Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-04-30

lAB0R VIEWS

Willis bdIluSeH, Ldily OCuulLL,
Michael Guthrie, William Spring,
Thomas Kerr, James Jones, Harold
Hasendorff, Thomas Ted Davies,
Donald Lee Finke, Theodore Wod-
rick, Jerry Howell, Junior Bachtel.
Stanley Mista is coach and man
ager of the team.
On our sick list this week is
Olive Milliser and Joe Perry.
IndusfriaIist Lauds Labor's
Efforts To Build America
One of Americas most respected
industrialists asserted in Chicago
that labor is in the forefront of
the fight for better America
Paul G. Hoffman, Chairman of
the Board of Studerbaker Corpora
ton told delegates to the UAW
Education Sonference that labor
has been a consistent fighter for
the American ideal. This ideal, to
Hoffman, is to secure equality"
and certainty of opportunity for
the full growth of every citizen.
anyone with this goal in mind
recognize the part our unions have
played in giving millions of our
people the right to realize more
fully their rapacities", HoffmAn
said. "The UAW-CIO is an out
standing example of such achieve
ment through the processes of a
democratic union. And Democracy
in unions, in itself, is vital aspect
of Americanism."
Hoffman, impressed by the con-
ference, observed, "Mr. Reuther,
who has been in the forefront of
many important movements-in
unionism and in the fight against
communism-is to be praised for
the leadership he has shown in
this new field of adult ecucation."
Bernard Lorenson is back on
the job after having been off for
several months because of illness.
Take it from a Local 497 mem
ber, curiousity can be expensive,
he knows. This member, an cleo
trician, was strolling along a river
bank when he picked up a stick
with string and safety pin at
tached. He yielded to the urge
and threw that string in the
water-just ITO See what would
happen. And to his great surprise
a hand tapped him on the shoulder
and a game warden was asking
him for his fishing license. He
didn't have the license, so this
member paid. So take a tip from
this Brother and don't let your
curiousity get the best of you
its too expensive. We didn't men,
ton his name but since we only
have five electricians left, he
won't be hard to find if you'd
like to hear his story first-hand.
Jim Perry 4eturned to work
this week after an illness.
Split Revealed In
Taft-Hartley Drive
Publication of the so-called
majority" report on Taft-Hartley
disclosed that four of the seven
Republicans, including Chairman
Smith, didn't like what they had
done. They thought that it would
have been more. anti-labor.
Senator Smith refused to con-
slider any amendments offered by
Democratic members to make the
law "fair and just" as Pres. Eisen-
hover had promised during the
campaign.
Senator Goldwater R. Ariz.) who
throughout the hearings demon
Strated a desire to make the law
even tougher, had three objectives
and one gripe. He wants to give
1nti-labor state legislatures even
greater room for laws designed to
cripple unions and put collective
bargaining into strait-jacket.
U. S. Chamber of Commerce has
messaged all business members to
get busy on Taft-Hartley. 1884
might well be the last chance for
a number of years to improve the
Taft-Hartley Act, the chamber is
telling them.
A group of Local 497 members
attended a Region 2-B Educational
League Conference held in Local
2 Union Hall, Toledo, last Friday
evening.
Vice-Pres. Richard Gosser was
he guest speaker and gave a de-
'ailed report on the UA.W-CIO-
KaiserIWillys' new agreement,
Iosser stated that under the new
plan no one will lose and hourly
workers will gain at the rate of
l2c per hour.
He pointed out that the Bonue
Plan will be broken down as fol-
lows: ~