Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-03-31
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the Mechanics Educational So
ciety Of America.
FINE RECORD
In view OF the great number
of other competing unions In
Toledo, the charge of monopoly
against the UAW is ridiculous;
likewise the charge that Toledo
Is a "one-union town" Is not
supported by the facts. The In
ternational Union, United Auto
mobile. Aircraft and Agricul-
tural Implement Workers OF
America, UAW-CIO, Local IL,
referred to by the attorney is a
union of long standing in Toledo
and has a fine record of collect
i've bargaining with the employ
ers with whom it has contracts
for its members. 1t is an indus
trial union admitting to mem
bership employees working In
Toledo and vicinity. For seven
teen years it has sought to or
sanize the unorganized and bet
ter the working conditions OF
Toledo. Thus it has been able IN
some degree to balance the po-
tential power of employers at
the bargaining table.
We call attention to the fact
that in Toledo there are two
newspapers published by the
same interests. Your committee
is no doubt aware that when
such newspapers are in opposi-
ton to the position of the work
ers in Toledo the workers find
it practically impossible to gain
an expression of public support
for its detectives. This has been
evidenced in the fact that the
local newspaper has been the
champion of the Committee To
Save Toledo Payrolls and in OPP
posing the proposed area Pen
sion Plan. In addition, this news
paper has editorially attacked
the leadership of the UAW in
Toledo and has financially as
sisted, by payment of attorney
fees, law suits brought by dis
credited member of the union
against Local 12's building cor
poroation and its officers. BY
such tactics the Committee Tc
Save Toledo Payrolls and the To-
cal newspapers have been able
to forestall the adoption of any
Pension Plan for a period oi
over six months.
TOLEDO'S LMC
Your committee Is no doubt
conversant with the fact thai
the City of Toledo was first In
the nation TO establish a medium
through which settlement of la
Dor disputes could be accom-
plished without the necessity o.
strikes or other economic strug
gle. Toledo established what hal
been called the Toledo Labor
Management Citizens Committee
which we refer TO as "the LMC.'
The LMC Is composed of repre-
sentatives of labor, of industry
and of the public. 1t includes
such representatives of labor al
Franz Berlacher, who is present
ly a councilman for the City 0!
Toledo and a member of the
Teamsters Union, Local 361
AFL; Richard 7. Gosser, Vice,
President of the Internationa
Union, UAW-CIO; VILLA n
Akos. president of the American
Federation of Glass, Ceramic
etc, Local 8; Clyde Shamblen
president of Local 346, Oi
Workers International Union
Otto Brach, who presently is 9
member of the Regional Indus
trial Commission of Ohio ano
of the AFL; and such able indus
trialists as John d. Biggers
president OF Libby Owens Fore
Glass Company; A. Gideon
Spieker, president of Henry j
Spieker Building Company; Jo-
seph f. Neufer, president of Air
Way Appliance Company; julie:
ID. Lippmann, president of Tex
tileather Corporation and past
president of the Chamber oi
Commerce; Harris Macintosh
president of Toledo Scale Com.
pany and Joseph l.. Tillman, as.
sociated with Unitcast Company
In addition 10 these labor ano
industrial members are such
outstanding civic leaders a,
Michael V. Disable, Mayor of the
Cit yof Toledo; Dean c. X
Searles, University of Toledo
faculty member; DR.. Mortor
Goldberg, Rabbi; Mgsr. Michae
j. Doyle, Director of Toledo
Catholic Charities, and Amos L
Conn, Judge Of the Court o.
Appeals.
Indeed the charge made by
the attorney that there Is a
JAW monopoly completely
dominating and stifling the
City of Toledo can only be in
terpreted to mean that the en-
tire membership of the LMC
Is dominated by such monop-
oily and that the members Of
the committee have improper
ly represented their interest.
The high caliber of the MEM
bers Of the LMC and their
many years of valuable SER
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