Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08
WiIIys Seeing Eye

ar Chest has done under the able
Edance of Richard Lazette, who
- from the Overland? This War
Chest was formerly known as the
Community Chest, and you had to
have an awful drag to receive any
assistance. But that is all changed
now under the CIO banner. A great
many people in Toledo have been
helped in medical way, food has
been bought, homes made livable
and people have been helped in a
good many other ways. Beginning
Oct. "a to Nov. 10, the annual col
lection for this organization will be
taken up in th2 Willys-Overland
under the guidance of Howard Re-
tiger. chief steward of the engi-
neering division; Mike Burke of the
plant protection, over whom will be
Claude Hess as director. At the last
CIO convention they voted to ask
every member to donate one hour
of your pay per month, but If you
feel you cannot donate that much,
give as much as you can for this
worthy cause. We can say 1T is a
worthy cause now with an open
mind, and we are asking you to
please help those who need it on
both sides of the Atlantic ocean
Pledge cards will be passed out in
every department to all members
and you will be able to sign up any
amount you want to give, or II 1t is
cash, that will be taken and you
will receive a receipt for same.
We wonder if the bosses who
work under Emil Schnell are slip
ping or have their inventive brains
gone to sleep? The reason we ask
this question is, have you been
through the entire forge shop late
ly? If so, we know what you would
Say about the floors. In Dept. 662,
Aluminium forge, the floor looks
like a pig sty. Yes, Joe, you are one
Of the bosses referred to. You may
keep your office clean, but do you
ever think of the man who work
for YOU who have to walk in that
slime? In the other part of the
forge shop, the dirt on the floor IS
about / u inches thick and packed
,laa1 hard as cement road. Emil,
NY don't you ask inventive Joe 20
u. BIKE a blade like a road scraper
and bolt it to one of your new lift
trucks and scrape the floors, seeing
that you are short of sweepers? :?
This is only suggestion for Josie
to cuddle his brain with.
We hear that Bob Roberts of
truck garage, and who is the sec
ond shift foreman, has been taking
correspondence course in sleuth-
ing for some time back, and to
earn the name of Dick Tracy has
been practicing it around the fac
tory by watching his drivers all
over the plant. We would like TO
suggest that he solve the murder
of Miss Pruneface, and that will
use up all his energies. If you do
that, Bob, you will not have time
to hang around outside after your
shift goes home.
We would like at this time to
thank the many sisters who have
been members of our union for six
months or more, for the interest
they have taken in it and also for
learning the contract and how to
interpret each paragraph. Yes, sis
ters, we really mean it; you have
done a fine job and please keep it
up and help us educate those who
only joined the union so they could
work in Overland This may be a
bold statement, but there is more
truth than poetry in it.
Brothers and sisters, we hope by
this time you have registered and
are ready to vote for our candi-
dates for City Council, Nov. 2. Next
year you will all be set to vote for
U. S. Senators and Congressman
who favor labor, and not the Unit
ed States Chamber of Commerce
and the National Association of
Manufacturers, who are the natural
enemies of organized labor. Re-
member, everyone who votes is one
more nail in their coffin and, be-
lieve it or not, we could win every
election if every man and woman
who works would vote. Remember,
if you work, vote for Burke.
Brothers and sisters, here is a
good chance to win a $25 war bond
or SO in war stamps All you have
to do is to write an article on what
you know about cooperatives and
mail it to Claude Hess, Executive
Committee. Why? Because we
think if we had cooperative store
connected with Local II you could
buy all the necessities of life much
cheaper than you can buy them
from the stores you patronize now.
1t would cut out the middle mans
profit. All articles must be type
written and received no later than
Dec. |, 1943. Also the best two ar
ticles will be printed in this paper.
We would like to compliment the
Plant Protection for being so alert
and courteous. Keep it up, brothers.
You are doing fine job. The rea-
son for this compliment is, a short
time ago brother had his tool box
broken open and number of his
tools stolen, and whoever did it, if
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