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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-06-29
clubs. lodge,
and Societies
Engagement Announced

Engagement Announced
Mrs. Hazel Blome of North Main
street announces the engagement o.
her daughter Fluff of New York cit,
to Alfred Spiess, son of Mr.. ane
Mrs. Alfred Spiess, Sr., of New Yorl
city. No date has been set for the
wedding.
Mems Garden Club
Meeting at High School agriculture
room, next Wednesday night, July s
at o'clock. Topic for discussion
What | enjoy doing most in nv
yard and garden"
Alpha Gamma Club
Mrs. Katheryne Patterson will en-
tertain at her home on Friday night.
Topic: The Negro Problem Reaches
a Crisis, Lois Rodabaugh.
Mothers Night Out
Mrs. Morris Umphress entertain
ed the club last Thursday night.
Numbers included music by the Ada
Juniors Trio consisting of joyce
Harrod, Bonnie Mansfield and Sally
Allen and accordion solo by Mrs.
Allen.
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs. Paul Reichenbach
Golden Wedding Honor
In observance of the fftieth we'd
ding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. F. Stratton next Tuesday they
are being honored this week over
the WILMA Cheer-up program by
Easter Straker every afternoon ar
1:30 o'clock.
Attend Picnic
Those attending the ninth annual
Victory Over Handicap picnic at
Lincoln park, Lima, Sunday, were:
Walter Schnegg, Mr.. and Mrs. Harv-
ey Which and daughter Gene, Mr..
and Mrs. Gerald Hilty and family
and Mrs. Paul Marquart and Free
man.
Dinner for Newlyweds
Mr.. and Mrs. Orlando Lugibihl
and family gave dinner Sunday
for Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Spallinger
who were recently married.
Other guests were: Mr.. and Mrs
Homer Spallinger, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Spallinger and family and Mr.. and
Mrs. John Eckel of Beaverdam; Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Welty and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Neis-
wander and Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil AL
lgire and Michael Ray.
*a.*
Busy Bee All Club
The club held its regular meeting
in the home economics room in the
high school Wednesday afternoon.
Orange Twp. Farm Women
Meeting at the home of Mrs. Le-
vada Bixel, Thursday afternoon,
July 6.
The program: Devotionals, Nora
MinsG,- ReA- patriotic quotation;
Pedestrians in Traffic, Cathryn Van
Meter; The Telephone Girl, Pearl
Anderson; Helpful Hints, Berdella
Marshall; What's in the Freezer?
Mildred Montgomery; sextette-Cleo
Hursey, Edith Swank, Eleanor Mar
shall, Iona Marshall, Lillian Ander
son. Levada Bixel.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-06-29
Diamonds with Holes

Tiny holes are bored through
small diamonds, and these dia-
monds are used for making super
fine wire.
Milford chronicle., 1950-03-24

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Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-01-15
MONTANA

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Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-01-15

THE UNIVERSAL JEEPs needs, speeds up
more jobs than any vehicle you owned. Its
2wheel drive gives you speeds up so for trips
town and highway hauling. Shift 4-wheel drive and
you have that pulls pows, discs harrows and
other implements vehicle that gets through deep
mud, snow and sand. With power take-of, optional
cost, the Jeep' powers other equipment. Let
your WHY'S dealer demonstrate this versatile
vehicle with the speed and power that helps you
on jobs the year round.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-01-15
AvoabIe Through the Following wiIIysoverIand Dealers

Sidney .Frettinn's Garage
Stanford Stanford ImDl. Co.
Thompson FoIIs Motors Garage
townsend Townsend Motors
Whitehall Beck's Auto Service
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17
New BiIIheimer Name
Gets Big Blade Story

BOlman is pressing against his
former uni ion. And BOlmar
hired Attorney ELS with Pau,
Block Juniors $4,000; and Ell:
hired the Central Bureau of In
vestigation; and an operative
from the Central Bureau of In.
vestigation was put to work de-
livering press release for Har-
old Billheimer Gas an affidavit
from Billheimer in the Journals
hands emphatically declares).
So the "new" Billheimer with
his new" name will start q
new" revolt as soon as possible
if the Blades prediction is ac-
curate.
This will obviously be a big
help to the union in winning
pensions for its older members,
health insurance for everybody,
and wage increases as a hedge
against profit initiation - all of
this in pattern packages averag-
ing around % cents.
This new group will help get
these things by starting a revolt
while the union is fighting for
union gains.
And if they don't get a 23-cent
packapa at Toledo Scale incIud-
ing company paid and funded
pensions, company paid and
funded health insurance and
from 10 to Is cents in wage
boosts, that will be because Har-
old Billheimer is so busy think
ing up new names to put in the
Blade.
And all this will just about
break Harris McIntosh's heart,
il not his pocketbook.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17

The Toledo Blade, which func-
tions part time as the unit pub
lication at Toledo Scale (H. Bill
heimer, editor; H. Mcintosh
pr in ipal stockholder), an
nounces that "New Group
Seeks Change e In UAW-CIO
Leadership"
The new group turns out to
be Harold Billheimer.
Harold Billheimer becomes a
"new group" the Blade ex-
plains, by changing his name
from the Committee for Demo
cratic Unionism to Union Equity
League.
This is a much better name
for Billheimer.
Democratic unionism at To-
ledo Scale has seemed to some
to be a little short on both
democracy and unionism.
But Equity makes more sense.
1t is an equity suit that John
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17
READ THE FACTS
IN THE JOURNAL

Your union has obtained
financial reports on every
industry in Toledo where
Local IL has q contract and
we're going to give them to
yOu one or two at q time,
as space permits.
You'll find Toledo Scale
ON Page One, and Air-Way
Electric ON Page Eight in
this issue.
These financial reports
show cOnclusiveIy that the
Toledo Blades charges that
your union is winning PEN
SiOns and security at the
expense of the community
are completely false.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17

facts was from t h e Toledo
Blade itself. There were two
separate it e m s Gosser sub
mitted in evidence.
One was an advertisement
run by the B ! a d e in Auto
motive News Gan in d u tr y
w eekly) on October 80 to
prove that Toledo is crush
market" 1t told a story pre-
cisely opposite TO the one the
Blade has been telling Tole-
doans.
The other was a story from
the financial pages of the Blade
for November 1, showing that
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17

ledo Scale - the plant where
UAW-CIO progress is b e in G
hamstrung by anti-Gosser cam
paigns and where the work
ers are getting less than the
UAW-CIO Toledo pattern.
AS of D m b er 81, 1949,
(last available figures) the com
pany made a probable profit OF
about $1,9O8,000 before taxes
in the neighborhood of $725, 900
= or a net of 81, 1873, 900 after
taxes.
This net after taxes amounts
to about 1875 per cent return
on the company's net worth -
about SO per cent better than
the acceptable industrial aver
age.
AS of the end of the year the
company had current assets of
So, 100000 - about Al times as
much as needed to pay its short
term debt. 1t has no long term
indebtedness.
The company began to grow
fat at the end of the War, and
in consecutive balance h e e s
for the years 1945, 1946 and
1947 showed a tremendous squirt
in net worth (the basic financial
measure of company's re l
strength.)
By plowing back profits, the
company built its net wort h
to $1,000, 900 - and it was on
this last figure that the return of
1926 per cent was made.
Toledo Scale h a prospered
in Toledo, where the
UAW-CIO has set the wage and
working conditions pattern for
the entire m m I'm ty; and
where pensions and health in
surance are rapidly being won
for the workers.
Yet Toledo Scale has b n
one of the more active indus
trial opponents of UAW-CIO
and the area pension plan, and
has never published denial, so
Tar as the Journal can learn, of
the Blade propaganda that Cos
ser and the UAW-CIO are
T o / e d o, driving in
lustry out of town, and MAX
ng impossible for q company
20 prosper here.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17
Educational Club
Meeting Tonight

The Educational Club of Lo-
cal IL UAW-CIO, composed Of
shop chairmen, executive COM
mitteemen, and rank and file
members will meet tonight
(Friday) instead of the fourth
Friday as regularly scheduled.
The meeting will be held in
Parlor A at Local IL, 425 Win
throp st. beginning at 8 pm.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17
Look Who Hates Gosser!

facts get in the way of it's smear
campaign. Where the facts in
truded, they were carefully set
aside, ignored, twisted, or play
ed down.
If man is known by the enc
mics he makes, Dick Gosser can
boast of two-Paul Block jun
ior and Joe Stain.
Outside of winning the Irish
Sweepstakes, what more could a
guy ask of life?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17

MA clipping from a newspaper
was handed to us this week.
It called Dick Gosser all sorts
of unpleasant names. We had
read more than half of the piece
before we realized we were not
reading the Toledo Blade at all.
The clipping was from the
Communist Daily Worker.
OF course. it read lot LIKE
the Blade. In discussing Gosser
and the UAW-CIO it let no
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17

where headlines could be
made, some sort of court ac-
ton had to be instituted.
1t was all worked out neatly
on Monday.
Smith and ELS, Blade-hired
lawyers. began contempt pro-
ceedings against Gosser, Macy,
Ballard, Joe Ossanna (auditor),
Walter Murphy, Wilbert Rule,
Bill Healey, Ray Vale, Ed and
Walter Madrzykowski, r p h
Young and Bill Borden.
They did not proceed against
yillie Biggleburger, a four year
ID boy in the neighborhood,
who had once picked dandelions
on the UAW-CIO headquarters
lawn, possibly because they did
not know of the matter.
The good faith of the court
action (Which permitted the
Blade to rehash all of r n d y
Gray's profane and confused tes-
timony) could be seen in the
case of the contempt h ar g e
against Emil Marcy, UAW-CIO
secretary-treasurer.
1t appears, according to the
Blades report of the Smith and
Ellis case, that Marcy had told
a mass meeting of union men,
bers that he had seen the results
of the UAW audit of the books
and that everything was in
.-Sgood shape"
The charges allege that rec
ords had been falsified, destroy
ed, or not turned over to the
court, and quoted Joe Ossanna,
auditor, as saying that the rec
ords were in a mess.
The Blade bases most of its
attack on the testimony of the
man who put them in a mess.
And so the Blade campaign to
keep Local IL as tangled in
courts and deposition hearings
as possible, and thus k e ep itI
from winning pensions and wage
increases for the membership,
goes on.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17
SEE PACE s

We recommend the two
stories on Page 8 to give
an antidOte to the Blades
poison about the UAW-CIO
"wrecking" Toledo.
One tells you how well
Air-Way Electric Is doing.
The other tells you how
well the whole Toledo area
is doing.
And BOTH stories orig
mated with the Tole e d o
Blade.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17
Charges OF Contempt
Open Blade Attack

When John Bolman finally got his court decision per-
ttng him to examine the AWBC books the court added
that he could not pubicze his findings except part of
a court action based on them.
order get the findings into the Toledo Blade,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17

Air-Way Ell Iectric had made
more than million dollars in
the first nine months of 1850.
(See Page 8 for the Auto
motive News ad. See Page
for the Air-Way Electric fl
nancial story)
Gosser hoped on the Toledo
Blade (Which had suggested he
resign so the LMC could func-
ton better) almost as soon as
he took the floor at the Mon
day meeting.
He egan by reading the
Automotive News advertise
ment.
1t said Toledo's population. in
ten years, had grown more than
$4,000, that retail sales in the
city were up 209 per cent,
wholesale sales up 287 per cent,
manufacturing up 251 per cent,
and factory payrolls up $50 per
cent (all of these percentage in
creases being much greater than
initiation would justify, accord
ing to the Blade).
"And the Blade says I am
wrecking Toledo" Gosser point
ed out.
Then he went on to discuss
profits-selecting various indus
trial heads in the room (the
English room of the Commodore
Perry and reading to the men,
bers the profits they reported to
the Federal Government.
"I've got 'em all here" he
said, "but I'll just read a few of
'em."
Among those he mentioned
were Surface Combustion $685.
000), L-O-F Glass ($17,2O9, ,OO0),
Willys Overland ($3, 400, ,O00b.
Toledo Scale "a million bucks).
Air-Way Electric "a million
bucks) and Auto-Lite (nearly
$11 600, ,0OO.
Does this look as though
we're wrecking Toledog" he
asked.
He reminded his hearers that
the Blade had told the people
that the UAW-CIO was driving
business out of town.
who's left town." he asked.
There's 81 900 new people hero
now, according to the Blade, and
l don't know of any plant that's
left. l know of quite a few
that's come in, though"
Gosser stated that from tina
very inception of LMC had be-
lieved that the general interest
of the community transcribed
the special interests of Labor, of
"or anyone"
II believe, first of all, we are
responsible to our God and our
country-and after that to our
union or our corporation. I've
believed that from the begin
ming, and I'll never change"
Later in the meeting the
principles" on which LMC
Continued on Page Two
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17

The financial picture tells
quite a different story from
the Blades charges of wreck
age, bankruptcy and dissolution.
They all seem to be coming
money.
In this issue the Journal pre-
sents the financial story of To-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17
Proof Given LMC BY Gosser
Toledo Booming Not Wrecked
FiQures Revealed
As Leader Replies

Proof that Toledo is boom town, not ghost town.
and the UAWCIO policies he has directed have not
of LMC Monday.
1t billed by the Toledo Blade showdown"
meeting and it
Richard Gosser had the figures prove that every
claim the Blade had made that UAW- W-CIO policies
damaging the community was false.
The best evidence that the Blade was fasfying the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-11-17
I o|edo Scale Profits
Refute Blade Ba|oney

In the search for Toledo Company that has been
wrecked" by UAWCIO policies, directed by Richard T..
Gosser, international vice president, the Union
Journal has obtained financial reports the companies
II under UAW-CIO contract in this area.
Evening star., 1950-03-10
Plastic COCKTAIL CHAIRS

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The Valley settler., 1950-05-19

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
Phone Workers
SIGN Contracts

Portland, Ore. (LPA)-After Is
months of negotiations a contract
was signed by Communications
Workers of America and the Pac-
ific Telephone & Telegraph Co.
covering practically all the COM
pany's employees in Oregon.
The pact reduces wage progress
ion schedules from eight to six and
half years and guarantees that
the company will not downgrade
pensions in any manner for the life
of the contract. Union officers on
leaves will accumulate credit and
are guaranteed their jobs back if
they return at the end of leave.
Grievance and seniority provis-
ions have been improved. The
agreement also includes some job
upgrading and general wage in
creases for some plant schedules.
Dues checkoff was also won. A
similar contract was signed the
same day with Chesapeake & Poto-
mac Telephone Co. covering all
employees in West Virginia.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
Warns Business
Wants Weaker
Antitrust Laws

Washington (LPA)-@When big
businessmen brand the antitrust
laws a complete hodge-podge" and
call for revision, what they really
want is to weaken the laws.
So charged Rep. Emanuel Celler
Cd, N. W in a radio broadcast
June 8, when he sailed into Ben
jamin Fairless, president of US
Steel.
"I disagree, said Celler. 81 be-
lieve the antitrust laws should be
strengthened so that they may deal
effectively with the problem OF
monopoly power"
To illustrate his thesis that the
present laws are not strong enough,
Celler recounted the testimony
elected by the House Investigat-
ing committee, which he heads. His
group found, he said, that US Steel
controls 81 per cent of the high
grade ore in the chief mining re-
gion in the US, and that it gives
itself discount of 80 cents a ton
on the ore which it sells to itself
discount given so far to only one
of it's competitors, which does not
own vast ore reserves.
"In some years." he related, "the
Steel Corp. has made more money
(Turn TO PaQe Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
Harrison bests
Senator DonnelI
I'm Verbal TussIe

Washington (LPA)-George M
Harrison, grand president of the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
gave Sen. Forrest Donnell Or, No.
the old one-two June 5. Testifyinf
before the Senate Labor committee
Harrison declared Donnell's bill
barring rail strikes and imposing
compulsory arbitration would be 6
first step toward totalitarianisn
and destruction of free enterprise
If conditions are so bad on the rail
roads that workers rights must be
abolished, the roads themselves
should be removed from private
hands, he said.
Donnell, a member of the COM
mittee, went after Harrison with
both hands when the latter COM
pleted his prepared testimony.
However, the rail leader, who was
speaking for the 21 unions in the
Railway Labor Executives Asso-
Grafton, blocked the Senator's
punches easily while getting in a
few more licks of his own. If Con-
gress bars rail strikes, employees
will still find a way to quit work to
support their proper demands,
Harrison said. Positively, he add
~ (Turn 10 Pare Three1
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
Labor Tired Of
Talk, No Action

Denve UPA) = "Organizet
Labor Is Getting Tired of Prett!
Promises But No Action From
Democratic Party" So reads the
headline on a 2-column editorial il
the current issue of Internationa
Oil Worker, semi-monthly paper OF
the Oil Workers.
"This time has come to make il
clear that there has been no mar
riage between organized labor ano
the Democratic party" says the
editorial. "And furthermore, if the
Democratic party keeps treating
organized labor as it has in the past
few months, it is doubtful if there
will be continued friendship be-
tween the two"
"We have found the Democratic
party long on promises and sweet
talk and terribly short on bringing
home the bacon," the editorial con-
tinues, saying that apparently the
1948 Democratic platform sis just
window dressing"
The editorial reports a grounds
well of complaints from rank and
file union members about the
Democratic party's failure to de-
liver the goods" and warns that
1--WE are going to pay less and less
attention to party labels and more
Turn TO PAGE Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
Outlook Very Dim
For Tax Bill As
Asked By Truman

Washington (LPA)-The chance
that Congress would meet Presi.
dent Truman's requests for reduc-
tions in excise taxes, increases in
corporation taxes, and elimination
of loopholes through which corp
orations excape taxes, looked very
dim on June 6 when the Democratic
policy committee of the Senate met
to plan the law-making calendar
for the rest of June.
The House ways and means COM
mittee, where tax bills originate, is
/ still laboring over an emasculated
version of Truman's proposals. II
will try to get veto-proof bill to
the House floor by mid-June. But
so far it's excise cuts are so heavy
that they'll add alarmingly to the
federal deficit. And the committee
has not yet come to, grips with the
corporation tax increase. 1t has de-
finitely abandoned any attempt to
eliminate the biggest loophole-
the oil industry depletion allow
anceS.
Senate Majority Leader Scott
Lucas said that if the House could
send over tax bill by July 1, the
Senate would have to be willing to
stay in Washington until Oct. l to
finish work on the measure. Since
some of the key members of the
Senate Finance committee which
would handle the bill are running
for reelection in November, they
are exceedingly reluctant to stay in
Washington that long.
Sen. Walter George Cd, Ga.),
chairman of the Finance commit
tee, told reporters it would be pos
sible to report out tax bill if the
House sends over it's version by
July /, and that he will make
every effort" to obtain passage of
a bill. George, a conservative, in
dicated he isn't committed person
ally to the raise in corporation
taxes, but that he'd hesitate" to
send to President Truman a bill
which would not compensate for
income cuts from excise tax re-
ductions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-15
ALL ROADS LEADS TO MEYERS LAKE PARK
Green Presents
|Lobor Peace PIun
To Management

New York (LPA) - American
businessmen are losing enormous
potential benefits and profits" by
not substituting union-management
teamwork for blind and unreason-
ing resistance to unions.
So declares AFL President Will
lam Green, writing in the current
issue of Mill & Factory magazine
on "How Labor Can Help Manage
ment Improve Production.
Green declares at is possible for
the free enterprise system to take
out cheap insurance" against the
spread of Communism or Socialism
"by the simple process of under
taking to work with the unions in
stead of against them" This is a
private gold mine" that business
men are ignoring. Green writes.
Citing specific cases of union
management cooperation to show
how unions can and do help busi-
ness to improve production, main
tain industrial peace, advertise
their product and increase sales,
Green said "By offering unions a
working partnership, which would
not invade nor transgress upon the
prerogatives of management, pri-
vate enterprise can convert it's
strongest potential enemy into it's
most potent ally"