Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-01-30
What's
New?
By
Eduard J.
Duck,
Assistant
Director,
National
49, I st1
Division

1 have just returned from
another three-day visit to
Cincinnati, where the Electric
Auto-Lite Corporation has
three plants in operation in the
area. Two of these plants will
soon be moved into the newly
acquired property occupied by
Curtiss- Wright d uring g the
war.
Tuesday evening four of
us met to discuss our program
for the imedmiate future.
Joseph Mattson, assistant to
the JAWS competitive shop
director, President Walter P.
Reuther, flew in from Detroit.
We were joined by Interna-
tional Representative Everett
Estep, former president of the
Auto-Lite Local 465, Spring
field, Ohio.
The fourth arrival was
James Mastrantonio, who led
the Bell Aircraft Local SOL
during the war when $4,000
were employed there. Jim has
also been a member of the ex-
Local 425, Buffalo.
We visited each of the
plants, kibitzed with the en-
ployees Con the outside, of
course) and took a few snap
shots which will prove mighty
interesting to the folks in To-
ledo. AS for our plans and
program, its is obvious that it
should not be outlined in a
newspaper, but as it unfolds
it will be proven that we do
not intend to pass up any bets
or leave a stone unturned in
our drive.
MATTSON
A word about Joe Mattson.
Joe's an old timer in our
young outfit, having organized
his own shop, Durkee-Atwood,
into Local 125, Minneapolis
where he served as president
for six years. For five years
he was also a member of the
District Council Executive
Board. He has been elected
regional director of Region A,
UAW three times and has
served as an international rep
resentative for four years-a
record where he comes from!
He was in on the original
Chicago organizational drive,
and knows his stuff We are
fortunate to have him work
ing with us.
M ito h e ii Patrick, Dodge
Local 3, Detroit, was loaned
to our division by President
Reuther, and has been work
ing with Toledo's Stan Cutcher
in Woodstock, Illinois. NAL
coin f. Macdonald, former
president of Local 226, Prest-
O-Lite Battery division of
Auto-Lite i'm Indianapolis, is
now in Vincennes, working
with Joseph Vega, formerly
assistant to r. j. Thomas in
the competitive shop division.
In Owosso we have Glenn
Brayton, also loaned to us by
Reuther. And down in East
Point, Georgia Regional Di-
rector Tom Startling will place
a man on our unorganized
staff there. Within a few days
we'll have Francis McNally,
from the New York State
area, added to our Cincinnati
area drive, according to pres
ent plans, and two more To-
ledoans are to be assigned to
our Auto-Lite staff, which is
the largest in the entire UAW,
larger even than competitive
shops, Ford or General Motors
divisions.
MOVING
Auto-Lite's Corcoran Brown
Lamp Division employs an
estimated 1900. They will be
into the huge new Wright
buildings by May. So will the
ESQ employees of the Kings
Mills plant, not far from Gin
cinnati. Sharonville's plant is
but a stones throw from the
Lockland (Curtiss-W righ t)
buildings, and manufactures
bumpers and back braces.
f ore m c n and Supervisors
from Springfield were trans
ferred to the Sharonville plant,
but production workers are
today forced to look for Jobs
in Springfield, their seniority
tossed out the window in the
move.
The situation, in Toledo and
nationally, is serious.
This Sunday at 2 p. m. JOSEPH
Mattsop will be in Toledo to
address an open meeting OF all
Auto-Lite workers who are
interested in keeping their
jobs. We urge you also to re-
member that cooperation and
teamwork are necessary at this
time more than ever before.
Let's pull together for a