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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
Auto-Lite Settles

Bargaining began July 10 and
continued for four weeks on a
basis of an eight-hour day, five
days a week, until the individ-
ual plant grievances and inequi-
ties were adjusted.
After the Auto-Lite Depart
ment negotiators had practically
completed the local adjustments,
Richard T. Gosser, UAW-CIO
vice president, and Royce G..
Martin, company president, be-
gan bargaining on the national
agreement, with the assistance
of the Auto-Lite Department ne
gotiators and company execu-
tives.
Bargaining had begun Wednes-
day. Aug. 2, against a Friday
midnight strike deadline. The
deadline was extended to z a. m.
Monday when ii was apparent
that plugging away at the con-
tract over the weekend might
bring results.
Agreement was arrived at late
Sunday night.
The total package now reverts
to the various units for consid-
Grafton and action.
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The insurance coverage in
cludes the workers family and
gives full medical and hospital
coverage, surgical benefits, $28
for 26 weeks sick pay, and both
regular and accidental death
benefits. The employees contri-
button is $2.20 a month-sub-
stantially lower than any exist
ing program of full protection.
The second shift bonus was
boosted from 5 to ia cents, and
the third shift from 7 to 10
cents.
The vacation pay schedule Is
2 per cent for workers with
from six months to one year Of
service; 8 per cent from l to 3
years; a per cent from 3 to 5
years; 5 per cent from 5 to IS
years; 8 per cent from Is TO Is
years, and 8 per cent for those
with rs or more years of service,
based on the straight time rate.
A 2-cent boost for production
workers, and a Scent pool to be
distributed among the skilled
workers, were added to inequi-
ties negotiated on a plant-by-
plant basis.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
Wisconsin Workers School Teaches
Understanding Based On Experience

workers, Industrial safety rules, all were pio-
neered in Wisconsin under Commons inspira-
ton. In fact, his students now head many
welfare state agencies both in this country
and in the international field.
How Wisconsin remains Just as much of
a pioneer in workers education and just as
staunchily welded to the labor movement to-
day is another story. Partly it's a matter of
tradition. School for workers graduates pasI
the idea on to men and women who come
each year from their local unions for a couple
of weeks on the campus. The personal influ-
ence of E. E. SchwarZtrauber, its guiding light,
is leSSened by a serious illness, but his spirit
is there. The school still is looked upon as a
source of strength and far-sighted inspiration
by unionists who are trying to build in Michi-
gan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, and many
other states, institutions to train workers.
Ask any Michigan old-timer about the
reasons for their success, and you'll find the
answers are much the same. First, he will
say, we know better than to try to teach work.
ers and employers in the same program. It's
an unhappy group you'll have, and little ex-
cept resentment will result. The experience
of the Rutgers Institute of Labor and Manage
ment Relations in New Jersey demonstrates
that, the Wisconsin people say. Workers learn
most about economics and unions and the
state of the world in a workers group. En-
ployers learn most in an employers group.
Ask a teacher at the school for workers,
and he's likely to tell you he starts with the
unions and the workers interests as his basic
subject matter in any course. We watched
Professor Selig Perlman hold a group of stu
dents spell-bound with a discussion of the
Korean fighting which started off with the ex-
periences every one of them had undergone
with Communists in local unions. Perlman,
like every disciple of Commons, believes that
labor theory must grow from "the concrete
and crude experiences of the wage earners."
And a student sent from an LAM or Steel
workers local knew what the professor was
talking about - because it jibed with his own
experiences with Connie infiltration and tao
tics.
The Wisconsin school thinks it's not so i'm
portant to give workers tools for social action
although there are courses in public speak
ing and labor journalism-as it is to equin'
them with an understanding of their role in<
protecting and extending democratic unionism.
For instance, right now unions planning their
winter classes are insisting on a course in
Economics for They see prices
rising, initiation in the offing, and they're
turning to their own school to help them un-
derstand and cope with this new problem.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Piotro-
wicz sincerely thank the follow
ing friends, most OF them from
Local IL, who so generously do
mated their own blood to help
save the life of Mrs. Piotrowicz
in her recent illness: Stanley
Pawlicki. Joseph Prim, Robert
Eppard, Jane Hernacki, Flor
ence Polling, Stanley and Anna
K r o / a k, Leonard Sliwinski,
Leonard Labiak and Sam Pho
trowicz.
Mrs. Piotrowicz is now con-
valescing at home, 1929 Buck
.ingham Street,
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ployes who had been discharged
in defiance of the charter agree
ment were reinstated.
In 1885, tests were required,
and the Civil Service Commits
sion passed a resolution, entered
into the minutes, providing that
any employe then working would
be certified if he attained a 70
per cent mark or better.
ALI Is year employees are pre-
sumably certified under that rui-
ing.
But in 1947 the Hibbs Evalua-
ton, which attempted to simpli-
fly some of the nomenclature,
titles and classifications, was
conducted.
Some of the very city employ
es promoted or given more res
possibility - or more pay -
under the Hibbs Evaluation at
that time are now threatened
by the sudden new interest in
examinations.
The wisdom of testing for fit
ness new applicants for city en-
ployment has no avowed oppo-
nents. The wisdom of question
ing the efficiency, competence
or book learning of employees
whose long tenure is prima facie
evidence of satisfactory perfor-
nance is not so clear.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11

advantages for every dollar it
put into expanding capacity on
its own.
Is there enough steel? Is
the industry right, or are men
like Bob Nathan right? Look
at these facts:
Item One: We will be spend
ing nearly half of U. S. military
appropriations on hardware"
this year. We are embarking
on a program of building a So
group air force. That will prob
ably involve building about sew
eral thousand new planes at the
plants around the country.
Item Two: The shortage of
freight cars was another World
War II bottleneck. Thanks to the
steel industry, it will soon be a
bottleneck again, even if we are
lucky enough TO escape a more
far-reaching mobilization than
is at present blueprinted. In the
past ii years, we've only added
about SO, 900 freight cars to the
railroads rolling stock. Now, in
the IL months, starting Jan. l.
1851, the railroads r embark.
ing on a program 10 build 10000
cars a month, which will re.
quire 200 900 tons of heavy stee,
a month. Add on top of that
program to build more desc
locomotives, and the u. S. Stee
Corp. plan to start carrying iror
ore from the Minnesota rang,
to Pittsburgh by rail instead o
boat in winter when the lake
are frozen over. They'll be COB
bling up a lot of steel.
Item Three: The auto indus
try still is blissfully reaping il
the profits, and planning ex
banded production of cars in tn
/ last half of this year Ford ex
poets to top the million-mark il
, 1850 output by the middle o
this month, and to continue a
this rate, barring steel short
Z ages. Chrysler says 1t will d
the same.
I Item four: If the present mil
: itary crisis is short-lived, home
> building will soon be back t
its June pace-a fast one, wit
new houses being turned out a
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11

make the planes, build the
new plants and new dwell
ings, the freight cars and
rails. the tanks and guns, that
u long-run military program
requires Our confidence is no
consolation either
AS usual, the steel industry's
spokesmen are insisting that
there's n O need to feel alarm.
Proposals by men like Bob
Nathan, who worked on Presi-
dents RooSevelt's staff trying to
PRIV more production out of the
industry in 1941 and 1912, leave
them cold. Nathan says steel
capacity should be increased
Immediately by 10 to Il mil
lion tons a year. If the indus
try won't do it, he proposes to
add 1858, 900 tons capacity be-
tween now and the end of 1852.
The industry's announcement
didn't come until the Korean
war was a month old.
Meanwhile the public should
feel mo concern whatsoever"
over lack of capacity, Chairman
Eugene Grace of Bethlem Steel
told us weeks after the North
Koreans attacked and President
Truman acted. Stop worrying
about any drastic reduction" in
the production of civilian-use
steel, Grace smugly advised us,
Chairman Irving Olds of the
gigantic u. S. Steel Corp.
doesn't want the government tc
have the power to allocate steel
to the most essential producer!
first. Such power might lead tc
"a socialist state" he says. HI
refers to 'the magnificent pro
duction record" of the steel in
dustry in World War II as proc
that it can handle the job of al
locations itself. Fact is, tina
magnificent record nearly los
us the war. The industry strucl
a hard bargain before 1t co
operated In the production eff
fort. Moreover, 1t came out o
the conflict with millions of dol
lars worth of new facilities bull
at bargain rates with taxpayers
money. In addition 1t earned
fat profits from "cost-plus" con
tracts and enjoyed special ia,
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Passage of military spending
bills requested by President
Truman will "open flood gates of
initiation" he declared, unless
we take immediate steps to con-
troll this deluge of dollars by
new taxes which will prevent
private purchasing power from
competing with newly created
government purchasing power
for the purchase of a short sup
ply of goods and services"
Prices were running at new
highs even before the Korean
crisis, O'Mahoney pointed out.
The effect of government ex-
penditure hasn't been felt yet.
Fortunately the profit pic
ture as it now presents itself Is
sufficient to guarantee the sue
cess of a pay-as-you-go system"
he said. Corporate profits have
reached levels never dreamed
possible before the war. In 1910,
before we actually became in
volved, they amounted to 500
billion. They jumped to a new
high of $25.1 billions in 1913
and receded to $24.3 billions in
1914. But corporate profits after
taxes in each war year except
1945 were larger than corporate
profits before taxes in 1910. They
ranged from $9.14 billions in
1941 to $10.8 billions in 1914
after the tax bill in World War
ii had been paid.
"Obviously, corporate profits
throughout World War II could
have made a much larger con-
tribution to the current cost OF
the war than they were called
upon to do.
Ever since the speedy recon.
version of 1945-46, corporate
profits in the new fully-employ-
ed economy have been running
at far higher levels than during
the war. For 1947, profits before
taxes amounted to 30.5 billions
they rose to $3.50 billions ir
1948; fell off to SITS billion:
in 1949; jumped again in the
first quarter of 1850 to $780,
billions. The universal testimony
from the most conservative cen.
tiers of finance in New York tell:
us that in the second quarter OF
this year they are going still,
higher"
Citing figures from tie Ma,
tional City Bank, the Wall Street
Journal and the Associated
Press, showing profit increase:
from 43 to so per cent, O'Ma.
honey said he could draw only
one conclusion from these fl
CURES: while we are drafting
young men for the purposes o.
the war we must not fail tc
draft these extraordinary dollar
profits of the corporate economy
Lets take those profits now
To take them next year will bt
too late, because every dollar Of
these billions of profits which
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
Excess Profits

do not go to war now will be
adding to the inflationary pres
sures and thereby hinder tie
wal effort"
His proposals, he said, would
not fall heavily upon small bust
ness, because they provide an
exemption of $25, 900. 1t applies
only to profits in the very high
brackets. 1t Is based on the top
rs per cent of profits from 1947
through 1949.
Labor has said it will not ac-
cept wake controls unless there
is an excess-profits tax.
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test of day by day perfor-
nance.
How this sudden new interest
came up to haunt the workers
is not known. But it comedies
in time with the request of some
of the representatives of the
workers for an improvement in
their working conditions.
1t is difficult to see how the
citizens of Toledo a gain any
thing out of the resulting anxiety
and insecurity. =
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
Same Industry Will Be To Blame For BottIeneeks
For Labor Pre- rs Association

Pretty sony you'll begin to hear about botlenecks" in the production of military
GOODS And sure enough it will be the same old industry thatm manages to maintain its
as the al-Mne, .superduper boteneck
For the third time in this century, the steel tndusuys production capacity inf
to meet demands We predict confidently that there won't be enough steel h
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
City Workers

If the employees pass such
tests, and remain, nothing has
been accomplished. If they
give way to those who can
make a higher score on an
examination, the city will lose
employees who have passed a
more important test - the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-11
TccD

The next Toledo Council
for Cooperative Develop
ment meeting will be We'd
nesday, August 30, at 8 pm.
in Carpenters Hall, 612h
Huron Street.
All represe n { a tives
should be on hand.
Temporary officers will
be elected.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
EDITOR GREENE
Invited TO
PRESIDENTIAL
RECEPTION

Percy Greene, Editor and Pub
Usher of The Jackson Advocate,
and President Of the Mississippi
State Negro Democrats Associa-
ton having already been invited
to attend the $10O-a-plate Jeffer-
son-Jackson Dinner in Washing
ton, Feb. 16, this week received
an invitation to attend a reception
in honor of President and Mrs.
Truman, on February II at the
Mayflower Hotel.
The invitation to Editor Greene
reads as follows: Honorable Percy
Greene, 1917 N. Parish ST., Jack
son, Mississippi. In honor of the
President and Mrs. Truman the
Chairman of the Jefferson-Jack-
son Dinner Committee requests
the pleasure of your company at
a Reception Friday Afternoon the
Seventeenth Of February at four
o'clock, The Presidential Ballroom
Mayflower Hotel, Washington.
This is believed to be the first
time a Negro has received an in
vitation of it's kind in the history
Of the state.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
COMMON SCHOOL FUND SUFFERS
LOSS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
OF DOLLARS EACH YEAR BY
REFUSAL TO TAKE NEGRO
POLL TAX payments
No Poll Tax Payments Allowed In
Majority Of State Counties; Various
Schemes Used To Hold Back Receipts

Jackson, Miss, Feb. 6-(DNS)-
A State Wide Survey made at the
end Of the Mississippi Poll Tax
paying period during the month of
January, on or before the first day
of February each year revealed
large scale refusal on the part of
county sheriffs and tax collectors
to accept Poll Tax payments of
fered by Negro Citizens of the
state. No Poll Tax by Negro Citi-
zens of the state by sheriff and
Tax Collectors is robbing the
states common school Fund of
hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars
each year.
In Mississippi the Negro popula-
ton is roughly one million, one
hundred and twenty-five thousands
Q,125,000). Of this number those
in the Poll tax paying age each
year is estimated at around $780,
000) three hundred and fifty thous-
and.
With the annual Poll tax st two
($2) per year the payment of poll
tax by Negroes could possibly add
seven hundred thousand (S700,00O)
dollars each year to the states
common school fund.
Negroes in Mississippi despite
the agitation for the passage of
Federal Anti-Poll tax law have
demonstrated their desire and will
lingness to pay the poll tax in
creasingly during the past few
years.
The money obtained from the
poll tax is put into the states
common school fund.
With Negro school and school
facilities in a deplorable condition,
and with the charge that the state
is without the money to improve
Negro schools, the large scale re-
fusal to accept and encourage the
payment, with the increasing will
ling of Negroes to pay their poll
tax becoming more and more evil
dent each year there is also noted
the increasing disposition to refuse
such payments on the part of
Sheriff and Tax Collectors.
1t is estimated that in more than
sixty of the states eighty-two coun-
ties Negro poll tax are refused. In
some cases however the tax is col
lected under various DISCUSSES for
which the Negro Citizens is never
given poll tax receipt require
ment of state law.
In vast majority of the coun-
ties of the state no Negro tries to
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
kappa's Meet In
Hattiesburg

HATTIESBURG, Miss, Feb. g.
The Jackson Alumni Chapter of
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity met
at the home of T. A. Harrison, 500
New Orleans ST., here Sunday.
Highlight of the meeting was the
pledge of the fraternity to give
full support to the local chapter of
the American Council of Human
Rights.
The chapter has adopted as it's
project for 1850 the registration
of Negro citizens throughout the
state.
Victor J. Jones, of Jackson was
elected to represent the Fraternity
on the council. Present at the
meeting was DIR. C. E. Holmes,
Greenville; DR.. Richard Neal; DR..
H. L. Knaiae, of Laurel; Victor j.
Jones, B. A. Blackburn, Author
Keeling, Jr., of Jackson; DR.. E.
H. Smith, Prof. N. H. Burger, DR..
Charles Smith, T. A. Harrison,
Samuel E. Wilson, of Hattiesburg.
Special guests were Napoleon B.
Lewis, McComb; C. e. Roy, Hat
tiesburg; and John Bell, Greenville
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
Southern SoIons
Get Taste OF
Filibuster
Find Their Own
Weapon Turned
Against Cotton Bill

Washington, D. C. - Southern
Democrats last Friday ran into the
same kind of filibuster on a bill to
aid cotton farmers that they had
employed earlier last week to keep
the fair employment practice bill
from being brought to the floor of
the House.
A coalition of Northern Repre-
sentatives favoring action on FEPC
and members from dairying states
ranking over the repeal of federal
taxes on olemargarine delayed &C
ton on the cotton quota adjust
ment bill by repeatedly demanding
quorum calls.
Representatives Adolph J. Sa-
Nath, of Illinois, chairman of tho
House Rules Committee, took the
floor to accuse Republicans of
making deal with Dix:ccrats in
volving FEPC and the cotton bill.
Republicans voted with the
Dixiecrats for an increase of L.
100000 acres of cotton in return
for their votes against FEPC, Mr..
SABBATH charged.
"They can hide or cover up the
duplicity and double-dealing,' Mr..
SABBATH said, "but I feel that not
withstanding their ingenuity and
ability to distort facts, they will
be unable to make it stick"
POINTS TO RULE
Mr.. SABBATH pointed out that the
rule reported by the Rules Commit
tee last Thursday, making consid-
Grafton of the cotton bill in order
was introduced only five days earl
Ter resolutions to report FEPC
have been pending before the COM
mittee for three years, and for the
past four weeks II have been en-
deavoring to my very utmost to
secure rule on it."
Representative John Lesinski, of
Michigan, chairman of the House
Education and Labor Committee
in charge Of the FEPC bill, asked
for first quorum call at 1903
Three minutes after the House
had convened. The call consumed
twenty-three minutes.
Points of no quorum followed at
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
Sen. Lehman PROPOSES BAN
ON white SuPERMAcISTS'
I'm GOVERNMENT POSITIONS

He spoke at the second annual
Roosevelt dinner sponsored by the
Americans for Democratic Action.
The general theme was Freedom
Of Inquiry in a Democratic So
ciety."
In discussing the police state
methods, Lehman questioned,
"what will it profit US to fight
the Communist conspiracy if, in
order to do so we adopt police
state methods and abandon the
principles we live by?"
He continued:
81 think that anti-Negroism,
anti Catholicism should be as posi-
tive grounds for disqualifying in
dividuals for sensitive federal gov
eminent positions as membership
in the Communist party"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11

Ninety-six-year old Rev. Charles
NJ. Kinney, pastor emeritus of 100,-
600 Negro Seventh-day Adventists,
may we'll be one of the leading con-
tenders for the title of Americas
oldest living Negro minister.
Although he lives in a private
room at the Riverside Sanitarium,
Nashville, Tenn, Mr.. Kenney, who
retired about 1925, is still in good
physical condition. He has spent
his time, until recently, rereading
his many books or telling of the or
ganization of his work among Ne
gro Adventist churches.
Reminiscing brings out stories Of
life on the Richmond, Va, slave
plantation where he was born in
1856, and of his experiences as the
pioneer Adventist Negro worker;
of friendships and of open opposi-
ton by both whites and Negroes as
he preached the keeping Of the
"Bible Sabbath" and the "soon re-
turn of the Lord"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
Wilson'S Biography
OF DR.. Redmond
Published

The Meadow Press, Boston,
Massachusetts, is happy to an
nounce that "God Make Me A
Man., biographical sketch of DR..
Sidney Dillon Redmond, by Char
les H. Wilson, ST., viii come off
the press March Is, 1850. DR.. Red
mond was q physician, lawyer,
businessman, philanthropist, and q
lover of the forgotten man."
Mr.. Wilson, the author of the
best-seller: EDUCATION FOR
NEG ROES IN MISSISSIPPI
SINCE 1910 gave these four rea-
sons why he was happy to write
this biography: "a because his
achievements and accomplishments
depict the many advantages of liv-
ing in America; (2) because his
every move was synonymous with
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
YOUNG FDR
TERMS COP


New York = Representative
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., labeled
the Republican stand on the Fed
eral Employment Practice Bill as
hypocrisy, double dealing and
political maneuvering here last
week.
The New York Democratic Con-
gresham said that such actions
haven't been committed by Nation
al Legislators "since Republican
Senator Henry Cabot Ledge tor
pedoed President Wilson"
Addressing a $100-a-plate dim
ner to offset the deficit incurred
during New York's Mayoralty
Campaign, the 35-year-old son of
the late President compared the
Republican Party to a imam riding
backwards slowly on the stage
coach of history"
Throughout his statement, de-
livered because New York's Demo-
cratic Mayor William O'Dwyer was
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-02-11
SHUTS HITS
MALAN REGIME
Calls Increased
Segregation
Fraudulent

CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA,
Feb. 4-Sen. Jan Christian SHUTS,
an old time white sup, emacists
himself, last week asked for and
submitted a non-confidence motion
against the government of pro-
facist De. Daniel F. Malan.
SHUTS declared that Premier
Malan's policy of increased segre-
cation of races was fraudulent"
Speaking before the Union of
South Africa parliament that he
once dominated, SHUTS declared
that Malan's program cannot be
carried out, and at the same time
was melting the majority darker
races to extreme action.
For several years, SHUTS was
recognized as one of the world
top advocates of white supremacy.
Two years ago his United party
was defeated by the Nationalist
party Of DR.. Malan, the South
African Dixiecrat.