Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-01-26
HowThe Blade Does II

Blade can't be trusted that Toledo needs daily
newspaper that the Block monopoly is highly pol
and confusing the readers.
The Blade apparently believes that you have for
gotten the manner in which they USED the Swartz-
baugh announcement last October that WE have
lost our files.
But you haven't - and we haven't.
We remember that the entire Frazier Reams cam
paign was built around what Reams and the Blade
called 'Gosserism." 1t the contention of the
Blade and it's candidate that Dick Gosser wreck
ing Toledo by "gangsterism' and that the only
thing to do to defeat his "errand boy Congress
Burke and protect small business from bis
arm twisting"
We remember that the big advertisement climax
ing this nasty Reams campaign Con October 3O) began
"DO YOU WANT GOSSERISM TO REPRESENT
YOU IN CONGRESS? - BEAT BURKE
To show how important it was to beat Burke and
Gossersm, the ad began with the Swartzbaugh case
= in these words:
'The Swartzbaugh Manufacturing plant is
closed. The owners are looking for location in
other city. That means 200 idle. and in
the future, until they get other jobs
No Choice
This, Reams told you Gosserism. This was
why you should vote for him, defeat Burke, and end
gangsterism. And many people readers of the
Blade and Times (having other choice = access
to the TRUTH did just that.
But NOW what does the Toledo Blade say? Look
at the editorial itself It's right there in front of you
1t says:
mo one accepted the swartzbaugh announcement
at face value. Maybe it would discontinue maybe
it wouldn't
1t is telling you NOW what the Blade believed
THEN - believed while the Blade and its
name calling candidate were trying to scare you
land maybe succeeding in soaring you) into voting
the basis of the Swartzbaugh announcement
This is what we've been telling you This want
you to for yourself We have never told you the
Blade BELIEVES what it tells you. We have claimed
only that the Blade wants YOU to believe these
things and hate the BLOCK hates support
the candidates BLOCK wants - think what BLOCK
wants you to think.
Now the Blade proves this.
unpopular"
1t tees off in frenzy against Swartzbaugh, using
such ugly phrases unpopular with the
more enlightened elements of management and
wants to get its share of the (defense gravy train
and "the Swartzbaugh Company would do whatever
it considered it's advantage regardless of the
effect its employees Toledo generally"
Does this mean that Paul Block Junior and the
Toledo Blade consider accepting defense orders from
the United States government is only form of grab
bing off "the gravy? Are to understand that ANY
Toledo industry which puts its facilities at the dis
posal of the nation is lootng the Treasury grabbing
off the gravy? Or is it only Swartzbaugh who is the
subject of when it accepts Government orders
which SOMEBODY (here somewhere else) was
going to get?
Is it wrong for Swartzbaugh to accept government
work, and help keep Toledo people employed; help
keep payrolls high?
In any case, the Toledo Blade now thinks Swartz-
baugh was engaging in public be damned" at
titude, apparently.
If the Toledo Blade thought all this last October,
on the of the election why did it not say THEN
that the company disregarding 'the effect its
employees" Why does the Blade ESQ excited when
Swartzbaugh said it leavng) speak of the
unwholesome effects Toledo generally when the
company decides to STAY here, keep its payroll here?
Block Reverses
Last October the Block monopoly was PRAISINCs
Swartzabugh. The Times editorial October %,
spoke of Swartzbaugh "a successful and CREDIT
ABLE Toledo concern" and spoke of the unions "in
suits when it protested the Swartzbaugh announce
ment
Do we understand now that Swartzbaugh is only
creditabe" concern when it's talking about CLOS
ING In Toledo, but a greedy and unpatriotic loOer
of the public treasury when it decides to STAY?
What else it mean when the Blade says with the
Government footing the bills, it may have decided
that costs were nconsequential How much it will