Toledo Union Journal, 1953-01-02

) Charles Ballard Director, Region 2-B, UAW-CIO 5 'BM Richard Gosser Vice President UAW-CIO something, contributing some sometiling - tiling sometiling to your society, to your fellow man. It's easy to see in the case of: a production worker. If you could look back, when a work worker - er worker retires after 25 years in a plant, and see piled up behind, him the physical assets his hands have made, or helped to shape, in the course of that quarter of a century, you'd see with your own eyes what a vast and important thing a life lifetime - time lifetime of hard work really is. It's not too' easy to see, ex except - cept except with the eyes of your imagination, the work that the the clerk, , bookkeeper, the clerk, the checkers and filers and sweep sweep> - > sweep> ers and cleaners have contribut contributed, - ed, contributed, but it's there. Each one of us, in his life lifetime, - time, lifetime, makes a tremendous con contribution - tribution contribution just by showing up for work, and working. The dignity of man begins right there, in* the fact that his society and his time are a little better off because he lived and worked and did his best. Keep that in mind this year. Your union, both nationally and in Region 2-B, is going after more of your rightful share of the good things of life . . . more tangible things to show for your efforts, more of the intangibles, such as security and better working conditions. .. And the resistance to this - campaign will be based on the, theory that, after all, you're only workers. Only workers? Don't fall for that line any more. You're ordinary Mr. and Mrs. America . . . and if De De)mocracy - )mocracy De)mocracy means anything at all, - it means that YOU are the most important people in the world. If you keep that in mind in 1953, you'll help your UAW UAWCIO - CIO UAWCIO work for you because you'll realize that what we're trying to win for you is com coming - ing coming to you . . . belongs to you . . . is your right. And when you realize that, you'll get in behind your union and help. Do that and you can be sure it'U be a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Non-Profit Beginning January 1, the new comprehensive Blue Cross rates for a family with semi-private coverage will be $74.50 a year. The Ward rate for the same coverage will be $67.20. For a person who only breaks a leg every five years, it will be a source of deep satisfaction to know that he will have paid in well over $300 to the "non "nonprofit" - profit" "nonprofit" Blue Cross plan to cover the cost of setting the bone. 1953 Dues Cards Being Made Up Murphy, Financial Walter Secretary-Treasurer of Local 12 announced that each Unit will be notified when their 1953 membership cards will be avail available. - able. available. The cards are being made up by shops to avoid waiting in line at the dues office, he said.

Blue Cross Faces UAW-CIO Inquiry One of the first items on the 1953 agenda in Toledo will be a meeting with Blue Cross, ae aecording - cording aecording to Charles H. Ballard, director of Region 2-B. It is planned to call a meet meeting - ing meeting of the officers of various Toledo UAW-CIO locals having coverage by Blue Cross to pre prepare - pare prepare to visit with the "non "nonprofit" - profit" "nonprofit" organization. The object is to find out why charges keep rising so rapidly . . . and to find out what can be done to reverse the trend. Perhaps one answer to the entire question may be found it some official spokesman for Blue Cross is able to explain! who gets the "non-profits". | I -

T. Gosser and Charles H. Bal Ballard, - lard, Ballard, director of Region 2-B. Next largest is from Auto-Lite' with six. ! 1 Toledo Industrial Union| Council will send two. with Howard H. Rediger .executive, . . - 1. - secretary, and Clyde Shamblen, , president, carrying the coun coun' - ' coun' cil's two votes. The State convention will! l elect a president and a slate of1 a officers and push through _ I towering agenda. The State CIO I

Four Day Agenda Includes Election Of State Officers Forty-five delegates from Local 12 and about an equal number from all other CIO unions in Toledo will be in Cleveland January 8 for the four day State CIO Convention. The largest group is from Willys Overland, where a delegation of 12 will be headed by Vice President Richard

The youngsters at St. Anthony's Orphanage (top) and Lutheran Children's Home (bottom) as well as the Crippled Children's Home knew that there would be toys and dolls and games enough to go around when the annual visit was made by Dick Gosser, Chuck Ballard and mem members - bers members of the UAW staff.

(greetings From Qosser and Ballard We all start 1953 with something no other people in the ' world today can match ... a big, prosperous, vigorous na nation - tion nation in which the working people count for something in the scheme of things. Working folks in America are important ... and what's