Organize 'T uleda The Voice of the j, CIO tn 1QO% TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL Representing 59f000 ClO^Members in Northwestern Ohio Northwestern Ohio
TOLEDO, OHIO, APRIL 6, 1915 by LzvaJ 12. CAWJ'IO Vol. 3, No. 18 45,000 Circulation 425 Winthrop St. Toledo Ohio Price 5< PR Repeal Proves Joint Council Draft Bill Slated For Early Elects Lawrence N.. MSteinberg, To Be Popular Issue Ohio state URWDSEA direc tor, was named director of Conference In April the newly created Toledo Thousands Sign Petitions Joint Council at an organiza OPA Stalls tion meeting at the Commodore For November Referendum Perry Hotel March 29. The | CIO Impresses Ohio Governor J Council was recommended by Statement: Confidence rose high in PAC ranks this week following Wage Jump the steward body of Locals 35 Byrnes the return of the first petitions calling for repeal of the PR and 363 at their joint meeting system of electing city councilmen. Several thousand signa WASHINGTON, April 2— early in January. i tures, obtained during the first 10 days the petitions were (LPA)—Wage increases granted Others elected were president, Kills Comnromese Bill more than five weeks ago to Ivo Erwin, Local 363; first vice- circulated gave PAC officials cause to hope that not only 50,000 textile workers are still president, Irving Woodtke, Lo would PR face its greatest’ stalled in the OPA and the Of cal 35: second vice-president WASHINGTON, April 4. (Special LPA)—Opposition of test since its adaption, but fice of Economic Stabilization Edward Bartchi, Local 363; re ' labor to the Administration’s drive to railroad "forced that its possible defeat is in Heads Joint here while union leaders con cording secretary, Charlotte * *• labor” through the Senate has been stalled. Added to labor’s tinue to demand that the raise Berth, Local 363; treasured dicated by the rapidity with Karl Martin, Local 363, and ser opposition was the storm created by War Mobilizer James which the petitions are being be put into effect. Byrnes in one of his last statements before resigning that filled and returned to PAC The case went to OPA in or geant-at-arms, William Klock headquarters. der to give mill owners an op owski, Local 35. 1 the bill would be effective in Clayton Rusch, PAC chair portunity to appeal for higher Flan For Future the reconversion period. man, explained that two petition prices for their products. When Plans for future activities of Government Present status of the bill is circulators alone had accounted the deadline for filing such ap- the union were made by the that it will be sent into a joint for 1560 signatures and had peals was passed last week it board and action taken on vari House-Senate conference after said “they had just started to was found that only 24 of the 54 Rejects Then l the reconvening of the house companies had sought ous measures relative to DETROIT, April (Special) • Opposition to Grand in various parts of the country ^assistant adjpin is to Jpr^jgf .^the. bers constantly being added (LPA)—War Labor Board mem that could be drawn, on by The Railway Labor Ex ecu- the union not only joiti PAL? Rapids as the 1945 CAW-CTO" corTventioit city is on< the in- ■'tire' Ass'h^/ which/' represent* Retraining and Reemployment to the growing UAW-CIO group bers have their own private himself, but that he seek to en plants ‘■‘needing inch -machines Administration, is expected to now under process of organiza opinion of the Montgomery roll the rank and file members crease. Announcement of Grand Rapids which wasi the scene either for war production or for both independent and AFL*' submit his resignation shortly to tion in the Hobart Mff. Co. plant Ward-Sewell Avery’s one-man into the political . organization of the 1944 convention as again having been chosen for this conversion to civilian produc unions on the railroads, sent im Gen. Frank Hines, head of the of this city, according to Harold war against the U. S. Govern which was seeking to advance year’s meeting was made here last week by George F. tion. The borrowing arrange a wire to, every senator de Veterans’ Administration. O. Tull, Auto Workers Interna ment. Here’s a ditty they hum the cause of the workers by ment would be closely super nouncing the bill and reiterated Griffith’s departure will have tional representative in charge to themselves these days: Addes, International UAW- vised and designed primarily to its opposition “te drafting of means of progressive social leg workers for private profit.” organized labor’s blessing be of the Miami Valley District. The Board is now faced with a islation. Phone Operators Get CIO secretary-treasurer. prevent any machine tools from cause of the Colonel's well- Workers at Hobart’s rejected new kind of knavery, Thirty delegates from the two lying idle or going to rust in a “We feel that enactment of known antipathy for trade un the AFL in an NLRB election WLB Public Hearings What steps would be taken plant yard when they could be legislation of this character will ions and his advocacy of some The kind that is peddled by CTO unions were present for the by Local UAW-CIO unions and used or adapted ia another more than one year ago after the Sewell Avery. initial meeting. seriously interfere with the form of “superseniority” which local newspaper, the Troy Daily WASHINGTON (LPA)— units was not clear, but that plant. present outstanding performance In his arrogance he has spread Faced with a threatened strike purports to give precedence in News, stepped into the breach some definite protest would be Says Same Think of American labor both in war Jobs to veterans over workers and carried the torch for the word through the town Strikes at 6/100 of 1% of long distance and local phone time production and other war with greater actual seniority. That he’ll huff and he’ll puff and operators in New York voted made to the International Board The RFC’s announcement, one plant management. The news he’ll blow the Board down. time activities,” the association Griffith is recognized in labor paper sought to accomplish the WASHINGTON (LPA)—Man- for April 20, the WLB has open was definite. year later, said that “The trad added. Circles as the author of the same purpose when the Waco But though loudly he screams, days lost through strikes in Feb ed public hearings on the phone Some UAW officers see in the ing pit is a central supply point and though wildly he rages, or pool, into which machine McNutt Gives Report -Notorious “Memorandum 190A” Aircraft Co. election was held, ruary amounted to 6/100 of one union’s request or a reconsidera Addes move the preliminary to He adds not a cent to those sub per cent of the available work? tion of the recent decision in tools and production equipment Among the other stiff blows which interprets the reemploy but was unsuccessful. calling off the convention alto ment rights of veterans under Waco workers have been of standard wages, ing time, the Department of La their case before the Board. are reported as they become which the legislation received the Selective Service Act so as considerable aid in assisting in Which that great corporation, bor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics The unions had asked for a $4 gether. Application was made available for transfer from one during the week was the release to permit veterans io bixmp the Hobart organizational drive. ~r3?u, reported ietsi week. Tn ere Were a week increase when their case by the UAW-CIO secretary type of war production into an by Manpower Chief Paul V. Mc workers with greater seniority Grievance settlement and aid in Declares is the very most it can 310 strikes and lockouts during was presented to the WLB. They treasurer to the Office of De other.” Nutt of a report which admitted afford. the month involving 109,000 The national supply of ma that during both January and Out of their jobs. securing increased rates of pay now charge that while the com fence Transportation for per Memorandum 190A, which la- have been a good example for Wards’ financial condition is workers and 412,000 man-days pany told the unions that it chine tools and production February there has been “a ♦or leaders charge was designed the Hobart employees. really quite bad; of idleness. The figures include would support the $4 demand, it mission to hold the convention. equipment, the RFC declared, positive betterment in the em to split returing servicemen and Tull is attached to the office It can manage just one daily all stoppages involving six or actually did nothing to reinforce It was felt by some union offi although the largest ever ployment situation.” trade unions, was issued with of Richard Gosser, UAW-CIO half-a-page ad more workers which lasted as the workers’ request before the cials that the move would lead reached in the history of this or “Munitions industries employ In every big newspaper through out any consultation with labor, regional director of Toledo. long as a full day or shift. WLB. In previous negotiations to a rejection by the ODT be any other country, “is still short ment showed substantial gains management, or evou other gov out the nation the union had asked or $5 a of requirements to take care of generally,” McNutt declared. To explain its great fight for the cause of the government policy ernment agencies. Ohio CIO Given week. greatly increased war produc Another solar plexus blow to In recent months Griffith has Social Workers country’s salvation. of discouraging conventions dur tion schedules. However, the Avery has suffered sore wounds the bill was the announcement frequently debated on public May Unionize Clean Bill Labor School Gets SS$ ing wartime. new trading pit plan is consid by Admiral Ernest J. King that platforms with labor and indus which won’t heal. ered a notable contribution to- the Navy's most recent building try officials who opposed his de WASHINGTON (LPA) — Al Until salved with the blood of WASHINGTON (LPA) — The ALBANY (LPA) — Praising Addes Is Criticized ward meeting production re- program, which called for 94 mands for superseniority. Both though there is no dispute about the wicked New Deal. Ohio CIO has been absolved by the “leadership of labor” in N. Widespread criticism of the quirements.” per cent reduction in the ship industry and labor representa wages or hours, a move to be For hell hath no fury like that the Justice Dept, of all charges Y. State, Governor Dewey has International secretary-treasurer Reuther, in presenting his building program, following V-E tives have contended that such come bargaining agents for so of a man involving its printing of a pam signed a bill appropriating the because of the choice of Grand Continued on Page 7 day. a plan would throw hundreds of cial workers at the Georgetown Who’s been hauled from his phlet during the 1944 presiden sum of $200,000 to be used in thousands, if not millions, out of Settlement House by Local 27, office and dumped on his . . . tial campaign, Atty. Gen. Biddle establishing a labor school at Rapids was heard in Toledo and work, and disrupt any possibil United Office and Professional announced last week. Cornell University. from some Detroit Locals during ity for a smooth conversion to a Workers (CIO) has been re Schick Reports Progress the past week. Delegates who at Legion Expected To peacetime economy in the recon ferred to the Labor Department Satisfactory progress is re tended last year’s meeting are version and postwar periods. for conciliation. ported by Carl Schick of Re gional Director Gosser’s office in Superseniority Schemes most outspoken in their opposi the skilled trades organizational tion to the Michigan city. drives. Workers from the shops One delegate from the 144 Clear Seniority Stand CIO Program Plans in which Schick is organizing Riddled In Union Case convention speaking of the are proving to be good contacts choice of Grand Rapids for the WASHINGTON, April 2 (LPA) — Clarification of the who show a desire for a union WASHINGTON April 2 (LPA) — A severe blow to half- 145 conference said, “I don’t which will accomplish things for imagine George Addes would American Legion’s confusing and contradictory position on them. baked schemes of “superseniority” for veterans has been care too much if the ODT re job seniority for returning servicemen is expected at a two For Victory Days Schick is also active in PAC administered by an arbitrator in a dispute between the Tim fused to grant the permission day conference of labor, veterans, industry and government in his spare time and has been ken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio, and the United Steel- for the convention. After all, WASHINGTON Apk 3 (LPA) — CIO President Philip representatives here on April 5-6. working among shop stewards workers-CIO. it would mean that he wouldn’t to impress upon them the neces the Memorandum rather the have to worry about getting re Invited to the conference speaks publicly during the two- Murray last week advanced a series of proposals to “stabilize sity of knowing what the polit Hailed by CIO leaders as a the terms of the collective bar elected and that in itself would from labor are Robert J. day conference. precedent that will be influ our war economy for the tough job ahead of completing the ical organization is trying to ac gaining contract.” Continued on Page 2 Watt, international represent- The Legion announced that defeat of Japan” after V-E day and for reconversion after complish so they in turn can sell ential in guiding lawyers, “Nothing in the Act,” the ar tative of the AFL, and a repre the conference will be sponsored Japan’s defeat. PAC to the rank and file. ’ courts and other arbitrators in bitrator continued, “provides sentative of the CIO Veterans by its Natl. Employment Com Sent to all CIO interna dividual American family. We settling seniority disagreements, that the returning veteran is to Committee. mittee and will be followed by a can only distribute this abun the ruling declared that Memo get more than he had when he WANT YOUR The Legion’s ups-and-downs series of 12 regional conferences tional union presidents and dance of goods and services by randum 190A “is no more than a left. Not a word is to be found on the question of superseniority • in which 2,000,000 memoers of also to War Mobilization Di raising money incomes and WASHINGTON (LPA) — statement of the views of the that even suggests that he is to PAPER? for veterans in recent months the Legion and its auxiliary will rector James Byrnes, the plan keeping prices from rising (or Work above 12 hours a day Natl. Headquarters of the Se be favored above his older fel has created numerous doubts in be welded into a sweeping, ag proposes for immediate action a by lowering prices as produc is sufficiently “onerous” to lective Service System.” Memo low workers and given a senior If you are not receiving labor ranks. Several weeks ago, gressive team to translate the nationwide scries of community tivity increases.)” randum 190A, which has caused ity standing superior to theirs, the TOLEDO UNION behind the closed doors of the Legion’s program for maximum warrant double-time pay, employment and the Legion’s wide committees representing a Murray declared that “no-one instead of time-and-a-half, considerable concern in union irrespective of the length of JOURNAL, please see your Retraining and Reemployment cross section of the community has yet begun to translate these the War Labor Board ruled circles because of its variable their employment with the em Administration in Washington, Program for Veterans’ Employ to ask three basic questions: increases into terms of real last week. It sustained a re* interpretations, specifies that “a ployer. The veteran is not to lose department steward or the Legion proposed that the ment into effective action.” What goods and services do goods and services which the gional board which had or returning veteran is entitled to by his term of service, but, 'ike- committeeman. He will seniority of all war workers be In announcing the conference we need? 2. What do we want? average American can under reinstatement in his former po wise he is not to gain thereby. give you a form to fill out cancelled dating from May 1, Chairman Lawrence Fenlon, of dered the Submarine Signal the Legion’s Natl. Employment 3. What local capacities do we stand. When someone does, it Co., Fall River, Mass., to sition or one of like seniority, He is to be protected against which will then be returned 1940. Opposed on this scheme have for supplying our own will be seen that every family grant a union demand for status, and pay, even though economic loss as a consequence by all other veterans groups the Committee, said that in his or needs and wants and what ca (and especially all families in the double-time rate. such reinstatement necessitates of his leaving, by being restored to the newspaper office. Legion backtrackec and agreed ganization’s employment plan pacities do we have for exchang the bottom two-thirds of the in The WLB held that th« the discharge of a non-veteran to his prior status; he is not to We are making every effort to a plan whereby workers with "we emphasized the fact that the ing goods and services with come scale) MUST consume with greater seniority.” be given something which he to place everyone’s name greater seniority than accumu key to fullest possible postwar extra compensation con- employment must lie in an ex others at home and abroad? more foodstuffs, more clothes, forms to an executive order The memorandum is entitled did not have and could not have on the mailing list and will lated by a serviceman would not Aid To Employment more household goods, better to great weight, declared the ar acquired even though he had not be bumped out of their jobs. pansion of the sales, service and issued by the White House be greatly aided if you will The program of full employ housing, better health care, bet several years ago which bitrator, Herman A. Gray, “but been compelled to leave and had Subsequently the Legion pulled distribution field.” ment he continued, “calls for ter education facilities, more while placing a ceiling of it is not controlling because it continued to work without inter take care of seeing that out of this agreement. Labor leaders and government 50% more peacetime production recreation, and later on per time-and-a-half pay for was not issued under any power ruption.” your name, address, sone With the question of super- economists, however, have em than ever before in this coun haps more leisure, if our modern work beyond eight hours either to interpret or to bind...” The arbitrator’s ruling con number and shop reach us seniority still being battled back phasized that the “key” is in try. It means an enormous in economy is to operate at levels and forth in Washington, all purchasing power which depends permits additional pay for The union, Gray found, curred almost completely with at the earliest possible time. crease in the quantities of goods w of full employment and full pro- “onerous work.” “therefore is free to dispute the the contentions of many labor branches of** ‘ labor are _ upon the highest possible wage and services going to every in- Auction.’ J j right of the company to follow Continued on Page 7 j waiting to f Legion [standards.
