Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-08-05

All suspensions according to DR..
Howard were for disciplinary
action. DR.. Sloan, in connection
with these suspensions, has ad-
mitted to me that DR.. Howard's
attitude has been definitely anti
union. All MS actions seem to
indicate that ne wants to be rid
of all persons who were con-
nected with the hospital before
his arrival All suspended per-
sonnel had long, trouble-free
records.
Recent newspaper editorials
have characterized me as union
leader and trouble maker"
Whenever it is necessary to
become a trouble maker in
order to protect the interests of
those too i'll to defend them
selves l shall become the best
little Hell-raiser l know how.
Two-hundred desperately sick
people need attention. l hope to
make enough trouble" so that
their condition will be bettered.
Conditions Grow Worse
Working conditions in tn c
h hospital also have steadily
grown worse under DR.. Howard.
Prior to his arrival we had op-
Grated under an agreement that
was mutually satisfactory and
trouble free. His anti-labor atti-
tude has become intolerable.
Even DR.. Sloan, supposedly an
impartial Trustee and acting
c h arm n of the Board of
Trustees, wholeheartedly be-
Iieves that anything that DR..
Howard states is Gospel and
obviates the necessity of public
hearing. Just recently in direct
violation of gentlemen's agree
ment he put false words in my
mouth and gave statement to
the papers calculated to raise
suspicious as TO my motives in
this controversy.
1t is manifestly absurd that
l ever agreed to a postpone
ment of forgery charges against
DR.. Howard. That is something
could not do as all felony
prosecutions are handled by the
State.
In the interest of the nearly
200 patients now in William
Roche Hospital and of the more
than 80 who have walked out
of the institution since January
3 something must be done. Why
IS a public hearing deliberately
and studiously avoided?
Is it not directly up to the
Board of of County Commits
sioners to remove Immediately
this superintendent who by the
Judgment of one of the Trustees
IS called a neurotic and admit
ted to be the wrong person to
meet the public? Is it not also
that DR.. Sloan and
Ashton Haynes, against whom
harges have been filed with the
County Commissioners, be re-
moved at once for dereliction of
iuty?
Want Public To Know
The only point of this whole
is that we vans an
opportunity to lay before the
public an inkling of the facts
md evidence we have of i'm
roper administration, ineffi-
iency and discourtesy at Will
lam Roche Memorial Hospital.
Neither the Board of Trustees
Tor the County Commissioners
ave as yet seen fit to permit
is to present the facts in an
pen meeting.
1t is time the public knew the
acts and be permitted to form
IS own judgment.
Indication of a rift in the
friendship between Roche Hos
'ital Superintendent. Frederick
Toward and Board of Trustees
nember Dr. w. B. Sloan ap-
cared over the weekend.
During conversations ! had
With DR.. Sloan at this time he
old me:
"Dr. Howard, you know. is
eurotic. He is a sick man and
ormer victim of tuberculosis.
III former tuberculars are
eurotic."
I'VE will let his brother, Ed
,ard, handle all personal and
ublic contacts for the hospital
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