Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
It's News
To Me j..
By O. J. Pecod
HOPEFUL SIGN

For many the clerks in Lamsons and other down
department stores have taken their weekly (pi
ances smiled sweety at the boss and gone home to puzzle
how they could make their small do big things
being underpaid clerk joke, and
clerks supposed to smile at their customers of whom
should be snared at but they must present themselves neat
clean and we'll pressed before their customers.
One of the major mysteries of life to me- once worked
Toledo department myself how the girls keep
themselves fluffy and chic and the
and well pressed on the lousy they get
But and this the most hopeful sign In long
time department clerks awakening
that they being imposed They of their
situation and wonder of wonders they beginning act
like they were going to do something about It,
BRAKE
Don't get the that organization among department
Montgomery Ward and sewe Avery Fifteen 20
Averys clerks would have fallen into faint at his own
they might grove at his smile Those days hope)
forever
At any rate Lamsons seems to be the focal point for an
organzatona rapidly showing only
poyes of that but employees of all downtown department
that they missed the quite years. but
that they still catch
Only thing in the way the
clerks getting real union real wages better working con-
dtons and all the other benefits that with membership
strong unionan association of Retailers under Oscar
Smith who has protected the stores from the organizers Of real
unions and almost defeated the wishes of tie
store employees organize into union of their
choosing.
GUARDIAN ANGEL
Smith very bright man. fact is so bright
tail stores the dark for He has been the guardian
angel for the employers and he willing continue
Nobody should be incensed against Oscar for what he
has done doing department
from the employers and union organizers After ALL
must live, and Oscar is a gentleman.
Nor should Lamsons employees blame Oscar for what he
has done to defeat their organization, what he will still
to do to them from picking their
genius 1t the child of his brain
ons which prevail in the downtown
respect to organization and Oscar has right proud
his handwork
Never did poet with greater pride or a composer
listen with greater compositions than
Oscar Smith he the underpaid
tales of their discontent and
grievances He is the master mind who pan
PLAN
When you Oscar town entering restaurants
front door Don't let yourself be doubt
Oscar has negotiated back living
II he had coat of be that would picture
fountain pen and legal lying back door.
doesn't so in for herady.
But Oscars the brain that perhaps
organized to saddle contracts them they
never have agreed TO- to make the whole thing legitimate
to 60 on his looking for lambs
How Oscar does it is story that will
the tuneSs of time How he to away
PLAN Will be told by the workers themselves Right
appears that Mr. Smith is in for
even three because the people who
has been going They be underpaid
underntelligent
If of the employees of and some of
them will want that their awakening
see that is going to be in the neck for
big shots and their hired brains going
them real results in the long
In the meantime Oscar Smith and his stooges big
men have stooges running
ing And is coming and the employees of
going to administer it.