Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-07-21
EdWard Duck
Educational
Director,
Local II
SOME FUN!


of the champion organizers of
all time.
Villon was the poet-rabble
rouser who awakened the
French people to the fact that
they didn't necessarily have to
Starve to death as matter of
course, while the nobility
feasted on rich fowl and
slipped the best the vineyards
had to offer.
When not engaged in WOO
ing the heroine, he was either
writing poetry, fighting q duel,
robbing the rich, or raising
hell with the poor to get them
to organize.
Boy, do we need him now!
Perchance he could enrap-
ture Madam Perkins to the ex-
tent that we could inviegle a
few semi-favorable interpreta-
tions on the Presidents Execu-
tiv Orders governing overtime
compensation.
II Francois cared to duel
anyone, | know at least two
corporation attorneys whose
gizzards are fairly crying out,
begging to be placed on a
swords end.
AS for robbing the rich, I'm
afraid we'd have to forget
about it, because they're 80
busy these days robbing
everyone else that the poor
just can't manage to get away
from the defensive side of the
game. And you ordinarily
can't score when the other
team has the ball!
Maybe poetry could be used
on the War Labor Board.
Heaven knows we've tried
every other devic in an effort
to break the little steel for
mula.
THE POOR
But now we come to the
part about raising hell with
the poor"
Maybe Villon could use his
persuasive powers to convince
the millions of industrial
workers and small wage earn
ers that their votes count just
as much as the corporation
executives.
Frankly, believe that if
Francois Villon were alive to-
day, ne would ring doorbells
by the thousands, turn the re-
spondents about-face, and
plant his number IL shoe
where ii was most needed.
He would be CALLED indeed by
the sight of millions of
people who are either too
dumb or too lazy to take ad-
vantage of something handed
to them on a platter, some
thing which could become a
weapon so formidable that to
dream of defeating it in COM
bat would be the sheerest type
of folly.
ORGANIZER REWARD
His country gave a reward
for organizers and those who
might have thought in terms
OF free elections--the guillo-
tine. The French workers
d / dn receive UNION
JOURNALS in Francois time.
They received their meeting
notices in the darkness of
night when mysterious beg
gars would slip scraps of
paper under the doors of their
novels announcing the time
and place, usually midnight in
the back room of an obscure
tavern. If those assembled
were apprehended the penalty
was death.
They played for keeps in
those days, and possession
wasn't nine points of the law
lit was all ten points, for all
practical purposes.
America doesn't need revo-
lutions, ii needs educated
working people with enough
common sense to understand
that the NAM and Chambers
OF Commerce are not philan-
thropic organizations, but
selfish groups of rich Repub-
licans whose greatest aim in
life is to become richer and
more powerful and to control
the economic status of their
interiors to an even greater
degree than they already con-
troll II.
IL the Republican party
scores an election victory
next November as il did in
1912, I'll see you in Court
house Square, under McKin-
ley's statue, within a short
time after the wars end.
Bring your soapbox with you,
and bring one for me.
And il Francois Villon
were living today you could
bring one for him, too, be-
cause he'd want to tell you
what was responsible for you
plight--your failure to take
few minutes time to stop in
at 2l7 Superior street and
register to vote for the people
who will decide your fate for
quite some time to come.