Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-05-19

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Q-Do the bylaws specify
who should do the buying?
Al don't recall that. i mean
they may, but i don't know that
II mean 0ff-hand - i mean I'd
have to refresh my memory.
Q-Was the memorandum of
March 8, 1948 covering pur-
chases for the Farms and for
the Summer Camp followed in
all cases after it was issued?
A-Not to my knowledge. No.
CIT was not?
A-NO.
Q-You would say, then, that
Gosser's orders that purchases
must be approved by himself as
president Of the Automotive
Workers Building Corporation,
were not always followed?
Al don't know the only
thing - could be wrong, but i
mean the outstanding thing was
the basis on which l worked,
that is, 1 mean if it was Mr..
Rodgers purchase l was to pay
it.
MR.. STEINBERG: Object to
that and l ask that the answer
be stricken.
Q-Were you ever in charge
of purchasing yourself?
A-As a rule, way back be-
fore the Colonial Hardware
started, done practically all
the purchasing.
MOTE: Way back be-
| fore C. loni ial Hardware
started, there lUerent any
Summer Camps or Farms
for Gray to do all the pur-
chasing for; I'd so he
could not haze been "de-
priced" of this responSi-
bility ,Dhen Colonial Hard
lUaS started. The financial
secretary cit er should |
kno1U his, or shouldn't 1
haze testified about it,
Q-Then, you would say
when Colonial Hardware w s.
started you were deprived of
your authority to purchase?
A-Oh, l could make pur-
chases of things there and few
other places.
! Odd you purchase print
/ ing, for example?
A-NOt to my knowledge -
unless it was done while / was
off, sick.
Q-Who d d purchase tn e.
printing?
Aft l understood it correct
Iy a girl in the office might
have, and typed my name in on
it. On printing there was an
argument when 1 came back,
and one of the girls told me she
had had orders to order from a
certain company and when we
couldn't, get any service 1 said,
"Well, I'll call another business,
and if they want to fire me for
it they can fire me-" but nothing
was ever said directly to me
about it.
Q-But you did make most of
the purchases before Colonial
Hardware came into existence is
that correct?
A-Yes.
| Q-Now, after Colonial Hard
ware was organized you ceased
being the purchasing agent, is
that correct?
A-Well, / done some pur-
chasing, but / mean i didn't do
any amount like / did before.
Q-Would you say your pur-
chasing duties were minor after
Colonial Hardware was organ
lied.
MOTE: Colonial Hard
aoare opened in October, |
1915, aohereupon Gray's
| purchasing duties for the
Camp and the Farms
1Ue.en't "anylUhere near as
great" as before. The Sum-
mer Camp aUas dedicated
in June 1947, and the
Farms we're purchased
later.
A-That's funny word. I've
been in so damned many things
well, L know it wasn't any
where near as great as it was
before.
Q-Would you say your pur 4
chases were greatly decreased?
Al know my stock went
down.
MR.. STEINBERG: I want to
raise an objection to the last
question and answer, and l ask
that the answer be stricken.
Q-Now within your recol-
lection, Mr.. Gray, were all pur-
chases from Colonial Hardware
made upon properly approved ,
vouchers?
A-WelI, again I'll have to
say 1 don't know because l.
don't know what constitutes the
word proper" and because, as