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Scale Co* Election
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more members than the number of
pledge cards indicated.
in the NLRB hearing, ft was
brought out that the MESA
claimed to represent 107 employes,
the UAW-CIO 490, and the com
pany union number which could not
be determined by the NLRB since
they were given no bona fide
evidence of the actual number in
the company organization. The re
sults of the election will determine
if the polishing and plating de
partments are to be included in the
unit which wins the election.
President Murphy announced
t^at the International UAW-CIO
i.il assigned James Crowley,
Ttobert Burkhart and Orville Bee
met to the Organizing Committee
of Local 12, to support Cyrus
Martin, Local 12 organizer.
The organizing staff of Local 12
have accomplished some outstand
ing victories in recent elections, in
cluding the Airway Electric, Peters
Stamping, Commercial Metals.
American Brake Shoe, Toledo In
dustrial Rubber, and the latest
landslide which resulted in a 9 to
1 victory for Local 12 at the
Swartzbaugh Manufacturing Co.
President Murphy expressed his
complete confidence in the outcome
of the Toledo Scale Co. election.
He said, “The election can’t come
too soon to suit me We are
healthy at the Toledo Scale, and
the workers out there really know
what the score is.”
Murray Cails lor
Defeat of Filibuster
WASHINGTON—(FP) Nov. 25
—Philip Murray, CIO president,
last week sent a strong letter of
protest to senators conducting a
filibuster against the Pepper-Geyer
anti-poll tax bill.
In his letter to the senators
fighting against the bill, Murray
said, “The nation today stands
enraged at the tactics of the
small bloc in the Senate which is
seeking to frustrate majority rule
in this nation.”
Senatoj* Richard Russell (D.,
Ga.) Nov. 17, working to kill the
“Tar.'Lroll tax b:’.’.. debated for hours
ck alemi •**,**^*^*w mad*’
E -ei of the previous May. It was
.-^oi.ceded that the correcttoi^' as
Jfc-eil as 10 other ^rrections he
make were
commas and
«Mch L'd beet, omitted.
ot^«r Senate time
K? Bwho does a clever job of
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IdU the anti-poll tax leg
fFenator Harry F. Byrd
Senator Byrd has been
giving interviews accusing
Hex*ouuent of manpower
Murray in his letter, *A
A failuie to defeat their tactics (sen
atom conducting the filibuster),
will constitute a failure to support
the heroic forward movement of
our armed forces in Africa and
Other parts of the world today.”
Both the AFL and Railway
Brotherhoods are supporting the
I’epper-Geyer bill.
Employment
Surveys To Be
Studied
Employment surveys conducted
every 60 days by the 1500 U. S.
employment offices scattered
throughout .the country, will be
carefully studied when they are
next compiled by the government,
because of the expressed desire of
some governmental authorities to
freeze labor.
Locally, the U. S. employment
office tinder Edward J. Bodette
reports that skilled labor, profes
sional and technical of both sexes
is extremely difficult to secure.
Moreover, the efforts of the em
ployment office to get mep to
change from non-essential to es
sential work is dependent upon the
willingness of those asked to make
a change to co-operate.
Information contained in the
work questionnaires sent draft reg
istrants, is the basis for asking men
not drafted into the Army to accept
esential war work for other work
deemed less important. However,
since the matter is one for the per
son asked to accept or reject, the
transfer of jobs is not always ac
complished.
Male help, according to Mr. Bo
dette, is “drying up,” but he would
not say that the condition was criti
cal because in a very short time
the 60-day survey of employment
will have been completed and his
statement might not then be ac
curate.
Accoring to Mr. Bodette, local
schools now have 517 people in
training for skilled jobs and are
supplying hundreds of skilled ma
chine workers to Toledo war in
dustries. These students who are
“machine minded” readily fit into
the shops where they are employed.
Local 12’s employment office re
port confirms the U. S. employment
office opinion relative to the em
ployment situation in Toledo, that
there is a great demand for skilled
people, but that the over-all em
ployment picture so far as unskilled
help is concerned, is brighter.
Walter Murphy, president of
Local 12, commenting upon the
employment conditions, expressed
doubt if freezing labor would aid
in increasing the number of skilled! routed the Jap fleet from the Guad
people needed by the war indus-|
tries. “It seems to me that if men
are hard to get for skilled jobs
that a general freezing o* men to
their jobs would accomplish noth
ing constructive.”
At its national convention re
cently ended in Boston, the CIO
xw at on Yeeor against ahy frees-
WASHING tVN-Nov. 25, (FP)
New streamlined procedures which
will save roughly 50 per cent of
the board’s time, has been put into
effect by the National Labor Rela
tions Board.
If the board agrees with a trial
examiners report, it will issue and
attach the report, with any excep
tions it makes, rather than rewrit
ing the whole report
The NLRB is hearing more cases
than previously 1,114 unfair
practice cases and 1,560 represen
tation cases having been filed in
the last three months. Unions are
organizing, particularly in the
south, it was explained.
A Good Workman Has Good Tools
and Safety Equipment
See Us For Goggles—
Protective Clothing—Respirators
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“Caa’C 1 just sniff around a Hitler*
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Pacific Sea Victories Prove U. S. Naval
Strength Is Growing as Japs’ Declines
Russ Smash Nazi Threat to Caucasus
MacArthur Traps Japs in New Guinea
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columas, Our
Wesktu Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily »r
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The North African coast was the end of the first lap of their journey to
Berlin for thousands of U. S. soldiers who participated in the successful in
vasion of French North Africa. Ihe above photograph, one of the first pic
tures passed by the war department, shows a detachment of U. S. troops
landing at a picturesque Algerian
SOLOMONS:
Smashing U. S. Victv.
Americans had scarcely received
the news of the bnlhant naval vic
tory in the Solomons which drove
the Japs back reeling with 23 ships
sunk and 30,000 sailors and soldiers
drowned, when additional reports
were forthcoming on the sinking of
five enemy warships. The second
action as the concluding part of a
great Uiree-day engagement which
alcanal area.
Shrewd and resourceful Vice Ad
miral William F. Halsey, command
er of the American forces, emerged
from the battle as one of the out
standing heroes of the war, for it
was his audacity and pluck in the
face of superior Japanese forces
that won a smashing three-day vic
tory.
Jap ship losses in the slugging
encounter included one battleship,
three heavy cruisers, two light cruis
ers, five destroyers and eight troop
laden transports sunk four cargo
transports destroyed on the beach
near Guadalcanal, and one battle
ship and six destroyers damaged.
Enemy losses in the second engage
ment were one battleship, three
larga cruisers and one destroyer
Sunk.
Naval officials said thero was
“good reason to believe” that the
sinkings reported in second engage
ment were in addition to those pre
viously recorded.
American losses were two light
Cruisers and six destroyers sunk.
The major part of the sea action
was fought directly off Guadalcanal
island, which the Japs approached
with three strong fleet task forces
intent on effecting a landing that
would dislodge the heroic American
defenders. One of the decisive ele
ments in the battle was the daring
of American surface units in steam
ing directly between the lines of the
Jap columns, firing broadsides in
both directions. In this phase Rear
Adm. Daniel J. Callaghan, former
naval aide of President Roosevelt,
was killed in action.
While the navy rejoiced in its tri
umph, it accoided full credit to Gen
eral MacArthur’s aircraft which had
originally spotted the Jap concen
trations and made repeated bomb
ing attacks on the eneuy shipping.
NEW GUINEA:
Jap Dunkirk?
Steadily the jaws of the Austral
ian-American trap had closed on
the strategic Jap4ield port of Buna
in New Guinea.
Significant of the Importance of
the New Guinea drive to dislodge
the Japs was the presence in the
field of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
While his land forces converged on
the enemy positions, MacArthur’s
bombers had fanned out for wide
spread aerial activities. On their
calling list besides Buna were ene
my installations at Lae and Sala
maus.
The critical plight of the Jap gar
rison at Buna was emphasized by
the arrive! of eight enemy warships
in the vicinity. In a grim game of
hide-and-seek that ensued between
American Flying Fortresses and the
Jap vessels, one enemy cruiser and
a destroyer were sunk and another
destroyer damaged before the flo
tilla fled. Observers were of the
opmion that the Jap warships might
have been preparing to evacuate the
Jap defenders of Buna.
18-19-YEAR DRAFT:
High Schoolers Deferred
President Roosevelt set aside
three weeks beginning December 11
for registration of youths who have
reached or will reach their 18th
birthdays since June 30. The Prcsi.
dent’s order likewise provided con
tinuous registration on their birth
days of youths who become IS on or
after next January 1.
A presidential proclamation hiilecl
the new registration as "advisable to
inaura victory.”
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Mediterranean Tillage west of Oran.
RUSSIAN FRONT:
Reds Show Mettle
The Nazi threat to the Caucasus
mountain passes and the Grozny oil
fields was lifted when the Russians
staged a fierce counter attack in the
Ordzhonikidze area which resulted
in the annihilation of 5.000 German
troops and the capture of 140 Ger
man tanks, 70 field guns, 2,350 army
trucks and 1,000,000 founds of am
munition.
The furious nature of the Red as
sault and the fact that the Russ
forces were fully equipped with
planes, tanks and other mechanized
equipment indicated that this en
gagement might be the signal for a
far-flung counter-offensive all along
the Soviet front.
At the other end of the Caucasus
front German attempts to break
through the Soviet lines near Tuapse
were repeatedly beaten back. Mean
while reports said winter was clos
ing down rapidly over the entire
Russian front.
As it had for weeks past, the Nazi
front at Stalingrad remained at a
stalemate, With German attacks
beaten off by the stout-hearted Rus
sian defenders. The industrial city’s
factory area was the principal tar
get of the Nazis* effort to gain a
firm foothold in this strategic Volga
metropolis.
NORTH AFRICA:
3-Pronged Pincer
What was left of the tottering Axis
empire in North Africa had drawn
closer around Tripoli, as Allied
forces menaced it from the east, the
west and south, while the Mediterra
nean on the north had fast become
a lake dominated by United Nations
air and sea power.
From the east, Gen. Montgom
ery’s Eighth British army had swept
through Libya in pursuit of Mar
shal Rommel’s battered Afrika
Korps. From the west American
and British forces had poured into
Tunisia, aided by units of Gen, Gi
raud’s French North African army.
From the South it was reported
that 10,000 of the fighting French
army, mechanized with American
equipment, had struck northward
from Lake Chad in French West
Africa.
Goal of the Anglo-British armies
from the west had been strategic
Bizerte in Tunisia sea-coast "spring
board” to southern Italy. British
paratroops flown in American planes
had captured airfields deep in Tu
nisia, reports disclosed. The Mo
rocco raid described these para
troop operations as the largest ever
carried out by air-borne troops.
FRANCE:
Laval Mask Off
Pierre Laval could now write his
own ticket. Observers believed that
ticket would be filled out with or
ders for greater French collabora
tion with the Axis. For when dod
dering Marshal Petain invested La
val with dictatorial power giving
him the right “on his simple sig
nature alone to make laws” the im
mediate fate of continental France
was in pro-Berlln hands.
Petain’s decree simply gave offl
cial sanction to what had been an
unofficial fact for months. Every,
body in and out of Europe knew La
val had been the real boss of the
Vichy regime and Petain the figure- i
bead. Now Laval could emerge in
his true role.
Across the Mediterranean in Al
geria, Admiral Jean Darlan contin
ued as the titular head of French
North Africa. But no longer had he
Vichy's blessing and no longer was
he heir-presumptive to Petain’s post.
Achieving the doubtful distinction of
International Turncoat No. 1, Dar
lan had dexterously cast his lot with
the Allies, following the successful
American invasion. Previously he
had been notoriously pro-Axig. His
elevation to second in command to
retain had been a reward for his
Axis leanings after the 1940 French
Collapse. *,
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War9s ‘Turning Point9
American victories in the Solo
mons and in North Africa might well
be hailed as an apparent turning
point in the war, President Roose
velt declared. But, he warned the
American people, there is time only
for working and fighting, none for
exaltation.
The President coupled his analy
sis of recent military events with
rebuke to critics of the govern
ment’s war and international poli
os/who speak "either out of ig
apraiSce or out of political bias.”
^Declaring that he had made a
cijnsfent effort to keep politics out
o£the fighting of the war, Mr. Roose
velt jilty, however, to hav
rtg permitted pressure to disclose
the sinking of'an American aircraft
camv 10 days before the Novem
ber ete'tions. He said he had real
ized that “if-the news of the sink
ing "had beWi given out two or three
weeks later, would be publicly
char^e4- Ofidit tni^ news had been
suppre*' ed byt' pic until after the
election. ’MThe res uh was that vig
orous protests'had coi-.e from com
manding admirals, th tb» Southwest
Pacific and at pegfrl ,h»rbor that
military information was wing giv
en to the Japs, because the prob-&
ably had no sure l^wJedgfith$
sinking. j1’
GAS RATION:
Curtailed in East
Demands for petroleum products'
by the American Expeuitiunary
forces in North Africa far in xc. is.
of original estimates resulted ii'^i
curtailment of 25 per cent in the gass.
oline of motorists in the Eastern
states. The OPA order did not af
fect the Middle West, where ration
ing had been scheduled for Decem
ber 1.
Motorists traveling in the East
from other states, however, would
have to comply with the new rations
which gave three gallons of gaso
line for “A” coupons, instead of
four.
Officials said the East Coast cur
tailment would result in saving
about 20,000 barrels of gasoline a
day.
‘FREE RUMANIA’:
Fund Grab Foiled
How a plot to spirit exiled King
Carol of Rumania into the United
States from Mexico and establish a
“Free Rumanian” movement in this
country was foiled, was disclosed
with the indictment in Detroit of
three leaders in the cabal. At stake
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.he a cd $30^(10,000.
martian funds now in custody of the
U. S. treasury.
The indictments charged violation
of the Foreign Agents Registration
and Espionage Acts. The defend
ants were Glicherie Moraru, self
styled leader of the movement, Ste
fan Opreanu and George Zanfer.
SEA SAGA:
Boise Story Told
Given up for lost In the battle, the
undaunted Boise later joined its
companion ships after receiving
shell hits in vulnerable places. In
the engagement, the Boise fired
more than 1.000 rounds of six-uxch
shells in 27 minutes.
MISCELLANY
WASHINGTON: In a move to
speed shipments of important war
materials through Mexico, the Unit
ed States has agreed to finance re
habilitation of key lines of the Mexi
can National railways, it was an
nounced here. The U. S. govern
ment has agreed to bear the cost of
ad necessary materials and equip
ment as well as repair costs and
the expense of maintenance
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Units Pledge
I Their Support
Riphard Lazette, CIO War Chest
defector reports that Toledo Locals
and Units are making a greater
contrhution this year than ever
before to'the common fund, which
is previous years was under the
^olfedo Community Chest.
“While tb^'results are not com
plete’, said Another Lazette, “the
information,* I now Lave indicates
that all' plants are 'going to come
through with clos’ to 100 per cent
participation”, fie ?omted out that
there are a lew CIO groups yet to
be heard from but ixpreMed his
belief that all wquld-.doi^te^to the
War Chest. ’5 /L
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Aid To Russia
By JOHN DUN
federated Press 1
A demand that the U. S. Leefl
its promise of ample arms Ship
ments to the Soviet Union was
voiced by President William Green,
of the AFL, and President R. J.
Thomas of the United Auto Work
ers, CIO, before 22,000 persons at
a mass rally of the Americart
Soviet Friendship Congress in New
York City on Nov. 8.
In proposing an international
labor conference, Thomas asserted,
“The millions of workers of the
United Nations, through their or
ganizations, can be a mighty force
for total war and for the building
of a just peace. We feel there
should be convoked, as soon as pos
sible, a conference of the spokes
men of these movements, an all in
clusive international congress of
labor which will give leadership
and sticking power to our war
effort.”
Richards Flowers
3378 Cherry Street i
Opposite Flower Hospital
(GArfield 8761 Toledo, Ohfo|
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battle
Triumphant survivor of
in which she helped sink
warships off Guadalcanal
October, the heroic light cruiser
Boise was undergoing repairs at an
eastern American shipyard, after
being battered by gunfire, swept by
flames aud losing 107 of her «sew in
action.
six Jap
in early
That the Boise would be refitted in
time to steam off to war again was
emphasized by her commander,
Capt. E. J. ("Mike”) Moran, and
navy officials. The Boise was lead
ship of an American naval task
force that engaged a Jap cruiser
transport force bearing troops for
the Southeastern Solomons and bore
the brunt of the fighting in which
the enemy lost two heavy cruisers,
one light cruiser and three destroy
ers.
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To Work Well
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i’arl of the gay crowd that make merry at the I AW Hall on
our staff photographer. And that isn’t Daisy Mae Mae in front.
CIO Aids
War Chest
DuPont Enters
The Fold
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Latest acquisition to Local 12 s
growjpg list of affiliates are the
employes of the Gresseli Chemical
Department of E..J. duPont deNem
ours & Co., who recently joined tire
UAW-CIO following several meet
ings called by Harold Deah, Local
12 organizer.
With the new duPont Unit near
ly 100 per cent organized, the com
pany has been notified of the
union’s desire to negotiate a work
ing agreement covering wages,
hours, seniority, grievance proced
ure and other clauses contained in
the Local 12 contract.
The duPont Co, is engaged in
war production manufacturing
chemicals for the government.
Under the War Chest, the CIO
has its own member who is in
charge of the collection from the
various plants throughout the city.
-This is the first time that the
organization has secured recogni
tion as such in any local drive, and
the ■•results obtained have shown
considerable improvement over
past *ars.
-TheAViest drive ended Wednes
day everting,.with a Victory dinner
in' the /Commodore Perry Hotel
for Jill those actively engaged in
the^orte'..
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Halloween was snapped by Bill Close,
Auto-Lite
Party
Auto-Lite Unit sponsored one
its most successful Halloween
dances and parties at the CIO hall,
Saturday, Oct. 31.
’^ISett^iMthan average costumes,
worn by befte-than-average-look
ing young ladiw^’tAriiflitened the
occasion, while some ‘really droll
tramps and spooks danced arounj
with make-believe Daisy
Tillie the Toilers*.
Dancing, refreshments anc
music furnished by Harold Bl
and his “600” orchestra gave/^^^
more than 1000 who attended tne
party full evening’s entertain
ment.
John Begg, chairman of the Auto
Lite Unit entertainment committee,
presented many prizes to those who
wore outstanding costumes. The
door prize, a $25 war bond, was
won by A. Paprocki.
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