Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-10-27
You're Right. But You're Still
Wrong According To PouI Block

IL have seen in a long time, Paul Block Junior,
the high and low multi, co-publisher and "Sr
Boss" of The Blade finally had to admit =
though grudgingly enough - that our demand
for pensions and social security for Toledo
workers is not only right, but just.
"There is nothing i'm it (the pension
plan) that we can which reasonable men
couldn't discuss the merits says Mr..
Block and then continues: g. there is no
doubt that pensions for retired industrial work
ers are here to stay and that, furthermore,
they are socially desirable. IL workers i'm the
larger plants :. to enjoy their benefits,
every effort should be made to extend them
(these benefits) to the workers for the smaller
concerns. Perhaps some sort of pooling ar
rangements can make this possible"
There you have it Pensions, says 'Sir Boss"
Block are socially desirable. He goes further
and agrees that workers employed by small
employers are also entitled to these same bene-
fits And to top all this off, His Excellency
agrees that perhaps some sort of pooling
rangement" is necessary in order to achieve
this end.
Well folks, what in the name of God have
we been fighting for all these months? What
are we fighting for today? These very bene-
fits that His Royal Highness now agrees are
socially desirable"
The truth is that the UAW-CIO, and par
ticularly Vice President Gosser, has been ex-
tremely patient with the employers in Toledo.
We have been attempting to negotiate these
benefits for our people for almost year now.
None say that these employers did not
have enough time to consider proposals.
None can say that these employers did not
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counter proposals of their own. But anyone
can plainly see that these same employers
have been holding back the benefits long over
due their employees in the hope, that some
how some way they can cheat them out of it.
The truth is that these small employers,
contrary to our advice to them, joined Toledos
big employers and Paul Block Junior - to
smash union; to make social security
demands impossible That is why they, these
small employers if you please, contributed
heavily to the "war chest of the notorious
Save Toledo Payrolls Committee" to wreck
our unions.
But these small employers were double
crossed" The "big boys" - bowling before the
inevitable = gave pensions to their employees
and now have left the little boys" to shift
for themselves.
Nevertheless, as we have said so many
times in the past, we say again we want to be
helpful to these small employers. We want to
help solve their problems. And the best posi-
BILE solution that we know of is the adoption of
our proposals. Does this mean the burdening
of til hese small firms with intolerable labor
costs? OF course it doesn't BY pooling their
resources the small employers can assure bene-
fits to their employees that they are unable
to grant otherwise.
No, gentlemen, we're not trying to wreck
Toledo. We are doing our damndest to save
Toledo the only way know how by
pooling our resources, by working together as
a TEAM.
Any other course would lead to the
CHEATING of good Toledo workers out of
benefits that are long overdue them.
And gentlemen, we're not going to CHEAT.
our people.