Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1956-05-25
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LABOR VIEWS


after undergoing treatment. There
will be no trips to Detroit fixed up
for him at this time.
Eddie Vann has taken a two
week leave to visit a very sick
Aunt out of State We hope you
find her much improved.
We understand that wedding
bells will ring one of these days
for one of the fellows on the pack
ing line. How about it, Jack?
Our sincere sympathy is extend
ed to Harry Prouty who suffered
the loss of his mother.
Your Recording Sec'y
Secretary of Labor James p.
Mitchell says that two-thirds of the
nearly two million job accidents
recorded last year could have been
prevented through greater safety
efforts. President Eisenhower call
ed the industrial accident situation
tragic" AFL-CIO Sec. Treas.
William Schnitzler stated that
Unions ideas and programs on
safety are too often ignored by
management.
Some people really appreciate
the privilege of voting When
residents of Washington, d. c.
went to the polls several weeks
ago for the first time in 81 years,
Joseph j. Evans, an invalid, hired
an ambulance to take him to the
polls so he could cast his ballot.
Here is something along that
line from our Washington UAW
Education Conference:
Question: "The politicians have
been preaching civil rights and
the elimination of segregation. Still
the people in Washington d. c. and
other segments of the u. S. cannot
vote. Why"
Answer from Senator Hubert
Humphrey: with reference to the
District of Columbia | agree with
what has been said. Number Cd -
every citizen Of this country should
have the right to vote and surely
in the District of Columbia. | be-
lieve in home rule for this District
and have supported bills reported
by Senator KefauVer, Senator
Morse and others. 1t seems to me
that the District Of Columbia will
never have the kind of government
it should have until it has its own
locally elected government.
with reference to segregation,
| would suggest, number one, that
this is going to require persever-
ence, is going to require leader
ship, speaking out, asking people to
abide by and conform with the
law, and / strongly support the So
called bipartisan civil rights com
mission to investigate infractionS
of the law and to make further
recommendations to the President
and the Congress"
It seemed to me after hearing
Senators Knowland, Kefauver, Cur
tiS and Humphrey that Senator
| Humphrey was the outstanding
speaker. He had steady flow of
factual information. Some dele
gates at the conference were pre-
dieting that h would make a pow
erful candidate for President and
that the Democratic party might
do well to consider him at their
convention.
Beyond any shadow of a doubt
the speakers of the Republican
party, made it plain that if EiSen-
hover was reelected, together with
a Republican Congress-, that they
intended to be even more reaction
ary than in the past. Due to diff
ferenceS with the President on in
ternational problems, the feeline
has been that Senator Knowland is
somewhat liberal. He is not. He
stated in no uncertain terms, thai
as far as he was concerned the
only changes in the Hartley
Bill would be to make it tighter.
The organized workers only hope
at the national level is with the
Democratic Party. One could draw
no other conclusion from the state
ments of the speakers from botf