Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-02-03
Inside
Region 2~B
By Charles Ballard
Director Region 2-B UAW CIC

REMEMBER when you kid in school and there
~ fight the playground.
fellow who would around and shout
"go him. knock block off" He the blood
thirsty kid in the schoowhen someone else doing the
fighting
Now have the thing happening in Toledo
banks insurance companies and couple of kibt-
standing telling
panes here in Toledo, "go slug it out with the people
Gouge their out. Hit them with everything"
Wilson from his farm outside Detroit to
the Toledo companies talk keep the good fight
he says, "gve them one for me-
The big have in their fronine
agitators to steam the Toledo companies
For eight years have been able to take of our
problems Toledo The workers in Toledo through the UAW
and the companies have negotiated workable contracts and
nationwide reputation for good labor relations
Now these outside big business agator blowing into
town with their subversve trying to stir
Toledo companies into taking on the people OF Toledo for all
fight
c, Aetna Company course,
willing fight this thing out until the last Toledo COM
pany has gone bankrupt
you would think these Toledo companies
than fight battles happens this fight
is not against the people in the UAW alone This fight the
Monopoly Corporations waging against all the people
in the country.
S in Toledo today?
Very simple
Pensions The issue is simply should man be allowed
thin starvation after he worked
a lifetime in the factories of Toledo?
The and the Save the Payroll Committee
fully avoid talking about this issue.
Just hard slyly they can, they talk about
everything in the world except pensions
Right there about 2700 in Toledo
who are too old to work and too young to die.
The issue should these people be condemned to living
the they be able get from the Federal
Social Security Administration?
Or should they give what little property they have and
take paupers oath accept $50 month Ohio Pension?
Or they human beings and they entitled to live
through the of life dignity modest comfort?
The UAWCIO they human beings entitled to hui
name treament-$100 month pensions
Mr. c. E. Wilson who will collect $25000 year pension
when he is old work and too young die poor
relief is good enough for them
The Toledo companies and the Toledo Blade apparently
have hypnozed thinking that this fight against the
defenseless aged workers of the city Holy Crusade
Pretty however, they going out of the
They going to discover they have propagandzed
themselves behind eghtbal
After all it will stick in mans mind for good long time
that the companies Toledo thought little of the people of
Toledo they would be willing to fight major to
vent old people from getting pension.
We will get the pensions The companies will reap the
harvest of bitterness that they have in this propaganda
whirlwind
Wilson by then will have retired to his estate out
side Detroit
won't his hot toddies, bought out Of his
pension with the companies that will be drink
pointess and stupid lost fight.
fight of course because can't lose this issue.
Pensions will come certainly the eight hour day
seniority unemployment compensation came