Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-12-17
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BY Edward ]. Duck,
Assistant Director, National
Auto-Lite Department

ed to try my hand at conduct
ing one. If you are at all fa-
miliar with Auto-Lite in To-
ledo, you're eligible to partici-
pate in the contest.
The idea is to name "Mr.
Shush'', so called because of
his expressed desire to quiet
criticism he deserves while
maintaining the familiar ho-
than thou pose he is SO
expert at assuming. Let's see
if you recognize him:
He screams unity, yet he
is the only individual in all of
Local II to plant his brogans
in the middle of the "Sturm
Storm, an argument about
which he knows little or moth
ing.
He accuses Vice President
Gosser OF destroying unity"
when in fact he, MIR. Shusn,
that is, has never once taken
part in unity meeting with
AFL and CIO representatives,
Gosser included.
He rushes into print with his
own private opinions without
ever consulting his own unit
membership, venting his
spleen in order to perpetuate
his private feud with the
UAW vice president.
He sells his own workers
down the river by refusing to
plead for $500 non-production
workers iniquity claim, CIV
ing solace and encouragement
to the management of the
company.
He lays on his big posterior
practically all summer long,
basking in the sun at his lake
front cottage, between calls
of the Sheriff Squad while the
management is pleased to pay
him his full salary for doing 1T.
He misses exactly thirteen
out of sixteen shop steward
meetings, which are held in
the plant during working
hours, for which he is also full
ly paid. He was excused from
three.
He received exactly 1896 in
salary, plus Lord knows how
much in kickbacks from the
advertising managers commits
sions, from January, 1947 to
December, 1947 for being the
purported editor of shop pa
per that he uses to promote
his own political welfare-or
it warfare?
He Immediately appropriated
for his own private use, COM
plete with "chauffer" Tin the
form of a committeeman who
would die of fright if some
one handed him grlevance)
the station wagon which the
membership voted to purchase
for the committee, for UNION
business.
His gasoline bills and other
rather expensive incidental
expenditures are also taken
care of by union funds,
whether he incurred these
bills on union business or priv
ate (monkey) business. Nice
work if you can get it!
His strong forte is playing
the role OF martyr. Without
anyone asking him, he an
nounced some time ago at a
steward meeting that he sup
posed" he would be criticized
for having purchased a $10,-
900 home. Nobody asked him
if he bought a home or how
much he paid for it. The in
formation was volunteered
with an assumed air of injured
innocence, a favorite trick of
his. However, we have been
informed that the purchase
price was closer TO $4,000.
Nobody would have cared, but
the truth is generally so alien
to him that he has adopted the
defensive tactic of screaming
liar" at everyone else before
they can get to him. He just
couldn't resist the temptation
to prevaricate.
He boasts of the wonderful
wages and working conditions
in his plant. With the excep-
ton of pattern" increases
which he had absolutely moth
ing to do with getting, these
things were obtained before
he came into the position he
holds.
Mr.. Shush wants everyone to
"lay off him, let him do as he
pleases, let him squander $780,
900 year with the aid of a
fifty-cent meeting fine and a
couple of expert spenders, and
support him in his hate cam
paign against the international
union. He likes to dish it
out" but he doesn't like to
take it.
In our opinion Mr.. Shush is a
fraud and a fake, whose only
interest is in himself and the
maintenance of a fine income,
with q minimum of work in