Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-06-02
BLOCK WOULDN'T
Sworm Of Lawyers
Blocks Block Probe

By Wednesday, everyone in Toledo could
know for fact that there are two kinds of law:
One is law to hurt labor leaders
One is law to help newspaper publishers.
Paul Block Junior refused on advice of counsel to
give testimony deposition hearing Wednesday morning
judge promptly found who would issue injunction
Ito prevent the hearing from continuing.
Contrasted with this gentle treatment of the Blade
publisher was what happened April when Richard I.
Goser also refused testify advice of HIS counsel
threat of jail
On Wednesday, too Paul Block Juniors attorneys
fought hard to keep anyone from opening the books the
Blade financial records. The books of the AWBC
ordered exposed for examination by COURT the books of
the Blade however cannot be opened according the in
junction issued.
The used get Paul Block Junior off the hook
was that Notary Ray Whitaker was not qualified to act
However, Whittakers qualifications not questioned
when this notary took the deposition record early in
the AWBC hearings.
An interesting sdeght the mornings activities in
the offices OF Lamb Goerlich and Mack attorneys for the
unon the appearance of Frazier Reams, lawyer, op
orator of Radio Station WTOL and professed liberal
Attorney Reams fought like demon to protect the
antiabor forces from being subjected to precisely the
same legal examination Block, the Blade and their
mouthpieces have been trying to put Gosser and
the union.
This emergence of Reams active fighter on the
an-labor team will surprise many.
The vigor with which Attorneys Dudley F. Smith and
Hal p Ellis defended their public hearing from the public
later in the morning when Gosser ready testify will
surprise fewer people, however.
The doors of that hearing guarded by uni
formed city police officers and by two private detectives
At the specific instructions of Smith and Els
admitted to the public hearing and some ex-
cuded
Among those excluded Charles H. Ballard, Re-
gonal Director of UAW-CIO and an attorney who
connected earlier in the Among those included was
every member of the press VINO showed up except a
writer for the New Republic.
special in the was according to Attorney
ELS, reserved" for the Blade reporter.
But among those not excluded, although effort
made was Attorney Lamb When he tried to gain admls-
son the door swung against him. He went IN anyway
and promptly protested the star chamber proceedings
which he declared Smith and Ellis were conducting.
Lamb declared that Ellis and Smith were acting Tor
the Blade and Paul Block Junior that the proceedings
not in good faith that he would refuse to stay to
be party to any such improper activities. He left
It was late afternoon before Gossers testimony was
begun
That was when Vice President Gosser was supposed to
begin giving answers to questions about the contents of
the AWBC books and to questions about his financial op-
erations union leader.
But those were not the questions Ellis asked
Ellis wanted to know if Gosser had ordered anyone
beaten he had threatened anyone with beating, ne
had fired former Toledo Union Journal editor and the
status of Orvile Beemer
The conection between these questions and the AWBC
books not Immediately apparent but the connection
between these questions and the recent headlines IN the
Blade were there for anyone to see for himself
Gosser declared himself ready to continue to TESTIFY
long necessary to present all the pertinent facts ABOUT
his responsibilities a union officer.
Whether Block intends to testify about his response
oities as the publisher of Toledo newspaper monopoly
remains to be