Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-01-05

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n Blade and Times handled the
re'e AVara fortunate incidents that occurred
last Friday in the W-O plant and i'm the office of
Walter Murphy, Local 12's financial secretary.
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vEtHE BEATING administered to roots Martin
by Arnold Shenofsky provoked entirely
by Martin himself. There number of eye
witnesses to testify to this. Shenofsky did not hit
Martin with bottle. 1t was '"Toots' Martin who
came toward Shenofsky, brandishing the bottle The
pop bottle held by Martin smashed in Martins
face by Shenofskys fist. That's how Martin got cut.
The Blade reporters must have known this. And if
they didn't know it, certainly they could have found
out with little effect But Blocks reporters
insisted in their stories Saturday. and i'm their SLAM
derous and viciously biased editorial on Sunday
that Shenofsky used the bottle not only to hit Mar
tin on the head but to gouge Martins face with the
jagged edge of the broken pop bottle Obviously the
purpose of this deliberate distortion of fact to
incite hate and, if possible, more physical violence
against Gosser and his followers.
am told that Bro. ShenOfsky will insist ON TAX
ing lie detectOr test to prove his contention 1T
seems to me that '"TOOts' Martin, and anyone else
connected with this incident directly, be asked to
take the same test. Let's find out who lies Let's
find out to what degree Zone of Americas Great
Newspapers is willing to go to hide the truth
to incite to physical violence if such violence
and unrest affects adversely our defense production
'T'HE STORY of the assault on waiter murphy
equally biased. Block tries to tell his readers
that Murphy provoked" Martin into this assault.
But Martin himself gives the lie to Block when,
in the presence of police officers he boasted that
he Martin, has waited years for this op-
portunity." More Martin said that he will be glad
to plead guilty because cit worth It,"
is it possible, even in the hate saturated mind of
Block, that Walter Murphy was provoking" Robert
Martin for seven long years? The facts that
Murphy hardly knew Martin never had an argu-
ment with him. And, for the information of Block
Jr., seven years ago Walter Murphy in the
US. Army, serving with Gen. Patton's famed third
information of Block Jr., Walter Murphy received
the bronze star for "heroism above and beyond the
call of duty, fighting a ms the Nazi army
Murphy got this citation because his unit destroyed
four enemy tanks and damaged fifth One
Nevertheless it is possible that Robert Martin
has been carrying grudge against Local IL for
seven long years. am told that Robert Martin was
an officer of the company union at Toledo Scale
at the time Local IL took them Could it be
that Robert Martin hates Local IL because Local
IL put his company union out of business?
"rrHE GREAT NEED Of people in our KepuDrc
i is accurate information" we read in 1.-The
Blade reports to its Readers which published
last Sunday. But apparently this axiom does not
apply to the Blade or the Times The facts that
both the Blade and the Times deliberately SLANT
distort or cut completely anything that does not
suit their fancy
Why, one should ask does Paul Block, Jr 20
to these extremes? Why does he hate with such
venom? Why is he out to destroy, dominate
through his own stooges, the UAW-CIO and the
rest of the labor movement in Toledo? We don't
know. But do know that Paul Block like q
spoiled child has been sulking since the people
of Toledo, and especially the membership of the
UAW-CIO, have given him and his Committee to
Save Toledo payrolls" real drubbing Block, Jr.,
set out to destroy Gosser and the UAW-CIO when
the later announced his program to bring pensions
and other benefits to the UAW-CIO membership
Block and his employer buddies spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars to smash Gosser and with him
the Union and its pension program But they failed
miserably. Today upwards of $4,000 UAW- CLIO
members are benefitting from this program And
the fight to improve this program continues. i
But Blocks hatred for Gosser goes beyond that
A couple of years ago Blocks employees ON the
Blade and Times wanted wage hike. Their union,
the American Newspaper Guild, CIO, negotiated
with BLOCK for months, but got nowhere, Finally
the issue came before the LMC of which Gosser
was . member. GoSser, . member Of LMC.