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Vol. 1, No. 1
Burke Chosen
For Council
Named bf CJ^
Politica^^Lroaib
Tom l^frke, financial secy.
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was the unanimous
:,py of the CIO Political Activi
ommittee for the seat vacated
former Mayor John Q. Carey,
mecting^of Thursday, Nov.
19.
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Burke was selected after discus
sion among the political group,
which decided that the thousands
of workers of Toledo were entitled
to representaation on the Council.
After naming Burke, the com
mittee voted to write Council a let
ter urging his appointment for Mr.
Carey’s place, and to attach to it
a petition bearing as many names
as wei*e secured before the Council
meet i i
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"TO -REPRESENT FAC
Floience Wolfe, secretary for the
Political Activities Committee was
named to represent the group at
the state CIO convention to be
held in Columbus, Nov. 28 to Nov.
30. A request will be made the
convention to give Mrs. Wolfe the
floor at the meeting in order that
phe may explain the activities of
the political committee and urge
the state CIO to set up a similar
group on a state-wide basis.
Thirty-five members of the polit
ical committee attended the meet
ing at the UAW Hall, and made
plans fcr future activities. Tenta
tive plans for a dance were drawn
up.
The poliical group will meet the
first Thursay of each month at the
UAW Hall, 425/Winthron St.
Local 12
Armistics Dai
Local
In the Afrmisticr .iay Jpwade,
Wednesday^ Nqv.
While chili
sands of peoplf lifted the curbs
along the entile luAci.f march to
see other thpusJMio^.rosily in uni
form, pa jade for m^te than two
hours in the’ greatest patriotic out
pouring that Tqle^, ^3 witnessed
in many yearsfr
Many Lo a t»/ Wre spaced
throughout the pt-rade. and Local
12’s entrjy bfougU words of praise
and admiration tx those lining the
parade route. spectators
judged it one of the best in line.
Officers and members of Local
12 marcbed before the float down
Madison Ave. cb Superior Street
and back to 14th where
they fell'” *nd tan, not walked,
t6 taurant for a
steamir’- hot coffee.
Melyttf. ’S’tltz, “record big secre
tary tf asoJt 12 was we/11 pleased
with Ji'1 -made by the or
.gan^e an‘! Mi”- Vwtw of/ the eold
weat’ re,'l*R the large/ number of
Locr ‘^In emplo/ ed
’lviion and Ck,.jr piajnts.
around, we v|.__/
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on night
ossession of a TCHCI
Ipbruary, 1938.
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lai Union C’8el’» regional
fbentral ant^ Walter
3ns in the 4si,lcnt of Local 12 at‘
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1 was held in Boston,
A 1 As time W*’r4',gh Nov. 16.
interest in aiw» o.ger returned to To
membi tbjday, Nov. 11 because
direc-
J^fedutlea requiring his
|resident Walter Mur
to remain until the
v. ek.
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What Ar4 Wef:BA'
Fighting For7%^
BOSTON NovU’U, (FP)
The story belongs John Huse
mann. The word* »r those of CIO
President Philip Murray:
“John Husernaton was the presi
dent of mln-* wefkers union of
G^rihan^ ffl’ decided that his
gBeat’dtj’mrsirafcic union could learn
fronv the great American democ
great unions. So he
cgjftt country.”
h® returned to Germany
fea.xepoA he found a new regime
in powor. A man named Hitler
Wr its head. Homes were being
iralded. Men and women were be
ing killed. John ^iusemann went
before his great union and pro
tested the tyranny and
sion he saw.”
“That night, he went
his wife and six children.
A. M. the Nazi’s came to his home.
They took John Husemann away.
They took him to a concentration
camp and told him that there he
would live and die. In desperation,
he sought to escape. And he was
killed. His body was riddled with
bullets and he was dead.”
“Two weeks later, John Huse
mann’s union was killed. Its body
was riddled with bullets and it was
dead. All unions in Germany—
and in the countries of Europe
which Hitler has touched—have
been riddled with bullets, and are
dead.”
“Ponder this a moment—if you
wonder what this war is about—
if you are wondering what we are
fighting for. I take it that you
are living for the right to live.
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home to
At 1:00
For, if we do not fight and win,
our bodies will be riddled with
bullets, and we too will be dead.”
There is more to this story.
After Murray had told it Nov. 9
to the CIO convention, Sec.-Treas.
George Addes of the UAW went
up and whispered in Murray’s ear.
Mur •ay nodded and then he said:
“I have just been informed that
John Husemann’s son is a mem
ber pf the UAW and was employed
in making tanks to destroy fas
cism. He has been denied a place
in wai* production—deprived of
work as an enemy alien.”
The convention immediately
'called upon the State Department
to allow Walter Husemq|±^,**fcduX.
John Husemann—of Hitler
—to return to work, tanks.
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Toledo Has
Large Delegation
Despite the war, transportation slowdowns and the loss
162 UMW locals, the attendance at this year’s state CIO
of
convention, which opens today in Columbus, will be about the
same as at Youngstown last year.
A possible 1544 votes will be cast
at the convention.
Jack Kroll, president of the state
CIO, will preside at the meeting.
Columbus is host to the .state
convention due to a switch because
Toledo, which was slated to have
it, could not supply sufficient hotel
facilities due to the Army Air
Corps taking over many of the
local hotel rooms. Officials who
will speak at the state convention
w’ill include James B. Carey, na
tional secretary-treasurer Allan
S. Baywood, national CIO vice
president, and John Brophy, na
tional director of Industrial Union
Councils.
Featured speaker of the conven
tion will be Ernesto Galarza, a
Mexican Indian, now chief of the
Division of Labor and Social In
formation of the Pan-American
Union. He will describe the or
ganized labor movement and Trade
Union of Central and South Amer
ica.
Ted Silvey, secretary of the Ohio
Industrial Council, in charge of
convention arrangements, discuss
ing the convention call, said, “Our
convention will be concerned with
the whole vctory effort—winning
the war and winning the peace and
a better world by the way we win
the war.”
Toledo’s delegation, headed by
Regional Director Richard Gosser
and officers of Local 12, Walter
Murphy, Melvin Schultz, William
Myers, Thomas Burke and others,
are attending the meeting.
Don Parson, who works n^'
the Willys-Overland, contri
butes a bit of poetry to
brighten up the editorial
page. Read it,„ It contains
several thoughts that are ap
propriate for the times in
which we are living. The
Bard of Flatrock is so-called
bpcauRR he was born on the
in Paulding
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Opens In Columbus
TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL
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UAW Protests
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FLINT, Mich.—(FP)—Nov,
—Local 599, UAW-CIO, has pro
tested to WPB Director Donald M.
Nelson against the proposal of his
Newspaper Advisory Committee
for a 10 per cent horizontal cut in
newsprint consumption.
Declaring that “the labor press
is the only means we have of get
ting the truth in regard to labor,”
the auto local said the proposed
cut “will practically eliminate the
labor press.”
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Your Paper
After muny months of hoping, planning and careful
pr«aratHH»r tht TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL makes its
rnpry into a strife-torn world.
Lf- Wr-years, your officers and many of the members
have recognized the value of possessing their
thln^wW'spaper but circumstances, first of poverty, and
of necessary building expansion to meet the needs
W a rapidly growing membership, prevented its realization
til .tow.
Your officers and the staff of your newspaper are
aware of their responsibility to the members of Local 12,
as well'Yo to the public, for the labor press does have
Zesponsibilties which are no less a public trust than those
of general newspapers.
In these days of one newspaper towns, the very nature
of the monopoly tends to create a lack of trust on the part
of the public, which all newspapers are coming to realize
and which many of them are seeking to remedy.
Circulation alone cannot be the basis for judging the
public’s confidence in it’s newspapers, for the public either
buys the home-tow» newspaper, or does without local and
general news entirely, a circumstance which is rare in
these days of international warfare when war news is
go eagerly read.
This distrust and lack1, of confidence in the press, is
particularly true on the part of organized labor, for it is
the frequent object of the subtle enmity of ‘‘between
election” polls, conducted by Dr. Gallup, and the malicious
and incessant fault-finding of Westbrook Pegler.
Labor’s lack of confidence in the press is not alone
because of newspapers sins of commission but by their sins
of omission as well. Unions have been ignored in large
numbers by the press, except on those occasions when
circumstances have forced them to man the picket,Jines,
or otherwise create unfavorable public recognition.
While the press has loudly proclamed its devotion to
its own freedom, and has campaigned in its news and edi
torial columns for the freedom of the press, it has, for the
most part failed to take the same crusading attitude with
respect to the other freedoms.
Labor no longer suffers utrder a persecution complex:
but it does feel that it has not been fairly treated by the
press and has been the object of subtle, and sometimes not
so subtle ridicule and enmity. And it is because of this
obvious attitude on the part of a considerable section of
the press that labor has, to an ever-increasing extent
created its own press to tell its own news to its own people
and defend itself against unfair attacks.
Your paper, the TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL, today
takes its place among a growing family of labor news
papers, to devote itself with sincerity and honesty to all
the things in which labor is interested, regardless what
the nature of its interest may be.
Since practically all phases of our industrial, political
and social life vitally effect labor, we shall deal with all
the many-sided aspects of every-day life, telling the news
about these things, expressing our opinions fearlessly, and
fight to preserve and extend the gains which we have so
painfully accumulated over the past nine years.
We pledge to treat all questions effecting labor
management relations fairly and squarely, at the same
time reserving the light to criticize whatever needs
criticism.
We shall tell our members and readers the political
facts as we see them, without favoritism, interpreting
political situations and individuals in our editorial columns
rather than coloring our news.
W'e shall aid every worthy cause which will benefit
our community, our state or our nation, whether it be the
War Chest, the Red Cross,, scrap drives or any other
activity which merits our support.
Finally, we shall at all times welcome constructive
criticism and suggestions from our members and readers.
We desire the paper to be informative and interesting,
but most of all, we seek to aid in the growth of the serrti
ments of Unity, Fraternity, and Solidarity to which this
paper shall henceforth devote itself. ________________
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legion Director
Richard Gosser was elected re
gional director at the National
H’AW convention in Chicago Aug.
7. Since coming to office three
months ago, four plant elections:
have en won, and the UAW
con-idera^lj aUeagtAcnsd in LhA
region.
NLRB 0 dors
Toledo
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Walter Murphy, President of
Local 12, UAW-CIO was notified
several days ago by the NLRB
that an election would be held,
“as soon as possible, and not later
than 30 days’ ’among employes of
Plants 1 and 2, of the Toledo Scale
Co.
There will be a separate election
conducted among employes in the
polishing and plating department
of both plants, to determine if they
will be represented by Local 12,
UAW-CIO, or Local 2 AFL.
Principle interest centers on the
poll which will be conducted among
hourly and piece-work employes
who are employed during the pay
roll period immediately preceding
the date of the election. A third
square will be provided on the
ballot for anyone who desires
neither organization.
Supervisory employes, plant pro
tection workers, time-study men,
personnel department and eonfi
dential employes will be excluded
from the election, as well as
timekeepers, employes in the pol
ishing and plating departments
and those who have since quit or
been “discharged for cause,” ac
cording to the NLRB order.
Participating in the vote will be
Local 12, UAW-CIO, the MESA
and the “company union” known
as The Scale Workers of Ohio,
Inc,
In the hearing before the NLRB
representative, the company union
was unable to produce evidence of
its membership, but sought to use
its contract with the company as
its right to be represented.
According to the findings of the
NLRB, the UAW-CIO Local pre
sented three times more member
ship in the plant than the MESA
was able to show, and actually had
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National War
Labor Board
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PAPER
UiUen Trade Paper*
To Be Published
Once A Week
ith this issue, America’s latest labor newspaper, th®
TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL makes its initial appearance
before the workers of Toledo.
Conceived long ago in the minds of Richard Gosser,
UAW-CIO regional director,,and the officers and members
of the executive board of’
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Hold Ell^r
To Be Held
In 30 Days
of
Because of three stoppages
work since Pearl Harbor, the Na
tional War Labor Board on No
vember 3 denied the request of
the United Mine Workers, CIO,
for a union security provision in
their contract with the General
Chemical Company, Cleveland.
The Board’s decision contains
the provision, however, that four
months after September 25, 1942,
cither party may petition the
Roa rd for supplementary order
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Toledo, OMoi
Local 12, the new paper has
received the congratulations
of leading citizens of Toledo.
Opinion among community lead
ers in all walks of life seems unan
imous that the new paper will play
an important part in the lives of
the 26,500 members of Local 12. as
well as in the community-at-large.
Regional Director Gosser, com
menting upon the paper’s program,
said, “Civilian living, complex in
normal times, becomes doubly so in
time of war. With rationing, the
ar Labor Board, the National
Labor Relations Board and other
governmental agencies handing
down rulings, as well as housing
difficulties, shop problems, taxa
tion and a hundred other problem*
constantly facing our workers, W4
need a paper to aid them.”
Comprising the staff of the new
paper are Melvin Schultz, record
ing secretary of Local 12, editor
•0. J. Pecord, member of the Wil
lys-Overland Unit, executive edi
tor William Close and Louis Ki
kolski, ataff photographers, and
Phil Sutter of the Willys-Overland
Unit, staff artist.
Associate editors are Louis Vat
tox of the Acklin Unit, Keith
Welch of Spicer, William B. Duck
of the Auto-Lite, Anthony CBud)
Pacholski, editor of the Wijlys
“Eagle, and
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I’toons, pictures bot’^I',
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Circulation for
weeks will be through
committees and afte fib:
mailed to the subscribers A
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reach them every Friday.,
Tank Depot V**’*
Awaits NLRB
Richard Gosser, Regional Direct
or, UAW-CIO, announced yester
day that Harold Dean, Local 12 or
ganizer, had succeeded in organic
ing a majority of the employes of
the Tank Depot Division of the
Electric Auto-Lite Co., and that
petition for a hearing had beenj
filed with the NLRB.
fc Director Gosser said he expected
a reply from the NLRB within a
few day s and expressed the belief
that the board would be able tc
discover that the UAW has a sub
stantial majority of the Tank Depot
employes signed up.
It was pointed out by Director
Gosser that many of the employe
who have joined the UAW Hve in
small towns and districts in the
Toledo area where there are no
unions, and he hailed the movement
to organize thes workers as a fore
runner in worthwhile organization
al strides in small surrounding
communities.
How To Kill An
Organization
1. Don’t «ome., A
2. If yoh do come,
latst
S. Hold hack your dues or
don’t pay them at all.
4. Mper ask a friend CM
low-worker) to join.
5. Don’t have anything to
say when you are called upon.
8. If too wet or too dry or
too hot or too cold, don't thir.V
of coming.
7. If you do attend a meet.
Ing, find fault with the pro
ceedings and the wuck 4°^°
by the members.
8. Kick if you are net ap
pointed to a committee, and if
you are appointed, never at
tend a committee meeting.
9. Don't do anything more
than jou can possibly help
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Moose News.