Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-11-05

VentlOn ana AuLO-LlIe pOllIiCo'
Both subjects are equally sordid,
but the Convention did have its
good points, which is more than
can say for some of your
friends back at the Auto-Lite.
Say, they sure are brave guys
some of the committeeman l
mean. When the chairman and
vice-chairman control the meet
ing to suit themselves, and they
do, they certainly have a cut
and dried affair. And did Bob
Guncheon got mad as He'll when
| told Kim the last meeting was
stacked? And believe me, Bill,
it was!
Dave Hall can do lot Of
spouting when he has the chair
man to help, and did, but | Won
der how we'll he and Bob Gunch-
con and John Begg would do if
they brought their politics out
into the open for everyone to
see?
What do you think of person
who enforces a three-minute de-
bate on your little brother, and
then, as chairman and big boss
over the meeting, turns the gavel
over to the vice-chairman and
proceeds to use up 10 minutes in
a TRADE against me, who is sup
posed to defend himself? l sup
pose you would call that democ-
racy in action, hus?
Bill, your old friend Johnny
Begg didn't turn out as we ex-
pected, did he? Well, a fellow
can get into bad company / sup
pose, or, to put it another way,
politics, Auto-Lite politics espe-
cially, makes strange bedfellows.
Another thing | can tell you
Bill is that the Auto-Lite workers
are not all satisfied with the per-
formance of certain people. If
some of the members would just
get out and take in their meet
ings, we wouldn't have John
Begg showing the unspeakable
Howard w. Etchen down the
members throats. (And / defy
Johnny Begg to deny being
guilty of this
THE PATRIOTS
Do you know what they are
saying, Bill? | have been re-
liably informed that certain peo-
pie are telling lies about you
around the shop, while you are
serving Uncle Sam. Cutting
someone's throat for the sake of
few lousy votes strikes a new
low in politics, even Auto-Lite
politics, if you ask me!
A lot of the boys didn't like
my column. Bill Wolever, Red
Claypool, Earl Sucker, John
Begg, Bob Guncheon and Fred
Johnson were a few of the i'm
portant people who thought it
wasn't so good. By the way,
Freddie was at the last Local II
meeting in which | gave a Con-
vention report before a meeting
that wasn't stacked, and he hur-
ried out as soon as / finished
speaking and rushed back to mis-
quote and distort my statements.
think he made a report to all
the boys.
Funny, isn't it Bill, how the
boys failed to go for tl.at coll
umn? If it wasn't too truthful,
why don't they prefer charges
against me? / almost begged
them to do this, but for some
reason or other, they just won't.
Maybe they want their members
to slumber blissfully on until
after next February's election.
Bill, | know they won't have
the CUTS to take me up on this;
but | would like to organize a
little debate among some of the
lads at Auto-Lite, such as Bob
Guncheon, John Begg and Dave
Hall, and some Of the people
who count in Local II. | would
like to have this debate at the
Civic Auditorium with the chal-
lenged to pay half the expense,
and I'd like to go into the issues
created by the lousy Auto-Lite
politics. Ten to one they'll hedge
on this.
Incidentally, if that debate
ever comes, | want little Dave
Hall all for myself, He asked
for it, and the minutes of the
first shift Auto-Lite meeting
will show his acceptance.
III drop you a line in a day
or two. BY the way, before | for
get it, did you ever get the
present the Auto-Lite Commit
tee was supposed to send you?
The reason ! ask is because
know there was collection AIKEN
up long time ago.
Your loving brother,