Toledo Union Journal (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,090 issues from 1942 to 1963, published in Toledo, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Toledo Union Journal was a publication hard won by the 26,500 Local 12 members of the United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations (UAW-CIO) in Toledo, Ohio, who struggled for years to gain critical mass in membership and funds to start the paper. The Local 12 of the UAW-CIO, formerly known as Federal Labor Union 18384, is known for its participation in the Auto-Lite Strike and Battle of Toledo. In May 1934, automobile employees at Auto-Lite, the Spicer Manufacturing Company, Logan Gear, and Bingham Stamping unanimously voted to strike for increased wages and formal recognition of their newly formed union. Because only Spicer Manufacturing honored their promise to negotiate when the union members returned to work, strikes resumed, and the Ohio National Guard was called to break the strikes. After weeks of conflict, the remaining employers agreed to negotiate resolutions, and the Local 12 gained enough traction in the Toledo labor force to publish their own newspaper eight years later.
In its inaugural issue of November 27, 1942, the Toledo Union Journal featured a pledge to “[express] our opinions fearlessly, and fight to preserve and extend the gains which we have so painfully accumulated over the past nine years.” It also sought to restore public confidence in journalism generally, citing its distrust of “one newspaper towns” and the belief that monopolizing publishers often misrepresented and disparaged labor sentiments. In many issues, it heavily…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Toledo, Ohio, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress