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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
BY CUsHMAN REYNOLDS
For Labor Press Association

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Want to contribute
w $25,000 to the Committe for Constitution
al Government top anti-labor anti-Fair Deal
lobby?
Easy! All you have to do is write check.
The CCG will grab it fast What's more, CCG
officers will come up with ready made plan
to put your money TO use. But you mustn't
think of the $4,000 as contribution. Perish
the thought! It's credit against the purchase
of educational" literature
That's why Edward A. Rumley, executive
head of the CCG, refused to tell the House
Select Committee on Lobbying Activities the
names of his chief financial supporters when
he testified couple of months ago. The CCG
was publishing house. Rumely said His big
hackers made no contributions, he insisted,
they just purchased books. To release their
names and the amount of their purchases
would be to reveal trade secrets" However
by something more than coincidence, all the
literature attacks the Fair Deal, the New Deal,
labor unions or the British Labor Party.
Just how the system works is shown by
correspondence between the CCG and Eli
Lilly & Co. of indianapolis, manufacturers of
pharmaceuticals. On JAN 10, this year. an
officer of the company wrote the CCG, saying:
This is to advise you that our budget COM
mittee has approved contribution of SIS, 900
to the Committee for Constitutional Govern
ment for the calendar year 1880" The COM
mittee said it would supply its own list of
teachers, clergymen and others whom it wish
ed to receive Cog books and pamphlets.
Didn't take the CCG long to reply either,
although its officers apparently WINGED at the
companys use of the word contribution" On
Jan. IL, Sumner Gerard of the CCG came
through pretty warmly "Your letter of JAM
10 announcing S25,000 purchase of our edu-
cational material was a source of great en-
couragement to DR.. King and myself" he
wrote. Reference is to Dr. Willford l. King,
CCG hatchetman
Such a substantial purchase so early in
the year will enable us to lift our committees
activities to higher levels of effectiveness"
Gerard said. He added the opinion that such
purchases" were Legitimate" expenses,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
Reuther 1OO~Year Plan A Fresh Breeze
In Washington Murk
By Alvaine Hamilton and Cushman Reynolds
For Labor Press Association

BY AIvaine Hamilton and Cushman Reynolds
For Labor Press Association
vYTALTER REUTHERS 100-year peace plan
Nv came like fresh breeze in week when
world news was bad. GPs were steadily giving
ground in Korea kalthough American planes
may have been redressng part of the. balance
behind the Communist lnes). At home people
waited for word from the President. How
much would he ask for the Korean fight and
other fights that might be around the corner?
Would he ask for rationing and price con-
trolls? Americans were determined but appre-
hensive. There seemed to be no goal despite
the activity. "After Korea what?" some were
asking, Then Reuther spoke out.
OF course, Reuthers plan, announced
Jointly in Detroit and Washington July 18.
is not cure-all. 1t poses more questions than
it answers. But its terms and magnitude offers
Americans of all political and economic stripes
a basis for thinking about the world and the
future. Thirteen billion dollars year for
world development for 100 years staggers the
imagination. The Marshall Plan is dwarfed.
The paltry millions Senators have been haggl-
ing about for Point Four become drop in the
bucket Reuther has carried Marshall Plan
and Point Four thinking to a logical conclu-
sion His plan, simple in outline, would be
Democracy's boldest offensive against Com
munism.
The president of the CIO Auto Workers
proposes that for the next century the Ameri-
can people, working through the United Ma
tions, pledge $13 billion year for the worlds
social and economic reconstruction. The 100
year money total would about equal the cost
of World War II. Other nations could pledge
funds as they wished.
First Congress would have to adopt the
plan. Then the President would submit it to
other nations. When majority of UN men,
bers accept, conference would be called to
achieve disarmament, establish an inspection
system, and set up police force. A military
defense plan would be necessary in case of
substantial section of the world refused to
participate. The Soviet Union and its satellites
could come in or stay out as they wished. A
second conference the Peoples World AS
sembly for Peace, would then work out the de-
! tails which would be put into effect through
the United Nations and the participating gov
ernments. Present American military plans
would be unaffected. Reuther himself is guilty
of qnderstatement when he says 1--WE can
seize the initiative for peace by putting into
effect greatly expanded foreign aid program
geared to the economic and social needs of
people through the world while promoting a
practical program of economic and social JUS
tice at home"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28

Whether the American Congress will ac-
cept such plan is, for the moment, beside the
point AS matter of cold fact little can be
expected of Congress along this line. While
Reuther was drafting his 10O-year program,
Senator'S were trying to slash the Marshall
Plan because of the world situation" con-
tradiction that defies explanation. The Senate
Appropriations committee, under prodding
from the White House, was voting to restore
the cut it had made in Point Four funds, but
the Point Four timidly engineered by Con-
gress was far cry from what men of vision
had hoped it might be- Perhaps Reuther would
at least succeed in injecting little vision into
Congressional thinking by stirring up contro-
versey. The anticipated reactions of the Tafts
and Byrds might actually make others mad
enough to ponder Reuthers proposal.
While Reuther was speaking out, Sen. Taft
was writing condescendingly about "war with
few Korean Communists" Nevertheless, Taft
seized the opportunity to say that the expense
of Korea would make it necessary to cut do
mestc government expenditures, particularly
those which require the purchase of materials
and the use of labor" Taft anticipates steel
shortage and he may be right. Reuther, in
nouncing his 100-year plan, specifically
charges that "the owners of the steel industry
are welded to program of planned eco
nomic scarcity with low volume and high
prices" He calls for expanded steelmaking
capacity. He also says that if idle, govern
ment-built war plants" were put into opera
ton we could produce civilian or military
goods in any amount required. Taft undoubt-
edly would object. Socialism" he's cry.
But Taft would be wise to heed Reuther
before he cries too loudly. Many liberal econo-
mists are of the opinion that how we distri-
butte the production of military and civilian
goods in our total national productive plant
may in the end be more important than man.
power or wage controls In an economy opera
ting virtually at full blast, as ours is these
days, the problem is less one of putting people
to work than of determining what they can
produce.
Full blast or not, however Reuther points
out that 3h million Americans are unem-
ployed an dthat another 2 million are work
ing part-time but are available for full-time
jobs. The UAW president says that 3 million
more Jobs, in the idle war-built plants, pre-
sumably, would produce the $13 billion year
his plan would require. If the world crisis
worsens, we may create those extra jobs
later on We could do it now with clear OBJ
jective in view But that's an imaginative ap-
proach that might strain the collective mind
of Congressional majority.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
CIO Offers 70 Aid
Probe Of An+i-Lubor
Administration Of tn
WASHINGTON (LPA)

WASHINGTON (LPA) - II
the Senate subcommittee on La
Dor Management Relations will
look into the "anti-labor and
discriminatory fashion in which
the Taft Hartley Act has been
administered" the CIO will be
glad to help. The offer was made
July 18 in letter from CIO
President Philip Murray to Sen.
James E. Murray ID, Mont.),
subcommittee chairman.
The CIO head reminded the
Senator the CIO repeatedly had
pointed out the unfairness of
Robert N. D n h m, general
counsel OF the National Labor
Relations Board, who under the
act is virtually co-equal with
AFL President William Green
board members. He observed that
had complained recently of Den
hams handling of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union case.
Green had charged a ruthless
and vindictive" campaign by
Denham against the ITU, and
had asked for an investigation.
Two members of the subcom-
mittee staff left for the south
July 18. They were scheduled
to dig up the facts in a number
of cases in Georgia and South
Carolina in which textile firms
have used coercion against the
CIO Textile Workers. Sen. Muir
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28

ray, with Sen. Hubert Humph-
rey Cd, Mimi and Sen. Wayne
Morse (R. Ore.) were expected
to hold hearings in the cases the
last week in July.
Another subcommittee aide,
Alexander Christy, was assigned
to investigate situation where
labor-management rela tion s
were reported to be excellent
and to find out why. Christy is
being sent TO the Bonneville
Power Administration in the
Pacific Northwest to study the
contract between the Bonneville
administrator and the Columbia
Trades Council. Council men,
berS are Is AFL Building Trades
and the unaffiliated machinists.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
By Bradford v. Carter
For Labor Press Association

WASHINGTON (LPA) - Old man Carter
w has been telling you for months that the
SOCIALISM" issue is a phony. Now the electric
utilities have admitted as much.
You'd never know it from their propa-
ganda. But what they tell the public and what
they tell (privately. to utility company heads
are two different things. And, inside the
family they admit they have manufactured
the Socialism" issue deliberately. The proof
is in a pamphlet prepared by the Electric
Companies Advertising Program (ECAP) and
labelled "The Public and YOU" The you
there refers to the individual utility company
The pamphlet tells sad story. 1t seems
that surveys show overwhelming support for
the Tennessee Valley Authority, and for ex-
tending that idea to other regions like the
Missouri and Columbia river valleys Worse
still for the utilities, is what kind of people
think so highly of IVA and extending the pro-
gram. The survey showed tremendous support
by teachers and editors; by Republicans; by
people who believe in 'free enterprise" The
survey shows SIS per cent of the people in
the upper income bracket approve of IVA
Now, the private utilities want no part OF
the government public power program. When
they fought the IVA, they said IVA would
ruin them. (They are making more money
than ever) When they fought the Rural Elec-
trification program, they cried it would ruin
them (They have made more money IN the
rural areas than ever) What's eating them
is that the government has been showing up
the outrageous rates they have been charg-
ing and where the government has stepped
in, the consumers get break because rates
60 down.
So. since the public generally favors IVA
and expansion of the idea, the utilities have
to attack from another quarter. (The $22.-
100000, 900 utility industry has just hired,
at reported $50000' year "a publicity ex-
pert to help Purcell L. Smith, who at $685.
600 a year is the highest-paid lobbyist in
Washington. You help pay their salaries,
whether you know it or not)
They've looked around and think they
have the answer in another survey, which
asked, 'Would socialism be good thing or a
bad thing for the United States?" To this, SO
per cent said 'bad"
And that's why the utilities are shrieking
Socialism" The pamphlet frankly says that
'sto link our fight to the IVA question would
run into lot of opposition. But to link our
fight to socialism is something else again.
\ The people do not want socialism. We're on
favorable ground there"
Well, you say, let's admit the utilities cry
of\"socialism' is phony. But maybe there's
something to this argument against "the well
fare state" being a foreign Importation, and
not really American.
Senator Paul H. Douglas, Democrat of
IllinoisAa former economics professor who saw
action in the Pacific in World War II, took
that one apart July ID, 1850, before the In
stitute of Public Affairs, University of Vir-
! ginia, Charlottesville, Va.
He traced the idea of the welfare state"
to the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
OhioCIO-PAC
Kicks Off Its
StateCampaiign

/ COLUMBUS - Reviving the
old-fashioned, grass-roots politi-
ca rally, the Ohio CIO Political
Action Committee will kick off
its statewide campaign here on
August 20.
Secretary Treasurer Jaco
Clayman today reported compile
ton of plans for the rally to be
held in the football stadium of
Central High School here, begin
ming at l pm.
Reports from Local Unions,
CIO Councils and PAC units all
over the state, already received
at the Columbus headquarters,
indicate the biennial affair will
draw the largest crowd in PAC
history, Clayman said.
By auto caravan, chartered
busses, trains, and few by air,
delegates will pour into Colum-
bus on August 20, they are in
forming the state office.
Scheduled for unveiling at the
statewide rally will be the Ohio
CIO-PAC platform for 1850,
President Jack Kroll and Clay
man said in calling the meeting.
Plans for a gigantic registration
and get-out-the-vote drive will
be mapped, they said.
Clayman said the names of the
featured speakers for the rally
would be announced shortly. In
the event of bad weather, he
added, the rally would be held
lin the auditorium of Central
High School.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28

since Jan. /, 1947 include: Irenee
and Lammot du Pont; E. /. du-
Pont de Nemours; Consolidated
Edison; General Motors; B. F.
Goodrich; L b b y-Owens-Ford
Glass Co.; MARSHALL Field & Co.:
Montgomery Ward Co.; Republic
Steel; Sun Oil; US Gypsum Co.;
US Steel and William VoIker
Fund, and many others. The last
named has given $4,000.
Of about 180 big corporations
which the committee asked to
have complied in full, it was
submit data on lobbying, 1876
learned. Many of the companies
admitted to being contributors
to the Foundation for Economic
Education, the Committee for
Constitutional Government, and
the National Economic Council.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
Emp|oyersMust Propaganda Head Tells
Meet DeadIine About Elderly Widows

/ COLUMBUS, OHIO, July 25-
Some $4,000 employers subject
to the Ohio Unemployment Com
pensation Law must file their
tax reports and make their tax
payments for the second quarter
of 1850 on or before midnight,
Monday, July 81, the Bureau of
Unemployment Compensation
warned today.
These reports and payments
are especially important at this
time" BUG Administrator Frank
y. Collopy said, because the
statewide employer contribu-
ton will be determined by the
total reports on taxable payrolls
received from all Ohio employ
ers on or before July 81.
Employers individual con-
tribution rates for 1851 will be
based upon the statewide factor,
the amount of money they have
contributed to the unemployment
compensation fund by July 81
and their individual labor turn
over"
The BUG administrator also
pointed out that both tax pay
ments and reports must be post
marked July 81 or earlier to
avoid penalties imposed by the
Ohio Law. The Law provides
for:
/. A penalty of 10 per cent
of the tax amount due for each
quarterly report filed after the
due date, with a m i n m u m
charge of SIS and maximum
charge of SIS.
2. An interest charge of six
per cent per year of the tax
amount due for failure to pay
the tax on time. Each fraction
of a month will be figured as a
full month in computing the
period for which interest is being
charged.
The reports and tax payments
are due from employers having
three or more full-time or part
time workers on any one day
during the quarter. Twenty-one
types of employment are not
covered by the Ohio Law, and
employers who are uncertain
whether or not they are subject
to the law are advised to write
to: Ohio Bureau of Unemploy-
ment Compensation, 427 Cleve-
land Ave-, Columbus 16, Ohio.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28

'@A0AAA4Nd SAN NAI ~ w Ily
is it that the lobbies backed by
labor and other liberal groups
don't mind telling who pays the
freight, while those backed by
big corporations shudder at the
thought? That's what Rep. Carl
Albert Cd, Okla.), a member of
the House Select Committee on
Lobbying Activities, wants to
know.
He asked the question of Leo
nard Read at hearing July l8.
Read. president of the Founda-
ton for Economic Education,
seemed to think it was some
thing like this: If well-heeled
elderly gentleman was paying
the room and board of a nice
elderly widow, because she
writes cute books that don't sell,
would the gentleman want the
world to know about it? Rep.
Henderson Lanham ID, Ga
tartly pointed out that the COM
mittee had no intention of pry-
ing into the affairs of wealthy
elderly gentlemen and nice ell
derly widows.
Not that Read refused to tell
the Committee who puts up the
money for his foundation. He
gave the whole lst-and told
the committee he probably lost
at least one $4,000 a year con-
tributor by doing so. His list Of
contributors interlocks with lists
supporting Merwin K. Hart's Ma
tional Economic Council and the
Committee for Constitutional
Government. Edward A. Rune
ly, executive head of the CCG,
refused to identify some of it's
top contributors. claiming they
were purchasers of books, but
the lobby probers have learned
many of them by other means.
Reads Foundation for Eco
nomic Education is not register
ed under the lobby regulation
act, nor is it required to be as
the act is now written, said
Rep. Frank Buchanan Cd, Pa,
committee chairman. However,
Buchanan and other Democratic
members of the committee won-
der whether the act shouldn' t
be rewritten to cover such or
CARNATIONS as Reads. That's one
of the questions the committee
has been trying to answer since
hearings began last spring.
In an opening statement July
l18, Buchanan said the Founda-
ton for Economic Education
was a four-year-old educational
| institution whose hackers could
deduct their donations from their
incomes for tax purposes. How
ever, he added, the organization
distributed close to 1000, 1000
pamphlets and booklets, most
i of which gave one-sided argu-
ments on controversial legisla-
tive issues. He cited booklets op-
posing rent control, the Marshall
Plan, and similar matters. Read
denied the pamphlets were one
sided. He said they represented
truth" as the Foundation econ
mists saw it. He said his group
was primarily interested in re-
search in the working of the
free market" He insisted the
Foundation took no position on
legislation.
Big hackers of the Foundation
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
Time Profits zoom
But Magazine
Rehuffs Union

NEW YORK LPA) - Time,
Inc, earned $5,042,000 the first
six months this year. This was
81 OBS, 900 more than in the same
period a year ago. But T j m e
Magazine is saying 'No" to the
proposals of its employees. rep
resented by the New York News
paper Guild. for wage and other
Improvements.
Time, Inc, made more profits
on less business, according to its
own figures. The trick was done
by cutting expense almost
So, 100000.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
.UAW-CIO Local
Wins Union Shop

G r a N D RAPIDS, MICH.
(LPA) - The UAW-CIO men,
bers at the Furniture City Plat
ing Co. have voted for a union
shop in an NLRB poll. The vote
was As for, 5 opposed. The UAW-
CIO lost collective bargaining
election at the Tourn-A-Grip
Company, Inc. of Birmingham,
Mich.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
Yoden Dies At 50
WASHINGTON IL

WASHINGION u AT
James C. Yaden, SO, president
of the AFL Government En-
ployes union and longtime civic
leader, died here as result of a
recent hip injury and prolonged
ill health. Since his election to
presidency in 1948, the member
ship has doubled. Yaden is sur
vived by his wife, daughter
and Grandson.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
3I-Cent Total Won
In 5-Yeor Contract

FERNDALE, MICH (LPA) -
A five-year contract calling for
a minimum total of 81 cents in
wage increases was signed by
the CIO United Chemical Work.
ers and Reichbold Chemicals.
Inc. The immediate increase is
Is cents, with 4 cents more in
each succeeding year. Cost-of-
living adjustments are an added
feature.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
June Employment
Million Over lq4q

WASHINGTON (LPA)-En1-
ployment jumped 100000 be-
tween May and June, setting
the June level 100000 above
June 1949, the U. S.. Department
of Labor announced.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28
APPLICATION FOR LOCAL IL
SUMMER CAMP
SPONSORED BY LOCAL IL. UAW-cIo.
TOLEDO. OHIO


Girls Name .fr,........ Phone .....'......
City. ............ Zone. State.
Fathers Name ......... Mothers Name. ..........
Birthday-Month Day. Year Race
Is this your first year a camp? ...........
What special talents do you have?
Does your father belong to Unions? n?..............
Which Union ................. Shop. ..............
Does your mother belong to Union?. observation-disclosures.
Which Union ...:........... Shop ...............
If recommended by someone in the Union, please have
them sign below.
Signature. ............ Union. Local Shop -.
Address (Street)
To safeguard their health ALL CAMPERS must have
completed nocaons for typhoid fever two weeks be-
fore going to camp noculaons will be furnished free.
No boy assured place in until he has COM
pleted his inocuIatons application paid in full
Whenever possible campers allowed to choose their
camp check preference and alternate
choice vacancies in the period of
choice. Age limits are from years to IA years.
1850 CAMP PERIODS FOR BOYS
June Is to June "a Weeks) ................
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Whenever necessary Local IL will furnish transpora-
ton. No charge.
PARENTS AGREEMENT: In signing this application
certify my amenabe to discipline and is free
habits that would make him undesirable camper.
understand registration fee that accompanies this
application will be applied the total for the PERIOD also
registration fee is forfeited if my fails to
attend camp. the of dismissal for misconduct
part camp refunded In the of withdrawal
sickness excluded) prOrate
for the unexpired portion of the period
Parents Signature ........,.....
THIS is A CAMP FOR ALL AMERICAN BOYS AND GIRLS
IMPORTANT REMINDER
necessary that all campers be inocuated against
typhoid this procedure generally followed by Chdrens
Camps incubation required three weeks and FREE
the parents pay nothing for this protection The Health
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