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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-01-10

NAL installation Banquet and dance
Of 1850, Friday, January 6. This
Banquet will be given in the
beautiful Masonic Temple on Fair
Street. The decorations will be in
the appropriate Masonic colors and
flowers of red, green and yellow.
Some two-hundred and fifty visit
ing nobils will be present at this
affair from Columbus, Cleveland,
, Toledo, Cincinnati, Dayton, Ohio
and Richmond, Indiana.
The main speaker of the even
ing will be DR.. Raymond E. Jack
son, Imperial Potentate, of Buff
alo, N. Y. Installation and Pre-
sensations tothe Nobility will be
made by the Past Potentate Law
renee w. Jackson.
Installation of Officers include
the following:
Paul Scott - Potentate
John w. Patterson - Chief Of
Rabband
Booker Schooler Asst Chief
Rabband
Douglas Parson : High Priest
Chester Marchant 80 Oriental
Guide
James Mabra First Ceremonial
Master
Edwin Stokes - Second Ceremon-
ial Master
Clement Clark - Recorder
Barnard Moss - Asst Recorder
Charles Nelson - Treasurer
Eliza Boone - Captain of the
Guard
Harlan Thomas = Outer Guard
John Phifer - Marshall
Charles Black - Lecturer
Oliver Weaver = Asst Lecturer
George McCelland - Engineer
Banquet Dinner will be served
at 1880, Immediately following
there will be dancing tothe music
of Gene Seals and his Combo of
Flint, Michigan.
To your writer this affair will
be one Of the Social Highlights
in Springfield inthe year Of 1850.
With Chester Marchant, Chairman
of Banquet Committee and John
W. Patterson, Master of Ceremon-
les the affair is due to be a sue
cess.
Something new has been added
to the entertainment attraction at
the jackson Grill, formerly Posey
Bar and Grill, 211 So. Fountain
Ave. On Wednesdays they have
Amateur nights and in the course
Of three months the management
informs me the final winner will
be placed in some mite club or
with some unit to try to give that
person an opportunity in life.
You would really be astonished
at the talent that Springfield, has
to offer. I understand that this
Amature night is not for Spring
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-01-10

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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-01-10

Potronfxe Our Advertisers
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
Ford Scraps Contract
For Better One:
Iqc Raise Granted

DETROIT (LPA) - Ford
Motor Co. broke precendent for
the auto industry Sept. 4 by
dropping a contract with United
Auto Workers-CIO in order to
sign a better one. The five-year
pact gives 10000 Ford produc-
ton workers an immediate eight
cent boost, $125 company-fi-
nanced retirement pensions, five
cents extra for skilled workers
(making a total of Is cents)
four cents a year improvement
raises, and one cent extra every
time the BIS cost-of-living in
dex rises LA points. Kaiser
Frazer Corp. gave 5000 work
erS a similar pay boost several
days later. Hikes had been grant
ed earlier by General Motors,
Chrysler, and Packard.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
# RECORD
AGAINST KOREAN AID

We see by AP, which dearly
loves to quote Senator Taft, that
Senator Taft is demanding that
the administration clarity" it's
world policy. The distinguished
expert in oriental affairs (from
Ohio) says we lack both plans
and policy to meet the threat
of a third world war. What the
wire services DON'T tell us
about Senator Taft is that TAFT
himself is as responsible as any
man in Washington for what
ever confusion and lack of plan
there may be. 1t is a matter of
embarrassing record (embarrass-
ing for Senator Taft that he
and most of his party -
voted against the Korean Aid
bills both military and eco
nomic - voted against an ex-
banded ECA and Point Four
program - and voted against
virtually every piece of pro-
posed legislation whose purpose
was to strengthen the ma
tional sinews. Mr.. Taft is a Curl
Gus pot, indeed, to be calling
ANY kettle black.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15

CHICAGO GPA)-Ten years
ago a butcher in the stockyards
here quit his job, resigned as an
organizer, paid his dues four
years in advance and walked
out. Recently, the same man
walked back-a Baptist minis
ter. Isom VILLA m S had gone
from the stockyards to a theo-
logical seminary. He's now back
ito tell my brethren that God
and the trade union movement
go together 49,"
williams explained that
while working in the stock
yards, l began to think of the
hundreds of thousands of my
colored people who r under
paid in some sections but are
regular church-goers." The ex-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
ACW
Reviews Fifty
Years of Labor

NEW YORK (LP)-The mid
century issue of the Advance,
publication of the Go Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers, de-
votes the entire 32-page issue to
reviewing fifty years of labor in
America. Here is the story OF
what labor has accomplished for
this country and the world in
the last fifty years.
The list of contributors is star
studded. Included r messages
from President Truman and
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. The ar
ticles are by Vice-President AL
ben w. Barkley; CIO President
Philip Murray; Secretary of La
Dor NJ aurice j. Tobin; Rep.
Helen Gahagan D Douglas 3D.,
Calif.); Sen. Ebert d, Thomas
ID, Utah; the late Sidney Hill
man, longtime president of the
Amalgamated; the unions pres
ent officers, including Jacob Po-
tofsky, president; Charles w.
Erwin, veteran labor reporter,
and associate editor of the Ad-
vance. Others are Leon H. Key
serling, William Leiserson,
Charming H. Tobias, John M.
Carmody, Oscar Ewing, and
James G.. Patton.
Wrote President Truman of
the labor gains in a half-cen-
fury; These advances have been
tremendous and of Importance
to the United States and the en-
tire world. They have been il
the interest, not only of wage
carriers, but of business and the
public" He expressed the hope
for a corresponding advance in
the next fifty years.
Wrote Mrs. Roosevelt: $50
many things have changed for
the better that l feel all of us
should be extremely grateful to
the unions who have made these
changes possible for the work.
ers, and by doing so have help
ed the country and all workers."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
Butcher Becomes Minister
To Preach The Gospel
And Trade UniOnism

butcher, who had helped build
Cattle Butchers Local 81, Anal
gamated Meat Cutters and
Butchers Workmen-AFL, said
he intends to raise the economic
and social status of the South
by supplementing "the faith of
these good people in God with
a faith also in the union move
ment."
His first assignment will be
in Mississippi and he says he
will preach about labor move
ment and that Il myself belong
to the finest union ever blessed
with good members as we'll as
good leaders" He'll do it Gin
whatever church l may happen
TO take the pulpit, even if it be
a tent in a cornfield revival
meeting"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
High Meet Prices
Seen AS Packers Tell
How They Make
Them Up

WASHINGTON (LPA) You
can look forward to meat prices
as high as the traffic will bear.
And Agriculture Department
statisticians predict that will be
plenty high. Witnesses from four
big packing companies, Wilson,
Swift, Cudahy, and Armour, adj
mitted as much Sept. z and 8 in
hearings before a Senate sub
committee. The packers were ar
guing that price controls are not
needed for meats. Their reason:
it's a supply and demand indus
try and they charge what they
can get. Thrifty housewives they
said, would refuse to pay too
much-and that would keep the
price down better than controls.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
French Crack
Down On Reds
In Wide Raids

PARIS (LPA) - The French
government cracked down hard
on the Communists Sept. 7, ar
resting 268 foreign Reds in
raids throughout the country.
Before the raids were over, it
was expected that at least 800
arrests would be made.
Most of those grabbed were
Russian, Spanish, Yugoslav, Po-
lish and Czech. The Spaniards
had been in France since the
days of the Spanish Civil War
when they were granted asy-
lum. Stated aim was ito decap-
itate the foreign Communist 5th
column in France"
The government said the cap
tured Commies would have to
leave France within 48 hours.
Few wanted to go to any adj
dress behind the Iron Curtain.
The Spaniards were to be given
a choice between eastern Eu-
rope and any French possession.
Meanwhile, in Ottawa, Can
ada, guards had to intervene to
keep 200 members of the Com
munist-dominated c a n a d / a n
Peace Congress from spreading
through the Railways of Parlia-
ment. The "Peace" proponents
were demanding Canada stay
out of the conflict in Korea.
In Pa a m a, the Supreme
Court upheld a cabinet resolu-
outlawing Communism.
The court handed down a 80
decision.
con the other side of the
Curtain the Communist govern
ment of Hungary had demanded
that a number of Roman Catho-
lie orders suspend activities at
once, the official gazette re-
ported. Members of the orders
were to leave their monasteries
within three months.)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
Cooperative
Movement Makes
First RECORDING

WASHINGTON (LPA) - The
cooperative movement, stepping
out in a new direction, has made
its first recording. The Coopera-
tive Broadcasting Associations
selection was Charles Ives Pu-
liter prize-winning C1946) Sym
phony No. 3, never recorded be-
fore. The long-playing record,
which also includes five early
American tunes, will be distri-
buted in music stores throughout
the country. CHA has planned a
series of such recordings, to be
made by the National Gallery
Orchestra.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
Old Refrain Rendered
BY Quartet Of Packers

ASHINGTON (LPA)-
Seems to me I've heard that
song before" was the comment
most frequently heard Sept. z
and 8 at hearings of a Senate
subcommittee Investigating meat
prices. The crack was first made
when James d. Cooney, vice
president of Wilson & Co., told
the committee that price con-
trolls aren't needed for meat, be-
cause the housewife herself
keeps prices down by consumer
resistance. Joining in the chorus
were witnesses from Cudahy,
Swift and Armour packing
companies. Words and music
were taken straight from the
OPA hearings during the last
war. You don't need any statis-
tics, dear reader, to remind you
what happened to meat prices
last time, when OPA went off.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15

Rumely furnishes fair ground
for the suspicion that maybe
they AND RUMELY work for
the same boss.
ct is more than a coincidence
l would say, that of the hundred
and 83 votes FOR Rumely's
contempt citation, only four
were Republican votes. The rest
of the COP professed to find in
this corpulent betrayor of his
country only a poor, prosecuted
citizen. But ample as the girth
of Rumely's trousers may be,
you can still see the shirt tails
of the NAM hanging out.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
kaiser-Frazer To Make
Cars In japan

TOKYO (LPA) - Henry j.
Kaiser has signed a contract
with the East Japan Heavy IN
dustry Co. here to start bis cars
rolling off the production line
next January. They will be sold
10 occupation personnel and for
eigners to boost Japan's foreign
exchange revenue. Two tech
nicians from the japanese firm
will go to the Kaiser-Frazer viii
low Run plant in Michigan to
study production methods.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
Wholesale Prices
Up For Week.
Labor Dept. Reports

WASHINGTON (LPA) -
Wholesale prices for the week
ended Sept. 5 were up a fifth of
one percent over the week be-
fore, and stood at 1878. That
figure was IL percent over a
month ago, and "a percent over
the comparable week last year,
reported the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Department of Labor.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
No ECA Loan
For Spain?

TON CLPA) -
Franco Spain may not get that
$62, 500, 900 ECA loan after all.
President Truman, in signing
the $50 billion omnibus appro-
priations bill, declared he would
not be bound by Congressional
instructions in regard to the
Spanish loan.
Truman said he regarded the
provision not as a directive,
(which would be unconstitu-
tional, but instead as an authori-
cation, in addition to the auhor-
ity already in existence under
which loans to Spain may be
made"
He said money will be loaned
to Spain whenever mutually
advantageous arrangements can
be made with respect to secur-
ity, terms of payment, purposes
for which the money is to be
spent, and other appropriate fac
tors, and whenever such loans
will serve the interests of the
United States in the conduct of
foreign relations"
Truman's position is that the
President initiates and directs
relations with foreign countries,
and that Congress a only
authorize, consent, and advise
on such relations.
Organized labor and liberal
groups denounced the loan, and
Truman and his advisers also
opposed the move, pointing out
that it would bring a hostile
reaction from the Marshall Plan
countries.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
Court Upsets NLRB
On Boycott Issue
Upholds Union

DENVER, Colo. (LPA)-Ever
under the Taft Hartley act it's
legal to picket a general contrac-
tor in a dispute with a Subcon-
tractor, the u. S. Circuit Court
of Appeals in Washington ruled.
Case grew out of a dispute in
volving the Denver Building and
Construction Trades Council
AFL, general contractor Doose
& Lintner, and subcontractor
Gould a. Preisner who employed
n~on-union men. The National
Labor Relations Board had said
the picketing was a secondary
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
Clio Rubber Workers
Win Bargaining
RIGHTS 1873 to ii

GARDEN GROVE, Calf.
CLPA)-The clio United Rub
Der Workers, by a 1873 to IL vote
in an NLRB election, won bar
gaining rights for employees OF
the Rubber Corp. of California
plant here. Union President l..
S. Buckmaster said this was the
URWA's eighth election victory
since June.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
RUMELY CITED FOR CONTEMPT


committee is a we'll h e ! ed
lobbying organization which has
been on the pan before a special
congressional committee which
has been trying to unearth
where the money comes from
which feeds the more important
Washington pressure groups.
Now Rumely himself-who was
convicted of accepting money
from the German government to
buy a newspaper in New York
- who was, in effect, a Ger
man spy and special agent, is
sufficiently malodorous al a
character to absorb a RS
production by AIRWICK a n d
still require an open window If
you wanted to spend much time
near him - but his character
a n d his history aren't really
what has been at issue in the
contempt citation. Rumely flat
ly refused TO comply with a con-
gressional committee d e m a n d
that he reveal the names of the
persons and corporations which
have been financing his reac-
tionary lobby. II there were
nothing suspicious a bout his
hackers, it is TO be assumed that
he would quickly h ave COM
piled with this demand. But he
chose to clam up and take a rap
for contempt. w h y? Out of
oyalty to his contributors?
Well, Rumely's history is one of
loyalty to one thing exclusively
himself. 1t is a far
m o reasonable assumption
that he chose to risk contempt
because he was paid to do so
and the record of the COM
nittee for constitutional govern
nent reveals that he has been
we'll paid indeed.
The really interesting thing
about the Rumely contempt vote
was that the Republican leader
ship in the House rallied strong
Iy behind the proposition that
ne had the RIGHT to refuse
: ongress the information 1t
asked for. This same leadership
was pleased TO acquiesce in a
contempt citation for William
executive secretary of
h e commie-controlled civil
Congress - who also re-
fused to turn over the sources
If his organizations income. The
vote on Rumely's citation was
close - 1873 to IT'S. 1t was per-
obvious that Rumely had
powerful friends a among the
members of the House itself -
he same big-business Stooges
who have been sabotaging es-
legislation throughout
he life of this Congress. 1t has
already been established h a {
he DuPonts and other corpora
ion wheels of the NAM have
made substantial contribution TO
quasi Fascist lobbying
organization. The congressional
birds of a feather who flocked
.ogether TO try to protect him
rom the consequences of con-
.empt of Congress didn't do so
)ut of any affection for & e
of immunity from per-
'ecution. They threw the prin-
'iple out the window when they
voted a contempt citation for
William Patterson. Their vote
AGAINST a similar citation for
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15

The Wise Owl Club, founded
in 1947 at the st. Louis plant of
the American Car and Foundry
Co., has been sponsored by the
National Society for the past %
months. To be eligible for mem
bership, a worker must prove
that his goggles saved him from
partial or complete blindness
when an accident occurred.
After presenting a special GER
tificate to the 1,O00th Wise Owl
-Clayre Pomeroy, a machinist
at the Phoenix (Ariz.) plant of
the Reynolds Metals Co.-Sec-
rotary Tobin pointed out that
an estimated 100000 eye acct
dents occur each year in Ameri-
can plants.
Besides their terrible cost in
human suffering" Tobin said,
"these eye accidents also slow
down production by stopping
work when the accident occurs,
by reducing employee morale,
and by often causing the loss of
a skilled worker for days, weeks
or even forever.
Therefore, by encouraging
the wearing of safety glasses on
the Job, the Wise Owl Club has
an economic as we'll as a hui
m~anitarian value. BY prevent
ing eye injuries among indus
trial workers., it is also helping
American industry turn out
more consumer goods to pre-
vent initiation on the home front
and more equipment to check
aggressors on the military
front"
At the special enrolment GER
emory held in Tobin's office,
Pomeroy described how he al
most lost the sight of his left
eye. He was operating a boring
mill, using a carboloy bit, when
a chip flew off the tool, striking
the left lens Of his goggles. Al
though the lens was damaged
and his eyelid burned, Pomer-
oy's eye was uninjured.
Keen Johnson, vice president
and director of public relations
for the Reynolds Metals Co.,
represented his firm at the GER
emony. Johnson, former Under
Secretary of Labor and Cover
nor of Kentucky, read a mes
sage from Robert S. Reynolds,
Jr., president of the company,
commencing the Wise Owl Club
"for the fine contribution 1t has
made to increased industrial
safety"
In welcoming Pomeroy into
the club, DIR. Franklin M. Foote,
executive director of the Ma
tional Society, said that "of the
1000 Wise Owl members, $50
would be completely blind to-
day if they had not been wear
ing goggles when an accident
occurred. The $40 others-in-
Guiding Mr.. Pomeroy - would
have the sight of only one eye"
Foote said the Wise Owl Club is
enrolling an average of 70 new
members a month and that
there are now chapters in 223
plants in "a states, Hawaii and
Canada.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-15
Witness Admits
Charging For Meat
What Traffic Will Bear

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Meat
prices will go as high as you
will pay.
Witnesses at a Senate hearing
Sept. 7 admitted as much. They
were trying to answer the ques-
tions of Sen. Guy Gillette Cd,
Iowa., whose subcommittee on
Utilization of Farm Groups is
looking into the spread between
what consumers pay for meat
and what the farmers get for it.
Frankest witness was Judge
James D. Cooney, vice-president
of the Wilson Packing Com
pany. Pricing in the meat pack
ing business, Cooney said, "is
backward from most bust
nesses." Cost of the meat to
them has little to do with what
they charge for it, Cooney said.
They base their charges instead
on what they expect the meat
to bring in the retail market.
An astound ding proposition
was made by Cooney. If the
government will promise to
keep controls off meat, and
guarantee a price floor, produc-
ton could be expanded 35 per-
cent in the next three to five
years, he said. In short, Cooney
seemed to be admitting that the
packers are not producing all
they could.
j. w. Christitn, vice-president
of the Cudahy company, COM
piained the poor packers" are
at a disadvantage because they
have to buy their meat before
they know what it will bring. 1t
is "eerie', he said, the way
meat prices go up and down be-
cause of consumer resistance.
In one week they can drop or
jump as much as ten cents a
pound, he said.
Christian took no note Of the
fact that the consumer resistance
results because prices r so
high in the first place. Ample
evidence of that was given by
a witness who sets prices for
Arp on the eastern seaboard.
J.. Arnold Anderson of Safe
way said he follows a policy of
cutting prices on meats that are
not selling well, and raising
them on meats that are in de-
mand. Anderson was trying to
answer a question posed by
Senator Gillette: Why did the
Safeway stores boost prices of
sirloin steak % cents a pound
- from 88 cents to $1.10 the
first week in July - when the
cost of the beef to them went
up only a cent and a half?
j. S. link of ARP said pretty
much the same thing as Ander-
son. when the market goes up,
we go up" he told the commit
tee. link denied a suggestion
naade by Committee Counsel
Paul Hadlick that prices have
been set high since outbreak of
the Korean war so that they
will be frozen at a high level if
controls are slapped on.
The Agriculture Department
has predicted that meat will be
more expensive this fall than
last year, despite the fact that
II will be more plentiful.
There will be increased con-
sumner demand, a Department
report predicted, because gov
eminent spending is rising and
people will have the money to
spend.