Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-19
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Mr.. Pegler
Reggie The Electrician
Writes To WestbroOk

Writes To WestbroOk
Dear Westbrook: you profess much
sympathy for US "poor dupes" as
you call us, who are compelled to
pay the Union Racketeers."
| am one of those unfortunates
you feel so sorry for in your col
umn.
Look Mr.. Pegler, / want to tell
you something. Before there was
Union, l had job as an cleo
trician in plant here in Toledo.
l fact, ! still have the same job.
Since the Union has strong |
armed" me into joining, my pay
has been raised from So cents to
$1.25 an hour. In addition, | now
have seniority rights and my boss
can't lay me off because he doesn't
like my looks or comes to work
with a hangover. Not bad, Mr..
Pegler for the 25 cents a week
dues l pay to my Union eh?
Before l was "brow-beaten" as
you claim into the Union, worked
s hours day, 7 days each week
and made $36.40 a week.
Came the Union
Nowadays, the "Union Rack
eteers" you hate in a hundred
newspapers every day, are forcing
me to take home pay check for
$500 each week. Considering that
these Racketeers as you like to
call them only take 25 cents a
week tribute" from my pay, can
still show a net gain of $48.4O a
week over what l got before these
dirty "Racketeers" forced me to
accept more dough for my work.
Those dirty chiseling Union
Racketeers have gone and chiseled
an additional bonus of $50 per
wear for me which they force upon
me by taking away my liberty to
refuse it. The most these Union
guys will force me to pay is $l2.OO
a year, and l have never been
assessed more than $500 in any
one year. So still have $44 profit
left in my pocket after this ter
rible Union about which you rave
and rant extracts from my pocket.
Much for Little
For the years / have been
brow-beaten and forced to remain
in this Union, as you put 1T, l
have paid the Union Racketeers
$40. If l had worked 40 hours
each week during the year before
being forced into this Union" |
received 65 cents an hour, as |
told you before, I would get $500
each pay day. Now I get S1.25 an
hour or $50 since the Union
Racketeers forced me in, which is
a profit of of $24 a week which
these dirty "Racketeers" have
| forced upon me. Add it up, Mr..
Pegler, and that means $124S more
a year more under the Union than
got outside of it. And that, Mr..
Pegler, amt hay.
So, Mr.. Pegler, you are trying
to get it across to my under
standing that / have been given
the run-around by those schemlng
Uioneers, and I should rise in in
dignation and kick these guys
right in the seat of their pants.
Otherwise, they might go out and
chisel me another pay raise and
force me to give up my liberty by
taking it.
Agrees on Closed Shop
am kinda in agreement with
you Mr.. Pegler about the closed
shop. l think any person who
doesn't want to join Union
should be denied membership and
that they should be given the same
rate of pay that the corporation
paid before the Union, and that
only those who belong to the
Union should get the rate which
the Union has gotten for its mem
bers.
Those who don't belong to one
of those dirty unions about which
you write should have no seniority
or overtime of bonus, because II
the guys who don't want to be-
long to Union wanted these
things, they would let themselves
be forced into a Union so the
Union chiselers could force them
to take more money. Of course,
Mr.. Pegler, you know that If this
was done, there would be dam
few people who would stay out OF
the Union.