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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-02

But not canned fruits. Not
canned vegetables. Not bread,
butter, eggs, chickens. These
can be raised to reflect any
upward trend in farm prices.
Farm prices are not frozen.
Sea food, fresh vegetables and
fresh fruits are wild. No controls
at all.
Rents, except where local
ceilings are in operation, are
wild.
Utility prices are wide open.
Train, bus, plane fares are un-
controlled.
If you can afford S16O q
pound for lamb chops, you don't
have to eat fish or eggs or vege-
tables; and if you can afford to
stay in one place, any rise i'm
transportation won't affect you.
But there is, in simple fact, no
price control that will Ell t h er
freeze the cost of living at pres
ent impossible levels, nor any
price control that would work il
such freeze were contemplated.
But wages are different mat
ter. Increases to meet the per-
mitted rise in living costs will
be difficult, or impossible, to
get under the new rulings.
Some change may occur in the
next few weeks.
Logically, it would be price
rollback to January /, 1850.
But with corporation execu-
tives largely in the saddle, few
hope for anything so demonstra-
bly, sound.
Until such a direct approach
to the irresponsible price gouge,
which rushed the cost of living
to new highs, has been made.
Labor will oppose the leg-irons
placed on collective bargaining.
What was hoped for was law.
What we got was Larceny.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-02
Comp Counsellor
Apple ufions Now
Being Accepted

Applications for the Local IL
Summer Camp counsellors are
now being accepted in the camp
office on the second floor at Lo-
cal IL Hall, 425 Winthrop ST.
Office hours are from am. to
5 pm. Monday through Friday.
Applications are for boys pc
riods and girls for girl periods,
Camping periods are four weeks
each for boys and girls.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-02
Local II To
N Nomiinate At
Feb. Meeting

The m onthly Local II
meeting on February 8 in Par
lor A at the Local will include
nominations for officers for 1851
and all members contemplating
on nominating person are ad-
vised to have the proper name
of candidate and shop, badge
number or social security num-
ber, it was advised by William
Healey, secretary of Local IL.
Mr.. Healey said that is in ac-
cordance with a motion adopted
at the January meeting to ease
the load of the secretary and the
dues Office girls to locate a nom-
.iree. He said that in past years
Z Any members were nominated
zor various offices and it took
considerable time to locate a
nominee to determine whether
he or she will elect to be a
candidate for office.
Having proper information on
q candidate at nomination time
will save valuable time and, he
added as a reminder, it is man.
datory that the proper informa-
tion be channeied with nomin-
alton.
The m citing will begin
promptly at 8 pm.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-02

aways, which the State converts
to cash, has increased the rate
of collection by $50 per cent.
The way the thing works is
this:
The Commonwealth of Ohio
will pay So in cash for every
S1OO worth of tax stamps turn
ed in. Just so long as the organi-
cation applying it is a non
profit outfit, like the Summer
Camp.
Most people, when they pick
up their groceries, or pay for
their te1evision set, leave the
tax coupons on the counter or
throw them away.
The union charges 81 a week
& Cor a boy or a girl from a Local
o,z2 family-a week of eating and
swimming and sports and fresh
air and sunshine. 1t costs quite
a bit more. Every $233 in face
value of tax stamps means 81
from the state-or one week at
Summer Camp for somebody.
The stamps turned in at head
quarters, or tucked into the new
collection boxes, or mailed to
Stan Helminiak, 425 Winthrop
Street, have been running along
at a converted value of $lOO a
month since the new drive start
ed-and for $100, fourteen kids
get a week each at Summer
Camp.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-02
Regional
Views
By Richard 7. Gosser
International Vice President
UAW-CIO

was given entirely different slant retirement
the other day when into union member who is still
working in spite of being eligible for pension.
He told he hated to give his activity in the union
He said he'd miss the activity the contacts the solving OF
union problems.
For the first time then realized two things - first
that UAW-CIO members don't realize that they can
still participate in union affairs after they retire, and
Continued Page Four
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-02
Prices Hiked.
Wages Mailed

The price control labor demanded turned to be jua
about the opposite Prices have been nailed their peak
wages have been nailed at levels prevailing year ago
plus ten per cent.
That extra ten per cent is mirage.
1t isn't granted. It's permitted Those whose wages
have risen since last permitted
to ask for Management is not required grant H
Food prices frozen"
Meat already at peak levels are frozen.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-02
Toledo Needs q New
Dolly Newspaper
Fif+y-Fiffy

The Wage-Price Freeze is like
the man who made his Sausages
fifty fifty. One horse to one
rabbit.
Wages and prices have been
froze fifty-fifty, too. Prices
have been pegged at the peak,
with loopholes permitting more
incre S. Wages have been
nailed.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-02
ToIks Begun
At UnifcuSf

President Joe Walters of Lo-
cal 48 reports that talks have
begun with Unitcast manage
ment on the subject of escalator
clauses and improvement factor
provisions in the union con-
tract.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-02

Tax Stamp Collection
Hundred Bucks A Month

lucky Toledo youngsters from Local IL families
financed for week Summer Camp this year as
isresult of stamp collections in the past month.
Stanley Hemniak reports had been
the little
Evening star., 1951-12-10

put the wrappers on Gen.
Vaughan and Donald Dawson
of his own staff when improper
and ethically doubtful actions
were charged against them.
Gen. Vaughan's troubles were
set down largely to his failure
to restrict his efforts to mill
tary matters and his famous
inability to get along with the
press. Except on one occa-
sion when he was interviewed
at length for a magazine and,
as was almost sure to happen.
put his foot in it again, Gen.
Vaughan has kept his mouth
shut. One rarely hears today
of any OF the generals notes
and letters to widely assorted
departments Of the Govern
ment, so it may be assumed
that he has retired from that
practice.
The only trouble is that Gen.
Vaughan is still around as a
symbol of the man in Govern
ment who is an easy touch for
the wolves and jackals who al
ways turk around points Of in
fluence. power and money. AS
a symbol. even If he manages
to keep his foot out of his
mouth. Gen. Vaughan is bigger
than life and twice as natural.
The question of honesty in
Government which the Presi-
dent must solve is closely and
inevitably tied to the creeping
mediocrity with which every
Evening star., 1951-12-10
British u. N. Vote Stirs Sensation
Ballot for White Russia New Member Instead of Greece
Nay Herold Flirtotion Between Moscow ond London

man Doctrine for Greece and
Turkey.
The Athens Government
wanted its representative on the
Security Council principally for
prestige. which it needs particu-
larly in domestic matters.
Washington and Athens agreed
that on the basis Of the Char
ter's Chapter S. Greece was
fully qualified for that posi-
tion. The State Department
maintains that the gentlemen S
agreement" was good for one
year only. The fact that the
London Foreign Office inter-
preted it differently has given
rise to many unpleasant spec
ulations in Paris. Nobody can
answer the question: What
are the British trying to do?"
There has never been any
emotionalism in the handling
OF international relations by any
British Government. The For
eign Office could have easily
interpreted the commitment"
the same way as Washington.
The highly suspicious diplo-
mats gathered at Paris consider
Britain's foreign policies very
skilltul and wonder what is be-
hind this latest move which the
naked eye cannot detect. They
wonder what is in the minds
OF Britain's leaders when they
act IN such a way as to please
the Kremlin
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Fletcher KnebeI::
Potomac Fever

Civil Defense Director Caldwell is million are
now guarding against attack In Washington
well drilled they dash of posts without
their mnks.
House investigators will grill Charles Olphant resigned In
erna Revenue Bureau counsel Henry
Dutcnman Gunewad The boys have been
learned ls not always true that Ophant fogets
Inc Senate may may not investigate scandal the
Federal Housing Administration
learned the case only involved $50 million.
Senator Hckenooper predicts Republican
convention unpedged to either Eisenhower Taft
choose between them One is civilian
at heart while the other is just trying to he has
Representative Morrison revealed as intervening
IN tax fraud retors he has helped
ing TO Congress Some congressman break
down from oVerwok that physicians urging them up
lawmaking hobby.
Scientists hail the first coasto-coast color
surgical operation The of the
can save his appendix long enough have sponsor
the howdeedodee hour.
Red Boss Gottwad Of Czechoslovaka opens wide purge
communist ranks there You don't the
Communist party but you usually wind pretty well
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Constantine Brown:

There was more than a furry
last week at the Palais Chaillot
in Paris where the, United Ma
tions General Assembly is meet
ing when Britain voted for plac-
ing White Russia as a non-per-
manent member of the Security
Council instead of Greece,
which is strongly favored by the
United States.
The British delegate ex-
planned that there had been a
"gentleman's agreement" dating
back to 1946 to put one of the
Soviet Unions members on that
board of directors. He elabo-
rated that the presence of one
more Soviet Republic in the Sc
curity Council was immaterial
since the permanent represen-
tative OF the USSR has the veto
power in any event. The Coun-
ellis final decisions are in the
hands of the big Five" perma-
nent members; the other seven
members, elected by the Assem-
bly, for two years, have only con-
sultative voices.
The sensation caused by the
British vote rose from the fact
that many United Nations mem
bers saw 1t as an attempt by
Mr.. Churchill's government to
start a Irritation with Moscow.
Gentlemen's agreements are
kept between gentlemen, and
certainly the Russians have
shown no tendency to qualify for
that description.
They have reneged since the
war on all formal and informal
agreements they have UNDER
taken. Moreover, it is pointed
out, Chapter 5 of the U. N.
Charter specifies that in select
ing non-permanent members Of
the Security Council the AS
sembly shall pay due regard in
the first instance to the con-
tribution of the members to the
maintenance of international
peace and security and also to
equitable geographical distribu-
ton"
Outside the Soviet bloc IA
natics. nobody can say the
U. S. S. R. has contributed
anything to the maintenance of
peace; quite the contrary. White
Russia is one of the II so-called
republics" forming the Soviet
Union, and as such should be
Evening star., 1951-12-10
lane trips and free hotels, and

plane trips and free hotels, and
so on.
This sort of thing is not
nearly so widespread as some of
the headlines might suggest, but
the warning implied is justified.
The small-town, family-affair
attitude is not taken too seri-
ousiy by many officials, the real
big shots in every sense, who
watch it with tolerant amuse-
ment. So. too. do the shock
troops of Government, the rank
and file civil service folks who
do the routine work. They are
here always, and know that the
figures prancing across the stage
so proudly are only in a road
show that will pass on, to give
way in time to another, while
they, the permanent audience,
will sit here through it all. Ex-
cept this present show has been
here, it seems, for a very long
run.
1t is what might be termed
the little big shots" who give
this city its small-town. family
affair coloration and who, Incl
dentally, often contribute to
give 1T the name it carries in
the headlines.
This small-town, family-af-
fair, little big shot" influence
is pervasive. 1t is seen, too,
among the little big shots"
among the legions who come
here to get something from
Government. (The real big
shots who come here to get
something from Government do
it quietly, which does not mean.
however. that what they want.
and what they often get, is best
for the country
The little big shots" who
want something from Govern
ment pick up names and titles,
sometimes horn in on social
functions and actually get an
introduction to Government
officials. maybe even actually
come to know those officials
casually and are able to do a
favor for Government "little
big shots" who are not cautious
and discreet.
Then they get together with
their kind, "other little big
shots" here looking for some
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Thon1os [. Stokes:
Washington Is Still Small Town
AIIPeVosNe Atmosphere Of Official Intimacy Helpful
To Those Posing as Friends of Men in Top Posts

thing from Government, and
they throw names of officials
about familiarly as if they were
intimateS, and they boast about
how they have an "in" here
or there, and about their great
influence" Every so often
such exaggerations are retailed
from group to group. getting
bigger and bigger, until the
result is not fish story but
whale story about somebody
trying to shake somebody else
down to get something fixed"
in Government for some huge
sum of money, such as we had
here recently.
The tragedy happens when a
responsible, committee of Con-
gress is so careless as to spread
such stuff on it's record without
careful inquiry.
The truth is, of course. that
influence is used here if not on
the scale often claimed, that
public officials are indiscreet
sometimes, that there are cliques
in the Government which pro-
mote each others projects after
the small-town, family-affair
manner, and that there are
those here who have come to
feel a sort of vested right in
Government.
Power will do that. 1t always
has. What we are seeing is
nothing new under the sun,
though never good at any time.
Washington is still the small
town.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Truman Has Reasons for Return
Capital Hopes President Will Assume Lead in Cleanup
Of Conkerous Situoton in Many Federal Offices

element Of the Government ap-
pears infected. Mr.. Truman
has often pointedly deplored
his lack Of success in inter-
esting good men in Govern
ment careers. Lack of pay.
lack Of real dignity. Mccarthy
ism, all contribute.
Frequently heard nowadays is
the wish that men with the
rugged honesty Of Harold Ickes
were in the cabinet and other
places of leadership. Honest
Harold kept his underlings hon.
est in the early days Of his
career by installing platoons
OF investigators who kept taps
on official wires and who some
times went far afield in in
vestigations of employees pri-
vate lives. Mr.. Ickes later
found that he could obtain an
extraordinarily high level Of
honesty in the conduct Of pub
lie business merely by example
and by constantly alert admin
istration, and the investigative
system was largely dispensed
with.
Many are suggesting now the
imposition Of a new system Of
investigators or the use Of the
FBI for a widespread and con-
slant check on Government Of
ficials. 1t might achieve a
doubtful honesty, but it would
certainly make Government less
attractive for able workers.
Evening star., 1951-12-10

while their cases were under
adjudication" by the loyalty
boards but after FBI field inves-
tigation.
1t will be noted that the
United States Loyalty Review
Board takes up only loyalty"
cases and has no jurisdiction
whatsoever over what are known
as bad security risks" For some
strange reason, no figures have
ever been released as to the to-
tai number of Government en-
ployes who have been let out or
allowed to resign because they
were found to be security risks"
For some strange reason, too.
there is as yet no overall re-
view board to check on the cases
of Government employees found
by departmental boards to be
security risks" or exonerated
from such charges. The Presi-
dent is giving consideration to
the whole problem of security"
as distinguished from loyalty"
and 1t is expected that some
proposal will soon be forthcom-
ing to handle that phase, too.
Meanwhile. the problem Of
how to cope with lying under
oath is giving much concern.
Many persons accused of being
Communists have denied pub
licly in the press and under oath
that they were Communists.
yet number of ex-Communists
have testified before Congress
sional committees that many of
those who denied it were known
in the inner councils as Com
munists. Mr.. Bingham was
asked whether in the cases that
come before his board it could
be determined whether the in
dividualS were directly con-
nected with foreign governments
or "sympathizers." His reply
was:
They never admit it. OF
course. in the usual case they
deny everything. One of the
things you have to do at these
hearings is to try to see if they
are lying or not. An oath means
nothing to the Communists"
Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Doris FIeeson:

There are many reasons for
President Truman's unexpect-
edly early return to Washing
ton, mostly unannounced. With
out doubt the deterioration of
American hopes for the early
creation of an effective Euro
pean army is one. Difficulties
in obtaining a workable truce
In Korea may be another. Prep
arations for the January visit
of Churchill must be pushed.
There is also the job of fitting
together and polishing the state
of the Nation address with
which the President will well
come Congress, welcome
which is not very likely to be
gratefully received.
The President hopes that the
new message will be a "dinger."
a clear challenge for the en-
actment Of a forward program
and, as the President can
scarcely expect Congress to en-
act as requested, the founda-
tion for attacks on "do-noth-
ing" Congress if later events
require.
These reasons are sound
enough. but a sorely beset Cap
ital hopes that his main pur-
pose in quickening his return is
to take leadership of efforts to
clean out cankerous spots in
the Government. He will be
impeded in his efforts by his
earlier failure to do more than
Evening star., 1951-12-10

disqualified even on the basis
of geographical distribution.
White Russia is as integral a
part of the U. S. S. r. as Cali
fornia or Maine is of the United
States. Her presence in the
United Nations resulted from the
eagerness of President Roosevelt
and Mr.. Churchill at Yalta to
appease Stain. They agreed to
the U. N. admission of White
Russia and the Ukraine.
This was described as a neces-
sary mistake. 1t was a bribe
for Stalin's consent to partici-
pate in the world peace organi-
zation. But the British vote in
favor Of a Soviet constituent at
the expense of Greece-which
has struggled for years against
the Communist threat to it's
sovereignty - becomes difficult
to understand.
During the war Mr.. Churchill
himself fought hard to prevent
the domination of Greece by the
Communists and, over the mild
opposition of President RooSe-
welt, sent two British divisions
to that country. British troops
remained until 1947. helping the
Greek armed forces defend
themselves against Russian-in-
spired guerrillas in the north.
When economic conditions in
Britain became such that she
could no longer support that
campaign, the London govern
ment asked us to take over.
This was one of several rea-
sons which prompted President
Truman to establish the Tru-
Evening star., 1951-12-10
DisIoyoIty Arouses Little Concern
How to Solve Problem of Communists Who Lie Under Oath
Is Regarded as Worthy of Serious Consideration

United States Loyalty Review
Board. who was the first to call
attention to the strange situa-
ton whereby so many persons
in the Government service quit
when under Investigation. He
made his statements a copy
righted interview in U. S. News
and World Report November %
last, and the article was cleared
for publication by the United
States Civil Service Commission.
He said:
Now of the $4,000 cases in
which the FBI conducted full
field Investigations, almost half
over 7.200-were held by the
lower boards to be worthy of
further scrutiny. That is to say,
the loyalty board concerned de-
cided to send the individual an
interrogatory or a letter of
charges, charging him with hav-
ing belonged to this or that Or
ganization on the Attorney Gen
erals list, with having associated
with the Communists, with hav-
ing solicited subscriptions to
TIE Daily Worker etc.
THE individual involved is
given at least 10 days and
usually two weeks to answer
such questions. The answers
must be under oath and the af-
fidavit must be sent in to the
board. -.
incidentally 1900 of these
10000 individuals whose cases
went to loyalty boards decided
before they got through an
swering the QUESTIONABLE or be-
fore going through a hearing.
or at some point prior to a deci-
sion. that they would rather
work elSewhere-perhapS they
didn't care for any more inquiry
into their activities-and so they
just dropped out of the Federal
service"
Mr.. Bingham did not mention
at that time an additional 1854
who resigned from the Govern
ment service before the FBI field
Investigations were completed.
His emphasis was on the 1891
the exact figure-who resigned
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Thomas L. Stokes:

Washington still is, for many
purposes, a small town, where
everybody ostensibly knows
everybody else. since Govern
ment is the chief occupation
and nearly everybody is in
Government or is here to get
something out of Government.
1t isn't true, of course, that
everybody knows everybody else
not by any means.
That, however, is the atmoS-
phere-the small town still.
Government unfortunately
usually becomes a sort of fam
lily affair. in whatever country
or whichever party is in power,
with its higher-ups on a first
name basis. This is particularly
so now with one party so long
entrenched in power and also
because so many former Of
flcialS under this same party
still are here doing one thing
and another, largely practic-
ing influence" but as elegantly
and politely as possible, of
course.
This small town, family-affair
aspect has it's dangers, for here
in this city more power is con-
centrated than anywhere else
in the world.
The stakes are tremendous.
All this nourisheS in some
possessors of power a tendency
to accept for themselves vested
right in Government. There is
some of this now as recent Con-
gressional Investigations clearly
have demonstrated. This is a
small town among it's officials.
They see lot of each other here
and there. at dinners, cocktail
parties and such. So, when it
comes to doing Government
business, there is still this con-
Sideration of one for the other,
of Bill for Jack and Joe for Tom
(no one living or dead intended) !,
in their decisions on policy, and
those go to some important
matters necessarily. Bills friend
who wants something is passed,
perchance, on to Jack to get it.
Maybe then Bills friend wants
to do something for Bill and
Jack for their courtesy, and so,
presto, mink coats and free air.