Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-25

Strong for Toledo" before the
convention and even delighting AL
bert. King of the Belgiums, with
their harmonizing?
"We're strong for Toledo" ranked
next to the "Star Spangled Ban
ner" in its patriotic appeal for To-
ledoans. although so far as | know
it was not sung by labor organiza-
tions, unless perchance the AFL
was moulded along the lines of the
other mutual admiration societies
sometimes known as LUNCHEON
CLUBS, and sometimes known as
Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions or name
your animal.
WE'RE STRONG, TOO
Now, I'm not advocating that
the workers of Toledo forsake their
work benches and machines to
gather in WHY'S or some other
park and lift their voices in the
tuneful and lifting melodies of the
civic anthem, but | am suggesting.
more than suggesting, claiming,
that Toledo workers are even
stronger for Toledo than some of
our so-called better people, who
are even today standing in lunch
con clubs to give out with the vo-
cal chords in many tuneful trib-
ute to "the boys are the squarest,
the girls are the fairest of any old
town that l know"
And why shouldn't the workers
be strong for Toledo? Why should
they take a back seat for anyone
in their love of the old town that
gave lot of them their education;
that gave them their first job;
that put them on relief after it's
boys who are the squarest went
defunct along with lot of good
banks?
Because of our conviction that
SUI he workers of Toledo are strong
dor Toledo, we are going to present
here each week some article to
prove our love for TOLEDO
Just like the Exchange Club does,
only in our case, we shall prove our
love by discussing some of the mu-
nicipal affairs of Toledo, not for
getting our City Council, which
conducts the business affairs of
Toledo.
OUR CORPORATION
Dear TOLEDO is our cor
poration. 1t is business of we, the
people, and we would be poor busi-
ness men indeed if we failed to in
terest ourselves in dear TO
L-E-D-O.
BIG BUSINESS
We who live in Toledo cannot
help but be impressed when we
discover that our fair city is a great
corporation with an assessed valua-
ton of $346,345, $50. And that, my
dear boys and girls, isn't hay. Not
only that, but the public utilities
in Toledo have an assessed valua-
ton of another $55, 5,298, ,320, which
definitely isn't small change. To-
gether, we represent a valuation of
$410,644,070.
Big corporations like General
Motors, Thompson Products, Ford,
General Electric and similar large
sized enterprises search high and
low looking for managerial ability.
We know that the large corpora
tions are not only willing to pay,
but do pay figures to management
which we workers call exorbitant.
WHY MANAGERS?
Why do big. corporations pay
their Sloans, Crawfords and other
managerial talent so highly? Let's
accept the explanation given by
the large corporations - because
these men know how to make
money for the company, and give
the stockholders their reward for
risking their money.
And so it is with our city. We
are incorporated, We must have
somebody to run the business of
our corporation, which is known as
Toledo. But, unlike big business
(remember, we have an assessed |
valuation of $346, ,345, ,750), we do
not always get the best business
brains to run our corporation, be-
cause we, the people who are stock
holders (taxpayers), do not exer-
else as much discrimination as
other big business in picking the
right people to run our business.
COUNCIL
Pursuing this subject along its
natural line brings us to our city
Council, composed of nine men,
chosen at large, to manage our
business, to handle the affairs of
our S346,345,750 corporation in
which we, the stockholders (citi-
zens) cannot help but be vitally in
tereSted.
Before leaving you, give
thought to our present city Coun-
Gil and decide if our councilmen
are all good managers of the af-
fairs of our corporation, then come
back here next week and we will
go into the subject of our man
ayers in little more detail. In the
meantime, "We're Strong for To-
ledo, TOLEDO. It's boys are
the squarest, its girls are the fair
est of any old place that l know"