Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-11-19
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BY Edward j. Duck,
Assistant Director, National
Auto-Lite Department

the WOIlu IOiaJ 40 eAio" iA"NA
the people are always yapping
at the other half"
How true! In the home, fac
tory, and office, in manage
ment and in union circles,
everywhere in general, there's
an abundance of jealousy, gos-
sip, and slander. There are va
riations in type and degree Of
intensity, but pitched battle
RACES on a thousand fronts.
If / may wax poetic for a
moment, l am reminded of a
few lines from the popular
song of the '20's that was re-
vived short time ago, "As
Time Goes By"
"Its still the same old story,
A fight for love and glory,
A case of do or die"
The motives, generally, are
not so noble as those implied
in the above lines. May / elu-
cidate? CA seventy-five cent
word meaning EXPLAIN
Nobody minds his own bust
ness, just for the sheer enjoy
ment of pouncing on choice
tidbit of scandal. We revel at
others misfortune and our
glee is unbounded when an
associate catches hell for some
thing he didn't do or shouldn't
have done but did. Don't
bother to analyze that oneD
Everyone's afraid the other
guy is going to make an extra
nickel or get bit of credit for
a job we'll done. Everyone is
so busily employed counting
the mistakes and failures of
others that he has no time to
take inventory of his own
foibles. Don't know what I'd
do without this dictionaryD
We're like the legendary
Kilkenny cats of Ireland,
which fought till nothing was
left of them but tails and nails.
We're worse. There were just
two of them. We do it whole
sale.
Not only does everybody
want to get into the act" as
Jimmy Durante would say,
but everybody wants to run
the act. If they haven't got
any authority they just assume
it, and if there's anyt h in g
more aggravating than this
you name it!
We trust one another like
an elephant trusts a tiger. We
worry more about our neigh
boris affairs than we do our
own. did you ever watch the
faces at the windows when a
new family moves into that
house across the street?)
Let's be specific. Walter
Reuther isn't even forty years
old before Golfers starts wor-
rying about his presidential
aspirations in 1856. Dick Cos
ser works eighteen hours a
day for the union membership,
and guys whose mailing ad-
dress would be a neighbor-
hood beer joint If they had his
Job, beef their heads off be-
cause he invests his savings in
a hardware store partnership,
obviously an effort at hosting
their delinquent carcass into
his chair. Of they can't take
care of the chairmanship Of
one shop without being the
plants most habitual absentee,
how in blazes could they take
care of a hundred or more
plants affairs?)
The foremen of a certain
scale manufacturers key de-
partments are so engrossed in
cutting one another's throats
that they throw away the
company's money by the ton
through their stupid actions,
all of which is none Of my par
ticular concern, but the guy
who runs the place will make
il his business when he dis
covers the errant capers or
"management's men" which
he inevitably will.
First prize for Chief Offend
er in running other people s
business goes to Mr.. Paul
Block, self appointed guardian
of public welfare in Toledo,
who is determined to run the
town according to his likes
and dislikes. Having an axe
10 grind, of a personal nature,
and being very, very desirous
of naming the person TO fill
the soon-to- be-vacated council
seat Mr.. Block kills two birds
with one stone by leveling
editorial broadsides at Vice
President Gosser while extoll-
ing the virtues of Candidate
William Sturm. Gosser didn't
even have TO open his mouth
to earn all the abuse and in
vective that Blocks editorial
staff could summon together.
The best advice we could
give Mr.. Block is to get a little
closer to his associate, MIR.
Grove Patterson, who has seen
more of life than he has, and
who, unlike MIR. Block, has no
difficulty in finding good in