Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-05-19
Q-That's right.
A-Not in the Local. No.

Q-Do you know of any of
ficial or officials of the Local
charged with the approval OF
expenditures before the checks
are written?
Al would assume under the
book that it would be the presi.
dent and the treasurer. All / car
go by Is the book - I'm talking
about the Constitution.
Q-Then, you are assuming
that the president of Local IL
approves all purchases?
A-He'd practically have Il
under the system.
Q--Are the trustees required
to approve expenditures?
A-Well, they are now.
Q-How long have they beer
so empowered?
A-Well, they have Away.
been empowered; they Just did
MT do it.
Q-Do you know of any in.
stances wherein the trustees re.
fused to approve expenditure,
to Colonial Hardware?
A-Well, the only one could
recall off hand would be in thu
last meeting of the Automotiv,
n
Workers Building Corporation
and they refused to pay then
until they were itemized.
Q-I didn't get that answer
Mr.. Gray.
/ Al mean they refused II
approve them until they were
itemiZed. / mean unless it wa:
well, like a hundred dollar,
worth of paper, or anything
else, unless it was itemized the,
refused to approve it.
Q-Did you as financial sec
retary ever raise any question
about expenditures to Colonia
Hardware?
A-Oh yes, I've raised some
Yes.
/ Q-Could you tell us the ma
ture of tn e objections yoI
raised?
A-Well, / objected on thu
basis of prices on a few of them
OF course along with thes' t
prices we did have some gOot
prices, and maybe 1t was m,
way Of thinking, but / NEAR
in my own opinion / just didn'
like them.
4 Q-Was that because you be
lieved the prices paid were on
of line?
A-WelI, yes, the only thin,
i could go by, l could say tina
/ could have bought tn e n
cheaper.
| Odd you ever inform thu
Board of Local II that the sun
of thirty-six thousand dollar
had been paid to Colonial Hard
ware for which there were NJ
itemized bills?
Al don't recall talking t.
the Board. / do recall talkin,
to Dick-that is, sent him III
a note. He'd wanted statemen
on the cost of items that wer'
purchased and so forth, SO, ther'
were a number of them on tn
I St0re--Pm not too sure abou
the amount of money, but
m & hit have been twenty o
thirty.
Q-Now, by twenty o,
thirty" do you mean twenty o.
thirty thousand dollars?
Ayes, and he gave me hel
because, he said, I'd just pu
down the word Hardware" ant
that 1 should-a put "Colonia
Hardware"
MOTE: Here tDe haze
Gray trying to conceal the
purchase from c 10 n al
Hardware store by merely
calling TIL e recap "Hard-
1Dare," and GoSser insisting
on the full name, Colonial
HdrdaDare," so the records
aoouId sholD it. Remember
this, aUhen, later in the teS-
timony, Gray tries to make
it appear that GosSer 1Das
HIDING something instead
Of making it CLEAR
GIN other words you jus
put down the word II a r d.
Ware?"
A-NO-well, some of then
did have-well, think the way
that was, they got bills attached
to them. But / mean when you
make up a check you don't take
the billings, they just take the
slips attached to them, at least
to my knowledge most of them
anyhow, and then when you
type up the check you show in
voice SO and-so and sO-and-so
and when / made up this recap
on his request, why, of course
l didn't know what they were
and l didn't mention it at this
particular time because n er
were quite a number of items
and, after all, it was his own
store and he didn't know what
the hell it was.
Q-What was the nature OF
this report he asked you to
change?
Aust the name.