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Evening star., 1950-04-11
Giant Food Stores Contract
On Bakery Clerks Ratified

Il A contract providing wage in
creases for bakery department
employees of Washington area
Giant Food Stores was ratified
yesterday by Retail Clerks Local
1901 (AFL).
Full-time bakery clerks will re-
ceive S. week raises and head
bakery clerks, $3.50. This brings
the new salary ranges to between
$40 and $47.50 a week.
Part-time clerks will receive an
increase of II cents an hour,
bringing their pay scales to 81
cents and SLOT per hour.
Full-time employees will receive
additional vacation benefits.
Union Negotiators Truman A.
Kennedy and Charles F. Wilson
said that years of good relation
ship and mutual understanding
made possible the one meeting
negotiation Of the contract.
Evening star., 1950-04-11
Kansas City Council
Asks State Inquiry
In Gang Murders
by the Assoeiatsd Press

KANSAS CITY, April 1.-THE
City Council adopted a resolution
last night requesting Gov. Forrest
Smith to investigate law enforce
ment in Kansas City to forestall
further gang murders"
The action came within q few
hours after funeral services for
Charles Binaggio, Al, Kansas City
politician, and his henchman,
Charles Gargotta, 40.
The two were slain in ganglapd
style last Thursday in their Dem
ocratic ward clubrooms.
Their deaths were the 18th and
10th unsolved slayings here since
January, 1916.
Few Attend Services.
In Missouri the Governor ap-
points the police commissioners Of
Kansas City and is responsible for
law enforcement.
The Council resolution said that
gambling and crime has increased
here and that the slayings were
"a warning Of the sinister designs
of underworld racketeers." ~,
Separate Catholic services were
held for Binaggio and his muscle
man.
Only q faithful few attended
the services. At Binaggio's. the
Rev. Raymond E. jackson de-
nounced the supposedly respect
able forces which allow the un-
derworld to flourish. --
Flowers Pour In.
Explaining the church decision
on whether Christian ; burial
could be conceded to the remains
which lie before us this morning."
the priest said: -....
I'VE condemn the underworld
and all its barbarous and cow
Evening star., 1950-04-11

ardly ways. But we condemn also
the overworld-liquor executives,
public officials in high and low
places and the like, who, though
able to retain. the aura of respect
ability, sacrifice every decent
principle for their own contempti-
bic and selfish ends.
'The same blood Is on their
hands as upon the hands Of the
villainous characters whom they
both use and protect"
A small crowd attended the two
services for the two northside
figures, but the flowers poured in.
There were about 1000 at BIZ
naggio's and 800 at Gargotta's.
About 400 went to the cemetery.
Evening star., 1950-04-11
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Evening star., 1950-04-11
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strange notes penned on her chest
and back, died Of alcoholism.
An autopsy yesterday also at
tributed the death to pneumonia.
A man who told police he had
strangled the woman was COM
mitted to the State hospital.
Evening star., 1950-04-11
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
LeRoys Censor Fair Play

You can't use peoples names in the
Blade not in the advertising depart
ment, that is.
Leroy Newmyer, director of advertis-
ing, told us he would refuse to run the
ad now appearing (also on Page of the
Journal if we didn't remove our original
heading.
1t went: 'Would it be MISLEADING,
Mr.. Block, if we reproduced YOUR
folder -"
And then went on as the present ad
does.
We were trying to take the Blade for
bit of a. ride, frankly, for pretending
that our other advertisements had been
misleading" We made no great bones
about il, either.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
Statement
By Gosser

find it odd that the Toledo
Blade and the LMC are so little
concerned about the legitimate
strike which has been going on
so long at Mather Spring Com
pany.
That is situation in which
the strikers have been unable
to get anybody to meet with
them to discuss their grievances.
The Blade has devoted a sub
stantial amount of space to a
political work stopage conducted
by the dues clerks at union
headquarters.
The same amount of concern
devoted to a serious work stop
page at the Mather Spring Com
pany might go far toward dis
solving costly dispute.
At Mather Spring Company
management has consistently re-
fused to meet, to mediate or to
conciliate. 1t would seem to me
that any organization sincerely
desiring stability of labor-man-
agement relations in Toledo
would give this situation top
priority.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09

the editor testified that he die
not think Gosser was running
the unions affairs properly.
Speaking with a pronounced
Southern accent w h ! C h con
formed to his testimony about
a Carolina and Virginia news
paper background, Mr.. Brad
shaw made a comparison be-
tween a union leaders "goons'
and President Truman's ''Mis-
souri, pals"
Goerlich asked if Bradshaw
w o uld consider that calling
John Bolman one of Gosser's
goons would be a compliment to
Bolman.
Bradshaw said, "Yes, If it
were used in the sense that he
enjoyed Gosser's favor"
"You m n, supported his
(Gosser's) viewpoint" Goerlich
asked.
''It would depend" Bradshaw
explained, ION whose COON he
was"
Later Goerlich asked if Paul
Block Junior would be held up
to ridicule or contempt of some
one were to call him one of
"Gosser's goons."
Bradshaw said he. didn't think
would, but that it
wouldn't do any harm.
The testimony was taken by
Goerlich under the warning by
Clarence Condor that if Goer-
Itch asked questions which vio-
lated the restraining order on
Blocks earlier d e position,
Goerlich "as agent of Walter
Murphy" might be in contempt
of court.
Condon's phrase was to the
effect that action would be
taken"
The dispositions continue June
IL.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
Gosser On Air
Monday--Fridoy

Richard T. Gosser has been
appearing every weekday night
at 7:10 pm. over Radio Stations
WTOL and WTOD.
The program which will con-
tinue for at least month, has
dealt with the current situation
in Toledo, especially the. testi-
mony Gosser has been giving in
the deposition hearings on the
Bolman suit.
In about four minutes, the in
ternational vice president has
ben able to turn the Blades
stories upside down, shake the
campaign" out of them, and
show what actually has been
happening.
The program has been gather
ing momentum-and listeners
every night as it has become
more and more apparent that
the Blade won't tell the Gosser
story in straight-away. objective
fashion.
With only two Interruptions
since the programs began, Cos
ser himself has been the spokes-
man. During the current board
meeting, Howard Seren, Local
IL president, has done the re-
porting.
From Monday through Fri
day, at ITO pm. over both
WTOL and WTOD a different
and informative point of view
is available.
Are you listening1
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09

But this is not in accordance with
the Ethics and Sense of What's Right, as
promulgated by the advertising director.
Thus we have this amusing situation.
Mr.. Gosser can be called crook on the
Blades editorial page, where the scholars
prepare their analytical pieces; and he
can be charged with any wild accusation
on page one, where the reporters dispense
the "news."
But WE can't ask Mr.. Block a ques-
ton in a paid advertisement.
Not an embarrassing question, any
how.
1t may be that Mr.. Newmyer's censor
fair play has been warped by steady diet
of reading. Reading the Blade, we mean.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
Michener To Quit,
Labor Candidate In
Michigan Announced

ANN ARBOR, Mich. GPA)-
Rep. Earl A. Michener, for 80
years a member of Congress,
announced May 81 that he will
not seek the nomination in the
Republican primary this Sep
tember. The announcement was
made soon after John P. Daw-
son, a professor at the Univer-
sity of Michigan law school, an
nounced he would run with
backing from AFL, CIO, and
other labor and liberal groups.
Michener, who is anti-Fair Deal,
won by only a small margin
the last time heran.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09

would send them. told him to
send them by someone known
to me, since I didn't know Bill
heimer by sight, or by voice. He
said he would.
An hour or so later a man
later identified as a private de-
tective from the outfit hired by
Smith and Ells-handed me an
envelope which contained what
/ presume were the charges.
l didn't know the cop-I don't
know Billheimer-and what l
received was a mimeographed
blast against Gosser, with
mimeographed signatures, from
a man l never saw before who
told me HE didn't know Bill
heimer by sight, either.
l could not recommend that
the Journal begin the practice
of publishing anonymous or un-
checked charges against anyone
by printing a three column SER
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09

les of improved charges against
GosSer.
I wouldn't recommend the
printing of such charges against
Billheimer or Ed die Duck
(whose signature was also print
ed on the copy.
No one expected the Journal
would have printed the charges
at all-and so both the union
opposition and its friend, the
Toledo Blade, will probably
have a field day alleging sup
preston of the news.
Considering, wever, the
fact that the Blade has also de-
that some of the hand
outs from this department carry
the signature of the union Of
ficial who made them, l deem
the practice established in To-
ledo, and intend to follow it.
Signed: John A. Ullman
Publicity
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09

persuade the other members OF
Will-O-Land to reduce their sell
ing price to the Local from a
figure of $4,000 to a figure of
$4,000.
Nevertheless, it's clear enough
where John Bolman and his
hackers get their pipe dream
that / stole about $4,000.
They figure we sold some land
foI $4,000 that cost us nothing
and showed a one thousand dol
lar profit - and pocketed the
proceeds for ourselves.
This isn't so. Further oues-
tions and answers will prove it
isn't so. But we can discuss some
of that here, right now.
The fact is that neither I nor
any other member of Will-O-
Land, to my knowledge, made a
personal profit of penny on
the transaction. We, as a Club,
took the $4,000 and used it as
a down payment on another
more costly camp.
And when the whole series of
transactions was finished, this is
what had happened:
ONE-Local IL bought its
Summer Camp for children on
a nice lake in a nice location.
TWO-The camp cost the To-
cal at least $4,000 less than they
would have paid for it-and a
great deal less than anyone else
would have charged them for it.
THREE-T h Will-O-Land
Sportsmen's Club had a new
camp farther away from Tole-
do, on better fishing grounds.
FOUR-Everyone was happy.
The kids were happy. They
had camp.
The Local was happy. 1t had
done something nice for kids.
The Club members were hap
py, They had new camp.
And nobody made a penny
nobody lost a penny-and the
entire operation satisfied every
one.
Further questioning will show
that at every step of the way
memberships involved acte d
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
Bargaining
Blocked

Paul Block Junior, whose
heart bleeds for the work
ing man, has a little union
difficulty of his own.
The Guild-CIO has been
in negotiations with Block
for seven months, without
getting much of anywhere.
Some say he has been
too busy saving the UAW-
CIO from its own elected
vice president to fritter
away his time negotiating
with his own employees.
Some say he just loves a
buck and hates to part
with one.
Some Say-but you can't
print that.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09

not "whitewash" Richard 7.
Gosser, and must not follow the
Attitude of Emil Marcy, inter-
National secretary treasurer, in
asmuch as this committee was
anything but fair and impair
tial."
1t pointed out to the board
that the Blade is not anti-labor,
and that it valiantly strove to
uphold the "pretense" tn a t
Richard T. Gosser twas a credit
to organized labor and to the
community even though they
knew darn well he wasn't"
Then it asked - all in one
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09

The lawyers did begin to ask
questions about the transaction!
on which this charge of dis.
honesty is based. And now
shall, at last, have a chance to
answer these questions under
oath and dispose of them.
In spite of the objections OF
my own attorney, who was Civ
ing legal protection to the rec-
ord, answered every single
question asked, except where ]
was hazy about the dates or
names or amounts.
And I promised to answer
those questions, too, at the next
session :. just as soon as l could
get the precise facts from the
records themselves.
1t turns out that the charge
l stole $21, 600 of the dues pay
ers money is based on the fact
that / was president of two or
CARNATIONS when a land trans
action was completed.
/ was president of the Will-O-
Land Sportsmen's Club and of
the AWBC when the Local
bought the Sand Lake property
owned by the Sportsmen's Club
for children's summer camp.
The Will-O-Land Club had
once owned a larger tract. 1t
had sold enough excess land and
buildings to cancel out the or
iginal cost of the Sand Lake site.
Although this does not mean
that the Sand Lake property
cost the Club nothing-because
we put lot of time and money
into developing what we had left
1T is still quite true to say, I
think, that We had wiped out
our original cost for the land
and buildings.
This cost-free land, after we
developed it, was worth between
$4,000 and $4,000 as it stood
when We sold it to the Local.
The Local bought it for $20,-
300. That Sand Lake property
S now worth substantially more
than double what the Local paid
ror it.
About the only connection Il
had with the transaction was to
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
On The Whole

The Toledo Blade doesn't
think Gosser has harmed bust
ness. They're telling the nation
that Business is GOOD in To-
ledo."
Smith and Ellis don't think
Gosser has harmed the take
home pay of Smith and Ellis.
So who's complaining?
RradSh,uy
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
Contract"

The Toledo Times wants
the union to take out an
advertising contract.
The contract would be
separate from the Blade
contract the union now
has.
But IL the Blade doesn't
like an ad scheduled for
both papers, it might get
cancelled without the ap-
proval or consent of the
Times.
The double-pager run i'm
the Journal land refused in
the Blade) never did get
to the Times. The Blade
cancelled it.
What good, we wonder,
is a contract with a news
paper il the publication
can't tell us whether or not
1t will run the advertising?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09

convenient package - all the
questions it has been setting up
and bowling down for ten
months, and directs the board of
the international to address it
self to the answers to these
questions.
The possibility exists, how
ever, that the international
executive board, grateful as it
must be for this unsought adj
vice, will follow its established
practice of using its own head
and arriving at its own con-
clusions.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09

closest TO MN, VINO help
him "run union affairs"
Robert Cousino, w h o is
suing the Blade on the basis OF
the phrase "Gossers' goons"
which was run in a Blade story
last January 5, was on hand
when Bradshaw tied up "goons"
as those who help a labor leader
run union affairs improperly.
The testimony was taken in
the offices of Lamb, Goerlich
and Mack, with Lowell Goerlich
doing the examining. Bradshaw
was the first of five witnesses
to be subpoenaed, the others be-
ing G. Gordon Strong, business
manager; Paul A. Schrader,
managing editor; Ray Kest, cir
culation manager, an d Leroy
Newmyer, advertising director.
Frazier Reams and Clarence
Condor appeared for the Blade.
Paul Block Junior was out of
town.
Mr.. Reams read statement
by Block which said:
Although / have al r d y
testified fully in this case, l
would willingly testify again at
q mutually convenient time. Ex-
cept for the opportunity of deny
ing charges which have been
hurled at me by the able law
yers and publicists of the union,
I have nothing interesting or
pertinent to add to the facts in
this case beyond my testimony
in the deposition of March 9th
and 10TH"
Mr.. Goerlich indicated t h t
he would, however, serve Mr..
Block and seek his testimony
when the publisher returns.
The editor of the Blade,
smoking steadily, answered the
questions quietly and in good
humor; agreeing that he had
masters degree in English and
History and experience on sew
era1 newspapers, but denying
that this made him an expert"
on the English language.
He exhibited a substantial
grasp of the dictionary defini-
tions of the word "goon" as
those definitions were offered
to him by Attorney Goerlich.
Asked what his own defini-
ton of "goon" might be, he con-
sidered it "high school slang
meaning a feller girl would
prefer not to have date with
AN old comic strip character
to me, sort of henchman in
labor circles"
He admitted that he "got con-
fused" as to the meanings of
COON and fink, explaining that
what was a COON to one side
vas fink to the other, and the
,ther way around.
Later he said that "Gosser's
ICONS" referred to "a group of
nen around him (Gosser) who
lelp him run his affairs"
1t was after this definition
vas given by Bradshaw that
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09

During his testimony, Michael
Bradshaw, editor of the Toledo
Blade said that ION the whole"
he considered the Gosser ad-
ministration of union affairs in
Toledo had been harmful"
The union members don't
think Gosser has harmed their
contracts. They're the best in
the country.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
Odor In The Court

Said Mr.. Smith to Mr..
ELS
"This deposition business
smells"
Said Mr.. ELS to Mr..
Smith
"But what can we per-
fume it with"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09


The Blade has done that
with the big Revolt"
1t had whooped up a revolt
in Local II which turned out
not to have any revolutionaries
except Eddie Duck, Harold
Bilheimer, and handful of
their followers.
1t had whooped it up, and
couldn't whoop it down again.
The first crack came when
one of those whose names were
used in the original statement
in the Blade, charging Gosser
with unidentified sins, plus the
identified sin of dictatorship"
promptly announced to the
Blade that his name had been
used improperly.
He felt just the other way, he
said.
He considered Gosser zone of
the country's ablest labor lead
ers."
Then the membership began
to take a hand. One large unit,
handbilled by the Blade as be-
ing in revolt, said in member
ship meeting that 1t wanted a
Iretraction of the statement is
sued in its name by some of the
executive board leaders.
Then other units began to call
their leaders to account, until
the sweeping revolt which
had made Blade headlines a few
days earlier had simmered down
to bit of yapping on the side
lines.
Statements issued to the in
ternational executive board of
the UAW-CIO. which came to
Toledo for a two day meeting,
began to pour in from the whole
Local IL membership all of
them condemning the fringe
elements making up the minor
ity, and most of them going out
of their way to laud Vice Presi-
dent Gosser.
Meanwhile, Gosser himself fl
nally got chance to testify
under oath. His report to To-
ledo, given over the air that
night, is reprinted in this edi-
ton of the Journal.
His report, like his testimony,
makes it clear that no charge of
"embezzlement" can be turned
against a labor leader who has
not profited himself, but who
has helped a local union obtain
for $40, 900 property now valued
at more than twice that amount.
He told, under oath, how
h e Sc TRANSACTIONS originated,
why they were worked out, and
how everyone involved came off
with more than he expected, and
at lower price.
Thus the two principal Blade
stories fell flat. The union was
not in revolt, and Gosser was
not criminal.
Even the Blades curious
manner of putting all the cam
paign in the headlines, and all
the facts in the fine print some
where inside the paper, failed
to conceal from the city or from
the membership that the revolt
was over, the crusade against
Gosser dead, and the Blade dis
credited.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
Blades Revolt Is Over
Bur Headlines Linqer On
When Gosser Testified
The Big Story +" Died

Sick and tired thousands in Toledo of the
Blades Gosser story they rewarded this week by
one of the standard comic situations
Show business has always depended for belly-laugh
on the inquisitive infant who siren and can't
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
Sdys-
-Edi+or
'Coons' Assist Gosser
Run Union Improperly

Michael Bradshaw editor of the Toledo Blade testified
Wednesday that he did not think Richard T. Gosser inter-
national vice president of UAW-CIO, running union
affairs properly in Toledo.
Goons stated labor leaders Associates those
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
Board Meets Here

international executive board with Walter Reuther
UAWCO international president in the chair met in the Secor
begin board meeting the Toledo Blade graciously
presented the board with carefully wrappedup
editorial Blade explained that the board must
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
Gosser's S Radio Talk
Discusses Real Issue
Good evening.

For the four days of deposition hearings
tell that being asked
that had defrauded the membership of S2l O00
Tonight happy report that finally got
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09
Anonymous Charges
Handed To Journal

Late yesterday afternoon who said he Harold
Bhemer phoned Journal office told he had
of the charges against be made to the UAWCIO eec
tive board He wanted them printed in the Journal he said
told him to bring them He said he too busy and
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-09

If we are elected. we pledge
ourselves to appoint a commit
tee to watch the financial Sec
retary, and committee to watch
the committee to watch the fl
nancial secretary.
There will be no dues, no as
sessments, no meetings, no holi-
days, no vacations, no smoking,
no nonsence, no union.
Seniority will be observed with
a telescope.
If we are defeated we will ac-
cept the decision of the member
ship and only squawk to the
Blade whenever Paul will give
us another good buildup.
Theme Song
SOLIDARITY FOR-NEVER"