Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-04-15
Regional
Views
BY Richard Gosser, Vice President
international UAW-CIO

YOU HAVE lot about union feaherbedding about
the evils of the closed shop and awful silly
1t is high time working people, including the
whiecoar employees and else less
these propaganda artists think ann"
1t is like Grove pointing his finger At
pickpocke and screaming for protection
Let's take the practice featherbedding" or padding
the job with unnecessary work few cases have
been brought the pubcs particularly in instances
on the hollywood film lots But these comparatively
rare and the nature of performed people
outlaws the possibility of their occurrence.
What about industry featherbedding? Isn't ii fact that
ne larger the corporation the greater he waste
Dngg ana Did read what the business
people were told here about three or four weeks this
score? gentleman who knows something business
the big boys they goofy handling their affairs the
way they do, and he told them why.
If we're going talk workers multiplying manu-.
featuring costs let's talk about the accepted
plying retail costs by having jobbers dealers distributors
various agents taking slice out of the way
the line that by the time the ordinary fellow buy
iaoo OF 90" OF bran flakes he has to double triple
price for it. Of Co-Op eliminating the middle
mans grab as possible but then the
least
Now take the closed shop issue In the UAwCIo it's i'm
possible to have closed shop because of the membership
visions of our constitution forbidding person
member unless and until he has first become
plant we 90 nave the union shop which means that the work
must join the union because he's accepting the union
benefits and advantages isn't saying too much
against that right it be very, proper
The greatest closed shop country the American
Medical Association the doctors union Not all
are crazy about the outfit and it certainly isn't democratic
organization But haven't heard Taft Hartley, RUSSELL
ct al saying anything about the doctors fundamental
rights his freedom of choice" present
there is doctor in North Toledo have by
couple of people who really given
by this closed shop union Of course
easy to this but the folks talked know the story
and it is pathetic one,
The ANA incidentally assessed its members S25
provide sush fund for fighting national health
(Read the remarks of Rep Andrew Bemier this subject
The ANA has denied that this being
bying aganda. They call it stimulation among
those to be stimulated according to the latest issue Con-
Reports womens organizations church groups
fessonal socee industrial and manufacturing organizations
chambers of commerce and labor unions
s.. disgraceful lobby managed by few
highly paid public relations who through mrepresenta-
ton annually extort hundreds of thousands dollars from
physicians and drg houses calls itself ponpotical
registered under the Lobbying Act calls itself
physicians and drug houses calls itself nonpotical yet
cude the physician It says purpose
extend medical all the people but its shows
million dollars spent in opposing health legislation and
not action taken which extended medical
to anyone"
The above quotation is taken from speech by Senator
Murray and refers to the socaled National Com
mittee (NPC) for the Extension Medical
said be the richest Washington It has dis
tributed twenty million copies of the
phet attacking health It's chief contributors
drug and surgical instrument firms.
These are things you don't read in the newspapers.