Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-11-27
JAW PRESENTS NEW PAPER
Your Pdper

prdsasaaien, the TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL makes its
cntfsfHnt6sa strife torn world.
For years, your officers and many of the members
os Q12 have recognized the value Of possessing their
hn Newspaper but circumstances, first of poverty and
Of necessary building expansion to meet the needs
a. arapidy growing membership, prevented its realization
Nftil now.
Your officers and the staff of your newspaper
awart of their responsibility to the members of Local H.
we'll to the public, for the labor press does have
responsibilities which less public trust than those
of general newspapers.
In these days of newspaper towns the very nature
of the monopoly tends to create lack of trust the part
of the public which all newspapers coming to realize
and which many y,Of them seeking to remedy.
Circulation alone cannot be the basis for judging the
pubcs confidence in it's newspapers for the public either
buys the hometown newspaper, does without local and
general news entirely circumstance which is rare in
these days of international warfare when the
eagerly read.
This dstrust and lack of confidence in the press is
particularly true the part Of organized labor for it is
the frequent object of the subtle enmy of between
election polls conducted by DR.. Gallup, and the malicious
and ncessant lt-finding of Westbsook Pegler.
Labors lack of confidence in the press is not alone
because newspapers of commissions but by their sins
of omission well. Unions have been ignored in large
numbers by the press except those occasions when
circumstances have forced them to the picket lines
otherwise create unfavorable public recognition
While the press has loudly proclaimed its devotion to
its freedom and has campagned In It's news ad ed
toria columns the freedom of the it has, for the
most part failed to take the crusadng attitude with
respect to the other freedoms
Labor no longer suffers under 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
subtle ridcue and enmty And it is because OF TINS
obvious attitude the part of considerable section oil
the press that labor has, to everincreasng extent
created its press to tell its own news to It's own people
and defend itself against unfair attacks
Your paper, the TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL, today
takes its place among growing family of labor news
papers, 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 poltlca
and social life vitay effect labor we shall deal with all
the manysided aspects of everyday fe telling the news
about these things expressing opinions earessy and
fight preserve and extend the gains which we nave SO
painfully accumulated over the past nine years
We pledge to treat all questions effecting labor
management relations fairly and squarey, at the same
time reservng the right to criticize whatever needs
criticism
We shall tell members and readers the pohucai
facts as we see them, without favortsm, interpreting
political situations and individuals in our editorial coums
rather than colorng news. 80
We shall aid every worthy cause which VIII DeheIlt
community, state nation whether IL De the
War Chest, the Red Cross, scrap drives or any oher
activity which merits our support.
Finally we shall at all times welcome constructive
criticism and suggestions from members ana
We desire the paper to be informative and interesting
but most of ALL seek to aid in the growth Oh tne
ments of Unity Fraternity, and Solidarity to Whlch thls
paper shall hencefOrth devote itself.