without injury to
others
quick look at history should serve to persuade you
helped the labor unions and by
their in winning of the demands of their
When labor cheap and hours long and human
dignity privilege of the few = goods expensive.
Manufactured products of low quality, were high in
price.
ducon began develop in this country technique peculiar
United States technique that and
goods of better and better quality lower lower prices
And the market at first, only the industrial
workers. There other
AS the worker began to receive and for his
his earnings the food industry
the share in the prosperity good
And thus the farmer and the worker together
constitute the market that keeps the nation going
Labor unions began this cycle and labor unions connp
it. And everyone has benefited hugely /
The principal beneficiary has been the worker hmS
Toledo UAW-CIO Local IL have been
workers have bought homes sent their ch1
college, enjoyed vacations and taken the pleasant
of life which once denied them
in gaining these things for themselves, the vi
created wealth for the nation and that is the
omic feather in the cap of organized labor lC8
We hope it never comes to an end A
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-30
INSIDE AMERICA

ELECTION DAY 1948 is GO
~ ing to pay off for millions
of older citizens - in the
form of a new social security
law. Benefits will rise, in
many cases, about d o u b lie
present payments.
Social security still isn't
improved as it should be. CIO
has kept up steady-drumbeat
for still further improvements,
tightening of loopholes, etc.
That fight will 60 on, but
meanwhile, greater benefits
under new law will help right
an old justice to senior citi-
zens.
X X X
Social security was passed
in Senate with only two votes
cast against it. Margin in
House was almost as high.
That doesn't mean that
every vote for better social
security was cast because. of
sheer enthusiasm for the Fair
Deal Bill - many Senators
and Congressment were final
ly backed into a corner.
For social security improve
ments were on Congressional
must agenda" from day that
United Steelworkers signed
their epoch-making pension
contract with Bethlehem Steel
last November /.
Steelworkers pact provided
that company would make up
difference between social Sc
curity payments and contract
provisions for each retired
workers pension. So COM
panies stood to save pension
money when social security
benefits went up.
That's why a lot of big
business-minded members of
Congress began to decide"
early this year that maybe
social security ought to be i'm
proved.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-30
Letter To The Editor
Toledo, Ohio
June "a, 1850

Toledo Union Journal
Local No. IL
Toledo Ohio
Dear Sir, 81
Yesterday returned from the Boys Camp, at Sand Lake
linton Michigan having been to make
pairs the electric My visit was unannounced and
the potless condition OF the Kitchen the
utensils and the They were all scrupuousy clean
thought that you would like to know this
Stewardship and of several hundred children is no
responsibility since food its preparation and serving
intimately connected with health is important that TINS
work should be highest caibre do quite bit of work
at the various cbhoues and have had enough ex
perence form basis OF comparison
This is a voluntary tribute part to job well planned
and well thought that would be interested
know how can't be everyplace at
one time and thought would be pleasure to you as
well as potential to know from an outside
and critical fine conditions that prevail In the
culinary department of this camp
Wishing much for this splendid phase your
activities (the children first in my book 1 am,
sincerely,
c. s. Saunders
North Haven Ave.
Toledo, Ohio
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-30
written by the Staff of The CIO News

One bill a long time accom-
in has just been signed by the
President. It's the bill to per-
NIT more displaced persons
from Europe to enter the U. S.
DIP bill has strong support
from labor, liberal, church
groups. But it faced bitter op-
position from bigots who for
get that millions of immigrants
made America strong.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-30

AS President Truman put
it:
"The countrymen of these
d is pla C ed persons have
brought to us in the past the
best of their labor, their hatred
of tyranny, and their love of
freedom. They have helped
our country grow in strength
and moral leadership"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06
Asks Regulation
OF Insurance Co.'S.

Washington IPA) - Chairman
Celler Cd, N. Y,) of the House
monopoly investigating committee
has called for federal regulation OF
the insurance companies. He cited
as evidence of their growing power
the announcement by the Equitable
Life Assurance Society that it will
buy freight cars and rent them tc
the railroads.
standing by ITSELF" Celler said
"this proposal appears sound and
should be most helpful to the rail
roads, most of which are in fin
ancial difficulties, 1t points up
however, the need for thorough ex-
ploration of the ever growing mag
nitude of the assets of life insur-
ance companies and the lack of
proper and organized supervision
Of same by state agencies"
Celler said the investigation by
his monopoly committee had shown
little state supervision of the huge
assets of the insurance companies,
which are so powerful they are
practically laws unto themselves.
"The insurance companies" Gel
Ter said, construct housing pro
jects; build commercial and indus
trial structures and rent them for
short or long periods; they are in
the banking business and make
loans to all manner and kinds of
business. There is neither floor nor
ceiling to their financial activities,
save that they may only invest in
capital stock to a limited degree" :"
Asserting the insurance COM
panies now control assets of be-
tween $50 and 500 billion Celler
said 1--WE cannot leave such power
to chance"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06

Secretary George Meany presented
membership card Plumbers Local Union 130
ceremony with trade union division of the
Chicago Israel Hstadu President Reuben Sodersom
Federation of Labor Mr. Meany President Stephen
M Bailey of Local $780, Chcago Secretary Treasurer Walter
President William DOdd of Plumbers Local
City Mr. Many member of Local and presi
dent of the New H'rte Federation of IrhN-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06
Labor Committee Is Asked
To Probe NAM Propaganda

Washington (LPA)-The House
investigation Of lobbies got off tc
fiery start March 27 when Prof.
Stephen Kemp Bailey proposed
legislation to require members OF
Congress to disclose their outside
incomes and also asked for an in
vestigation of NAM propaganda.
Bailey, a professor at Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Conn.,, out
lined for the committee briefly a
book he has written about the lob
bies for and against the full en-
ployment act in 1916. He noted that
much of the lobbying was directed
from within Congress but empha-
sized the outside lobby2 was con-
Quoted by the NAM, the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce, the Com
mittee for Constitutional Govern
ment, and the American Farm Bur
eau Federation.
He said there was a close con-
nection between the "opinion lead
ers" in big business and in big
agriculture, citing the canned
editorials" sent out regularly by
the NAM to 1900 rural weekly
newspapers.
Bailey testified to the number of
identical editorials against the full
employment bill in small town dali
les and weeklies, including the
GAINESVILLE, o., Times, Recorder;
the Cheyenne, Wyo., State Tribune;
the Clarksburg, w. Va, Exponent;
the Lima, o., News; the Macon,
Ga, Telegraph and the Cumber-
land, Nd, Times.
Because of the influence of such
papers, Bailey said, their printing
of handouts from the national
opinion machines of big business
have considerable significance"
Rep. Clarence Brown OR, o..
criticized what he called an infer
ence that the newspapers were con-
trolled or influenced by big busi-.
ness. He asked what was wrong
with the papers printing such
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06
Local Groups Can
Aid Unemployed
AFL Points Out

| Washington (LPA)-One weap
on with which to combat tn,
spreading menace Of unemployment
is the local full employment com
mittee, AFL economists say il
Labor's Monthly Survey.
In 43 areas IL per cent or more
of the labor force is out of work
the AFL reports pointing GU
"there is no prospect that bushes!
activity will increase enough il
1850 to restore full employment.
The only way to stop the growth
of unemployment, the survey con
cludes, is through local full EN-
Iploynient committees, which hav,
eased the situation in a number OF
communities.
/ A full employment committee
often named by the local mayor
brings labor and business togethel
at the conference table to lick 9
common problem. It's first job is tc
survey local needs and potential.
lities.
| In one hard hit western city
such survey is producing new
Iaradio station, new motel fol
tourists and a new woodworking
plant is already in operation, using
local lumber. A local man with
Icapital put up 100000 for the
motel. A carpenter put his savings
into the woodworking plant and be-
came its manager.
In a north central city, three
|new plants will soon be in opera
tion through the efforts of full
employment committee. Two firms
in another city nearby were in
duced to buy two idle defense
plants which will employ 400 per-
sons in the manufacture of new
products. Another firm will employ
100 in chemical plant.
In southern city, a new plant
is being set up to make new light
weight building block called "shal-
ite", processed from local shale. In
an eastern community, a full en-
ployment committee found a way
for a rubber company which was
about to close to stay open. In an
other small town, enough money
was raised in a mass meeting to
build factory. Then a shoe com
pany was found that wanted the
space. The shoe company now en-
Fploys 400.
In one town, man needed $10,-
1000 to open a small business. The
local bank turned him down, but
the full employment committee
found the money among citizens
eager to create jobs for fellow
townsmen.
h These are only a few examples
'anong many, the AFL says, urg-
ing the creation of more full en-
ployment committees at both state
and local levels.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06
House Lobby Probe
Hearings Started

Washington (LPA)-The House
Lobby Investigating Committee
after months of preliminary inves-
legations behind the scenes, opened
hearing March 27. The first three
days, announced Chairman Buch-
anan Cd, Pa.) had been set aside
for a academic study of lobbying
in general and its role in demo
.cracy.
Slated as the first witness was
DR.. Hadley Cantril, professor of
psychology and director of the Of
flee of Public Opinion Research,
Princeton University, to discuss the
factors that influence public opin-
ion. Second witness was DR.. Step
hen Kemp Bailey, author of the re-
cent book Congress Makes A
Law, to tell what he told in that
book-the role lobbies played in
the enactment of the full employ
ment law of 1916.
For March % the committee
scheduled a round-table discussion
on "The Theory Of Identification
and, or, Regualtion of Lobbyists by
Legislative Bodies in the United
States. Scheduled to participate
were: DR.. Edgar Lane, instructor
on politics, Princeton; DIR. Belle
Zeller, political science professor
at Brooklyn College and author of
Pressure Politics in New York"
DR.. George Galloway, legislative
reference service and one of the
authors of the Congressional Reor-
ganization Act of 1916 which en-
acted the present lobby law; and
DIR. w. Brooke Graves, also of the
Legislative reference service, and
author of a special study of the ad-
ministration of the lobby registra-
tion law.
For March 20 Buchanan schedul-
ed Frank Pace, Sr., Director of the
Budget, to discuss the framing and
presentation of Administration pro-
grams to Congress; and Lindsay
Warren, Comptroller General and
a former member of Congress, to
discuss improper expenditures by
government agencies for lobbying.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06

perspective is also necessary IN
view of the Forthcoming contract
negotiations and the certainty that
organized labor will press for
higher wages and other benefits.
Needless to say this column favors
high wages and improved economic
security. However, these gains
must be grounded in real and ac-
tua conditions, not in a make-be-
lieve prosperity based on big talk
and inflated figures.
In short, what we need is a ma
ture approach to the economic pro-
blems of the nation, not an exercise
in mutual admiration and joyful
back -slapping. Why the American
press and radio fell flat on their
collective faces in their interpreta-
ton of the facts of industrial life
in 1919 is a question that cries for
an answer. Perhaps the Washing
ton soothsayers and peddlers of
economic dope have one.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06
ASKS FUNDS TO STUDY
WONEN'S PART-TIME JOBS

Washington (LPA) - w ON c n
workers have a special stake in
getting enough money approprat-
ed by Congress to allow the
Women's Bureau of the Labor
Dept to do an adequate job, Mrs.
Margaret Coffin told a Senate APP
preparations subcommittee.
Speaking for seven national
women's organizations including
the YWCA, Natl Consumers Lea
que, Natl Women's Trade Union
League, and American Home Econ
.omics Assn, Mrs. Coffin urged
that enough money be appropriat-
ed for a study Of how women could
successfully manage part-time jobs
along with homemaking duties.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06

|"canned" editorials, if they agreed
with them. Bailey replied the public
would have been interested to
know the origin of the editorials,
but it was not disclosed.
Brown accused the witness of
bias because he mentioned no
papers that printed editorials fav-
oring the full employment bill.
Bailey replied he had found no in
stances of papers printing identical
editorials favoring the bill.
The witness said the NAM was
not the only business organization
which "maintains close liaison with
agricultural opinion" He said the
money of the Pew family of Penn
sylvania, prominent in Republican
circles, was behind the Farm Jour
nal and Pathfinder Magazine, and
Frank Gannett, sparkplug of the
Committee for Constitutional Gov
eminent, owned a string of rural
papers and published the Ameri-
can Agriculturist.
He urged the committee to "make
special study of the NAM as a
possible holding company for var
lety of seemingly independent pres
sure groups, and as a conditioner
Of rural opinions"
Bailey submitted to the commit
tee the draft of legislation which
would require all Congressman and
all policy-making officials of the
executive departments to publish
annually the amounts and sources
of their outside incomes, and busi-
ness and professional connections.
Brown, who was distinctly hos
tile to Bailey, tried to find out
more about his background, appar-
emily suspecting he was some kind
of radical. 1t turned out he had
worked for year for Gov. Thomas
f. Dewey, of New York, and also
for the Hoover Commission.
Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06
Union Says DPS
Being Used As
Strikebreakers

Hudson, N. Y. LPA) = Forty
displaced persons are being used
by K-B Products, Inc. here as
strikebreakers, Jack Rubenstein,
New York state director of the
Textile Workers charged in let
ter to Ugo Carusi, chairman of the
US Displaced Persons Commission
March 80.
Rubenstein said the DPS took
the jobs fearing they would be re-
turned to their homelands if they
didn't. "This is hardly the refuge
they sought when they came to our
shores seeking sanctuary the
union official declared. "This is
hardly more than life would have
been in the police states from
which they escaped. If they are to
be indoctrinated in the American
way of life, then they must have
protection from those who would
exploit the fears they accumulated
in the past two dark decades"
K-B Products, Inc, growers and
professors of mushrooms, employs
$50 in its main plant here and an
other $50 who work in mushroom
caves along the Hudson River. An
accumulation of grievances led to
a strike in the main plant Jan. 81
and subsequent appeal to the
Textile Workers, largest union in
the area, for aid. The union won an
NLRB election.
Cave workers struck March 9
when one of them was fired fol
union activity, and the main plant>
employees walked out a second time
when the company discharged a
worker who had been reinstated by
the New York state mediation
board. Shortly afterward, the union
told Gov. Thomas E. Dewey that
revolvers were being brandished at
peaceful pickets and that deputy
sheriffs We're escorting strikebreak-
ers through the lines.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06
Teumsfers Given
Accent Poy Hike

Sioux City, Iowa LPA)-The
Teamsters have won 40-cent
package increase for their General
Drivers Local 383 from the Sioux
City Brewing Co. The contract in
cludes a 30-cent across-th the board
pay hike for all employees.
Here are the gains in the con
tract, which runs to March 6, 1861
30-cent general increase; 40-hour
week, Monday through Friday, and
elimination Of split shifts; time
and "A half for Saturday work,
double time for Sundays; six paid
holidays per year; bidding of jobs
and seniority list for each depart
ment; vacations Of one week after
one year, two weeks after three
years; 5-cent hourly additional diff
ferential for lead men who head
work gangs; an additional cents
for second shift and 10 cents for
third shift; continued maintenance
by the company for the existing
disqualification, health and accident
plan.
Vice-prcsident Frank Santi OF
the Local negotiated for the union.
Karl Keul of Des Moines represent
ed the international.
The Teamstcrs hailed the victory
as demolishing the employer-in-
spired myth of a national "pattcrn"
Of wage gains of 5 to 10 cents, and
pointed out the increased pay for
Teamsters here means more sales
for merchants and more consump-
tion of farm products.
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