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Evening star., 1951-03-07
Richardson Superior
Casts Doubt on Him in
Crime Probe Story
By the Associated Press

Senate crime investigators yes
terday made public testimony in
which Samuel H. Rosenberg,
Philadelphia's director of public
safety, said he lacked confidence
in some of the city's police Off
GERS.
He named George F.. Richard
son, assistant superintendent of
lpolice in charge of detectives, as
one of the officers in whom II
| feel I don't have the confidence I
should have"
Harry (Nig) Rosen, alias
Stromberg, former numbers
racket operator in Philadelphia,
told the Crime Committee at an
open hearing here last month that
he had entertained Mr.. Richard
son at New York night clubs and
theaters and had given him ex-
pensive shirts and ties.
Testimony Given in October.
A day later Mr.. Richardson We
hemently denied it and denounced
Rosen as "a Stiff" and a yellow
cur" He said Rosen couldn't get
near him with a million dollars.
Mr.. Rosenberg's testimony was
given to the Senate committee at
a closed hearing in Philadelphia
last October 13. 1t was made pub
lie yesterday Along with other
testimony received by the COM
mittee at it's sessions in Phila-
delphia.
Senator O'Conor, Democrat, of
Maryland asked the public safety
director about Mr.. Richardson.
Il have nothing I can prove
against Supt. Richardson" Mr.
Rosenberg replied, except I feel
I don't have the confidence I
should have in the man who is
the head of the detective division. +"
Change in Command Indicated.
Senator O'Connor noted that
Mr.. Richardson's position was "a
pivotal one" but Mr.. Rosenberg
said 'it isn't any more, Senator.
I have more or less operated the
detective division under the direc-
tion of Inspector Doyle" :.
Mr. Rosenberg testified in an
swer to other questions that his
information is that Rosen does
not operate in Philadelphia and
has no connection with gambling
Operations in the city.
Earlier Mr. Rosenberg had told
the committee, that there were a
number of members of the police
force in whom he lacked conf
dence-"all the way from patrol
men up"
But he said he had no proof
that any of them were dishonest
or had accepted protection pay
offs from gamblers. He said he
did not believe any corruption of
the police force was on an organ
ized basis.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
All But 40 Meet County Tax DeudIine

A total of $6,O34,177 had been
billed for the full year 1901 real
estate taxes.
The real estate taxes still due
must be paid before May /, the
department warned, or the prop
erty will be advertised as delin-
uuent.
Evening star., 1951-03-07

The Montgomery County De-
partment of Finance announced
today that all but 4 per cent of
the county taxpayers had paid
their real estate tax by March l,
the tax delinquency date.
The department said $5,780. .3O1
had been collected by that date.
Evening star., 1951-03-07
Argentine Orders

Argentina is expected to order
20 Diesel-electric trains and many
additional rail cars and air-condi-.
toned coaches from an Amster-.
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Evening star., 1951-03-07
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Evening star., 1951-03-07

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Arizona sun., 1951-06-15

2o3rd Engineer Construction Bat
talon and the 41st Signal Con-
struction Battalion. Both of these
units are solid black with white
officers.
1 had just about completed my
tour of Camp Rucker and had
happily concluded that for once 7
could write an extremely favor
able story praising the army's in
tegration at Camp Rucker when
1 came upon General LuploW's
command.
J had been overjoyed to find that
colored soldiers were completely
,integrated in the 47th Infantry Di-
vision now in training here. had
been even more pleased to find
that in the 1851 Area Service Unit,
a type of unit where one generally
finds segregation in the army, was
integrated to a degree that 1T
could be used as a model for in
tegration. The station hospital was
the same way. The picture was
beautiful.
Then came the 4O6th.
I found that while the 1851 ASU
trained, ate, slept and lived to-
gether in complete harmony to the
praise of their unit commander,
General Luplow's 293rd Engineer
Battalion and his 41st Signal Bat
talon are segregated from morn
ing to night in his command.
The cue came from the general
himself. We were discussing a
lake reserved for the troops to
swim in and the general men
tened the fact that the colored
unit had made themselves a
rather palatial area on the one
side of the lake which was SUI
perior to the ones which the whites
had on the other side of the lake.
Arizona sun., 1951-06-15

One of his battalion comman-
ders, a Major Lennon apparently
supports his theory. Major Lennon
commands the 41st Signal which
became a part of the 406th Bri-
gade last Monday.
This officer, a New Yorker, told
me that he honestly does not feel
that integration would be the best
thing for his men at this time. He
said he knows that integration is
eventually coming but he does not
favor it for his unit at this time.
He apparently had talked at
length with a high Department of
the Army official who was through
here recently and expressed his
views to him. From what one was
able to gather from Major Lennon
the army official agreed with him.
Outside the 406th Brigade at
Rucker the picture is beautiful
one. Colonel Henry P. Cant, de-
putty post commander and COM
rnanding officer of the 3461 ASU
mas complied with the letter and
spirit of the law in integrating his
men. He is a West Pointer.
These men do the service chores.
for the army around the huge
base. 1 went through their squad
rooms and found colored soldiers
sleeping in double deck beds with
white soldiers. Some occupied up
per berths, others lower berths,
and at no place did none find any
group punched together. The pic
'ture of the wives on the walls
of the squad rooms told the story
beautifully. Time and time again
I saw colored wives and sweet
hearts pictures facing white
wives and sweethearts on the small
stands over the beds of the men.
Arizona sun., 1951-06-15

l then asked him if colored
troops could swim in the same
area of the lake as the whites.
He said no. When I asked why
ne told me that the problem of
women entered the picture there.
and that he did not feel that this
would work in Alabama.
He seemed entirely to ignore the
fact that the lake is on the army
base, that what is on the base is
for soldiers according to the presi-
dents directives, and that in deny
ing a soldier admission to a par
ticular area on the base because
white civilian did not want him
there is rank discrimination.
1 asked the general if he had
ever considered integrating his
unit. He said he had not given
it thought but that he was sure
that if he tried it, it would work,
and work we'll. But he said he
felt his boys were happier "all
together"
I then asked him whether or
net he had considered that if the
unit were committed to combat
in Korea that they would be inte-
grated by the dictates of battle. He
said he had. 1 then asked him
whether or not he did not feel
that it would be better to prepare
his men for such an integration
now than to wait until they were
i'll combat. He never did answer
rny question directly but he said if
he got orders to integrate his men
he would do so and he felt it
would be done without incident.
The truth is, General Luplow is
openly defying the presidents di-
rective and apparently is not con-
ccrned who knows it.
Arizona sun., 1951-06-15
Rrigadier General
Refuses To Integrate
His Command
BY JAMES l.. HICKS
NNPA Correspondent OH Tour of
Army, Navy and Air Force
Installations

Camp Rucker, Ala. = A briga-
der general who refuses to inte-
CRATE his command is preventing
Camp Ruckcr, Alabama, from be-
ing a place to which the Depart
ment of the Army could point with
pride as model of integration.
The general is Brigadier Cen
eral Walter Luplow, whose 406
Engineer Brigade is a model of
segregation for colored troops at
a camp where complete integration
is working beautifully in all other
units at the base.
General Luplow is defying the
directive of President Truman on
the grounds that his troops prefer
being segregated in a Jim Crow
unit and that he does not feel
he has the authority himself to
integrate them although this re-
porter has found cases at Fort
Jackson where a 1t. Colonel in
the 9Th Infantry Division assumed
such an authority without nishap.
Here at Camp Rucker, a sprawl
ing army base in the heart Of
Alabama about 80 miles from
Montgomery, General Luplow
commands the 406th Engineer Bri-
gade, which is made up of some
% various type units.
Included in these units are the
Arizona sun., 1951-06-15
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pepper and onion, season, moisten
with an egg and little milk. Place
a tablespoon of the dressing on a
slice of bacon. Roll the bacon and
fasten with wooden picks. Oven
cook the rolls until the bacon is
crisp and the stuffing heated
through.
Arizona sun., 1951-06-15

NEGROES IN 2nd INFANTRY DIvlsoNsfc Major l. cleve-
leader (eft
out Communistd North KoIean position to his machine gun crew
California gunner George Marsh Covngton Kentucky
PFC Herbert H. Boun of Marianna Florida
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-16
Yours truly,
l.. L. Miller,
Maumee, Ohio
PlaSkon

Dear Sir:
You have to hand it to union newspaper,
the Toledo Union Journal. 1t sure keeps it's eye on
you.
got my copy of the Journal on Friday and it
had all those letters in it, had wondered what be-
came of them because everybody in my shop
laughing about it, They writing you letters
and you weren't printing them But then the Jour-
nal came out with them, and you right out the
next day to explain why YOU hadn't run any.
And I had to read in the Journal about that
little company, Lakeside Biscuit, always planning
to leave Toledo. In the Blade it looked like the
strike had driven them out.
In fact, it isn't safe for anybody to read the
Blade unless he takes the Toledo Union Journal,
too, just to see what you up to-
All the time you trying to tear down our
vice president, Dick Gosser, and international
secretary treasurer, Emil Marcy, and kept calling
Walter Reuther our president, names was read
ing in the Journal what it all about and why
you were doing it.
So you have to hand it to the Journal 1t
keeps the spot light right on you.
Yours truly,
Leo J. Baidel
= 1868 Pinewood Ave.
(Plaskon UNITY
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-16
Fraternally yours,
Walter Murphy, Editor
Toledo Union Journal
TO The Editor:

TO The Editor:
Martin is doing everything possible to stir up trouble
lust before election time AS view the first article
IF Cyrus Martins Own Story 1 cannot help think
how man can change night. In years past,
k1r. Cyrus "Toots'' Martin was alegedly one of Mr..
ossers first and foremost friends both in the labor
movement and in private life. He has worked for the
International Union UAW-CIO right up until the Lo-
Ial IL feud started last May, 1850. This is when he
began to show his true colors. AS Mr.. Martin states
n his article he has been active in the union for the
bast Is and has always appeared to be of the
Ihat he could possibly work under the Gosser regime
Ill these years if things crooked in the union
Us puts it? Why didn't he get out years ago? No,
he AUght Dick GOSser wonderful straight-fOr-
ward unionst in those days. If things rotten
IN the very union he worked for, and part of,
now could he live with himself? These questions
even Mr.. Martin must be asking himself.
Mr. Martin states he does not accuse Mr.. Gosser
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-16

Dear Sir:
got copy of my insurance plan from my shop
steward this week 1t had just been printed up.
This is the insurance plan my company is pay
ing for because Dick Gosser was willing to 60 out
and negotiate for it.
1t looks pretty good to me. 1t makes me feel
safe. am glad Dick Gosser had enough ability to
60 out and win it for
You can keep right calling Mr. Gosser all the
names you want TO- but it doesn't make any differ
ence about that insurance plan. We've GOT that,
and all your dirty twisting and calling won't
get it back.
It's probably lucky thing you don't let the
campaigns the Toledo Blade will take off next,
because some of it you wouldn't approve of.
Instead of this long and tiresome campaign to
try to convince people who didn't have anything
before Gosser went to work for the union, and who
have got something now that Gosser is no good
for them, here few things would suggest for
you to look into.
What does the guy at the Gas Company say
when he sells newcomer to Toledo gas stove or
gas furnace Does he say that this is nice stove,
but if it gets cold on Thanksgiving Day the turkey
in the will spoil because there won't be enough
gas and the furnace won't heat your house?
And would look into what the manufacturers
do their income taxes about the money they put
into the Committee to Save Toledo's Payrolls. If
they deducting it from their income taxes, of
course that means that the working people of To-
1edo were paying to fight themselves. And would
look around and compare rates and that kind of
thing and if hospital rates go up after the in
surance payments go up, or before. That would
make interesting thing to look into, and lot
of people would read that story. And doctors fees
too
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-02-16


working in the sprawling Will
lys-Overland plant was no pic
mic. Particularly before the
birth of our union in that plant
back in the hectic MIRA days of
1888. That time, with work
about as scarce as a white ele-
phant, workers in this plant -
like every other unorganized
plant - were at the complete
m ercy of the boss. And by
boss we mean every snall-fry
supervisor or foreman to top su-
pervision. The "old timers and
'"Toots" Martin is one of these
should remember. Yes, they re-
-member how their fellow work
ers were fired without reason;
how their seniority meant moth
ing; how they had to kow-tow to
their foremen to keep their jobs.
One department superintendent
was particularly notorious for
his regular monthly raffles that
he jammed down the throat of
his workers, whether they liked
it or not.
More, the "old timers" re-
member how they had to ''in-
vite" the bosses to their home
for dinners; how they had to
bring them bootleg hootch"
and cigars by the box just to
keep their jobs.
Low Wages, Sweat Shop
Conditions
Nor can we forget the miser-
able wages - Csc to 60c per
hour when we were lucky
enough to work - that we used
to get. Just as bad, if not worse,
were the inhuman sweatshop
conditions that we had to labor
under.
With the coming of the Union,
however, things changed, but
definitely. Fear was driven out
of the minds of our people. The
workers gained rights that they
never dreamed of before. No
longer did they have to kow-
tow to every two-bit foreman.
The union was behind them to
protect their rights.
Not that these rights and priv
ileges came overnight. Oh, no. 1t
took years before Management
learned that the workers were
"human" beings with rights
of their own.
Gosser Takes The Lead
Dick Gosser, an "old timer" at
Overland, quickly became one
of the moving spirits of the un-
ion. In 1886, when the Union
was still young, inexperienced
and struggling for life, he be-
came chairman of the WHY'S
Overland unit. And in 1898 he
was elected president of Local
IL.
There was a time that the
Wil1ys- Overland plant was
closed by strike, The workers
struck for plant seniority - a
right now SO much enjoyed by
the members of our Union.
Because of his dynamic lead
ers h ip in Local IL, everyone
knew that it was but a matter
of time before Dick G o sser|
would be given leadership in the
entire Region. This finally hap
p IN e d in 1912 when he was
elected to the International Ex-
ecutive Board and as such be-
came the Regional Director of
this area. In 1947 Dick Gosser
became International Vice Pres
ident On the Reuther slate. He
got this high post because of his
unwavering support of the
right wing ia C tion in the
UAW-CIO thr ugh the long |
years of bitter struggle that pre-
ceeded the ousting of r. j.
Thomas and his clique from con-
troll of Americas largest indus
trial union.
peace" Record Unrivaled
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Why The Workers
Vote As They Do

0OSSCI AcdutISIllp - was truly
exemplary.
We had no strikes on the local
scale of any consequence.
We didn't need any strikes.
Workers did not lose time be-
cause of strikes - especially at
the Willys-Overland plant.
Production was not h a 1T e d
and thus business gained.
And the community gained.
Following World War III, Dick
Gosser became one of the firm
est supporters of our Labor
Management-Citizens Commit
tee to maintain industrial peace;
to keep production rolling with
out interruption.
In all these fields Dick Cos
ser played leading, if not DOM
inant role.
Jurisdictional Disputes Ended
Nor did our community suf-
fer from the plague of "jurisdic-
tional" strikes. Again because of
Gosser's initiative, peace was
established between the rival
AF'L and CIO unions. This alone
was an achievement of monu-
mental proportions.
Yet during all this time our
Union - together with all the
u o n s in Toledo - not only
kept abreast of the labor move
ment generally, but surpassed
the standards established else
where.
Toledo wages became high,
surpassed only by Detroit wages.
Our union contracts with our
employers became models for
others to shoot at"
Right now everyone knows -
including 'Toots" Martin -
that our wage agreement with
the WillysOverland plant is by
far the best in the automobile
industry.
You remember when Will
lys-Overland workers labOred
for 35c per hour. Well, today,
these same workers earn
under much better working
conditions - anywhere frsm
four to six times that much
per hour.
ALI without strikes.
All gained through peaceful
collective bargaining.
History In Other Plants Same
We could, of course, recite the
history of our Union in every
one of our other plants. But that
would be too much repitition.
For in all of our plants the his
tory of our Union is pretty much
the same.
We have good union, a
democratic union. Our people
have right to vote-by SEC
RET BALLOT, as "Toots" Mar
tin SO well knows. No one is
kept from voting. In the WHY'S
Overland plant, elections are
ACAA OPCA AOl wv Dh Il - luSt
to give everyone an opportunity
to cast his or her ballot.
Practically the. same condition
prevails in all of our plants.
AS for the future, We look for
ward with confidence; conf
dence in our membership, in our
Union. in our community and in
our country. Confidence in DEM
ocracy and the American way of
life. AS for continued industrial
peace, we say this:
I'm every case we shall make
every possible effort to settle all
of our grievances, all of our
wage and n tr a c t problems
thruogh peaceful collective bar
gaining and we shall resort to
strike elton only when Cd
there is no other solution left to
us and (2) after our membership
lin a secret ballot as directed
by our International Constitu@s
tion-orders us to take this ac-
ton to protect their welfare"
This, in brief, is our past his
tory. This, in brief, is our pro-
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kJol !. Jakab
B34 otillman Ct.
Toledo 5, Ohio.

334 otillman Ct
Toledo s. Ohio
Dear Brother Jakab:
is only letters like yours of Feb. 4, 1851, that
makes those in honest leadership of Great Union
have the desire to continue their fighting for the added
benefits the workers entitled to- Like you say,
have always had traitors in the Labor Movement as
there is always someone that will take dishonest
dollar but the workers today better informed than
they used to be- and they through these schem
ing individuals who would destroy Union
Let me thank you for your letter, and only wish
more of the Membership would take their pen in
hand and let know just what they think about not
always to what their Union has done for them
Though that is always appreciated and rarely ex-
pressed) but just what they individual, expect
their Union to do for them in the future After all
future individually and collectively is most certainly
the most important
Fraternally yours,
Walter Murphy, Editor
81 @is a3At# Toledo Union Journal
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Mr. Ballard of bad intentions yet he to say
way. He goes on to say that he has never seen any
stuffing of ballot boxes. AS get the picture, these
ballots kept in sealed ballot box and kept in
of the offices of Local IL headquarters the of
the first nights voting. Each person the election
committee personally signs his strips of tape
which sealed in such way that if the seals were
broken the election committee would Immediately
know it the following morning. On the second days
voting the counting of the ballots starts right after the
last vote is cast the election committee does not
home until the last vote is counted. They have
their supper brought in, SO how there be any
fairness? might add that each side may have their
own people the election committee to OBJ
to that the election is carried in Ameri
can democratic way.
Yours truly,
Lois Schultz
Elton ST.