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Page Two TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Friday, September 19, 194 Marshall States WAGE RAISES GRANTED NAM .Economy, Price Control European Heeds REGION 2 E1 UAW-CIO. Continued from Page 1 LOCAL 12 of Wisconsin, has been set up. Plant Employes Wage Increase Is Refuted Need Is Seen LaFollette, along with the labor Amcric&n Csn Co. «.»••••*»••••••••• 550 13%** American Floor Surf.......... 180 IPa** WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (LPA)—More national po men, is believed to ba much more concerned about taking Acme Specialty...................... 60 llfc" (LPA)—Attempts by spokes litical leaders last week added their pleas for a return to drastic steps—which might tread AVCO ...................................... 70 IP?' men of the National Associa federal price controls as the only way to check soaring food on the toes of heavy industry Ayling-Reichert ............ 11^** Raron Steel.............................. 16 15 ♦* tion of Manufacturers and and other prices. and speculators in farm futures —to allocate materials needed Bingham ................ SOO the United States Chamber of Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Bliss Fdy............................ 246 to set Europe on its feet. Commerce to blame high prices speaking in Rhode Island, Buckeye Paint 14 11%« Controls Are Headache Butcher-Hart 10-15** on labor’s wage gains backfired warned that “We’ve got to do Man With Big Job Harriman frankly indicated Champion ................ .. 2250 11 last week in a nationwide broad something quickly to avert a that he considered even the DeVil biss ...................... .. 1000 11 '/2** cast in which AFL and CIO of present export controls a “head Lakeside ................ ................. 250 ficials debated big business rep- ' catastrophe. We've got to go ache,” and stated that the aim duPont Chemical .................. 30 10** back to something like the of the Administration is a re Ensign Foundry .................... 80 15** resentatives. OP A.” turn »to “normalcy” in world Fort Pitt Steel ...................... 20 11 \2** CIO Secretary -Treasurer The Senate Democratic whip trade as soon as possible. Gordon ................ ................... 320 ll^** James Carey and AFL Econom- (Sen. Scott Lucas, D I1L) indi Chester Davis, ultra-conserva Mather Spring........................ 200 iis Boris-Shishkin both contend tive farm bloc leader, jumped Plaskon ................................ 225 Illi" ed that the prospects for indus cated in a statement from Chi "I the traces with the only blunt National Supply .................... 900 15 cago that price controls might statement coming from the com Swartzbaugh . ............ 525 trial peace were diminished be necessary, because “some-- <,,, I 4 mittee room. - Spicer Manufacturing ...... 4000 when the NAM and C of C suc thing has got to be done in the Davis, obviously frightened Spicer Office .......................... 300 n h" ceeded in writing and enacting ’ next six to nine months to stop by the prospects of a bumper Tillotson Mfg.......................... ii%** the Taft-Hartley law. U. S. gram crop, sky-high prices Tol. Indus. Ht. Tr............... 22 11H" this ruinous rise.” for foods, and the dangers of Toledo Industrial Rubber ... 5-ll^*e Said Carey: “The NAM’s pro Sen. Francis Myers (D-. Pa-) * < 'X unmanageable surpluses in fu Toledo Pressed Steel ............ 150 11 gram announced last year in called for a special session of ture years, said: “It may be Toledo Pipe Threading.......... 300 12M>“ cluded elimination of price con-» Congress in November to act on necessary to reinstate govern Tot Por. Enamel ................ .. 155 11%" trols, limitation of worker sr*. price controls as well as foreign mental controls on food.” Har Tol. Steel Tube .................... 183 10 15 rights and industry control of financial and other aid. ;*s i riman interrupted Davis in an Rathbun-Jones ........................ 80 O'.f'M- annoyed tone to sav, .“You're Willys-Overland .................... 5800 ' ll^" government. That program is in GOP Oppose Control speaking for yourself?” Davis Housing Crisis Argument Adds Local 14 full force and effect today. It-, On the other hand, the Re a# agreed. Revives Battle AP Parts'.................................. 150 11%" has been achieved by the great*** publicans who are heading three Alternative Stated To T-H Chaos Rauh .. ........... ....•• 60 ll^*e est smear campaign in history, price investigatinng committees Continued from Page 1 American Swiss...................... 300 based on misinformation and An alternative to government WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 which begin hearings in the east Dr. R. R. Sayers, former di Toledo Mach. & Tool .......... 800 11 8/10" directed at government em food controls, Davis indicated, (LPA)—Members of the Joint within his rights in ruling that and midwest this month, are rector of the U. S» Bureau of Local 16 ployes, union leaders, and any would be a drive to get house Congressional Committee to In the top AFL and CIO officials other group that questioned thd’44 confident that a return to price Mines, has been named to wives to cut down on their meat! Dura Div. (Det. Har. Co.)... 900 controls is not the answer. head the first industry-wide vestigate Housing had their must sign the anti-Communist Local 48 divine rights of American man buying, thus eventually causing! 11V2*’ agement. Despite the reluctance of union-negotiated medical care meat prices to drop, and at some! “a-b-C” lessons in the intricacies affidavits. Unitcast Corp............................ 550 6—Taft and Ball disagreed manufacturers, wholesalers and program in American labor future time making it more of the building industry last Local 105 (Wapakoneta) Hysteria Is Created retailers to appear before the history. More than 400.000 week when they heard, from the with Hartley on whether the law Wapakoneta Machine Co. ... 75 12-3 “Public hysteria,” Carey eon* • price inquiries, which will in profitable to sell wheat rather members of the United Mine than feed it to livestock. top government housing experts prohibits union-financed news Local 106 (Lima) tinued, “has been created vestigate price problems at the Workers-AFL will be covered 2400 15 Any chance that the European that: papers from taking a position on Lima Loco ............ .. through a spurious indictment “grass roofs,” the Congressmen under the program which Say Local 493 (Bellevue) of labor which will not stand up will hear plenty from union and ers will administer. (LPA) nations might get appreciable The U. S. needs about 1,500,- Presidential or Congressional quantities of food in the U. S. elections. Bellevue Mfg. Co. ................. ll^*e in the face of the highest pro consumer groups, according to 000 new homes a year; despite duction levels in history and the preliminary schedules. seemed very slight unless price Justice Dept. Quiet Local 497 (Port Clinton) this, there are only about 15c highest level of prices that have CIO reporta it will have CIO Elects controls are re-instituted. Wheat Standard Prod- Co.................... was up to all-time highs on the 820,000 families able to pay The Justice Department which Local 711 (Lima) been imposed on consumers by spokesmen prepared with facts admittedly has collected a spe American management. Con Nev/ Officers Chicago market last week. Corn current prices for homes, out of Superior Coach Co. 350 15 and figures in every city the cial staff for the investigation Local 750 (Marion) gress, like the people, has been Congressmen visit. AFL lists Continued from Page 1 and oats also broke to new all- the 1,500,000 needing homes; time highs in Chicago, mostly as and prosecution of the Taft- Universal Cooler.......... ... .. 1000 11 i2-16%** misled by this smear campaign are not available nationally, but “this law will never bring peace building codes, ' building prac Hartley violations, has not ut Local 914 (Fremont) into carrying out the dictates of Congressional staff members re the result of speculative buying. tered a word nor made a move, In American industry.” At the C h ic a g o stockyards, tices, and the homebuilding in- Herbrand Forge 380 those who are consistently in port that AFL and independent all despite the deliberate challenge Local 975 (Lima) opposition to the dignity of union requests to be heard are Insult To Decency choice steers brought $35.25 per dustry’s pricing policies are to the law thrown out by all sec labor.” hundred pounds, another all- in need of drastic repair. Ohio Steel Co......................... 1200 11 still coming in. Terming the interpretation of tions of organized labor in two Local 27 (Van Wert) Shishkin maintained that “The time high. Contradicting the claims of Congressional elections in Mary The Morgenthau, Lucas and the law by NLRB attorney Den Eisenhauer Mfg........................ 75 10 Taft-Hartley law will wreck the The National Federation of homebuilders and the real estate land and Pennsylvania. Myers calls for action to restore ham as “an insult to decency, Millers warned that bread prices Wood Shovel and Tool Co. wm Local 827 (Piqua) peace in key industries where it price controls follow close on lobby, the federal experts esti Meanwhile, other Congressmen 15** has been kept inviolate for many Mr. Haywood said, "our move would rise as a result of the who opposed the anti-labor law 250 the heels of similar proposals •♦Indicates paid holidays. years. Employers agree that in made earlier by Rep. Helen ment has a soul and men and wheat cost rise. Eggs and butter mated that about 750,000 homes expressed amusement at the be at dollar-a-dozen and dollar-a- dustrial peace cannot be kept by Gahagan Douglas (D., Calif.} women will die for that soul.” will be started this year — a lated discovery by some of its legislation. Compulsion will not and Sen Harley Kilgore (D, W. He called on the churches of the pound prices were already a number far short of the needs of proponents that the Act gives U. S. Hiring Rates Drop Let's Take A Holiday reality on many grocery count work in a democracy.