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Evening star., 1950-05-07
BY Frederick Brown Harris
Pastor Foundry Methodist Church; Chaplain.
United States Senate

and timeleSs. which will help to put our
contemporary lenses in focus.
The Senator's credo is set down simply.
but profoundly, as he bears witness: To
me, the basic fact about our faith in
Gods power and our destiny is that
He has blessed us with the opportunity
to provide abundance for ourselves. all
of US. and to share the abundance with
the world-that our destiny is to hold
high the flaming torch Of liberty for
all, and to rule over none. I believe in
something wordleSs and wonderful about
man and the universe. believe in faith
without proof, hope without reason. love
above advantage, without which man
kind will indeed perish"
In this volume there is impressively
pictured the unanimous procession OF
the American Presidents as each in his
own words witnesses TO the spiritual
roots of America. The ultimate truth
about this Nation under God" has
never been put more succinctly than by
Woodrow Wilson, to whose world" Sem
ator Thomas devoteS a chapter. Sig
niflcantly, Wilson's warning sentence is
from his The Road Away From Revo-
luton Hear it. o America!
'The sum of the whole matter is this,
that our civilization cannot survive ma
terially unless it is redeemed spiritually.
Only thus can discomfort be driven out
and all the shadows lifted from the
road ahead"
A fable tells of a spider that once
slid down a single silky thread from
the lofty rafter of barn and set up
an elaborate domain on a lower level.
There he spread his acquiSitive net.
caught flies, grew slick and prospered.
One day, wandering proudly about his
opulent premises he saw the thread that
stretched up into the unseen above him.
What is the use of that? he cynically
blurted, and snapped it. And his filmy
palace collapsed,
God forbid that collapsed Silken web
should be portent of the fate Of this
Nation.
Evening star., 1950-05-07

part of the press. Here we have the
press-even The Star-distorting truth,
when it distinguishes itself in substanti-
ating the statements of Mr.. Acheson as
accurate.
saturation point of Sugar-coating Amer
icas foreign policy (to say nothing of
our domestic policies) has already been
reached, and that truth-loving Ameri-
cans are now nauseated by over-doses?
Oh, yes-"it is time for some sober
second MISUNDERSTANDING with the
Secretary of State and on down the
line to the masses of American people
whose security is now hanging In the
balance because truth has too long been
on the scaffold.
Cynthia West.
Evening star., 1950-05-07
Sober Second Thinking

In a recent Star. an editorial entitled
Madness is the Word" concluded with
these words-"It is time for some sober
second thinking" The point is well
taken, in view of the Presidents recent
appeal for Truth Campaign" on the
Evening star., 1950-05-07
Passes and Fores

There was a time when hated riding
on buses and streetcars. but the pass be-
came so convenient quit walking. With
the pass either being eliminated or made
prohibitive in price. I intend to walk
again. I'm sure I'll like it.
It's been wonderful having the pass,
but know how far my retired pay goes.
IWill Walk.
Surely the new cars with carrying
capacity of at least 33As per cent more.
as well as the fact that the two-man
system has been replaced by only one
operator on these new cars. have tended
to alleviate Capital Transit's burden.
In view Of the foregoing facts, in my
estimation an increase over existing car
fares is not justified.
John J. Quinn.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24

Voice of America would endanger the princi-
pie of "a Free Press"
Now, the State Department asks admission
for reporters, not press agents The Voice of
America is one of our weapons in the world
struggle between totalitarianism and our way
of life It's job is to give the world factual
news reports of what goes on in America. Part
of the picture is what goes in Congress. The
best way to get that is from the original
source-that Is, from news coverage of the
doings of Congress.
That in no way would endanger freedom
of the press" Why, then, all the efforts to
convince the public otherwise?
One reason is love for the status quo, for
leaving things as they are. It's the same spirit
that made the Standing Committee in the past
reject applications from correspondents for
radio, news magazines, the Negro press, and
last year the labor press represented by Labor
Press Association.
The press gallery for generations has been
monopoly granted by the government origi
nally to the dailies. AS each new competitor
came along, they tried to keep it out. They
forced the radio and news magazine CORE
spondents to set UP separate galleries. Finally
the Negro press and the labor press forced
their way in-but the daily newspapers are
still unhappy about it.
But deeper than that, the State Depart
ment's request challenges the immediate COM
merclal monopoly enjoyed by the daily press.
The key to this monopoly is the press associa-
tions, particularly Associated Press and United
Press serving and supported by and con-
trolled by the daily newspapers. These two
ws-gathering agencies have refused even to
sell their services to the State Department for
the Voice of America. Their argument is that
they will then cease to speak for free press
However, both AP and UP sell their services
abroad. Can it be that what really bothers
them is that selling to the Voice of America
might interfere with their sale of news
abroad? And now they want to prevent the
State Department from competing with them
on even terms for the news
The press association member of the Stand
ing Committee has voted consistently against
admission of the State Department to the
press gallery, and fought attempts by other
members to change the rules so that Voice
of America could enjoy the same privileges
enjoyed by Tass.
If the American people want the AP and
the UP to continue to have this monopoly,
while Tass enjoys advantage over our own
Voice of America in getting news out to the
world in the worldwide battle for the minds
of men, OK. But let's debate the issue in
terms of the facts, and not talk nonsense.
There is no reason for letting the AP and the
UP have such a monopoly. And it makes no
sense to let Tass enjoy privileges our own re-
porters cannot enjoy.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24

.THEY are trying to put your head on
l. the Paul Block chopping block.
They are trying to turn the blade in
YOU with The Toledo Blade.
Hired propaganda throwers have been
brought in from New York.
1t has been reported that the compa-
nies have pooled together in an AREA
PROPAGANDA PROGRAM. Each en-
ployer, we hear, has put up $40 for each
worker on his payroll.
And Paul Block Junior is heading up
the drive.
Now Paul Block Junior never had to
work for living and never has.
What he has he got on silver platter
from his father.
What does he know of working in the
plants for a lifetime?
What does he know of the terror of
reaching 65 without security?
His daddy left three million dollar
trust fund to take care of him, and his
children and his wife
Fine business for snip off million
aire Block to use dirty, yellow journalism
to try to chisel aged workers out of pen
sion they are entitled to.
Smart alecky to come to Toledo and
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
Union Fights Hike In
Blue Shield Charges

DETROIT (LPA) - An In
crease of 10 cents per month for
single subscribers, 20 cents for
couples, and 35 cents for fam
lilies for Blue Shield michigan
Medical Service) surgical bene-
fits is under attack from the
UAW-CIO Social Security Dept.
UAW Social Security Director
Harry Becker, Michigan Med
ical Service trustee, voted
against the hike authorized last
month.
"We have opposed the present
increase in rates because we
have been trying for several
years to obtain a corresponding
increase in the income ceiling
from $2500 to at least $5,000,"
B k r explained. Physicians
may charge above the Blue
Shield allowances if the family
income is above $2500. The
average worker earns slightly
above that figure.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
Rossen To Select
Cast In New York

ucer-director Robert Ros-
sen will fly to New York thi-
week to join Max Arrow, Col
lumbia executive, in selecting
the cast for his next picture,
THE Brave Bulls" bsed on Tom
Lea's best-selling novel. On JAN
uary % Rossen will accept the
New York film critics Award
given his current Columbia film,
"All the Kings Men," as best
picture of the year. In the event
that Broderick Crawford is un-
able to come to New York, Ros-
sen will also accept Crawford's
award as best player of the year.
accorded him for his work as
Governor Willie Stark in "All
the Kings Men" Rossen will
fly directly from New York to
the Mexico City location of "The
Brave Bulls" to join a shooting
company of key personnel.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
Acklinite
By LEWIS MATTOX

The regular unit meeting will
be Saturday February Is. Time
200 PM. at Local IL.
On the Agenda-A discussion
of the Plaskon strike, Initiation
of newly elected Unit Officers
regular order of business.
On the beam-The Mite gang
did a very good job contributing
to the Plaskon strikers, almost
double the amount of the Day
workers. 1t seems to be the opin-
ion of the mite group that the
Plaskon Boys are fighting for
all workers and that they should
all help them to win. This should
be the reasoning for all workers,
and to show all the workers in
Toledo the Auto Workers Slogan
United we Stand"
James Zawodny of the big
line is smoking cigars these days
and good ones too, couldn't be
the result of a election bet?
Chester and Bernie are debat-
ing different clauses to put in
the new contract.
How does Danny Losek roll
up the big score on shuffleboard
at Whites?
White, Norman and Gype are
planning a ride in Gype's mo-
tor boat when the we a h r
breaks.
Shortie Long of the Die shop
had his first chance to collect
ballots in the anti election. He
says, boy, how n ose people
come out to voter He was sur
prised at the turnout, very good
we think.
Frank Rock, the watchman,
says he has trouble finding the
Chairman to answer the phone,
and he calls that trouble.
The slogan of all the workers
should be Always be Careful"
that is what Frank Bennett, the
Safety Director is saying.
AS per grape vine, our unit
Secretary is running for office
in the Local IL election.
It is about time that some of
our department leaders in our
shop got off the fence. The COM
nittee is in negotiation for a
new and better contract, wage
and the interna-
.ional program on Pensions, and
Health Insurance.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
Coal Dealers Back
Union Monopoly Bill

ASHIN GTON GPA--
There are too many mines and
too many miners" the president
of the American Retail Coal
Assn told a Senate Judiciary
subcommittee studying a bill in
tended to ban labor monopoly"
on Feb. II.
j. Attlee Schafer of Cleveland
said there is just not enough
steady work for 400, 900 miners,
and "the protracted Water-faucet
mining we have had isn't going
to solve the difficulties.
Schafer, along with Executive
Secretary B. E. Urheim or the
American Retail Coal Assn, ap-
peared to support the measure
sponsored by Sen. Willis Robert
son Cd, Va.) which would make
illegal many of the normal col
lective bargaining activities of
unions, though the Virginia SEN
ator claims his measure would
only affect unreasonable re-
straints on commerce" of a very
limited nature. Robertson is
very frank that his bill is aimed
at the United Mine Workers.
Schafer, however, said the bill
would likewise restrict the Com
munications Workers of Ameri-
ca-CIO from striking against the
companies of the Bell system.
Key to the coal dealers ardent
support of the Robertson bill
was seen in the Association S
statement that the average coal
merchant does business with
only few coal producers, and
Is very dependent on the pro-
ducers' trade mark prestige, ad-
vertising and engineering serv-
ices for customers to keep up
his retail trade.
The vast area of union bar
gaining issues that would be af-
fected by the bill is becoming
apparent as each witness is ask
ed by Sen. Forrest Donnell (R,
Mo- whether or not he would
consider union-initiated work
weeks of varying lengths as be-
ing in unreasonable restraint of
trade" Though Donnell is unit
u n i IN, his questioning has
brought out that any restriction
on the number of days or hours
worked is considered unreason-
able by the witnesses who sup
port the Robertson bill.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24

try to smear one of the organizations
which have given wage earners break.
When we get too old to work and are
still too young to die, will Paul Block Jun
ior share his three million dollar trust
fund with us?
No, of course not. When a guy has
three million dollars in the sock, you see
he thinks he knows what's best for a
worker
And what's best for us, he says, is the
$25 month Social Security Payment, or
maybe to go on relief and try for the Old
Age Pension that pays $25 month in
Ohio.
Paul Block Junior, the boy born with
silver spoon, who never had to work and
never will work, says relief is good
enough for us.
Naturally. He has three million dol
lar trust fund to take care of him.
But then we have something too. We
have the UAW-CIO-and we are going to
win area pensions - 500 month for
workers when they are too old to work
and too young to die.
Yes sir, Save Toledo's pensions from
the Paul Block Chopping Block.
Don't let them twist that Blade in you.
Stand by your union-Pensions now.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
HAll The Kings Men,
Honored By RedboOk

"All the Kings Men," Robert
Rossen's perturbation of Robert
Penn Warren's Pulitzer prize
novel, has been selected by Red
book Magazine as its picture of
the month" for January and a
cndidate for Redbook's annual
silver cup award. This is the
fifth national magazine to date
to honor the Columbia picture.
seventeen having also annoupc-
ed its selection for January, Es-
quire for February and Life and
Lok having featured it previous
ly in text and layouts. Last week,
the New York film critics Sc
lected "All the Kings Men" as
picture of the year" and its
principal player, Broderick
Crawford, as male star of the
year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
|&0mNim1m,

TT HAS BEEN observation of have the habit of
this universal way thinking average
American sometimes thinks in this vein 1t isn't the best kind
OF thinking either All of aft this kind of
ing especially we prejudiced about the subject
If is irreigous impiou they condemn religion be-
of some certain part of religion they do not like
how would like live world devoid religion?
doesn't like the Democratic Republican party in
cular instances would be condemn whole
structure And people do just that thing
One could indefinitely illustrating situations
In life where each every the whole
because do not agree with part
talked young recently and quite lengthy
discussion He didn't like the pension
plan good in his of thinking because certain
part 1t would be just consistent for him to
whole good he disagreed with social
security.
think all of will that it would to i'm
possible for union organization to formulate pension
plan with which all of would right crossing
all the is and doing all the is
The pension plan drawn up with the idea
that perfect everyone of
That would be asking much the plan
is the feasible and practical for AWCIO shops because
it gives the small employer sound grant pensions
workers without paying prohibtve premiums The small
ployer who talks against the pension plan has not either
surveyed the plan too stubborn for his good
None of the critics. either unjust of the pension
plan have with the to how the small
blower paw he cannot get into some kind of
pooled plan Brother
We should remember that thousands working for small
empoves and are certainly entitled to lust the same
employee who works line that 200 miles long
the employee who works for line
who operate 10000 miles of trackage.
doesn't make difference whether the railroad is
small the pension the the working length of
service is the same,
who condemn the whole of
part might be we'll for all of pocket petty differ
look forward to the time Wnen we can improve upon our pIan
plan suit all in every particular
than seniority suits all who seniority list
the pension plan did not have tremendous merit
the employer the daily the financial interests including
companies and union haters be fight
fercy This should be evidence the UAW
plan is worth the fight we are putting up.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24

DETROIT (LPA)-Withhold-
ing taxes deducted from work
ers' pay checks should be cut
before taxes are lifted on lux
uries, the Detroit and Wayne
County Federation of Labor vot-
ed unanimously at its semi
meeting. Congress is
now considering slashing taxes
on expensive automobiles, DFL
delegates pointed out, but "in-
come taxes levied on the lower
income groups should be the
first to be reduced" The meet
ing also urged the Michigan
State legislature, when it meets
in March, to pass a Fair Employ
ment Practices bill for the state.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
Freedom Of Press"
Or Press Monopoly
Stake In Fight?
Friday, February "a, 1880
By Bradford V. Carter
For Labor Press Association

WASHINGTON GPA) The commercial
w press has again raised the issue of free
dom of the press" in lining up unanimously to
oppose the request of the State Department
: for admission to the Congressional press gal
leries Is this a case of high principle, or is
the cry cloak for selfish, monopollstlc In
terest?
Whenever there has been a movement to
decrease the government subsidy to the COM
mercial press represented in the low postal
rates, the publishers have shrieked that free
dom of the press was being attacked The
same cry was raised to fight organization of
newspaper employees to fight safeguards on
employment of minors. In fact, the frantic
cry raised to fight almost any legislation
subjectng the newspapers to the laws of mod
ern civilization.
Now the press drags out the same argu-
ment when the State Department wants its
Voice of America reporters admitted to the
Congressional galleries, so they can have the
\ same status as representatives of the Soviet
government in covering the news OF Congress
for the world. To admit the State Department
reporters, say the publishers and their Wash
ington correspondents, would pervert the pur-
poses of the press gallery; it would endanger
the freedom of the press.
The Standing Committee of Correspond
ents, which governs admissions to the press
galleries, has turned the State Department
down. The Department has asked for hear
ing, and the battle is on. Even that great elder
statesman of the press, Arthur Krock of the
New York Times, has thought the issue impor-
tant enough to rate full column in the Times.
The Standing Committee is hiding behind
technicality-a rule prohibiting press gallery
membership to employees of this other gov
ernments. The Committee waived this rule
properly, we believe, in the interests of inter-
national understanding-to permit member
ship to representatives of Tass, the Soviet
news agency But to waive the rule for our
own State Department would endanger free
dom of the press, says the Committee, and its
defenders. If the State Department reporters
get in, so will the press agents from all the
government bureaus, runs the argument. Sen.
Harry Flood Byrd 3D., Va), the eminent ap-
pie grower, machine politician, defender of
the status quo and newspaper publisher, has
thundered on the Senate floor that letting in
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24

date, to be followed by Indian
Territory" May 8; "Whirlwind,"
from a song by Stanley Jones,
author of Riders in the Sky"
June IL; and Gene Autry and
the Mounties," on July II. The
remaining two pictures on the
years slate have yet to be Sc
lected. All will be produced by
Armand Schaefer. At the annual
stockholders meeting of Gene
Autry Productions, held prior to
Autry's departure, the following
officers were reelected for 1850:
Armand Schaefer, president;
Mitchell j. Hamburg, vice.
president and treasurer; Ina
MRS. Gene) Autry, secretary.
The same three were also re-
electe dto the board of directors,
with Gene Autry again elected
chairman of the board. At the
meeting, a report was given
stockholders of the increased
success of the Gene Autry pic
lures and the many additional
bookings which have been made
for Riders in the Sky" and
Mule Train" Hamburg will
arrive in New York in three
weeks to meet with Columbia
home office executives and dis
cuss future releases.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
PefriIIo Blasts 1000
Entertainment Tox

NEW YORK (LPA) - James
Petrillo, president of the Amer
ican Federation of Musicians,
called for repeal of the 20 per
cent live entertainment tax,
blasting it as a cause of increas-
ed unemployment in the enter
tainment fields. Petrillo termed
it a discriminatory tax, heav-
ier than that imposed on thea
ters and concerts, which threat
ems jobs already jeopardized by
disc jockey programs, me-
chanized music juke boxes"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
Corey Writing Show

Wendell Corey who hasn't ap-
peared behind footlights since he
co-starred in London with Mar
garet Sullivan in THE Voice of
the Turtle" is writing a new
show for himself. Corey, between
scenes of Columbia's mo Sad
Songs For Me-" in which he
again co-stars with Maggie Sui
lavan, is completing the second
act of a comedy, Right This
Way" in which he expects to
appear on the Strawhat circuit
next summer.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
Eddie Davis To Make
Short For Columbia

Continuing its policy of lining
up top-flight cafe entertainment
for its current series of "Caval-
cade of Broadway" one-reel
shorts, Columbia yesterday sign
ed Eddie Davis, famed host of
New York's Leon and Eddie's to
star in the second release of the
series. The reel will be produced
and directed by Harry Foster in
the popular SIND Street night
spot which is recognized as head
quarters for both New Workers
and out-of-town visitors making
the rounds of the night club belt.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
Larry Parks Will Star
I'm Radio POlile Story

Larry Parks next picture
for Columbia will be a metro
politan police story tentatively
titled "Prowl Car" which Hunt
Stromberg will produce as his
first Columbia assignment.
Parks will be seen as a young
radio patrol car officer involved
in breaking up a gang warfare.
No director has been assigned to
tn picture as yet.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
Civil Rights Boeker
Gets White House Post

WASHINGTON (LPA)-One
OF the authors of President Tru-
mans controversial civil rights
program has been promoted to a
Job as administrative assistant to
the President. He is Stephen j.
Spingarn, son of one of the
founders of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of
Colored People, who was sworn
in Feb. Is. He replaced Charles
S. Murphy, now special counsel
to the President.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-24
''Jolson Sings Again.
Sets New Sydney Mark

An all time record for any
single week was set by Colum-
bias Technicolor Musical, "Jol-
son Sings Again." during the
Christmas-New Year holiday
week at the State theatre, Sgd
ney Australia, ccording to word
received at the studio yesterday.
The Sidney Buchanan production
which stars Larry Parks, had
previously est an all-time record
for a non-holiday week during
the preceding seven-day period.