Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-12-24
TRUE FACTS

responsibility to the citizens or IOledo ny
reporting true facts. Perhaps this is to be
accent as the result of Toledo having
but one newspaper.
The editorial of Dec. Fl in the Toledo
Blade tells you that the Democratic party
and everyone else would naturally give
the greatest consideration to what the
largest group in their party ranks want
ed" The United Labor Committee attend
ed the City Council meeting Monday night
tn find out if the above quot tt n
was their opinion. Anyone that was pres
ent at that meeting can tell you that none
of the COuncilmen share the Blades
natural" reasoning.
If Councilmen were exposed to any
heat at this meeting, it was the the heat
the Blade had turned on them by their So
called "interpretative reporting" for the
mast few weeks. The United Labor Com
mittee merely wanted to know If the
Blade had been telling the truth. 1t took
three hours to receive the answer for the
public, but there should be no doubt In
any ones mind any longer. Organized
opposition to labor is determined that,
even though Tom Burke came from labor,
his vacant chair is NOT to be filled by
anyone from labors ranks.
The ULC offered to send City Council
a list of names and let them chose the
Councilman from that list, and If they
rejected all on that list another list would
be submitted, etc. Still their answer was
"NO." Yet the Blade tells you Vice
President Richard GOSser wants to name
the Councilman.
They have refused to tell the truth.
Franz Berlacher of the AFL Teamsters,
was suggested by the AFL Legislative
Committee and then was accepted as a
logical candidate by the ULC as their
candidate.
The selection of Mr. Berlacher was
/attested too publicly by the CIO, AFL,
MESA and Brotherhood of Railway Train
men but the Blade refused to print that
statement of true events.
ULC, Richard Gosser nor any other
spokesman for ULC has ever stated they
wanted no part of William Sturm in
Council as this same editorial states.
ULC had already named their candidate
weeks before ULC received any request to
support Sturm's candidacy.
The Blade further states, that "Mr.
Sturm was under the impression that he
was to be given CIO support for this post
in exchange for AFL support which had
been given MIR. Burke" This may have
been Mr.. Sturm's impression" and If he
had requested ULC for their support be-
fore they had named candidate, possibly
they would have accepted him. After ULC
naming candidate and exposing him to
the Blades favOrite pastime of character
assassination ii would have been wrong
TO cast him aside and name another so
that the Blade could tear him apart too,
even if all they could point to would he
his necktie.
To conclude their indicative editorial
they accuse 100, CIO leaders and their
cohorts" stormed the council meeting.
"Stormed," Websters dictionary states,
sis an act of violence" Certainly no one
can truthfully report one act of violence
in this meeting. Could it be that the Blade
chose this word to mislead over 300, 900
people who were not there?
The Blade claims that there was a
strenuous effort to make il appear that
labor is still united. There is no need for
anyone with sound mind and average
intelligence who attended Mondays meet
ing of ULC in the Commodore Perry
Hotel to even think twice; let alone exert
himself to know that the United Labor
Committee is on foundation as sound as
the Rock of Gibraltar.
No one from ULC has ever laid claim
to speaking unanimously" for labor.
However, no one can dispute the fact that
ULC does speak for far over the majority
of organized labor in this community.
As for the Blades personal attack on
our Vice-President Richard Gosser. we
will allow our international Constitution
to answer that one. Amy one, and all of
our international Officers are endowed
with authority to speak for all UAW mem
bers between International UAW Con-
venti0ns.
The recent events are certainly ample
and glsring proof of Toledos need of an
unbiased daily newspaper.